Jack J. Valenti School of Communication

Congratulations to 2024 grads! We are so proud of your accomplishments and wish you the very best in your careers.🥳🎉👏

Last night’s election livestream was a success! 🥳👏

Valenti and CoogTV rallied together for 4 hours to cover the election that included several interviews with students and experts, packages produced by CoogTV reporters, and voting updates from C-SPAN.

This opportunity allows student to gain hands-on broadcast experience right on campus. These invaluable skills will help students accomplish their professional goals post-grad.

Valenti School welcomed back alum and KPRC 2 Houston’s weekend anchor, Bill Barajas (class of 2010), last week. Bill sat down with Prof. Roth’s Multimedia Journalism class to share his story and offer advice to students.

His tip: get experience and a mentor, create reels, and practice reading stories and playing them back to give yourself feedback. We are so proud of Bill’s career and excited for him to connect with future journalists. Be on the lookout for an opp to visit a weekend taping at KPRC2 later this semester!

Omar Majzoub, Director of Communications for the Houston Texans, visited Dr. Vardeman’s 4368 Public Relations Campaigns class last week. He shared his experience in starting at the Texans as an intern and working his way up to managing a comms team of 6 people and directing all the media relations for the team!

Be on the lookout for an opp to visit NRG Stadium and Omar’s team next semester!

Journalism majors Sydney Commerford and Veronica Nwanna and strategic communications major Omar Castanon were featured in The College Tour earlier this year where they showcased their unique stories at UH. Light food and beverages will be provided at the screening alongside an interactive 360 photobooth!

Make sure you wear your Cougar Red! 🎉

Great farmers market on campus today! Did anyone else buy cookies? 🍪

Don’t miss out on this opportunity! Apply at www.experiencevalenti.com! Link in our bio! 📚✏️

ValentiFest was a success! 🥳 Can't wait to see what's in store for next year!

It’s happening!!! See y’all soon. We’ve got pizza. 🍕 😎🎈🐾

ValentiFest is ONE day away! 🤩‼️ Make sure you attend tomorrow to meet all the media organizations on campus and the resources Valenti has to offer.

Are you ready? 🍂 🤩 ValentiFest is only 4 days away! Bring your own t-shirt and have it designed by an airbrush artist while you enjoy some pizza and get to know all the different media organizations on campus!

ValentiFest will be happening next Tuesday, Sept. 17 from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. at the Craig Wilson Square! Come meet all the different student organizations and campus resources Valenti has to offer. Pizza and drinks will be provided by !

For Shasta’s Open House, students went around the different departments and organizations available at UH in a scavenger hunt style activity! Valenti offered students the opportunity to be a reporter for the day using a teleprompter.

This morning, Valenti students, professors, staff, and donors gathered at the Rockwell Pavillion to congratulate the 2024-2025 Valenti Scholarship recipients! Director of the Valenti School Jennifer Vardeman and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Daniel O’Connor made an appearance at the beginning to give a speech.

We are looking for a video intern! The rate of pay is $12 an hour through work-study or can be taken as internship for course credit. Please send your resume and work-samples. Go Coogs!

Last Friday, Valenti alum Mayra Moreno hosted the Houston Association for Hispanic Media Professionals’ 37th annual scholarship event, “Noche de Gatsy,” alongside co-host 93Q’s Erica Rico. Four of the five scholarship winners were Valenti students: Andrea Garcia Arroyo (pictured, middle), Elias Lilienfeld (pictured at podium), Alexis Kiara Pedraza (pictured, left), and Valeria Romo. Congrats to our inspiring current and former students – we couldn’t be prouder!

Welcome back! Hope it’s a great first day for all of you at Valenti! 🐾