| PAT JACKSON
DIRECTOR
CONTINUING EDUCATION
AND SPECIAL EVENTS
Patricia Jackson is director of Continuing Education and Special
Events at the University of South Carolina School of Journalism
and Mass Communications. She has organized and conducted media
training for thousands of mid-career professionals during the past
15 years.
As communications training consultant and meeting planner, Jackson
has conducted hundreds of workshops for government and business
clients from all over the world. All special-event projects of
the college are coordinated by the Continuing Education Division.
In June 2004, Jackson was elected to the executive board of the
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) in Toronto,
Canada. IABC is an organization of more than 13,000 business communicators
worldwide.
Jackson is a past president of the South Carolina IABC chapter.
Jackson was awarded the 2003 Southern Interscholastic Press Association’s
Distinguished Service award for her contributions to the state,
regional and national scholastic press associations.
A native of Winston-Salem, N.C., she is married to Bill Jackson.
They live in Columbia and have two children and two grandchildren. |