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Journalism professor wins national teaching award

Patricia G. McNeely, the Eleanor M. and R. Frank Mundy Professor and director of the electronic and print journalism sequence in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, has won a national teaching honor for excellence in journalism education.

She will receive the National Distinguished Educator Award Aug. 6 in Washington, D.C., from the newspaper division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

McNeely is the third faculty member of the college win national teaching honors in recent months. Last year, Jerry Jewler was chosen Advertising Educator of the year by the American Advertising Federation, and Henry Price was chosen Journalism Professor of the Year by the Freedom Forum.