Incoming dean of MTSU’s College of Mass Communication, Ken
Paulson, recently received an honorary doctorate degree from Buena Vista
University in Storm Lake, Iowa.
Paulson, president and CEO of the First Amendment Center at
Vanderbilt University and in Washington, D.C., received the Doctor of Humane
Letters on May 25 during spring commencement for the private university, where
he was the keynote speaker.
Paulson starts his MTSU post on July 1, replacing Roy Moore,
dean of the college since 2008, who will remain with the college as a
professor.
A member of The Recording Academy and a former music
journalist, Paulson is active in the Nashville music community, serving as vice
chair of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame; a member of the Music City
Music Council, convened by Mayor Karl Dean; and a Leadership Music board and
executive committee member.
Paulson served as editor-in-chief of USA Today from 2004 to
2009. He was on the team of journalists who founded USA Today in 1982
before moving on to manage newsrooms in Westchester County, N.Y.; Green Bay,
Wis.; Bridgewater, N.J.; and at Florida Today in Brevard County, Fla.
He is now a columnist on USA Today’s board of contributors,
writing about First Amendment issues and the news media.
MTSU boasts the fifth-largest mass-communication college in
the nation and is the only one that features departments of recording industry,
journalism and electronic media communication. It also is home to the Center
for Popular Music, which maintains a large research library and archive and
interprets various aspects of American vernacular music.
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