Name: Kynnedi Rone Degree: Strategic Communication (minors in psychology and honors) Why I chose to attend TCU: The energy was infectious! It felt like a place where I was bound to find endless amounts of new opportunities. Involvement at TCU: Founding the women’s club basketball team here at TCU has provided me with so many… Read more »
Our Roxo agency this spring is celebrating 10 years of history and client work with strategic communication students and its client community. The agency has grown from employing a dozen students to nearly 30 each semester. The unique, student-driven, full-service advertising and public relations agency has taught, employed and prepared approximately 400 students in the… Read more »
Roxo is celebrating 10 years of history and client work with past Roxstars and its client community at a special event this month. The “Decade of Difference” celebration for students, alumni, staff, clients and friends will take place from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 at the Hyatt Place Hotel Lot 12 Rooftop Patio. The agency… Read more »
Roxo Agency team members created and distributed a press release increasing awareness around National Prescription Drug Take Back Day for client Cook Children’s Health Care System. Cook Children’s JOY Campaign is a suicide prevention initiative aiming to foster resilience, provide resources to struggling families, and encourage children that there is “hope today for joy tomorrow.”… Read more »
In an article for PR Daily, “6 ways the student-run agency prepares future PR pros,” Mackenzi Abbott outlines how instrumental TCU’s Roxo Agency has been in preparing her for the real world. Earning real experience in an agency as a student is an irreplaceable experience. Her stance is shared by many other student leaders in… Read more »
Ella Canfield, senior strategic communication major from Mason, Texas, is set to walk the stage at graduation in December 2021. In addition to that big achievement, the seventh-generation Masonite is on a special mission to benefit her hometown through her internship with the Mason County Historical Commission. In early February 2021, an arsonist set off… Read more »
The Strategic Communication department has planned a tribute event honoring the late Douglas Ann Newsom from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (CST) Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021, in the Robert Carr Chapel at TCU. Newsom, professor emerita, taught at TCU for more than 40 years, leaving a lasting impact on all who knew her. You can read more… Read more »
This semester, strategic communication students in associate professor Guy Golan’s special topics course on social media are exploring emerging digital media and their influence on public relations and advertising practices and research, and gaining the analytical skills necessary to create, evaluate and execute social media campaigns. Along the way, students are learning how to build… Read more »
Student Matt Sunthimer ’22, of McKinney, Texas, is interning this summer at MindHandle, an advertising agency in Dallas. Sunthimer, a strategic communication major with minors in studio art and general business, works as a content creator at the agency. He captures photos and videos at client shoots and even creates GIFs. His schedule is fluid,… Read more »
TCU’s team placed second in this year’s American Advertising Federation’s National Student Advertising Competition. The team advanced to the finals after winning the semi-finals competition in April. TCU students have actively participated in NSAC since 2000 and placed several times at the district level, but never higher than fourth at the national level, until this… Read more »
