PR Professional Lecturer Donohue Named Marist COMMARTS Faculty Member of the Year

Marist College's Jennie Donohue

The Marist Student Government Association (SGA) has selected Jennie Donohue, professional lecturer in public relations, as its 2011-2012 School of Communication and the Arts Faculty Member of the Year. Students across the Marist campus nominated deserving faculty members for this award during the spring 2012 elections for SGA.

Donohue joined the full-time faculty at Marist College in the fall of 2010. She is an award-winning communication professional with more than two decades of industry experience. Among other responsibilities, she serves as the faculty adviser to the college’s Red Foxes Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America. She is also a charter member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Hudson Valley Interest Group, which is in the process of forming the newest chapter in the PRSA, the world's largest professional organization of public relations practitioners.

I have had the pleasure of working closely with Jennie since her arrival at Marist in 2010. In the short time she has been on our faculty, she has energized the teaching of our public relations courses, established guest speaker program that introduces students to some of the nation's leading public relations professionals, guided the rapid growth and development of Marist's PRSSA chapter, helped the PRSSA chapter launch a student-run communication agency, and helped modernize the college's public relations curriculum.

I can think of no candidate more worthy of this year's award. Please join me in congratulating Jennie Donohue on this special recognition!