The Communication & Media Studies Division is passionate about instructing, equipping and mentoring students empowered to engage the marketplace of ideas as skilled agents of Biblical Worldview.
We provide our students access to the latest equipment and gear from our Center for Academic Media Services. Newly remodeled classrooms include new shooting stages, recording studios and fully equipped editing rooms. Our experienced professors have decades of connections with professionals in each of the media fields. Our students are candidates for significant internships throughout their upper division coursework. Students also benefit from the media-rich Grand Rapids/West Michigan marketplaces.
Cornerstone theatre majors and minors have multiple opportunities each academic year to participate in award-winning productions. The Herald, our weekly newspaper, was named Best College Newspaper in its division in 2008. Students recently took multiple prestigious NRB AWARDS of EXCELLENCE FOR VIDEO PRODUCTION THIS YEAR, as they entered and won short film awards from several festivals in Michigan.
Our superb faculty brings a firm commitment to Christ and demonstrates their passion for teaching and mentoring as they encourage our students to go farther, faster and deeper into their coming professional careers.
As you seek where God is calling you, we hope you will consider our courses and programs – so that we can help you in service to Him and to the media-saturated marketplace.
Pete Muir, B.Bus., M.A.
Division Chair, Assistant Professor of Media Studies
David R. Anderson, B.A., M.Div
Associate Professor of Media Studies
Alan D. Blanchard, B.A., Ph.D. (candidate)
Associate Professor of Journalism
Timothy J. Detwiler, B.A., M.A., Ph. D.
Associate Provost for Traditional Programming/Professor of Communication Arts
Desiree C. Duff, B.A., M.A., Ph. D. (candidate)
Associate Professor of Communication
Jennifer K. Hunter, B.M., M.F.A.
Associate Professor of Theatre
Randy Miller, B.A.
Instructor of Audio Production
Kathleen O. Sindorf, B.A., M.A.
Associate Professor of Communication Arts
Awards
Journalism: The Herald campus weekly newspaper was named Best University newspaper in its division in 2008. The Herald earned 1st place in overall newspaper design in 2009 from the Michigan Press Association. Baptist Press gave The Herald a second place Excellence in Journalism award for Overall Newspaper in its division for 2010.
Media: Recent CU graduates won best film at the 2009 Michigan Film Festival with Hill of Holes. Our media students have earned multiple honors from the prestigious National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Awards of Excellence for video production, and our students produced Checkers, the winning short film for Michigan Hospice Association’s film contest in 2008.
Theatre: multiple Grand Awards in recent years for Outstanding College Production: Wait Until Dark, Outstanding Lead Actress: The Diary of Anne Frank, and Outstanding Lead Actor: Seussical the Musical. For more information, visit theGrand Awards page!
Cornerstone students enjoy the opportunity to participate in the renowned
and contribute to the actual operation of the event.
