Community Service: Student Mentors

    
  As part of our mission to help public relations students, the North Alabama Chapter supports two student chapters, one at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and one at the University of North Alabama in Florence (UNA). Active student chapter members network with members of the professional chapter, which often has led to wonderful job opportunities in north Alabama.

Each school’s student chapter has a faculty academic advisor, and there is a professional chapter board member dedicated to assisting the academic advisor with information to and from the professional chapter.

Activities within the student chapters include regularly scheduled chapter meetings, guest speakers, an annual awards competition, reduced pricing for attending the PRCA State Conference, and academic scholarships through the North Alabama PRCA Chapter’s Michael K. Simmons Scholarship.

PRCA supports chapters at schools that award degrees in the field of communications. If you are interested in joining one of these chapters, contact the academic advisor.

UAH Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Julie Farris, (256) 824-2304

UNA Faculty Advisor:
Lisa Darnell, APR, (256) 765-4596, lvdarnell@una.edu

Board student chapter chair:
Allison Gregg, (256) 536-0745, ext 104, allison.gregg@uwhsv.org

We welcome the introduction of new chapters at other academic institutions and will gladly help with the startup process.