Groups and Clubs
MCO students regularly join different groups and clubs depending on their interests and skills. While not required, these affiliations serve as a positive space of support and outside learning, bringing our community together, and creating long lasting learning.
Groups and Clubs
Lambda Pi Eta
Lambda Pi Eta is the official communication studies honor society of the National Communication Association (NCA). Lambda Pi Eta recognizes, fosters, and rewards outstanding scholastic achievement in communication studies and encourages the professional development of communication majors. This is a space for networking, industry insight, and community within our department. It also provides a demonstrable claim to excellence for your resume and future endeavors.
To be eligible to join the Salem State University chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, Sigma Omega, students must major in communications and have earned a minimum of 60 total credits and 12 communication credits, with a minimum of a 3.125 overall GPA and a 3.25 GPA in the major. The communications department invites eligible students to join on an annual basis. For information about membership, please contact the faculty advisor, Rebecca Hains.
Our award-winning chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America was established in the early 1990s and continues to have a vibrant presence on campus. PRSSA is an appealing opportunity for PR concentrators to learn by doing, network with professionals, and make new and lasting friendships on campus and with their peers at other schools. and with their peers at other schools. PRSSA is the gateway to membership in PRSA, the PR industry’s professional organization. It is also a pathway to competitiveness in the career of their choice with opportunities to be an elected leader and officer within the club.
The media and communications department oversees production of The Salem State Log, the student-run campus newspaper. The Log provides the Salem State community with a wide variety of information about campus news and activities. It also provides a forum for students, faculty and staff to express their diverse opinions and passion points.
Besides being the independent voice of Salem State University students, The Log also serves as an educational enterprise for students to learn about the intellectual, creative, ethical, political, and financial, challenges involved in putting out a newspaper. All participants gain extensive insight into news reporting, writing, and editing; photography; layout, design, and production; distribution and subscription; advertising; and staff and newsroom management.
For more information, email the editor-in-chief or come to a Log meeting.