Siena/SBU Annual Sports Fanship Survey
3 of 4 Americans will watch Super Bowl; 1 in 5 have an online sportsbook account
The Jandoli School of Communication and the Siena College Research Institute have again teamed up to conduct the annual American Sports Fanship Survey. In Part I: All Things Super Bowl, results show that 75% of all Americans will watch this year's game. Part 2 explores the explosion of online sports betting.
• All Things Super Bowl (available here)
• Impact of Legalized Betting (available here)
Jandoli School of Communication
The Jandoli School is one of just 19 private university journalism and mass communication programs accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
This accreditation, based on such standards as curriculum and instruction, faculty, scholarship, facilities, student services, diversity and inclusiveness, is outside evidence of the strength of our programs, and recognition of the work we have been doing for more than 70 years.
7 'working' majors for undergraduate students
The hallmark of our undergraduate programs is experiential learning. Each major requires 400 hours of internships.
- BROADCAST JOURNALISM
Majors are prepared for communication careers in a variety of video and audio media fields. Our students produce broadcasts for SBU-TV in our professionally
equipped and supervised broadcast studio, reaching viewers on cable TV and the internet via Spectrum.
- JOURNALISM
Majors learn to write clearly and concisely, and to appreciate that with their power as communicators comes a moral and ethical responsibility. Students find plenty of opportunities to
hone their craft, from writing for the Bona Venture student newspaper to producing hyperlocal online news for local communities via TapInto Greater Olean.
- MEDIA STUDIES
Majors want to explore big ideas and how media affects society. This interdisciplinary program offers great flexibility, allowing you to follow your passions with courses from other programs.
- SPORTS MEDIA
Majors follow a course of study designed to prepare them for careers in a variety of sports-related fields. Jandoli School students broadcast many of the university's
Division I athletic contests, including men's and women's home basketball games, on ESPN+.
- STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
Majors acquire the practical skills and ethical decision-making needed to guide communication within businesses and organizations. You'll learn to create and
execute integrated and complex communication plans while working in an agency setting, developing campaigns for clients.
- VIDEO PRODUCTION
Majors want to use their creativity and technical prowess to create dynamic videos for television, film, streaming networks, sports corporations and nonprofits.
- COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ADVOCACY
Majors are provided with an ethical grounding as well as necessary practical knowledge and experiences in preparing them for communication and advocacy roles in nonprofit and nongovernmental professions.
Students who are interested in communication but uncertain about a major may postpone that decision as an "undeclared" communication major.
You will take core courses required for all Jandoli School majors as you explore the worlds of journalism, social and digital media, broadcasting, advertising, corporate communication, public relations, sports media, video production, media studies and more.
Your faculty adviser will help you plan your future and determine which communication major is the best fit for you.
Minor in Communication
For non-majors, the minor in communication provides a solid background in the fundamentals of effective communication.
Minor in Leadership
Open to all degree-seeking students regardless of their majors, the minor in leadership prepares
students for leadership roles with a curriculum focused on effective communication, trustworthiness, motivation and effective delegation.
4 fully online graduate programs
- MASTER'S IN COMMUNICATION
Master the art of strategic storytelling and creative thinking while demonstrating strength in strategic planning and campaign analysis. Specialize in content marketing or integrated marketing communication.
- MASTER'S IN DIGITAL JOURNALISM
This program prepares you to be competitive in today's modern news landscape by equipping you with the skills to develop original stories for traditional and digital media, based on the highest journalistic standards. You will learn to connect with audiences on a wide range of platforms by incorporating photography, video, design and audio.
- MASTER'S IN LEADERSHIP
Prepare to lead with empathy and compassion in any business climate, leaning on a solid foundation of skills in communication, strategic thinking, change management, innovation and team-building.
- MASTER'S IN SPORTS JOURNALISM
Learn the skills necessary to become a modern-day sports journalist, combining traditional news reporting with a wide variety of digital competencies, including social media and storytelling, podcasts, and mobile experiences. In our SBU Alumni Master Classes, you will learn from some of the top journalists in the field, including ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski and Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post.
Early assurance programs
Qualified high school seniors can earn guaranteed placement, as incoming freshmen, in one of two master's degree programs.
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Early Assurance Journalism
Qualified high school seniors are guaranteed placement in either of two online graduate programs:
- M.A. in Digital Journalism
- M.A. in Sports Journalism
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Early Assurance Communication
Qualified high school seniors are guaranteed placement in our M.A. in Communication program. Learn more.
To learn more about these early assurance programs, CLICK HERE.
Our grads are skilled, knowledgeable, in demand
Above all, our students learn to write well, the foundation on which every successful communication career is built.
As a student in the Jandoli School, you will learn how to gather, analyze and communicate information, skills valued by virtually every occupation. We teach these skills within the context of a broad liberal arts background, and, in keeping with our Franciscan tradition, we pride ourselves in weaving ethics into each of our courses.
It's no surprise, then, that our graduates work in a variety of professions: journalism, public relations, advertising, sports media, broadcasting, corporate communications, law, government and more. Our professors have hundreds of years of experience in these areas and others.
Experiential learning: Put your education to work
From a 400-hour internship requirement for all Jandoli School majors, to numerous opportunities to work in campus media, to a course in which students serve as a marketing communications consultancy with real local business clients, experiential learning has long been a hallmark of a communications degree from St. Bonaventure.
Students run a highly ranked campus radio station, publish weekly print and daily online newspapers, broadcast a weekly news program, cover SBU athletics on campus, and publish the oldest consecutively published student literary magazine in the country.
Internships are important learning experiences and one of the key reasons our graduates step so smoothly right from graduation into starting positions with key communications industry firms.
Jandoli School Internships
Join major broadcasters on Radio Row at the Super Bowl.
Be part of the team presenting live TV broadcasts of Division I sports for ESPN+.
It's just a sampling of the on-campus opportunities for students to hone their communication skills.
- Students cover the community for TAPInto Greater Olean, a local news website and the only university among 70 franchised TAPinto news sites in New Jersey, New York and Florida;
- Students produce and present SBU-TV newscasts on Spectrum cable throughout Western New York;
- Our student radio station is one of the Top 10 college stations in the U.S.;
- Our student newspaper, The Bona Venture (The BV), has been publishing since 1926.
Campus Media
The Jandoli School of Communication is housed in the John J. Murphy Professional Building on the west side of campus. It's home to the Koop Broadcast lab, a newsroom and fully functioning television production studio.
Broadcast Facilities
The national American Advertising Federation gives colleges and universities the opportunity to create a working advertising agency on campus that competes in the National Student Advertising Competition, known as the College World Series of Advertising.
The SBU chapter, Kwerkworks, consists of 30 students, half of them Jandoli School majors, half marketing majors. Students can take a class for marketing credit in the School of Business or as an advertising class in the Jandoli School. Students must submit a resume and be interviewed for a position on the team.
This course serves as the capstone advertising class, providing students with the opportunity to design a strategic advertising and media campaign for a corporate sponsor.
Students present the finished campaign to various industry executives at AAF's National Student Advertising Competition in the spring semester.
Go to the Kwerkworks application
Jandoli School of Communication lecturer Anna Bulszewicz partners with academic coordinators at Sant’Anna Institute in Sorrento, Italy, to create the Sorrento, Italy, Study Abroad Program for students at St. Bonaventure University.
This mobile-learning program is a St. Bonaventure-stamped exploration of self, culture and profession in one of the most historically rich locations in the world. Participating students have the ability to customize their experience abroad.
Students can register for two courses and earn a total of six transferable college credits or apply for a customized internship experience.
Learn more about study abroad in Sorrento
A record of accomplishment
New York Times columnist Dan Barry (right), a 1980 SBU graduate, says every time he sits down to write one of his former SBU professor's has his ear, "urging me to find a better word ... to seek the electricity that can be sparked by language."
Our graduates work in a variety of professions and have won many of journalism's highest honors. In addition to five Pulitzer Prize winners, we have duPont, Peabody, Emmy, Sports Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award winners, a National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame inductee, and National and New York Sportswriter of the Year winners.
We have more winners than any other school in the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation Scholarship essay contest, which invites participation from only the strongest journalism programs in the nation.
A degree from the Jandoli School of Communication means not only that you have learned from the best, but that you're prepared to claim your spot among them.
Our graduates work across the nation and around the globe, as writers, editors, producers and communications specialists for some of the most prestigious and influential institutions in the communications industry today: The New York Times, the Moscow Times, NBC News, Bank of America, MTV, Sports Illustrated, ESPN.
Distinguished Graduates
About the Jandoli School of Communication
Meet Aaron Chimbel, dean of the Jandoli School, and read about our mission, our learning objectives, and our promise to our majors.
Plus, learn about:
- Innovation: The Jandoli School digital magazine
- Jandoli School scholarships, events and awards, including the prestigious Mark Hellinger and Woman of Promise awards
- The Jandoli Institute, created in 2019 to explore today's media landscape in an effort to help ensure that media continues to play a constructive role in our nation's democracy
ABOUT THE JANDOLI SCHOOL
Apr 18, 2024 | Faculty promotions and tenure appointments at St. Bonaventure University have been announced by Dr. David Hilmey, provost and vice president of Academic Affairs.
Apr 12, 2024 | Nearly 300 students and teachers from 16 area high schools attended the Jandoli School of Communication’s 2024 Communications Day at St. Bonaventure University Friday, April 12.
Apr 11, 2024 | Scott Sackett, a documentary filmmaker, public media producer and Jandoli School of Communication lecturer, co-presented at a featured session of the American Ethnological Society Spring Conference, Repair 2024, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, April 4-6.
SBU, Siena launch national survey on sports fanship
St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication and the Siena College Research Institute launched a new nationwide “American Sports Fanship Survey” in early 2023. Results of the three-topic survey were released Feb. 3, Feb. 6 and Feb. 8. For an overview of the survey, click here.
• Sports Fanship (available here)
• All Things Super Bowl (available here)
• Societal/Cultural Issues about Football (available here)