About the lecture 

Join a panel of Klein’s diverse PhD program alumni for an informative discussion of career options in and outside of academia...other than becoming a professor. 

About the speakers 

Shannon McLaughlin Rooney serves as the vice president for enrollment management and strategic communications at Community College of Philadelphia. Before joining CCP, she worked at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication as assistant dean for strategic communications. Her research is focused on journalism and public memory and has appeared in Digital Journalism, Journalism, and Journalism Studies. Her dissertation, “Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing,” won AEJMC’s Cultural and Critical Studies Division dissertation award. 

Satarupa Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor of Communication Arts (Applied Communication) at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her research focuses on health communication program development and implementation with experience spanning academia and the not-for-profit sector. She has published research in peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, special issues of journals, essays and blog posts, and has won several awards and grants.  

Nicole M. Westrick currently serves as the inaugural assistant vice president and dean of the College of Interdisciplinary and Continuing Studies at Morgan State University. In this role, Dr. Westrick leads academic programs for degree completion, which includes 18 interdisciplinary undergraduate, graduate,and doctoral degrees; MorganOnline which is responsible for the instructional design for all online programs; and the Center for Professional and Continuing Studies. Prior to Morgan State University, Dr. Westrick was the associate vice provost of the University College at Temple University where she led to the development of non-credit and continuing education programs for a wide range of students, including summer camps, pre-college, degree completion and lifelong learning.