High Point University is a place where you can prepare yourself to make a difference. One of my core beliefs,
and one that I share often with the students here, is that good communication skills are essential for success.
Clear communication conveys meaning through instruction, information, and inspiration.
Communication is at the heart of everything we do. It is the foundation for interaction among human beings.
Communication has to do with meanings, with understandings, with feelings, with desires, with needs and with ideas.
Communicating effectively with people is a minimum-requirement skill in our ever-changing global marketplace.
Our world is filled with information, but that isn't enough. We need understanding, and that calls for transcending
what philosopher William James called "the most immutable barrier in nature," the barrier between one person's thoughts
and another's. By bridging the distance between human beings through effective communication, we can build a more
peaceful world of understanding and meaningful dialogue.
The purpose of most communication is to influence the attitudes and behaviors of those whom we address. Since the
human race is composed of billions of individuals, each with a different way of responding, no one approach is universally effective.
It is our commitment as an institution to provide you with a well-rounded education that will nurture your mind and
provide opportunities for learning that will remain with you throughout your career and your life.
A New World of Communication
We are living in a new world of communication, one beset by profound problems and inundated by diverse possibilities. The key to
understanding this new world, its problems and its potential, is communication. The constant in the midst of
the change that characterizes the world in which we live, is the need for meaningful communication and global understanding.
At High Point University we believe that mastery of the arts of communication is one of the best ways not only to prepare for
a successful career and a rich personal life, but to transform our world. At the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication we are
committed to providing the best kind of education in communication: enriched by being part of a historically church related
institution, grounded in the liberal arts, and responsive to innovations in the arts, sciences, and technology. Our curriculum
provides students with a solid, liberal arts education that broadens and enriches their studies of human expression and
interaction. At the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication, we are preparing students to responsibly create, reflect upon, and
analyze images and information. We are preparing students for living in a new world of communication.
Our extensive interests encompass corporate communication, political communication, global and intercultural communication,
sports communication, health communication, interpersonal communication, as well as news media, cinema, and information technology.
The Nido R. Qubein School of Communication building will open in the Fall of 2008 and will be a state of the art facility featuring: two
television studios, an audio recording studio, a theatre, editing rooms, and computer labs.
This impressive new facility is made possible by the Qubein family of High Point, North Carolina. Dr. Nido R. Qubein,
President of High Point University has twice been named by one of the country's leading and largest communications training firms,
San Francisco-based Decker Communications, to its annual Top Ten Communicators list. In naming Dr. Qubein to this list for the second
time, Decker leaders said that, "he continues to communicate his vision of the world in a way that positively impacts tens of thousands.
It is there (as president of High Point University) that this one man has single handedly inspired his team to literally transform a
University in the space of less than two years. One hundred million dollars raised, 10 new buildings, a tangible new spirit of "WOW"
on a campus that is doubling in applications, inquiries, and result." High Point University is proud to break ground on the Nido R. Qubein School
of Communication.
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