High Impact Practices are active learning opportunities that promote student engagement through hands-on skill acquisition and refinement, building students’ confidence, self-esteem, and networking strategies while helping them refine their career expectations and pathways. Every department in the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication incorporates High Impact Practices relevant to their programs, and alumni can attest to the importance of these opportunities beyond the classroom.
For instance, many students in the Department of Art participate in IntersectLA, a student-run and faculty-mentored full-service brand and creative strategy agency. Through IntersectLA, students from diverse disciplines collaborate on real-world projects, developing an understanding of the creative side of business while building invaluable skillsets. The Department of Music operates VOVE, a student-run, faculty-mentored music and entertainment label housed in the Music Industry Studies program. Since 1997 student producers at VOVE have worked with developing artists from all genres to help them make their mark in the music industry, gaining insights and understanding along the way to blaze their own career paths. The Department of Journalism operates Agency 398, a student-run, faculty-mentored public relations agency, serving on- and off-campus clients in event planning, brand redesign, media relations, and social media visibility. Students learn about crisis communication, audience analysis, and search engine optimization as they develop marketing strategies and plans for new and returning clients. These are just a few of the public-facing, student-centered-learning agencies in the Mike Curb College.
See below for other great innovations and ways you can support our students as they prepare for the ever-evolving creative career landscape.
Featured Funding Opportunities:
- VOVE Student Record Label
This student-run, faculty-mentored music and entertainment label annually promotes, advises, and produces recordings for local performing artists and ensembles. Your gift to the Music Industries Studies Fund can allow VOVE to continue its mission of providing our students with the production and business expertise necessary for success in today’s music industry. - IntersectLA Creative Design
IntersectLA, previously known as Radius 2.0 and VISCOM, is a student-run and faculty-mentored full-service brand and creative strategy agency. IXLA was specifically developed for students from diverse disciplines to work with actual clients in order to fully understand the creative side of business while building their career skills. - Agency 398
Agency 398 is student-run, faculty-mentored public relations agency based in our Journalism Department. Serving local businesses and companies, the agency offers an innovative team that believes in the power of storytelling to place brands at the forefront of their audience by pushing past traditional strategies to create impactful content. - Forensics
CSUN’s Speech and Debate team is a full-service intercollegiate forensics program overseen by the Department of Communication Studies. The team helps its members build skills in research, argumentation and public speaking and engages in competition in policy debate, platform speaking, and other fields at tournaments across the country. - Film Production Fund
CTVA Film Production students partially fund their own senior projects. Your support allays personal costs, enabling students to dream bigger and ensuring that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have equitable access to this flagship program. - Television Production Fund
Television Production students partially fund their own senior projects. Your support allays personal costs, enabling students to pursue their projects without compromise and ensuring that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have equitable access to this venerated program. - Sundial
The university’s leading student publication, The Sundial, has been going strong since 1957, in large part due to its responsiveness to changing journalism landscapes and community needs. Your support helps this foundational student media enterprise remain up to date in equipment and software and funds student reporters in the field for in-depth investigative reporting. - Scene Magazine
Scene Magazine is our student-run magazine in the Journalism Department. Each issue focuses on a timely and topical theme such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the unhoused crisis, community building and investment, and more. Your support helps this publication continue to thrive while providing students with learning opportunities. - Television News Fund
CSUN On Point is our 30-minute news and public affairs show that airs on cable network LA36 on Saturdays at 8:30 am and Sundays at 11:30 am, and on KCSN 88.5 FM on Sundays at 5:30 am. Your support helps us prepare students to become well-educated, principled citizens capable of initiating careers as skilled journalists, public relations practitioners and communication professionals.
Click the "Donate" button above to give to one of these funds.
