Center for Community Media
The Center for Community Media (CCM) is a digital media production, teaching, and research center supported by Governors State University's College of Arts and Sciences.
Designed to serve all corners of GovState, as well as our neighbors in local communities, The Center for Community Media (CCM) empowers the GovState community with hands-on media training and impactful community conversations to boost media literacy, create connection, and amplify voices in our community. Through CCM initiatives, GovState students, faculty, staff, and community members learn how to use accessible media tools to tell their own stories and make a difference in the world.
CCM supports learning across all phases of community-based, digital media production through participation in its core initiatives: Jaguar Student Media, Media Across the Curriculum, and Media Research Institute Fellowship, as well as industry-informed, community-centered events. Learn more about these initiatives below.
Jaguar Student Media
Jaguar Student Media is GovState's student-led, student-produced, multi-modal digital media network. Read the latest news from our staff writers on The Jaguar Chronicle; watch our award-winning monthly TV news magazine, Jaguar News; and listen to our student-curated 24/7 streaming radio station, Radio Jaguar. New app coming soon!
Media Across the Curriculum
Through Media Across the Curriculum (MAC), CCM supports media literacy, digital media learning, and community development by pairing student media interns with non-media classrooms across the university. MAC also produces the annual First Voice Story Slam, inviting all students to tell their own personal 5-minute stories for a chance at prizes and bragging rights.
Media Research Institute
CCM guides the year-long Media Research Institute (MRI) Fellowship for full-time faculty and staff who do research fostering democratic engagement, increasing civic awareness, and amplifying authentic voices. Each year, two Fellows receive production support resulting in original pieces of media for use in classrooms, at conferences, on websites, and more. Past projects have included TED Talk-style videos about criminal justice and art history, a podcast about supporting those who encounter secondary trauma in their jobs as helpers, videos about catching the signs of a stroke early, and videos showcasing success strategies for nontraditional students.