The SPJ-DC chapter is pleased to announce that Carol Y. Dudley, director of the Office of Career Development at Howard University's School of Communications, is the 2012 recipient of the 2012 Distinguished Service in Local Journalism Award.
During her decades of service at Howard, Dudley has served as mentor, coach, adviser and enforcer for scores of communications students who have graduated from Howard and gone on to pursue careers in our field of work.
In the process, Dudley has almost single-handedly taken a small college jobs fair at Howard and over the years turned it into one of the nation’s major career conferences. Today, on the strength of her dedication and persistence, dozens of recruiters converge on the Howard campus each fall to meet hundreds of job seekers — students and early-career professionals — from as far as Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri.
Dudley’s work has provided employers an opportunity to feed their talent pipeline consistently, and has given students an opportunity to learn face-to-face what employers have to offer and what they are demanding. Dudley's year-after-year success is legendary.
She will receive the Distinguished Service Award at the DC Pro Chapter's annual awards dinner June 12 at the National Press Club.
For ticket information, please contact dinner chair Andy Schotz, LawnGyland@aol.com.