The Newhouse School’s mission is to educate ethical, visionary communicators whose goal is to establish an open marketplace of ideas guided by the First Amendment using contemporary professional practices. In the course of earning their degree, students are expected to achieve the following educational outcomes:

• LAW: Identify the principles and laws of free speech and press for the US, as well as compare the American system of freedom of expression with others around the world, including the right to dissent, to monitor and criticize power, and to assemble and petition for redress of grievances;
• HISTORY: Describe how professionalization has historically shaped the institutions in communications;
• U.S. DIVERSITY: Explain mass communications in relation to social identities such as gender, race ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity in American society;
• GLOBAL DIVERSITY: Recognize how the diversity of peoples and cultures has shaped mass communications in a global society;
• VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS: Apply theories and concepts of design and visual communication to the use and presentation of images and information;
• ETHICS: Recognize professional ethical principles and apply them in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity;
• CRITICAL THINKING: Critically, creatively, and independently consider problems and issues relevant to the communications professions;
• RESEARCH: Conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions;
• WRITING: Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve;
• EVALUATION: Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness;
• STATISTICS: Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts;
• TECHNOLOGY: Apply tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions in which they work.