Paula Bennett Receives Missouri Baptist University's 2013 Distinguished Professor Award

ST. LOUIS, MO (06/04/2013)(readMedia)-- Paula Bennett, assistant professor of communications, has been awarded Missouri Baptist University's 2013 Distinguished Professor Award.

"Paula Bennett has been a driving force behind the growth of the University's communications programs," said Dr. Arlen Dykstra, MBU provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. "The wealth of professional experience she brings to the classroom, along with a passion for her area of study, has prepared a countless number of budding communicators to enter the ever-changing communications industry."

In 2007 Bennett said farewell to a 28-year-long profession as an engineer with KSDK-TV in order to join the full-time faculty at MBU. She had taught in an adjunct capacity at MBU since 2000.

Bennett works tirelessly to help provide her students with necessary experience to begin a range of careers in TV news and videography. Bennett oversees the video component of Timeline, the University's student news media service. She has revolutionized the University's campus TV newscast, including partnering with Timeline Online to teach her students convergence journalism, and has established a strategic plan that provides video coverage of the University's many events. She has also worked to overhaul the University's broadcast technology, helping to create a state-of-the-art communications laboratory and studio for the students she teaches.

Missouri Baptist University is a Christ-centered university located in Saint Louis. MBU offers more than 40 undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees in education, business and religion and its new terminal degree, the Doctor of Education. In addition to its 66-acre West St. Louis County campus, MBU offers degree programs at 10 regional learning centers throughout Saint Louis, in Southern Illinois and online. For more information, go to www.mobap.edu or call 1-877-434-1115.