Longtime journalist Raul Reis developed into a world-class academic as a PhD candidate at the SOJC. Now he’s the dean of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Media.

An enrolled citizen of the Coquille Nation and an assistant professor of Indigenous studies at UO, Ashley Cordes researched how groups communicate their identities through media, with a focus on currency as a communication medium among Native American populations.