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“From the community to national level, our nation faces issues critical to our long-range future. Objective analysis of these issues combined with practical, non-partisan approaches to resolving them will be the only way we can confront them effectively. The Communications Institute, working with its partners in the academic/research community including USC, is making an important contribution to this vital goal.”

– Steven B. Sample

President, University of Southern California

"Let me send you admiring applause for the first-rate initiative you have now incubated. ... All too often, particularly in the wake of conflagrations like the Florida vote count in 2000, the public comes to think of democracy as an institution governed merely by the ballot box. Your new institution arises from the understanding that democracy means much more. People don't vote in a vacuum. In a free society, they make up their minds in a disorderly but yeasty process of discussion, debate, argument, accusation, rebuttal, reading, writing and shouting. All of that depends on knowledge, often expert knowledge, and the Communications Institute offers an intelligent and inventive way to disseminate such knowledge."

-Jack Rosenthal

President, New York Times Company Foundation


"RAND is dedicated to the goal of improving policy and decision making through research analysis. This depends on balanced, effective dissemination. That is why we are delighted to be a partner with The Communications Institute in helping to further this important goal for soeciety. I believe the Institute will play an important role in the future." The Communications Institute holds the promise of organizing such knowledge in superb ways and we salute you."

– James Thomson

President and Chief Executive Officer, The RAND Corporation

“More than ever before, today’s journalists need to expand their knowledge of economics, science, engineering, the law and other academic subjects. But they ought not do it in isolation. I prefer the approach of the Communications Institute where the learning takes place alongside those whom they cover: leaders in business, government, labor and community organizations. What better way to truly understand those from other walks of life? Journalists should be part of things and not separate from them. Not only that, but what better way to cultivate new sources for future stories?”

– Thomas Honig

Executive Editor, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, a Dow Jones Company

“We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar – that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire – can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.”

– Hugh Sidey

Time Magazine Columnist and Author
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