Southern Illinois University names new dean for the College of Arts and Media

Hong Cheng, dean and professor in the School of Communication at Loyola University Chicago, will be the dean of the College of Arts and Media at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Cheng will begin his duties at SIU on July 1.

Cheng, a scholar of international communication and mass media, has been at Loyola since 2019. Prior to that, he was director and professor of the Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University, beginning in 2013.

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