Commission on Public Relations Education (CPRE)
CPRE is a committed and collaborative leader in advancing excellence in public relations education and the industry worldwide through:
- Developing and promoting actionable, relevant and forward-looking research, a strong resource base, and recommendations for public relations education that benefit students, educators, and the public relations industry globally.
- Building bridges between public relations education and the industry by facilitating mutually productive dialogue and collaboration.
- Ensuring ethics, global perspectives, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are the foundations of our work.
Achieve through Four Areas of Focus:
- Solidifying Organization Structure (leadership, diversity, international, long range sustainability)
- Enhancing Visibility to academia, professionals and professional/academic organizations
- Developing and distributing Content (delivery, frequency, subject matter, diversity)
- Having a measurable Impact on all the above
Commission Members
- Arthur W. Page Center
- Arthur W. Page Society
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Public Relations Division
- Betsy Plank Center at the University of Alabama
- Canadian Public Relations Society
- Chartered Institute of Public Relations
- European Public Relations Education and Research Association
- Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management
- Institute for Public Relations
- International Communication Association Public Relations Division
- National Black Public Relations Society
- National Communication Association Public Relations Division
- Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations
- PR Council
- PRSA College of Fellows
- PRSA Foundation
- Public Relations Society of America
- Public Relations Society of America Educators Academy
- Public Relations Society of America Educational Affairs Committee
- The Conference Board/Society for New Communications Research
- Universal Accreditation Board