We serve the 100 undergraduate and 30 graduate alumni who live in the greater Houston area. Please return to this page to learn about exciting upcoming programs including, but not limited to, institutional and alumni speakers and authors, cultural programs, social and networking events, and activities for recent alumni and students.
The Alumni Club of Houston is seeking alumni volunteers to help get involved in our area. We are looking for alumni to join a steering committee to provide programming ideas and do general outreach to alumni in the area, as well as alumni hosts to open their homes for alumni and faculty speaker programs.
If you are interested in joining the steering committee and hosting or chairing an event, please contact club president Francyne Davis Jacobs '95 through this link.
Upcoming Events
Sunday, December 6, 2009
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Faculty in the Field
Private Media, Public Obligation: Profit and the Fourth Estate
Why has the news in the United States evolved into a primarily for-profit endeavor? How and why did the for-profit model change over the course of the last quarter century? What challenges and opportunities does the Internet pose to the traditional news model?
Professor Farrelly will explore these questions and the impact - both positive and negative - that the for-profit funding model has had on the quality of news production in the United States.
Maura Jane Farrelly
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the Journalism Program
Maura Jane Farrelly is director of the Journalism program at Brandeis. She has previously taught at universities including Emory and Fordham. Professor Farrelly also worked as a full-time journalist, employed for some time by Voice of America. She has done freelance work for NPR, PRI, and the BBC. Professor Farrelly’s current research focuses on Catholics in the South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in addition to Methodist attempts to reconcile science with religion in the nineteenth century.
Hosted by Aria Tatelman '00
at her home in Houston
RSVP for address and directions. They will be sent in a confirmation e-mail a few days prior to the event.
Admission is complimentary. Brunch will be served.
RSVP to the Office of Alumni Relations before Monday, November 30, by calling 781-736-4041 or complete this form 
