Communication Studies

This Year's PREM Projects

• Texan News Service
• Longhorn Drover
• Texas Steak Cook-off
• Camp Sweeney
• Dublin Dr Pepper annual anniversary party
• Cross Timbers Fine Arts Council
• Boys & Girls Club of Hood County
• Meals on Wheels of Erath County
• Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Erath County
• Relay for Life of Hood County
• Relay for Life of Erath County
• Hannah Fair wedding
• Stephenville Boy Scouts troop
• Shriners carnival
• Children’s Charities of Fort Worth annual Margarita Ball
• Class of 1974 reunion party at TCU
• Tarleton Equine Assisted Therapy (TREAT)
• Cowboy Church of Erath County
• Rocky Point Church
• Cross Timbers Pregnancy Care Center
• Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
• TSU Rodeo Association
• TSU Cheerleading Squad
• TSU Football Program
• TSU 2020 Master Plan
• Dick Smith Library
• "Land of the Dinosaurs"
• Tarleton departments:
  • Career Services
  • Communication Studies
  • Student Activities
  • KTRL Radio
  • Management, Marketing, & Administrative Systems

• TSU academic programs:
  • International Business
  • PR & Event Management
  • Journalism & Broadcasting
  • Management

Results of Previous PREM Projects

In addition to helping class clients meet their strategic objectives for public relations and events, efforts of student teams result in a good deal of verified media coverage and other public exposure.

2008-09 Results

• Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival bingo to support the Stephenville senior-citizens center
• Bake sale and raffle, with Wal-Mart matching funds, for the Stephenville 4-H Club
• Campus promotion of Holiday tour of homes for Cross Timbers Fine Arts
• Volunteer recruitment of high school and college students, and also community members, for The Treehouse after-school program for at-risk children (newspaper story resulted in unsolicited $500 donation)
• Activities to increase participation and contributions for Tarleton's Relay for Life
• "Popcorn for Pups" raffle to secure supplies for the local Humane Society
• Team roping and raffle for a Boy Scout troop's High Adventure trip
• Campus-organization donations of hygiene products for Foster's Home
• Wish-list lunch/auction and team volunteerism for the Ft. Worth Ronald McDonald House
• Lock-up lunch and firefighter collections for the Muscular Dystrophy Association
• "Better Beginnings" gala dinner and Darryl Dodd concert to benefit Cross Timbers Family Services, with Meadows Foundation matching funds (over $50,000 donated; now planned as an annual event)
• "Take a Hike, Ike" hurricane-recovery supplies drive and delivery logistics organized by a single class member, Jarrod Prince (Won 2009 Tarleton Program of the Year).