Iconic Spanish-language journalists Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas will accept the 42nd Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism on Tuesday, February 24 and students will get an up close and personal opportunity to ask the groundbreaking journalists questions during a Q&A Panel on Monday, February 23.

The student panel is open to all students and begins at 4 p.m. in the First Amendment Forum and will be moderated by two Cronkite students, Hailey Jimenez and Serenity Reynolds.

The Pastor Center Fellows will be tabling on the ASU Downtown and Tempe malls to celebrate Arizona’s birthday and connect with students, sharing opportunities at the center to explore their interest in public service. They will also be sharing voter registration and election information. Fellows will hand out cupcakes to celebrate and remind everyone of the important date of Arizona becoming the 48th state.

Iconic accessories brand designers Elyce Arons and the late Kate Spade will become the newest members of the alumni hall of fame at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication on Tuesday, March 3, 2026.

Spade and Arons are the creative forces and co-founders behind the Kate Spade brand they launched in 1993.

Join us for a panel discussion with experienced sports journalists as they share their experience covering player contracts, stadium deals, sponsorships, and the new and rapidly changing world of NIL deals.

Thursday, March 19 | 5 to 7 p.m.

Join us for Open House, designed specifically for prospective and admitted students, on Thursday, March 19, 2025 5:00 pm  MST at Thunderbird Global Headquarters on ASU's Downtown Phoenix Campus.

All prospective in-person student attendees will receive an application waiver for any Thunderbird 2026 graduate degree application! 

At Premier Day, you can:

Visiting artist and scholar lecture series | Yoshua Okón

Feb 19 | 6 p.m. | Grant Street Studios

Yoshua Okón was born in Mexico City in 1970, where he currently lives. His work, like a series of near-sociological experiments executed for the camera, blends staged situations, documentation and improvisation, and questions habitual perceptions of reality and truth, selfhood, and morality. In 2002, he received an MFA from UCLA with a Fulbright scholarship.

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