The Ex Corde Media Fellows Program

The Ex Corde Media Fellows program provides students with the tools, experiences, and contacts they need to enter the 21st century media world as effective communicators, charged with creating media content to promote positive messages of faith, hope, and love. This program is offered through the Center for Catholic Media.

Program Highlights

  • Studio Day: The Studio Days will give students hands-on experience with video production.
  • Educational trips: The program will host educational trips to local television and video production studios.
  • Activities: Including workshops, speakers, and fellowship, to help students use 21st century tools to promote truth, beauty, and goodness in effective, far-reaching ways.
  • Internships: Fellows will be provided help in finding internships with video production companies and creating connections with media professionals.

Program Benefits

  • Media: The program will be associated with the college’s content marketing efforts and will help create podcasts, host the school’s content marketing, and produce videos, all of which will promote the Catholic faith and support the College’s mission.
  • Networking: The program offers exclusive networking opportunities through mentors, internships, connections, and experience.

Eligibility Requirements

The Ex Corde Media Fellows invite the following groups of admitted students to apply:

  1. STANDARD: Students who demonstrate a minimum high school GPA of a 3.5 and minimum 27 ACT, 1260 SAT, or 87 CLT.
  2. TEST-OPTIONAL: Test-optional applicants who submit a high school transcript showing a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher.
  3. SLIDING SCALE: Students whose individual combination of GPA and test score merits eligibility consideration based on a sliding scale.
  4. Students who do not meet the academic requirements may be considered for acceptance on the strength of their application essays.

Join the Fellows

Submit online application and required essay by December 15 for acceptance the following fall.

Contact

Jared Zimmerer
Director of Extension Strategy
Director of Center for Catholic Media