OUR HISTORY
Kansas State University's Diverse Mass Communicators was founded by K-State Student, Sheila Ellis, after her frustration of being the one of the only minorities on the K-State Collegian staff.
After decades of issues with diversity coverage in the student newspaper, she decided to create a student organization that would promote diversity in the student media as well as recruit and retain minority reporters. She found interest in other minority students in the journalism school she formed DMC.
The Collegian staff now has more than 10 minorities, covering all aspects of the campus. This is a first in the paper's 112-year history. In October of 2007, DMC
became an official organization under the Office of Student Activities and Services, Office of Diversity and School of Journalism.
DMC Scholars
