Nina Brown Named 2025-28 Meredith Professor
The associate professor of communications will focus on creating a comprehensive faculty development program during her tenure. The Meredith Professorship is a prestigious honor for Syracuse University faculty.
Nina Brown, an associate professor of communications at the Newhouse School, has been named a 2025-28 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, a prestigious honor that recognizes and rewards outstanding teaching among the faculty.
Created in 1995, the Meredith Professorship Program aims to improve the teaching and learning environment on campus and foster campuswide conversations about teaching excellence.
Brown, who has taught at Newhouse for a decade, plans to focus her Meredith Professorship on creating a comprehensive faculty development program to support the transition and professional growth of new faculty across the University. The initiative would provide new faculty with tools, training and mentorship to help them thrive in the classroom, and ultimately enhance student learning outcomes, faculty effectiveness and a sense of belonging.
Brown said she plans to work collaboratively with academic units across campus to tailor to each unit’s needs, instead of taking a “one-size-fits-all” approach. She will be among the honorees to be recognized Friday at the One University Awards Ceremony at Hendricks Chapel.
“This is such a deserving honor for Nina, whose dedication to teaching excellence and helping new faculty succeed is well known at Newhouse,” Dean Mark J. Lodato said.
“I am eager to see the impact she will make across the rest of campus in setting new frameworks for faculty development,” Lodato said. “Nina’s dynamic ideas ultimately will bolster the Newhouse School’s standards of excellence as the nation’s top communications school.”
Also a graduate of the Newhouse School, Brown began her career as a copywriter at an advertising agency, and eventually held roles as director of communications for a startup technology company and associate vice president of brand development at a Fortune 500 company.
Brown then attended Cornell Law School, where she focused her coursework and scholarship on First Amendment and intellectual property law. After several years practicing law, Brown joined the Newhouse faculty to teach courses in communications law. Her academic research focuses on the intersection of media law and technology.