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Professor Emeritus Mark Goodman retired in May 2021. He originally joined the faculty of Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Communication in January 2008 as the school's first Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism after serving 22 years as executive director of the Student Press Law Center in Washington, D.C.

Goodman is an expert in media law, the role of high school student journalism in preparing journalists and citizens, the practice of press freedom in American schools and freedom of information issues involving schools and colleges. He is the lead researcher for the Scholastic Journalism Census, which quantifies the number of student publications in high schools across the country.

Goodman has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Missouri–Columbia and a law degree from Duke University. He has been a guest or adjunct faculty member at several institutions including the Poynter Institute, the American University in Washington, D.C., Bowling Green State University and Virginia Commonwealth University. He also has served on the Advisory Council for the Department of Mass Media Arts at Hampton University.

Among the awards Goodman has received for his work with the student press are a First Amendment Award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, a First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Intellectual Freedom Award from the National Council of Teachers of English, the Gerald M. Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication from the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication, the Louis E. Ingelhart First Amendment Award and the Reid H. Montgomery Distinguished Service Award from College Media Association, the Carl Towley Award — the Journalism Education Association’s highest honor and the Gold Key from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

He is the author of a chapter on Regulating Student Expression in the Vision Press media law textbook Communication and the Law.

Goodman taught undergraduate and graduate classes in media law and ethics.

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