The A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications offers distinguished programs of instruction and research leading to the bachelor's and master's degrees in mass communications at Kansas State University. Undergraduates can pursue a science or arts degree in one of two sequences: Journalism and Digital Media and Strategic Communications. Emphases include drone journalism, news broadcasting, graphics production, public relations, and advertising. The Miller School teaches drone photography and video in partnership with the K-State Polytechnic Unmanned Aircraft Systems Flight and Operations program. The School collaborates in the Kansas State interdisciplinary doctoral degree program in leadership communication with departments of Communication Studies, Leadership Studies, Communications and Agricultural Education, and the Institute of Civic Discourse and Democracy. Nationally accredited by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, the School has more than 6,000 living alumni, nearly 500 undergraduate majors, 100 minors, 25 graduate students, and 30 members of faculty and staff. Its operating budget 2018-19 is more than $2 million, with 57 students receiving School scholarships totaling $152,000. The School houses the headquarters of the Journalism Education Association (JEA), the largest national organization of scholastic journalism. It houses three endowed chairs or centers: the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media, R.M. Seaton Chair in Professional Journalism, and Ross Beach Chair in Mass Communications. History Kansas State University offered printing classes in 1874 using a sheet-fed press in the basement of Kedzie Hall, the stately limestone building that houses the storied School, making it the first American university to offer a program in newspaper printing. In 1910, Kansas State became the second university in the United States to offer a journalism program (after the University of Missouri, 1908) upon the hiring of Charles J. Dillon, a journalist of The Kansas City Star who set up its journalism curriculum. Dillon's curriculum, titled "industrial journalism," required students to take courses in home economics, agriculture, and engineering, in addition to reporting and copy editing. As scopes of the curriculum and its disciplines expanded, "mass communications" was added to the School name in 1971. In autumn 2018, School director Nikhil Moro, the digital media scholar, led the launch of a six-year strategic plan to emphasize research and instruction in media and audience analytics, audio and video streaming, virtual and augmented reality, and social media applications in journalism, public relations, and advertising. The School is named for distinguished Kansas publisher and editor Alexander