Telecom alum recognized from Hollywood to Florida

It’s an interesting thing, to visit another school’s website and see a Baylor graduate splashed across their front page.

As I type this, visitors to Florida State University’s website, fsu.edu, are greeted with a banner headline: “Film School dean is top mentor to Hollywood filmmakers” (screenshot at right; click to see bigger). The subject of that acclaim, who is titled in the same graphic as “among [the] most influential professors in the U.S.,” is Frank Patterson — a Baylor alum who earned his bachelor’s and master’s here before carrying the green and gold to Chapman University, the University of Texas and now FSU.

The linked article on FSU’s site stems from an article in the Hollywood Reporter that listed Patterson among the 12 most influential film school professors in the nation. Patterson himself, however, credits the education he received in Baylor’s Telecommunications (now Film and Digital Media) classes with helping get him where he is today.

Sic ’em, Frank Patterson and Baylor Film and Digital Media!