The Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication is involved in various community outreach programs centered around volunteering, student outreach and community support projects.

The Oklahoma Institute for Diversity in Journalism is a summer journalism workshop for promising high school journalists. Its goal is to expose youth to careers in the world of daily journalism. OIDJ’s mission is to provide opportunities for students who would otherwise lack access to journalism training or who face other barriers to pursuing careers in journalism.

The World Journalism Education Council (WJEC) is an organization representing 28 academic associations worldwide that are involved in journalism and mass communication at the university level. It is an outgrowth of the World Journalism Education Congress that was held in Singapore in June 2007 and drew 450 delegates from 45 countries. The WJEC began as the planning group for the Congress, beginning with its first meeting in Toronto in 2004.

The WJEC is an informal group with no secretariat. Its major projects have been the adoption of a Declaration of Universal Principles of Journalism Education (approved June 2007) and a global census of journalism and mass communication education. The census is currently underway and is funded through a grant from the Knight Foundation at the University of Oklahoma in the United States. The census will be released in 2009. By bringing organizations from six continents together, the Council hopes to provide a common space for journalism educators from around the world and to focus on issues that are universal in the field.

The next meeting of the World Journalism Education Council will be in 2009 at a time and place yet to be decided.