The Newhouse School at Syracuse University is one of the country's leading schools of mass communication. Newhouse embraces virtually every known form of information dissemination, from print journalism to broadcast journalism to online communication, and from advertising and public relations to photography and film. The more than 60 faculty members come primarily from the profession, men and women for whom teaching is the top priority. Students are among the best in the nation, having secured a place in the class through a highly competitive admissions process. Upon graduation they become part of a large, loyal, and highly accomplished group of alumni—individuals who are literally shaping the future of public communication across the globe.

On September 19, 2007, the school celebrated the dedication of Newhouse 3. The 74,000-square-foot addition to the Newhouse Communications Complex was designed by Polshek Partnership Architects and funded in part through a lead gift of $15 million from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, with additional support from friends and alumni of the school. Along with renovations to Newhouse 1 and Newhouse 2, Newhouse 3 provides a 350-seat auditorium, a large dining center, a state-of-the-art convergent media center for student experimentation, two student lounges, an executive education wing and other important facilities. The building is "wrapped" in the words of the First Amendment, etched in letters six feet high on its windows.

David M. Rubin, dean since 1990, has made a major impact on all aspects of the school, from fundraising and alumni relations to the quality of the student body and the administrative structure. Always a school with a strong national reputation, Newhouse is now generally recognized as one of the nation's premier communications schools, and its graduates are in demand in the media workplace.