Dr. Jandoli was never one to be complacent in the established niche that the department he created had carved out for himself. He was always looking on ways to improve, grow and change. In the fall of 1970, he took sabatical leave to study and report on the journalism education of European countries. The same year, he sent out a note to upperclassman Journalism majors on how to improve curricula:
"We want the best curriculum it is possible to devise anywhere. I believe that by working together we can indeed set a pattern for the rest of the journalism education world to emulate, one that will be thoroughly modern and meet the needs of tomorrow."
He encouraged and suggested growth and change from a program that was renowned as one of the best in the country. The Department, in 1973, received a $15,000 grant from the Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation to build a new newsroom, and a fourth full-time professor was added in 1974. In 1976, Jandoli took a survey of 200 journalism schools, institutions and places of employment, culminating in his August of 1976 "Proposed Plan for Restructuring the Major Program in Journalism at St. Bonaventure University." He suggested a name change from "Journalism" to "Mass Communications," a new program of studies with more classes, extra-departmental concentrations, additional course offerings, screening tests for new majors, and the the introduction of "tracks," or sequences to follow once students have decided to follow on a specific area of interest. Such tracks would include Public Relations, Broadcasting, Magazine, Science Writing, Educational Communications, Religious Communications and others. Jandoli's goal was to implement the entire program by September of 1977. Basic critiques by some members of the department and administration included concerns about the increased class number (especially given the still somewhat-limited number of faculty), the track idea, how credits were to be given and so forth.
Nevertheless, in September of 1977, big changes were indeed implemented. The way classes were organized changed, 9 credit hours of a specialty were required, another full-time faculty member was added, and the name of the Department changed to "Mass Communications." By the end of the decade, the Department, with it's dependable and constantly improving head, 291 enrolled majors and culture of acceptance of change, headed into the 1980s still ready to grow and improve.