AEJMC will hold its 2006 Summer Meeting in San Francisco, California August 2-5 at the Marriott San Francisco.
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AEJMC held its 2005 Summer Meeting in San Antonio, Texas at the Marriott Rivercenter August 10 to 13. The Internships and Careers Interest Group held one, August 9, pre-conference session asking if professional education programs will cannibalize traditional graduate programs and asking what public relations students should know about business. These are the five general conference sessions sponsored by ICIG:

• Take 'Em Away, Send 'Em Away, Bring 'Em In: How to effectively Use Study Abroad in Journalism & Mass Communication Programs.
• Unpaid internships: Favoring the privileged?
• Beyond Busy Work: Fresh Ideas for Building Better Internships.
• Out of the Fire and Into the Frying Pan: Are we preparing journalism students for the real world?
• Getting Students Hired: Constructing Ideal Candidates for Journalism Openings

For more information on the sessions, see the Newsletter.

AEJMC held its 2004 Summer Meeting in Toronto. A view of some of downtown Toronto, taken from a conference hotel window, is at right.

Here are the events that were presented by ICIG.

Wed. Aug 4th (10 - 11:30AM) Panel #93 "Hiring Disparities: the myth of insufficient numbers of minorities for hire." Co-sponsor with MAC

Wed. Aug. 4th (1:30 - 3 PM) Panel #24/190 "Square Pegs/Round Holes: strategies for preparing students to find jobs." Co-sponsor with AD.

Thur. Aug. 5th (11:45 - 1:15 PM) Panel #195 "Nurturing Diversity in Journalism and Mass Communications: results of minority internship programs." ICIG sole sponsor.

Thur. Aug. 5th (3:15 - 4:45 PM) Panel #194 "Thoroughly Modern Assessment: an overview of creative approaches to evaluating student intern." co-sponsor with PR

Fri. Aug. 6th (8:15 - 9:45 PM) Panel #78 "Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities." co-sponsor with PR

Fri. Aug. 6th (11:45 - 1:15 PM) Scholar-to-Scholar session, ICIG had seven poster slots.

Fri. Aug. 6th (5 - 6:30 PM) Panel #192/47 "Career Paths: seven habits for success in professional and academic careers." Co-sponsor GEIG and CTM

Fri. Aug. 6th (6:45 - 8:15 PM) ICIG Members meeting and premiere of the new ICIG web facility.

 For a list of abstracts please see the AEJMC 2004 Convention Abstracts.