AEJMC Boston Conference Program

*panels or meetings of interest to MAC members

Wednesday – August 5

*10-11:30 a.m. — A Diversity Legend: Honoring and Remembering Dr. Lionel Barrow

11:45-1:15 p.m. – MAC, CSW 143 Research Panel: The Status of Women and the Media Beauty Myth

1:30-3 p.m. – MAC refereed research panel

*3:15-4:45 p.m. – Mini Plen CSM: Latino Press 100^th Anniversary

5-6:30 p.m. – CCS,MAC 54/142 Teaching Panel: Teaching Class in the Journalism and Mass Communication Curriculum

Thursday – August 6

11:45-1:15 p.m. – MAC, MCS 144 Research Panel: Advancing Inter-ethnic, Interracial and Gender Communication Research among Latinos, Asians and African Americans

1:30-3 p.m. – Scholar-to-Scholar

3:15-4:45 p.m. MAC, RMIG 145 PF&R Panel: We See Through a Glass Darkly: Frames of Race, Religion, Class, Gender and More in the 2008 Presidential Campaign

5-6:30 p.m. – MME, MAC 87 Research Panel: Minority Media Ownership: Gains, Losses and Keeping the Sails on the Ship

6:45-8:15 p.m. – MAC members’ meeting

*8:30-10 p.m. – CSM members’ meeting

Friday – August 7

7-8 a.m. MAC Executive Meeting

8:15-9:45 a.m. – MAC Refereed Research panel

12:15-1:30 p.m. – MAC, SCHJ Luncheon featuring: Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now, New York

Mr. Gonzalez co-hosts with Amy Goodman the nationally syndicated news show Democracy Now. He is also a columnist for the New York Daily News. In 2007, he received the Pulitzer Prize for his reportage in the New York Daily News about the air at the World Trade Center. He was the first reporter in New York City to write on the health effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks. He is former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, for which he created the Parity Project, an innovative program designed to help news organizations recruit and retain Hispanic reporters and managers

1:45-3:15 p.m. – COMJIG (Community Journalism Interest Group), MAC 101/149 PF&R : Ethnic news organizations as community media, their health and future role in an evolving media world

3:30-5 p.m. – MCS, MAC 29 PF&R:

How Effective Classroom ‘Difference Training’ Once Communications Students Enter the Workplace

5:15-6:45 – RTVJ, MAC 207 PF&R: Reporting on Race – the 2008 Election and the Future

Saturday – August 8

8:15-9:45 – Training sessions for incoming leadership (chairs, vice-chairs, research, teaching, PF&R, )

10-11:30 a.m. – MAC refereed research panel

11:45-1:15 p.m. – MAC refereed research panel

Call for Nominations

THE LIONEL L. BARROW JR. AWARD FOR Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education

Nominations are now being sought for The Lionel L. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education. This award, jointly supported by the Minorities and Communication (MAC) Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities (CSM) recognizes outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity, in Journalism and Mass Communication.

The late Dr. Lionel (Lee) C. Barrow, Jr., was a long-time AEJMC member who provided key leadership and guidance to the association during his many years of service. As a member of AEJMC, Lee pioneered and founded in 1968 the Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Education, in an effort to recruit, train and place minorities in communications. In 1970, he founded and became the acting head of the Minorities and Communication Division. The Communication Theory and Methodology Division renamed its diversity scholarship after Lee in 1997, the same year he received the AEJMC Presidential Award for his contributions. In 2005, he was recognized with one of AEJMC’s highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award, for his outstanding service in promoting diversity within the association and the discipline.

Nominees do not have to be AEJMC members at the time of their application, and self nominations are welcome. A monetary award accompanies this prize, and the winner will receive a complimentary, one year basic membership to AEJMC. The Lionel L. Barrow Jr. Award will be presented during the AEJMC Business Meeting by the Chair of Commission on the Status of Minorities.

CRITERIA

Nominees will be judged by their outstanding contributions in one of the three following areas:

(1) a sustained record of publication on racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication; and/or

(2) a sustained record of contribution to teaching and service of racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication; and/or

(3) the publication of a recent book on racial and ethnic minorities in journalism and mass communication.

HOW TO APPLY

Nomination packets should contain:

· a letter from an AEJMC member (other than the nominee) on business letterhead describing in detail the candidate’s contributions to diversity, and one additional letter of support from a colleague (on or off campus) who is also an AEJMC member;

· The nominee’s personal statement (250 words) outlining one’s individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts;

· Additional materials might include (but are not limited to) abstracts of research findings, professional papers and published articles (no more than five total), text of a speech delivered or prepared for delivery, course outlines, innovative teaching tools, teaching evaluations and citations or other recognition pertaining to the nominee;

· The nomination packet should be no longer than 10 pages. Applications that exceed this length will be disqualified.

DEADLINES:
Entries should be received by May 1, 2009 in hard copy and sent to: AEJMC,

234 Outlet Pointe Boulevard, Suite A, Columbia, SC 29210. The awardee will be announced on June 1 and will be recognized in the 2009 AEJMC Program. For more information, contact Hayg Oshagan at h.oshagan@wayne.edu

Lionel L. Barrow Jr. Award Advisory Committee

Hayg Oshagan, Wayne State University (Chair CSM)

Sharon Stringer, Lock Haven University (Chair MAC)

Meta G. Carstarphen, University of Oklahoma

Felecia Jones Ross, Ohio State University

Federico Subervi, Texas State University

Carolyn A. Stroman, Howard University

Clint C. Wilson, Howard University

Jennifer McGill, AEJMC Executive Director, ex-officio

Draft March 20, 2009

By

Federico Subervi, Ph.D.

Professor & Director, Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets,

School of Journalism & Mass Communication,

Texas State University-San Marcos

Dating back to the late 1970s, Dr. Barrow was among the first scholars to offer validation to my emerging research and writing about race/ethnicity and the media.  In 1980, I received the Lee Barrow Theory & Methodology Division scholarship.  That award was a turning point in my academic life as I used the money to attend the International Association for Media Communication Research (IAMCR) conference in Caracas, Venezuela, where the world of mass communication was open to me much more than it had ever been in my studies at Wisconsin.  Moreover, Dr. Barrow was—and continued to be until his passing away—an exceptional role model in my own leadership activities not only with AEJMC but also with many other organizations and committees I’ve been involved with.

Lee was a gentleman who valued friendships and courtesy as a first and indispensable building block to establish important alliances for promoting positive change in AEJMC and other organizations.  This lesson was instrumental for the success of my leadership as Head of MAC and then Chair of the Commission for the Status of Minorities, and I continue to apply it in my current leadership roles in and outside of academia.  From Lee I also learned the virtue of patience when expecting response to needed change, but at the same time the power of sustained perseverance when struggling to overcome injustice. Lastly, from Lee I learned the art of listening during negotiations for achieving strategic goals because upon paying careful attention to alternative points of views one can formulate the most accurate and powerful language needed to convince even a skeptic opponent of the core values of a just cause.

There are many just causes for which Dr. Barrow was an advocate and still merit our attention and dedication.  Now more than ever we should continue to forge ahead with our efforts to better integrate our academic units in the professorial ranks, the curriculum and our research endeavors, too.  May Dr. Barrow’s spirit guide and inspire us as we build on his legacy as a scholar, mentor and friend.

By

Meta G. Carstarphen, Ph.D., APR
Gaylord Endowed Family Professor &
Associate Professor
University of Oklahoma
Gaylord College of Journalism & Mass Communication

Lee made such an indelible mark on AEJMC and on his many friends and colleagues that it is still hard to fathom an annual meeting without his presence. I’ll always remember Lee for his unflagging defense of fairness and equity. He was such a bold champion for racial equality, born out of a conviction that our society could learn to look beyond color and see character. For all of his fire, he exhibited a coolness that was so elegant, transcendent and sometimes, downright entertaining. Anyone who listened to his jokes and chuckled along with his throaty laugh knows what I mean. So, as many others have already said, and with more elegance than I, we owe Lee and this organization the fortitude to pay his sacrifice forward. We will craft monuments to Lee’s work out of intentional actions and progressive programs so that, as the old spiritual says, his living will not be in vain.

By

Von Whitmore, Ph.D.

Vice Chair, AEJMC Council of Divisions

U.S. Fulbright Scholar 2008-2009

Associate Professor

Kent State University

I did not have the pleasure of knowing Lee Barrow as well, or for as long as many of my AEJMC friends and colleagues. Although our paths often crossed during various conventions, it wasn’t until I worked with him several years ago as editor of Twelve, newsletter for the Commission on the Status of Minorities, that I really got to know and appreciate Lee for modeling what he preached.

Lee was a tireless advocate for diversity. Without his efforts to help AEJMC realize its full potential, many people of color including myself, would not hold current leadership positions in the organization. Just as important, Lee was a focused scholar and gentleman, above all.

I join my MAC and other colleagues in paying tribute to Dr. Lionel C. Barrow. His legacy will, of course, live on in many ways, but especially during each time the Minorities and Communication Division convenes a meeting or panel session, or when the Commission on the Status of Minorities issues a call to action on issues pertinent to the organization.

Although simply stating that he will be missed does not begin to adequately convey the breadth and depth of the vacuum created by his passing, this time the phrase does not ring hollow. Lee Barrow was a genuine original. Those of us who were fortunate enough to be mentored, coached or befriended by Lee even for a short period, are so much the better for it.

By

Jannette L. Dates

Dean, John H. Johnson School of Communications

Howard University

Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. –or Lee, as he was known to most of us in later years—was well known, and well respected for three “c’s” : his commitment to diversity, his courageousness and his candor. Sometimes those three “c’s” got him into hot water—but the thing about Lee Barrow is that early in his life, he decided that he did not care about “the hot water;” when he felt passionately about something, he felt compelled to speak his mind to any and all who would listen.

I first met Dean Barrow– as I called him when he was my first dean at Howard University—in 1981, when I began teaching in the Department of Radio, Television & Film. He was widely regarded as a visionary educator who had a plan for how the brand new School of Communications would be shaped. He set up four departments, placed a strong emphasis on graduate education, led the movement that resulted in the initial accreditation of the programs in journalism, radio and television–and he was a pioneered in establishing a link between the radio and television stations owned by the University.

Dean Barrow had come to Howard, after completing his undergraduate work at Morehouse College, graduating second in his class in 1948, in a class that included Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Barrow had a varied career as a political activist and journalist. As a youth he had picked asparagus in Long Island, N.Y., and tobacco in Connecticut, and later worked as a reporter for several weeklies, including the Richmond Afro-American. He had been a radio announcer and worked as a college professor at Michigan State University, and the University of Wisconsin. By 1960, he had also served in the armed forces and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin.

In the 1960s, Dr. Barrow worked in research departments in the advertising industry, and in 1968 he became vice president and associate director of research for the Foote, Cone and Belding Advertising Agency in New York.

It was in the summer of 1968, however, that Lee Barrow found his voice—and began to make others aware of his commitment to diversity, his courage and his candor. For—when Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, Lee Barrow felt compelled to make a difference by not allowing business to continue as usual at the Association for Education in Journalism (AEJ—as it was called then). In 1968, Lee had the courage to stand up –in a room full of nearly 150 white male educators, who were his colleagues—and tell them that they had a moral, social and educational responsibility to do whatever was necessary “to end its totally white, virtually all male constituency in its association and in the media to which it sends its graduates.” As you can imagine, there was stunned silence, at first. Then, the members began to think of ways to do as Dr. Barrow had suggested. They established an Ad Hoc Committee on Minority Education, which Dr. Barrow chaired, and a program to recruit, train and place an increasing number of minorities in its journalism schools.

In 1970, Lee Barrow founded and became acting head of AEJ’s Minorities and Communication Division. Later, the AEJMC established the Lionel C. Barrow Scholarship in his honor to support graduate education for women and minorities seeking to become professionals in communication. The scholarship is available today—and some of our alumni and students have benefited from it. In 1997, Dr. Barrow received the AEJMC Presidential Award for his contributions to the association.

In 1975, Lee Barrow came to Howard University to serve as the School’s third dean. Preceding him had been Tony Brown and Lovinger Bowden. He served our school as dean –tirelessly—for 10 years. In 1985, he left Howard—but in many ways, he never left Howard. He continued to nurture students, alumni, faculty members and this dean. Whenever he had an opportunity to help us, he did so.

In 2004, when I began my service as president of AEJMC , Dr. Barrow served as chair of the Commission on the Status of Minorities and I asked him to chair a special task force that I set up to address the stagnation of the diversity issue within the association. At the end of that year, Dr. Barrow came forward with a resolution that was embraced by the entire association — and then a committee was formed to find a way to reward “diversity best practices” within the JMC academic world. That diversity best practices initiative is still a part of the association’s best ideas.

In addition to his many professional accomplishments—Dean Barrow had a life! He was first married to Carmen Torres who preceded him in death. In 1992, he married Frederica Crowell Harrison. Dr. Frederica Barrow– a daughter of Howard who earned her Ph.D. in the College of Arts and Sciences—and their (between them) five daughters, are with us today. The Barrow’s five daughters include: Kirsten Erin Barrow Germantown Maryland; Lia Barrow Ward, San Francisco California; Brenda Feliciano, North Bergen NJ; Emily H. Smith, Washington DC; and Laura E. Harrison, Atlanta Georgia. The Barrow’s also had seven grand children: Ceon Gabriella, Alexandra, Vincent, Kyra, Jasmine and Elijah Ward and four great grandchildren Lucas, Angelica Carmen, Rafaelle and Samara Car‘Lee.

We all know that they will all miss him—as he would want them to do. But—he left them some things that will sustain them. He left them a road map to use in life. He showed them that in life the three C’s that he was known for and respected for can be anchors for their own lives. And by his example, his unwavering commitment, courage and candor are now passed on to new generations of Barrows.

Lee Barrow left huge footprints in the sands of time for generations of educators to follow and try to fill. We—at Howard University—will miss his enduring spirit.