Teaching-Ideas Contest Deadline Extended to June 27
AEJMC’s Newspaper and Online News Division has extended the deadline for its teaching ideas competition, Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century, to 11:59 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 27.
The competition awards prizes of $100 to the best idea for teaching writing, reporting or editing in each of three entrant categories: full-time professor, adjunct professor, and graduate student instructor.
For details on entering, see http://rci.rutgers.edu/~
For inspiration from past winners, see the TNT-21 tab above, or click here.
Southeast Colloquium:
Deadlines in December, Florida in February
The Southeast Colloquium will be Feb. 28-March 2 at the University of South Florida in Tampa, with the Newspaper & Online News Division among a half-dozen participating groups.
Faculty and student research papers should be sent to Guy Reel (reelg@winthrop.edu) for our division or to the the paper chairs listed below for other divisions; the deadline is 5 p.m. EST Dec. 10. Panel proposals should go to Justin S. Brown at justinsbrown@usf.edu by Dec. 10, 2012, and should include proposed panelists and a brief description (no more than three double-spaced pages).
The Colloquium will meet at the Embassy Suites USF/Busch Gardens, located on the USF campus. The event will be hosted by the USF School of Mass Communications.
- Call for Papers: http://masscom.usf.edu/colloquium13/papers/
- Registration: http://masscom.usf.edu/colloquium13/register/
The deadline for paper submissions is 5 p.m. EST December 10, 2012.
- Newspaper and Online News Division, Guy Reel, reelg@winthrop.edu
- Law and Policy Division, Courtney Barclay, aejsoutheast.law@gmail.com
- History Division, Harlen Makemson, hmakemson@elon.edu
- Magazine Division, Erin Coyle, ekcoyle@lsu.edu
- Electronic News Division, David Free, dfree@austin.rr.com
- Open Division, Dana Rosengard, drosengard@suffolk.edu
Colloquium registration is $95 if the registration form is received by Feb. 20. Hotel reservations at the special colloquium price must be made no later than Feb. 7.
Students and faculty should indicate their status for consideration for faculty and student top paper awards. See the Call for Papers for details.
Southeast colloquium papers due Dec.5
The AEJMC 2012 Southeast Colloquium will be in Blacksburg, Va., March 8-10, hosted by the Department of Communication at Virginia Tech.
The deadline for research paper submissions is 5 p.m. Dec. 5, 2011. Papers should be submitted electronically to the division research paper chairs, including, for the Newspaper and Online News Division, Jeffrey C. South at Virginia Commonwealth University, jcsouth@vcu.edu
Research, teaching grants deadline: July 1
At many colleges and universities, expectations for research and innovative teaching are increasing just as opportunities for external funding to support such work are declining. The Newspaper Division of AEJMC is stepping into that breach with a new program of small grants.
The program will offer two grants for the 2011-2012 academic year:
- A $500 grant to support research on newspapers or their online units
- A $200 grant to support innovative teaching in courses related to newspapers or their online units
Click here to download the grant applications. Deadline for applying is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on July 1, 2011. Applications should be submitted by email to newspaperdivisiongrants@gmail.com
The research grant could be used to cover some or all of the cost of such scholarly expenses as a research assistant, a subscription to an online survey program, travel to an archive, copying, mailing or transcription. The teaching grant could be used to cover such expenses as part of the cost of a piece of equipment or software, a student reporting trip or an honorarium for a professional who can teach students specific skills.
To qualify for consideration for a grant, applicants must be members of the Newspaper Division of AEJMC as of July 1, 2011. You can check your membership status by contacting AEJMC Membership Manager Pamella Price at aejmcmemsub@aol.com or 803-772-3507.
To apply for a teaching grant, applicants must, in addition, plan to be involved in teaching journalism or mass communication at the post-secondary level, as a full-time faculty member or instructor, adjunct professor, graduate-student teacher of record or teaching assistant between Sept. 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012.
Full-time faculty members, adjunct professors, graduate students and independent scholars are eligible to apply for the research grant. Members of the Newspaper Division’s executive board for 2010-2011 are not eligible to apply for either grant.
Grant recipients will be asked to provide a report on how they used grant funds to the head of the Newspaper Division by July 1, 2012.
If you have questions about the grant program, please contact Newspaper Division co-teaching chair Susan Keith of Rutgers University at susank@rutgers.edu
Teaching Challenge Continues Through June
Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century — plus five weeks
The deadline for TNT21, the Newspaper Division’s teaching ideas competition, has been extended to July 1. That means you have five more weeks to put together a submission that might earn a cash award.
Entries should be about teaching newswriting, reporting or editing.
A prize of $100 will be awarded for the best teaching idea from each of three groups of teachers:
- full-time faculty,
- adjunct professors, and
- graduate students.
Ideas will be judged for their originality, innovative nature, ease of application, completeness, writing and whether they would work in more than one course and/or at different types of schools. All entries should reflect:
- Original teaching ideas that have not been published elsewhere or adapted from another instructor’s work
- Ideas that have not been winners or finalists in other teaching awards competitions
- Ideas that have not been simultaneously submitted to other 2011 AEJMC division or interest group teaching awards competitions. Ideas that have been submitted, for example, to the 2011 Great Ideas for Teachers competition sponsored by the Community College Journalism Association and AEJMC’s Small Programs Interest Group, Scholastic Journalism Division and Graduate Education Interest Group are not eligible.
The new deadline is 11:59 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time July 1. Attendance at the AEJMC convention in August is NOT required to receive the award.
For an application and full information, go to
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~susank/NWSP/TNT21.html
