The Journalism Education Association has selected six new curriculum leaders to begin one-year terms May 1.
The leaders — selected from a competitive applicant pool to develop curriculum in law and ethics, news gathering, editing, multimedia broadcast, leadership and team building, and entrepreneurship — join four other returning curriculum leaders who were reappointed to their positions.
A new board of directors begins its three-year term today serving the Journalism Education Association. President Sarah Nichols, MJE, appointed one new and five returning committee chairs to lead and serve the organization’s standing committees beginning May 1 as outlined in the organization’s bylaws (Article VII).
The Journalism Education Association will join more than 60 organizations working together to improve civic learning through the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. The coalition aims to develop policies and improve practice while increasing civic engagement in students. Recommendations for policymakers, educators and all citizens are outlined in the 2011 report “Guardian of Democracy: The Civic Mission of Schools.”
The Journalism Education Association and the Society of Professional Journalists announce four scholarship winners in the 2017 SPJ/JEA High School Essay Contest.
These minutes, with corrections, were approved by the board Nov. 16, 2017, in Dallas. CALL TO ORDER A meeting of the Journalism Education Association board of directors was held Thursday, April 6, 2017, in the Aspen room at the Sheraton Seattle. It began at 8:30 a.m. and was presided over by Mark Newton with Connie Fulkerson…
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