AEJMC and ASJMC joint statement supporting the use of the title of “doctor” for those who have earned a terminal degree beyond the master’s level and condemning all forms of misogyny
CONTACT: Tim Vos, Michigan State University, 2020-21 AEJMC President and Gracie Lawson‐Borders, Howard University, 2020-21 ASJMC President and Jerry Crawford, University of Kansas, AEJMC PF&R Committee Chair | December 21, 2020
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC)
and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
“Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.” – Frances Wright
We the Boards of Directors of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) support the use of the title of “doctor” for those who have earned a terminal degree beyond the master’s level, such as a Ph.D. or Ed.D., and condemn all forms of misogyny. This statement is not merely a rebuke of one individual, who was possibly interested in drawing attention for a news cycle during a challenging time in our current American political theater. Instead, it supports academics in their use of appropriate titles and denounces attempts to belittle the contributions of scholars and teachers who are women.
Women represent a majority of educators in many journalism and mass communications subfields in the academy and in many individual college and university programs. They are champions of free speech and expression. Yet they – like women with terminal degrees in other fields, including Dr. Jill Biden – sometimes face challenges male colleagues do not in getting students, members of the public, and others to refer to them in professional modes of address.
Dr. Jill Biden has devoted her life to being an educator. She has made the all-too-familiar sacrifices women have had to make in maintaining a family and a career. She has been a champion of the American military, women’s issues, and, yes, the importance of life-long learning for many adults looking to reach for the American Dream through education. She does not need her title as First Lady/spouse of the President to define her. Her authenticity and worldview have defined her. Her life, as an educator, mother, stepmother, and grandmother define her. No title. No grandstanding. She simply worked hard, studied, cared about a topic – education – and earned her doctorate in that discipline.
We are not writing to defend one terminal degree over another degree. We understand there are medical doctors, doctors of philosophy, doctors of law, and others. Each are worthy of the rights and privileges bestowed on the degree. For those who refuse to recognize the title for those outside of the medical field, the question is “Why?”
One of the daughters of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bernice King, commented on her Twitter account, “My father was a non-medical doctor. And his work benefitted humanity greatly. Yours does, too.” Dr. Biden does not need to be defended. Forty-eight years after the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment demonstrates why we need to defend the rights of all women to be seen as equals in the workplace and throughout society. No attempts at being humorous or to diminish women should be tolerated.
America has shown the ability to correct and change when the rights of the underrepresented have been trampled. If not now, when?
Journalists know words have power. They have meaning. The messages they convey are able to portray groups as different and not as important as the majority. Women, individuals with disabilities, people of color, LGBTQ people and those within marginalized socio-economic groups know the power of these words. Research has shown, through the years, that media messages help to form how people see and think of others, and themselves.
News organizations and multimedia outlets, as well as those in the academy who are teaching the next generation of communications leaders, should do more than be reactive to destructive words. What is needed is an authentic and steady portrayal of all people and groups as equals in society. It should be acknowledged that The First Amendment allows those to share their voices to ridicule and minimize. It also allows others to rebut that speech with more speech. Moreover, misogynistic, anti-intellectualism and reinforcement of racial and gender hierarchies may create a buzz for a day, or even a week, but those messages should be dispelled by the truth and fact-based messages we see in everyday news coverage.
Journalism can play an important part in this work. Many of the stylebooks and traditions in newsrooms and editorial decisions are outdated and archaic. This needs to be addressed by including new standards – use of non-binary descriptors, race, cultural, and other societal changes – as part of a more inclusive framework.
This is worthy of discussion and it will take partnerships with other stakeholders to make this work.
AEJMC and ASJMC are primed to assist in this important conversation. In accordance to one of the Core Values of AEJMC, which focuses on Caring, “Members act with respect, sensitivity, consideration of others, compassion, and mercy. We try to protect others from abuse and coercion.”
We stand ready.
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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) is a nonprofit organization of more than 3,700 educators, students and practitioners from around the globe. Founded in 1912, by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer, the first president (1912-13) of the American Association of Teachers of Journalism, as it was then known, AEJMC is the oldest and largest alliance of journalism and mass communication educators and administrators at the college level. AEJMC’s mission is to promote the highest possible standards for journalism and mass communication education, to encourage the widest possible range of communication research, to encourage the implementation of a multi-cultural society in the classroom and curriculum, and to defend and maintain freedom of communication in an effort to achieve better professional practice, a better informed public, and wider human understanding.
Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC)
ASJMC is a non-profit, educational association composed of some 190 JMC programs at the college level. The majority of the association’s members are in the United States and Canada. ASJMC promotes excellence in journalism and mass communication education. Founded in 1917, ASJMC works to support the purposes of schools of journalism and mass communication in order to achieve the following goals: to foster, encourage and facilitate high standards and effective practices in the process and administration of education for journalism and mass communication in institutions of higher learning; to cooperate with journalism and mass communication organizations in efforts to raise professional standards and promote a public understanding of the role of journalism and mass communication in a democratic society; and to support and participate in the accreditation process of journalism and mass communication units through the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications (ACEJMC).
AEJMC Teaching Prize for Editing: Be a Champion
AEJMC is seeking submissions for the 2021 AEJMC Teaching Prize for Editing.
Description. The Champions of Editing, formerly known as the Breakfast of Editing Champions, was begun nearly 20 years ago by Dr. Deborah Gump. In the spirit of celebrating excellence in teaching editing, The Champions of Editing is announcing a teaching prize open to AEJMC members from all divisions, interest groups, etc.
The prize will highlight innovative approaches to teaching editing. Editing is a nearly universal component of journalism and mass communication.
We are seeking submissions focused on innovative ideas for improving the teaching of editing in any area—from new approaches for teaching traditional areas of grammar to ethical decision-making in student newsrooms to new ways to teach photo and video editing. All ideas, however, should help professors and instructors teach some form of editing.
The winning teaching idea will receive $100, complimentary AEJMC conference registration for one author/presenter and a certificate. The award may recognize up to two additional teaching ideas as honorable mentions. The winning teaching idea is expected to do a “mini presentation” at the Champions of Editing event at the annual AEJMC conference.
Judging. All entries will be blind judged. The judges reserve the right not to award prizes.
The criteria to evaluate the editing teaching competition submissions are outlined below. Ideas will be judged for:
1. Originality
2. Innovation
3. Ease of application
4. Completeness
5. Writing
In addition, judges will take into account whether the ideas would work in more than one course and/or at different types of schools. All ideas should be: 1) original (not previously published or presented elsewhere) and 2) classroom-tested (even if that is this semester).
Eligibility. We seek submissions from 1) full-time faculty members 2) adjunct professors and 3) graduate-student instructors. Entries will be evaluated by a team of judges. Complete the online submission form by 11:59 p.m. EDT May 15, 2021. To be eligible, contestants will need to be current AEJMC members by May 15. Winners will be notified by July 15 and be formally announced at the Champions of Editing event during the conference. Winners will be notified of the teaching panel’s time and location as soon as the conference schedule is announced. For any questions about the competition, please contact Champions of Editing coordinator, Kirstie Hettinga, at khetting@callutheran.edu or championsofediting@gmail.com. You can also visit: https://sites.google.com/view/championsofediting/home
AEJMC Research Prize for Editing
AEJMC is seeking submissions for the 2021 AEJMC Research Prize for Editing.
Description. The Champions of Editing, formerly known as the Breakfast of Editing Champions, was begun nearly 20 years ago by Dr. Deborah Gump. In the spirit of celebrating excellence in research about editing, The Champions of Editing is announcing a research prize open to all divisions, interest groups, etc.
The Research Prize for Editing will recognize each year’s top AEJMC conference papers that bring newfound clarity and insight to the field of editing. Editing is a nearly universal component of journalism and mass communication.
A committee of judges will select the winning papers to be recognized at the 2021 AEJMC conference.
The winning paper will receive $100, complimentary conference registration for one author/presenter and a certificate. The award may recognize up to two additional papers as honorable mentions. The winning paper is expected to do a “mini presentation” at the Editing Champions event at the annual AEJMC conference.
Accepted 2021 AEJMC conference papers on topics related to editing are automatically eligible to be reviewed by a judging committee.
The award will be administered via the normal AEJMC paper submission process, whose deadline is April 1, 2021. Divisions, commissions and interest groups, after completing their own review process as usual, are encouraged to select their top paper(s) pertaining to editing and forward them to the selection committee, which will conduct a separate review process for the prize.
Judging. All entries will be blind judged. The judges reserve the right not to award prizes. Competition results will be announced in July.
The criteria to evaluate papers for the Research Prize for Editing are outlined below:
1. Research relevance in the field of editing.
2. Excellence in research insights, theories, concepts and principles.
3. Creativity or innovation of approach.
4. Real-world application of research.
5. Overall impression and anticipated research impact.
Eligibility. All research methods will be considered for this award, but the winning papers ultimately must enunciate accessible conclusions that are meaningful for both academic and professional audiences. Academic jargon should be kept to a minimum. The abstract, introduction and conclusion should clearly describe how the paper’s research and findings apply to the profession and/or the classroom.
To ensure consideration for the prize, authors are encouraged to include the keyword “editing” when submitting papers for the AEJMC conference. For any questions about the competition, please contact Champions of Editing coordinator, Kirstie Hettinga, at khetting@callutheran.edu or championsofediting@gmail.com. You can also visit: https://sites.google.com/view/championsofediting/home
Apply Now for AEJMC 2021 Collaborative Scholar Grants
The AEJMC Collaborative Scholar Research Program will award grants totaling $6,000 (maximum grant: $3,000) to collaborative research projects involving a graduate student and faculty partnership, with the graduate student serving as the lead researcher, to foster innovative and timely research in journalism and mass communication conducted by graduate students.
Students in the highest degree program at their institution and who are AEJMC members may submit proposals for these grants by February 27, 2021, and selections will be announced by May 15, 2021.
The AEJMC Collaborative Scholar Program is designed to support graduate student researchers working closely with faculty scholars. These funds may support research assistants, travel to research centers or relevant locations, or pay for supplies, study participants’ compensations, and services associated with the research. Funding will be provided to the graduate student/lead author.
The theme for the 2021 call is the intersection of journalism/mass communication, race and society; funded projects must focus on this theme. AEJMC will showcase initial results from the projects selected for the 2021 grants at a special session at the AEJMC 2022 Conference. In addition to the grant, AEJMC will also provide $750 for each selected proposal to assist graduate students with travel expenses to that conference.
Deadline for submitting proposals is Friday, Feb. 27, at 4:59 p.m. Eastern Time. All application materials should be emailed as one attachment to Felicia Brown at aejmcprojects@aejmc.org (attachment MUST have a document suffix, such as .doc, .docx or .pdf). All material should come in ONE file in the order outlined under the “Application Process” section of this call. Incomplete proposals will NOT be reviewed.
PROPOSAL CRITERIA
- The proposed topic should center on the designated theme for the grant cycle. For 2021, the designated topic/area for supported research projects is: The intersection of journalism/mass communication, race and society.
- Both graduate student and faculty applicants must be current AEJMC members. Check your membership status before you submit your proposal. Proposals submitted by nonmembers, or members whose memberships are not current, will be eliminated from the competition.
- Only one proposal per graduate student—faculty team will be considered. (If you submit as part of a team, that is the only proposal you may submit.)
- Full-time students in a graduate JMC program in 2021-22, collaborating with a faculty scholar, are eligible. The graduate program must be the highest degree program the institution offers (e.g., master’s students may apply if the institution does not have a Ph.D. program). The scholar can be at the student’s institution or from another institution. The funds cannot be used on a dissertation project.
- For the proposals selected, a 3-5-page interim report, written by the student, is due to AEJMC by December 15, 2021, and the project should be complete and ready for presentation at the annual conference in August 2022.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications should be submitted by the student and contain five sections and include the following materials:
- A cover sheet that lists the following information: (a) name, university affiliation, address, telephone number and email address; (b) a 200-word bio of the student and faculty scholar; and (c) a 300-word abstract of the project.
- A proposal written for a general mass communication scholarly audience, of no more than 1,500 words (excluding endnotes or references) describing the project, which must include the following: (a) scope and purpose of project and how it supports the theme for the year; (b) how the project will expand knowledge; (c) detailed description of the project, including methods; (d) current status and timeline for completion; (e) anticipated outcomes; (f) a list of potential publication venues for the finished project. (Proposals that exceed this word count will NOT be reviewed.)
- A one-page, detailed budget that fully explains the expenses necessary to complete the project. Maximum grant amount is $3,000. Funds may not be used for university indirect costs or PI stipend. If project will cost more than the maximum grant amount, explain where you will get the remaining funds to complete the project.
- One letter of support from the faculty scholar involved in the proposal. This letter should state that he/she is working in partnership with the graduate student applicant and that the proposed work is initiated and led by the student applicant, and briefly describing their partnership work plan.
- A three-page curriculum vitae for the student and the faculty scholar.
SELECTION PROCESS
All proposals will undergo peer review by JMC scholars. After a competitive judging process, applicants will be notified of the status of their proposals by mid-May 2021. Questions about the AEJMC Collaborative Scholars Program should be directed to Felicia Brown at aejmcprojects@aejmc.org or 803/798-0271.
2021 AEJMC Virtual Southeast Colloquium
Elon University in Elon, NC
Call for Papers, Panels and Research-in-Progress Abstracts: Reissued with deadline extension
The submission deadline for the conference has been extended to Dec. 30, 2020.
To encourage broad participation, the registration fee is $50/faculty and $25/student. Featured speaker is Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times staff writer Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Authors are invited to submit research papers, panel proposals and/or research-in-progress abstracts for the 46th Annual AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, which will be March 18-20, 2021, at Elon University in Elon, NC. This conference will be held virtually with a conference theme centering on mentorship.
Authors should prepare submissions as either a Microsoft Word or PDF file and submit them under the “Paper Submission and Judging” link on the Colloquium home page: https://elon.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4YHSKHI0R3rFxSl
All submissions must be completed by no later than 11:59 p.m. ET on December 30, 2020. Submissions must be original and must not have been previously presented at a conference. Students and faculty should indicate their status for consideration of faculty and student top paper awards. Do not include any author identifying information on any page of the paper submission. Authors also should redact identifying information from the document properties. On the cover page of the attached paper, only the title of the paper should appear. Following the cover page, include a 250-word abstract. Length of full papers should not exceed 30 pages including references and tables (50 pages for Law and Policy papers).
The author of each accepted paper (at least one author in the case of a co-authored paper) must present the paper at the Colloquium or it will not be listed in the final program. Acceptance and/or submission of papers to colloquium paper competitions does not prevent authors from submitting to AEJMC divisions for the AEJMC Annual Conference in August in New Orleans. Complete contact information and a complete list of (all) authors must be submitted with other material (and on deadline) or a paper will be disqualified. For online instructions on “how to submit a clean paper” for blind review, see this link. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 1, 2021.
PANEL PROPOSALS
Panel proposals should be submitted to Kenn Gaither (tgaither@elon.edu) by Wednesday, December 30, 2020, and should include a brief description of the panel along with proposed panelists. Proposals should not exceed three double-spaced pages.
RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS
The Colloquium will include research-in-progress roundtables as an opportunity for researchers to share and get feedback on projects that are in some stage of development. Abstracts are accepted for all divisions with the exception of the open division. Authors must submit a synopsis of the project, with some research questions or hypotheses and a paragraph to explain the stage of project development. Research chairs will determine how many abstracts can be programmed based on development of research strategy, clarity of research goals and available slots in the roundtable. Note Research-in-Progress abstracts are not eligible for Colloquium research awards.
For more information, contact:
2021 Colloquium Academic Coordinator: Kenn Gaither, (tgaither@elon.edu) or Program Assistant Genevieve Barnes (gbarnes3@elon.edu)
Research chairs for 2021
Electronic News: Lindsey Conlin Maxwell (lindsey.conlin@usm.edu), University of Southern Mississippi & Greg Perreault (perreaultgp@appstate.edu), Appalachian State
History: Anthony Hatcher (ahatcher@elon.edu) & Denise Hill (dhill12@elon.edu), Elon University
Magazine Media: Andrea Hall (andreaehall@gmail.com), Troy University
Newspaper and Online News: Karen Assmann (kba@uga.edu), University of Georgia
Law and Policy: Michael Martinez (mmarti82@utk.edu), University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Visual Communication: Shannon Zenner (szenner@elon.edu), Elon University
Open: David Copeland (dcopeland@elon.edu), Elon University
For the latest information about the 2021 Colloquium, please see: https://www.elon.edu/u/academics/communications/aejmc-southeast-colloquium-2021/
Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Outstanding Early-Career Woman Scholar Award
Nominations are now accepted for the 2021 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Award honoring a woman-identifying early-career scholar who demonstrates outstanding research and potential for future scholarship.
Sponsored by The Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University and the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, this recognition is designed to honor early-career women faculty researchers and encourage them as they pursue their research agendas in the academy.
An early-career faculty member is defined as a scholar who has the Ph.D., but does NOT have tenure, and is preferably on a tenure-track, but might be considered if a collegiate-level instructor/lecturer. Nominees must be members of AEJMC.
To nominate a scholar, please send:
· a letter outlining qualifications
· a one-page summary of her research agenda
· a curriculum vita
We welcome nominations for scholars from various cultural backgrounds and institutions, including international scholars. We realize that outstanding scholarship can manifest itself differently from scholar to scholar, so we encourage the nomination letters and research statements to be explicit about highlighting the candidates’ unique strengths. Both quantity and quality will be taken into account. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.
The winner will be chosen by a panel of scholars and honored with a check for $250 and a plaque in August 2021 at the AEJMC conference in New Orleans. Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, dean emeritus and professor at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, will present the award.
Please send any questions and award nominations by May 15, 2021 to Award Coordinators, Spring-Serenity Duvall at spring.duvall@salem.edu and Jaime Loke at j.loke@tcu.edu.
AEJMC/ASJMC Human Resource Committee
Serving the AEJMC/ASJMC Human Resource Committee
for the 2020 – 2021 term
Deb Aikat (Chair)
Vice President, AEJMC
Hussman School of Journalism and Media
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
da@unc.edu
Tim P. Vos
President, AEJMC
School of Journalism
Communication Arts & Sciences, Michigan State University
tpvos@msu.edu
Susan Keith
President‐elect, AEJMC
Department of Journalism and Media Studies
School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
susank@rutgers.edu
David D. Perlmutter
Past President, AEJMC
College of Media & Communication
Texas Tech University
david.perlmutter@ttu.edu
Gracie Lawson-Borders
ASJMC President
Cathy Hughes School of Communications
Howard University
gracie.lawsonborders@howard.edu
Raul Reis
ASJMC Vice President
School of Communication
Emerson College
raul_reis@emerson.edu
Alan Stavitsky
ASJMC President-elect
Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism and Center for Advanced Media Studies
University of Nevada, Reno
ags@unr.edu
Tips from the AEJMC Teaching Committee
Testing Tolerance Offers Teaching Tips for Classroom Controversies
By Tracy Everbach
AEJMC Standing Committee
on Teaching
University of North Texas
everbach@unt.edu
and
By Candi Carter Olson
AEJMC Standing Committee
on Teaching
Utah State University
candi.carterolson@usu.edu
(Article courtesy of AEJMC News, October 2020 issue)
What happens when a student in your class discusses her own sexual assault? How do you moderate a classroom discussion on Confederate statues on campus or in the community? What do you do when a student asks questions that are offensive to other students? How do graduate instructors handle hot‐button student discussions?
We aim to answer these questions and provide a guidebook for instructors in our new book, Testing Tolerance: Addressing Controversial Topics in the Journalism and Mass Communication Classroom, published by Rowman & Littlefield. It’s part of the AEJMC Master Class Series (see p. 19). As former heads of the AEJMC Commission on the Status of Women, we conceived this book from a teaching panel we hosted for several years at the AEJMC annual conference in which we discussed gender, race, sexuality, disability, mental health and other topics. Several of those panelists contributed chapters to our book. Each chapter is designed to tackle specific issues, problems, and discussions instructors and administrators might have to handle.
• Candi Carter Olson writes about teaching media literacy and its importance in addressing race, class, gender, disability, sexuality and other differences. Her chapter walks readers through three exercises, each increasing in the discomfort students may feel, and recommends ways to help students through the exercises.
• Tracy Everbach focuses on how to manage controversy and conflict in the classroom. She has been teaching a class on race and gender in the media for more than a decade and offers answers to the question, “How do we discuss highly emotional personal and political topics in a civil, intellectual manner?”
• Meredith Clark offers strategies to manage the emotional labor that faculty of color face on primarily white campuses. She discusses the invisible labor involved in supporting students and fighting for social justice while completing the everyday work expected of tenure‐track professors.
• Chelsea Reynolds provides advice for navigating the increasing mental health issues that both students and faculty are feeling across college campuses. She leads readers through her proactive approach to mental health in the classroom.
• Rebecca Hains, who has extensive experience as a public intellectual on the internet, gives practical advice for other instructors and writers on coping with and handling online harassment. She focuses on how to protect one’s mental health, reputation and job when attacks come from the digital public sphere.
• Former AEJMC President David Perlmutter offers an administrator’s perspective on public perceptions of university employees. He discusses the balance that administrators must strike between the public and the institution, which can create high levels of stress and strain on university leaders.
• Marquita Smith and María Len‐Ríos provide practical advice on engaging students by flipping the classroom and by using the “difficult dialogues” framework to address critical examinations of race, gender, class, sexuality and other sensitive topics.
• Steve Fox gives tips on how to tamp down the classroom and student media “bro culture” that permeates sports journalism and outlines his advocacy for women students and sports journalists.
• Meg Heckman addresses pressures on advisors regarding campus sexual abuse and mandatory reporting requirements. Instructors are being forced to reveal information students give them in confidence, and she offers specific advice and resources for advisors.
• Three leaders from the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) discuss approaches to teaching and reporting on Indian Country. Victoria LaPoe, Lenzy Krehbiel‐Burton, and Rebecca Landsberry outline how to accurately portray tribal communities, with the goal of reducing stereotyping and erasures of Native identities and perspectives.
• Laura Castañeda takes on “mansplaining,” which is the act of over‐explaining something to a woman in which she is an expert. She offers class activities to draw attention to and prevent the phenomenon.
• Khadija Ejaz discusses the ways that identity, student perceptions, and instructor authority collide in university classrooms for new graduate students teaching courses. She shares personal reflections and those from other graduate students on teaching difficult topics for the first time, especially as a woman and a racial or ethnic minority.
• Nathian Rodriguez focuses on ways to use mediated texts of LGBTQ+ representations to foster discussions of intersectionality in classrooms. He suggests various pop culture texts, including videos, podcasts, streaming shows, and music, through which to do so.
• Paromita Pain offers ways to create a classroom environment that supports and encourages intersectional conversations. By breaking it down, she makes intersectionality approachable and usable by both students and professors.
Finally, we provide resources for teaching tolerance, including books, videos, films, academic journal articles, popular articles, and interactive online projects, and offer tips and tricks for making your classroom a safe and challenging space for approaching tough topics.
For details on how to order Testing Tolerance and other books in the AEJMC Master Class Series, and receive a 30% discount, please visit: https://www.aejmc.org/home/resources/master-class-publications/
AEF’s Visiting Professor Program
Apply now to the AEF’s Visiting Professor Program!
The AEF invites you to apply to the Visiting Professor Program. The VPP immerses professors into the world of marketing and advertising, to inform your research and teaching, while extending your academic network within one week. Because of Covid-19, all sessions will be done via virtually.
Find out more by clicking here.
Qualified professors will participate in the VPP and learn from executives at Ogilvy, McCann, IBM and others. So, what are you waiting for? Read more about the VPP and apply!
Application deadline is February 15, 2021!
Questions?
Sharon Hudson, VP, Program Manager
AEF
sh@aef.com
646-708-8114
AEJMC Council of Affiliates Taskforce
Serving the AEJMC Council of Affiliates Taskforce
For the 2020 – 2021 term
Paul Voakes (Co-chair), former President, AEJMC
University of Colorado Boulder
paul.voakes@colorado.edu
Nancy Green (Co-chair), Chair, Council of Affiliates
America’s Newspapers
drnancylgreen@gmail.com
Tom Rosenstiel
American Press Institute
Tom.Rosenstiel@pressinstitute.org
P.J. Browning
Southern Newspaper Publishers Association
pbrowning@postandcourier.com
Karla Gower
The Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations
gower@apr.ua.edu
Lucas Graves
University of Wisconsin-Madison
lucas.graves@wisc.edu
Genelle Belmas
The University of Kansas
gbelmas@ku.edu
Shuhua Zhou
University of Missouri
zhoushuh@missouri.edu
