Internships & Careers
Interest Group

The AEJMC Internships and Careers Interest Group (ICIG) invites you to submit a panel proposal for the 2010 AEJMC Convention in Denver.  Your participation will help ensure that the Internships & Careers Interest Group continues to offer sessions that combine academics with workplace trends.

To maximize opportunities for co-sponsorships, we must receive your panel proposal via e-mail by Friday, October
16, 2009.  Please e-mail your panel proposal simultaneously to the ICIG Head Tony DeMars (Tony_DeMars@tamu-commerce.edu) AND the ICIG Vice-Head John Chapin (jrc11@psu.edu).  

Further contact information for the ICIG Program Planner:

Vice-Head / Program Planner
John Chapin
Communications Program
100 University Drive
Penn State University-Beaver
Monaca, PA 15061
724-773-3877
jrc11@psu.edu


As you think of panel ideas, please consider whether your contribution could be of interest to another AEJMC division or interest group. If we get other groups to co-sponsor panels with us, we are able to offer more panels.

Please be sure to format your panel proposal as indicated below.  Panel proposals should focus on professional freedom and responsibility, research, or teaching.  PF&R panels should focus on issues such as free expression, ethics, media criticism and accountability, racial, gender and cultural inclusiveness, and public service.  Research panels should focus on issues such as methodologies/approaches, theoretical frameworks, trends, and new developments.  Teaching panels should focus on issues such as curriculum (philosophy, design, and examination of issues, developments and trends in the journalism; leadership (administrative and organizational efforts to manage and improve the evolution of journalism and mass communication), course content and methods (examining teaching techniques and strategies), assessment (weighing the effectiveness of journalism education);

If you are interested in proposing a panel, but you do not want to coordinate it, you can secure and list someone else as the coordinator (panel contact).

Please complete and attach the Panel Proposal in this format and return it to us by Friday, October 16, 2009.  If you would like to see a sample, download the Sample Joint Session Proposal [PDF] from the AEJMC website.

Here is some other information to guide you panel submission: 
a) We encourage panels that include industry practitioners as well as educators -- if you can make good contact with industry people from the Denver area who can commit to attending, that makes for great panels,
b) A good panel proposal includes a diverse range of participants--including but not limited to race, gender, and institutional affiliation,
c)  Officers of all Divisions and Interest Group have panel proposals reviewed during October and then work with each other to find panel co-sponsorships in October and November.  We then all convene at a Winter Planning Meeting the first weekend of December to create the basic AEJMC program schedule.  If we are able to accept your panel proposal and get it co-sponsored, you and/or your panel's 'Panel Contact' will work together between December and February with the other group's Panel Contact to finalize the (typically) 4 panelists, with perhaps a moderator or respondent.  (PF&R and Teaching panels have moderators; Research panels may have respondents),
d) Normally, all panel proposals are PF&R or Teaching.  If you propose a Research panel, that means you have panelists who have done research on Internships and/or Careers issues who will report on this research on the panel.  This is NOT peer-reviewed research in the same category as AEJMC research paper submissions.  Those individual research papers have an April 1, 2010 received-by deadline, and we will schedule those in our own separate Research and Scholar to Scholar sessions.  Do not submit a proposal listed as two, like "PF&R and Research"--we cannot program them that way,
e) note that if you can get a non-academic, industry person to speak, we can sometimes get some travel money for them and we can get their convention registration fee waived--this benefit is never available to academics, and
f) if you have the ability to set up an off-site event (tour, business meeting with refreshments at an academic or industry location, etc.) feel free to make a proposal for such an event--we can schedule those IN ADDITION TO the standard programming slots we receive.  Keep in mind in planning that if your proposal is accepted, it may be scheduled any day of the conference--from Wednesday August 6th through Saturday August 9th.

If you have questions, please contact us at either e-mail address above. Many thanks, and we look forward to another successful programming year!

1. Panel Title
2. Panel Type (PF& R, Research, or Teaching)
3. Potential Co-Sponsors (strongly encouraged to maximize number of panels; sole sponsorships cost one full chip whereas co-sponsorships cost one half chip--look here and here for the full list of Divisions and Interest Groups.)
4. Panel Description/Summary (limit to one or two paragraphs).
5. Possible Panelists (If you don't have specific names, please list general information, e.g., institution/organization and title/area.  Don't confirm panelists. If proposal is selected, panelists must be negotiated with co-sponsor.).
6. Moderator/Presiding
7. Audio/Visual Needs
8. Panel Contact  (name, institution, department, title, mailing address, work phone, alternative phone, and e-mail of the person -- it might be you -- that we would contact to coordinate the final content of the panel if it is accepted.)

Note, if you propose a panel, please plan to work on finalizing the panel participants between December and February.