Vol. 8 No. 3
Spring, 2005
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Head 'em up and Move 'em out!
We've got a full slate of programming planned for Wednesday through Friday this year. Be sure to read the details on each session that Bil Morrill has summarized in his piece for this newsletter. You should also be sure check out the ICIG authors and their research at the Scholar-to-Scholar session on Thursday August 11. Along with all the terrific programming we have this year, I hope you'll find time to join us for our member's meeting on Thursday night August 11 at 8:00 p.m. This year we've made it a combination member's meeting and social gathering as we'll have food and drink available. Our agenda is short and sweet, we'll talk about this year's programming and plan ahead for next year's conference in San Francisco. We'll also be electing officers for next year so you'll definitely want to be there. On that note, if you'd like to get involved, maybe even become an officer, we'll be taking nominations from now until the time of the meeting. If you'd like to nominate yourself or a colleague, you can email me anytime or catch me in person in San Antonio. I'm looking forward to a great conference and I hope to see you there. SanAntonio 2005: Sessions are set Bil Morrill, ICIG Vice-Head & Program
Chair
Public Relations and Communication Management: Challenges for the Next Generation Pre-Convention - Tuesday, August 9, 5:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Part of this session will include Roundtables/Discussions about:
Unpaid internships: Favoring the privileged? Wednesday, August 10, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Co-sponsored by PR & ICIG Students often must choose between an unpaid career-oriented summer internship or a paid job that may lack career relevance but will help pay tuition and expenses in the fall. For students of modest means, the choice is especially painful. They know that internships often lead to better jobs and higher salaries for graduates, but they cannot forgo the income available in restaurants and construction work. Examining the issue, the New York Times said ¶questions are emerging about whether [internships] are creating a class system that discriminates against students from less affluent families who have to turn down unpaid internships to earn money for college expenses.¾ Professors and practitioners are unhappy with this situation, too. This panel will explore how to make internships accessible to all who want them. Out of the Fire and into the Frying Pan: Are we preparing journalism students for the real world? Wednesday, August 10, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Co-sponsored by RTVJ & ICIG More and more students are moving from successful college careers in journalism only to find disappointment and early burnout in the profession. Many students leave the business after a few years, citing low salaries, unbearable working conditions and moral compromises. How can we better prepare our students for the reality of the working world? What can we do to improve salaries and working conditions for young journalists? What can the industry do to attract and retain good students, especially minority students? Take 'Em Away, Send 'Em Away, Bring 'Em In: How to Effectively Use Study Abroad in Journalism and Mass Communication Programs. Wednesday, August 10, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by ICD, ICIG, & GEIG With increased emphasis on the globalization of communications in our curricula and the professional world, it is increasingly essential that journalism and mass communication students have some foreign experience and exposure. One route is through study abroad, either through programs led by our own faculty or by enrollment in a foreign university for a semester or academic year. Another route is through supervised professional internships overseas. Either rout can supplement on-campus learning and domestic internships and improve participants' chances of success after graduation. However, designing, organizing, budgeting, leading, recruiting and overseeing student abroad and international internship programs is time- and energy-consuming for faculty and support staff. Panelists with substantial experience in these functions will address:
Panelists will discuss academic requirements, finances, placements, academic partnerships, lifestyle issues, faculty involvement, consortia and cultural adjustments. Beyond Busy Work: Fresh Ideas for Building Better Internships Thursday, August 11, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. Co-sponsored by MAG & ICIG This session will look at top internships from across the nation. Panelists will discuss success, challenges, financial resources and how the programs are growing each year. This will also be a session for everybody to come and share their ideas on new internship programs as well as find out answers to problems you may be having. Panelists will include:
ICIG Member Meeting Thursday, August 11, 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Come meet your colleagues in the Internship & Career Interest Group. The main function of this time will be to socialize with old and new friends, but we will take a few minutes to conduct some ICIG business. Getting Students Hired: Constructing Ideal Candidates for Journalism Openings Friday, August 12, 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Sponsored by ICIG The longer journalism educators are removed from daily journalism, the more difficult it becomes for the educator to rely on personal contacts in the industry a means of placing journalism students into career-jumping internships and their first full-time positions. This panel will focus on the increasing importance of academic and career advising in developing students who at least appear professional prepared on paper, present themselves professionally in their applications and interviews, and ooze professional confidence in their interactions with editors and publishers. The panelists proposed for this session have extensive teaching and professional experience in broadcast, newspaper and magazine journalism; are proactive in preparing their students for internship and job searches, and successfully place their students after 10 to 15 years away from their respective industries. From early intervention during advising sessions and the classroom, through examples of model resumes and cover letters, to tips for successful applications and interviews, the panelists will share the secrets behind their successes. I am looking forward to each one of these sessions. Please join us at each session and share with us your knowledge and ideas. See you in San Antonio! Feed back, please
My reason for bringing this up is that this newsletter has been delivered in digital format for a long time now. We send out postcards giving the address and ask you to log on and read. I'm not satisfied that you're doing that, though, and I hope the notices that this newsletter is published made it clear that I'm looking for more input. I need corrections and feedback now. It seems that I can't join an organization without becoming the newsletter editor, webmaster, secretary or all three. I know that people respond to these newsletter things. I haven't heard as much as I want to, though, from this one, so now I want you to tell me what to do to make this a more integral part of the organization. In my introductory mass media courses I tell my students that the mass media is where our culture happens. A newsletter should be where the organization happens. This one could use more stuff, I think. Maybe you would like to make folks aware of an opening in your department. Maybe you have a question about how to do something. Maybe you want to pass on something you've discovered. Maybe there's something else. ICIG has a listserv, a web site (which includes this newsletter), and we send out a post card three times a year using the U.S. mail. I think we're not using this combination of media to our best advantage. Remember, we're supposed to be coming together to make this AEJMC stuff work to the (what's the real estate expression?) highest and best use. We've got these three media operating, now we need to use them. Please do that. And please tell me what to do with them to make them easier to use. |
It's
summertime and the weather is fine. As things are warming up it's time
to start planning your schedule for the AEJMC conference in San Antonio
in August. There's a lot of good programming out there and we hope
you'll set aside some time for the Internships and Careers Interest
Group (ICIG) programming this year.
We are
only a couple of months away from our annual meeting in San Antonio.
I hope that you are planning to join us this year.
To get everybody excited about San Antonio, I thought I would let
you know about some of the wonderful sessions that are currently planned.
My
work as a journalism instructor requires me to spend lots of time picking
up small errors made in writing assignments. They're grammatical (there in
place of they're), stylistic (okay instead of O.K.), and audience-related
(using expressions the target audience won't understand). There are lots
of other errors too, but let's get together some time and compare them
away from this newsletter.