Media Diversity and AEJMC Convention 2009

Manship School receives diversity award at AEJMC's Boston convention
The Manship School Dean John Maxwell Hamilton received the National Equity
and Diversity Award from the Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication (AEJMC) at the Association's Boston convention on August 5, 2009.
Second presentation: The AEJMC President will travel to Louisiana State University to present the award to John Maxwell Hamilton as Dean of the Manship School, and University Chancellor, Mike Martin, in a ceremony honoring the school’s outstanding achievements in equity and diversity.
AEJMC introduced the National Equity and Diversity Award for the first time this year.


Manship School's special session at AEJMC Convention
“Diversity Is Not the Goal. It’s The Method”
On this occasion, the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University organized a special session at AEJMC Convention on best practices in equity and diversity in higher education on Wednesday, August 5. The session was featured by four panelists:

W. Terrell Jones, vice provost for Educational Equity, Pennsylvania State,
Susanne Shaw, executive director, ACEJMC
Minelle Mahtani, Department of Geography and Planning in Journalism, Toronto
Lauren Tucker, director of Consumer Forensics, The Martin Agency, Richmond, VA

Manship faculty Professor Ralph Izard moderated and presided over the session.

AEJMC Panel: Best practices in teaching diversity
The teaching committee of AEJMC sponsored the panel "Best Practices in Teaching Diversity" at the annual convention in Boston on August 5, 2009.

You can read the papers of the following award-winning panelists by clicking this link.

First Place: Joel Beeson, West Virginia • Civic Engagement, New Media and Journalism: A Template for the Organic Incorporation of Diversity into a New Journalism Curriculum

Second Place: Lisa E. Baker Webster, Radford • Professor for a Day

Third Place: Kimberley Mangun, Utah • Voices of Utah

Honorable Mention I: Carol Liebler and Hinda Mandell, Syracuse • In-Depth, on the Streets: The Impact of Interviewing in Teaching Media and Diversity

Honorable Mention II: Christopher Harper and Linn Washington, Temple • Multimedia Urban Reporting Lab (MURL)

Honorable Mention III: Sue Ellen Christian, Western Michigan • Exploring Our Personal Biases as Journalists: An Interdisciplinary Approach

"Have women in journalism really made it?"
Click HERE to read the entire post (Source: AEJMC Members Forum, The official blog of AEJMC)

Minorities and Communication Division papers
Click this link: 2009 Convention Paper Abstracts

Lionel Barrow Award
Paula Poindexter, Texas at Austin, received the Lionel Barrow Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity. Poindexter, won the Barrow Doctoral Minority Student Scholarship award in 1978 (Source: AEJMC Newsletter "AEJMC Thrives in Boston").


JLID training moves on
AEJMC congratulated the 8th graduating class of JLID (Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Institute for Diversity).
JLID was created to provide training and mentoring for people of color and women interested in becoming JMC deans, directors or chairs (Source: AEJMC Newsletter "AEJMC Thrives in Boston").


Equity & Diversity Award
The PF&R Committee will now 'house' the Equity & Diversity Award.The winning applications will be available on the AEJMC website (Source: AEJMC Newsletter "AEJMC Thrives in Boston").

Related links:

AEJMC Members Forum Blog

Minorities and Communication Division Blog