J-School wins CASE Circle of Excellence Award
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The J-School won a silver award in the CASE Circle of Excellence Awards for last year's William Allen White 150th Birthyear Celebration.
CASE received 3,204 entries for consideration in nearly 100 categories by 676 member higher education institutions, independent schools and nonprofits from around the world.
Read the judges' comments about the J-School's entry.
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Stauffer-Flint Hall remodeling project
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Keep up to date with the Stauffer-Flint Hall remodeling project on our
livestream broadcast
set up on the first floor. Also make sure to follow us on the J-School social media accounts for weekly progress updates and check out this
time-lapse video
of the first month of work.
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Assistant Professor Teri Finneman
won the second annual Michael S. Sweeney Award for her article, “‘The Greatest of Its Kind Ever Witnessed in America’: The Press and the 1913 Women’s March on Washington.” Presented by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Sweeney Award recognizes the outstanding article published in the previous volume of the scholarly journal Journalism History.
Finneman also discussed her book, "Press Portrayals of Women Politicians, 1870s-2000s," at a League of Women Voters event at Watkins Museum in mid-May.
Associate Professor Peter Bobkowski
will receive the Scholastic Journalism Division’s David Adams Journalism Educator of the Year Award during the SJD’s meeting at the AEJMC annual convention in Toronto, Canada, in August. Bobkowski will be honored Aug. 9 with a plaque and honorarium.
Strategic Communication Chair Kerry Benson
met with journalism instructors from the Blue Valley Unified School District on May 28 to help them learn fundamental best practices for introducing strategic communication into their journalism curriculum.
Jim McCrossen
, 1984 J-School graduate, instructor of journalism at Blue Valley Northwest High School and Kansas Scholastic Press Association president, requested the collaboration. The Blue Valley Unified School District encompasses 91 square miles in southeastern Johnson County, Kansas, and has a student population of more than 23,000.
Mark Johnson
gave the keynote address titled "
Navigating Through the Ever-Changing Global Trade Landscape"
at the 2019 Kansas International Trade Day on June 4 in Manhattan, Kansas. The event was hosted by the Kansas Department of Commerce.
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Lawrenz accepted into Adobe Education Leaders program
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Congratulations to JSchoolTech Program Director and Digital Media Training Specialist
Heather Lawrenz,
who was accepted into the elite Adobe Education Leaders program. This is an exclusive community of innovative thought leaders in education who effectively use Adobe tools to promote excellence and critical problem solving. She is one of 196 AELs worldwide. AELs serve a one-year term and can re-apply with a new cohort group at the end of their term. As part of the program, AELS receive:
- Insights into the Adobe product roadmap
- An official Adobe Education Leader Badge
- A free one-year license to Creative Cloud and Lynda.com
- Opportunity to have professional work promoted on Adobe Education communication channels
- Opportunity to present at conferences and other professional learning events
- Exclusive invitation to apply to the annual Adobe Education Leaders summit, taking place at the Adobe offices in California, Australia, and Europe every year
- Support from Adobe in hosting local professional learning events for colleagues and local educators
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Faculty and staff: Please hold Wednesday, Aug. 21, for the J-School faculty and staff retreat. The time and location will be announced soon.
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Research, Publications and Presentations
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Professor Tien Lee
’s co-authored study, “Learning to be inclusive? Testing the effects of media diet on attitudes toward LGT equality” was named the First Place Faculty Paper by the LGBTQ Interest Group at the 2019 annual conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
News & Information Track Chair Lisa McLendo
n was one of the lecturers at this year's KU Mini College, speaking this year on grammar instead of fake news. Her talk, "Everything You Learned about Grammar Is (Probably) Wrong," was given June 5 at The Commons to a lively audience.
Associate Professor Genelle Belmas
and A
ssistant Professor Teri Finneman
also were Mini College lecturers.
McLendon
also was a guest on “Drinks On Us,” a talk show on Sauga 960, a radio station in Ontario, Canada, on June 2. Topics of conversation included hyphens, semicolons and James Naismith.
Assistant Professor Hong Vu
’s article:
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Testing popular news discourse on the 'echo chamber' effect: Does political polarization occur among those relying on social media as their primary political news source?” has been accepted to
First Monday.
Vu co-authors the article with An Nguyen from University of Bournemouth, U.K. The analysis found little evidence for ideological partisanship, lending credence to a rejection of social media’s “echo chamber” effect. The study will be published in June 2019.
Associate Professor Peter Bobkowski
and doctoral student
Harrison Rosenthal
will present their co-authored study, "
Media Civic-Efficacy: Predicting Civic Engagement Among Secondary-School Journalism Students” at the annual conference of the AEJMC in Toronto, Canada, in August 2019.
Assistant Professor Hong Vu
and doctoral student
Nyan Lynn
will present their study, "Automated framing analysis of news coverage of the Rohingya crisis by the elite press from three countries,” to the International Communication Division at the annual conference of the AEJMC in Toronto in August 2019.
Assistant Professor Teri Finneman
co-authored a study accepted for publication in Feminist Media Studies, "Leading the second wave into the third wave: U.S. women journalists and discursive continuity of feminism."
Doctoral student
Matt Blomberg
’s paper, “Dominant, Residual and Emergent: The Journalistic Performance within The Post,” was accepted in the Cultural and Critical Studies Division for presentation at the AEJMC conference in August in Toronto.
Doctoral student
Yuchen Liu
will present a paper titled "You Are What You Post: The Interaction of Personality Traits and Visual Content on Instagram," at the AEJMC conference in August in Toronto.
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Student News and Opportunities
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Liefu Jiang
, May 2019 doctoral graduate, has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of public relations at Chicago State University.
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Doctoral student
Nyan Lynn
discussed feature writing with students at the Myanmar Journalism Institute (MJI) in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 15 (left). Lynn also was interviewed by Radio Free Asia Burmese Program for its program on media freedom of Myanmar, which aired on May 3.
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Stay connected over the summer with JSchool Tech
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Students, help determine workshops and training for JSchoolTech next year!
Complete our survey.
You also can get on the VIP list for JSchool Tech Fall 2019 workshop teams and other events. Email
halawrenz@ku.edu
and you can help set dates, events and get first access to sign up.
Need to boost your Adobe skills?
On campus for summer classes? Sign up for JSchool Tech Topics. These four-week intensives will help you develop basic knowledge in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere. Email
halawrenz@ku.edu
to work out a schedule.
Save the date!
Adobe Creative Jam comes to KU next fall on Oct. 25.
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Find career and work opportunities on the J-School
’
s jobs and internships web page. You can filter by job or internship and full or part time. And don
’
t forget that our career and outreach coordinator,
Steve Rottinghaus
, can help you with your search.
See more job and internship opportunities on the
J-School's website
and check out the
University Career Center’s
job and internship board
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JOBS
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Reporter
, Community Impact Newspaper
(Plano, Texas)
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Richard Crocker
, 1960 J-School graduate, died June 4 at the age of 80.
Read his obituary.
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Brian Hanni
, 2002 J-School graduate and Voice of the Jayhawks, last month received the Hod Humiston Award for Sports Broadcasting from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. Hanni was the first recipient of the award who previously earned a KAB Scholarship while attending KU.
Rustin Dodd
, 2009 J-School graduate who has been covering the Kansas City Royals for The Athletic, has changed beats. He is now a feature writer in New York for The Athletic.
Daren Dunn
, 2013 J-School graduate,
is program director/morning personality for KHMY and digital marketing manager at Eagle Communications in Hutchinson, Kansas. He also is the public address announcer for Blue Dragons basketball and football at Hutchinson Community College.
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July 4:
Independence Day Holiday
July 26:
Last day of summer classes
Aug. 15-25:
Hawk Week
Aug. 21:
Faculty and staff retreat, time and place TBA
Aug. 26:
First day of classes for fall semester
Sept. 2:
Labor Day holiday
Oct. 12-15:
Fall break
Oct. 24:
J-School Career Fair, Adams Alumni Center
Oct. 24-25:
J-School Generations, Adams Alumni Center
Nov. 27-Dec. 1
: Thanksgiving break
Dec. 12:
Last day of fall classes
Dec. 13:
Stop day
Dec. 21-Jan. 19:
Winter break
Jan. 20:
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
Jan. 21:
First day of spring semester
Note: The Monday Memo is published monthly during the summer. The next Monday Memo will be distributed July 22.
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William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications
1435 Jayhawk Boulevard
Stauffer-Flint Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-4755
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