Note: This is the last Monday Memo of the spring semester. The newsletter is published monthly during the summer, so the next Monday Memo will be distributed on June 22. Please send items to julieadam@ku.edu.
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Congratulations to our J-School graduates! We are recognizing our graduates on our website now at journalism.ku.edu:
- Watch video messages from Dean Brill and faculty and staff here.
- View and share the list of graduates.
- Read reflections from some of our seniors here (pictured, Alexis Barnes).
- If you missed KU's online Commencement event on Sunday, watch the recording here.
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Updates for Spring 2020 semester
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KU will distribute $7.5 million in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act funding directly to students who have significant need and are facing financial challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn more here.
Need help?
The J-School has resources to help students. C
ontact
Professor Scott Reinardy
at
reinardy@ku.edu
.
Another great resource is
help.ku.edu.
Free Adobe extended:
Adobe has made the decision to extend the end date of the temporary at-home access to Creative Cloud through July 6, 2020. There is no action required on your end, the access will continue automatically.
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Research, Publications and Presentations
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Research
by
Associate Professor Jerry Crawford
found that high school journalism programs often do not seek to diversify their staffs and do not receive guidance in how to do so from their professional organizations.
Read the KU News story here.
Associate Professor Genelle Belmas
and J.D./Ph.D. student
Harrison Rosenthal
have had accepted for publication a peer-reviewed chapter in the Handbook of Research on Cyberbullying and Online Harassment in the Workplace. Their chapter, titled "(Non)Existent Laws of Workplace Cyberbullying," traces the development of the law in this area. They conclude that there is little legal guidance in either face-to-face or cyber-workplace bullying: "While some scholars have foreshadowed the urgent dangers posed by increased workplace digitization and Internet connectivity, the law, as a reactive instrumentality, is not yet positioned to protect or rehabilitate workers injured by bullying -- cyber or physical."
Associate Professor Hyunjin Seo
received a Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation. The REU Grant will allow her to provide stipends to several undergraduate students who will participate in research activities related to her NSF program offering technology education for marginalized populations.
Assistant Professor Hong Vu
's article, titled: "Routinizing Facebook: How journalists’ role conceptions influence their social media use for professional purposes in a socialist-communist country," has been accepted for publication at Digital Journalism. This is a pilot study in his larger project looking at how digital technologies are changing newsroom practices in different countries.
Fatemeh Shayesteh
, doctoral student, is the 2020 Recipient of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Group (DIAG) Applied Research Award for her proposal "Digital media functionalities for LGBTQ students’ resiliency and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic." The project aims to explore the functionalities of social media for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on resiliency theory, this project will explore LGBTQ college students’ social media use during the outbreak of COVID-19 to enhance their resiliency when facing the socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study is advised by
Dr. Joseph Erba
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Congratulations to
Gerri Berendzen
, who was selected as the recipient of the J-School's Katich Award for Creativity.
The Katich award goes to a full-time faculty member who has demonstrated creativity in teaching, research, service or a combination of these areas.
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Student News and Opportunities
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Student wins national Gracie Award
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Congratulations to
Bryanna Crouch
, who is the national winner for Best Student Television Producer in the
Alliance for Women in Media
Foundation's Gracie Awards.
Read the news release here.
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Nicole-Marie Konopelko
has received
a research award through the Jim Mielke Humanities, Social and Behavioral Science Mentorship Fund
at the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She is a student
in the J-School and
the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Languages & Literatures
.
The University Daily Kansan has been selected to receive a $1,500 grant from the Poynter Institute as part of its Poynter College Media Project. The Kansan is one of nine independent college media organizations that will be part of this reporting initiative that includes unique training led by Poynter educators and a year of remote and virtual support from Poynter. Learn more about the Poynter project
here
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IMC students present project for Government to University initiative
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Students in Professor of the Practice
Angie Hendershot
’s graduate course in Leadership and Management were selected to be the pilot program for the G2U (Government to University) initiative sponsored in part by the
Volcker Alliance
.
The program seeks ways in which federal agencies can collaborate more closely with universities. They requested that the school’s Integrated Marketing Communications master's students represent the University of Kansas and launch the initiative with a project to improve the communications strategy for the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services process to respond effectively to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Students met with leaders in the federal government department who work in the Kansas City metro area in early March. The class then spent the second half of the semester developing recommendations for improved processes, formats and messages to aid communication.The students presented their
final project
in a live video conference to
Elliot Viker
, Chief of FOIA Operations, and
Kathryn Quackenbush
, G2U Program Coordinator.
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Sales Strategies class tours
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Each semester, the Journalism 611 Sales Strategies Class visits various companies in the Kansas City and Lawrence area to get an inside look at the company, learn about their sales process and unique value proposition. This semester, the business partners included the Power & Light District, Kansas City Chiefs, United Way, DEG Digital, InTouch Solutions Inc., Fox 4, Lawrence Journal-World, Spectrum Reach and Service Management Group (SMG). Several of the groups were able to meet in person with their business partners before spring break and the quarantine, and the others had to use Zoom conferencing with their business partners to complete the project.
Pictured, from left:
Julia Enriquez
, KU senior,
Lori Turec
, DEG Digital and KU graduate, and
Stephanie Audrey
, KU sophomore. Rooftop photo, from left:
Gage Brock
, SMG and KU graduate,
Mayra Torres
, KU senior,
Lauren Metzler
, SMG and KU graduate,
Hailey Hughes
, KU senior, and
Sarah Sampson
, SMG and KU graduate.
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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
.
JOBS
INTERNSHIPS
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Need to make a quick appointment with
Heather Lawrenz
?
Sign up here
. Once you sign up, she will send you a link to Zoom.
JSchoolTech wants your feedback. How can we help keep your skills fresh? Take some time to
give us feedback
on what workshops and events you want for the rest of 2020.
Thank you to all the students who participated in our JST Creative Break. We will think of new ways to stay creative for fall. In the meantime, keep making!
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Virginia Schlenker
, 1952 J-School graduate, died April 30 at the age of 89.
Read her obituary.
Jane Pecinovsky Fowler
, 1957 J-School graduate, died May 1 at the age of 84.
Read her obituary.
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Aug. 13-14:
Kansas Press Association convention, Meridian Center, Newton, Kansas
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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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