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Two University of Colorado graduate students have won awards in a national magazine writing contest sponsored by the Magazine Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Susan Erikson, a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department, and Sheri Weston (‘98 MA), a May graduate of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, were awarded second and third prizes, respectively, in the First Person Article category. Erikson's entry, "The Subversive Mary Poppins" and Weston's article, "An Open Letter to Prince Harry," were written as assignments for a graduate-level, personal essay writing course developed by journalism Professor Frank L. Kaplan and offered for the first time as a special topics course in 1997. |
| Enrollment tops 400 for the first time By Travis Van |
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This semester, undergraduate enrollment in the University of Colorado at Boulder's School of Journalism and Mass Communication was the highest ever. For the first time, undergraduate enrollment exceeded 400 students, breaking the old record of 399. Enrollment in most of the School's sequences has remained consistent in recent years. For the fall 1998 semester, 145 students were enrolled in the Advertising sequence, 115 in News-Editorial, 72 in Broadcast News and 50 in Broadcast Production. With 21 students, the Media Studies sequence enjoyed its largest enrollment to date. Assistant Dean Steve Jones said he is pleased with the fall enrollment numbers. "The goal, once we had established the Media Studies program, was to be right around the 400 to 420 enrollment mark," said Jones. "What we've tried to do with the numbers is make sure enrollment in the other sequences stays at the appropriate size." The School will eventually begin to grow in all sequences, said Jones, because of faculty-approved curricular changes that were in place this fall. In the year 2000, students will be admitted to the journalism school at the start of their sophomore year instead of their junior year, which is currently the procedure. |
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School hosts first AEJMC reunion
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Photo by Alan Kirkpatrick
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| Denny Wilkins (Ph.D. ‘96) talks shop with Russell Shain, former dean of the CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication, during a School first — a reunion held in conjunction with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The reunion was held at the Baltimore Sheraton Inner Harbor hotel. Twenty alumni, former faculty members and other friends of the School were on hand to reminisce and become reacquainted. Wilkins is on the faculty of St. Bonaventure University in New York and Shain is dean of the College of Communications at Arkansas State University in State College. |