ACEJMC Ascent v. 14 #1

October 2006
Volume 13, #3
Also in this issue:
• Council to meet
May 4-5 in Portland
•New Appeals Board
• Graduate reviews now accredited separately
• Member and
program updates
• Meetings calendar

Council approves self-study language
on ethics, adopts Appeals Board recommendation

At the Sept. 1 Council meeting in Chicago, Jerry Ceppos presented additional language about ethics to include in the self-studies. A year ago in September, the Council named an Ethics Committee to consider ways schools might focus on and improve ethics instruction and learning in accredited schools.

The Council approved a motion that the following language be included in the self-studies for two years:

Regarding ethics education, we know that units deal with the subject in different ways. Among the possible information that units might include in the self-study are responses to the following questions:

1) How does each graduate learn ethical behavior?

2) Are ethics courses required for graduates?

3) How does the unit deal with students and faculty members accused of ethical problems?

4) If the teaching of ethics is part of other courses, how is it included?

5) Do visiting speakers discuss ethics?

6) If an ethical issue is in the news, which classes discuss it, and how?

7) How do you evaluate your performance in ethics education and, if it needs improvement, what are your plans?

The Finance Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 23 in advance of the March 2007 Accrediting Committee meeting to discuss dues paid by organizations and those paid by minority organizations. Finance Committee members are Will Norton, chair, Jerry Ceppos, Peggy Dotson, public member, and Beth Barnes.

In other business, the Council accepted the Appeals Board recommendation for a re-visit to Hampton University. Charles Edwards, Jr., dean of journalism at Drake University, presented the Appeals Board recommendation. The Council agreed that the School will do a new self-study and have another site visit, to take place February 18-21. Other members of the Appeals Board were Merrill Rose, independent public relations consultant, New York City, and Charles Elmore, Jr., chair, department of mass communications, Savannah State University.

Council to meet May 4-5 in Portland

The Council wll meet Friday, May 4, at the Westin Hotel in Portland, Ore., to review and make accreditation decisions for the schools visited during the 2006-07 year. They will meet on Saturday morning, May 5, to discuss other Council business. Hotel information will be sent to members in March.

New Appeals Board

Doug Anderson, dean of the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University, will chair this year's Appeals Board. Other members are Caesar Andrews, executive editor at the Detroit Free Press, and Maria Russell, professor, school of public communications at Syracuse University.

Graduate reviews now accredited separately

Those schools who have invited ACEJMC to examine their graduate programs will, for the first time, receive a separate accreditation recommendation by the visiting teams. Visiting teams will write specific information in the report on the graduate program for each of the nine standards and will make a separate recommendation for compliance and non-compliance for each standard.

Member and program updates

Southern Illinois University Carbondale has named Bill Freivogel interim director, replacing Walter Jaehnig, director.

Frederick R. Blevens is now associate dean and professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Florida International University. Previously he was a professor at Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

Robert Dodge, previously with The Dallas Morning News, has new contact information: 2020 12th Street, NW, No. 417, Washington, DC 20009. Phone: 202-986-1758, cell: 703-899-5287, e-mail: RobertDodge@aol.com. He represents the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

David Boardman , Accrediting Committee member, has been promoted to editor of The Seattle Times. He was previously the managing editor.

Meetings calendar

Accrediting Committee
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Westin River North Hotel
Chicago

Accrediting Council
May 4-5, 2007
Westin Hotel
750 SW Alder St.
Portland, Ore.

Accrediting Council
Friday, August 31, 2007
Westin Hotel, Michigan Avenue
Chicago

ACEJMC Ascent
Newsletter of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications

Vol. 14, No. 1, October 2006

President, Accrediting Council
Saundra Keyes
Professor
Reynolds School of Journalism
University of Nevada, Reno
Mail stop 310
Reno, NV 89557-0040
(775) 784-6531; Fax (775) 784-6656
E-mail: skeyes@unr.edu

Vice President, Accrediting Council
Will Norton
Dean, College of Journalism and
Mass Communications
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68588-0443
(402) 472-3041; Fax (402) 472-8597
E-mail: wnorton1@unl.edu

Chair, Accrediting Committee
Tom Kunkel
Dean
Philip Merrill College of Journalism
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
(301) 405-2383; Fax (301) 314-1978
E-mail: tkunkel@jmail.umd.edu

Vice Chair, Accrediting Committee
Pam Luecke
Donald W. Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
Washington and Lee University
Lexington, VA 24450
(540) 458-8435; Fax (540) 458-8845
E-mail: lueckep@wlu.edu

Executive Director
Susanne Shaw
Stauffer-Flint Hall
1435 Jayhawk Blvd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 - 7575
(785) 864-3986
E-mail: sshaw@ku.edu

Office Manager
Cheryl Klug
Stauffer-Flint Hall
1435 Jayhawk Blvd.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045 - 7575
(785) 864-3973
E-mail: cklug@ku.edu