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Articles in the February 2013 issue:
- CHEA recognition deferral provides Council time to implement changes
- Accrediting Committee meeting information
- Accrediting Committee meeting discussion schedule
- Accreditation Resources
- 2013-14 Site Visit Schedule
- Accreditation Timeline
- Calendar
- Member/program updates
Articles in the October 2012 issue:
- Council approves standards revisions, including 80-65 credit rule
- Assessment guide among new accreditation resources
- Accreditation workshop draws a crowd
- Council revises membership bylaws
- Appeals Board appointed
- CHEA recognition process continues
- PRSA appoints Mark Hass to Council
- Accreditation timeline reminders
- Calendar
- Member/program updates
Articles in the June 2012 issue:
- Council to address standards revisions, including 80-65 credit rule
- Standards review survey results
- Fall Council meeting details
- Accreditation workshop scheduled
- ACEJMC receives grants for minority dues
- CHEA recognition process continues
- ASJMC, AEJMC representatives elected
- Committee officers, members elected
- New public member appointed
- Member/program updates
- Assessment and standards noncompliance
Articles in the February 2012 issue:
- Accrediting Committee to meet in Chicago/discussion schedule
- 2012-13 Site Visit Schedule
- Appeals Board appointed
- Member and program updates
- Letter helps promote value of accreditation
Articles in the November 2011 issue:
- Workshop planned to assist administrators with accreditation process
- Standards Review Committee to survey programs
- Armstrong appointed new public member
- CHEA recognition review under way
- Dues adjusted for professional and educator organizations
- Council provides guidance on repeat noncompliances
- Council approves accreditation affiliation requirement for educator members
- Member and program updates
Articles in the June 2011 issue:
- Standards review under way
- Accrediting Council to meet Sept. 9 in Chicago
- Dues increase to take effect
- Assessment continues to lead noncompliances
- Member and Program update
- Council makes accreditation decisions
Articles in the February 2011 issue
- A message from Accrediting Council President Peter Bhatia
- Accrediting Committee meeting information and schedule
- 2011-12 Site Visit Schedule
- Member and Program Updates
- CHEA offers quick accreditation videos
- Dues increase for schools approved; member dues under consideration
- Council steps back from paperless self-studies
- When the site team and the Accrediting Committee don’t agree
- New brochures promote value of accreditation
- Accreditation Timeline reminders
- Assessment leads noncompliances in standards – again
- Anderson to chair Standards Review Committee
- Parsons appointed chair of Appeals Board
- Member/program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Accreditation changes in place
- Council to address membership, financial concerns
- Council officers, Committee members elected
- ASJMC names representatives
- Avoid these self-study pitfalls
- Information session scheduled at AEJMC
- Member updates
- Accreditation decisions made
- Meetings calendar
- Accrediting Committee to meet; schedule for reviews
- 2010-11 site visit schedule
- Council member killed in accident; scholarship established
- Member/program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Council amends standards language to address industry changes, growing international interest
- Meeting materials available online
- Appeals Board appointed
- RTDNA name change
- Meetings calendar
- John Paluszek to lead Global Alliance
- Trevor Brown headed to Columbia
- Plans made for Chicago meeting
- AEJMC session scheduled
- New Council members named
- Council actions
- Strategic plans earn high marks
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Accrediting Committee to meet in Chicago
- Two new Council members named
- Cochran to retire from RTNDA
- Member and program updates
- Site-team training workshop held in Portland
- Meetings calendar
- 2009-2010 site visit schedule
- Guidebook for new members available
- Doug Anderson returns to Council
- Site team training planned
- Council meeting builds a better understanding
- Callahan will head Appeals Board
- Member and program updates
- Reinardy joins ACEJMC staff
- Committee, Councl meetings scheduled
- Team chairs to speak at August meeting
- International Committee appointed
- Committee officers, members elected
- New Council members named
- Council accredits two new schools
- ACEJMC to have program for schools
- Training program scheduled for November
- Committee, Council meetings scheduled
- Council member to retire
- Committee to meet
- Appeals Board named
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Visit schedule
- New public member appointed
- American Journalism Historian Association new member
- Finance committee appointed
- Jeff Cohen elected to Accrediting Committee
- ACEJMC discusses National Research Council changes
- Former presidents write guide for new members
- Nineteen participate in training workshop
- Meetings calendar
- Council elects officers, accredits schools, discusses diversity standard
- Council to meet Aug. 31 in Chicago
- Ceppos, Keyes to write Council guide
- Site team training
- AEJMC convention
- Meetings calendar
- Accrediting Committee to Meet March 24 in Chicago
- Council to Meet May 4-5 in Portland, Ore.
- President Keyes Appoints Nominations Committee
- 2007-08 Site Visit Schedule
- Dean at University of Nevada, Reno, Dies in Car Accident
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Council approves self-study language, adopts Appeals Board recommendation
- Finance Committee to discuss organization dues at March meeting
- Council to meet May 4-5 in Portland
- New Appeals Board
- Graduate reviews now accredited separately
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Council accredits 19 schools at May meeting
- Keyes returns to her academic roots
- Council continues ethics discussion
- Changes effective for graduate reviews
- School dues to increase
- Council schedules meetings for 2006-07
- Kara Lynch joines ACEJMC
- Albers thanks Council members
- Accrediting Committee: River North this time
- Appeals Board appointed
- Council President's paper named diversity leader
- Timeline of changes
- 2006 - 2007 site visit schedule
- Higginson leaves Council office
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Team chairs discuss changes
- Council seeks information to spotlight ethics
- Study: Accredited schools seek diverse faculty aggressively, consistently
- Initial accreditation: arrange a consultant through ACEJMC
- Timeline of changes
- Ceppos announces retirement
- Meetings calendar
- Training for team chairs: required
- Council to offer two sessions at AEJMC convention
- Ethics committee will collect information
- Three new schools accredited
- Council elects Accrediting Committee members
- Council moves to limit individual influence
- Keyes appoints finance and membership committees
- ASJMC honors two Committee members
- Organizations appoint new representatives
- Update your Council e-mail addresses
- Meetings calendar
- Keyes appoints Committee on Ethics Instruction
- Timeline of changes in policy, procedures, etc.
- 2005 - 2006 site visit schedule
- Appeals Board appointed
- Beverly Kees dies
- Member and program updates
- Meetings calendar
- Council to sharpen focus on ethics
- One person, one vote, one time
- Brown elected, replaces Spaniolo on Committee
- Two-year provisional accreditation: the devil in the details
- Graduate review reports defined
- Council clarifies policies
- Nov. 1 deadlines loom
- New Council members
- Member, program updates
- Council elects Saundra Keyes president
- Graduate review policy set
- Ceppos calls for focus on ethics
- New standards clarified
- Council elects Committee members, officers
- Provisional accreditation period extended
- Perspectives on accreditation: Judith Watkins of CHEA
- Arthuf W. Page Society joins Council
- Summary of accrediting actions, May 2004
- Updates, calendar
- Assessment schedule applies to all schools
- New team report structure tested
- 2004 - 2005 site visit schedule
- Updates
- Calendar
- Council adopts revised standards
- Principles of accreditation amended
- Assessment plans should be on the books now
- Graduate reviews still under study
- Conflict of interest policy amended
- Ceppos appoints three committees
- School discussion agendas to be more structured
- Briefs
- Updates
- Calendar
The issues listed below are .pdf files, and you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, click here to download it (it's free) before downloading the newsletters below.
- New standards approach finish line
- New standards: the schedule
- Graduate reviews reviewed
- The new standards: history and background
- Fall meeting to address more topics than new standards
- Council elects new Committee members
- That's a wrap: team training program
- Accreditation decisions
- In brief: diversity book; newsletter to web-only distribution; Accred-L list discontinued
- Calendar; member and program updates
- Assessment on the schedule
- Final team training session planned for Portland
- Writing the book on best practices in diversity
- 2003 - 2004 site visit schedule
- Ceppos appoints Nominating Committee
- Revised standards sent for response
- Session on standards
- Graduate program review: toward definitions, criteria
- Researchers visit ACEJMC offices to study effects of Standard 12
- Flores wins diversity award
- Appeals Board appointed
- Diversity booklet on track
- Team training: one more time
- Revised standards on the horizon
- Graduate-level reviews: criteria to come
- Important: Change of address for Council offices
- Diversity book progresses
- CHEA gives ACEJMC thumbs-up
- ASJMC selects representatives to the Council
- Self-study tables will change to match Census data format
- Standard 12 still leads in non-compliance findings
- Council elects new Committee members and officers
- Accreditation decisions, May 2002
- Site visitors trained in Arlington, Portland; total tops 120
- CHEA review proceeds
- ACEJMC President Ceppos to get Sass Award from ASJMC
- Knight Foundation awards grant to support diversity best-practices book
- Visit schedule, 2002 - 2003
- Ceppos names nominating committee
- Council revises Standard 3: Curriculum
- Principles prompt fresh look at all standards
- CHEA's review of ACEJMC practices proceeds
- Council cancels interim and focused progress reports
- Teams to apply more rigor in grad reviews
- Assessment: a guidebook and a schedule
- Put assessment on your calendar
- Call for advertising, broadcast professionals for team training
- The book on diversity
- SPJ honors Steve Geimann
- Appeals
Board, 2002 - 2003
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