Fellow CSM and MACD Members:

Please note the following call for nominations for this important award given by the Scholastic Journalism Division, to which I and an number of fellow CSM and MACD members belong. Please nominate or encourage the nomination of anyone you think might be worthy of the award.

~Calvin

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Calvin L. Hall, Ph.D.
Head, AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division
Chair & Associate Professor
Department of Mass Communication
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC 27707
Office: (919) 530-5115; E-mail: [log in to unmask]




CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

THE ROBERT P. KNIGHT MULTICULTURAL RECRUITMENT AWARD

The AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division is accepting nominations for the 2015 ROBERT P. KNIGHT MULTICULTURAL RECRUITMENT AWARD. The Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award is presented to any individual or media organization that has made significant contributions to promoting diversity in scholastic media programs. The award is named for Robert P. Knight, a professor in the University of Missouri School of Journalism who served as director of the Missouri Interscholastic Press Association from 1965 to 1992. Knight received the award in 1990.

In 2014, Steve O’Donoghue, director of the California Scholastic Journalism Initiaitive, was the recipient of the AEJMC Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award. In 2013, fellow CSM and MACD member Linda Callahan was the recipient.

To nominate a person or an organization for the 2015 award, please do the following:

Mail or e-mail a nomination letter of 1 to 2 pages to Joe Dennis, the award chair. The mail and e-mail addresses are listed below. In addition to information about the nominee, please include the nominator’s name, title, school or organization, e-mail address and phone number. Multiple nomination letters are acceptable and recommended.

In addition, send a document or a link to a document that lists nominee’s achievements with regard to promoting diversity in scholastic media programs. (i.e. A CV or résumé, a Web site link, or other appropriate information). The deadline is April 15, 2015.

Please send nomination materials to:

Joe Dennis
Grady College of Journalism & Mass Communication

Journalism Building

120 Hooper Street

Athens, Ga. 30602-3018
E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Dennis

The award recipient will be chosen by an independent selection committee of AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division Members and will be notified within two months of the award deadline by e-mail. The award will be presented at the 2015 AEJMC Conference, which will be held in San Francisco, Aug. 6-9, 2015.

The Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC provides a connection between secondary school journalism teachers and media advisers and college-level journalism educators. The focus of the division includes promoting high journalism education standards, improving teacher training for journalism and media teachers and supporting student free expression rights.










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