Crunch time in the J-School

What a crazy week it has been…again!

Next year’s full schedule (Summer and Fall 2007 and Spring 2008) are due in the College office on Friday, October 27. Thanks to the hard work of MaryAnne Bulemore, a temporary fill-in in the J-School office, we will make that deadline.

We have several new courses set including one on war reporting, three on information graphics (including a new interactive graphics class). Check them out in the spring when the Schedule of Classes is posted.

A large contingent from The State News headed off to St. Louis today for the CMA/ACP conference. The newspaper is a finalist for the Pacemaker Award and we have staff members as finalists in virtually every competition. Go Green!

The staff may also get a chance to see the Tigers play the Cards, if it ever stops raining in St Louis!!

On the good news front, alum Karen Brown Dunlap, president of The Poynter Institute, was one of just eight distinguished journalist to receive the University of Missouri’s Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism.

And last but not least, our visiting journalists from El Norte and Reforma newspapers have arrived on campus. We had a welcome lunch for Martha Trejo and René Sanchez today with the faculty. Both are business editors at their newspapers. Their visit is part of a continuing exchange with the Grupo Reforma chain of newspapers in Mexico and their publisher and CEO, Alejandro Junco. Senor Junco was a student of the late Dr. Mary Gardner, a legendary J-School faculty member.