Proficiency test dates scheduled!!

We’ve scheduled the spring 2007 term proficiency test is for students hoping to enroll in JRN 200 in the upcoming summer, fall and spring terms.

Test dates are Monday, January 29. Check-in is at 4:45 p.m. by 145 CAS for the 5 p.m. test and 5:45 p.m. for the 6 p.m. test.

The second test date is Friday, February 9 at 2:45 p.m. by 145 CAS for the 3 p.m. test and 3:45 p.m. for the 4 p.m. test.

Make sure to bring your student ID with you. We will provide pencils for the test.

Results will be emailed to you approximately five days after the test date.

In other J-School upcoming events, we have an A-list roster of speakers coming to campus this term. Mark your calendars.

The roster includes:
· * Bill Emkow and Shawn Smith, MLive, Friday, Feb 2, 10-12.
· Jeff Alexander, guest of the Knight Center, Wednesday, February 14, details TBA, speaking on his book on the Muskegon River and how to be a successful journalist.
· * Chet Rhodes, Deputy Multimedia Editor, washingtonpost.com, Friday, Feb. 23, 10 -12 room TBA, lunch following for interested faculty
· * Jennifer Carroll, Vice President new Media Content, Gannett, Friday, March 16,10-12 room TBA, lunch after with interested faculty.
· Neal Shine Ethics Lecture: Nancy Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers’ Baghdad bureau chief, in mid-April.

* Indicates speaker of special interest as we begin the digitization of the curriculum.

In other J-School news, Info graphics whiz Karl Gude’s blog (www.visualeditors.com/gude) was voted the best blog as a recent Society of News Design conference in Orlando. Gude joined the faculty this past fall after 30 years as a graphics editor most recently for Newsweek.

Doctoral student Serena Carpenter will be attending a Convergence Seminar for College Educators at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida in February. Competition is fierce to be accepted. Congratulations, Serena! She is a hot item on the job market with her intest in online journalism and digital delivery.

Graduating doctoral student Brad Love was recently hired by the Univeristy of Texas at Austin. You go, cowboy! Congrats!