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Schools of Journalism and Communications Journalism Schools Prepare Students to Tell the Stories of Marginalized Voices and Communities www.insightintodiversity.com April 2019 $3.99 Schools of Journalism and Communications Journalism schools prepare students to tell the stories of marginalized voices and communities ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: Physics is the least diverse of the sciences, and the GRE could be a barrier In this issue April 2019 Special Report: Schools of Journalism and Communications 29 INSIGHT Into Diversity Names 2019 Global Performance Studies Teach Students 10 Engagement Scholarship Recipients 30 to Value Underrepresented Communities By Kelsey Landis By Ginger O’Donnell 34 Previously on the Decline, Journalism School 12 CDO Corner: Diversity-Related Resources Enrollment Benefits from ‘Trump Bump’ for Communications Faculty and Students By Alice Pettway By Naeemah Clark and Brooke Barnett 36 In Lieu of ‘Objectivity,’ Journalism Professors Argue for Credibility and Directness 18 Aerospace and Tech Companies Promote By Ginger O’Donnell Diversity When Recruiting Talent on Campus By Dale Singer 40 Professional Journalists Share Their Advice for Success 20 Physics Is the Least Diverse of the Sciences, and the GRE Could Be a Barrier 44 Journalism Schools Find New Approaches By Mariah Stewart to Covering Underrepresented Audiences By Sheryl Jackson 48 Noticias in the News: Journalism Programs ON THE COVER: Students take a break while on Bring Latinx Voices to the Forefront assignment for Noticiero Móvil, the bilingual news By Mariah Bohanon service at The Donald W. Reynolds School of Journalism at University of Nevada, Reno. 52 The Public Relations Industry Is Too White and the Solution Starts with Higher Education By Kelsey Landis insightintodiversity.com 3 22001818 WEWE ALLALL HAVEHAVE AA ROLEROLE CLAIMCLAIM YOURS...YOURS... VT.EDUVT.EDU In Every Issue April 2019 2018 Volume 93 No. 1 In Brief 50 Crestwood Executive Center, Suite 526 St. Louis, Missouri 63126 6 Diversity and Inclusion News Roundup 314.200.9955 • 314.756.2036 FAX [email protected] [email protected] www.insightintodiversity.com New Directions © 2019 Potomac Publishing, Inc. 8 Leaders on the Move Contacts: Lenore Pearlstein | Publisher Holly Mendelson | Publisher The Diversity Professional Spectrum Kelsey Landis | Editor-in-Chief Daniel Hecke | Creative Director 9 Deans of Journalism and Communications Schools Mariah Bohanon | Associate Editor By Ginger O’Donnell Debra Boyd | Director of Operations Ginger O’Donnell | Senior Staff Writer Editorial Board: This Month's Celebration Linda Akutagawa Brooke Barnett, PhD 11 Deaf History Month Kenneth J. Barrett LeManuel Bitsóí, EdD By Ginger O’Donnell Lynette Chappell-Williams, JD Deborah Dagit James A. Felton III Gretchel Hathaway, PhD HEED Award Spotlight Lisa McBride, PhD Carlos N. Medina, EdD 14 Support Programs Improve Graduation and Retention Rates Julia Méndez Ajay Nair, PhD of African American Male Students Clyde Wilson Pickett, EdD By Kelsey Landis Joseph Santana Shirley J. Wilcher, JD Anise D. Wiley-Little Damon A. Williams, PhD Diversity Champion Spotlight Contributing Writers: Brooke Barnett 22 Medical University of South Carolina Shows a United Front in Mariah Bohanon Fight for Healthcare, Higher Education Equality Naeemah Clark Sheryl Jackson By Mariah Bohanon Kelsey Landis Ginger O’Donnell Alice Pettway Dale Singer Closing INSIGHT Mariah Stewart 58 The Bateman Competition Asks Bright Minds to Solve PR’s Biggest Issues The views expressed in the content of the By Kelsey Landis articles and advertisements published in INSIGHT Into Diversity are those of the authors and are not to be considered the views expressed by Potomac Publishing, Inc. Diversity Champions INSIGHT Into Diversity | WE ALL HAVE A ROLE CLAIM YOURS... VT.EDU insightintodiversity.com 5 in brief Oklahoma State University Earns Honorable Mention in NCAA/MOAA Award The Award for Diversity and Inclusion from the NCAA and the Minority Opportunities Athletics New Organization Seeks Association recognizes to Support Investigative and celebrates schools and programs that promote Journalism in Indigenous diversity and inclusion in Communities intercollegiate athletics. Oklahoma State University The Native American Journalists received an honorable Association (NAJA) established a new mention for the 2019 award organization in February dedicated and quoted INSIGHT Into to improving working conditions for Diversity co-owner and investigative journalists in Indigenous publisher Lenore Pearlstein communities. The organization is on their award banner. called the Indigenous Investigative “Oklahoma State University Collective (IIC). has demonstrated exceptional NAJA says press freedom is a major success in this area by creating problem in Indigenous communities a diverse, welcoming, and because of opaque government inclusive campus for students structures. The IIC will offer training, to learn and excel and for resources, and general support to employees to thrive in long-term careers,” Pearlstein said. “Oklahoma State University Indigenous reporters, allowing them demonstrates continued efforts and initiatives to increase the recruitment and retention to provide thorough and transparent of underrepresented students, administrators, faculty, staff, and suppliers.” coverage of their tribal governments. For more information on the NCAA/MOAA award, visit ncaa.org. In an effort to promote the safety — Kelsey Landis of Indigenous journalists, the collective will require its member Newsrooms Are Gradually Becoming More Diverse news organizations to adopt certain baseline security standards, training, and protocols. Results from the 2018 Newspaper • Employees of color increased from The IIC will provide tools for Diversity Survey by the American 16.5 percent of total newsroom staff working with whistleblowers in ethical Society of News Editors presented some in 2017 to 22.6 percent in 2018. and responsible ways. It will also assist of the most recent statistics on women • Women accounted for 41.7 percent them in keeping sensitive documents, and underrepresented journalists in of employees in 2018 compared data, and news tips secure. United States newsrooms. with 39.1 percent in 2017. The goal is to protect tribal Of the newsrooms that participated, • 79.3 percent of those surveyed had sovereignty and self-determination by the report shows on average 59 percent at least one woman among their top ensuring citizens can access information of staff were men, while people of color three editors. about their governments and the represented 22.6 percent of employees. • 32.7 percent of those surveyed had institutions associated with them, While the statistics are indicative at least one person of color in a top including important public documents of the 293 newsrooms surveyed, three editor position. such as budgets, meeting minutes, the responses did not draw from a records, and business contracts. random sample and so cannot be To view the entire 2018 survey and For more information, contact used to interpret diversity in the U.S. past reports, visit asne.org/newsroom_ [email protected]. journalism climate as a whole. diversitysurvey. An interactive chart is — Ginger O’Donnell Here are some additional facts and available at googletrends.github.io/asne. figures from the study: — Kelsey Landis 6 April 2019 ORGANIZATIONS and Colleges Black Philanthropy Celebrated Diversity, Activism Circle Raises Nearly during Women’s History Month $400,000 in First 6 Months of Operation Women’s History Month, celebrated during the month The Black Philanthropy Circle, of March, is recognized all over the world. Here’s how a unique charitable giving group some organizations and colleges in the United States founded by Indiana University (IU) recognized women’s history this year. alumni and friends, has achieved unprecedented fundraising success The National Women’s History Misericordia University, a private since its launch in August 2018. Alliance selected “Visionary Catholic liberal arts university in Within this short time period, the Women: Champions of Peace and Dallas, Penn., featured presentations Nonviolence” as this year’s theme, by eight female faculty, each from a group has raised nearly $400,000 a celebration of women who have different discipline, who spoke about to improve educational access and used “inclusive, democratic, and an influential woman from their field. success for African American students active means to reduce violence, and underserved communities. achieve peace, and promote the In support of this mission, the common good.” Circle’s 23 founding members have Bakersfield College in California held pledged $150,000 to support the a series of lectures around the theme work of the Mays Family Institute of women and war. The lectures on Diverse Philanthropy. As part included talks by influential female of the IU Lilly Family School of scholars Clemantine Wamariya and Hilary Matfess. Wamariya, a Rwandan Philanthropy, the institute is dedicated genocide survivor and human rights to the study of charitable giving within advocate, discussed her memoir The diverse communities. Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of At Dutchess Community College in The Lilly Family School is the first War and What Comes After. Matfess, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the Institute for institution in the world dedicated a journalist and author of Women Women’s Studies hosted a panel and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, discussion about “craftivism,” or how solely to the study and teaching of Weapons, and Witnesses. women use art and crafts to engage philanthropy. with social and political issues. In the words
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