2020 - 2021 STUDENT HANDBOOK BY THE OFFICE OF STUDENT AFFAIRS OF CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Message from the Dean...... 1
Academic Calendar...... 3
Building Hours & Contact Information...... 5
The City University of New York...... 6
The Graduate Center...... 7
Academic Programs...... 8 The Master of Arts in Journalism...... 9 Spanish-language Program...... 12 The Master of Arts in Social Journalism...... 16
Equipment, Facilities & Technology...... 18 Equipment Services...... 19 Public Safety Department...... 23 NYCity News Service...... 24 Technology...... 25
Student Experience...... 27 Alumni Services...... 28 Career Services...... 28 Student Affairs...... 34
Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center...... 37 Wellness Center...... 38 Housing...... 40 Office of International Students...... 40
Research Center...... 43
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Paying for School...... 45 Tuition...... 46 Student Fees...... 46 Tuition and Fees Payment Methods & Deadlines...... 48 Policy for Non-payment...... 49 Refunds...... 49 New York State Residency...... 50 Scholarships, Federal Aid, and Work-Study...... 50 Financial Aid for International Students...... 54
Student Safety...... 56 Student Safety Protocols...... 57 Additional Student Safety Tips...... 58 Student-Police Interactions...... 58
Code of Ethics...... 61
Other Student Resources...... 66 Copyright...... 67 Email Accounts...... 67 Facebook and Online Directory...... 67 Identification Card and Press Card...... 67 Listservs...... 68 Lockers...... 68 Lost and Found...... 68 Official ranscriptT Requests...... 68 Photocopying and Printing...... 68 Social Media Policy...... 69
Academic Policies, Procedures and Services...... 70 Adding and Dropping Courses...... 71
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Address Changes...... 71 Advising...... 71 Attendance Policies and Deadlines...... 71 Auditing Courses...... 72 Coaches...... 72 Course and Faculty Evaluations...... 72 Credit Limit...... 72 Cross Story Use (‘double dipping’) in Multiple Courses...... 73 Denial of Student Services...... 73 ePermit...... 73 Disputes Concerning Academic Grades...... 73 Disputes Concerning Academic Termination/Dismissal...... 74 Faculty Office Hours...... 75 Grading System...... 75 Leave of Absence...... 76 Registration Requirements...... 76 Mid-Semester Reviews...... 77 Petition to Change Requirement...... 77 Probation...... 77 Procedures for Complaints about Faculty Conduct...... 78 Readmission...... 80 Standards for Retention and Graduation...... 80 Student Immunization Requirements...... 81 Student Policy for Sexual Misconduct...... 81 Education and Training...... 83 Education Plans, Record Keeping, and Reporting...... 83 Student Responsibilities when Faced with Potential Legal Action...... 84 Students’ Rights Concerning Education Records (FERPA)...... 84 Taking Classes at Other CUNY Campuses...... 86 Withdrawal...... 86
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Other Institutional Policies...... 87 Access and Use Policy at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism... 88 Posting of Literature...... 88 Security and Public Safety Measures...... 88 Access to Campus Crime Statistics, Campus Security Report, & Registered Sex Offenders...... 89 Disability Nondiscrimination Policy...... 89 Drug and Alcohol Policy...... 89 Policy with Regard to Students who are Breastfeeding...... 90 Policy with Regard to Students who are Pregnant...... 91 Rules and Regulations for the Maintenance of Public Order Pursuant to Article 129A of the Education...... 91 Statement of Nondiscrimination...... 91 Student Rights Religious Observances...... 92 Title IX Sexual Assault Policy...... 92 Tobacco Free CUNY Policy...... 93 Workplace Violence Policy...... 93
Appendix...... 94 Housing...... 95
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Dear Students, also includes a park ranger, a body painter, Division 1 athletes, and several stand-up As we begin our fifteenth year, I want to comedians. Six of you hail from countries extend a warm welcome to the Class of outside the U.S., including South Africa, 2021. Given the global pandemic, we are Mexico, France, Brazil, Venezuela, and in the unprecedented situation of having to Canada. welcome you from a distance, and I certainly wish that wasn’t the case. That said, we’re Partly as a result of these diverse backgrounds, thrilled to have you joining us, and we will you come here with different journalistic do everything in our power to ensure that you experiences and skills. Our job is to challenge have an excellent experience. all of you at your own level and raise you from there. Submit story ideas to our School’s As with our previous classes, you are smart, online news service. Add audio and video enterprising and diverse. You went to a wide to a text-based story. Or sign up for courses variety of schools – from top-ranked private in computer coding, data visualization or colleges such as Yale, Wesleyan, Northwestern cinematography. In sum, go for it! and Johns Hopkins, to excellent public universities such as CUNY, SUNY, Clemson, We are here not to create just another the University of Virginia and the University journalism school. We are here to build a of Wisconsin. great school, one of the best in the world. As you know, this is a critical time for The Class of 2021 comes from a wide variety journalism, and not just because we’re in of backgrounds. Yes, many of you have worked the midst of a pivotal presidential election. or interned at newspapers, magazines, radio We are also experiencing a profound loss and TV stations, or websites. But your class of trust in institutions, including the press.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / A Message From the Dean 1 Our profession is simultaneously being of the old world and the best of the new. transformed by dramatic shifts in technology and a business model that is under great I hope we’ll have a lot of fun during our financial stress. Despite all these pressures, time together. And I hope, years from now, we see on a daily basis that journalism has that you’ll look back at your experience here never been more important in holding power as one of the great turning points of your to account. professional life – the launching pad for a very successful career. We want our school to make a difference. We have a constantly renewed curriculum, Good luck to you all. a strong faculty, a cutting-edge facility, and we aim to add a dose of fresh thinking. We wouldn’t be here if we thought journalism was dead. Change is necessary, but I hope the values and standards that have distinguished Sarah Bartlett, Dean July 2020 our profession – a commitment to accuracy and fairness, in particular – will endure. We are out to forge a synthesis between the best
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / A Message From the Dean 2 ACADEMIC CALENDAR
FALL 2020
LAST DAY TO DROP COURSES FOR 100% TUITION REFUND. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 LAST DAY TO FILE EPERMIT REQUEST.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
LAST DAY TO DROP COURSES FOR 75% TUITION REFUND. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 LAST DAY TO ADD A COURSE.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 COLLEGE CLOSED
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 LAST DAY TO DROP COURSES FOR 50% TUITION REFUND.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 LAST DAY TO DROP COURSES FOR 25% TUITION REFUND.
COURSE WITHDRAWAL PERIOD BEGINS (A GRADE OF ‘W’ IS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 ASSIGNED)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 NO CLASSES SCHEDULED
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 CLASSES FOLLOW MONDAY SCHEDULE
MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 COLLEGE CLOSED
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 CLASSES FOLLOW MONDAY SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW FROM A COURSE WITH A GRADE OF ‘W’
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 CLASSES FOLLOW FRIDAY SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 - COLLEGE CLOSED SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / academic calendar 3 FALL 2020 (CONT.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 END OF TERM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 - COLLEGE CLOSED FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30 FINAL GRADE SUBMISSION DEADLINE
SPRING 2021
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1 CLASSES BEGIN
TUESDAY, MAY 25 END OF SPRING TERM
The most up-to-date Academic Calendar can be found at http://bit.ly/CUNY-calendars.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / academic calendar 4 BUILDING HOURS & CONTACT INFORMATION
BUILDING & EMERGENCY CONTACTS
Main Line Emergencies Police, Fire, Ambulance
Dial 8, then 911 (646) 758-7800 (646) 758-7777 (from school phone) Campus Building Security, Staff Hours: M-F, 9a.m.-5p.m. 3rd Floor Security Desk
BUILDING HOURS Please note, due to remote learning, there are no standard building hours available.
Campus Campus Equipment Equipment Summer / Regular Hours Holiday Hours Room Hours Extended Break Hours
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CAMPUS CLOSED CAMPUS HOLIDAY HOURS
• New Year’s Day • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day • Memorial Day • Lincoln’s Birthday • Juneteenth • President’s Day • Independence Day • Columbus Day • Labor Day • Thanksgiving Day RESEARCH CENTER HOURS • Christmas Eve • Christmas Day Find the most up-to-date schedule at http:// • New Year’s Eve bit.ly/research-center-hours
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / building hours & Contact Information 5 THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
The City University of New York (www. CUNY has grown, the University also has cuny.edu) provides high-quality, accessible strengthened its mission as a premier education for more than 274,000 degree research institution, building an array of seeking students and 260,000 adult modern facilities and expanding the ranks of and continuing education students at 24 its world-class faculty. campuses across New York City. Throughout its history, the University has been CUNY has a legislatively mandated mission an integral part of the city and state through to be “of vital importance as a vehicle for the partnerships with public schools, economic upward mobility of the disadvantaged in the development initiatives, immigration aid City of New York … ensuring equal access and financial advice services and other and opportunity” to students, faculty and community outreach programs. Today, CUNY staff “from all ethnic and racial groups.” faculty and staff members continue to benefit New York City - as well as the entire nation - The University is an integrated system of by serving as policy experts to business and senior and community colleges, graduate government, advisers to nonprofit institutions, and professional schools, research centers, civic organizations and community groups. institutes and consortia. From certificate Students, too, are strongly encouraged to courses to Ph.D. programs, CUNY offers experience the cultural, educational and postsecondary learning to students of all community-based opportunities of the five backgrounds. It provides the city with boroughs, through a network of internships graduates trained for high- demand positions and fellowships, to embracing the city as in the sciences, technology, mathematics, their campus. teaching, nursing and other fields. As
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / The City University of New York 6 THE GRADUATE CENTER
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Worker Education and Labor Studies. Journalism operates under the umbrella of The Graduate School and University Center Since 1999, The Graduate Center’s campus (also known as The Graduate Center) and its has been housed in a nine-story landmark degrees are granted through The Graduate building at 365 Fifth Avenue in midtown Center (www.gc.cuny.edu). Founded in Manhattan. Formerly home to the B. Altman 1961, The Graduate Center is the principal Department Store, the building has been doctorate-granting institution of CUNY, with redesigned as a new, state-of-the-art facility more than 4,200 students. Its professors to meet the specific needs of a 21st-century pursue a shared enterprise of expanding the institution of advanced learning. School of boundaries of knowledge in more than 30 Journalism students have access to many of doctoral programs and six master’s programs the services at The Graduate Center, including in the humanities, social sciences and the Mina Rees Library, the Wellness Center, sciences. Augmenting this enterprise are 28 the Financial Aid office, and the Office of research centers and institutes focused on International Students. areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Also affiliated with The Graduate Center is the CUNY Baccalaureate Program, through which undergraduates can earn bachelor’s degrees by taking courses at any of the CUNY colleges, the Macaulay Honors College, the School of Professional Studies, and the associated Joseph S. Murphy Institute for
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / THE GRADUATE CENTER 7 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
IMPORTANT NOTICE Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism reserves the right, because of changing conditions, to make modifications of any nature to the academic programs and requirements of the program without advance notice. Tuition and fees set forth in this publication are similarly subject to change by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York.
8 Science, International or Urban Reporting. The Master of Arts in Students are required to take a set of courses designed to provide the solid foundation that Journalism all journalists should have, regardless of the media and subject choices they make.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AND REQUIRED Those courses, offered in the first and second COURSES semesters of the program, are:
The course of study for the M.A. degree in • Craft of Journalism I (must be taken in journalism at CUNY is challenging. Students first semester and all work for the course will participate in a comprehensive summer must completed before the start of the internship and produce a substantial capstone second semester) project, in addition to completing 40 units • Legal and Ethical Issues of course work, for a total of 43 credits. The • Fundamentals of Multimedia: Audio/Video curriculum offers students the opportunity to • Fundamentals of Multimedia: Interactive construct a program in three or four semesters • Craft of Journalism II: Writing, Video, that best reflects their interest in writing, Audio, or Interactive emphasis audio, video, photo or interactive media, and (prerequisite for Summer Internship; their interest in a subject concentration: Arts must be taken in the student’s second & Culture Business & Economic, Health & semester)
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 9 SUBJECT CONCENTRATIONS subject matter will vary depending on the instructor’s subject matter expertise. Towards the middle of their first semester, students will choose a subject specialization, selecting from Arts & Culture, Business & PUBLICATION REQUIREMENTS Economics, Health & Science, International, Spanish-Language and Urban Reporting. By Craft 1, Craft 2, Reporting for Social J and focusing on a specific subject, students will Advanced Reporting for Social J courses be prepared for either general assignment, all include a requirement that all students specialized or beat reporting—all assignments publish at least one piece of work each they are likely to have in the course of their semester. Students can fulfill this requirement careers. with work from any first or second-semester class. Students are required to take a minimum of nine credits of classes within their field of specialization over the course of their ELECTIVES study. Courses within each program are listed below. All courses are three credits, unless Students are free to choose courses across noted otherwise. Special topics course are media formats, depending on their interests sometimes offered in the specialization. The
Arts & Culture International
• Arts Criticism • Intro to International Reporting • Cultural Issues • Cross-Cultural Reporting • Arts & Entertainment Reporting • Issues in International Reporting • Sports Reporting
Spanish-language Business & Economics
Program information on page 12 • Covering the Economy • Covering Markets and Companies 6 credits) Urban
• Covering City Government & Politics Health & Science • Covering New York’s Social Issues • Urban Environmental Reporting • Introduction to Health Journalism • Urban Investigative Reporting • Science Journalism (not to be confused with Investigative • Investigative Health Reporting Reporting, which is an elective and does • Urban Environmental Reporting not focus on any one specialization)
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 10 and career goals. In general, all students FOURTH SEMESTER OPTION follow the same curriculum in the first semester. In the second and third semesters, All students have the option to stretch their schedules will vary depending on subject studies into a fourth semester. They may concentration, media interests, and electives. choose to pursue this option for any of the Students should consult with their academic following reasons: advisor to determine the best mix of media courses to help them meet their goals. • To take additional media courses or electives that do not fit into a three- Some third-semester courses have second- semester program. semester prerequisites, but students who • To take related courses at other CUNY have not taken these prerequisites may colleges. For instance, a student in the petition the faculty member for entry by international concentration may want to submitting work that shows they have the study Arabic or Chinese at City College; necessary skills to succeed in that course. someone in the J-School’s business & economics program may want to take MBA-level classes in the Zicklin School of THREE SEMESTER TIMELINE Business at Baruch College. • To allow more time to complete their M.A. A student’s course of study will be determined in Journalism degree requirements. in large measure by the choice of electives • To participate in an exchange program at a and subject concentration. However, here journalism school abroad. is a generic course of study that will allow • To more easily accommodate a professional students to figure out what they are likely to internship during the school year. take over the three semesters, once they’ve decided which media courses and subject Students who have chosen to stay beyond specialization will help meet their goals. a third semester in order to take additional courses at the school or at another CUNY
M.A. in Journalism: Three Semester Timeline
Semester 1 (Fall) Semester 2 (Spring) Summer Semester 3 (Fall) all required courses
• Craft of • Craft of • Summer • Two courses in Journalism I Journalism II Internship subject matter • Legal and Ethical (required) (required) concentration Issues • One course in • Two electives • Fundamentals subject matter of Multimedia: concentration Audio/Video • Two electives • Fundamentals of Multimedia: Interactive
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 11 college should discuss appropriate sequencing Degree Requirements and Required of their courses over a four-semester time Courses frame with their academic advisor and the There are a total of five Spanish-Language Office of Student Affairs. Please note that courses. The Spanish-language subject students who pursue this option must pay concentration has a separate admission tuition for the extra semester. Also, courses process but its students are fully integrated taken outside of the Newmark J-School may into the traditional M.A. in Journalism degree not count towards the journalism degree. program and complete the same credit load For example, credits taken in undergraduate (43 credit hours). Its bilingual students take language courses outside the Newmark required first- and second-semester journalism J-School will not be counted. Any student fundamentals classes and three new subject in good academic standing may apply. For courses in Spanish. All assignments for these maximum flexibility, those who are interested classes are produced in Spanish. They also in a fourth semester should consult the Office take English-language courses with the rest of Student Affairs as early as possible. of the M.A. in Journalism cohort. Students in the concentration do a required summer internship in the U.S. or abroad. This can be SPANISH-LANGUAGE SUBJECT CONCENTRATION a Spanish- Language news outlet or bilingual/ English language outlet whose focus is on Latino audiences. They participate in seminars with U.S. Latinx media leaders and make in-person visits to leading newsrooms in New York City.
Graciela Mochkofsky, Director of Spanish-language Program [email protected]
Spanish-language Concentration: Three Semester Timeline
Semester 1 (Fall) Semester 2 (Spring) Summer Semester 3 (Fall) all required courses
• Craft of • Craft of • Summer • Investigative Journalism I Journalism II (in Internship in Reporting (in • Legal and Ethical Spanish, required) Spanish-language Spanish) Issues • Covering Latino media outlet in • The Latino Media • Fundamentals Communities (in the U.S. or abroad Landscape (in of Multimedia: Spanish) (required) Spanish) Audio/Video • Two electives • Two electives • Fundamentals of Multimedia: Interactive
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 12 CAPSTONE PROJECT and accuracy. • Seek Engagement: Use social media not The capstone project is a culmination of a only to promote your work, but to engage student’s academic progress during their time an audience. Success in this realm is at the J-School. To qualify for graduation, great, but it’s not everything. The most each student must successfully complete a important aspect is devising and deploying capstone – a piece of professional-quality an engagement strategy. journalism suitable for today’s multimedia, • Be Passionate: You’re going to live with interactive market. this project for a long time. Choose a story that excites you. Your passion will come Here are some examples of successful through in the final product. capstone project webpages, created by • Create Your Calling Card: The capstone is individuals and by teams: https://docs. a prime platform to showcase the many google.com/document/d/1pyynHKfkDAfajYW skills you’ve honed at the J-School. It’s a QMW7yLdPLHcjOz7k1qzkEPhHLu28/ representative piece of work that hopefully will help you land that first post-graduation Choosing your capstone topic - capstone gig. touchstones • Timeliness: It’s not easy to do, especially Any medium can provide the base for a when you’re planning and working for capstone, but each project must showcase months before you file, but always be on the essential reporting and communication the lookout for a peg. Like your story, the proficiencies of a journalist.The capstone peg could change with time. In any case, can comprise one major story or a set timeliness and a sense of urgency will help of related smaller stories built around a you sell your story. theme. It must be presented as a webpage • Relevance: Capstones where you break and demonstrate competence in at least some news are a plus. Not every package, three different storytelling elements, most though, will fall into that category. The likely with one element being dominant, best capstones give fresh insight into a such as text, photography, audio, subject that’s well worn – or, better yet, video,charts,timelines,datavisualization and/ under-covered orHTML, CSS and JSfiles if the webpage is • Don’t Confuse Length for Quality: The created from scratch, and not from one of the strongest capstones offer a deep dive into a selected platforms. It should be a significant subject. But beware of “notebook dumps” piece of journalism. – throwing in everything you have to reach a length benchmark. There’s a difference A capstone can be done in a third-semester between a story and a report. Remember: class or as part of a three-credit independent You’re a storyteller. study. If it is done as an independent study, • Packaging is Key: Media elements beyond expectations for the scope and ambition your main storytelling form should not of the capstone will be higher. A proposed be last-minute add-ons. They should be independent study must be approved by the part of the planning process. Your goal is supervising professor and Associate Dean. to weave them in seamlessly, in the best spot(s), to create a cohesive package. Students must select a capstone supervisor • Take Chances: Be adventurous and creative in their second semester. This person will in your use of storytelling tools, while either be the instructor of the course in keeping to traditional standards of fairness which they report the main component of their capstone or the person who will oversee
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 13 their independent study. The student and video-driven, the capstone should include supervisor might involve another faculty a text introduction and be supplemented member or coach at various stages of the by at least one different multimedia/ capstone process, to augment the advisor’s interactive element. area of expertise. The supervisor will assign • Integration of social media elements as the capstone grade. appropriate.
Students can work together on a joint large Every student must write a prospective social capstone, but each member of the team media strategy for his or her capstone, as part must individually and separately do work that of the project. satisfies the requirements of a capstone. Each team member must contribute a major story to the capstone package, whether in text or The capstone will be completed according multimedia, plus at least two complementary to the following process multimedia, text or interactive elements. 1. Students should begin thinking about Each member of the team must submit a capstone topics early in the second memo to the capstone supervisor about his/ semester. The Newmark J-School will her contributions to the final package. hold capstone information sessions in Students could assemble their capstone March and April, prior to registration. web page(s) either on their own presentation The session should help guide students portfolios, on Shorthand, Medium, Atavist with idea generation, how to choose or any outward-facing page that is easily a capstone supervisor, the capstone accessible and manageable. Some projects reporting process, deadlines, etc. could be assembled for — and hosted by — Students cannot register for the fall if the NYCity News Service or other Newmark they don’t attend a capstone information J-School news outlets, with the approval of session. Students must consult with the Newmark J-School news director. Here is their capstone supervisor during the a list of Suggested Capstone Platforms: second semester. https://docs.google.com/document/d/15RWE 2. Students must file an electronic zC2VwCIUmX9FZTp6QnkLrjiKt47mDssz8Je capstone declaration form in May before 2Ius/edit they leave for the summer, and must declare their capstone topic and name their supervisor. Every capstone presentation should 3. Students must check in twice over the include the following summer and provide reporting updates • A compelling headline that is attention- to their supervisor. grabbing can be shared via social media. 4. Students must file an electronic • A blurb for mobile consumption and/or to capstone approval form no later than provide a quick synopsis. September 23, which must be approved • If the capstone is text-based, a photo or by the capstone supervisor. Students illustration toward the top of the piece, who do not submit a form by September with other photos or multimedia/interactive 23 will not be permitted to check out elements integrated in logical spots school cameras, recorders or other throughout the piece. Pull quotes and equipment until they comply — unless other visual elements will be encouraged the supervisor indicates the student’s as well. proposal under is review. • If it is multimedia-based or long-form 5. Capstone supervisors must issue mid-
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 14 semester written warnings to any students who fall seriously behind on their capstone projects. Each warning will include steps a student must take to complete the project successfully. 6. Capstones will be produced in drafts and given final grades according to a schedule set by the students in consultation with their capstone supervisor. The final deadline for edited and revised capstones is the last working day of the calendar year. 7. A student must fill out a capstone archiving form with the Research Center, so that their capstone can be archived by the Newmark J-School. If a student has not completed the necessary capstone archiving form, their capstone will not be accepted or graded. Students attempting to sell their work will have the option to keep their work private for up to six months. After that, the work will become publicly viewable on the Newmark J-School repository. 8. Professors will factor the capstone grade into the student’s overall class grade. In subject concentration courses, the capstone will be weighted as the equivalent of two regular class assignments. For capstones completed as an independent study, it will constitute the entire Grade. 9. Students can view previous capstones on the Newmark J-School repository. 10. The earlier you start, the more time you will have to develop a successful capstone project. Start planning now to avoid a last-minute frenzy.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 15 DEGREE REQUIREMENTS AND REQUIRED The Master of Arts in COURSES
Social Journalism The M.A. in Social Journalism degree requires three semesters of coursework and a summer internship. This is an intensive, challenging program, and any students facing significant obstacles in the completion of required assignments are encouraged to speak with their professors and the director immediately. Most classes are taken with a cohort of fellow social journalism students, with the exception Carrie Brown of Fundamentals of Multimedia: Audio/ Director of Social Journalism Visual. All general academic policies apply [email protected] to all students, including social journalism. Students with any questions about what constitutes as an appropriate internship for social journalism students is encouraged to speak with the director.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 16 FIVE PILLARS OF SOCIAL JOURNALISM COMMUNITY PRACTICUM
The Social Journalism program is based Every student will select an existing around five key skill areas: community—whether defined by geography, demography, interest, or business—to serve, 1. Listening: Starting with the public to beginning in the first semester of the program. discern goals and needs Using the skills and tools the student has 2. Journalism: Gathering and presenting learned in the prior semesters, students will the information communities need design and implement a significant project to 3. Data: Measuring impact reporting, and engage and report on this community in their developing a better understanding of a final semester, as a capstone experience. community Exactly what this project looks like will 4. Technology: Working with social media depend on what the community needs, as and other tools the public uses to well as the student’s interests and goals, and interact, curate, crowdsource, and will be subject to approval by their professors/ inform director. 5. Business and Entrepreneurshipm: Building a sustainable news organization and developing new products and services
M.A. in Social Journalism: Three Semester Timeline
Semester 1 (Fall) Semester 2 (Spring) Summer Semester 3 (Fall) all required courses
• Community • Reporting for • Summer • Business Skills Engagement Social Journalism Internship • Community • Reporting for I| (required) Practicum Social Journalism I • Ethical and Legal • Design and • Social Media Tools Considerations Development • Fundamentals of • Data Skills • Elective (Optional) Multimedia: Audio/ • Metrics and Visual Outcomes
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Programs 17 EQUIPMENT, FACILITIES & TECHNOLOGY
18 Equipment Services • Students in the Class of 2021 will receive equipment that will allow them to use (646) 758-7860 their smartphone as the primary device [email protected] for audio and video reporting. Students are responsible for confirming receipt of these items by sharing part numbers and serial numbers for all items received. Should a student decide to postpone their attendance or withdraw from the school, that student is responsible for immediately returning the equipment to the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Students are expected to return these items to the Equipment Room when classes resume on Alistair Wallace, campus, or by other arrangement. Director of Campus Services Students in the Class of 2020 are able (646) 758-7757 • to make reservations in the equipment [email protected] checkout portal by appointment only, given that their reporting is in line with school Team Members policies regarding safe reporting and they • Eric Alexander have received authorization. Staff are • Kieran Delaney available Monday thru Friday, 9am-6pm. • Peter Marquez Please contact equipment@journalism. • Eric Pilotti cuny.edu to arrange an appointment; • Andrew Shepard after a time is agreed upon students will • Andre Ward be directed to the portal. We encourage • Sean Williams students currently in possession of equipment to use the gear they have, so as not to unnecessarily expose themselves ADDENDUM TO STANDARD EQUIPMENT ROOM or the staff while in transit. Students POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR REMOTE are responsible for the return of all equipment currently in their possession LEARNING to the Equipment Room when they have completed their coursework and no longer The Equipment Room is committed to have need of it, or by other arrangement. providing the same high level of service and • All other policies stated in this document expertise while we are in a remote learning remain in effect. paradigm as we always have. We have modified our standard operating procedures to accommodate remote learning during the COVID outbreak, but we hope to maintain the STUDENT POLICIES spirit of our regular policies and procedures, which we feel are built on a foundation The Equipment Room at the Craig Newmark of collaboration,trust, and responsibility Graduate School of Journalism at the City between the Equipment Room and the University of New York loans a variety of video students. Please note the following policies and audio equipment to help students fulfill that are relevant to our current situation: their academic studies. These privileges are
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 19 available to currently registered students in https://equipment.journalism.cuny.edu. good standing for support of their academic coursework only. AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT
ELIGIBILITY FOR EQUIPMENT SERVICES • Equipment kits that support students’ coursework will be determined by faculty. To be eligible to check out equipment, The type of equipment kit available to a students must complete an intake process student depends on the class, equipment with an equipment staff member during the availability, and good standing. proper sign-up period. This process includes: • Reservations must be made or modified online at least 24 hours prior to the desired • providing proof of property insurance that pickup time; reservations requested by meets or exceeds the rental gear value phone or email will not be honored. Should • reading, understanding, and signing the extenuating circumstances require same- Equipment Checkout Policies form day preparation of a reservation, please • activating an Equipment Portal account contact your professor and the equipment and receiving training on use of the site room to submit a same-day equipment petition. An insurance plan specifically tailored to • Students may not have more than two the program has been arranged with Haylor active checkouts signed out at any given Freyer & Coon Inc. The enrollment, coverage, time. and claim information can be found at: http:// • Equipment must be returned before 1:30 www.haylor.com/college/cuny-graduate- p.m. on the due date or a late fine of $25 school-of-journalism/ will be assessed. • Please arrive at least 10 to 15 minutes in advance to allow for processing the return. EQUIPMENT USAGE GUIDELINES The Equipment Room closes every day from 1:30 – 1:45 p.m. Any student eligible for equipment services • All overdue equipment must be returned will have access to making an equipment before additional equipment reservations reservation through the Equipment Portal at can be made online.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 20 University policy.* Students are responsible Reserved and packed equipment for an for covering the cost of the replacement of upcoming checkout will be held until the end any lost equipment, or for the repair of any of the pickup day. Equipment not picked up equipment returned broken. For broken or by the end of that business day (6:00 p.m. lost items that do not exceed the deductible during standard hours; 5:30 p.m. during of their personal property insurance policy, summer and extended break hours) will students must purchase a replacement item cancel the reservation and incur a $10 “no- immediately. Broken equipment with a value show” fine. Any equipment that is part of a of more than the deductible will be sent for canceled reservation will be unpacked and a repair estimate from the appropriate repair released for other students’ use. facility. Upon receiving the estimate, the Limited-time extensions and Same-day student is required to immediately submit a Equipment Petitions are subject to class year, claim for the cost of repair or replacement. equipment availability, and the approval of Upon receipt of the payment, students must faculty and the Director of Campus Services submit the payment to the school. Student based on need. checkout privileges will be placed on hold until receipt of payment for the cost of repair For limited-time extensions students should or replacement is received by the school, or email requests for approval to their Professor the school receives the replacement item. with their graduation year, contract number for equipment needing extension, amount of All equipment is due back before 1:30 p.m. extension time needed, and an explanation on the due date. Equipment returned late as to why an extension is necessary. Faculty will incur a fine of $25/day for each day will then contact the equipment room with beyond the due date. Checkout privileges approval. Extensions must be submitted at are immediately suspended after equipment least two hours before equipment is due, or a is overdue one week. Privileges will be standard late fee will apply. reinstated only after review by faculty and the Manager of Equipment and AV services. For same-day equipment petitions students should email requests for approval to their A no-show fine of $10 will be assessed for Professor with their graduation year, an equipment not picked up on the date requested explanation as to why sameday equipment is if the reservation is not cancelled before the necessary, and what type of equipment they end of the business day. Cancellations must need. Faculty will then contact the equipment be communicated to equipment@journalism. room with approval. The equipment room will cuny.edu before the end of business on the then determine if and when the request can pickup date. be fulfilled based on equipment availability and schedule. In order to maintain borrowing privileges, students may not have more than ONE outstanding fine for late return or “no show”. FINES & INVOICES Students with TWO OR MORE outstanding fines will be placed on “HOLD” and will not Students are responsible for the good care have access to confirm a reservation request and intact return of all equipment borrowed or to any checkouts. and will be responsible for the cost of the repair and/or replacement of any missing If equipment is overdue by 24 hours or more, or damaged equipment, in line with the J-School reserves the right to contact associates and employers of students in order
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 21 to locate missing equipment. USE OF EQUIPMENT DURING EXTENDED BREAK Multiple instances of disregard for the PERIODS policies and procedures as noted here will affect future borrowing privileges. Equipment may be reserved for use during any extended break periods only if required for Students are required to resolve all completion of academic classes/coursework- outstanding fines and/or equipment repairs related projects; equipment is not allowed to at the end of the current semester if they be booked for personal, private, or commercial wish to begin the following semester with projects, including internships. fully instated privileges. At the end of the Students can only borrow equipment with a semester, all outstanding fines or costs will total value equal to or less than the amount be added to the students bursar account. covered by the student’s insurance policy. Extra insurance can be purchased from *See University policy as outlined in CUNY’s HF&C. Other-Than-Tuition-Charges document, Students working in the metropolitan area are section B, part 2 :http://portal.cuny.edu/ subject to the usual procedures and policies cms/id/cuny/documents/informationpage/ stated above. other_than_tuition_charges.pdf Students working outside the metropolitan area must get written approval from the HOURS OF OPERATION Director of Campus Services.
Equipment Room: Hours of Operation INVENTORY WEEKS Summer and Standard Extended Break Periodically, the Equipment Room needs Hours Hours to account for all equipment, take stock of gear, and maintain and prepare everything 8:30 a.m. - 9 a.m. - for future equipment access and availability. Mon. 6:30 p.m. 6 p.m. All gear must be returned before these dates, - Fri. (1:30 – 1:45 p.m. (1:30 – 1:45 p.m. and checkouts cannot occur during this time. brief closure) brief closure)
Sat. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Closed DISCLAIMER Sun. Closed Policies, guidelines, and regulations are subject to revision or amendment as necessary without prior notification. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
The Equipment Room is closed on all holidays recognized by the University.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 22 Public Safety hours and to expedite emergency responses. In the case of a fire emergency, an alarm will Department sound and you will be given directions via the PA system by the building’s Fire Safety (646) 758-7777 Director and/or Public Safety staff directing [email protected] everyone to the emergency exits. There are building evacuation plans posted by the elevators on the 3rd and 4th floors.
For more detailed emergency procedures please go to the Public Safety webpage at https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/campus- security-public-safety/
CUNY ALERT John Scully, Director of Public Safety All students are strongly encouraged to Phone: (646) 758-7834 participate in the CUNY Alert system. The [email protected] CUNY Alert system is designed to give you immediate and up-to-date information Team Members regarding weather, utility, and emergency • Frandy Germain, Campus Peace Officer II situations. The system can contact you and • Rommell Butcher, Campus Peace Officer I family or friends, as you designate, via text • Nicholas Pacheco, Campus Peace Officer I message, cell phone, landline, and/or e-mail. The system can offer all methods of notice, The Department of Public Safety is staffed a single method, or any combination. It is by trained campus peace officers who are user friendly and can prove to be invaluable available to assist the campus community at before, during, and after an emergency. all times during operational hours. Campus Simply log onto http://www2.cuny.edu/cuny- peace officers are fully qualified to respond to alert and follow the instructions. Contact emergencies. information for all registered students is included in the CUNY Alert system, except for the contact information for those students who affirmatively choose to opt-out of HOW TO REPORT AN EMERGENCY receiving CUNY Alert messages. If you have trouble accessing or modifying your contact Call 911 to report emergencies that require information in CUNY Alert, please contact the immediate response of the NYPD, FDNY, or the IT help desk. Emergency Medical Services (EMS). If calling 911 from a campus phone (offices), dial 9-1 for an outside line, followed by 911. Please be advised that classroom phones do not dial STAY SAFE out. Please call Public safety at 87777. • Be alert when you’re alone. Be aware of Call 87777 from any campus phone to reach who is around you. the public safety desk during regular business • Do not leave your belongings unattended,
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 23 even for a few minutes. • Avoid displaying large amounts of cash NYCity News Service or other tempting targets such as jewelry, electronics, or expensive clothing. • Travel in groups of two or more at night and always walk in well-lit, heavily traveled areas.
ID CARDS & LOCKERS
Each student is issued an ID card for John Mancini, accessing the building and campus. You may Director of Editorial Projects be randomly asked to show your ID card at (917) 951-8577 the 3rd floor Public Safety desk. If you lose [email protected] your ID card, notify Public Safety at your The award-winning NYCity News Service earliest convenience via email at Public. (http://www.nycitynewsservice.com/) feeds [email protected]. stories to news organizations of all types and sizes, in addition to producing in-depth The cost to replace your ID is $10 and a special reports. Press Pass is $5. Do not give your colleagues, classmates, or guests your ID card to access The News Service provides an outlet for all the campus. Newmark student journalists. Neighborhood stories produced by students Each student is assigned a locker and should are published by the News Service and the not be shared. Public Safety Officers cannot site also links to student work published in allow another student access into your locker. professional outlets. If you are expecting a guest they should be prepared to show a valid ID at the lobby entrance and at the 3rd floor Public Safety desk and sign in. When you leave the campus your guest must leave with you.
Do not have postal carriers (USPS, UPS, FEDEX) deliver your personal mail or packages to campus.
Please contact the Public Safety desk if there is a spill, something broken, missing, or other facilities questions.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 24 Technology IT RESOURCES • Required School Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Acrobat Pro, and Media Encoder. ProTools, Audio Hijack Pro, Microsoft Office, Email via web client or Google mail app • Computer Labs – Desktop computers and software • Newmark Journalism Wired and Wireless Network Dan Reshef, • On-campus printing Director of Technology [email protected] UNSUPPORTED Team Members Operations and configuration of your home • Scott Moulder, Senior Network Engineer • network (eg. cable modem and wireless) Dimitri Pavlovic, Senior Network Engineer Home printing Daniel Kaminski, Manager of Information • Mobile phones Technology • Third-party email apps • Ernst Elizee, Information Technology • Any other applications not on the supported Specialist • list. • Phanuel Llaverias, Web Developer
The Technology Department at the Newmark ACCESS TO IT RESOURCES Graduate School of Journalism is responsible for the physical and virtual technology After graduation systems including telecommunications, Maintain access to cloud and local data systems and services. • Newmark school email account The mission of this unit is to promote, • Alumni mailing list facilitate, and support the effective use of • Facebook Group technology. Organizationally, the department • Use the J-School’s IT resources when is comprised of three divisions: Networking, visiting the campus (computer labs, and IT Services and Support, and Web. software on Desktops)
Deactivation of STUDENT TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS • VPN Access after 60 days from • Network account after 60 days For the most current information regarding • Office 365 account after 60 days technology, answers to common technical • File-share access after 60 days questions and helpful instructions, you • Adobe and ProTools Licenses on the July can visit the school’s website: https:// 31 following your graduation www.journalism.cuny.edu/tech/technical- requirements/ If withdrawing from the school Within five days of the technology team being notified of the separation, the following will
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 25 occur: contracts, and licenses applicable to their • Your email account will be deleted use of CUNY networks, equipment, and • You will lose network access resources. In particular, all users should • Your VPN will be deactivated be aware that New York State’s Freedom • You will be removed from the various of Information Law requires disclosure, on Newmark Facebook Groups request, of information kept, maintained, filed • Deactivation of Office 365 account or produced on CUNY computer resources, • Files will be deleted from the file server unless a specific statutory exemption applies. • Adobe and ProTools Licenses revoked https://www.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/ sites/4/page-assets/about/administration/ EMAIL COMMUNICATION POLICY offices/cis/it-policies/ComputerUsePolicy1. pdf Students should note that the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism sends official email only to students’ Newmark Journalism email addresses.
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRIVACY POLICY
The City University of New York Privacy Policy applies to users of cuny.edu and is intended to explain what types of information is gathered from users and how that information is used. Members of the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Community should also refer to the City University of New York Policy on Acceptable Use of Computer Resources which outlines CUNY’s internal policy for the use and protection of CUNY computer resources. http://www.cuny.edu/website/privacy.html
CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK POLICY ON ACCEPTABLE USE OF COMPUTER RESOURCES
CUNY’s computer resources are dedicated to the support of the University’s mission of education, research and public service. In furtherance of this mission, CUNY respects, upholds and endeavors to safeguard the principles of academic freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of inquiry. Users are responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with the laws, rules, policies,
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Equipment, Facilities & Technology 26 STUDENT EXPERIENCE
27 a powerful, diverse and close-knit community working at top organizations around the world. Graduates stay in touch through individual class listservs, an international listserv and an all-alumni listerv, which are maintained as a service by the alumni office. A monthly newsletter provides frequent and up-to-date news about the school and its graduates. Yahaira Castro, Assistant Dean for Student Experience Room 422 (646) 758-7726 Career Services [email protected]
The newly formed Student Experience area encompasses Admissions, Student Affairs, Career Services and Alumni Affairs. These departments were brought under one area to provide high quality services and support and to positively enhance the Newmark J-School experience for students and alumni. Michelle Higgins, Director of Career Services Room 318 A (646) 758-7804 Alumni Services [email protected]
Irena Choi Stern, Alumni Services Director Yolanda Rodriguez, (646) 758-7814 Associate Director of Career Services [email protected] Room 318 B (646) 758-7727 [email protected] Newmark J-School provides many services to its alumni, including access to job listings, workshops, the annual job fair and career The Office of Career Services offers individual counseling. An Alumni Homecoming is held counseling, workshops and events to help annually and is a welcome opportunity to students transition into the working world. The reconnect with fellow alumni and the school. Office also runs the required summer internship program. Our counselors help with resumes, Newmark J-School’s nearly 1,000 alumni are cover letters, online portfolios and interview
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 28 preparation while serving as a resource to NEWMARK J-SCHOOL JOBS WEBSITE help students find a summer internship and, later, a job. We provide: The Office of Career Services has partnered with partnered with Handshake, an online • One-on-one career strategy sessions resource to help students and alumni manage • Help with résumés, cover letters and their careers. You can use this site to: portfolios • Leads and contacts for jobs and internships • Search for internships and jobs • Coaching for annual job and internships • Register for Career Services events fairs and other recruiter events • Request an appointment with a career • Information sessions with editors and counselor hiring managers • Access the Resource Library, for advice on • Mock interviews resumes, interviews, networking and more • Connect with other students and alumni All new students are required to meet with • Use the U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Online to the Office of Career Services during the first explore career options semester to develop a personalized career strategy plan. Make an appointment on Handshake, our career management platform: SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM https://app.joinhandshake.com/ All students in the M.A. in Journalism and M.A. in Social Journalism graduate with on- NETWORKING AND RECRUITING EVENTS the-job experience gained during a required summer internship. The school guarantees Networking, internship and recruiting that every student will be paid, either by the events are held throughout the year. These internship partner or, if compensation is not include panel discussions with accomplished provided, with a stipend from the Newmark journalists, internship information sessions, Graduate School of Journalism. and fall and spring career fairs.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 29 approved. A completed form means that Students receive three academic credits for both the student and internship supervisor the internship course. have filled out and signed their sections. If a student does not submit a completed Students are expected to meet deadlines set form, they will not be registered for the by the Office of Career Services, including course, which will prevent them from two progress reports during the spring graduating. semester that detail your internship search • The Internship Course is 3 credits. The and two reports submitted during the summer maximum amount of credits students can internship itself. be enrolled for in the Fall semester is 17. It is the student’s responsibility to ensure Students are required to submit two reports that they do not register for more than 14 about their internship to the Office of Career credits to allow room for the 3 summer Services: one midway through the summer, internship credits to be included into their the other at the end. Supervisors must submit schedule in CUNYFirst. an evaluation of the students’ work. • Students must be provided with a workspace and equipment to do required Students are responsible for securing their work. Remote internships are considered own summer internships. The Office of Career on a case-by-case basis. Services, however, will work closely with each student to help find and apply for appropriate Grades internship opportunities. This is a pass/fail course. The employer evaluation, submitted by your supervisor Program Requirements toward the end of the internship, will count for • Students must intern for at least eight 80 percent of the grade. Two student reports, weeks, for at least 35 hours a week, for a one submitted midway through the summer, minimum of 280 hours. Longer internships the other near the end of the internship, will are also acceptable. However, if you are at count for 20 percent of the grade. You will an unpaid internship, we ask that you keep receive links to the online survey forms to it to 280 hours. complete about a week before the reports are • All internships must be approved by due. If you do not submit the two required Career Services. To obtain approval, make reports, you will receive an incomplete. If your an appointment with Career Services via supervisor does not submit your evaluation, Handshake. you will receive an incomplete. • Internships must involve meaningful news-editorial work — no public relations, To pass the course, you must earn a positive marketing or advertising internships. evaluation from your supervisor. If you do Hands-on editorial work includes reporting, not, you will receive an F and will have to writing, research, producing, fact take another summer internship the following checking, editing, social media, photo, year. If that internship is unpaid, you will not video, interactive, data visualization and be eligible for a J-School stipend. other multimedia forms of journalism. • The summer internship course appears on • Mid-summer Internship Report - This the fall schedule in your third semester. survey is a confidential check-in between The Office of Student Affairs will register you and Career Services so we can get a students for the course in CUNYFirst after sense of how the internship is going and they have submitted a completed Summer provide you with support if needed. We Internship Agreement form and it has been encourage you to reach out to us at any
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 30 time if you experience any issues. • Final Internship Report - This survey will Students traveling outside of New York ask you to rate your internship and provide Students interning outside the New York feedback including pros and cons. Your area are required to complete additional feedback will inform future internship paperwork to receive academic credit. You partnerships and will be shared with future will be required to fill out two CUNY forms: students inquiring about previous student Travel Authorization and Travel Waiver form. experiences. You can find more information about travel, including the guidelines, here: Once students have obtained a summer https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/ internship, they need to make an appointment offices/ehsrm/heathandsafety/travel/ with the Office of Career Services. Following this appointment, students will review and Students on academic probation must receive receive the Summer Internship Agreement approval by Career Services and the Associate form. The summer internship is considered Dean to intern outside of the New York City approved once three parties sign the metropolitan area. agreement: the employer, the student and the director of Career Services. Students For Students Interning Abroad interning outside the New York area are also We will speak to you via video chat or by required to complete additional paperwork to phone midway through your internship. This receive academic credit. is mandatory and will be arranged in advance. Students travelling abroad are reimbursed for J-School Stipend their airfare after the first $500. They are Unpaid internships approved by Career also required to attend safety training before Services qualify for a $4,000 stipend. All they leave. summer internship stipends will be processed through your CUNYfirst account. To ensure Students traveling abroad you receive your stipend in a timely fashion, You must secure your internship by April 30. please enroll in direct deposit via your You will be required to complete an Internship CUNYfirst account as soon as possible and no Abroad Packet by that date as well. later than April 30, 2021. If you are already enrolled in direct deposit in CUNYfirst, you When You Leave Your Internship need not take any action. Sending handwritten thank you notes to your supervisor and anyone who helped you during Click on this link below to enroll in direct your internship is a nice gesture. Gifts, deposit in CUNYfirst: however, are not appropriate. https://www.cuny.edu/financial-aid/tuition- and-college-costs/refunds/direct-deposit/ Note for International Students F-1 International students must obtain The Finance Office will be in touch with Curricular Practical Training (CPT) students if additional information is needed Authorization on their I-20 forms before they to process your stipend. engage in any paid or unpaid off-campus employment (any non-CUNY employment). At the student’s discretion, student’s have This includes being published by a non-CUNY the option to apply their summer internship publication in relation to your academic stipend towards a prior, current, or future studies. semester tuition and fees balance. Finance will work with the students accordingly.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 31 If the off-campus organization has an a CPT authorization to protect themselves educational affiliation with the School of from an immigration officer (USCIS, CBP, or Journalism and it is part of the curriculum US Consulate) later determining that it was of the course, and there is no remuneration, employment per the Department of Labor students technically could publish an article guidelines and a CPT should have been without a CPT authorization as they are authorized. In other words, getting the CPT participating in the requirements of their for unpaid off-campus employment/service/ coursework and it would not be employment work protects the legal status of the student per the Department of Labor rules. now and in the future.
The unpaid positions that require CPT are F-1 International students must submit a for internships and practicums, or other completed CPT Request Form to the Office experiences that the Department of Labor of International Students to apply for their can consider as employment, even if unpaid. CPT authorization before beginning any off- If the non-CUNY publication/organization has campus employment. Please enroll in the hired the student to write multiple articles for appropriate CPT course indicated on the them and they are repeatedly performing a CPT Request Form prior to submitting the service to the publication/organization and it completed CPT Request Form to the Office of is not paid, this could be determined as an International Students. employment relationship with the organization per the rules of the US Department of Labor. Once approved, the Office of International We would recommend that the student obtain Students at the Graduate Center, CUNY
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 32 will issue you a new I-20 form with CPT the academic semester. authorization on the 2nd page. You may begin your off-campus employment once Only one internship – either the spring or fall you have received your I-20 form with CPT – may be used for graduation credit. This fall authorization and the start date of the CPT or spring internship must total a minimum authorization has arrived. 150 hours over the semester for the course to count toward graduation credit. The student CPT is issued for a specific employer. is required to submit a written report toward International students will need to apply the end of the fall or spring semester that for a CPT authorization for each off-campus evaluates the internship. employer. Please apply for CPT for each outside publisher as soon as a story pitch Internships must involve meaningful news- is approved by an editor. To maintain F-1 editorial work — no public relations, status, it is important not to begin any work marketing or advertising internships. Hands- for the employer until you have received your on editorial work includes reporting, writing, CPT authorization. research, producing, fact checking, editing, social media, photo, video, interactive, data Please note that F-1 international students visualization and other multimedia forms of must complete two semesters enrolled full- journalism. time before they are eligible to apply for CPT. Students must receive a positive written Further information regarding CPT is available evaluation from their internship supervisor to at: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective- receive a passing grade. Current-Students/Current-Students/ International-Students First, check with Student Affairs to be sure you can register for an academic internship. Then do the following: SPRING/FALL ACADEMIC INTERNSHIPS • Make an appointment with Career Services Academic internships for credit are not to discuss the internship to ensure it meets offered during the first semester. However, the academic requirements. students who wish to intern in the second or • Contact your academic advisor for written third semesters, in addition to the required approval, noting the company, duties and summer internship, may do so. Students must hours, get written permission from their advisers • Here is a sample e-mail to send to your and the director of Career Services. academic advisor. • Send your academic advisor’s approval Students in good standing who have a GPA of to Career Services at career.services@ 3.7 may intern for 16 hours per week for a total journalism.cuny.edu of 240 hours during the semester. Students with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.7 may work If the internship is approved, Career Services up to 10 hours a week for a maximum of 150 will let Student Affairs know that you are hours per semester. Students should consider authorized for the internship. Student Affairs their school work load and the additional will register you for the internship course. internship responsibilities before accepting an internship. Students on academic probation are not permitted to intern during
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 33 coursework, or who need support in wellness Student Affairs should know the Student Affairs Office is always here to help guide them to multiple resources that can help them succeed.
Ultimately, Newmark J-School shouldn’t just be about the classroom experience. Take advantage of the myriad of events at the school, https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/ events/. Plus, students are also welcome to partake in the Graduate Center’s wide range of Anthony Laviscount, public events, including lectures, symposia, Director of Student Affairs performances, and workshops, http://www. Room 307 gc.cuny.edu/All- GC-Events/GC-Presents. Phone: (646) 758-7853 anthony.laviscount@[email protected] CUNY is a huge network and many great events are open to all students in the system. CUNY- wide events can be found at http:// events.cuny.edu/ you can sign up for a weekly event newsletter, http://events.cuny.edu/ webUserLogin.asp.
The Office offers support to students in the following areas: New student orientation Lindsey Allen, • One-on-one academic advisement Assistant Director of Student Affairs • Informational events on subject Room 311 • concentration and electives Phone: (646) 758-863 Supportive liaison with Graduate Center lindsey.allen@[email protected] • offices, such as the registrar and financial aid Alexa Maurer, Administrative Coordinator, Student Affairs/ Career Services Room 300 CAMPUS EVENTS Phone: (646) 758-7731 [email protected] The Office of Student Affairs hosts several events/activities throughout each semester. Mid-semester there is a de-stressor program, where students are able to socialize as well as The Office of Student Affairs supports partake in relaxation activities such as yoga and enhances students’ experiences at with a certified instructor and meditation. the Newmark J-School. We have strong relationships with faculty and other Other events include game nights, movie departments to help students achieve nights, brown bag speaker series and more. academic success by working collaboratively in the area of academic affairs. Students needing assistance in navigating their
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 34 STUDENT ACCESSIBILITY SERVICES SERVICES FOR VETERANS
A disability is any physical or mental CUNY and the Newmark J- School is impairment that substantially limits one committed to supporting the needs of our or more major life activities. A person is veterans. For more information on funding considered to be a person with a disability and programs that CUNY offers visit this if they have a disability, have a record of website: the disability, or is regarded as having http:www.cuny.edu/about/resources/veterans. the disability. Under the Americans with html Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, qualified persons with disabilities are entitled to STUDENT LIFE reasonable accommodations to achieve non- discriminatory access to programs, services, Governance Council and activities at the Newmark J-School. The governing body of the Craig Newmark Some examples of covered disabilities are Graduate School of Journalism is the visual and hearing impairments, mobility Governance Council. This body is composed impairments, impairment of hand function, of the Dean, the Associate Dean, faculty and such “hidden” disabilities as AIDS/HIV, members, program directors and three learning disabilities, ADD and ADHD, heart elected student representatives. The conditions, chronic fatigue syndrome, and Graduate Student Council oversees selection being in recovery from substance abuse. of student representatives on the Governance The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Council. The following committees require Journalism does not discriminate on the at least one student each are: Curriculum & basis of disability in the admission and Degree Requirements, Executive, Technology retention of students. To ensure equal & Library, Outcomes, Campus Life & access for persons with disabilities to all Facilities, Diversity, and Strategic Planning. academic and other programs, services, The Governance Council and each of its and activities of the Newmark J-School, as standing committees will convene at least required by law, appropriate accommodations once each semester and as many times per will be made. These may include auxiliary semester as members deem it necessary. All aids and services for students with visual meetings of the Council and its committees impairments (readers/library assistants are open to all members of the journalism and such technology as adaptive computer school’s community. software and hardware, etc.); qualified sign- language interpreters; scribes; extended or Graduate Student Council divided time on examinations for students The Graduate Student Council (GSC) with learning disabilities or reduced physical represents the student body. This organization stamina; adjustments in course load when will meet with a staff liaison (Assistant appropriate; voice-recognition software; use Director of Student Affairs) to discuss student of a computer for exams; and taping classes. needs and concerns every two to three weeks throughout the semester. The council oversees To request accommodation, please contact the election of two new members from the the Office of Student Affairs (studentaffairs@ entering class at the beginning of the fall journalism.cuny.edu) to complete the semester. It will oversee a second election at Student Accessibility Request. the end of that same semester to elect seven new council members. One student will be
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 35 elected from the Social Journalism program in the Fall semester. Members will serve for one calendar year.
Students voted to sit on the GSC become eligible to represent the student-body on the Governance Council and CUNY University Student Senate. Early each semester, the GSC members discuss which committees they will serve on. Students who are not elected, or do not wish to serve on the GSC on a regular basis, can still come to GSC and any committee meetings. The meetings are announced several weeks prior on the student listserv.
Find more information here: https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/current- students/graduate-student-council/
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / STUDENT EXPERIENCE 36 STUDENT SERVICES AVAILABLE THROUGH THE GRADUATE CENTER
37 The Graduate Center for low or moderate fees. The center also 365 Fifth Ave offers seminars and workshops on specific New York, NY 10016-4309 psychological issues such as dissertation (212) 817-7000 completion, writing anxiety, women’s issues (877) 428-6942 toll free in graduate school, and stress reduction. Visit www.gc.cuny.edu their website to begin the process: https:// www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current- Students/Student-Life/Health-Wellness/ Wellness Center Counseling-Services
Room 6422 [email protected] SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICES Counseling Services (212) 817-7020 The Graduate Center’s Psychological http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospec- Counseling and Adult Development Center tive-Current-Students/Student-Life/ maintains a confidential program of substance Health-Wellness/Counseling-Services abuse counseling and referral services.
HEALTH INSURANCE The Wellness Center provides students with Student Counseling services. Fitness classes All students are strongly advised to have are also available through the Wellness Center some form of health and accident coverage, for GC and journalism students, faculty, and as medical costs in the U.S. are high. staff. Classes have included Intermediate International students still living overseas are Yoga, Hatha Yoga, and Pilates. By special urged to arrange for insurance in their home arrangement with Baruch College, enrolled countries to provide coverage in the U.S., at Graduate Center students have been allowed least until an alternative plan can be arranged. to become members of the Baruch College The university furnishes information to help Athletics and Recreation Complex (ARC) and students choose an insurance plan either to the John Jay College Cardiovascular Fitness continue coverage or provide new coverage. Center (899 Tenth Avenue, Suite 601). Limited health services are available to all registered students through the Wellness More information can be found here: Center, located at The Graduate Center. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current- Students/Student-Life/Health-Wellness/ Eligible students may sign up for Medicaid Fitness and Child Health Plus through the Exchange at any time. To view health insurance options Counseling Services available on the Exchange, visit the NY State In addition to providing direct short-term of Health website (https://nystateofhealth. psychotherapeutic services free of charge, ny.gov) or call 1-855-355-5777. the Psychological Counseling and Adult Development Center maintains a referral For more information about health insurance listing of private practitioners as well as options, visit the Office of Citywide Health institutions offering psychological services. Insurance Access (http://www.nyc.gov), or find Some of these provide services to students out when you can speak with an Enrollment
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center 38 Navigator on your campus by visiting your 962-6600 campus Health Services Center. 521 W 42nd Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues The Graduate Center can facilitate https://emcny.com/ communication between students and the insurance company representatives. Please Lenox Hill Hospital call (212) 817-7408 for further information 434-2000 or to make an appointment to discuss 100 East 77th Street, between Lexington questions you may have. The Graduate and Park Avenues Center provides only information on voluntary http://www.lenoxhillhospital.org insurance programs and is not responsible for students’ choices. They have a helpful guide Mount Sinai Health Systems which can be found on the Graduate Center 241-6500 or 590-3300 website. Various locations http://www.mountsinai.org/
HOSPITAL CLINIC AND EMERGENCY ROOM MedRite Urgent Care FACILITIES 695-4444 330 W 42nd Street, between 8th and 9th The accompanying list of hospital clinic Avenue and emergency services is provided for http://www.medriteurgentcare.com/ your convenience. Students should call the hospitals directly for information about New York Presbyterian Hospital at Cornell services and fees. This list is not intended Weill Medical Center to be all-inclusive and does not imply 746-5454 endorsement of any of these facilities. 525 East 68th Street, at York Avenue https://www.nyp.org/locations/newyork- The closest urgent care clinic is the Beth presbyterian-weill-cornell-medical-center Israel Medical Group, at 55 East 34th Street. Phone: (212) 252-6000. They are open from NYS Aids Hotline/Counseling/Testing 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Mondays-Thursdays, from 8 (800) 541-2437 a.m.-7 p.m. on Fridays, and from 9 a.m.- New York University College of Dentistry 2 p.m. on the weekends. The clinic may 998-9800 assess a walk-in fee. You will need to bring 345 East 24th Street, at First Avenue your student ID and a referral form from the http://dental.nyu.edu/ Graduate Center Wellness Center. NYU Langone Medical Center All area codes are “212” unless otherwise (646) 929-7815 noted. Various Locations and Specialties http://www.nyulangone.org Bellevue Hospital 562-4141 Centers for Disease Control (CDC) (800) 462 First Avenue, at 27th Street 232-4636 http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/bellevue/html/ home/home.shtml Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) (800) 243-7692 Emergency Medical Care 446 W. 33rd St http://www.gmhc.org
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center 39 capstonemail.com Veteran’s Services (888) 838-7697 Some students also choose to live in the http://www.veterans.ny.gov/ International House. For more information, visit The International House site (http:// NYC Department of Health and Mental www.ihouse-nyc.org/s/707/start.aspx). Hygiene Dial 311 Educational Housing Services manages https://www.health.ny.gov/ several dormitory-style housing facilities in New York City. Full-time college students Al-Anon Family Groups studying at a school in NYC, or a college 941-0094 student coming to NYC for an internship http://www.nycalanon.org as part of their studies often choose to live in one of their residences. EHS has more Samaritans (Suicide) hotline Suicide than 25 years of experience offering safe, Prevention Hotline Special Victims Liaison high-end dormitory-style housing in both Unit (877) 870-4673 Manhattan and Brooklyn. They offer housing on a semester-based system only (http://www. Suicide Prevention Hotline studenthousing.org/) (800) 273-8255 There is also an active group within the CUNY Special Victims Liaison Unit journalism community: 267-7273 https://www.facebook.com/ (Confidential, non-recorded phone service groups/147262128788465/ answered by specially trained female NYC police officers & detectives) *Please see appendix for additional housing resources. Housing Office of International The CUNY Graduate Center offers housing to students. For more information on available Students apartments, visit the Graduate Center website (https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective- Graduate Center, Current-Students/Student- Life/Housing) 365 Fifth Avenue, directly for more information. Room 7200 [email protected] You may also email the Graduate Center (212) 817-7490 Housing Office with questions at: (212) 817-7605, [email protected]
A number of rooms are also reserved for our students at the CUNY City College Towers Linda Asaro, dormitory (http://ccnytowers.com/). Director For more information, please contact; http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Cur- Chris Clarke, (917) 507-0055, cclarke@ rent-Students/Current-Students/Internation-
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center 40 al-Students-%28Current%29 should consult the Office of International Students in the Graduate Center (see above for contact information). International students The Office of International Students at must consult this office for information on the Graduate Center provides advice and the following: assistance to students from outside the United States, particularly with regard to • Obtaining an initial Form I-20 (F-1 status) immigration issues relating to F-1 student or Form DS-2019 (J-1 status) Change of status and J-1 Exchange Visitor student address in the United States category. Each semester, the office conducts • Change of legal name a special orientation session for international • On-campus employment regulations and students. The office also assists students in procedures understanding American cultural behavior • Off-campus employment and in interpreting various bureaucratic • Travel outside the United States and re- procedural requirements. Upon their arrival entry in New York City, new international students • Inviting a spouse or dependent children to MUST contact the Office of International the United States Students as soon as possible so that the office • Extension of legal stay in the United States can record their immigration documents and • Passport and visa information verify status. • Transfer to another school • Change of status to or from F-1 or J-1 The U.S. government regulates the immigration status of international students International students must consult the through the Student and Exchange Visitor Office of International Students: Information System (SEVIS). International • Before accepting employment of any kind; students are personally responsible for and complying with all government regulations • Before discontinuing their studies (i.e., that relate to their F-1 or J-1 immigration leave of absence, withdrawals from the status. Therefore, each student is urged program, or termination of studies) to familiarize himself or herself with the regulations and procedures that apply to Suggestions or advice concerning immigration, his or her specific status. Students should employment, or taxation that are made by other keep copies of all documents relating to students, or advice and/or permissions given their immigration status and bring their by an administrator or faculty member, do not passport, I-94, and current Form I-20 or DS- constitute authorization for, or compliance 2019 whenever contacting this office. SEVIS with, immigration regulations. The only requires immediate reporting of any changes authorized interpretation of immigration in an international student’s personal or regulations pertaining to your student status academic information. In particular, this is from an International Student Counselor in includes the following: the Office of International Students at The Graduate Center. • Change in residence address • Change in academic level • Change in academic program ON-CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT
International students with any questions Federal regulations allow F-1 status students regarding any aspect of the immigration to work on campus for up to 20 hours per regulations or their stay in the United States
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center 41 week during the semester. There is no hourly and application requirements for “Optional limit for on-campus employment during Practical Training”(OPT). See this link for vacation periods when school is not in general information about OPT. Make an session. F-1 status students at the Graduate appointment to discuss the timing and Center are authorized to work at any of the procedure for OPT four months before CUNY campuses and the 20 hours per week planning to graduate. limit applies to all combined on-campus employment.
J-1 status students must receive on-campus employment authorization in SEVIS prior to commencing on-campus employment. Please submit your on-campus employment letter to the Office of International Students to receive such authorization.
OFF-CAMPUS EMPLOYMENT
International Students must not begin any kind of employment off campus (i.e., outside CUNY) without (a) receiving authorization from either the Office of International Students or U.S. Immigration Services (USCIS) and (b) determining the applicable limit on the number of hours of employment permitted per week, the duration for which the employment may continue and employment reporting requirements. Students who work outside the regulations will be in violation of their Immigration Status. a. Curricular Practical Training: Before graduation, an International Student may apply for “Curricular Practical Training” (CPT). See this link for general information about CPT. Make an appointment to discuss before accepting a teaching, research, or other employment job. b. Optional Practical Training: To apply for Extended F-1 Status after graduation, an International Student must discuss their plans four months in advance of the expected graduation date. An International Student Counselor in the Office of International Students at the Graduate Center-CUNY will discuss the eligibility
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Services Available Through The Graduate Center 42 RESEARCH CENTER
43 classes. Research sessions include: Finding People, Beyond Google: Advanced Web Searching, and Social Media Research for Reporting.
Our website has a trove of research guides and tipsheets, like Backgrounding People and Businesses, Court Records Research for Reporters, How To Research Your NYC Barbara Gray, Community District and Mining Census Data Associate Professor, Chief Librarian for Reporting. (646) 758-7735 [email protected] The Research Center features a collection of over 2,000 print volumes and 40,000+ electronic books. Students, faculty and staff have access to over 4 million items via CUNY’s Open Access Policy. The Research Center offers faculty, staff and students services such as interlibrary loan and reserves. Through the generosity of several donors, the Research Center has developed a robust print collection of historical works about Tinamarie Vella, the field, outstanding journalists, notable Library Manager, Research Center media families and corporations. Other Phone: (646) 758-7752 subject tracts include literary works by and [email protected] about journalists, trends and issues in the profession, national organizations in the field, The Newmark J-School Research Center is as well as works about New York City. dedicated to providing students and faculty with the latest research training, support, Students can also use the resources on- tools and resources for journalists. campus at any of the CUNY libraries. A current validated Newmark Graduate School The Research Center also acts as a News of Journalism ID card, with a library patron Research Desk for Students and Faculty barcode from our campus serves as the library at the Newmark J- School. Barbara Gray card. For additional information regarding our (Chief Librarian and Former Director of hours and schedule, access and borrowing News Research at the New York Times) privileges and code of conduct, please view and Tinamarie Vella (Library Manager) are the links below: available in person or via email to help with your research questions on deadline. There Access and Borrowing Privileges - http:// are also coaches available for research researchguides.journalism.cuny.edu/faq/ assistance. accessborrowing The Research Center collaborates with news Code of Conduct - http://researchguides. research pros from the New York Times, Time journalism.cuny.edu/faq/codeofconduct Magazine, and ProPublica, to teach students research methods for reporting as part of the Learn more here, https://www.journalism. Newmark J- School’s core Craft of Journalism cuny.edu/current-students/research-center/
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Research Center 44 PAYING FOR SCHOOL
45 Tuition
2019-2020 Tuition*
In-State Out-of-State International
Fall 2019 $6136.45 $13,416.45 $13,416.45
Spring 2020 $6,336.45 $11,906.45 $11,906.45
*Fall 2020 *$6296.45* ***$6,296.45 *$13,791.45 (third semester only)
Total Tuition $18,769.35 $31,619.35 ***$39,114.35 (includes student fess)
***Out-of-state residents who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents may qualify for in-state tuition in their third semester, if they become legal residents of New York State*** **International students are not eligible for federal student aid (FAFSA). *Estimated costs for tuition. Tuition and fees are subject to change by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York. Based on 15 credits.
Student Fees
Fee Full-time Fewer than 12 credits
January Academy Fee $200 spring semester only $200 spring semester only
Consolidated Fee $15 per semester $15 per semester
Technology Fee $125 per semester $62.50 per semester
Program Materials Fee $400 per semester $200 per semester
Student Activity Fee $51.45 per semester $51.45 per semester
Equipment Insurance Fee* $200 first semester only $200 first semester only
Student Senate Fee $1.45 per semester $1.45 per semester
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 46 The Craig Newmark Graduate School of diploma and transcript, contact the Office Journalism will charge $1,382.90 in fees of Student Affairs. for the first two semesters and $590 in • Technology Costs: Our students are fees during the third semester for full-time expected to possess an Apple laptop students. The description of those fees is as computer, a smartphone, and a few other follows: pieces of personal technology. Our students can expect to spend between $2000 and • January Academy Fee: will cover the costs $3000 on equipment and software. of workshops offered between the first and second semesters. The following special charges may also apply: • Consolidated Fee: ensures the continuation, expansion, and establishment of critical Late registration $25 university-wide services including but not limited to: the processing of financial aid Special Examination/project $25 applications, the immunization program, the job location/development program and Program change $18 other services. • Technology Fee: will help defray the cost of electronic databases, computer hardware Transcript $7 and software, help desk service, and computer and network maintenance. Readmission $20 • Program Supplement Fee: will cover curricular and extracurricular opportunities Returned check $20 that enhance the scholastic experience of the entire student body, including all costs associated with high profile speakers Late payment $15 and screenings, school-wide receptions, workshops and classroom materials. In Late return of equipment $25/day addition, this account could be used to cover costs associated with technology Duplicate ID card fee $10 upgrades that benefit the student body as a whole. Duplicate diploma fee $30 • Student Activity Fee: will cover costs associated with extracurricular education programs such as a speaker series, a NOTE: All tuition and fee schedules are subject journalism film series, special skills to change without notice. All tuition and fees for workshops and other events requested by each semester must be paid in full no later than students. thirty days after the start of the semester. Unpaid • *Equipment Insurance Fee: will cover costs tuition and fees after that time will result in can- associated with extracurricular education cellation of class registration for the term. programs such as a speaker series, a journalism film series, special skills workshops and other events requested by students. • Student Senate Fee: is allocated to the University Student Senate. • Non-Instructional Fees: For non- instructional fees, such as duplicate
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 47 the first day of classes, proof in the form Tuition and Fees of a letter or email from the payer to the Graduate Center Bursar’s Office (Bursar@ Payment Methods & gc.cuny.edu) and the Newmark J- School Finance Department (Finance@journalism. Deadlines cuny.edu). Also indicate if your payer needs billing or invoicing. Make sure your payer 1. How do I access my CUNYfirst account to makes all checks payable to the Craig see my tuition and fee charges and balance Newmark Graduate School of Journalism due? and sends them directly to the Graduate • Navigate to http://www.cuny.edu/index. Center Bursar’s Office, 365 Fifth Avenue, html New York, NY 10016, Room 8105.07. Your • Click on LOG-IN and select CUNYfirst payer can also wire funds to the Newmark • Enter your Username and Password J-School’s Citibank account. Request bank • Then click in the menu options on the account wire info by contacting Finance@ left, click on Student Center, then Finances journalism.cuny.edu and include your • Under the Finances section, you can CUNYFirst Emplid. view your current charges and balance due. • Enrollment in the CUNY/Nelnet installment payment plan to pay your 2. When is the deadline for paying my tuition tuition from your checking account or via and fees each semester? a credit or debit card. Click on the link Your tuition and fees are due before the first below for information on how and when day of classes each semester, EXCEPT if to enroll. http://mycollegepaymentplan. 100% of your tuition and fees will be paid com/cunysenior/ Note that the enrollment by any of the following or a combination dates for the Newmark J-School falls under thereof: “Group #2” when you click on the above • NEWMARK J-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP: link. These funds will be disbursed in CUNYFirst by the CUNY Graduate Center 3. What happens if I have to pay all or part of Financial Aid Office as a payment toward my tuition and fees out of pocket? your tuition and/or fees charges - usually Any out-of-pocket balance should be paid within the first three weeks of classes. by the following options below and is due • FEDERAL LOANS: Such loans will be before the first day of class, unless you applied as a payment toward your tuition pay via the CUNY/Nelnet installment plan, and fees balance in CUNYfirst, based on the last option listed below, which allows the CUNY Graduate Center’s Financial you to pay your tuition and fees over a few Aid Office and CUNY Central Office loan months. disbursement schedule, which is usually within 14 days of receipt of the funds from Options for paying your out-of-pocket- the federal government. We encourage you balance include: to apply as early as possible before classes • By check or cash at the Graduate Center begin to avoid delays in payment of your Bursar’s Office, see address above tuition and fees. • Via bank wire payment to the Newmark • 3rd PARTY PAYER: If your tuition J-School’s Citibank account. Contact and fees will be paid by your employer, [email protected] for the government, a private organization or bank account wire info and include your foundation, etc., you must send, before CUNYFirst Emplid. • By an one time e-check payment
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 48 through Nelnet: Log into CUNYfirst, go • If by the add/drop deadline date, payment to HR Campus Solutions, click on Self- arrangements still have not been made, you Service and go to your Student Center, go will no longer be considered enrolled in the to Finances and select make a payment. Newmark J-School. Thus your Newmark Click here to log into CUNYfirst. http:// J-School ID Card will be deactivated, and www.cuny.edu/index.html you will not have access to the building or • By enrolling in a CUNY/Nelnet the campus. Additionally, you will need installment payment plan. Click on the to file a readmission form to re-enroll. link below for more information on how to Students should note readmission will be enroll. http://mycollegepaymentplan.com/ considered for the semester following the cunysenior/ one a student’s enrollment was cancelled, • Click here to log into CUNYfirst: http:// i.e. if a student’s schedule is cancelled in www.cuny.edu/index.html the Fall, a student can be readmitted in the Spring. 4. Can I pay my out-of-pocket balance via • If you still have an unpaid balance six more than one method above? months after the end of the semester, the Yes, providing that your payments are school will send your account to an external made by the due date. collection agency.
Policy for Non-payment Refunds
What is the Newmark J-School’s policy for How will refunds be processed under non-payment of my tuition and fees balance? CUNYFirst? All students need to pay their tuition and The CUNY Central Office, not the Newmark fees in full or make payment arrangements J-School or the CUNY Graduate Center, before the start of classes. By the end of the will process refunds. Click here for more second day of classes, if you have not made info: http://www2.cuny.edu/financial-aid/ such arrangements, you will receive an email tuition-and-college-costs/refunds/faqs/ from the Newmark J-School Finance Office http://www2.cuny.edu/academics/academic- indicating the following ramifications: calendars/2018_2019/
• If by the end of the fourth day of the How will I receive my refund? semester, arrangements to pay your tuition You have three options: have not been made, your class schedule 1. Direct deposit to your bank account. You will be cancelled. Schedules can be can enroll by logging into your CUNYFirst reinstated when payment plans have been Student Center module and under made, as long as there remains space in Financials, choosing Enroll in Direct classes. Keep in mind you must re-enroll in Deposit from the dropdown menu. http:// classes before the add/drop deadline for the www2.cuny.edu/financial-aid/tuition-and- semester, which is typically one week into college- costs/refunds/faqs/ the semester. Click here for CUNY add/drop 2. CUNY Scholar Card. This is a prepaid dates: http://www2.cuny.edu/academics/ MasterCard. You can sign up via this link. academic-calendars/2018_2019/. After 3. Check from the NYS Comptroller’s Office this date you will no longer be able to add mailed to your address on file in CUNYFirst. courses to your schedule. (There is no action required on your part
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 49 for this method.) does not in itself establish New York State residency. How does my 3rd party payer get a refund? The Newmark J-School Finance Office will All students requesting a change of residency issue refunds directly to your 3rd party payer. status must file a City University Residence Form, http://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/ What about Nelnet refunds? media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Forms/ Nelnet refunds will be returned to the same CityUniversityResidencyForm.pdf with The credit card used for payment. These refunds Graduate Center’s Office of the Registrar, along are processed each Wednesday and should with sufficient supporting documentation no show on your credit card account within 7 to later than the end of the third week of classes 10 business days from the date processed. of the semester for which the change is to be effective. Nelnet refund of payments made out of your checking accounts will be processed by the CUNY Central Office based on your enrollment for refund options: via direct Scholarships, Federal deposit or scholar card, if not enrolled, you will receive a refund check from the NYS Comptroller’s Office. Aid, and Work-Study
For more information or assistance, contact the Newmark J-School Finance Team at J-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS [email protected] or call (646) 758-7877/7893/7828/7817/7855 or visit All accepted students are considered us on campus in Room 403, 4th floor. for J-School scholarships. No separate application is needed. Awards are offered for three semesters and students are notified of their award when they receive their New York State admissions offers. Students must maintain a 3.0 minimum Residency GPA to keep their scholarships. If a student goes into academic probation due to a GPA For the purposes of determining tuition that has fallen under a 3.0, the student charges, a student is considered a resident scholarship will be suspended. Once a of the State of New York if the student has student’s academic standing improves, had his or her principal place of abode in the scholarship will be awarded to the full the State of New York for a period of at least balance of their scholarship. For example, if twelve consecutive months immediately a student was awarded a $6,000 scholarship preceding the first day of classes for the upon acceptance to the school, the student semester with respect to which the residency would have received $2,000 for each of the determination is made; states an intention three semesters. However, if the student’s to live permanently and maintain a principal scholarship was suspended in the spring place of abode in New York State; and, semester because they went into academic generally, is not in the United States on any probation, the student will not receive the temporary visa. Residence in a dormitory, $2,000 that would have gone towards their hotel, or other temporary housing facility second semester. Once a student meets the
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 50 minimum 3.0 GPA requirement, the remaining 004765. We encourage students to file as scholarship funds which were suspended will soon as possible. be funded to the student. Students who will be caused financial hardship if their scholarship Students should follow the link above to is suspended may request a waiver with the secure their loans and must submit their Associate Dean upon meeting with them to loan request to the Graduate Center’s Office discuss their academic status. of Financial Aid. All first-time borrowers must complete an entrance counseling session, also known as an entrance interview, EXTERNAL SCHOLARSHIPS accessible on the DOE’s student loan site, www.studentloans.ed.gov. We encourage all students to apply for outside scholarships and awards. Students can find a The online CUNYfirst system is a student’s list of journalism- related scholarships here: first line of communication with the Graduate https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/future- Center’s Office of Financial Aid. Please check students/scholarships-financial-aid/. As soon CUNYfirst regularly to determine whether as you accept an outside scholarship, please your financial aid application is complete or inform the journalism school’s director of requires additional documentation in order to student affairs and the Graduate Center’s be processed. When in doubt, email Rebecca Office of Financial Aid. Your financial aid Dent at [email protected] with any financial award may be adjusted based on the amount aid concerns. of the outside scholarship. If a student does not immediately notify the Office of Financial You may receive notice from either the Aid that they have accepted an outside Graduate Center or DOE when it’s time to scholarship, they risk having to repay the complete a Master Promissory Note (MPN). difference later that academic year. The MPN is a contract that affirms your agreement to repay your loan to the DOE.
STUDENT LOANS Award letters, which students should read carefully for messages from the Office of In order to be considered for financial aid, Financial Aid, will begin to be mailed in incoming students are required to first June, if not earlier, provided that the student complete the Free Application for Federal has filed the FAFSA. After the initial award Student Aid (https://fafsa.ed.gov/) followed letter all subsequent communication will by the Graduate Center’s loan procedures be through email. Any changes will also be (https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective- reflected in the student’s CUNYfirst account, Current-Students/Financing-Your-Education/ where students can also view notifications Federal-and-Private-Loans-and-Aid). For regarding missing documents or other information on maximum amounts awarded, requests. interest rates and repayment terms please visit https://studentaid.ed.gov/. Please note: The Office of Financial Aid cannot process loans for students until they The FAFSA is available beginning October have registered for classes during orientation 1 on the Department of Education’s (DOE) in August. Registration confirms that federal student loan site and is to be students are indeed attending the program. submitted online to the DOE. Students must Financial aid is not disbursed until the week input the Graduate Center’s school code following the end of the drop/add period (See academic calendar). Therefore, students who
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 51 arrive early to New York City should plan an loans for the semester, you will see $5,000 alternative means of financing living expenses in September and the remaining amount in until then. Applications for emergency loans October. of up to $1,500 are accepted only on the first day of classes. The check will arrive in the However, that first disbursement will cover journalism school’s Office of Student Affairs tuition. So, if you owe $5,340, you will not 3-4 days after that initial request date. receive any money for living expenses with Students must first complete the emergency that first installment. loan agreement form with the Graduate Center Financial Aid Office. Approved completed If you need money before October, you can forms are submitted to Avril George-Robinson apply for an emergency advance. Students at the Newmark J-School. can receive up to $1,500 to help cover their living expenses. Students must first complete Second Semester Students the emergency loan agreement form with Financial aid is not disbursed until the second the Graduate Center Financial Aid Office. week of February. In the interim, please plan Approved completed forms are submitted an alternative means of financing your living to Avril George- Robinson at the Newmark expenses. J-School.
Financial aid is an annual process. Students Graduation Requiments will need to fill out a new FAFSA (available in Every student who receives a loan MUST October) and a new loan request (available complete an online exit interview at www. in June) to receive financial aid for their final studentloans.gov or schedule an appointment semester(s). with the Graduate Center’s Office of Financial Aid. If completing the exit interview online, Students who want to continue as fourth students must take a screenshot of the semester students must inform the journalism confirmation page and email it to the Office school’s Office of Student Affairs by the end of Financial Aid at [email protected]. of their second semester. Students will not If students do not complete the exit interview, be considered for financial aid for the fourth or show proof of completion, there will be a semester if they are not on the list of students hold placed on their CUNYfirst account. The provided by the Office of Student Affairs hold will prevent students from obtaining to the Office of Financial Aid. Interested transcripts and other official documents. students should meet with the Office of Please complete the exit interview Student Affairs to discuss their plans, and immediately after receiving final grades. address any questions they have regarding their academic goals for their final semester. This consultation is required if you need FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS financial aid to help cover fourth semester living or tuition expenses. • Are Perkins Loans or subsidized Stafford Loans available? Students in their Final Semester Subsidized Stafford loans are no longer Students in their final semester get their available to graduate students as of July 1, disbursements in two installments. Usually, 2012. Unfortunately, we are no longer able the first one is in mid-September and the to offer to Perkins loans as the program is second one comes about 30 days after that. discontinuing. So, if you are due to receive $10,000 in • Is work-study available?
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 52 Federal work-study is awarded based on Study positions are coordinated on campus a student Estimated Family Contribution by the Assistant Director of Student Affairs. (EFC) of zero, the date you completed the FAFSA, and availability of funds. Filing your FAFSA earlier increases your chances UNDERGRADUATE LOAN DEFERMENT of receiving work study. INFORMATION • At what point in the application process do I request the loan amount needed for the If students borrowed federal student loans academic year? as an undergraduate, they will be eligible When filling out the loan request form. for an in-school deferment as long as they I’ve received my financial aid award letter- • are enrolled at least half-time (6 credits). what must I do in order to accept the To request this, students should contact amount loaned? the lender to request a deferment form and Nothing. When you filled out the loan submit the deferment form to the University request, you were asked to request the Registrar’s Office at the Graduate Center. loan amount needed for the academic year. The City University of New York participates That request is your acceptance of the loan in the National Student Loan Database that will be awarded Clearinghouse. Students should check with Do you borrow what you will need or more? • the lender to determine if they are able to While it is best for all involved if students access the Clearinghouse information. If properly anticipate their needs, we they are, students will not need to submit a recognize that this is not always the case. deferment form and the lender will be able Students wishing to increase or decrease to confirm enrollment status after the third their loans should contact Rebecca Dent as week of classes. soon as possible to make that arrangement. • How will the Office of Financial Aid communicate with me and vice versa? Primarily through CUNYfirst and email. DIRECT DEPOSIT E-mails will be sent to students’ journalism. cuny.edu accounts only. We strongly encourage all students to establish • What happens to my financial aid if I direct deposit as soon as possible. Forms can withdraw? be completed at the Bursar’s Office at the An exit interview is required when the Graduate Center. Direct deposit forms are student no longer registers for least six also available in the Office of Student Affairs. credits, withdraws or graduates. REPAYMENT INFORMATION FEDERAL WORK-STUDY PROGRAM You don’t have to begin repaying most federal student loans until after you leave college or Federal Work-Study awards are based solely drop below half- time enrollment. Your loan on financial need as defined by federal law. servicer or lender must provide you with a Federal Work- Study awards are packaged loan repayment schedule that states when each spring for the following academic your first payment is due, the number and year. Because Federal Work-Study funds are frequency of payments, and the amount of limited, only students who have their FAFSA each payment. Keep in mind that your loan on file by the priority deadline (March 1) are may have a grace period. initially considered for awards. Federal Work-
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 53 Once the loan enters repayment, students ultimately have a balance left to be forgiven may have options in terms of their repayment at the end of your repayment period depends plan. These may include: on a number of factors, such as how quickly your income rises and how large your income Standard Repayment is relative to your debt. Because of these Non-Consolidation Loans: Under this plan, factors, you may fully repay your loan prior to you will pay a fixed amount of at least $50 the end of your repayment period. each month for up to 10 years. This plan results in the lowest total interest paid of Income-Based Repayment Plan (IBR) any repayment plan. If you have not selected Generally 10-15 percent of your discretionary a repayment plan by the time repayment income, but never more than the 10- begins, your loan(s) will be placed on the year Standard Repayment Plan amount. Standard Repayment Plan. Repayment period is 20-25 years.
Extended Repayment Plan Pay As You Earn Repayment Plan (PAYE) Fixed Monthly Payment Option: Under this Generally 10 percent of your discretionary plan, you will pay a fixed amount of at least income, but never more than the 10- $50 each month for up to 25 years. To be year Standard Repayment Plan amount. eligible for this plan, your Direct Loan balance Repayment period is for 20 years. must be greater than $30,000. Repayment under this plan will result in lower total Revised Pay As You Earn (RePAYE) interest paid when compared to graduated Generally 10% of your discretionary income plans with similar terms. with no cap.
Graduated Repayment Plan Income-Contingent Repayment Plan (ICR Non-Consolidation Loans: Under this plan, Plan) you will pay a minimum payment amount The lesser of the following: 20 percent of your at least equal to the amount of interest discretionary income or what you would pay accrued monthly for a period between 10 on a repayment plan with a fixed payment over and 30 years. Your payments start out low, the course of 12 years, adjusted according and then increase every two years. Generally, to your income. Repayment period is for 25 the amount you will repay over the term of years. your loan will be higher under the Graduated Repayment Plan than under the Standard Please go to http://www.studentloans.gov for Repayment Plan. This plan may be beneficial a more detailed explanation of each plan. if your income is low now but is likely to steadily increase. Income Driven Plans Financial Aid for Under all three plans, any remaining loan balance is forgiven if your federal student loans are not fully repaid at the end of the International Students repayment period. For any income-driven International students do not qualify for repayment plan, the repayment period federal loans and work-study eligibility, includes periods of economic hardship and school scholarships are very limited. deferment and periods of repayment under Eligibility for off-campus employment is also certain other repayment plans. Whether you limited due to immigration regulations. These
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 54 students can apply for journalism-related scholarships as well as be considered for college assistant positions on campus, and we also recommend visiting the International Journalists’ Network website, https://ijnet. org/, for a list of web links to scholarships and fellowships. International students may be eligible to borrow an alternative loan from a bank. International students will need to find a credit-worthy co-signer who is a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident (green card holder).
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Paying for School 55 STUDENT SAFETY
56 As a regular part of your course requirements, case there is a problem with getting maps you will be asked to venture into unfamiliar on your phone, print out a map of the area parts of the city and to cover incidents or where you are going before you leave. events that may unexpectedly erupt into • Always travel with an adequate Metro Card uncomfortable or dangerous situations. While balance. instructors will never knowingly put students • Think about what you are wearing and what at risk, occasionally situations may become you are carrying. Would these items stand unsafe. out in the neighborhood in which you are reporting and make you a potential target? If you feel you have been asked or are required Carry only the equipment you need. to cover an event or story that makes you • Use the buddy system, especially if you are uncomfortable or nervous about your safety, reporting in an area known to have higher discuss the assignment with your instructor crime rates or if you are doing any reporting or with Office of Student Affairs. If you find at night. yourself in a situation in which you fear • If reporting in a neighborhood that is for your safety, get out. There will be other known to be dangerous, contact the police stories. precinct for that area ahead of time. Get information about spots that are dicey and While journalists have a right to cover stories, let them know when you will be in the area. police departments do not always recognize this. Lately, there have been increasing In the field confrontations between reporters and officers • Try not to do reporting at night unless it’s who want to prevent legitimate coverage. absolutely necessary. If you are in the field If you are threatened by law enforcement, at night, take a buddy. Avoid isolated areas calmly and politely display your press pass including in the subway system. and explain your presence. If you are ordered • Don’t leave equipment or other valuables by legitimate law enforcement personnel to in view. It’s an invitation for thieves. leave or move, do so. You will not get your • When reporting in a neighborhood where story from a lockup. you feel unsafe or that is unfamiliar, connect with a person or business in the If you are arrested or detained while covering area. Restaurants are often good places to a story, call your instructor, and/or Anthony start. Talk to people in the restaurant or LaViscount at (646) 758-7853. other business. That can serve the purpose of enlisting them in watching out for you or being a place to come for help, if needed. • Don’t wander around looking lost. Always Student Safety Protocols project that you have a destination or a purpose. Before you leave • Avoid secluded locations. Do your reporting and interviews in well-lit, public areas. • Make sure someone knows where you are going and what you are doing. Leave your • When walking around, stay alert to your cell phone number with someone who surroundings. Don’t walk around while knows you are in the field. you are talking on the phone or listening to music on headphones. Be conscious of • Be sure your cell phone is charged. who is around you. • Make sure you have some money on you, but don’t carry too much. • Walk with a self-assured stride. Look confident and in control. Keep your head • Always know where you are going. Just in up and look around; make brief eye contact.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Safety 57 • If you hear someone walking behind you, Office of Student Affairs. turn around and look at them. • These safety tips are not meant to anticipate every type of unsafe situation or safety concern that can arise, but to provide Adapted from USC-Annenberg Student Safety some useful guidance on a few measures Protocols with changes in recognition of the to promote student safety while reporting. fact that NYC students take subways rather From the journalism school’s standpoint, than driving cars. student safety is a paramount priority. For tips on crime prevention and personal safety and safe subway riding, please review these links from the NYPD: http://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/services/law- Student-Police enforcement/crime-prevention-and-safety- tips.page Interactions
There is often a tension between the role of the journalist and the role of the police Additional Student officer, which can lead to disputes. We do not expect students on assignment to engage in Safety Tips confrontations with law enforcement officers. And, in fact, a CUNY student was arrested • Be particularly mindful when entering covering a protest in 2016. subway stations, on subway platforms and crossing streets. Simply put, you do need to follow lawful • If biking, always wear a helmet and observe orders of a police officer. And, in fact, you traffic rules and keep a safe distance from may need to follow unlawful orders of a vehicle doors that may swing open. police officer and challenge the order later to • Never arrange to meet sources in isolated vindicate your rights. or private places. (This is a bit repetitive If you are planning to cover a news event but we want to emphasize not only that that could provoke a confrontation with students should not travel in isolated law enforcement, please keep in mind the places but also that they should not agree following guidelines (offered by the Student to meet sources in isolated places). Press Law Center and modified for CUNY): • Do not text or be otherwise distracted while walking around New York City, especially 1. Bring credentials (and wear them!). Every near traffic, steps and subways. student journalist covering the event • In addition to students leaving their phone should have something that clearly numbers and locations with someone, they identifies him or her as a member of the should have cell phone contacts in case press. A personalized credential from your of a problem, but should be instructed to local, county or state police department first dial 911 in the event of any kind of may be the best identification. If that emergency. isn’t available or cannot be obtained in • Students should try to anticipate any time for the event, an official credential safety issues in advance and should document issued by the publication or always feel comfortable discussing and school, identifying the journalist by name troubleshooting safety concerns in advance and photo as a member of the staff, may with faculty members and with deans and be the next best alternative. (In New
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Safety 58 York, students are not entitled to Police contact an attorney for guidance on how to Department-issued press credentials, and file a formal complaint. law enforcement officers do not always 5. If arrested or detained, act immediately. recognize the CUNY-issued student press First, inform the police officers in question pass as valid identification.) that you are a journalist there to cover 2. Avoid the appearance of being a participant the events and show them your press in the protests. Wearing insignias, carrying credentials. If they disregard your status, signs or joining in chants with protest encourage that they contact their superior participants (or counter-protesters) officer before they take any action against increases the likelihood that a journalist a member of the press. Second, contact will be perceived as there for a purpose your professor or Director of Student other than to collect information and cover Affairs Anthony LaViscount to let us know the news. Please inform your editors and/ what’s happening. Third, if police insist on or professors to ensure they know you are arresting or detaining you, let them know there to cover an event. This way, your that you wish to contact a lawyer and do so editor or professor can immediately identify immediately. Do not agree to plead guilty you as a journalist and not a protester. to any charge without first talking to legal 3. Bring a cell phone and a small amount of counsel or fully understanding what you cash. If detained or threatened with arrest, are doing. If you believe you are not guilty, the ability to contact outside help quickly you preserve all of your legal rights only by is important. Have a means for contacting pleading “not guilty.” your professor, editor, adviser or an 6. Bear witness. If you’re doing what you’re attorney if necessary. It might be wise to supposed to — and if the police are not make a plan for all journalists on the scene — video, still photos or audio of the event to check in periodically with a professor or can prove an invaluable ally in making a colleague outside of the protest area who your case. Journalist Amy Goodman of will be on-call. Democracy Now and her crew confirmed 4. Obey all police orders. If ordered by police to this when they were awarded a $100,000 leave an area or disperse, move outside the settlement after being roughed up and crowd and find a place to observe and cover detained by police -- much of it caught on as close as possible. If possible, identify video -- while covering the 2008 Republican yourself as a journalist to the officer in National Convention in Minneapolis. If you charge and ask for guidance as to where you or a colleague are being arrested by police can continue your job without interfering or otherwise prevented from doing your job with theirs. If you believe police are acting as a journalist, ask that those around you unlawfully or unreasonably in orders given record the event and send their material to to you, do your best to document the names your professor as soon as possible. and titles of those involved as well as the names and contact information of other It sometimes – but not always -- helps if you witnesses. If possible, take photos or video show the officer your student press card. Thus of the police misconduct and, as soon far, negotiations on behalf of the school with as possible, write down what happened. the Public Information office of the New York It is generally not a wise idea to disobey Police Department have been unsuccessful a police order on the scene, but you can in getting the department to recognize the ask them to reconsider if you make clear validity of our identification cards. that you do not want to interfere with their efforts and will ultimately obey an order If the occasion arises where you are arrested, given. However, as soon as is practicable, taken into custody, or otherwise detained or
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Safety 59 cited for illegal conduct, there are lawyers we have identified who will represent you, promptly and efficiently, at no charge.
The Student Press Law Center, in Washington, D.C., specializes in the legal rights of student journalists. They maintain a network of volunteer media lawyers throughout the country -- many in New York -- who are willing to represent student journalists without charge. Frank D. LoMonte, the executive director and a media lawyer, can be reached 24/7 at (202) 872-1704, or (202) 785- 5450. He can also be reached at director@ splc.org or through Twitter at @SPLC. (CUNY professor Geanne Belton is the vice chair of this organization.)
Clifford Chance, an international law firm with a large office in New York, has also volunteered to assist any student with a legal problem, without charge. Associates John D. Friel, (212) 878- 3387, cell (917) 214- 1373, email [email protected], and Carlisle Overbey, (212) 878-8504, cell (704) 299-3579, email carlisle.overbey@ cliffordchance.com have agreed to take calls from students needing legal assistance.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Student Safety 60 CODE OF ETHICS
61 Our society grants journalists and the news including opinion pieces and commentary. media enormous freedom and privilege. With Other “best practices” often depend on the that freedom comes great responsibility. The circumstances and require prudent judgment Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the wise counsel of experienced expects all members of its community to act colleagues. When in doubt, please seek according to the highest ethical standards of guidance. This is, after all, an educational academia and the journalism profession. institution.
Many news organizations require employees to sign codes of ethics. Because the WHAT NOT TO DO Newmark J-School is preparing students to enter the media world and because integrity There are certain kinds of behavior that are is so important to our profession, we too shall easily identifiable as unacceptable in an require all students to read, sign and heed academic community and in the journalistic this Code of Ethics. Students who violate world. Inevitably, we do need some “thou- this Code may face appropriate sanctions, shall-not” rules. The following conduct up to and including expulsion, in accordance violates the Craig Newmark Graduate School with CUNY Bylaws and the CUNY Policy of Journalism’s Code of Ethics, https://www. on Academic Integrity and professional journalism.cuny.edu/current-students/code- journalism standards. of-ethics/
1. Fabricate. No student shall knowingly BASIC PRINCIPLES present false information or invent information, data, quotations, or sources The duty of journalists is to inform the public in a journalistic presentation or academic in ways that promote understanding of past or exercise. No student shall show reckless current or upcoming events and the workings disregard for factual accuracy. No student of a democratic society. To be credible and shall manipulate or falsify images or video trustworthy, we seek truth in an unbiased way, or audio in a manner that creates false always striving for a fair and comprehensive impressions or compromises accuracy. account of events and issues. 2. Plagiarize and Use Others’ Content. No It is not possible to codify all good behavior. student shall knowingly represent the But we should subject everything we do to words or ideas or photography or video the twin tests of honesty and fairness – and or audio produced by another person as remain accountable for the results. Some of his or her own. Such information must this is obviously easy to state. For example, be fully credited to the original source by we should take great care to avoid errors of attribution, quotation marks, footnotes, any kind. We should admit mistakes and and/or other established journalistic promptly correct them in a manner likely practices and professors must be apprised to reach those who read, saw or heard the of the use of any material that is not the erroneous piece. We should tap multiple student’s own independent work. Be sources for information, identifying them advised that all student work may be and their motivations whenever feasible. analyzed electronically for violations of We should be reasonable, judicious, and this code and may be checked against a unbiased in setting forth and interpreting database for plagiarized content. Please facts. We should distinguish between news ask your instructor if you have any questions reporting and analytic forms of journalism, about how to distinguish among acceptable
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Code of Ethics 62 research, attribution and plagiarism. been wrongly excluded from a news scene 3. Cheat. No student may engage in any form by law enforcement, please notify your of academic cheating, for example on instructor and/or dean to discuss whether tests, journalistic exercises or otherwise, or legal follow-up is warranted. help another student to cheat. No student 9. Accept Gifts and Freebies from Sources. may submit work previously submitted in Students may not accept gifts, free another course without the knowledge and tickets or travel, special meals or favors, permission of the instructor. or anything of value that could potentially 4. Engage in Conflicts of Interest. All students compromise or appear to compromise must avoid any conflicts of interest between their independence of their news sources their appropriate role as student journalists or news subjects. However, it may be and any other outside role. Such conflicts acceptable to accept press tickets, with the include preparing journalistic assignments approval of the professor, to performances on subjects or institutions in which the and screenings directly related to a class student has a financial, family, or personal assignment. In delineating between involvement. When in doubt, consult with what is compromising and what is within your instructor. You must disclose all permissible parameters for journalists potential conflicts to the appropriate faculty seeking access to newsworthy information, member or to the Associate Dean before according to Reuters’ Handbook of you begin the journalistic assignment. Journalism, “In the course of gathering 5. Misrepresent yourself. Students must be news, journalists are often invited to forthright and honest about how they breakfasts, luncheons or dinners. As long identify themselves to subjects and sources as such occasions are newsworthy, it may and should never represent themselves as be appropriate to accept the hospitality anything other than journalists or journalism provided it is within reason. We do not students. Students must obtain approval accept ‘junkets’ — events that have little in advance in writing from the appropriate if any value to our newsgathering such as . faculty member and dean for any proposed . . an evening’s entertainment or a sporting “undercover” activity. event at the expense of a news source.” 6. Conduct yourself Inappropriately. No student When in doubt, either politely decline or may engage in conduct during class or on seek ADVANCE permission and guidance assignment that brings discredit to the from your instructor or the Newmark School or University. Such misconduct J-School dean. includes disruptive behavior, physical 10. Pay for Access to News or Sources. abuse, safety threats, property damage, Students may not pay sources or provide theft, lewd or obscene behavior, or sources with anything of value in exchange discrimination by word or deed on the basis for interviews or access. of race, gender, religion, place of origin, age, disability, or sexual orientation. No set of rules can possibly address all 7. Misuse Social Media. Students must be situations that may arise. The School reserves responsible in their use of social media and the right to find that other conduct not should not violate professional journalism specified in this Code, the CUNY Policy on standards in their social media activities. Academic Integrity, or the Bylaws constitutes 8. Break the Law. No student may break the violation of academic or journalistic integrity. law, including laws relating to trespassing, If situations arise that seem ambiguous, theft of information, breaking into email please talk to the appropriate faculty member or voicemail, or any other violation of civil and/or the Associate Dean’s office. Your full or criminal laws. If you believe you have disclosure is very important in all matters of
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Code of Ethics 63 integrity. Current students by receiving this paraphrases, ideas, arguments, images handbook understand they are responsible and facts that you use for the Code of Conduct. • Ask your instructor if you are uncertain about your use of sources • Be prepared to describe how you got the MORE ON PLAGIARISM AND FABRICATION story
Plagiarism is the act of stealing work whether it is writing, reporting, photography, graphics FABRICATION or editorial cartoons and passing it off as one’s own. Attribution is crucial. Proper credit We do not deceive readers by fabricating is necessary and mandatory, but does not news and news events. Making up quotes or necessarily mean that you have not violated inventing sources is not tolerated. Fictional someone’s copyright in the material. and satirical writing must be clearly labeled as such. Our work is to chronicle history, Plagiarism is prohibited. It is a punishable not to make it up. Use of fictional names, offense that could result in expulsion. In the ages, places, dates and composite characters Google age it takes just seconds to catch is generally unacceptable, unless done in you stealing other people’s work. Your work consultation with an instructor. is subject to verification using plagiarism- detection software. This policy also forbids lifting verbatim material from any online or VERACITY OF PHOTOS AND GRAPHICS printed source without crediting that original source. Even material previously published Images that purport to depict reality must by your school/course should be attributed to be genuine in every way. Photographs must the original source. not be staged or posed; people or objects must not be rearranged reversed, distorted You have plagiarized if you: or removed from a scene. Only traditional adjustments, such as cropping, dodging or • Copied text from the Web and pasted it burning, are acceptable. The content of a into your story without quotation marks or news photograph or graphic should never be citation altered in any way that turns the image or • Presented facts without stating where you graphic into something the journalist did not found them shoot. Photo illustrations should be clearly • Repeated or paraphrased words or phrases labeled as such. The origin of any photo without acknowledgement whether produced by staff or outside sources • Took someone’s unique or particularly apt should be clearly attributed. phrase without acknowledgment
To avoid plagiarism: RECOMMENDED READING ON ETHICAL • List the sources and contact numbers used STANDARDS in your reporting and use the list to double check the material in your story The Denver Post Ethics Policy (http://www. While taking notes, keep separate your own • • denverpost.com/ethics) ideas, summaries of others’ ideas or exact Chattanooga Times Free Press Ethics Policy wording from other people’s work • (www.timesfreepress.com/ethicspolicy/) • Identify the sources of all exact wording, • National Press Photographers Association
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Code of Ethics 64 Code of Ethics (https://nppa.org/code_of_ through conciliation. ethics) If formal charges are filed, a five-person disciplinary committee (two students, two PURCHASING OF ACADEMIC PAPERS faculty members and a chair) hears the evidence, presented by the Associate Dean; The purchasing of term papers, student the student charged with the offense is given essays, reports, and other written assignments, the opportunity to respond and present his/ however described, from commercial term her case in writing and also in person or paper vendors or other sources is illegal. by phone, and represented by counsel if so Students purchasing such materials may be desired. subject to disciplinary proceedings. The disciplinary committee first decides guilt or innocence on the charges and then the appropriate penalty in the instance of a guilty FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS finding. The committee chair notifies the Associate Dean and the Director of Student Any student found to have submitted Affairs of the committee’s decision. false documentation as part of his or her The student may appeal the decision to the application for admission will be subject to Dean, whose opinion will be final, except if disciplinary action. the penalty is greater than a one semester suspension or dismissal. In that case, the student may appeal further, to the appropriate PROCEDURES IN INSTANCES OF ACADEMIC committee of the CUNY Board of Trustees. DISHONESTY OR CODE OF ETHICS VIOLATIONS
An accusation of academic dishonesty or violation of the Code of Ethics may be brought against a student by a professor, a program, a group of faculty, an administrator, or another student and must be reported to the Office Student Affairs or the Associate Dean.
Faculty are encouraged to discuss the matter with the student, including possible resolution, but no student may be assigned a grade as a sanction without the student’s agreement or a due process determination. Any such resolution must be reported to the Director of Student Affairs and the Associate Dean.
The Director of Student Affairs, upon receiving an allegation of academic dishonesty, works with the Associate Dean to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to warrant levying formal charges against a student or whether an effort should be made to resolve the issue
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Code of Ethics 65 OTHER STUDENT RESOURCES
66 you never read email is no excuse for missing Copyright an assignment or failing to participate in an online class discussion. During your tenure as a CUNY student, you It’s easy to figure out how to contact anyone will have opportunities to have your work at the Newmark J-School via email. All email published, posted or broadcast, thereby addresses are in this format: firstname. obtaining the all-important clips you will use [email protected]. Students in order to apply for internships and jobs. You will keep their email account after graduation may wonder whether you have the right under and also have access to an alumni listserv. the U.S. copyright law to grant permission To resolve any problems related to your email or sell work that you have created for class account, please open a ticket using the online or school projects. Students generally own Help Desk: http://help.journalism.cuny.edu the copyright to the work they produce while attending CUNY. TheCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism maintains a non-exclusive license to use the material for non- commercial, educational purposes. Facebook and Online (As an example, the school might use your work on a password-protected website as an Directory example to other students of what a capstone project should look like.) If the work is All students, first semester faculty, and developed in an entrepreneurial course or program directors will be included in the in the entrepreneurial certificate program, photo facebook, which will be distributed the school will obtain a separate licensing at the beginning of each academic year. agreement with the student. Staff photos can be found at the end of this handbook.
Email Accounts Identification Card and Each student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is issued an email Press Card account, and messages sent to that account can automatically be forwarded to other All employees (staff and faculty) and email addresses used by the student. Once students of the J-School are required to carry your email account has been issued, all a Newmark J-School photo identification electronic communication will be sent ONLY (ID) card with a current validation sticker in to your school email account. Students are order to gain access to the building and the responsible for all information, notices and library. Students may be asked to show the assignments sent to that account. This card when entering the Newmark J-School or means that if you do not normally use email, other City University buildings or when using you must get into the habit of checking your any Newmark J-School facilities. You will also Newmark J-School email on a regular basis. be given a library barcode sticker, to use both Most faculty members communicate with in the Newmark J-School Research Center their students through group mailing lists and at the Mina Rees Library at the Graduate (listservs) that use the school email accounts; Center. In subsequent semesters, the Public students can only post to a class listserv Safety Officer at the 3rd Floor desk will issue using their school email account. Saying that students updated validation stickers for their
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Student Resources 67 identification cards once the Bursar’s Office combination, please visit the Public Safety has certified that the student has paid tuition desk at the 3rd floor lobby. and fees for the new semester. Students who lose their ID card will be issued a duplicate upon payment of a $10 fee.
Students will also receive a press card Lost and Found identifying them as reporters for the NYCity Should you lose or find an item, please visit News Service and students at the Craig the Public Safety desk on the 3rd floor. We Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. will secure the items there should they be This card should assist them in gaining found. If items are not claimed by the end access to many news events. Students who of a one-year period, they will be disposed lose their press pass will also be issued a of. You may also want to send a lost or found duplicate, upon payment of a $5 fee. announcement to the student listserv.
Listservs Official Transcript The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism will set up a variety of listservs Requests to be used for electronic communication purposes. Academic enrollment records for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism are maintained by the CUNY Graduate Center. At the end of each semester, students may view their grades online at the Graduate Center Lockers ‘CUNYfirst’ website at: https://ssologin.cuny. edu/cuny.html Each student will be assigned a locker and will be able to program his or her own To request an official transcript, please fill combination code. These lockers, installed out the Transcript Request Form (available for the convenience of students, are the online at https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/ property of the Craig Newmark Graduate media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Forms/ School of Journalism and the School has Transcript-Request-Form-031516.pdf?ext=. the right to access them at any given time. pdf) and deliver it to the registrar’s office at The School accepts no responsibility for the the Graduate Center. loss of anything kept in a locker. Lockers must be kept in a secured lock position at all times. Lockers must also be emptied at the end of each academic year, as they will be reassigned. Students will be given a date by Photocopying and which lockers must be emptied; any material remaining in the lockers will be discarded. Printing Anything of value that remains unclaimed after a 30-day period must be submitted to All students, staff and faculty will have the New York City Police Department. Should access to photocopy machines and printers. you need assistance resetting your locker Please print and copy only what is essential.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Student Resources 68 The Office of Information Technology will be tracking usage, and individuals who use these services in excess will have their access restricted. Please note: The J-School follows the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, US Code), which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.
Social Media Policy
Social media plays a vital role in our journalism. On social platforms, students can promote their work, provide real-time updates, harvest and curate information, cultivate sources, engage with readers and experiment with new forms of storytelling and voice.
We strongly encourage you to abide by the following standards for social media use:
• If you identify your affiliation with Newmark J-School in your profile or comments, other users will naturally associate you with the university. • Avoid posting information to social networking sites or blogs that could call into question your ability to act independently as a journalist. • Refrain from posting information to social networking sites or blogs that could discredit you, or the Newmark J-School. • Recognize that a post you intend as humorous or ironic may not be perceived that way. Be mindful that tone and sarcasm don’t easily translate online and don’t post content that can be easily misinterpreted or considered insensitive or offensive. • Use common sense
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Student Resources 69 ACADEMIC POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND SERVICES
70 to choose their own advisors from a core Adding and Dropping group of professors. All students must meet with their faculty advisors before registering Courses each semester, and at a minimum, one other time during the semester. During this During the first three weeks of each semester, meeting, students can discuss academic and students have the option of adding and professional goalsprofessionalgoals, and seek dropping elective courses. (Adds after the first guidance in selecting courses day of class each semester will require the permission of the Director of Student Affairs • Meet with advisor to discuss course and the course instructor). Required courses selections may not be dropped and students must • Complete a course selection worksheet amass at least 43 credits to graduate. After emailed from the Office of Student Affairs the first three weeks of the term, if a student • Advisor must approve course selections elects to withdraw from a non-required and inform the Office of Student Affairs of course, a “Course Withdrawal’’ form should approval be submitted to the Office of Student Affairs. • Meet with Office of Student Affairs to A grade of “W’’ will be assignedbeassigned, discuss course plan and receive registration and the student remains liable for tuition. pin number A fee of $18.00 may be assessed for any program changes made after a student’s To avoid late registration fees, students original schedule has been processed. should always be sure to schedule their meetings with advisors before the registration period commences each semester and review their CUNYfirst accounts to clear all holds. Address Changes
Address changes MUST be submitted anytime there is a change in a student’s residence. Attendance Policies and All official documents will be mailed to the address on file with the Newmark J-School Deadlines and from the Graduate Center via the information in a students CUNYfirst account. As a professional school, the Newmark Submit any updates in writing, to the Office J-School has the same expectations for of Student Affairs via email as well as change professional behavior as a news organization. their address with the Graduate Center via Reporters are expected to show up every their CUNY first account. An old address will day ready to work and Newmark J-School delay notification of important information students are expected to attend every one of students may need to act upon. their classes. Reporters who don’t show up don’t have a story – and pretty quickly, they don’t have a job.
Advising If you cannot attend one of your classes, you are expected to notify the professor with In the first semester, each incoming student the reason and get an excused absence. A will be assigned an advisor. In the second medical or family emergency is generally and third semesters, students will be able sufficient reason for an excused absence from
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 71 the Newmark J-School, just as it is from a job. An unexplained or unexcused absence is Coaches never okay and will lead to a lowering of your grade. It is within the professor’s discretion Address changes MUST be submitted anytime to determine what qualifies as an excused there is a change in a student’s residence. absence. Similarly, arriving late for class All official documents will be mailed to the on a regular basis also will lead to a grade address on file with the Newmark J-School and reduction for unprofessional behavior. from the Graduate Center via the information in a students CUNYfirst account. Submit any In the news world, deadlines are sacrosanct. updates in writing, to the Office of Student For every day that an assignment is handed in Affairs via email as well as change their late, the grade on that piece will be lowered address with the Graduate Center via their by at least a letter grade step, e.g. from an A CUNYfirst account. An old address will delay to an A-. An assignment handed in even 15 notification of important information students minutes after it is due will count as the first may need to act upon. day of a missed deadline; the day after it is due counts as the second day, and so forth. Coaches work one-on-one with students to Individual faculty members have the authority guide them on projects and help problem- to impose even more stringent penalties for solve. Students are advised to consult a coach late work in their courses. Students should be if they have tried something themselves and it sure to check the syllabi of all their courses hasn’t worked to their satisfaction. Coaching to be clear about attendance and deadline Hours are updated early each semester: expectations of their faculty members. https://www.journalism.cuny.edu/current- students/coaching-hours/
Auditing Courses Course and Faculty With permission of the instructor, matriculated students may audit courses in Evaluations which they have an interest so that they can increase their knowledge and proficiency. If At the end of each semester, students will be allowed, students must formally register to asked to evaluate the teaching and content audit courses in the same manner as for any of the courses that they have taken. These other course. Students must select the audit evaluations are very useful to the faculty optionauditoption in the action field on the and administration in improving the quality web registration screen. Auditor status cannot and utility of course offerings and teaching be changed to credit status after the change- techniques. of-program period has ended. Likewise, credit status cannot be changed to auditor status after the same period. The grade notation “AUD,” which carries no credit, cannot be Credit Limit changed to any other grade. Audited courses will be included in the calculation of total Students may not register for more than 17 credits to determine full- or part-time status, credits a semester without the permission of and tuition must be paid on any audited their academic advisors and the Associate course. Dean. Students who register for more than 17 credits will be charged additional tuition.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 72 courses offered at other CUNY colleges. Prior Cross Story Use (‘double to taking courses at another institution a student should inquire at the Host College for dipping’) in Multiple registration dates and procedures governing visiting CUNY students on ePermit. To see Courses the class schedule at all colleges please visit the Global Class Search. Reporting from a story for one course may Please note that an ePermit does not sometimes be used for a story in another automatically register a student for a course course. The most common example: reporting nor does issuance of an ePermit guarantee for a text/photo story for Craft class may also enrollment at the Host College. Once you have be used for a video or data or audio story enrolled at the Host College, cancellation for another class. The exact same story is of an ePermit does not delete your course never acceptable for two different classes. registration; see details below regarding Permission must be given ahead of time by student responsibilities. professors from all classes involved. Disputes Concerning Denial of Student Academic Grades Services The Newmark J-School faculty is responsible The Board of Trustees of The City University for determining the requirements and of New York has a formal policy requiring the standards of performance for courses. withholding of college services to any student A course instructor retains considerable who is delinquent in any financial account discretion in these matters. The instructor is with the University (including tuition, books under obligation, however, to ensure that the owed to the library, equipment owed to the course syllabus is consonant with the goals Information Technology department or fees of the curriculum of the degree program. owed for late return of books or equipment) The expected level of performance in a or any student who is in default for any given course shall reflect levels of difficulty loan administered through the University. relevant to the educational objective of the Denial of services means that students are program. In addition, the instructor has an not permitted to register or receive a leave obligation to students to make clear the basis of absence or official withdrawal and are not of evaluation (e.g., reading assignments, issued their degree, certificate, or official paper, contributions to seminar discussions, transcripts; nor are they eligible to receive experimental work) at the start of each additional student aid until the default/ course so that students are not surprised by delinquency has been satisfied. unexpected or untimely demands. Grades on examinations or for work in a course are the responsibility of the instructor. In the case of disputes over a graded ePermit assignment and final course grades, the student should discuss the matter with the ePermit facilitates the process of CUNY instructor. The student may be accompanied students obtaining permission to register for by a student or other member of the Newmark
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 73 J-School community in discussion with classified as making satisfactory progress the instructor or advisor. Under the federal (for that semester) and, if otherwise entitled, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act is eligible to receive federal student loans. (FERPA), students have the right to review Consideration will be given to allowing their examinations. If the matter is not a student to withdraw from the program resolved, the student may register a formal effective the semester in which his or her complaint with the Office of Student Affairs. appeal is turned down and providing the A representative from that office shall consult student with a refund for that semester’s with the instructor and/or the student’s tuition. This consideration, however, is not an advisor and attempt to resolve the matter. If option if the student has taken a federal loan the matter is not informally resolved through for that semester unless the loan is repaid this means, the student may appeal the prior to the withdrawal. grade in writing to the Academic Appeals Committee via the Associate Dean. This appeal must be made within three weeks of final grade filing and be to resolve a dispute Disputes Concerning regarding grades posted to a student’s formal transcript. The appeal should state the basis for the student’s belief that the grade Academic Termination/ was given without reasonable or adequate basis. That committee will hear the appeal, Dismissal including reviewing evidence and statements Students who fall below a cumulative 2.7 to the committee from the student and the GPA in their first semester, or in their second faculty member involved and may make such semester, fall below a 2.8 cumulative GPA further investigation as it deems appropriate. can be dismissed from the program. If a The Academic Appeals student believes that additional information should be considered, a student will be able Committee shall make a recommendation to to appeal their dismissal by writing a letter to the Dean, whose decision will be final. The the Associate Dean. Students can also submit process will be completed no more than three any relevant documentation they feel should weeks after the appeal has been submitted. be considered. A committee will then review There may at times be problems affecting the appeal, along with written explanations students’ academic success, progress toward from relevant faculty members. Within 10 the degree, or relationships within the days of an appeal being filed, the committee program. As such situations arise, students will issue its recommendation to the Dean are advised to attempt to address the issues and the Dean’s determination will be final. informally with the individual faculty member Students who have more questions about this and/or the Director of Student Affairs. If these process should speak with the Director for avenues do not appear to offer satisfactory Student Affairs. solutions, the Associate Dean may be consulted. A student may be terminated from the program by established formal policy of the The appeals policies and procedures described program – most often this will be for failure within this handbook distinguish between to show satisfactory academic progress. A disputes concerning grades and disputes student may appeal a termination decision concerning termination of matriculation. to the Academic Appeals Committee within While an appeal is in process, the student 10 days of receiving a letter of termination. appealing may register and, if registered, is
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 74 The student may submit written evidence and statements to the committee and may Letter Grade Quality Point Value be asked to speak before the panel. The committee may also review evidence from A+ 4.00 selected faculty members. The Appeals Committee shall make a recommendation A 4.00 to the Dean, whose decision shall be final. The student shall be given the opportunity to withdraw from the program before any official A- 3.70 action is taken. B+ 3.30 Faculty Office Hours B 3.00
All faculty members will post their office B- 2.70 hours or include in their syllabi how students can schedule an appointment to meet with C+ 2.30 them. Students should take advantage of these times to meet with faculty and to raise C 2.00 any questions/concerns not addressed during class meeting times. C- 1.70
F 0.00 Grading System W Withdraw Newmark J-School degree candidates will be graded in all courses creditable toward the degree as follows: *GPA quality point is calculated to two decimal points. WN: Unofficial withdrawal If the student has never attended a class SP: Satisfactory Progress and there is no documented evidence of the student’s participation in a course, the W: Withdrew without academic penalty unofficial withdrawal grade reported would be This is a student-initiated grade, which may a ‘WN.’ This grade is calculated into the GPA be requested from the fourth through the in the same way a ‘W’ is calculated. tenth week of the semester, regardless of course start date. Under no circumstances F: Failure can a student withdraw and receive a ‘W’ If the student receives an ‘F’ in a course, the grade after the tenth week of the semester course must be repeated to receive credit without permission of the Associate Dean. for it (or another equivalent credit course for This grade carries tuition liability. electives). Grades of ‘F’ are factored into a students’ cumulative GPA. Retaking a course WA: Administrative withdrawal will not replace the grade of ‘F’. This grade This grade, which does not affect the grade is calculated into the GPA in the same way point average, is administratively assigned. other letter grades are calculated.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 75 P: Pass Leave of Absence Pass/Fail designation is used for internship credits. No letter grades are submitted for Because of the nature of the Newmark internships. J-School program, leaves of absence will be granted to students only in the event of INC: Incomplete family or medical necessity. An exit interview To be assigned only when student work will be required. No more than four semesters has not been completed by the end of the of total leave time will be granted to any semester and the instructor agrees to permit student. the student to complete the work at a later date. The ‘INC’ must be changed to a letter Each leave request should be made in grade within the following calendar year, writing to the Director of Student Affairs after which time the ‘INC’ is considered prior to the semester or academic year during permanent. which the leave will be taken. If approved, requests for leave will be forwarded to the Office of the Registrar. The leave must then INCOMPLETE GRADES be cleared by the Offices of Financial Aid, International Students (if applicable), as well as the Libraries, the Bursar, and the Only at the discretion of the instructor and Business Office. Leaves of absence are not in cases of medical or family emergency will counted toward the time limit for completion students be permitted to receive an incomplete of degree requirements. Any student subject grade in a course. A student must complete to induction or recall into military service an “Incomplete Form” in consultation with should consult the veterans’ certifying officer the instructor they are working with and have before applying for an official leave. Any it approved by the Associate Dean. To resolve international student with F-1 (student) or incomplete grades, students must fulfill J-1 (exchange visitor) status should consult their obligations within a time period that is the Office of International Students before determined by the faculty member. After one applying for a leave. A $20 readmission fee year, an incomplete (“INC’’) will automatically will be assessed when the student completes be transformed into an “INP’’ (permanent the Application for Readmission indicating incomplete); extensions will be granted only intent to return, http://www.gc.cuny.edu/ in exceptional circumstances upon written CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate- Center/ application and with the permission of the PDF/Forms/Readmission.pdf faculty member, the Director of Student Affairs, and the Associate Dean. Permanent incompletes will accrue no credit. Students with more than one incomplete course at the end of a semester will be brought to Registration the attention of their academic advisor and the Director of Student Affairs to determine Requirements whether or not they are making satisfactory progress. There are elective and concentration info sessions offered prior to registration to learn more about courses students can choose from. Check the school calendar for dates for these information sessions.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 76 Each student must meet with their academic or Reporting for Social J instructor. These advisor prior to registration in order to discuss reviews will serve as a baseline for progress in course selections for the coming semester. the program. This review will supplement, not Each student will complete the Course replace, regular feedback from the instructor. Selection Worksheet and meet with Student All first-semester students must meet with Affairs for final review. Before registration their advisors to review this mid-semester opens be sure to check your CUNYfirst account evaluation and discuss a development plan to ensure all holds are cleared and you can for the remainder of the semester. navigate the system. More information on In addition, in all three semesters, students registering can be found on our website. at risk of receiving below a B in any course will receive a notification of that fact by All students are required to be in status each the instructor and will be told explicitly semester. This means that students must what they must do to raise their grade. The either be registered for a course of study or be student’s faculty advisor will be notified on an approved leave of absence. Individuals along with the Office of Student Affairs. The who are not in status will be considered student should discussshoulddiscuss and withdrawn from the Newmark J-School. formulateandformulate a plan of action.
Registration information is given out at orientation to new students. Information for subsequent semesters will be available Petition to Change during informational meetings, or through the Office of Student Affairs. It is expected that all registrations will be completed by the Requirement end of the registration period. A student may identify a requirement they would like the administration to consider Students delinquent in their financial accounts changing. The student(s) should file a petition or obligations to the library or with respect explaining the desired change and reasons to any equipment loans from the Equipment for the change. Petitions can be requested Room will not be permitted to register, take and then emailed to the Director of Student a leave of absence, or officially withdraw; Affairs. Petitions will be considered in a nor will they be issued transcripts or degree timely manner, however, some petitions may diplomas. In addition, students who fail to need wide input from faculty, and so may meet satisfactory progress requirements or take longer to decidetodecide. to comply with New York State immunization laws (see following), or who have outstanding obligations to the Offices of Financial Aid, Admissions, or Bursar’s Office may not be permitted to register, take a leave of absence, Probation or officially withdraw. Students whose GPAs fall below 3.0 will be placed on academic probation. (Please see Standards for Retention and Graduation above.) The student will receive a letter from Mid-Semester Reviews the Associate Dean informing them of their probationary status. Letters will be sent via All first-semester students will receive a email and to the address on file at the school. mid-semester evaluation from their Craft I To continue in the program, students must
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 77 submit a letter and/or email to the Associate neglect of duty, physical or mental incapacity Dean, copying the Director of Student Affairs, and conduct unbecoming a member of the requesting that the student be allowed to stay staff. in the program, and elaborate on how they propose to improve their academic standing. Students will also be required to set up a DETERMINATION OF APPROPRIATE meeting with the Associate Dean to discuss PROCEDURE their plans in person, and to review the consequences of continued unsatisfactory If students have any question about the progress. Upon approval, students will be applicable procedure to follow for a particular allowed to register and receive financial complaint, they should consult with the aid, if eligible, and continue their academic Director of Student Affairs. In particular, the progress. Student Affairs office should advise a student if some other procedure is applicable to the type of complaint the student has. Procedures for Complaints about INFORMAL RESOLUTION Students are encouraged to attempt to Faculty Conduct resolve complaints informally with the faculty member or to seek the assistance of the The University and its Colleges have a variety department chairperson or dean to facilitate of procedures for dealing with student- informal resolution. related issues, including grade appeals, academic integrity violations, student discipline, disclosure of student records, FORMAL COMPLAINT student elections, sexual harassment complaints (please refer to the Title IX If the student does not pursue informal section for additional information), disability resolution, or if informal resolution is accommodations, and discrimination. unsuccessful, the student may file a written One area not generally covered by other complaint with the Associate Dean or, if procedures concerns student complaints the Associate Dean is the subject of the about faculty conduct in the classroom complaint, with the Dean. (This person will or other formal academic settings. The be referred to below as the “Fact Finder.”) University respects the academic freedom of the faculty and will not interfere with it as The complaint shall be filed within 30 it relates to the content or style of teaching calendar days of the alleged conduct unless activities. Indeed, academic freedom is there is good cause shown for delay, including and should be of paramount importance. but not limited to delay caused by an attempt At the same time the University recognizes at informal resolution. The complaint shall its responsibility to provide students with a be as specific as possible in describing the procedure for addressing complaints about conduct complained of. faculty treatment of students that are not protected by academic freedom and are not The Fact Finder shall promptly send a copy covered by other procedures. Examples might to the faculty member about whom the include incompetent or inefficient service, complaint is made, along with a letter stating
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 78 that the filing of the complaint does not an effort to resolve the matter. The complaining imply that any wrongdoing has occurred and student and the faculty member shall have that a faculty member must not retaliate in the right to have a representative (including any way against a student for having made a union representative, student government a complaint. If either the student or the representative or attorney) present during the faculty member has reason to believe that the initial meeting, the interview and any post- Associate Dean may be biased or otherwise investigation meeting. unable to deal with the complaint in a fair and objective manner, he or she may submit At the end of the investigation, the Fact Finder to the Dean a written request stating the shall issue a written report setting forth his reasons for that belief; if the request appears or her findings and recommendations, with to have merit, that person may, in his or her particular focus on whether the conduct in sole discretion, replace the Associate Dean question is protected by academic freedom, as the Fact Finder. and send a copy to the complaining student, the faculty member, and the chief student The Fact Finder shall meet with the services officer. In ordinary cases, it is complaining student and faculty member, expected that the investigation and written either separately or together, to discuss the report should be completed within 30 complaint and to try to resolve it. The Fact calendar days of the date the complaint was Finder may seek the assistance of the campus filed. ombudsman or other appropriate person to facilitate informal resolution. APPEALS PROCEDURE If resolution is not possible, and the Fact Finder concludes that the facts alleged by If either the student or the faculty member the student, taken as true and viewed in the is not satisfied with the report of the Fact light most favorable to the student, establish Finder, the student or faculty member may that the conduct complained of is clearly file a written appeal to the Dean within 10 protected by academic freedom, he or she calendar days of receiving the report. The Dean shall issue a written report dismissing the shall convene and serve as the chairperson complaint and setting forth the reasons for of an Appeals Committee, which shall also dismissal and send a copy to the complaining include the chief student services officer, two student, the faculty member, and the chief faculty members from the school’s Academic student services officer. Otherwise, the Fact Appeals committee and one student from the Finder shall conduct an investigation. The Academic Appeals committee. The Appeals Fact Finder shall separately interview the Committee shall review the findings and complaining student, the faculty member recommendations of the report, with particular and other persons with relevant knowledge focus on whether the conduct in question is and information and shall also consult protected by academic freedom. The Appeals with the chief student affairs officer and, if Committee shall not conduct a new factual appropriate, the college ombudsman. The investigation or overturn any factual findings Fact Finder shall not reveal the identity of the contained in the report unless they are clearly complaining student and the faculty member erroneous. If the Appeals Committee decides to others except to the extent necessary to to reverse the Fact Finder in a case where conduct the investigation. If the Fact Finder there has not been an investigation because believes it would be helpful, he or she may the Fact Finder erroneously found that the meet again with the student and faculty alleged conduct was protected by academic member after completing the investigation in
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 79 freedom, it may remand to the Fact Finder to be making satisfactory progress if he or she for further proceedings. The committee shall has a grade point average below 3.0, and/or issue a written decision within 20 calendar has accumulated more than two open grades days of receiving the appeal. A copy of the (“INC,” “INP.”) decision shall be sent to the student, the faculty member, the department chairperson Please refer to the sections on “Incomplete and the president. Grades,” “Standards for Retention,” “Grading System,” which appear in this handbook. Following the completion of these procedures, the Dean shall decide the appropriate action, The Office of Student Affairs at the Craig if any, to take. For example, he may decide Newmark Graduate School of Journalism to place a report in the faculty member’s reviews each student’s record every semester personnel file or bring disciplinary charges and matriculation may be terminated for against the faculty member. Disciplinary unsatisfactory academic performance— charges may also be brought in extremely generally considered less than “B’’ average serious cases even though the school has not and/or failure to meet other program completed the entire investigative process requirements. described above; in that case, the bringing of disciplinary charges shall automatically If a student receives an “F” in a course suspend that process. required for completion of the program, they must repeat this course. Upon completion of the repeated course, the two grades will be averaged into the student’s grade Readmission point average. The “F” is not replaced but rather averaged into the overall GPA. The Readmission following a withdrawal is at repeated course with a grade of “B” or better the discretion of the Newmark J-School. A will be considered as meeting the degree special Application for Readmission must requirements. be filed in the Office of the Registrar at the If formal standards have not been met, a Graduate Center. Academic work completed student may register (and receive financial before the student withdrew from the School aid, if otherwise eligible) only upon petition will be reevaluated upon readmission and will to the Associate Dean and the Director of be credited toward completion of a degree at Student Affairs. Students whose petitions the program’s discretion. A $20 readmission are approved are considered to be making fee will be assessed. satisfactory progress toward the degree and are eligible to receive financial aid.
Students who are employed by the University must show satisfactory performance in these Standards for Retention activities. If this performance is found to be unsatisfactory, such employment may and Graduation be terminated. This type of termination is independent of satisfactory academic Students must be making satisfactory progress progress. toward the degree in order to maintain status at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Graduation is dependent upon completing Journalism and to be eligible for any student the required course of study with a GPA of at financial assistance. A student is deemed not least 3.0 and submitting a Capstone project.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 80 Students who complete the course of study and have not attained a 3.0 may have one or Student Policy for more additional semesters in which to take coursework to bring their GPA up to the 3.0 Sexual Misconduct standard, upon the approval of the Associate Dean. CHANGES TO PROCESSES
The 2015 Policy, which covered all students Student Immunization and employees of the University, addressed sexual misconduct by setting forth prohibited Requirements conduct and required processes for reporting and responding to such conduct, as well as Public Health Law 2165 requires that all full- providing for education on sexual misconduct and part-time students who were born on or and the Policy for all new and incoming after January 1, 1957, must present proof of students and certain members of the immunization against measles, mumps, and University community. Processes for response rubella in order to register, attend classes, included investigation and adjudication of or use University facilities. The Newmark allegations against students and employees, J-School is required to bar registration or and rules for complainants and respondents administratively withdraw students who appeal determinations of charged violations do not comply. Students administratively of the Policy. withdrawn incur full tuition liability. A copy of Public Health Law 2165 may be found in The revised Policy has been re-ordered and all Student Affairs offices. Specific questions includes revisions that will affect campus should be directed to the Office of the Vice processes and procedures, specifically: (1) President for Student Affairs at the Graduate changes to the definitions of specific terms; Center. (2) the addition of new appeals processes for complainants and respondents involved In addition, Public Health Law 2167 requires in a complaint of sexual misconduct; (3) that all college and university students the creation of procedures to determine if enrolled for at least six semester hours return a student is a continuing threat to campus a Meningococcal Meningitis Vaccination health and safety;(4) the availability of an Response Form before they may register. informal resolution process; and (5) inclusion All matriculated students (both new and of the student disciplinary adjudication continuing) should have received a form by process within the Policy (rather than mail. Additional Article XV of the CUNY Bylaws, a separate forms are available in the Wellness Center, document). Room 6422 of The Graduate Center and online: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/ CHANGES TO POLICY DEFINITIONS CUNY- Graduate-Center/PDF/Forms/ MeningitisResponseForm.pdf?ext=.pdf We have made a number of changes to definitions under the Policy that align the Policy definitions with Clery, which will facilitate accuracy in tracking and reporting data.The definition of affirmative consent
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 81 now aligns with the broader statutory protection. Decisions related to interim and definition and includes clarifying examples. restrictive measures for employees must be The definitions of manager and supervisor made in accordance with the employee’s have been changed, and the Policy specifies collective bargaining agreement, if any. All that supervisors and managers who knowingly decisions on appeals of restrictive interim allow sexual harassment to occur may be or supportive measures should be made as subject to discipline. quickly as possible and, once made, either the Chief Student Affairs Officer or Director of Human Resources, as applicable, must take APPEALS PROCESSES immediate steps to implement any changes or modifications to the interim measures. In accordance with EIE, the Policy provides both students and employees (complainants Similarly, a student or employee complainant or respondents) the opportunity to appeal or respondent may request that an individual the college’s implementation of a restrictive involved in the investigatory or adjudication interim or supportive measure, or to appeal process whom they allege has a conflict of on conflict of interest grounds an individual’s interest be removed from the process. This participation in the Title IX investigation or request must be in writing within five (5) days adjudication process. of notification of the individual’s involvement in the process and must include a detailed Either complainant or respondent may appeal description of the conflict. Student conflict restrictive interim measures such as a no- appeals are to the Chief Student Affairs contact order or the removal of a student Officer, and employee conflict appeals to from a class or section. The Chief Student the campus Legal or Labor Designee. The Affairs Officer will decide student appeals, decision on the conflict must be in writing, and the Director of Human Resources will delivered to the objecting party by either decide employee appeals.These officials have overnight mail or e-mail, and made as quickly authority to uphold, modify or remove the as possible under the circumstances, so that interim measure. the investigatory or adjudication process may proceed. If the decision made by the Chief When considering a student’s appeal of Student Affairs Officer or Legal or Labor a restrictive interim measure, the Chief Designee has the potential to disrupt the Student Affairs Officer should examine: (1) education or work environment of either the whether an alternative section or class exists; complainant or respondent, both parties must (2) a student’s need for the class in order to receive the decision simultaneously. graduate; (3) the nature and circumstances surrounding the incident; (4) the existence of a court-issued order of protection;(5) DETERMINING A CONTINUING THREAT AND the existence of online class alternatives; STUDENT INTERIM SUSPENSION and (6) the likelihood that respondent and complainant will come in contact with one The disciplinary procedures for a student another. For such an appeal brought by an accused of violating this Policy are now located employee, the Director of Human Resources in Section XX of the Policy rather than in Article should consider whether the employee can XV of the CUNY Bylaws. There has been no perform tasks at a different office within change to the student disciplinary procedures the college, whether a suitable transfer themselves, which continue to require that exists, and if there is a court-issued order of hearings be held before a specially trained
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 82 Faculty- Student Disciplinary Committee. A campuses have submitted mandatory annual complainant and respondent do not have the Education Plans for the upcoming academic right to cross-examine each other directly in year, and Annual Progress Reports for the a student disciplinary hearing, but may do so previous year. You will receive additional through their representative or by submitting guidance on 2018-19 Education Plans and questions to the FSDC chairperson. As before, Progress Reports, which will be due December a respondent who is both a student and an 1, 2018, for the 2018-19 academic year to employee are subject to discipline under Rodney L. Pepe- Souvenir, Associate Director both the student disciplinary process and for Diversity and Compliance/University Title applicable collective bargaining agreement, IX Coordinator. and a respondent employee is subject to discipline under the applicable collective b. Annual Aggregate Data Reporting to NYS bargaining agreement. Education Department This academic year, New York State Education Department (“NYSED”) issued regulations defining the requirements for Education and Training college aggregate data reporting to NYSED established in EIE. NYSED performed a As you are aware, CUNY’s campuses must voluntary interim aggregate data collection in provide comprehensive education and June 2018 for which all campuses submitted awareness programs for all incoming students reports. and new employees. While this obligation has not changed, because of Section 201-G of Beginning October 1, 2019, colleges must the amended NYS Labor Law, all employees report annually to NYSED information must now complete annual training on sexual concerning incidents of sexual assault, harassment. Additionally, members of the violence, etc. that were reported to the special subcommittee of the Faculty Student college during the prior calendar year. The Disciplinary Committee hearing and deciding NYSED aggregate data reporting now follows charges of sexual misconduct against the Clery campus crime reporting schedule. students must receive annual specialized training before they participate in a hearing. Colleges are to continue to utilize the Sexual Misconduct Log to keep track of incidents of You will be receiving additional information sexual misconduct on their campus as well as shortly about your campus training obligations any resulting adjudication. as well as available resources including the online education module SPARC for students c. Coordination in Education Plans, Record and E-SPARC for employees. Keeping, and Reporting In alignment with the University’s protocol on responding to all incidents of sexual misconduct, the campus Title IX Coordinator, Chief Student Affairs Officer, Director of Education Plans, Record Public Safety, Human Resources Director, Legal Designee and others as appropriate, Keeping, and Reporting must continue to consult and work together to provide these educational plans and progress a. Education Plans and Annual Progress reports, as well as to ensure that Clery reports Reports accurately reflect allegations of reported Beginning in academic year 2015-16, all crimes relating to sexual misconduct.
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 83 Those crimes include rape, fondling, incest, statutory rape, domestic partner and dating Students’ Rights violence, stalking and hate crimes that include crimes based on sexual orientation Concerning Education and gender identity. Records (FERPA) If you have questions about any of these policies or their implementation, please The federal Family Educational Rights and contact Rodney Pepe-Souvenir, Associate Privacy Act Director for Diversity and Compliance/ (http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ University Title IX Coordinator, at (646) 664- ferpa/index.html) affords students certain 3314; Roberta Nord, University Director of rights with respect to their education records. Advocacy and Referral, at (646) 664-8753; The FERPA rights of students are as follows: or Dan Simonette, Associate General Counsel, at (646) 664-9215. 1. The right to inspect and review the student’s education records.
Students should submit to the Office Student Responsibilities of Student Affairs written requests that identify the record(s) they wish to inspect. If when Faced with the records are not maintained by the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism official to whom the request was submitted, Potential Legal Action that official shall advise the student of the correct official to whom the request should Any threat of legal action or subpoena be addressed. Pursuant to the guidelines regarding your journalistic activities must be issued by the Board of Trustees of The City reported promptly to your instructor and the University of New York, all requests shall Associate Dean. Newmark J-School students be granted or denied in writing within 45 are obligated to assist in defending against days of receipt. If the request is granted, legal claims brought against them and/or the the student will be notified of the time and school or university (arising out of their work), place where the records may be inspected. even after they are no longer affiliated with If the request is denied or not responded the school. to within 45 days, the student may appeal. Additional information regarding the Any threat of legal action or subpoena appeal procedures will be provided to the regarding your journalistic activities must be student if a request is denied. reported promptly to your instructor and the Associate Dean. Newmark J-School students The right to request the amendment are obligated to assist in defending against 2. of the student’s education records that legal claims brought against them and/or the the student believes are inaccurate or school or university (arising out of their work), misleading. even after they are no longer affiliated with the school. Students may ask the college to amend a record that they believe is inaccurate or misleading. They should write to the college official responsible for the record, clearly identify the part of the record they want
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Academic Policies, Procedures and Services 84 changed, and specify why it is inaccurate alleged failures by the college to comply or misleading. If the college decides not with the requirements of FERPA. to amend the record as requested by the student, the college will notify the student The office that administers FERPA is: Family of the decision and advise the student Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of his or her right to a hearing regarding of Education, 600 Independence Avenue, the request for amendment. Additional SW Washington, DC 20202-4605. information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the student For additional information: http://www. when notified of the right to a hearing. ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index. html
3. The right to consent to disclosure 6. The following “directory information” of personally identifiable information may be made available concerning current contained in the student’s education and former students by the college to those records, except to the extent that FERPA parties having a legitimate interest in the authorizes disclosure without consent. information: • name One exception that permits disclosure • attendance dates (periods of enrollment) without consent is disclosure to school • address officials with legitimate educational • telephone number interests. A school official is a person • date and place of birth employed by the University in an • photograph administrative, supervisory, academic or • email address research, or support staff position; a person • full - or part - time status or company with whom the University has • enrollment status (undergraduate, contracted; a person serving on the Board graduate, etc.) of Trustees; or a student serving on an • level of education (credits) completed official committee, such as a disciplinary • major field of study or grievance committee, or assisting • degree enrolled for another school official in performing his or • participation in officially recognized her tasks. A school official has a legitimate activities and sports height and weight of educational interest if access is reasonably athletic team members necessary in order to perform his or her instructional, research, administrative, or By filing a form with the Registrar’s office other duties and responsibilities. Upon and the Office of Student Affairs, any student request, the college discloses education or former student may request all of the records to officials of another school in information stated above not be released which a student seeks or intends to enroll. without his or her prior written consent. This form is available in the Registrar’s office and 4. The right to appeal the alleged denial may be filed, withdrawn, or modified at any of FERPA rights to: General Counsel and time. Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, The City University of New York 535 East 80 Street, New York, NY 10021.
5. The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning
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Students at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism benefit from being a part of the CUNY system, which makes up 11 senior colleges, 7 community colleges, the MacaulayMacaualay Honors College and five graduate and professional schools located throughout NYC. Depending on the school and program, journalismournalism students may need to seek permission to take courses at the intended school before they can register. As of August 2016, students can either register through CUNYfirst for courses at the Graduate Center, or through e-permit for courses in most of the other colleges. The e-permit system is accessible through the CUNY portal. For more information, students are welcome to visit the Director of Student Affairs at the Newmark J-School.
Withdrawal
All students seeking to withdraw from the program will be required to give an exit interview. Written notice of voluntary withdrawal from the Newmark J-School program must be approved by the Associate Dean, forwarded to the Office of the Registrar, and cleared by the Offices of Financial Aid, International Students (if applicable), as well as the Libraries, the Bursar, and the Business Office. Such notice must be submitted prior to the end of the third week of classes of a given semester to avoid full tuition liability for that semester. To resume study, a former student must apply to the program for readmission. Students who have not been granted a leave of absence or who have not registered by the first week of a given semester will be withdrawn automatically from the Newmark J-School.
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87 As a school within The City of New York (CUNY) for the posting and 2) the date of the event, system, all general CUNY policies apply deadline or the day of the posting. The to the Craig Newmark Graduate School of individual or organization named on the Journalism, including such issues as follows. posting is responsible for taking down the For more detailed information, please see the material. Postings by anyone else will be bulletin of the CUNY Graduate Center, http:// permitted at the discretion of the Office of www.gc.cuny.edu/About-the-GC/Institutional- Student Affairs. Profile/Bulletin-of-the-GC-2016-17. The Newmark J-School reserves the right to take down all postings that do not comply with the policy or those displayed for more than two weeks from the posting date or the Access and Use Policy advertised event or deadline. The administration would also like to remind at the Craig Newmark everyone that announcement of events and deadlines are appropriate for posting to the Graduate School of class listserve (@journalism.cuny.edu). We encourage that in lieu of paper postings, Journalism community members use either class listserves or facebook groups to disseminate Posting of Literature information whenever possible.
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of More current flyer information found here, Journalism has the following policy regarding http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/flyer-posting- the posting of flyers and other materials policy/ around the building. In addition to saving trees, the goals of the new policy are: to reduce the clutter of flyers taped to the surfaces in the building; present a neater appearance Security and Public for visitors; protect painted surfaces from marring; and make better use of the cleaning staff time. Safety Measures The following measures are some of the The posting of flyers and other materials is means that may be used by the Office of limited to designated bulletin boards which Public Safety in striving to provide a safe can be found near the restrooms on the 3rd and secure environment for the Newmark floor of the building as well as the plastic J-School community and its visitors while inserts found on both 3rd and 4th floor protecting and respecting the rights of the restroom doors. Notices are not permitted individual, including free-speech rights. on surfaces in public areas of the building, These include: enforcing public assembly including walls, classroom/seminar doors, space occupancy limits; requiring the lockers, windows, partitions and bathroom presentation of identification; assignment of stalls. additional security personnel; searching bags, packages, and other containers; requiring All materials displayed on bulletin boards in that coats, outerwear, bags, packages, and the building must include 1) the name of the containers be put in checkrooms before Newmark J-School student, faculty or staff entrance to events; using magnetometers member or organization/office responsible
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Institutional Policies 88 (metal detectors); videotaping, audio journalism.cuny.edu/campus-security-public- taping, and/or photographing an event; safety/ and then click on “Search for Level 3 and requesting the presence of outside law Sex Offenders” or access the directory at the enforcement agencies. college’s public safety department or police precinct. To obtain information about Level 2 offenders, you need to contact the public safety department, local police precinct in Access to Campus which the offender resides or attends college, or the Division’s sex offender registry at Crime Statistics, 1-800-262-3257. Campus Security Report, & Registered Disability Sex Offenders Nondiscrimination
The College Advisory Committee on Campus Policy Safety will provide upon request all campus crime statistics as reported to the U.S. The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Department of Education, as well as the Journalism does not discriminate on the basis annual campus security report. For a list of of disability in the admission and retention of what the security report includes, see the students or the employment of faculty and Graduate Center handbook, pages 79-80. staff. For information regarding services and The campus crime statistics and the annual facilities for students with disabilities, please campus security report are available on the refer to the section “Services for Students Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism with Disabilities.” An internal grievance website in the Campus Security and Public procedure provides for prompt and equitable Safety section, http://www.journalism.cuny. resolution of complaints alleging any action edu/about/campus-safety/. prohibited by the Office of Civil Rights under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of In accordance with the federal Campus 1973 or the Americans with Disabilities Act Sex Crimes Prevention Act, registered sex of 1990. Grievances should be addressed offenders now are required to register the to Anthony LaViscount, Director of Student name and address of any college at which he Affairs at the Craig Newmark Graduate School or she is a student or employee. The New York of Journalism; Telephone: (646) 758-77853. State Division of Criminal Justice maintains a registry of convicted sex offenders and informs the college’s chief security (public safety) officer of the presence on campus Drug and Alcohol Policy of a registered sex offender as a student or employee. You may contact the college’s The City University of New York (“CUNY”) is chief security officer to obtain information an institution committed to promoting the about Level 2 or Level 3 registered sex physical, intellectual, and social development offenders on campus. To obtain information of all individuals. As such, CUNY seeks to about Level 3 offenders, you may contact prevent the abuse of drugs and alcohol, the Division’s registry website at https://www. which can adversely impact performance and
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Institutional Policies 89 threaten the health and safety of students, drugs that is derived from the poppy plant. employees, their families, and the general All opiate abuse, including many prescription public. CUNY complies with all federal, painkillers, can lead to addiction, overdose state, and local laws concerning the unlawful and even death. If you or someone you know possessionunlawfulpossession,use, and is abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, distribution of drugs and alcohol. CUNY’s Mental Health and Wellness Offices Students are expected to comply with the can provide educational resources and CUNY and college policies with respect to referrals to organizations that can help. In drugs and alcohol. Any student found in addition, selected CUNY health and public violation may be subject to disciplinary action safety staff are being trained to administer under Article 15 of the Bylaws of the Board of Naloxone, a drug used to counter the effects Trustees, which may result in sanctions up to of opioid overdose and prevent death. For and including expulsion from the University. immediate help, visit your local emergency In addition, any student who resides in a room, or call the OASAS HOPEline at 1-877- CUNY residence hall and who is found to 846- 7369 24 hours a day, seven days a week, have violated any CUNY or college policy with to speak with a trained medical professional. respect to drugs and alcohol may be subject HOPEline staff can answer your questions to sanctions under the CUNY Residence Hall and help you find treatment. All calls are free Disciplinary Procedures, up to and including and confidential. Website, https://www.oasas. expulsion from the residence hall. ny.gov/accesshelp/. In lieu of formal disciplinary action, CUNY may, in appropriate cases, seek to resolve the matter through an agreement pursuant to which the student must see a counselor or successfully participate in a drug and alcohol Policy with Regard treatment program.
In accordance with theFederal Educational to Students who are Rights and Privacy Act (“FERPA”), CUNY may also choose—when appropriate—to Breastfeeding contact parents or legal guardians of students who have violated the CUNY policy on drugs In recognition of the importance and benefits and alcohol. of breastfeeding for mothers and infants and Persons who are experiencing problems in compliance with state and federal law, with drug or alcohol use may receive free, CUNY supports the rights of nursing mothers confidential health counseling and referral at school and in the workplace. CUNY and services at two locations at the CUNY Graduate the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Center: the Student Health Services (212) Journalism are dedicated to making its best 817- 7020, and the Wellness Center Student effort to accommodate requests from nursing Counseling Services (212) 817-1602, mothers for break time and a private space to http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current- express milk oncampus. Students/Student-Life/Health-Wellness/. The Newmark J-School has identified the printer/pantry room in the 3rd floor Office NYS Governor’s Office Opiate/Heroin Initiative of Admissions and Student Affairs, and CUNY has joined the New York State the 14th-floor Server Room as reasonable Governor’s Office in an important initiative accommodations for mothers. Please note to address a recent increase in heroin that the door may be shut, and a sign posted overdose. Heroin is an opiate, a class of to insure privacy. This room will be made
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Institutional Policies 90 available to students based on availability, on an excerpt from these rules and regulations: a first-come, first-served basis. The tradition of the university as a sanctuary of academic freedom and center of informed discussion is an honored one, to be guarded vigilantly. The basic significance of that Policy with Regard sanctuary lies in the protection of intellectual freedoms: the rights of professors to teach, of scholars to engage in the advancement of to Students who are knowledge, of students to learn and to express their views, free from external pressures or Pregnant interference. These freedoms can flourish only in an atmosphere of mutual respect, civility The Newmark J-School does not discriminate and trust among teachers and students, only against any student on the basis of pregnancy when members of the university community or related conditions. Absences due to are willing to accept self-restraint and medical conditions relating to pregnancy will reciprocity as the condition upon which they be excused for as long as deemed medically share in its intellectual autonomy. Academic necessary by a student’s doctor and students freedom and the sanctuary of the university will be given the opportunity to make up campus extend to all who share these aims missed work. Students needing assistance and responsibilities. They cannot be invoked can seek accommodations from the Office of by those who would subordinate intellectual Student Affairs. freedom to political ends, or who violate the norms of conduct established to protect that freedom. Rules and Regulations for the Maintenance of Statement of Public Order Pursuant Nondiscrimination to Article 129A of the Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Regulations Education The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism is an equal opportunity and Rules and regulations for the maintenance affirmative action institution and, as a of public order on college campuses and constituent unit of The City University of New other college property used for educational York, adheres to the policy of the University purposes were adopted by the Board of “to recruit, employ, retain, promote, and Trustees of The City University of New York provide benefits to employees and to admit (formerly the Board of Higher Education) on and provide services for students without June 23, 1969, in compliance with Chapter regard to race, color, national or ethnic origin, 191 of the Laws of 1969 of the State of religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender New York. These rules and regulations are in identity, marital status, disability, genetic effect at all campuses of The City University predisposition or carrier status, alienage, of New York. The full text may be found in the citizenship, military or veteran status, or Graduate Center handbook. The following is status as victim of domestic abuse.”
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Institutional Policies 91 days, where it is possible and practicable to do so. No special fees shall be charged to the student for these classes, Student Rights Religious examinations, study, or work requirements held on other days. Observances 5. In effectuating the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty of the faculty Education Law Section 224-a, stating the and of the administrative officials to rights and privileges of students unable to exercise the fullest measure of good faith. attend classes on certain days because of No adverse or prejudicial effects shall result religious beliefs, appears below, as mandated to any student because of that student’s by state law: use of the provisions of this section. No person shall be expelled from or 1. Any student who is aggrieved by be refused admission as a student for the 6. the alleged failure of any faculty or reason that he or she is unable,because administrative officials to comply in good of his or her religious beliefs, to register faith with the provisions of this section or attend classes or to participate in any shall be entitled to maintain an action or examination, study, or work requirements proceeding in the supreme court of the on a particular day or days. county in which the institution is located for the enforcement of rights under this Any student who is unable, because of 2. section. his or her religious beliefs, to attend classes on a particular day or days shall, because of such absence on the particular day or days, be excused from any examination or any study or work requirements. Title IX Sexual Assault
3. It shall be the responsibility of the Policy faculty and of the administrative officials to make available to each student who is Combating Sexual Assault and Other absent from school because of religious Unwelcome Sexual Behavior beliefs an equivalent opportunity to Anyone of any gender, sexual orientation, register for classes or to make up any religious affiliation, citizenship status, examination, study, or work requirements race, class or educational level can suffer which he or she has missed because of from sexual harassment, including sexual such absence on any particular day or violence. Our goal is to help you understand days. No fees of any kind shall be charged what sexual harassment means and let you for making available to the said student know that there are people at CUNY and in such equivalent opportunity. the community who can help if you or others experience it. We want to make sure you 4. If registration, classes, examinations, understand your rights as a student, CUNY’s study, or work requirements are held on policies, and other issues related to sexual Friday after 4 p.m. or on Saturday, similar harassment and assault. or makeup classes, examinations, study, or work requirements, or opportunity to On every CUNY campus there is a person who register shall be made available on other has special training in helping students who
NEWMARK J-SCHOOL STUDENT HANDBOOK / Other Institutional Policies 92 are facing issues related to sexual harassment criminal prosecution. Complaints of sexual and assault. In an emergency, please call ext. harassment are covered under the University’s 7777 if you’re on campus for public safety. If Policy Against Sexual Harassment. The you’re off-campus, please call 911 right away University, at the request of an employee for help. For more help and guidance, please or student, or at its own discretion, may contact Sahana Gupta, the school’s Title IX prohibit members of the public, including Coordinator, for guidance or information. Or, family members, from seeing an employee go here for more information, https://www. or students on University property unless journalism.cuny.edu/title-ix/. necessary to transact University-related business. This policy particularly applies where the employee or student suspects that an act of violence will result from an Tobacco Free CUNY encounter with said individual(s). All faculty, staff, students, vendors, Policy contractors, consultants, and others who do business with the University, whether in Out of respect for others and the environment, a University facility or off-campus location CUNY is tobacco-free! Effective September where University business is conducted, 4, 2012, the use of tobacco is prohibited are covered by this policy. This policy also on all grounds and facilities under CUNY applies to other persons not affiliated with jurisdiction, including indoor locations and the University, such as former employees, outdoor locations such as playing fields; former students, and visitors. When students entrances and exits to buildings; and parking have complaints about other students, they lots. This policy applies to all tobacco and should contact the Office of Student Affairs. tobacco products including chew tobacco and e-cigarettes.
Workplace Violence Policy
CUNY prohibits workplace violence. Violence, threats of violence, intimidation, harrassment, coercion, or other threatening behavior towards people or property will not be tolerated. Complaints involving workplace violence will not be ignored and will be given the serious attention they deserve. Individuals who violate this policy may be removed fromUniversity property and are subject to disciplinary and/or personnel action upto and including termination, consistent with University policies, rules, and collective bargaining agreements, and/ or referral to law enforcement authorities for
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94 blog/2011/06/a_few_insider_tips_for_ Housing renting • https://www.brickunderground.com/ Student Affairs has compiled additional blog/2013/01/moving_to_nyc_everything_ housing resources to assist you during your you_need_to_know_before_relocating_ time in the program: here • https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/ CUNY Sponsored Housing usa/new-york/new-york-city/articles/10- • Graduate Center Apartments tips-for-apartment-hunting-in-nyc/ https://gc.cuny.edu/Prospective-Current- Students/Student-Life/Housing • The Summit at Queens College (priority is given to Queens College students but open to any CUNY student) http://queenscollegehousing.com/
The material below is provided solely for informational purposes and is not intended to be an exhaustive review or to endorse, recommend, or otherwise favor any given housing resource, article or website.
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