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2020 July Ascent Newsletter Newsletter of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications ASCENT July 2020 Vol. 27 #2 CALENDAR Message from the Council President Council to hold session at virtual AEJMC conference It’s been a remarkable year for ACEJMC. Like every other The Accrediting Council will have organization, COVID-19 has disrupted our processes and an information session 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Friday, routines, and we find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. Aug. 7, during the virtual conference of the Association for Education in Call it a gap year, call it a year off. Whatever the case, the 2020-21 Journalism and Mass Communi- accrediting cycle is postponed a year. In essence, every visit, every cation. The main topic will be an decision is pushed back. Schools seeking initial accreditation have to update on standards revisions. wait. The first Susanne Shaw Award for It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was the only decision, even as some Excellence in Accreditation will be schools (a few at least) wanted to go ahead, possibly with virtual presented at the AEJMC conference President visits. Peter Bhatia in 2021. The Council met twice this spring, for our normal accrediting Accrediting Council to meet virtually Sept. 12 decision-making in April and in a special business meeting in May at COVID-19 which the decision to push back a year was adopted. The Accrediting Council will meet leads to a virtually 10 a.m. (Eastern Time) To be clear, this means all units on the traditional six-year visit Saturday, Sept. 12, for its fall meet- schedule will instead be accredited for seven years for one cycle. For pause in ing. The standards review will be the example, a school previously scheduled for a vote in 2022 will now main topic of discussion. Council reviews; be up for a vote in 2023. members will receive further details accreditation about the meeting next month from ACEJMC won’t be taking the year off, however. Our standards review ACEJMC headquarters. Schools committee remains at work and will be presenting its findings to the work interested in virtually attending the Council at a September meeting (by Zoom, of course). We also will Council meeting should contact use the year to create webinar training for school administrators continues Executive Director Pat Thompson at and site teams, and to do some strategic planning, evaluating our [email protected]. processes and methodologies to adapt to the rapidly changing worlds on the of higher education, our professions and technology. Annual deadline to update standards retention/graduation data On standards review, you’ve perhaps heard that we are consider- pushed back revisions ing a relaxation of the 72-hour rule to give schools more curricular Because of the COVID-19 pan- flexibility. We are rewriting our governing values and competencies demic, the annual Aug. 15 deadline to deal with contemporary times. And we are looking at streamlining to notify ACEJMC of updated reten- the standards to keep the rigor required but to eliminate work not tion and graduation data has been essential to accrediting a program. pushed back until Dec. 1. Schools are encouraged to observe the Aug. The survey many of you participated in last year shows a general 15 deadline if possible. satisfaction with the accrediting process. But we intend to make it As a reminder, accredited programs better. must send notification of the update and the current URL to creinardy@ Please attend our virtual session at AEJMC in August, to learn more ku.edu. about where we are in the review process. Council, Committee Member/Program Accreditation 2019-20 site team In this issue: appointments updates decisions appreciation Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 ASCENT ASJMC and AEJMC elect representatives to the Accrediting Council Association of Schools year of Lorraine Branham’s three- of Journalism and Mass term for the 2019-20 academic Communication: year. Kathleen McElroy, professor Association for Education and director of the School of Jour- in Journalism and Mass nalism at the University of Texas Communication Kathleen Greg Pat at Austin, was elected to a three- McElroy Luft Curtin Pat Curtin, associate dean year term as Accrediting Council for undergraduate affairs at the representative for the Association of Schools of Journalism University of Oregon, was elected to a three-year term as and Mass Communication. Accrediting Council representative for the Association for Greg Luft, professor and chair of the Department of Jour- Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Curtin nalism and Media Communication at Colorado State Univer- replaces Cristina Azocar, who had completed her three-year sity, was elected to a three-year term as Accrediting Council term as AEJMC representative to the Council. representative for the Association of Schools of Journalism New Council members will begin their terms with the Sept. and Mass Communication. Luft had served the remaining 12 virtual meeting. Council elects Accrediting Committee members The Accrediting Council elected she represented NABJ on the Accredit- Cristina Azocar, Jackie Jones and ing Council for 25 years. Joseph Tateoka to serve three-year Tateoka is a vice president and talent terms on the Accrediting Committee. director at Edelman Chicago. In August Michael Cherenson was re-elected to 2019, he joined the Talent/HR team serve a second term. The Accrediting supporting the organization’s D&I, Council held the elections during its May corporate citizenship/sustainability, 16 virtual business meeting. Cristina Jackie Azocar Jones internal communications, and learning Azocar is an associate professor of and development initiatives. Previ- journalism at San Francisco State Uni- ously, he spent more than 12 years as versity where she served as department a strategic account and team lead for chair for two terms. She is a past presi- B2B, technology and corporate clients dent of the Native American Journalists including: Amazon Web Services, Association, a past president of American Braintree, CA Technologies, HP 3D Indian Issues for the Media Diversity Printers, HP Enterprise, and PayPal at Forum and a past member of the Accred- Edelman. iting Council. She is a founding board Joseph Michael Cherenson, executive vice president member of the Women’s Media Center. Tateoka Cherenson of SCG Advertising and Public Rela- Jones is assistant dean for programs at Morgan State tions, is a 26-year industry veteran and author of three University and also chairs the Department of Multimedia studies on the impact of reputation. Cherenson is Ac- Journalism in the School of Global Journalism & Com- credited in Public Relations by the Universal Accredita- munication. She is a veteran journalist, having worked tion Board and Public Relations Society of America, and at several news organizations, including the Detroit Free is a member of the organization’s prestigious College of Press, New York Newsday, The Philadelphia Daily News Fellows. At SCG Advertising and Public Relations, he has and The Washington Post. Jones has been a senior served as chief public relations counselor and strategist lecturer at Penn State, a Virginius Dabney Distinguished and oversees all public relations activities. Cherenson Professor at Virginia Commonwealth, and an adjunct is a member of PRSA’s Educational Affairs Committee journalism instructor at Howard University. As a national and serves as a site team member for the Group’s CEPR officer for the National Association of Black Journalists, Certification program. JULY 2020 Page 2 ASCENT MEMBER and PROGRAM UPDATES Tamara Buck will become chair of the Department of Mass Haydeé Seijo Maldonado is acting chair of the School of Com- Media at Southeast Missouri State, effective Aug. 1. Buck munications at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras succeeds Pam Parry, who is stepping down to focus on research Campus. Maldonado succeeds Jorge Santiago Pintor, who publication. Buck will be the first African-American to serve as stepped down as chair and continues as a professor on the de- chairperson of the department. partment’s faculty. Lisa Collins replaces Sonya Duhé as director of the School of Emily Metzgar is the new director of the School of Media and Communication and Design at Loyola University in New Or- Journalism at Kent State University. Professor Jeffrey Fruit leans. Collins has been a professor at Loyola for seven years and had served as the interim director during the national search. served as the director of online education for the school. She will Before her appointment at Kent State, Metzgar was serving as serve as interim director during the search for a new director. director of undergraduate studies at The Media School at Indiana State University. Eddith Dashiell is the new director of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism in the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio Temple Northup is the new director of the School of Journal- University. Dashiell succeeds Robert Stewart, who had ism and Media Studies at San Diego State University. Noah served the last 10 years as director before retiring in May. Dashi- Arceneaux, who served as interim director during the leader- ell joined the faculty in 1992. She is the first woman and first ship search, returns to full-time teaching. Before his appointment African-American to hold the director position in the school. at San Diego State University, Northup was director of the School of Communication at the University of Houston. Ron DeMarse is the new interim director of the School of Media at Western Kentucky University. DeMarse succeeds María Leticia Flores-Palacios is the new director of the Robert Dietle, who had served as interim director since 2017. Department of Digital Media and Culture at the Instituto DeMarse has been a faculty member of the school since 2007 and Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey.
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