Studenthandbook2017-2018Final.Pdf
Message from the Dean Dear Students: As we start our twelfth year, I want to welcome the Class of 2018. We’re thrilled to have you here! As with our previous classes, you are smart, enterprising and diverse. You went to a wide variety of schools – from top-ranked private colleges such as Yale, Columbia, Oberlin and Wesleyan, to excellent public universities such as CUNY, SUNY, the University of Michigan and UCLA, to more highly specialized schools like the Rochester Institute of Technology. For the second time, your class will include a cohort of bilingual students who have chosen to do their concentration in Spanish-language journalism. And for the first time, two Native American students are enrolled. About 19 percent of you hail from countries outside the U.S., including India, Brazil, Italy, Gambia and Japan. The Class of 2018 is diverse in other ways, too. Yes, many of you have worked or interned at newspapers, magazines, radio and TV stations, or websites. But listen to what else some of you have done in recent years: worked as a medical student in an Egyptian hospital, choreographed and performed as a professional dancer, and launched a nonprofit for children whose parents died of cancer. Two of you have already published three books! Partly as a result of these diverse backgrounds, you come here with different journalistic experiences and skills. Our job is to challenge all of you at your own level and raise you from there. Submit story ideas to our School’s online news service. Add audio and video to a text-based story.
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