USA: Southern Farm Network, Raleigh, North Carolina
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12144
Notes:
Brief report on "SFN Today" featured the national Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) student organization. 2 pages., Briefly described the development and goals of the organization, the programming it offers to student members, and the current student and faculty leadership.
Author reports that Kansas State has offered a news writing course for agricultural students for more than a decade, and with good results.. Believes a course in news writing should not be a universal requirement in the agricultural college curriculum, but emphasizes skills in English.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 139 Document Number: D05812
Notes:
Website of the Association of Communication Excellence (ACE)for members of the Academic Special Interest Group. 3 pages., Summary of experiences and advice based on a field study tour to Washington,D.C., involving students from two universities and featuring agricultural communications.
Via UNC Research website. 6 pages., UNC students and faculty help community newspapers in North Carolina and across the country transform their product for the digital age.
Report based on data from a study among 3,757 students attending 18 institutions. Students who have chosen banking, dentistry, music and government service were found to be more conservative whereas the liberal attitudes were found among those planning on journalism, social work, law, and agriculture. The attitudes most favorable toward the college attended were found among students choosing such vocations as ministry, banking, teaching, and social service. The least favorable attitudes were indicated by the groups choosing aviation, agriculture, journalism, and music. It is possible that these unfavorable attitudes may be due in part to the inability of these 18 institutions to meet adequately the needs of students planning to enter aviation, agriculture, journalism, and music.
Doerfert, David L. (author / Texas Tech University), Akers, Cindy (author / Texas Tech University), Burris, Scott (author / Texas Tech University), and Settle, Quisto (author / Texas Tech University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2009-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30403
Notes:
Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009.
