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.
Evans, James (author), Karg, Pamela J. (author), Berkland, Melva J. (author), King, David (author), Whiting, Larry (author), and Hood, Nancy (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994-05-04
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: C24762
Notes:
Retrieved September 30, 2006, 2 pages., Report of the Mission Statement Subcommittee established at the Agricultural Communicators Summit in Kansas City, Missouri, Novembr 13, 1993. Headings of the statement: Our Vision, Our Mission and We Value.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 171 Document Number: C28762
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3 pages., Responses to questions about communications skills and agricultural studies that agricultural communications students need in order to be most proficient.
Recommendations from the Professional Development Committee of AAACE. They include sabbatical leaves, exchange appointments, short-term media experience (unpaid leave from college position). "Members of the association were emphatic in their statement that editors should be given the same privileges of sabbatical leave as other college workers and that they should develop their jobs and positions so that they would have a rank equivalent to that of any professorship on the campus."
