Posted on 08/25/2010 5:07:16 PM PDT by ransomnote
The University of Colorado is considering closing its traditional journalism school and dramatically remodeling the way it trains students for the profession.
The future of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication is unclear, but budget woes and the rapid evolution of media has prompted Chancellor Phil DiStefano to instruct CU officials to start reviewing the school under the regent's discontinuance policy.
Simultaneously, Interim Provost Russell Moore is setting up an exploratory panel that is charged with generating recommendations for creating a new information, communication and technology program. The earliest a new school of information could emerge is 2012, said Moore
Read more: CU-Boulder considers closing journalism school - Boulder Daily Camera
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_15891065?source=most_emailed#ixzz0xfJWGIAe
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Just merge the “Journalism” Deptartment with Marxist Studies.
What the hell is the difference?
Looks like they want to replace it with the school of Tweeting and Facebooking, with a minor in foursquare and YouTube.
A journalism grad from Columbia could never hope to cover the student loan payments from a journalist's salary.
Just something to think about. Journalism in the American university system...didn’t really exist until the 1950s. If you went to most colleges before that period and had dreams of being a newspaper guy...you got a degree in literature or just skipped college and worked yourself up from junior reporter with no degree to full-reporter with no degree.
This entire game of training people how to be journalists only caught on in the past forty years. The curious thing is that we’ve had this spiral of newspapers downward for about the same period. Makes you wonder.
30K for part time students and 51K for full time students (annual tuition at Columbia). Since parents, a.k.a. members of the voting public, are probably not willing to pay for their children to join the ranks of the MSM right now, they’d certainly be reliant on those loans, too!
200K for a degree in journalism and a chance at being invited to join ‘Journo-list’!!!!
No graduate of the University of Colorado J-School would ever be hired by the MSM. The school is far too conservative for their tastes.
Interesting point. I didn’t realize that journalism programs were developed so recently. I wonder if the left supplied the impetus for such a program or if it seemed like a ‘natural’ progression at the time. I took a journalism class in school and, while I liked the instruction in concise, clarity, the rest of the content seemed to be a waste or covered by other courses (English, photography etc.) I look at some writers that I admire, like Victor David Hanson, and note that journalism coursework would labor to simplify and homogenize (lowest common denominator)his writing to the point that I would not read him anymore.
Hmmmm...I did not know that. Maybe that is why I had not heard of the school’s J program before (no MSM luminaries bragging about having attended there).
CU Boulder is known as the Berkeley of the Rockies. As left wing as it gets for over a thousand miles. But still far too conservative for the MSM. Speaking as a graduate of that institution.
A journalism grad from Columbia could never hope to cover the student loan payments from a journalist’s salary.
I hired a journalism graduate to help me move last time. He is still unemployed over a year later.
How hard is it to report who? how? why? what? and when? There’s your journalism school....you may mail $20,000 tuition to me....
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