Job Market Turns Much Worse
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Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates
by Lee B. Becker, Tudor Vlad, Devora Olin
Grady College, University of Georgia
"The
only good news for 2008 graduates was that those who did find work
received the same average salary as graduates a year earlier."
As a result, significantly fewer of them than a year earlier-when the job market already was weak by historical standards-had at least one job offer on graduation, were able even to land a job interview, or find full-time employment.
Only six in 10 of the graduates had full-time employment six to eight months after graduation. That is the lowest level of full-time employment reported by graduates of the nation's journalism and mass communication programs in the 23-year modern history of the Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates.
As recently as 2000, three-quarters of the graduates of these programs reported full-time employment when they returned the survey instrument. One year ago, seven in 10 reported having full-time employment.
The drop in the level of full-time employment-from 70.2% of graduates in 2007 to 60.4% in 2008-is the largest change recorded in levels of employment in the 23 years that the same methodology has been used to track these statistics.
The job market that had plummeted after its peak in 2000 and had begun to improve in 2003 simply crashed. Only half of the graduates had full-time work in the field of communication... Keep reading
http://aejmc.org/topics/2009/10/job-market-turns-much-worse/
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 From the AEJMC President
Carol J. Pardun, University of South Carolina
When I was nominated to run for vice president, it was still fun to check my TIAA-CREF account, owning a house was a good investment, the Rocky Mountain News was rock solid, and AEJMC was just beginning to flesh out its strategic plan initiative. The horizon looked bright and never ending.
Fast forward to October 2009. I'm working at a different university now, I'm afraid to look at my retirement funds, I get weekly calls from out-of-work journalists asking about opportunities to teach as adjuncts, the Rocky Mountain News has gone belly up (along with other iconic papers), university endowment funds are teetering on the edge of some frighteningly steep cliffs. You get the picture. And so here I find myself, putting out fires at home while trying to do my part in helping to lead AEJMC this year. So, I repeat. WHAT WAS I THINKING? ... Keep reading
http://aejmc.org/topics/2009/10/what-was-i-thinking/
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How teaching evaluations can help you get tenure, and make you a better teacher
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 Teaching Tips Corner: Tips from the AEJMC Teaching Committee
by Sheri J. Broyles, University of North Texas
I have a love/hate relationship with student evaluations. The love part is with the written comments, because they can be so rich. In addition to the required multiple-choice questions at the end of each semester, I always ask my students three things. And I phrase it like this:
- Tell me what I did right (so I can do it again next semester)
- Tell me what I did wrong (but you can't say something sucks unless you tell me how to make it better)
- Add any other comments you'd like me to know
Why these three probes? First, you really do want to know what students think is good so you can continue in future semesters. But it also sets the tone for what follows. Rather than focusing only on the negative, it gives balance to your course evaluations... Keep reading
http://aejmc.org/topics/2009/10/teaching-evals-to-help-you-get-tenure-and-make-you-a-better-teacher-too/
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2010 AEJMC Southeast Colloquium
at UNC-Chapel Hill
The AEJMC Southeast Colloquium will be hosted by the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism
and Mass Communication on March 11-13, 2010.The scheduled keynote speaker is Miriam Nisbet, President Barack Obama's newly appointed Director of the Office
of Government Services at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Paper and panel proposal submissions for the colloquium are due by December
4. Please visit the colloquium
website for more information at http://www.jomc.unc.edu/SEC2010.
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Best Practices in the Teaching of Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking is vital to journalism
and communication. The AEJMC Elected Committee on Teaching is looking
for the best practices in our discipline.
Entries should be received
by 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Please see the full call at http://www.aejmc.org/_calls/practices.php.
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