The CIC/New York
Times Partnership has scheduled a number of activities for
the coming year, including a full-day Student Newspaper Editors
Workshop and a Presidents Council Meeting in New York City in fall
2005. In addition, the Partnership has been announced on the Times
website (www.nytimes.com/college)
and speakers from the Times have been visiting Partnership campuses
throughout the academic year.
The Student Newspaper Editors Workshop,
entitled “Inside the Times,” will be held on Monday, October
17, 2005 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the New York
Times offices at 229 West 43rd Street, and is open to student
newspaper editors at CIC institutions that have joined the Partnership.
Participants will have the opportunity to work directly with the
New York Times newsroom to explore the role of a newspaper
and to develop their journalistic skills. Students will meet with
correspondents, editors, and others from the Times to discuss
the various aspects of the newspaper from newsroom and editorial
to advertising. They will also participate in a workshop on the
editing process. Finally, there will be time to interact with other
student editors from around the country. More details about the
event will be forthcoming.
Other Partnership activities include
a Presidents Council Meeting in New York City for all Partner presidents
on the morning of Tuesday, September 20, 2005,
following CIC’s Foundation Conversation. In addition, several Partner
institutions recently hosted Times editors, reporters,
and others on campus. Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins spoke in
January at The Sage Colleges (NY) on the topic
of her latest book, America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges,
Helpmates, and Heroines; Education Editor Jack Kadden visited
Juniata College (PA) in March to give a presentation
on “Educational Reform: A Journalist’s Perspective”; and Health
and Science Editor Denise Grady is scheduled to speak at Rider
University (NJ) in April on the topic of “Critical Decisions:
A Talk About Radical Treatment Options.”
CIC member colleges and universities
may still join the Partnership. To do so, contact Laura Wilcox at
(202) 466-7230 or lwilcox@cic.nche.edu.
Click
here for more information on the Partnership.
