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A number of key decisions
for the CIC/New York Times Partnership were made during a
Presidents Council meeting in New York in April. David Caputo of Pace
University (NY) agreed to serve for one year as chair of
the Presidents Council and Richard Guarasci of Wagner College
(NY) will serve as project director, taking the lead in working with
other Partnership members to develop projects.
The Partnership is being organized around
a general theme to be announced, which will be featured in many activities.
Members of the Presidents Council also
approved a series of programs or projects to be launched in the coming
academic year:
- Student Essay
Contest. A student essay contest will be launched in
the fall on a topic that is related to the chosen theme; the Times
will publish the top-five winners on the New York Times
college website (www.nytimes.com/college)
and award prizes to the winners. An e-mail announcement and flyers
will be sent to Partnership members in September describing the
contest.
- Student News
Editors Workshop. The Times will host a full-day
workshop for student news editors at Partnership institutions on
a Friday next spring in New York City. Entitled “Inside the Times,”
the workshop will feature discussions with a number of Times
reporters and editors. The students will also participate in an
editing workshop, and will discuss what a student newspaper should
be, how to meet the goals of the paper, and how to bring in advertising.
- Speaker Series.
The Times will offer speakers (editors, reporters, and
authors from the Times) to visit Partnership campuses during
the 2004-05 academic year, and will arrange a webcast each semester
for Partnership campuses with speakers from the Times and
other panelists on issues such as the Iraq war or the presidential
campaign.
- Publicity.
The Times will announce the Partnership on the Times college
website (www.nytimes.com/college)
this fall, with a listing of the member campuses.
More
than 40 CIC members have now joined the Partnership and are taking
advantage of the benefits. The University of Charleston
(WV) used the Times in classrooms and had correspondent Adam
Clymer as a speaker; Bethany College (WV) professors
are also using the newspaper in coursework, and the campus is scheduling
speakers from the Times in the fall; Wagner College
(NY) has begun a speaker series with Times staff, has advertised
in “Education Life,” and is using the paper in the College’s first-year
program; Juniata College (PA) hosted Times
sportswriter Gerald Eskenazi for a speech in the spring; Pace
University (NY) has had speakers on campus and initiated
a series of student polls on young-adult voting habits; Heritage
University (WA) student groups are raising funds to bring
papers to newsstands around the campus; St. Andrews Presbyterian
College (NC) is exploring a consortial arrangement for greater
access and reasonable cost for the digital vault; and Allegheny
College (PA) is developing a website for faculty members
to exchange ideas on how to use the Times in the classroom.
Also, as a result of the Partnership
with CIC, the Times extended an offer to all CIC member institutions
for free daily newspapers during the summer months. Twenty-three institutions
responded to the offer and received the newspapers.
While most of these activities are limited
to members of the CIC/NYT Partnership, all CIC institutions are eligible
to join. The minimum obligation for a college to be considered a Partner
is to purchase subscriptions to the newspaper (discounted to 35 or
40 cents per paper, depending on the number of copies purchased by
the institution). Presidents of institutions that join the Partnership
are invited to serve on the Presidents Council. Campuses interested
in joining the Partnership should contact Laura Wilcox at lwilcox@cic.nche.edu.
Participants in the April 2 Presidents
Council Meeting included: David Caputo, Chair, President,
Pace University (NY); John Deegan, Jr., President,
St. Andrews Presbyterian College (NC); Maurice Eldridge,
Vice President for College and Community Relations, Swarthmore
College (PA); Richard Guarasci, Project Director,
President, Wagner College (NY); Thomas Kepple, Jr.,
President, Juniata College (PA); George E. Martin,
President, St. Edward’s University (TX); Patricia
Lewis Poteat, President, Bethany College (WV); Kathleen
A. Ross, snjm, President, Heritage University (WA);
Robert Scott, President, Adelphi University (NY);
Barb Steadman, Public Affairs Director, Allegheny College
(PA); and Edwin H. Welch, President, University of Charleston
(WV).
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