AEJMC Business Meeting 1 August 2003 Kansas City, Missouri

Abstract

The meeting was called to order by AEJMC President Theodore L. Classer of Stanford University at 10:10 a.m. Motion: To approve the minutes from 2002 General Business Meeting as published in the Winter 2003 issue of Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Moved and seconded, approved unanimously. Glasser presented several association awards. The Hillior Krieghbaum Undor-40 Award was presented to Julie Andsager of Washington State University. The Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty Development was presented to Sandra Chance of the University of Florida. Several Research Committee Awards were presented next. Linda Steiner of Rutgers University presented the Deutschmann Award for Excellence in Research to Melvin DeFleur of Boston University. Elizabeth Toth of Syracuse University presented the Nafziger-White Dissertation Award to Mark A. Feldstein of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (now teaching at George Washington), and Michael Real of Ohio University presented the Eleanor Blum Award to James A. Crook of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Erika Engstrom of the University of Nevada-Las Vegas presented the following Commission on the Status of Women Awards: the Mary Ann Yodelis Smith Award for Feminist Research to Susan Henry of Cal State Northridge, the Outstanding Contributions to Journalism Education Award to Hazel Dicken-Garcia of the University of Minnesota, and the Mary Gardner Graduate Research Award to Cory Armstrong of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Donna Allen Award for Feminist Advocacy went to Ammu Joseph of the Network of Women in Media, based in India, but she could not attend to accept the award. It was accepted on her behalf by Radhika Parameswaran of Indiana University. Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, media consultant, and Shirley Staples Carter of the University of South Carolina presented diplomas to the 2002-2003 fellows of the Journalism and Mass Communication Leadership Institute for Diversity. Kern-Foxworth thanked the Gannett Foundation for its critical funding of the: program. The fellows were Janet Bridges of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Kathleen Enclros of the University of Akron, John Omachonu of William Paterson University, Federico Subervi of The Latinos and Media Project, Birgit Wassmuth of Drake University, Jan Whitt of the University of Colorado Boulder, and Lynn Zoch of the University of South Carolina. Carter announced the 2003-2004 class of JLID fellows. In his President's Report, Classer thanked the Council of Divisions for the substance of the convention this year. He thanked Jennifer McGill and the AEJMC office staff for their work this year. He said that several of the task forces he appointed two years ago will be reporting during the convention. He expressed special thanks to each of the following for their work: Jim Carey, Linda Steiner, Charles Salmon, and John Pauly. Glasser then presented the 2004 Presidential Awards to Cliff Christians of the University of Illinois and Jim Carey of Columbia University. Glasser thanked them for their long-standing and dedicated service to the association, and their outstanding work in the field. President-elect Jannette L. Dates of Howard University said that the association was increasing its level of support for the enrollment and placement studies conducted by Lee Becker of the University of Georgia. Dates said the association was in excellent financial shape as were the AEJMC journals. Lori Bergen of Kansas State University reported that the Professional Freedom & Responsibility Committee worked on the proposed resolutions, and will be working on the plenary for the Toronto convention. Incoming chair of the committee is Beth Barnes of the University of Kentucky, and the incoming vice chair will be Ann Brill of the University of Kansas. The best PF&R report this year was from the Public Relations Division, and an honorable mention went to the Radio-Television Division. …