SlashMediaPR Embraces First Client /CCJA/MediaPR
Slash Media is proud to announce CCJA as our first client!
About CCJA:
CCJA is a nonprofit Community College Journalism Association. The Community College Journalism Association was founded in 1968, as the Junior College Journalism Association; the new name was adopted in 1974, as a direct result of two summer seminars for community college journalism teachers at the University of Texas-Austin in 1966 and 1967. The seminars were sponsored by the Newspaper Fund, Inc., and were directed by the late Dr. DeWitt Reddick, then Dean of the School of Communication at UT-Austin.
Both Reddick and Paul Swensson, then Executive Director of the Newspaper Fund, were strong proponents of national organization for community college journalism teachers. The CCJA Constitution was adopted and the Association formed August 27, 1968, during the National Convention of the Association for Education in Journalism, now named the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication – AEJMC, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
At the conection, the AEJMC Executive committee accepted CCJA as an Affiliate organization. In 1983, the AEJMC Advisory Board unanimously voted to seat CCJA as a Board Member. CCJA was the second non- Division of AEMJC to hold membership and a vote on the Advisory board, known today as the Council of Division. In 1996, CCJA was granted full division status by AEMJC, which was formalized for the first time in the Council of the Divisions By-Laws. Signers of the original CCJA Constitution were CCJA Interim President Fred Walker Jr. of Vincennes University* in Vicennes, Indiana and Interim Executive Eateon of Green River Community College, in Auburn, Washington, and Jim D. Sullivan of Eastern Oklahoma State College* in Wilburton, Oklahoma.
*= Schools are two-year community colleges
CCJA recently swore in a new board and has changed the focus of its direction to an organization that focuses on innovation in college media. The organization will be announcing a new awards contest for community college students that awards innovation in journalism.
To all at CCJA, Let’s Embrace Success--Together!
