"Journalism" is barely mentioned in Exploratory Committee recommendation on future of journalism education at Univ of Colorado
Except for mentions of the current School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the word attached to faculty members’ names and one mention of a proposed “Transmedia and Cross-Platform Journalism” program, the lower-cased word “journalism” appears only twice in the 30-page document of recommendations to the University of Colorado from the exploratory committee looking into the future of journalism education in the (likely) event that the SJMC will be discontinued.
Journalism as a trade, a career path that’s worth training students for, isn’t really part of the future that’s envisioned. It’s not so much about helping journalists learn new media skills; the document seems to focus much more on helping engineering students become more well-rounded by including media studies into their curricula. Journalism, it appears may be allowed to be a certificate program or half of a double-major (with something like Computer Science).
I’m for change and forward-looking leadership at this J-school — where I work, btw — but I know for a fact the undergrad students at the current SJMC are here to learn how to be good journalists and go out there and get jobs in the field.
I wish the report paid at least lip service to teaching journalism. As it is, any student interested in becoming journalists may turn to other universities.
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