JACC Board of Directors Meeting
February 7-8, 2009
DoubleTree Hotel, Sacramento, Calif.
ATTENDING:
Jay Seidel, Faculty President
Danny Edwards, Faculty Vice President – SoCal
Aaron Dobruck, Student Vice President - SoCal
Bhavisha Patel, Student Vice President - NorCal
Timi Poeppelman, Events Coordinator
Beth Grobman, Secretary
Jacque Thomley, Treasurer
NOT ATTENDING:
Rich Cameron, Communications Director
Alison Kirkham, Student President
Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Faculty Vice President – NorCal
A. Call to Order
1. Minutes
The minutes were approved with several minor corrections.
2. Agenda
The agenda was approved (Edwards/Dobruck moved) with a request from Poeppelman to include discussion of the Extra Mile Awards, Volunteer of the Year Awards and Service to Journalism Awards, and an e-mail request from Ugwu-Oju to discuss whether the convention should be scaled back due to the recession.
B. Reports
1. State Faculty Report – Seidel
Seidel reported that the Morro Bay faculty conference was successful.
2. State Student Report – Kirkham
Kirkham was ill and unable to attend, thus no report.
3. NorCal Faculty Report – Ugwu-Oju
Ugwu-Oju had a scheduling conflict and was unable to attend, thus no report.
4. NorCal Student Report – Patel
Patel said that the NorCal Editors Camp will be held Feb. at Cosumnes River College. Nancy Kaplan-Biegal has given Patel suggestions for topics to talk about. Patel has created a flyer and will call all the newsrooms and send out e-mail to all JACC papers, and will send an informational e-mail to one of the faculty members to send out to advisers on the listserv.
5. SoCal Faculty Report – Edwards
Poeppelman has been looking at locations other than the Wilshire Grand to hold the even-year JACC conventions at, starting in 2012, including the Doubletree in Ontario and the Town and Country Resort in San Diego. Edwards reported Lori Medigovich sent an e-mail to Seidel on Feb. 5, stating her concern about moving the conference from L.A. to Ontario. Poeppelman said she doesn't have a recommendation at his time, but she will bring one to the Board either by e-mail or by the May board meeting. At the state conference faculty meeting in late March, she plans to be able to tell members the options. Faculty will have a chance to respond, but board will cast the deciding vote.
6. SoCal Student Report – Dobruck
Dobruck and Cameron hosted the Southern California editors meeting earlier today at Cerritos College. The event went well. Attending were 33 students from seven colleges: Cerritos, El Camino, Glendale, Moorpark, Riverside, Pierce and Southwestern. Cameron was the only adviser in attendance. To publicize the event, Cameron used a "multi-pronged approach." He posted a flyer on the SoCal listserv, the JACC Web site and the JACC Facebook page. He wrote a personal letter to Southern California editors and invited their editorial staffs to come. Today's event began in the Talon Marks newsroom, moved to the student union building. They broke up into small groups, so that there was no more than one person per college at a table. Dobruck and Cameron reported good collegial interaction: editors discussed issues such as how to resolve staff conflicts and found many editors had the same issues. After lunch the editors broke up into groups by specific job titles for discussion and networking. Cameron's editors' day blog is available http://jaccblog.wordpress.com/. It is the Feb. 7 entry.
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