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11:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. • Registration

 

12:30–1:45 p.m. • Satisfying the Editor’s Demands

Toni Coleman is editor of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, an award-winning national magazine about diversity-related higher education issues specifically and diversity issues broadly. She also has written for Gannett and St. Paul Pioneer Press.

 

 

Jane Karr is “Education Life” editor at The New York Times, where she has worked since 1988. She supervises the quarterly magazine: conceptualizing, assigning, editing all copy, and coordinating photography and art direction.

 

 

Jeff Selingo has been editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education since 2007 and on the editorial staff since 1997. He directs more than 70 editors and reporters who contact print and online audiences concerned with academe.

 

2:00–3:15 p.m. • Concurrent Sessions


Publicizing Science and Research Experts

Jenn Donovan, director of public relations at Michigan Technological University, brings nearly 20 years of daily newspaper reporting (San Francisco Chronicle and Dallas Times Herald) and nearly 20 years in academic news offices.

 

 

Michael Griffin, director of news and digital content services at Clarkson University, has more than 20 years of experience in campus communications. He supervises media relations, is university spokesperson, and led the school’s three web redesigns.

 

Creating Publicity for Faculty Members

Cheryl Bates-Lee, director of public relations at Tennessee State University, has more than two decades of experience in government, education, media management, and communications. She has been a news editor, television and print reporter, and radio announcer.

 

 

Theresa Wiseman has directed media relations at College of Notre Dame of Maryland since 2002. Previously she worked for The Catholic Review for seven years and also helped to manage the communications efforts during the visits of Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Baltimore.

 

3:15–4:45 p.m. • Beverage Break and Roundtable Discussions

Roundtable participants will discuss the topic of their choice during Monday afternoon’s beverage break. Participants will sign up in advance at the Registration Desk. These are idea exchanges with tablemates sharing insights and information. Places are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis.

 

Participants will be assigned a table for the initial topic in advance. Roundtables will be held simultaneously in different rooms on the third floor. At approximately 4:15 p.m., participants will be given an opportunity to stay or to switch to another table. The discussion titles are:


5:00–6:15 p.m. • New Media and Fresh Ideas for Promoting Faculty Members

David Beard has been a reporter and editor for more than 25 years, covering education, foreign affairs, and business, among his beats. He is the editor of one of the nation’s top ten newspaper-based websites, Boston.com, for the Boston Globe.

 

 

Eric J. Kuhn began his career as journalist, Huffington Post blogger, and new media consultant as a Hamilton undergraduate. He has his own podcast and radio show, “Kuhn and Company.”

 

 

Tom Siegfried, new editor-in-chief of Science News, was science editor at the Dallas Morning News. He has written several books, including A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature.

 

6:15 p.m. • Reception

Cash bar.