Graduate School Orientation | Data Journalism Backup Site

School of Journalism and Strategic Media

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 3 p.m. Kimpel 146

Deadlines:

Graduation- Spring – Apply to graduate by March 1.

Select thesis title and form thesis committee: At least three months prior to the date of the defense: mid-February at latest.

IRB approval

Thesis:
May 3rd is the thesis/dissertation submission deadline for Spring 2019 graduation. Set your thesis defense date asap.
Additional deadlines on thesis form submission, etc: http://catalog.uark.edu/graduatecatalog/procedures/
–Defend two weeks prior, or by April 19
–Final editorial check of thesis one week prior or by April 26
–Graduation resources:  https://graduate-and-international.uark.edu/graduate/current-students/commencement-graduation.php
         —Carpenter retired – replace him if he was on your committees. List of graduate faculty:
https://graduate-and-international.uark.edu/graduate/faculty-staff/graduate-faculty/currentgfac-bydept.pdf
—Thesis formatting training session with Julie Rogers of the Graduate School. Monday, February, 4. 12:30 p.m. Kimpel 147. Slides from the session are here: Formatting Workshop-r50zze

Funding:

Apply for departmental scholarships by Feb 15

Student affairs. GA openings. hr website for hourly student work

Benjamin Lever fellowship

RISE program for underrepresented students

Travel grants:

Students may now apply for a travel grant as early as the first year of their graduate program. The student must still be presenting his/her own research as the sole student presenter at the meeting/conference, and be enrolled during the semester the travel occurs (summer excepted unless the student is in a 12-month GA position). The full policy may be found at: https://graduate-and-international.uark.edu/graduate/costs-and-funding/travel-grants.php. Please contact Vicky Hartwell (hartwell@uark.edu, 5-4327) with questions, also gradfunding@uark.edu

If your students are looking for additional sources of funding, have them check out Pivot, a searchable funding opportunities and expertise database. To search for graduate student travel awards in particular, you may find it helpful to: Click on the “Advanced Search” link. Leave “All Fields” selected and enter “travel” into the search box. Click on “Applicant Type” and select “Graduate Student.” Click the blue “Search” button in the upper right corner of the page. Additional information and tips about using Pivot can be found online.

Additional Grants through the Graduate and Professional Student Congress (subject to availability of funds): The Graduate and Professional Student Congress (GPSC) is excited to offer funding for students traveling to present their own original work. The GPSC Travel Grant is funding “of last resort,” meant to help students who have already exhausted other funding sources open to them. Currently, no travel grant shall exceed $500 dollars. Please log onto HogSync at https://orgsync.com/176733/forms/337734 for more information, application and deadlines.

Internships

Jour 508v – internship evaluation. send to advisor. starts fall 2019

Summer Courses
Business Journalism online.

Updated forms, paperwork

–course proposal form Tarpley and Brooke need it.
—Wayles needs committee form

Misc:

–Office of Graduate Assistant Student Support: Career advising, free coffee Fridays. Laura Moix, Assistant Director, Gearhart Hall 273, lmoix@uark.edu, 479-575-7038
–Talk program CAPS. Pat Walker. Monday 2 pm-4 pm
—April research day. How to do research. Library tools.
—Listserv – Razorgrad report update, funding. gradsupport@uark.edu

Spring New Graduate Student Orientation is scheduled for Thursday, Jan. 10.

Students should register on the orientation webpage. Contact Amanda Cantu at amandcan@uark.edu with any questions.

—Cohort groups, talk about grad school with current grad students. grad school life and survival tips
–Pat Koski on students’ rights and responsibilities
—Tours — Pat Walker and library.
—Lunch
—Mentor vs advising. how to work with both
-Grad student panel. alumni panel.
—mixer

GA Training

Remarks by Chair Larry Foley

Spring 2019 GA assignments

JT Tarpley – FOJ, 2 labs. Supervisor: Wells and Wicks
Andrew Epperson – Social Media plus assist Larry Foley with TV2. Supervisor: Foley.
Denzel Jenkins – Broadcast. Teaching JOUR 2031L the lab for Broadcast 1. Supervisor: Stockdell
Britt Graves – Ad-PR. Supervisor: Wicks
Breybinda Alvarez – Ethics. Supervisor: McCaffrey
Brandon Gorman – Assist Kara Gould with Media & Society and/or Media Law. For any unused time, Wells will direct Gorman to help assistant professors Wells, Chung and Bouchillon with research. Supervisor: Wells and Wicks

April 1 is deadline for Fall GA applications. Who is planning to graduate this Spring?

Review pay and make sure everyone has a contract.

Tuition waivers — all good?

Work duties: Not to exceed 20 hours a week – supervisor not to “average out” work
Stipend is $12,200 for two semesters.
Mid-August, Mid-May: Get a half paycheck.
Taxed on Medicare, SSI
Tuition waiver doesn’t cover misc fees. Technology fees. Media fees. Student health fees.
Option of payroll deduction for misc fees

Treasurer’s Office tuition and fee estimator
https://treasurernet.uark.edu/estimator.aspx

Blackboard Training

Carolyn Smith

Faculty Development Coordinator

Global Campus – Faculty and Student Support

GIBX100

(479)575-5632 (office)

ccsmith@uark.edu

FOJ Training: Amy Unruh

Writing assignments.

—One set of assignments is due every Sunday, typically an online quiz, automatically graded on Blackboard, and a news summary

—Another set of assignments is performed in class.

These lessons are on a Google Drive folder. Review of the folder

Assignment keys are in a different folder. Somewhat unhelpful

This folder needs to be cleaned up. Discussion on how to best achieve this

The typical class

—What to expect for the various classes.

—Try to get students to pay attention to how news is written

—They are to read USA Today, Washington Post, Arkansas Traveler, Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Today

—Get students to focus on what is news and what is not news. Hard news vs features

—Make sure you ask students if they have discussed a particular lesson already during the lecture portion of FOJ – make sure the labs are on track with the lecture

—Short discussion. Then walking around and answering questions

—No teamwork allowed.

—Cheating. How students have cheated.

Blackboard

—Train students to write only in Microsoft Word and load the files correctly in Blackboard. This is harder than you would think

—Make sure you have access to your Jour 1033 sections prior to the start of class.

—Basic navigation on Blackboard. The Grade Book.

—Modifying deadlines for each class section. Amy will have further guidance on this.

Grading

—Strive for consistent grading across all sections.

—Discussion of rubrics