31 Friday
Close of 8- and 6-week Summer Sessions
04 Wednesday through 08 Saturday AEJMC Convention at Boston
04 Tuesday - 8 am - 5 pm
Vanessa Shelton, moderator – A Beantown teach-in for high school and middle school scholastic media teachers; Scholastic Journalism Division and ASNE
05 Wednesday - 10 am – 11:30 am
Robin Johnson, paper – State-sponsored cyborgs: Gender, technology and immaterial labor in NBC’s “Bionic Woman” and “Chuck”;
Cultural & Critical Studies Division1:30 pm – 3 pm
Vanessa Shelton, discussant – Innovative outreach to scholastic media; Scholastic Journalism Division06 Thursday - 8:15 am – 9:45 am
Jane Singer, discussant – Communication technology: Influence and impact of blogs; Communication Technology Division (poster session)
Judy Polumbaum, paper -- Professionalism in Chinese newswork: From concept to practice; International Communication Division (poster)
Etse Sikanku, paper – Inter-media agenda setting effects in Ghana: Newspaper vs. online and state vs. private; International Communication Division (poster)
10 am – 11:30 am
Julie Andsager, panelist – Integrity of the review process; AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Research (plenary)
11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Jane Singer, presiding – Kappa Tau Alpha and AEJMC Awards Luncheon1:30 pm – 3 pm
Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu, paper -- Striving for hegemony in a public health crisis: Xinhua News Agency’s framing of the Sanlu tainted formula scandal; Cultural & Critical Studies Division3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Julie Andsager, moderator – Recognizing the winners of the 2009 James Tankard Book Awards; AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Research5 pm – 6:30 pm
Julie Andsager & Elizabeth Stoycheff, paper – Perceived realism, anxiety, and health orientation in viewers’ responses to health news and entertainment; Mass Communication & Society Division (poster)8:30 pm – 10 pm
Social – Minnesota, Wisconsin-Madison, Ohio State, Marquette, and IowaDavid Perlmutter, panelist – So many projects, so little time: Faculty concerns over balancing teaching, research, service, and life – The stress of earning tenure; AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Teaching
Jane Singer, paper – Quality control: Perceptions about user-generated content among local British newspaper journalists; International Communication Division
Jane Singer, paper – Role call: 2008 campaign and election coverage on the websites of leading U.S. newspapers; Newspaper Division & Council of Affiliates (Top Faculty Paper, Special Call)
Qingjing Yao & Zhaoxi (Josie) Liu, paper – Message desirability and social distance: Testing the third-person perception in a gubernatorial election; Communication Theory & Methodology Division
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Leo Eko, paper -- American exceptionalism, the French exception, and harmonization of international intellectual property law; Law & Policy Division (poster)Jane Singer, paper – Interactive ethics: Overlapping norms of practitioners and the public in a shared media space; Media Ethics Division (poster)
3:30 pm – 5 pm
Hye-Jin Lee, paper -- Politicization of teen pregnancy: Fox News Channel’s coverage of Bristol Palin’s pregnancy during the 2008 presidential election; Cultural & Critical Studies Division (poster)08 Saturday - 10 am – 11:30 am
David Perlmutter & Tien-tsung Lee, paper – Future voters survey: What does the electorate of tomorrow want? Communication Technology and Communication Theory & Methodology Divisions
Vanessa Shelton, moderator – Email alerts, mobile text news, twittering, blogs, Facebook and web updates: We can’t just teach them print, broadcast or online anymore; Radio-Television Journalism and Scholastic Journalism Divisions
11:45 am – 1:15 pm
Vanessa Shelton, moderator – Expectations, assessment, and the law; Scholastic Journalism Division3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Gayane Toroysan & Charles Munro, paper - EARwitness testimony: Applying listener perspectives to developing a working concept of “localism” in broadcast radio; Radio and Television Journalism Division (Top Faculty Paper)Congratulations to our faculty receiving special recognition at AEJMC: Judy Polumbaum – Newspaper Division’s Professional Freedom and Responsibility Educator of the Year - Jane Singer – national president, Kappa Tau Alpha
Opening of the Fall 2009 Semester - classes begin
07 Monday
Labor Day, University Holiday, Offices Closed
27-30 Sunday - Wednesday
Visiting Professional Nancy Updike
10-16 Saturday-Friday
Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor: Victor Navasky
25-28 Sunday - Saturday
Visiting Professional Charles J. Hanley
8-11 Sunday - Wednesday
Visiting Professional Christina Capecci
21 Saturday
Thanksgiving Recess begins - classes resume Monday, Nov. 30.
26 Thursday
Thanksgiving Day, University Holiday, Offices Closed
27 Friday
University Holiday, Offices Closed
30 Monday
Resumption of Classes
04 Saturday, 8:00-4:00, E254 AJB
Professional Advisory Board Meeting
09 Wednesday
Final thesis deposit due at Graduate College
11 Friday
KTA Induction Ceremony, 10L00 a.m. W321 AJB
Close of 1st semester classes 10 p.m.
Last day for undergraduates to file 2nd grade only option, 4:30 p.m.
14 Monday
Beginning of Exam Week 7:30 a.m.
15 Tuesday
Faculty Meeting, 3:30-5:00, E254 AJB
18 Friday
Close of Exam Week 9 p.m.
Residence hall contract dining ends, 3 p.m.
19 Saturday
CLAS Commencement, Carver Hawkeye Arena, 9 a.m.
Graduate College Commencement, IMU Main Lounge 2 p.m.
24-25 Thursday - Friday
University Holidays - Offices Closed
01 Friday
University Holidaty, Offices Closed
13 Wednesday
Syllabi for Spring 2010 due
15 Friday
Close of Winter Session
16 Saturday
Residence halls open 8 a.m.
18 Monday
Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation, all classes suspended
University Holiday, Offices Closed
19 Tuesday
Opening of Classes, 7:30 a.m
$30 late registration charge effective today through Jan. 25
01 Monday
Last day for undergraduates to add courses, drop courses without a W, 4:30 p.m.
Last day for undergraduates to add or change P-N or audit status and late register, 4:30 p.m.
Last day for graduate students to add or change S-U status, 4:30 p.m.
Last day for graduate students to late register or add courses, 4:30 p.m.
Last day to add or drop a course without a $10 charge, 4:30 p.m.
Last day to drop individual courses in order to reduce tuition and fee assessment, 4:30 p.m.
26 Friday
May degree applications due for master's and doctoral candidates in the Graduate College, 4:30 p.m
05 Friday
May degree applications due for undergraduates and professional colleges, 4:30 p.m.
10 Wednesday
Midterm
12 Friday
Plans of study for May master's recipients and final exam requests for all May graduates due at Graduate College
Residence hall contract dining ends, 3 p.m.
13 Saturday
Beginning of Spring Break, 5:00 p.m.
22 Monday
Resumption of Classes, 7:30 a.m.
25 Thursday
First deposit of thesis due at Graduate College
16 Friday
Fourth Estate Banquet, Coralville Marriott Hotel & Conference Center