Civic Engagement
School of Journalism faculty and staff have a strong commitment to serving our professional constituencies whenever and where ever we can. Our faculty and staff provide training for journalists or public relations professionals. Our volunteer public service activities help organizations in the Indianapolis area by serving on boards of directors or by students doing professional projects for them. Our students become involved with the communities we serve by reporting, synthesizing, designing and publishing content in multiple platforms: The Sagamore, JagBytes.com and JagRadio. These publishing experiences serve our constituencies, the students, faculty and staff of IUPUI. Public Relations students provide valuable campaigns at no cost to not-for-profit clients in the Indianapolis area. Faculty, staff and student expertise is a valuable resource for central Indiana.
Examples
James Brown
Executive Associate Dean Brown received the 2008 Chancellor's Faculty Award for Civic Engagement.
Brown finished a nine-year project with the Delaware Tribe of Indians from eastern Oklahoma. "Long Journey Home: Oral Histories of Contemporary Delaware Indians," is a 448 page book with 95 of Brown's photographs. This book is a prime example of working closely with a minority group to help them leave a written history that otherwise would be left to the memory of spoken tales.
The new book is one of many projects deriving from the work of Brown and his co-editor Rita Kohn.
Brown's photographs have been displayed at the Indiana History Bureau. The Conner Prairie Living History Museum and the Andersontown Powwow also have used Brown's photographs in their publications and displays.
Brown conducted a session in the Hoosier State Press Foundation's Newsroom Seminar on December 1, 2007. His session on producing inexpensive multimedia was well attended. For this session, Brown made a web site of resources expanding his face-to-face session.
On November 17, 2007 at the Eiteljorg Museum, Dean Brown conducted a panel historic discussion of the Delaware Indians' sojourn to Oklahoma.
Sherry Ricchiardi
Workshop leader, “Reporting and Writing with Impact,” Indianapolis Star, March 21, 2007.Writing Coach, Pulliam Fellows, Indianapolis Star, three weeks in June and July 2007.
Workshop at the Indianapolis Star.
Lecturer, “Investigative Reporting in the Early 21st Century,” Dubrovnik University Dept. of Journalism, May 7 – 11, 2007.
Workshop leader, “Storytelling and Writing Strategies That Work,” Slobodna Dalmacija, Split, Croatia. (This is one of the leading daily newspapers in Croatia.)
Professor Ricchiardi conducted media training in Indonesia, September 17 – 28, 2007, which included workshops, lectures, and seminars on investigative reporting techniques at newspapers, magazines and universities. Program coordinators said that at least 1,000 journalists, journalism educators and media experts attended these sessions over two weeks time. Ricchiardi was interviewed by two of the main TV news networks in Indonesia about importance of investigative reporting to a democracy. Indonesia has the world’s largest population of Muslims and is the fourth largest country after China, India and the United States.
May 22, 2007, Ricchiardi conducted a web chat for the State Department on “Dangerous Assignments: Journalists in Peril Around the World.”
