Teach at 2008 conference, help A&M journalism

Needed: Journalists to conduct 50-minute workshops for college
students next April in College Station.

What: TIPA (Texas Intercollegiate Press Association) conference and
job fair hosted by Texas A&M
When: April 3-5, 2008
Where: Hilton in College Station

Here's the why: It will help A&M recruit transfer students in
journalism. The more journalism students we have, the better a case
can be made for expanding the journalism program. Numbers come
first, it appears. And more than 600 student journalists come to
this thing.

Cheri Shipman, Battalion advisor, is putting together the workshops.
She says hands-on exercises tend to keep the students more involved
than lectures do. Any workshop topic is welcome.

"I'd like to promote as many Aggies as possible who are in the
field ... more demand for the J-program to return," says Shipman.

The students are mostly from two-year colleges, often with weekly or
monthly newspapers, and typically do all of these functions: write
the story, edit it, lay out the page and publish it to the Web.
Shipman says, "They all need to know the basics of getting the word out!"

You can reach Shipman at cheri.shipman (at) gmail.com.