Ways to help

What can former students do to help A&M journalism? Here are a few things, big and small, that I know of:

-- Join FJSA. They're active and doing great things to forward the cause of journalism at A&M, and they need more help. (Not limited to former journalism students.)
-- Speak to classes or the Batt staff, or both. In a day or two days, you can make contact with a number of A&M students and give them real-world knowledge and advice. Contacts include Dr. Randy Sumpter and Batt adviser Cheri Shipman.
-- Sign up here: Send me a line for the directory; sign up for the monthly e-mail; ask questions, send me news and ideas, and forward the Web site to anyone you know who might be interested. The larger our community, the more we can help each other.
-- Be a Journalist-in-Residence. A great program in which a journalist visits A&M for a week and leads JOUR 490 students in an assignment. There is interest in a longer-term project also.

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