Sign up for Division-D On-Campus Interviews
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Division-D
is a leading online advertising network and digital media buying agency that connects top-tier advertisers and advertising agencies with publishers. It has been named by Inc. 5000 as one of their fastest-growing private companies six times, and its headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri, and it has offices in Kansas City, Chicago, Raleigh, Los Angeles and Washingt
on, D.C.
A recruiter will be on campus
March 24 and 25
for an information session and to conduct on-campus interviews for several full-time positions and sales internships:
March 24: Info Session
noon-1 p.m., 172 Hamilton Hall
Learn more about Division-D and its available positions.
Pizza will be served!
March 25: Interviews
Interviews will take place between 9 a.m. and noon and 1 and 4 p.m. Sign up for a time in 101 Hamilton Hall or by emailing
krisa@iastate.edu.
Contact
Taylor Bilthuis, Recruitment Manager
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Registration begins soon!
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Registration is right around the corner. If you have not already done so, please log into AccessPlus and click on the "Current Student" tab to view your assigned registration start date and time.
If you have a faculty adviser, please contact the faculty member directly to set up an advising appointment.
If you have an academic adviser (Jessica Hansen-Moench, Kelsie Poe, or Juli Probasco-Sowers), please schedule through AccessPlus > ISU Appointment or call the front office at 515-294-4342 to schedule your RAN appointment. Jessica, Kelsie, and Juli ask that you call now to schedule appointments as appointment times will fill up fast. HOWEVER, please request a meeting time that is just a day or two before your assigned registration date. This way, when we meet to discuss classes, we will have a better idea of what classes are still open and what are closed.
Additionally, please remember to bring your completed Registration Worksheet to your advising appointment.
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Apply to be a Greenlee Learning Community Peer Mentor
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Peer mentors are integral to the success of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication’s
two learning communities
. Greenlee hires separate peer mentors for each learning community, one of which focuses on advertising and public relations, the other on journalism. Peer mentors offer experience and guidance to first-year students. Our peer mentors, who must be juniors or seniors with declared majors in Greenlee, take on these roles:
- Assist in the Greenlee orientation sections set aside for learning communities.
- Organize study groups, social and professional events and out-of class activities.
- Act as role models for students new to Iowa State and connect them with university resources.
Benefits for peer mentors
- Greenlee peer mentors develop leadership, organization and interpersonal skills needed to become successful, practicing professionals.
- Iowa State University peer mentor looks great on a résumé.
- Each Greenlee peer mentors works about eight hours per week throughout the semester and is paid for their training and mentoring time.\
How to become a Greenlee peer mentor - NOW HIRING
We are always looking for Greenlee students to serve as peer mentors. Applications for fall 2020 are due by the end of the day Sunday, March 22, which is the end of spring break.
If you are applying for the Advertising/PR Learning Community, you’ll need room in your fall 2020 class schedule to attend (but not register for) all or part of JL MC 110 sections 1 and 5, which meet from 8 to 9:20 a.m. and from 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Tuesdays.
If you are applying for the Journalism Learning Community, you’ll need room in your fall 2020 class schedule to attend (but not register for) all or part of JL MC 110 sections 2 and 4, which meet from 8 to 9:20 a.m. and from 9:30 to 10:50 a.m. Thursdays.
For more information on Greenlee learning communities or becoming a peer mentor, please contact:
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Apply for the Meredith Apprentice Program by March 13
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Intern for the nation’s leading magazine publishing company through the
Meredith Apprentice Program
. Ten apprenticeships will be filled by Iowa State University students for the 2020-2021 academic year. These paid positions are based at Meredith’s headquarters in downtown Des Moines.
The application deadline is noon, Friday, March 13, 2020.
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Novotny Lawrence to present Spring 2020 LAS Dean's Lecture
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First Amendment Days: April 3-10, 2020
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Enjoy food, fun and free expression during Iowa State’s annual
First Amendment Days celebration, April 3-10
. The 2020 theme is Some Assembly Required. Celebrate the First Amendment and the five freedoms it protects –religion, speech, press, assembly and petition – at events throughout the week. All are welcome to attend.
Highlights include:
- Friday, April 3: What a Difference 100 Years Makes with Ames City Council Member Rachel Junck and Daily Editor-in-Chief Annie Wells. Come and go. Free pizza. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., 302 Catt Hall
- Sunday, April 5: Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women’s Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics – Marjorie Spruill. 2-3:30 p.m., Ames Public Library (515 Douglas Ave.)
- Monday, April 6: One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women’s Suffrage Movement – Marjorie Spruill. 5:30 p.m., Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
- Tuesday, April 7: Signs of Resistance: A Visual History of Protest in America – Bonnie Siegler. 7 p.m., 127 Curtiss
- Wednesday, April 8: Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship. A Conversation with Nadine Strossen. 8 p.m., Sun Room, Memorial Union
- Thursday, April 9:
- Democalypse March. 9:30 a.m., meet at Hamilton Hall; march begins at Curtiss Hall.
- Feast on the First. Food and T-shirts while supplies last. 11 a.m., First Amendment tent, Central Campus
First Amendment Days is organized by the First Amendment Committee, which is made up of members of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication, the Iowa State Daily Media Group and the Leo Mores Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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Submit your work for Hearst Awards consideration
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The Hearst Journalism Awards program awards scholarships to students for outstanding performance in college-level journalism, with matching grants to the students’ schools.
The 60th annual program offers up to $700,000 in awards and consists of five monthly writing competitions, two photojournalism competitions, one radio competition, two television competitions and four multimedia competitions – with championship finals in all divisions. It's a great resume builder and could be a networking opportunity if you advance to the next rounds.
The Greenlee School may submit two entrants' work per competition.
Breaking News Writing
(due by noon Tuesday, March 31)
Multimedia IV - Digital News or Enterprise Story - Team
(due by noon Tuesday, April 3)
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Spring 2020 PIE Testing Dates
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Passing the
Poynter Institute Exam (known in Greenlee as PIE)
is a prerequisite for JL MC 201. The exam is offered as part of an online course, Iowa State University Language Primer Course Pack (Spring 2020), offered through Poynter’s News University. Students must receive a score of 78% or above to pass the PIE.
Although you can work through the course and the practice drills from any browser, you must take the exam in Hamilton Hall during a testing day for your score to count. You can only take the exam once per testing date.
Spring 2020 Testing Dates:
Friday, Feb. 28Friday, March 6- Friday, April 3
- Friday, April 17
- Friday, April 24
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Enhance your skills through Greenlee's grad program
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The
Greenlee master’s program
is a 32-credit course of study culminating in a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in journalism and mass communication. Two tracks are available: one for students who desire specialized study in communication theory and research and one for students who wish to develop or strengthen their professional and strategic communication skills.
Within the master’s program, you will explore new ideas through a flexible curriculum that can be tailored to your individual interests and program of study. We will challenge your thinking and deepen your expertise to prepare you for a successful future.
Interested in learning more?
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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is hosting
NewsTrain
on
Saturday, April 4
, a full day of digital journalism training on skills including smartphone video editing, data story generation, social media reporting, fact verification and mobile storytelling. In addition, anyone arriving on Friday, April 3, can participate in a free afternoon of Google tools training covering topics such as data visualization and maps. The cost is $85 and includes two light meals.
Discounted hotel rooms at the Graduate Lincoln hotel start at $99 a night. The last day to get the discounted hotel rate is March 12.
The sessions include:
- Using social media as powerful reporting tools,
- Storytelling on mobile: making smart choices,
- Becoming a verification ninja, with @journtoolbox founder Mike Reilley,
- Editing smarter video on your smartphone, with #MobileJournalism evangelist Geoff Roth, and
- Mining data for enterprise off any beat, with USA Today Senior Reporter Matt Wynn.
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Olivia Benjamin named Hugh Sidey Scholar
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The White House Historical Association in partnership with the Greenlee School has awarded
Olivia Benjamin with the Hugh S. Sidey Scholarship in Print Journalism. Benjamin will receive $5,000 and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. this spring. During her trip, she will attend the 2020 White House Correspondents' Dinner.
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Share your #WhyGreenlee story
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Call all Greenlee adventurers! We're looking for standout students to feature on the Greenlee blog and website in spring 2020. Contact Maria Charbonneaux at
mvcharb@iastate.edu
if you're interested in being featured or would like to nominate a fellow student.
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Share student club and organization announcements in the newsletter by emailing Maria Charbonneaux at
mvcharb@iastate.edu
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College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Innovation and Entrepreneurship Academy (LAS I+E Academy)
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Have you ever thought,
“There’s got to be a better way”
– or maybe you’ve envisioned how to solve a problem to make the world a better place.
Whether your big idea is an
innovative
product, a way to
ignite
social change, or a way to
transform
an organization, you can acquire the skills, knowledge and personal networks to become an agent of change in the LAS Dean’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I+E) Academy!
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is launching a new two-year academy for all LAS majors, where you can engage in online, face-to-face, and interactive activities to experience and develop an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset. We’ll even match you with a mentor in the second year, and you can emerge from the academy with a well-defined path to develop your big idea – or ideas you may have in the future!
The program is geared to first and second-year LAS majors. Participants must be enrolled in an LAS major and maintain a minimum 2.25 GPA.
More info can also be found
here.
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Undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA) Program
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The URA program encourages outstanding juniors and seniors to pursue graduate study by offering hands-on experience in a formal research environment. It assists students in making career decisions and in attaining info about graduate education and fellowships; helps them develop technical and specialized skills; and fosters qualities
To qualify for the URA Program students must:
- Be classified as juniors or seniors by the beginning of the term employed as a URA
- File the 2020-2021 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and be eligible for work study funding (be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen)
- Maintain an ISU cumulative GPA of at least 3.25
- Complete URA application (deadline of March 27 for interviewing)
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Students required to activate multifactor authentication by March 25
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Students are encouraged to activate the cybersecurity feature known as multifactor authentication (MFA) for their ISU login. MFA will be required for all students beginning March 25. Multifactor authentication is a two-step login system that requires an additional action after inputting your password. With MFA enabled, hackers cannot easily compromise your primary email account and other accounts routed through it (i.e. Amazon, Venmo, etc.). Visit
www.it.iastate.edu/mfa
for instructions
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"Start Something" workshop series
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A series of workshops designed for entrepreneurs. Whether you are just exploring the idea of entrepreneurship (intro series) or want to learn more about marketing your small business, we have developed a series of short courses to help kick-start your next venture.
See the complete list of workshops and register.
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Save the date for spring 2020 events:
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- LASCS Webinar Series, March 9-13
- "Three Ways to Disappear" - Tuesday, March 10, 7 p.m., Gallery Room, Memorial Union
- "Suffragette, Editor, Abolitionist: The Story of Mary Louise Booth," Tricia Foley - Wednesday, March 11, 5 p.m., Sun Room, Memorial Union
- On Campus Interviews: Division D, March 25
- How to Effectively Negotiate a Salary, April 2, 4:10 p.m., 2115 Pearson Hall
- "One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Women's Suffrage Movement," Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, April 6, 5:30 p.m., Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
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"This Week at Greenlee" is a weekly newsletter sent on Mondays during the academic year. It is curated by the Greenlee School communications team for Greenlee School students, faculty and staff. Student clubs and organizations relevant to journalism, advertising and public relations are welcome to submit news and announcements for inclusion in the newsletter. Send your news to
Maria Charbonneaux
,
communications specialist, by 11 p.m. on Sunday for inclusion in the next day's newsletter.
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Greenlee School of Journalism
and Communication
greenlee.iastate.edu
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