History Division sets goals for 2008–09

 The History Division of AEJMC has set nine goals and objectives for 2008–09. They are:

1. Explore the possibility of establishing a division journal that would publish longer manuscripts that may not be especially well-suited to existing scholarly outlets for research in journalism and mass communication history.

2. Find new ways to support the Division’s two endowment funds, which help fund the Covert Award in Mass Communication History and graduate student travel stipends.

3. Encourage active participation in Division activities by younger and newer members by soliciting their involvement as paper judges and contributors to the division’s quarterly newsletter, Clio newsletter.

4. Emphasize anew the importance of the history of journalism and mass communication in graduate and undergraduate teaching through Clio articles and high quality convention sessions.

5. Extend the Division’s tradition of organizing high-quality research, teaching, and PF&R panels for the 2009 convention.

6. Seek new ways to build closer ties with historians in fields other than journalism history.

7. Maintain the Division’s traditional support for regional conferences such as the Southeast Regional Colloquium and the joint History Division/AJHA Northeast Regional Conference.

8. Maintain and promote collegial ties with the American Journalism Historians Association.

9. Keep the Division’s online site <aejmchistory.org> updated, as necessary.