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SCRIPPS
HOWARD FOUNDATION FUNDS TEACHING FELLOWS PROGRAM AT OHIO
UNIVERSITY'S E.W. SCRIPPS SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
ATHENS,
Ohio -- The Scripps Howard Foundation has donated $100,000
to the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism to fund a Scripps
Howard Teaching Fellows Program for professional journalists
interested in becoming journalism teachers.
"We're
pleased to continue our support of the fine journalism
program at Ohio University's Scripps School," said Judith G.
Clabes, Scripps Howard Foundation president and CEO. "We are
especially pleased to work with the school on a mutual
objective -- continued commitment to quality journalism
education."
The new
program combines a major increase in the level of financial
support for doctoral students, a mentoring program and
teacher training. The new program will allow the school to
attract the best applicants each year, said Dan Riffe,
interim director of the school.
With
substantial doctoral stipend support through the Scripps
Howard gift, the school will compete with other top-ranked
journalism programs in the country for the very best of
these professionals, Riffe said.
Attracting
superior journalism professionals as doctoral students
supports the school's commitment to undergraduate teaching
excellence because every doctoral student in the Scripps
School of Journalism is required to teach. Fellows will gain
valuable classroom experience in preparation for a teaching
career and their undergraduate students will benefit from
exposure to recent professional ideas, practices and trends,
Riffe said.
The school
is committed to helping fellows develop skills outside the
classroom and will require weekly mentoring meetings of
faculty-fellow pairs and a weekly group seminar on teaching
strategies, tactics and issues, Riffe said.
"With this
gift, the Scripps Howard Foundation has taken a giant step
in demonstrating its commitment to journalism education,"
Riffe said. "The Scripps Howard funding helps professionals
pursue graduate study and ensures that those professionals
have an important impact on the next generation of
journalists."
The
Scripps Howard Foundation is a long-time supporter of Ohio
University, especially the journalism school named in 1983
for its founder, E. W. Scripps. During the last 16 years,
foundation gifts totaling more than $3.9 million have funded
the Scripps Howard Visiting Professional Chair, the Scripps
Survey Research Center and the renovation of the former
Carnegie Library into the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism,
rated among the top ten journalism schools nationwide.
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