Describes the successful integration of Apple microcomputers into the journalism curriculum at an Alaskan university. (HTH)

Describes a project undertaken at New Mexico State University in which students set up and operated their own ad agencies. (FL)

Describes the curriculum changes of one university's advertising program in response to feedback from the professional industry and school faculty. (HOD)

Describes how a black radio operation in Washington, D.C., used university students enrolled in a broadcast management course to solve some of their management problems. (HOD)

Describes how journalism students at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, gain television experience through the use of a vacant channel on a private cable television system. (HOD)

A project in a fourth-year reporting seminar at Carleton University illustrates the ease--and ethical ramifications--of using public information records to collect facts about individuals. (RL)

Describes a three-week interterm program at Southern Methodist University during which journalism students spend time learning at agencies and offices in New York, London, and Los Angeles. (HOD)

Describes the use of the laboratory newspaper approach, in which a newspaper is produced by students under the supervision of the jouranlism program, by Central Missouri State University. (HOD)

Describes the Circulation Management Project being developed by the Empire State College of the State University of New York--a program designed to upgrade the newspaper circulation department. (HOD)

Presents general themes for 12 of the 16 weeks in a senior-level ethics course for journalism students at East Carolina University. Indicates that the course has had extra rewards. (JK)

Describes how two objectives--enhancing public relations thinking and producing an attractive showpiece of writing talent for the student--form the basis of a course in public relations at the University of Florida. (HOD)

Describes an editing course offered at Arizona State University which attempts to address all of the skills needed on the news desks including word skills, graphic applications, edition and page design, and electronic photography. (MG)

By providing community and university nonprofit organizations with a professional communication product, the production of slide shows by journalism students has given the students an opportunity to experiment with ways to use their basic journalistic skills. (HOD)

Describes a program at the University of Iowa called the Mass Communication Laboratory Sequence that offers students the opportunity to develop their abilities as professional communicators who can identify, research, and analyze problems that need communication strategies and media products for solutions. (HOD)

Describes a feature writing course at the University of Texas which concentrates on Hispanic themes and issues by assigning students to cover the Latino community in Austin, Texas. Notes that the course not only teaches students to examine unfamiliar locations, but also introduces them to the newsworthiness of minority populations. (MM)