Colorado regents vote to close J-school

Read more: CU regents vote 5-4 to close Boulder campus journalism school - Boulder Daily Camera http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_17845940#ixzz1JXKwB5jV

 

Coverage of the vegetarian and vegan movement will never recover.

 

I know I'm a CSU grad, but I can shine more light on this when I'm not on my phone.

 

From the article in the Daily Camera, the main beef from those with advisory roles is the program just hasn't adapted to the digital age.

While I didn't learn too much from the print aspect of my undergraduate studies, I did have to take a couple of digital media classes. In the intro class, we had to work in small teams to make a short film. We had to learn the nuts and bolts of video and audio editing, proper shooting techniques and establishing a workflow.

That class was a prerequisite to the broadcast journalism classes where we had to produce packages for the campus newscast.

Unless CU required journalism majors to learn to write, paginate, produce audio, video and photo packages, and learn Web tools, it wasn't doing the job in educating students.

 

Also, the philosophy department is no longer adaquately preparing kids for the workforce. SHUT IT DOWN!

 

I got very little audio/photo/video training out of my undergrad years as a strictly j-school kid. Granted, that was by choice and the program has served me well in the long run, but I would have been better off getting a double major or minor in journalism.

 

agreed

 

When I was in J-School, I constantly heard some statistic that the number of Journalism students was going up every year by a pretty decent rate. If this is a way to limit that, I see there could be an upside.

That said I was very disillusioned with the way my J-School operated. Lots of talking about digital media, audio, web, and video. But when push came to shove there was not NEAR enough emphasis on that or real-world experience.

 

Rick Reilly's alma mater closes the J-school.

Unbelievable.

 

Didn't they vacate his participation?

 

They took him out of the media guide.

 

Yes, CU fans hate him because he thinks aloud like a good columnist should. Damn you Rick, for not riding you alma mater's balls at all times.