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SPJ-tastic!
Posted August 11, 2009 at 07:07 in blog
I just received some brilliant news, hot off the presses, that I would like to share with the Internet world…
The UF Society of Professional Journalists has been named the National SPJ Campus Chapter of the Year! Yippee!
We’re going to be recognized at the national conference at the end of the month.
I remember sitting in the Reitz Union a year ago, talking with the other officers about goals for SPJ. As the newly elected president, I wanted to push us to make a difference on campus and raise some eyebrows over at the SPJ headquarters.
This past year, we grew our membership to more than 100 members. We had a successful semester-long fundraiser that raked in hundreds of dollars. We planned and hosted three diversity events, two freedom of information events, a meeting on ethics, a campus-wide First Amendment Free Food Festival, five community service projects and about 11 other meetings/events that had a journalistic mission.
A big thanks to past and present leadership as well as our two advisers, professor Carlson and professor Foley!