1. Developing Campus-Wide Newspaper Curricula The NiC Initiative University of Nebraska at Omaha

2. NiC Newspapers in Curricula Maria Anderson Knudtson Lecturer, English NiC Coordinator Christina Dando Assoc. Prof., Geography 3 year NiC member

3. Background – Newspapers in Curricula + Collegiate Readership – Develop a university wide network of faculty utilizing the newspapers as a resource for assignments supporting their course objectives. – – 2007-2008 – 2008-2009 – 2009-2010

4. Campus activities The NiC faculty group faculty support for the development of newspaper based pedagogy. creation of student events for promotion of the Collegiate Readership Program at UNO. Specialty events/ opportunities – Target audiences – Target spaces

5. Large group events Campus Conversations/ Times Talk Purpose: contact a large number of diverse students. Introduce newspaper and topics for discussion. Format: table conversations with moderator – Divided by specific topics – Divided by newspaper sections Results: evaluation forms – Overwhelmingly positive responses Event potential

6. Space oriented events Fireplace Read-In Purpose: reading marathon/pilot. How much newspaper reading could take place in 90 minutes? Results: 8 hours + Effect: exposure to newspaper content and the joy of print! Event potential

7. Targeted audience events The 2+3=5 Short Story Event Creative Writers Target specific group to incorporate newspaper into creative project. Results: 10 submissions 3 selected as featured by a panel of judges/ prizes awarded. Reading held. Event potential

8. Faculty and Curricula Black Studies Geography Communication History Criminal Justice Political Science Education Social Work English Sociology Foreign Language, Spanish Economics 3 years of faculty participation 16 faculty 12 departments 5 colleges

9. Examples from the classroom Dennis Hoffman, Criminal Justice  class “perusing” – assists students to “see” relevant topics  article summaries and course concepts – students apply course concepts while seeing relevancy of course in current issues  NYT letter to the editor – students see connection between the paper, course work and civic engagement

10. Examples from the classroom Claudia Garcia, Foreign Languages Elementary – brief article summaries Intermediate – daily journal writing, springboard for longer essays Advanced – daily journal writing leading to a reflective piece

11. Examples from the classroom Christina Dando, Geography/Geology  Clippings file and guided journal entries – students analyze the clippings, examining the framing of the country, role of the media  Media analysis on exams – students apply key concepts to current news  “Updating” a global conflict

12. Examples from the classroom Maria Anderson Knudtson, English oAll assignments : based on newspaper reading and research for development of arguments. oTextbook : all chapters correlated to newspaper work. oAssignments : more than just straight news and features/ also incorporate the visual rhetoric of advertisements and editorial cartoons.

13. Examples from the classroom Pedagogy  writing  critical thinking  media literacy  civic engagement

14. Faculty to faculty events 2010-2011 Shift focus to faculty events Workshops Discussion events Individual course curricula Faculty presentations – To the NiC group internally – To departments – To other organizations on campus.

15. Estimated Numbers 2009-2010 Student contacts Classroom: 1200 Events: 250 Total: 1450 Collegiate Readership program at UNO – Newspapers: 193,304 Faculty contacts : 55 Writing questions on NSSE survey.

16. Go back and NiC your campus! Maria Anderson Knudtson mknudtson@unomaha.edu Christina Dando cdando@unomaha.edu