ACTION ITEM: Immunization Compliance

Getting Things Done, Healthcare Issues, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Major memos

Dear New Students:

Welcome to the Journalism School! We look forward to meeting you soon! We will be in touch later in June about registration and mandatory orientation.

Right now, I am writing to notify you about something you must do before we will be able to register you for classes.

New York State public health law requires that all students document immunity to Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR), as well as document that they either have received the Meningitis vaccine or have declined to receive it.

All students must be in compliance with these laws before being registered for classes.  Detailed information and instructions are available at http://health.columbia.edu/students/immunization-compliance-requirements/immunization-compliance-requirements

Please act as soon as possible to supply Health Services with the required documentation.  Please do not send me or anyone else at the Journalism School your health records.  Only Health Services can certify that you are cleared and can be registered.

The deadline for completion of this task is May 11 for new part-time students and July 1 for all new full-time students !  We will be unable to register you for classes without your having submitted this documentation.

Please DO NOT contact my office with questions about this requirement, you must contact Health Services at (212) 854-7210 with any questions regarding immunization compliance. Alternately, send email to immunizationcompliance@columbia.edu

Thanks!

MAJOR MEMO: Year-End Manual 2016

Alumni, Graduation, Major memos, Useful Websites

Dear Graduating Students:

Please carefully read this End-of-Year Manual for information about building access, locker clean out, equipment use, alumni services and more.

Use of Journalism Building Facilities After May 18.

Use of Building:

Members of the Class of 2016 will have access to the building and its facilities through June 30, 2016.

Exceptions include: any area under construction, and any classrooms and computer rooms being used for summer classes or special programs. If you are in one of these rooms when a class is scheduled to begin, please leave immediately. Refusal to cooperate may result in the termination of your access to the building.

Equipment

All current fines must be paid by Monday, May 9 or a hold will be placed on your student account. All equipment must be returned to the Equipment Room (405) by Monday, May 16th. Action will be taken to repossess equipment from outstanding checkouts after May 16. After graduation, students will be allowed to check out equipment (if all bills paid), as available, until Friday, June 10th. Please remember that scheduled summer school classes and master’s project students, as well as necessary equipment maintenance upgrades, have priority for equipment and editing rooms. The equipment room will be operating on summer hours starting Thursday, May 19th from 10am-6pm and will be closed on Graduation Day. 

Please be aware that individual computer rooms will be closed at different times for maintenance and upgrading. Though it is likely, it is not guaranteed that there will always be a computer room or terminal available. Due to maintenance schedules, summer class schedules and the master’s projects, it is possible that you will be unable to use a computer at a specific time.

Student Lockers:

All May graduates must empty their lockers by noon, Friday, May 13.

Continuing part-time students and documentary students may keep their lockers. Graduates who will be working on a demo tape or other approved projects during the month of June may also keep their lockers. To request such a locker extension, please send e-mail to Derek Gano at dg2382@columbia.edu with your name and the reason for your request.

Graduates’ lockers that have not been vacated by noon on Friday, May 13, will be have their locks removed and contents moved to a storage bin and eventually discarded. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GRADUATION CEREMONIES UNTIL YOUR LOCKER IS EMPTIED. All locker questions should be directed to Derek Gano at JSchool-Building@lists.columbia.edu

Student Mail Folders:

The mail folders of graduating students may be used until noon, Friday, May 20. All items remaining in boxes after that date will be discarded.

Computer Account and Class Shares:

Access to J-School computer accounts for all graduating students will remain active until June 30, 2016.

All personal server space and class shares (posted below) will be deleted on May 30. Please be sure to backup all of your files to external media or cloud services (external hard Drives, DropBox, Amazon S3 etc.) before your account is deactivated. These shares will no longer be available to you and the data will be unrecoverable. Even if you are not graduating this May please also note these shares will be deleted as they are for class work only, so do not continue to use them. New shares will be provisioned for summer courses.

Shares:

Photo

City News Room

CNS

DigitalMedia

Radio

OnAir

Video Newsroom

Magazine

Masters

Nightly

Broadcast

TVReporting

August

University Services After May 18

Health Services

You have access to Health Services and are insured through August 15.

University Libraries

Recent alumni will retain full library privileges, including borrowing privileges and access to licensed electronic databases, for a period of three months beyond the degree conferral date. Access information can be found at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/lio/access/. Library Services for alumni can be found at http://www.alumni.libraries.columbia.edu/

Dodge Physical Fitness Center (aka the Gym): You may use the gym over the summer with your current CUID. However, you will have to pay the $91 gym use fee. Beginning in September, you will be eligible for alumni gym use. Please see http://www.dodgefitnesscenter.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9610&ATCLID=205330326

Alumni Benefits and Services

A variety of benefits and services are available to Journalism School graduates. This page answers most of your most questions and concerns, from auditing a class at Columbia to updating your address information, from obtaining a transcript of your time here to using Columbia’s recreational facilities – http://bit.ly/alumni_benefits

Please note that you will automatically be subscribed to your class listserv using the real world e-mail address supplied in your graduation survey (more details en route from Career Services). To update any of your contact information with us or sign up for a regional listserv, use this form:

http://bit.ly/cugsj_update

LionMail: You keep this account forever.

 

 

 

Denim Day @ Columbia – Wed, April 27

Columbia Events, Community Citizenship, Healthcare Issues, SVR

DENIM DAY: HISTORY

Denim Day is a day for students and administrators
to join voices together in support of Sexual Assault
Awareness Month (SAAM). At Columbia University,
we began participating in Denim Day in 2010 and
look to grow our support this and every year.

In 1999, Denim Day became an international movement
in response to a 1998 Italian Supreme Court decision
to overturn a rape conviction. In the case, the justices
reasoned the victim’s jeans were so tight that she
must have helped to remove them, implying consent.

The day after the court decision, women in the Italian
Parliament protested by wearing jeans and holding
placards that read, “Jeans: An Alibi for Rape.” In 2008,
the Italian Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

During this sexual violence prevention education campaign, we ask members of the Columbia community to wear denim, jeans, or a Denim Day sticker, on April 27th as a visible sign of support for survivors of sexual violence.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

1. On April 27th wear denim, jeans or a sticker in support of Denim Day.

2. Send a picture of your office members wearing jeans to denimday@columbia.edu.

3. Attend a SAAM event, such as the Clery Lecture (4/5) or Take Back the Night (4/14). Dates, times, and locations available at health.columbia.edu/SAAM.

 

INVITE: Women in Media Series @ CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

Non-Columbia Events, Other Schools, Outside Events, Speakers

Closing the Gender Gap: Women in Investigative Reporting

Date & Time:

From 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM on April 14, 2016

Location:

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Room 308

Lisa ArmstrongLisa Armstrong

In a 2013 blog post, Sheila Coronel, director of the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism wrote:  “A quick look at the 100 or so nonprofit investigative reporting centers, funds and associations worldwide shows that the face of watchdog journalism is male.”

Part of the problem is that investigative reporting involves digging into political corruption, crime, and things that people are often doing their best to hide, and so comes with some risk. The question is whether women journalists, who might be seen as being more physically vulnerable, are as up to the task of investigative reporting as men.

Please join us for a discussion with panelists Sarah Childress, senior digital reporter for Frontline; Esther Kaplan, editor of The Nation’s Investigative Fund; and Kendall Taggart, investigative reporter at BuzzFeed, who will talk about their own work, barriers they have faced, and ways they have overcome them.

This event is part of the “Women in Media” series sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Diversity Committee.

Admission is free but registration is required. RSVP here.

Panelists:

Sarah ChildressSarah Childress

Sarah Childress is a senior digital reporter for FRONTLINE. Previously, she covered Iraq for Newsweek and sub-Saharan Africa for The Wall Street Journal, and edited reporters in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America for GlobalPost. Her work has also been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Esther KaplanEsther Kaplan

Esther Kaplan is editor of the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. She has written for Harper’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, In These Times, The Village Voice, and other publications. She is the author of With God on Their Side: George W. Bush and the Christian Right (New Press), which Ms. magazine called “a frightening and necessary read.” She was a 2013 fellow with the Alicia Patterson Foundation.

Kendall TaggartKendall Taggart

Kendall Taggart is a reporter at BuzzFeed. She works on long-term, investigative projects and has written about charity scams, judges who violate the law, and environmental health issues.  Previously, she was a reporter at The Center for Investigative Reporting. While there, she worked on “America’s Worst Charities,” a project about nonprofits that claimed to support causes like aiding terminally ill children and police officers, but funneled many of the donations to themselves or for-profit fundraising companies. The project was honored with the Gold Bartlett & Steele award for investigative business journalism. @KendallTTaggart

Moderator: Lisa Armstrong, a journalist and visiting associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She has reported from several countries, including Ethiopia, The Philippines, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Tajikistan, and from Haiti from 2010 to 2014 through grants from The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and NYU. Her work has been published in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, Essence, The New York Times and other outlets, and has won multiple awards, including a National Press Club award for online journalism, and a Webby, for her “Voices of Haiti” ibook, which was a compilation of the blog posts and multimedia work done with her Pulitzer Center colleagues. She currently has grants from The Investigative Fund and The Carter Center to report on juveniles who have been sentenced to life without parole.

 

Call for Entries: Richard J. Blood Award

Awards/Grants, Graduation Awards, M.S. Program

The Richard J. Blood Award For Excellence in Reporting

DEADLINE: Noon, Monday, April 18

  • Seeking an unpublished investigative, hard-news or news feature story of
    publishable quality, that was completed while at the J-School. Please, no profiles.
  • Submit one article of no more than 1,500 words. Please double-space
    entries, and note the word count alongside the headline.
  • A winning entry will overflow with voices, specifics and solid
    attribution. Less is more: Leave in only the details that move the story
    forward. Make your copy lean, your prose sing and soar.
  • Particular attention will be given to rigorously reported stories
    that have the potential to improve social conditions – stories that alert
    the community to a danger, explain human behavior, entertain, inform and
    educate.
  • You are strongly encouraged to review the article with your
    instructor, incorporate any reporting/editing suggestions and rewrite it
    before submission. The award is $500.
  • Please complete this form http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/Blood/ and attach
    your submission by noon on Monday, April 18.Please note that the competition is for unpublished work, but articles
    that have run on the ColumbiaJournalist.org ARE eligible.

    We will announce the winner on Journalism Day

    This award is administered by the M.S. Class of 1995 Blood Award committee: Stephanie Argy, Raney Aronson, Ellen Butler Bikales, Maria Sanminiatelli and Erin Texeira

    *This award is among graduation prizes awarded each year. Details and application instructions (for those that require submissions) will be distributed at a later date. This one, however, is judged by an alumni committee so has an earlier application deadline

CU Campus Services: New Bike Rental Program

Campus Services, Fun Stuff, Going Green

Starting today, April 4, Columbia University students, faculty and staff can ride around campus and beyond on brand new cruiser bikes as part of a new bike-share program through Zagster, Inc. The program is piloting with 14 Zagster cruiser bikes at three Morningside campus locations.

Following the leadership and success of the EcoReps bike-share group for undergraduate students and through Columbia’s recruitment of Zagster to campus, a bike-share program is now open to the entire University community.

Campus Locations

Zagster bike share is located on campus at:

–          Eastern entrance of Lerner Hall

–          Between Butler Library and John Jay Hall

–          Wien Courtyard on East Campus

 Expansion opportunities for the Zagster bike share are also being considered at the Manhattanville campus sometime after the first new buildings open.

 Membership

The bike share is offered through three different options, following standard guidelines of bike-share programs at other campuses: annual, monthly and one-day memberships, described below.

1. Annual Membership

$20 membership fee billed annually

Trips under 1 hour are free; then pay $3/hour (up to $30/ride)

2.  Monthly Membership

$8 membership fee billed monthly

 

Trips under 1 hour are free; then pay $3/hour (up to $30/ride)

3. 24-Hour Membership

$5 one-time fee

Trips under 1 hour are free; then pay $3/hour (up to $30/ride)

* Riders will be charged an additional $35 overtime charge for keeping a bike over 24 hours.

To join and ride, visit www.zagster.com/columbia, or download the free Zagster Mobile App, available for iPhone and Android.

Say Hello on April 6

On Wednesday, April 6 the EcoReps will be at the Sundial from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. with giveaways and free ride coupons. Stop by to say hello and take a peek at one of the Zagster bikes.

 Other Columbia Bike Initiatives

The bike-share expansion to the entire Columbia community is one of several bicycle-friendly initiatives Columbia is leading.

  • Following the successful pilot of the bicycle parking enclosure in the Grove, a second enclosure has been installed in Wien Courtyard.
  • There are several workshops on bicycle street skills and traffic safety being offered to Columbia affiliates in conjunction with Bike New York.
  • Ride Your Bike to Campus Days are returning on April 13 at Morningside, and April 15 and a special Earth Day event on April 22 at the Columbia University Medical Center campus.

Find more bicycle-related information on the Columbia Transportation website attransportation.columbia.edu/bike-services-columbia.  Send questions toenvironment@columbia.edu.

INVITE: Patmos Documentary Workshop

Applications, Non-Columbia Events, Workshops

About the Workshop

The International Film Festival of Patmos IFFP and SugarHigh Films are, for the second time, organising the Patmos Documentary Workshop for emerging filmmakers.

Successful applicants will spend 2 weeks on the Greek islands, working in teams of 3 to each create a 10 minute documentary portrait that will be screened on the closing night of the festival.

The project consists of three phases:

A. Research & Development – remote / online
B. Filming at the Greek islands of Patmos, Kos, Leros, Ikaria and Agathonisi
C. Post production, seminars and Patmos int. film festival

After the summer, the participants’ footage will be reworked by Sugar High Films into a single, feature-length documentary called The Faces of Immigration [Working Title]. This modular, collaborative, feature length documentary will then be released at international festivals, will premier in Patmos 2017 and will be broadcast on international television channels, including Sundance Channel and OTE TV.

The workshop was founded in 2013, with the intention of bringing together young filmmakers in order to create a new, exciting kind of documentary production method. By partaking in the workshop, participants will leave with sharpened skills, international contacts, an industry credit for a widely distributed feature and a great experience.

Key Dates

Additional details and application instructions can be found here: http://www.iffp.gr/documentary-master-workshop/

EVENT: Seeking Solutions to End Sexual Violence Symposium

Columbia Events, Community Citizenship, Healthcare Issues, Other Schools, Speakers
You’re Invited to Attend the Seeking Solutions to End Sexual Violence Symposium 2016
In honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Columbia School of Social Work Students Against Sexual Violence Caucus is hosting the Seeking Solutions to End Sexual Violence Symposium to gather students from across campus so that we can collaborate in order to secure a system that works with and for survivors of sexual violence. The main purpose of this year’s Symposium is to discuss the scope of the problem, take an intersectional approach to our work, and begin to seek solutions. We are pleased to have speakers from a variety of NYC organizations working everyday on this issue: the NYC Alliance Against Sexual Assault, Safe Horizon, Anti-Violence Project, Legal Aid, Bronx Legal Services, NYPD, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, SAFER, New York Asian Women’s Center, GEMS, Day One, Sexual Health Innovations, and more!
WHEN: Saturday April 9, 2016 | 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM *
   *Networking Happy Hour to follow
WHERE: Columbia School of Social Work
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: http://tinyurl.com/endSV16
We look forward to seeing you there!

 

Jerusalem Film Summer Workshop

Invitation, Non-Columbia Events, Outside Events
The Jerusalem Film Workshop is a six-week hand-on course on film making. Students learn how to operate professional cameras, edit video and work in a production team to create both fiction and documentary films. Our master classes offer a unique opportunity to network with Israel’s acclaimed producers and directors. Last year 22 young creatives from around the globe joined us from the US, UK, Croatia, China, Argentina, etc. Each student shoots two films, which are screened during the Jerusalem Film Festival! At the same time participants get VIP access to all festival’s events.

The whole workshop is in English. Students will practice in scripting, directing, editing. They will enrich their experience and portfolios, will get to know different cultures. Apart from that the program includes travelling across the country and opportunity to shoot on the scenes in such amazing locations as Jerusalem, Masada, etc.

You can find information about the program, schedule, mentors, accommodation etc on our web-page along with movies and feed-backs from previous years: www.jerusalemfilmworkshop.com

This year’s workshop will take place June 12 – July 20, 2016. Registration is now open. Application deadline is April, 15.

JFW at a glance:

Who: International students with an interest in film, art, social work, politics or media.

What: 6-week film workshop guided by top Israeli film professionals 

Where: Jerusalem, Israel

When: June 12 – July 20, 2016

Why: Create two films and screen them during the Jerusalem Film Festival. 

Fee covers: accommodation, high end film equipment and video editing suites, excursions around Israel, 2 meals a day and a full accreditation pass to the Jerusalem Film Festival.

Check out the video of last year’s workshop: 

https://vimeo.com/137734567

Contact: jfw.israel@gmail.com 

Apply here: www.jerusalemfilmworkshop.com

Apply now, space is limited.