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Mentoring Monday: ASPA’s Long Weekend provides opportunity for advisers to share expertise to improve student media

Connie Nolen, an adviser from Pelham High School (Pelham, Ala.), spent nearly two hours of nonstop instruction at a University of Alabama campus eatery, counseling JEA mentee Tyrone Jones on all aspects of literary magazine advising. The meeting was arranged by JEA mentor Marie Parsons, on the recommendation of another mentee, Melissa Dixon, who has...

Mentoring Monday: JEA Mentoring Program provides opportunity for mentors to become a team and friends

By Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair When we developed the concept of the JEA Mentoring Program five years ago, we envisioned that each state participating in the program would have at least two participating mentors. Our thought was that having at least two mentors from the same state would foster teamwork. Alabama mentors Jo...

Mentoring Monday: JEA mentee included in SPLC Report story on ‘Advisers Under Pressure’

Editor’s note: JEA mentee Melissa Dixon was one of the advisers featured in an article titled “Advisers Under Pressure,” in the Spring 2011 issue of the SPLC Report, published by the Student Press Law Center. The story dealt with the challenge media advisers and their staffs experience in trying to report on the events of...