So I won't get arrested at today's University Press staff meeting.
No one really thought I would. But a week ago, Student Affairs associate dean Terry Mena wouldn't say one way or the other. (Read my version of that weird meeting at the bottom of this blog, and the editor-in-chief's here.)
The SunSentinel reported this week, "That won’t happen, [student media director Marti] Harvey said. Students have filled out the paperwork, and Koretzky will be allowed to appear as a guest speaker."
UP editor Karla Bowsher did indeed fill out an "event registration form" last Friday. While it wasn't submitted the required 10 days in advance, it was apparently approved. Although no one told Karla. We both learned about it from the SunSentinel.
Last week, Mena and Harvey said the three of us "need to talk" about my offer to volunteer as the UP's adviser until a full-time one can be hired. But neither has emailed or called me.
So later today, the EIC will fill out event registration forms so I can attend Tuesday editor meetings and Friday staff meetings for the rest of the summer. That should take care of everything. Right?
THE NUT GRAF
For 12 years, I advised the student newspaper at Florida Atlantic University. It was a part-time job but my full-time passion.
I was fired on May 18, 2010, and given three days' notice. I wasn't bitter about it. Just confused.
Student Affairs says it wants to "upgrade" the University Press by hiring a full-time adviser. But it hasn't announced when that will happen, other than to say "in the near future."
Now the UP has no adviser at all. So I volunteered to do it for free if the staff wanted me to. Their vote was unanimous.
Student Affairs has been less than enthusiastic. And that's the drama documented here...
I was fired on May 18, 2010, and given three days' notice. I wasn't bitter about it. Just confused.
Student Affairs says it wants to "upgrade" the University Press by hiring a full-time adviser. But it hasn't announced when that will happen, other than to say "in the near future."
Now the UP has no adviser at all. So I volunteered to do it for free if the staff wanted me to. Their vote was unanimous.
Student Affairs has been less than enthusiastic. And that's the drama documented here...
MULTI-SOURCING
- College Media Matters – CMM 10: Karla Bowsher, Editor in Chief, University Press
- SunSentinel – FAU Student Editor Keeps Job, Continues Critical Voice
- New Times – FAU to Newspaper Editor: You Can't Share Public Information
- SPLC – Former Adviser Will Be Allowed to Advise FAU Student Newspaper
- SunSentinel – Koretzky Can Continue His Voluntary University Press Advising, FAU Says
- Palm Beach Post – FAU Claims Misunderstanding over Newspaper Adviser Position
- FIRE – FAU President Stands up for Newspaper's First Amendment Rights
- UP – Unqualified
- Palm Beach Post – FAU Needs New Media Policy: Better Communication with Students Would Be a Start
- Canada Free Press – Yomin on the FAU Scandal
- College Media Matters – FAU vs. University Press: “An Increasingly Tense Feud”
- Palm Beach Post – Trouble with FAU Newspaper Program and Its Past Adviser Thickens
- FIRE – Florida Atlantic University Threatens Student Paper Over Advisor's Voluntary Service
- SPLC – SPJ, SPLC Voice Concern over FAU’s Attempts to Prevent Former Adviser’s Newspaper Involvement
- SunSentinel – FAU Responds to Journalism Group's Free Speech Complaint
- SunSentinel – Journalism Organization Critizes FAU over Adviser Flap
- SPJ – SPJ Urges FAU to Lift Threats against Student Press
- UP – Authority Issues
- The Alligator – Florida Atlantic University Firestorm
- YAF – FAU Fires Student Newspaper Advisor in Attempt to Censor Campus Free Speech – Again!
- WLRN – FAU Students Reluctant to Let Journalism Advisor Go
- SPLC – FAU Moves to Block Former Adviser from Helping Editors
- First Draft – Not One Step Backward
- New Times – FAU Threatens Student Newspaper Editor for Speaking With Fired Adviser
- SunSentinel – Student Newspaper Editor Says FAU Has Threatened to Discipline Her Over Adviser Flap
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Students Retain Fired Adviser as “Guest Speaker”
- College Media Matters – Former FAU Newspaper Adviser Now Volunteer
- Huffington Post – Florida Atlantic Students Rehire Fired Newspaper Adviser
- Romenesko link
- SunSentinel – FAU Adviser Fired, but Still Advising
- Michael Koretzky: Changing Times, Changing Lives
- SunSentinel – FAU Fires Newspaper Adviser, but Students Want Him to Stay
- UP – Owl Management blog
- SPLC – FAU Cites Desire to Improve Media as Reason for Firing Longtime Adviser
- New Times – Koretzky to FAU: I'll Work for Free. That a Problem?
- Posterous – Giving Thanks to Michael Koretzky
- New Times – FAU Fires Longtime UP Adviser