To help librarians use their campus newspapers more effectively as a communications tool, this paper discusses the type of information about campus libraries that ten student newspapers published over the course of one year and discusses strategies that librarians can use to build more productive, collaborative relationships with the people who…

Courts allow a great deal of discretion to private college officials regarding student press. This liberty should not lull student personnel administrators into censorship and strict control. However the principles guiding a private college's response to its newspaper must be educational as well as legal. A logical alternative would be a…

Writer's workshops provide students with the appropriate processes they need to learn about publishing and First Amendment freedoms when collaborating on a school newspaper. High school teacher and journalism adviser Janet Ewell outlines the structures students can use for learning to find, research, develop, respond to, and reflect on story…

This article describes an extracurricular social studies enrichment program called the Clio Club. "Clio" is derived from the Greek muse of history, and the club offers a variety of activities to help students discover and interpret social studies beyond the traditional school hours. They meet after school and on weekends both at their…

By using a simple teacher-made template, students as young as first grade can collaboratively write and publish their own student-created newsletters. Teachers enjoy the time and energy they save with this integrated learning strategy, and the experience that students gain in publishing their own class newsletter seems to strengthen learning…

Subjective reporting by the campus press is a reversion to news reporting prior to 1835. (DB)

Discusses elements of an editorial page masthead with respect to two considerations: what information to include or leave out, and visual appeal. (GT)

If "The Meter" at Tennessee State University and "The Hilltop" at Howard University are indicators, student newspapers at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have taken giant strides since 2000, when "Black Issues In Higher Education" found many Black campus papers struggling and inadequate. "All the News Doesn't Make It to Print"…

Reports data from questionnaires sent to college newspaper editors. (JT)

Offers basic tips for improving the quality of photographs in a student newspaper. (GW)

Provides simple guidelines for designing advertisements for school newspapers; includes illustrative advertisements from a Chicago high school newspaper. (GT)

Offers suggestions for selling advertising space in student newspapers. Includes criteria for successful salespeople, a list of common time-wasters, and some principles for advertising salespeople. (TJ)

Describes a method of making prints that can produce interesting photographs. (TJ)

Notes that the keys to "beat" reports are accountability and personal contact. Discusses ways to tie students' generation of story ideas from their beat to their final grade and to make personal contact with the news sources on their beat. Includes a beat report form and a student survey form. (RS)