Last Updated: January 26, 2000
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ASNE on the move
The ASNE board passed a motion to promote diversity in journalism schools:
Whereas, the American Society of Newspaper Editors has adopted five
key benchmarks to monitor the diversity progress at America’s daily newspapers;
Whereas, ASNE recognizes that America’s colleges and universities, with
their journalism programs and their collegiate newspapers, are crucial
to supplying quality new journalists for America’s newsrooms;
Whereas, ASNE understands the journalism programs and the collegiate
newspapers at those colleges and universities are working to attract people
of color to their programs;
ASNE encourages and supports the efforts of those colleges and universities
to attract people of color into journalism and college newspapers;
ASNE also urges the journalism departments and college newspapers to
adopt their own benchmarks to monitor their own progress in attracting
and graduating students of color and in hiring a diverse faculty.
