Hi, everyone. As you know, 2010 is the 100th anniversary of Kappa Tau Alpha. Happy birthday to us on March 10, 2010!
I hope this blog will be a place to share ideas for events, activities and anything else related to the centennial. Although we're a national organization, the important things we do for journalism scholars and scholarship take place on local campuses. That means you!
To start us off, here is a list of possible activities, well-suited to generating local publicity, compiled a couple of years ago by some of your fellow advisors. Please use the 'comment' function to refine these ideas and add new ones! (Or, better, e-mail Jane -- jane-singer@uiowa.edu -- and ask to be added as a blog contributor, so you can initiate your own posts.)
1. Schedule a centennial lecture, perhaps given by a member of your faculty (or your professional community) who has been a longtime KTA member.
2. Host a reception for all students and professors in your school.
3. Sponsor a student essay contest regarding academic achievement, ethics, honor, etc. Recognize the winning students appropriately, for instance at your school’s annual honors day convocation or your KTA induction ceremony.
4. Start a KTA Hall of Fame for your chapter, recognizing a small number of outstanding alumni of your chapter. Name the most notable graduates of your program who were KTA members. To make the selection meaningful, during the first year you might limit the list to 1 percent of your chapter’s membership or to a total of five members, whichever is larger. Then, in future years, you can continue to select members to add to your Hall of Fame. Publicize the selection through the campus paper and local or state newspapers.
5. Present to the president of your university a plaque commemorating the founding of your chapter.
6. Provide 100 hours of volunteer work to celebrate the KTA anniversary.
7. Plant a tree, with appropriate pomp and circumstance, on the 100th anniversary.
8. Present a marker, bench, light post, beacon or some similar gift to your campus recognizing the search for “knowledge, truth, accuracy” --KTA’s guiding principles.
9. Distribute personal items recognizing KTA or its anniversary. Items might include such things as T-shirts, pens, coffee mugs, water bottles, paperweights, and key chains with appropriate inscriptions. Such items may be purchased through national providers or perhaps through local vendors.
Other ideas welcome!
Monday, August 24, 2009
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Me again. One good idea that came up at our breakfast in Boston was to create a plaque for a high-visibility internal wall in your building, with the names of all your top scholars (I believe Keith has a list) -- and, of course, room to add more!
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