Do you want to stand for election to the AJE’s executive committee, and so help influence its policies and activities?
The AJE is an organisation representing 50 universities in the UK and Ireland which teach journalism (and in most cases, research journalism). It is an organisation which has grown rapidly in recent years.
The committee needs new faces. For example, at least two of the current committee are not standing again (for work reasons or because the AJE constitution applies to prevent anyone serving on the committee for more than six years in succession).
The elections for the committee, and for its three “honorary officer” posts of Chair, Secretary and Treasurer will take place at the AJE AGM in Glasgow (at Strathclyde University) on September 10 2010. This is during the AJE annual conference. Details of the event will follow soon.
How are people elected to the AJE committee?
You can download this document for a full explanation and for references to the AJE constitution. (AJE nomination procedure.doc)
But, in a nutshell, the AJE is controlled by member institutions. Those people standing for election have to be the “appointed representative” of the member institution which employs them.
So, firstly they must have the backing of their own institution to stand, and only one person can stand from each institution. Then they need a formal nomination, and that can only come from another institution in membership. Hence, Oxtown University cannot nominate its own appointed representative as an election candidate for the AJE committee. Staff at Oxtown University need to network to get, say, Little Ox University to nominate the Oxtown University appointed representative. See our list of member institutions.
Nominations can be made to the AJE Secretary Rob Campbell. These should be made by August 10, 2010.
Under the AJE constitution, the organisation’s aims are:
- to uphold the highest standards in the teaching of journalism in higher education
- to provide a common voice for the teaching of journalism in higher education
- to provide a forum for academic and professional concerns and to lobby
- to monitor accreditation schemes
- to discuss educational and curriculum development
- to represent journalism education issues within the higher education sector
- to collect and share information on the teaching of journalism in higher education
- to represent journalism education issues to the media industries
- to hold conferences
- to promote and support research in journalism and in journalism education.
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