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.Thus, many newsletters have started up and are being published on campuses across the United States each year.It seems impossible to count them.Many are published locally on college and university campuses by student, faculty, staff, and alumni organizations and are known to few people outside the members of the organizations they serve.Some, however, are produced on a national or regional level for collegelevel readers, and command wide attention.These newsletters may be as small as two pages of typewritten text or as professional appearing as a slick, fullcolor magazine in size and printing quality.These newsletters are also excellent places to get experience in feature writing.Why? First, chances are good that you know something about the organization and the special interestsPage 465it represents.Second, the organization is small and probably needs assistance in producing its newsletter, so access is easy.Third, you can probably select the assignments yourself—if not in the beginning, not long after you "prove" yourself.You probably will not get paid for working on a campus newsletter, but you will get your writing published.For a beginner, this is important.Other College and University PublicationsWho is interested in reading about a college or university? Faculty, staff, students, parents of students, alumni, supporters, and even campus neighbors.Magazines are a common medium that colleges and universities use to communicate with their varied constituencies.Some universities also produce newspapertype publications, but the most common formats are slick, fourcolor monthly or quarterly magazines or regularly published newsletters.Tabloidformat newspapers are sometimes used as less expensive alternatives.Editors of these publications often seek parttime student writing assistance.This is for several practical reasons.First, these publications want to provide the opportunities for students to learn.Second, established professionals charge a heftier fee than students charge.An editor in this situation is willing to trade off oneonone teaching to get the needed staff assistance when the publication's budget is strained.Advanced reporting courses, practicum classes, internships, college workstudy programs, and other opportunities are available for beginning feature writers to help create regular parttime or temporary clerical or writing positions at these publications.Most of the time, assignments are given by professional editors or teachers, but a feature writer with initiativedisplaying enterprise with strong story ideas—can make his or her own break.One example of this type of publication is the Tennessee Alumnus, published quarterly by the University of Tennessee National Alumni Association in Knoxville.The magazine is distributed to supporters of the university and alumni at all four of the school's campuses across the state.The magazine typically offers 12 or more articles in each issue, in addition to occasional feature items in the magazine's regular departments.Features highlight the activities of faculty, alumni, the administration, and students.Articles often focus on travel, but are always strongly focused on university people.Issues in education are also addressed, such as a recent article that looked at mathematics and women.Articles also highlight recent developments in the physical and social sciences, especially the research of faculty in such diversePage 466LEADING CAMPUS INFORMATION SOURCESWith thousands of persons on a college or university campus, there are many choices forreliable sources for feature assignments
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