At smaller four year colleges, and two year schools in the newspaper's community, contact may well be more frequent. Tha education may be more job-related, and those students closer to the job market. A state's flagship university's detachment from the working press a segment of the business community as well as the defender of the First Amendment can lead to missed opportunities. When it's time for money-raising, as it has been and is now for the journalism and mass communication department at CU, there are limited if any contacts that can be tapped. Newspaper owners are probably no less nor more generous than other business owners, but even a few thousand dollars from the corners of the state can be leveraged to trigger far larger sums located elsewhere.
Major givers like to see broad support for meeting needs.
Business schools' administrators seem to be much more apt to know the business leaders in the community than other departments know their off-campus counterparts. Without compromising the strong research component of their programs, journalism schools can do better. That would benefit the universities, and the press. For comments or questions, email The Colorado Press Association .