In addition, JACC serves journalism education in a number of ways, including scholarships for outstanding community college journalism students, an annual snapshot survey of California and Arizona community college programs, a survival manual for student publication advisers, a proposed policy manual for student publications, and more. Be sure to check the Documents section for some of these publications. The organization is governed by an elected Executive Board that meets four of five times a year. It is composed equally of faculty and students. Faculty officers are elected for two-year terms and students, who by their nature as community college students are more transient, are elected for one year terms.
Terms run from annual conference to annual conference.
The regional faculty officers are elected by faculty at the regional conferences. The state president is elected by faculty at the annual convention. Student officers are elected by students at the annual convention. In addition, the organization has a staff of three faculty advisers who provide special services to the organization on a day to day basis. The secretary and the online director are appointed to three-year terms, while the conference chair is appointed on an annual basis.