As we’ve collectively watched the changes in our economy, one industry that is being hit hard is journalism. Especially hard, for me, is learning of the Rocky Mountain News closing.
I had the opportunity produce a feature about the RMN photojournalism team in one of the most difficult moments of their history: the 1999 shootings on the high school campus at Columbine. That multimedia project, Covering the War At Home was produced in cooperation with other digital pioneers Dirck Halstead and David Snyder and is still live — in its 1999 format — at The Digital Journalist. The RMN coverage of Columbine earned the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography in 2000.
To understand the personal impact of this one paper’s closing, please take 20 minutes to watch:
One of the barriers we face as we explore rural learning and reaching potential rural health care providers for educational advancement and career growth
The percentage of U.S. farms with high speed Internet access varies wildly from state to state and county to county, according to the recently released federal Census of Agriculture. Nearly 6 out of 10 farms in Connecticut had a high speed Internet connection in 2007, when the Census was taken. In Mississippi, only 2 out of 10 farms had a quick connection to the World Wide Web.
I am offering an Internship for our MHA students whoc are interdes in leadership development, but not necessarily as a faculty member at a college of university. Here’s the announcement that went out yesterday:
Health care administrators and managers are often key individuals in leadership development roles. Leadership development courses and talks are often offered via human resources classes, retreats, conference presentations, and other formal and informal channels.
This internship is working with graduate faculty member F.R. “Fritz” Nordengren and combines both research and practical application of leadership development. It is especially designed for those students who want to include leadership development in their career path, but not necessarily as a college-based faculty member. Students will research and develop their own skills in creative thinking, virtual team leadership, change leadership, and storytelling as a leadership tool.
The internship lasts 180 hours, and is designed to be completed in one term, although students wishing to spread the work over two consecutive terms will be considered.
The internship includes an opportunity for the participant to develop and present a leadership topic in the classroom or other formal environment.
Internship participants can be local to Des Moines or distant. Residency is not required.
I received interst from two studetns yesterday morning.
F.R. "Fritz" Nordengren is Assistant Professor at Des Moines University where he supervises health care administration graduate student capstone projects.
He is a President of the Iowa Food Systems Council to recommend policy, research and program options for an Iowa food system which supports healthier Iowans, communities, economies and the environment.
Nordengren is an award winning producer, a graduate health care educator, and a small farmer & rancher
