Faculty discusses On-line Forty-Niner structure

By Karl Peterson
On-line Forty-Niner

After a faculty meeting Wednesday the structure of the On-line Forty-Niner operation may change.
 
A memo from College of Liberal Arts Dean Dee Abrahamse prompted journalism department faculty members to discuss whether the current operational structure of the On-line Forty-Niner is in the Journalism students’ best interest.
 
“Every school model is different and that’s what they want us to look at, according to instructions from the dean’s office,” journalism professor William Mulligan said.
 
The On-line Forty-Niner is currently operated as a lab/departmental publication meaning that the newspaper is run and partially funded by the journalism department and certain journalism classes supply the publication with its reporters. Journalism faculty members are considering changing the paper to a semi-autonomous publication that would be partially funded by CSULB, or an independent publication that would be completely supported by advertising.
 
“The question right now is which is the best way to educate journalism students in the 21st century,” said Journalism department chairman William Babcock.
 
Concerned journalism students were instructed to leave shortly after faculty members arrived because the meeting was for them only.

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