WASHINGTON, D.C.--The CCCU honors Katherine Kipp, a senior at Union University (TN), for winning the Presidents Award at the 8th Annual Baptist Press Excellence in Journalism Contest. The winners were named during the Baptist Press Collegiate Journalism Conference, held October 9-11 in Nashville, Tenn.
Kipps entry was highlighted by her intern work at Baptist Press Washington bureau while enrolled for a semester of studies with the Washington Journalism Center, located in Washington, D.C.
Katherine had one of those semesters that started with your typical inside the Beltway speeches and hearings -- which can be pretty interesting in their own right -- and ended with larger stories about religious liberty at the global level. She made wonderful progress and grew so much as a reporter and as a student. She was also able to give the national Baptist Press staff help and insights on latest tornado at Union University, her own campus, said Terry Mattingly, director of the Washington Journalism Center.
She had a great semester and I know that she has a bright future, in Washington or wherever she chooses to pursue her reporting and writing.
Kipp garnered the top award for 2008, which included a framed certificate and a $1,000 scholarship.
This year we saw highs in both the numbers of entries and the excellence of the work we evaluated, said Will Hall, executive editor of Baptist Press in a recent Baptist Press article. Every area we assessed was extremely competitive, yet Katherine was the unanimous choice of our editorial team.
She is a crisp writer who engages the reader from the lead to the end, and does so without shortchanging technical proficiency, he added. Katherine has a bright future in journalism.
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http://wjc.bestsemester.com/overview.asp The 12 semester- or summer-long student programs offered by the CCCU are categorized as either culture-shaping programs or culture-crossing programs. Culture-shaping programs are: American Studies Program (Washington, D.C.); Contemporary Music Center (Marthas Vineyard, Mass.); Los Angeles Film Studies Center (L.A., Calif.); and Washington Journalism Center (Washington, D.C.). Included in the culture-crossing programs are: Australia Studies Centre; China Studies Program; Latin American Studies Program; Middle East Studies Program; Programmes in Oxford; Russian Studies Program; and Uganda Studies Program. All programs undergo regular site visit evaluations by the Student Academic Programs Commission (SAPC).
The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities is a higher education association of 180 intentionally Christ-centered institutions around the world. There are now 110 member campuses in North America and all are fully-accredited, comprehensive colleges and universities with curricula rooted in the arts and sciences. In addition, 70 affiliate campuses from 24 countries are part of the CCCU. The Councils mission is to advance the cause of Christ-centered higher education and to help its institutions transform lives by faithfully relating scholarship and service to biblical truth.