Updates from you?

[Suzanne Yada]

Hi everyone,

How is the CollegeJourn project coming along? Please respond to the list.

It's OK if you haven't made progress yet, I would just like to know where you stand.

-Suzanne

[Sarah Jackson]

I'm still in the planning phase -- I'm trying to use a contact for a
school assignment for this project too. I haven't received permission
from my contact to go ahead with the story yet. I have a vision of how
I want my feature to look though, if the contact gives the go-ahead.
Time is limited, so I'm definitely trying to tie it in with a school
assignment somehow.

I've also introduced the project to my journalism class. They seem to
be interested in the idea but not so interested in doing the work.

Sarah

[Suzi Steffen]

Quarter begins on Tuesday, and my class will get intro'd to the plan then! As Suzanne knows, it's for my Reporting 1 class' final enterprise story (so features, not news). The whole J-school pretty much knows about it now, and definitely the U of O student paper has heard about it, with some interest from the editor. But as I said, we're on the 10-week quarter system, and we'll get up to speed soon. Exciting stuff! Ooh, maybe I'll be able to see y'all on the chat tomorrow.

Best,
Suzi Steffen
Adjunct
University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication
sste...@uoregon.ed

[Suzanne Yada]

Oh yes - Suzi reminded me! CollegeJourn.com chat tomorrow (Sunday the 27th) is at 8pm BST/3pm EDT. Does that time work for all of you? Because no one has been showing up the last two weeks... :(

Should we move the N.American chat back to 8pm EDT? Because to be honest that would work better for me.

Also, Greg - No, I haven't posted to CMA, do you have access?

[Josh Halliday]

Hi all,

At the risk of sounding lethargic, I'm half-waiting on a response from the BAHSHE. I asked them:

1. What health services are Higher Education (specifically, Universities) institutions legally obliged to provide? 
2. Do all institutions satisfy these obligations?
3. I'm wondering whether these obligations could be open to interpretation - are they documented online somewhere?
4. Do some of the wealthier Universities have in place much better services than institutions that are more dependent on state funding?
5. I noticed from browsing the BAHSHE website that not all institutions are members of the Association, could you shed some light on why an institution would not opt to join the BAHSHE?
6. It would also be helpful to understand the current priorities of the BAHSHE.

This week, I'll dig around the University to see if there are already public documents about number of clinicians per 100 students and the other measurable apples-to-apples stats we discussed.

I'll be at CollegeJourn tonight, though disappointed by lack of Euro folks attending. Probably a good idea to try get something on journalism.co.uk or onlinejournalismblog.com in the near future - will task myself with this.
 
How about making next week's CJ the last one at 3pm EDT and going back to the separate US and Euro times? I have a feeling this might be to blame for lack of US attendance in recent weeks, too.

Hope you're all well,

Josh.

2009/9/27 Suzanne Yada <suzan...@gmail.com>

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[florida_mike]

No progress yet in Austria. I had to defend my thesis. As I graduated
now from J-school I got more time now.

Unfortunately the Austrian version of the "FOI act" is a little more
difficoult than expected. Every state has its own law about this. This
is important because most hospital are run by the state and not by the
federal government.

I will make the FOI requests next week. It can take up to eight weeks
to get the information.

[florida_mike]

in addition:

We got a way different insurance system here in Austria:

People can not choose their agancy. They are insured by their employer
and so it depends what and where you are working.

There are nine different health insurances, going along with the nine
states in Austria. In addition there are special insurance agencies
for "self employed", "public officials", employees of the railroad
company and farmers.

So we got 13 different insurance agencies who all have different
services to their clients. And that in a country with 8.3 Million
people.

Why is this important for Students?

Children, including students, up to the age of 26 (as long as they are
within the education process) are insured through their parents
insurance and have not to pay for it.

Result: All students are members of all 13 different insurance
agencies and all get different services. Although the differences are
minimal, there are differences. But for example most residents doctors
do have licences for all insurance agencies.

So i am still working on it.

[Daniel Doyle]

The class I'm teaching, a sophomore-level news writing section at Ohio University Scripps School, began brainstorming last week ideas for text and video features about campus health. The student clinic here has a horrible reputation. Maybe it's like that at many schools, but it wasn't the case where I did my undergrad work. Last year a couple students contract meningitis after being misdiagnosed at the clinic, and one of the students in our section drove one of these patients to the emergency room. We will probably make some sort of short documentary about this.

The students here definitely want to depict how lacking the health (or "sick") care system is at OU. However, I want to avoid publishing an attack piece with no objective data, and for that reason I hope the different #collegejourn participants can soon come to agreement on an apples-to-apples system of quantitative analysis for these various campuses. Doctors-per-student is a stat that seems universally attainable to me. I told Suzanne I would ask some health policy people for their thoughts on this and simply haven't gotten to it yet, but I will e-mail a fellow grad student who has extensive work in the healthcare field and ask her for her thoughts on this immediately.

Fifteen students comprise my class, and I'm going to split them into groups of two and three. The #collegejourn project is their end-of-quarter assignment and counts for more than 40% of their grades - so I expect to have at least five high-quality pieces on this subject. Our quarter ends at Thanksgiving, so we should hit the deadline easily.

Excited,

Daniel Doyle
501-269-0026
daniel...@gmail.com

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Suzanne Yada <suzan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,

How is the CollegeJourn project coming along? Please respond to the list