With more than 32 years of service on her résumé, Marilyn Weaver has won the Scripps Howard Foundation Journalism Administrator of the Year Award.
The award is given in collaboration with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Weaver, chairwoman the Department of Journalism at Ball State University, will receive $10,000 and a trophy. The university will get a $5,000 grant.
"It's an award I did not think I would receive," Weaver said. "It was a wonderful surprise."
The foundation announced the winners of its 17 annual National Journalism Awards on March 13. These awards honor the best in print, Web and electronic journalism and journalism education from around the United States in 2008.
"She is certainly an outstanding administrator," Sue Porter, vice president of programs for Scripps Howard, said. "So many people from around the country wrote letters in support of her."
According to its Web site, Scripps Howard started awarding Journalism Administrator of the Year in 2003. It's meant to honor past or present journalism administrators who have provided leadership in the field throughout a career or in a specific project. Educators, professionals, students or alumni can nominate people for the award.
Awards will be presented at a dinner April 24 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
Weaver's accomplishments in the past 32 years include taking a part in the creating the Arts and Journalism Building, the Ingelhart News Scholars Program and the journalism graphics program.
Weaver said although she has accomplished so much, this is not just her award.
"Any good administrator must have an exceptional team of faculty and staff to work with," Weaver said. "Their contributions have been so important to my success and to the success of this department."
Weaver said she hopes to implement curriculum changes in the journalism program by the Fall Semester which will update the program and prepare students for the rapidly changing media industry, she said.
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