{"id":168,"date":"2023-09-08T13:55:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T13:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T17:27:10","slug":"aspa-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/?page_id=168","title":{"rendered":"ASPA History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1937: <\/strong>The Alabama Scholastic Press Association is founded at The University of Alabama<br><strong>1958\u20131980:<\/strong> James L. Nisbet, Director, High School Service, Division of Continuing Education<br><strong>\u20131976: <\/strong>William F. O&#8217;Connor, Director, Field Services, School of Communication<br><strong>1976\u20131981:<\/strong> Charles Arrendell, Chair, Program in Journalism\/AHSPA-AJEA Liaison<br><strong>1980\u2013<\/strong> : John K. Conroy, Director, Office of Campus Programs<br><strong>1981\u20131982:<\/strong> Rita Oates, Professor of Journalism\/AHSPA-AJEA Liaison<br><strong>1981\u20131985:<\/strong> Charles Self, Chair, Journalism Department, AHSPA Liaison<br><strong>1982\u20131984:<\/strong> Marian Huttentine, Professor of Journalism\/ASPA Coordinator<br> David Heggem, Office of Campus Programs<br><strong>1984\u20131992:<\/strong> Marie Parsons, Graduate Assistant and Journalism Instructor\/ASPA Director<br><strong>1985\u20131987: <\/strong>David Sloan, Acting Chair, Journalism Department<br><strong>1987\u20131991: <\/strong>Jay Black, Chair, Journalism Department<br><strong>1991\u20131992: <\/strong>Ed Mullins, Chair, Journalism Department<br><strong>1992\u20131994: <\/strong>Kathy Lawrence, Director, Student Media Programs\/ASPA Director<br><strong>1992\u20131993: <\/strong>Suzanne Cambell, Graduate Assistant\/ASPA Coordinator<br><strong>1993\u20131994: <\/strong>Jimmy McCollum, Graduate Assistant\/ASPA Coordinator<br><strong>1994\u20132001: <\/strong>Monica Hill, External Relations Specialist, Division of Student Affairs\/ASPA Director<br><strong>2002\u20132004: <\/strong>Andy Duncan, Assistant Director, Office of Student Media\/ASPA Director<br><strong>2004\u20132005: <\/strong>Deidre Stalnaker, Assistant Director, Office of Student Media\/ASPA Coordinator<br><strong>2005\u20132007: <\/strong>Amanda Al-Betar, Program Coordinator, UA College of Continuing Studies <br><strong>2007: <\/strong>Marissa Reeves, Instructor, Journalism\/Public Relations, Liaison<br><strong>2006\u20132007:<\/strong> Loy Singleton, Acting Chair, Department of Journalism<br><strong>2007: <\/strong>Jennifer Greer, Chair, Department of Journalism<br><strong>2007\u20132008: <\/strong>Marie Parsons, Emeritus, ASPA Interim Director<br><strong>2008\u20132019: <\/strong>Meredith Cummings, Senior Journalism Instructor, ASPA Director<br><strong>2021\u20132023: <\/strong>Dianne Bragg, Associate Professor, Assistant Chair, Interim ASPA Director<br><strong>2023\u2013present: <\/strong>Becky Robinson, Instructor, Director of Scholastic Media <br><br><br> <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1937: The Alabama Scholastic Press Association is founded at The University of Alabama1958\u20131980: James L. Nisbet, Director, High School Service, Division of Continuing Education\u20131976: William F. O&#8217;Connor, Director, Field Services, School of Communication1976\u20131981: Charles Arrendell, Chair, Program in Journalism\/AHSPA-AJEA Liaison1980\u2013 : John K. Conroy, Director, Office of Campus Programs1981\u20131982: Rita Oates, Professor of Journalism\/AHSPA-AJEA Liaison1981\u20131985: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspa.ua.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}