About ICPA
The Indiana Collegiate Press Association has five purposes:
- to stimulate interest in journalism among Indiana’s college
students
- to create fellowship and cooperation among Indiana’s collegiate
journalists
- to raise the standards of journalism at Indiana’s colleges and
universities
- to help each college and university accomplish these goals
- to foster free speech and a free press on Indiana’s campuses
Our membership consists of 42 member publications—newspapers,
news magazines, literary magazines, yearbooks and online publications—at
33 of Indiana’s public and private universities. Our board members
consist of faculty advisers and student representatives from these
universities.
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the ICPA Constitution
We carry out our mission primarily through an annual convention and student
contest that offers hundreds of awards each year. The convention features
outstanding speakers and workshop leaders from throughout the state and
the nation. For example, the keynote speaker at next year’s convention
in Bloomington will be Gene Policinski, executive director of the Freedom
Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University.
ICPA was born in Terre Haute in 1957 when publications advisers and journalism
students met at Indiana State University. The founders hoped to promote
fellowship and cooperation among the state’s collegiate journalists
and publications. Eleven college and universities sent delegates to our
first state convention at Bloomington in the spring of 1957.
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