A program to develop a new pool of journalists of color, the institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., has graduated seven classes. The institute trains non-traditional students to work at their local daily newspapers in the United States. Most students are making a career transition into journalism.
The Diversity Institute faculty includes career professional journalists and guest trainers and speakers.
Attendees are nominated and later hired by their local newspaper as reporters, copy editors, page designers or photographers. They undergo 12 weeks of intensive training in journalism to prepare then for immediate employment at their local newspaper.
The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration or its educational policies, scholarships and other school-administered programs.
For more information,
please contact:
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute
at Vanderbilt University
1207 18th Ave. S.
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615/727-1410
E-mail: jmarsh@freedomforum.org
Directions to the John Seigenthaler Center
Freedom Forum Diversity Institute Board of Trustees
Winter 2006 Diversity Institute Fellows
Winter 2005 Diversity Institute Fellows
Summer 2004 Diversity Institute Fellows
Winter 2004 Diversity Institute Fellows
Fall 2003 Diversity Institute Fellows
Summer 2003 Diversity Institute Fellows
Fall 2002 Diversity Institute Fellows
Summer of 2002 Diversity Institute Fellows
The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational or admissions policies or its scholarship, loan and other institute-administered programs.
