Description

Student reporters are in constant communication about student conduct proceedings through our Slack, website, and archive at the Campus Discipline Project. We needed this project for additional support, particularly after reporting on encampments, Title IX, and AI conduct proceedings. 

Student reporters are stakeholders in student conduct processes and potential allies to maintain an accurate campus-wide understanding. 

Here, we will share strategies to communicate with student reporters and diffuse campus community distrust. Then we will break into small groups to answer questions, test strategies, and problem-solve how attendees can build stakeholder relationships and trust on their own campuses.

Learning Outcomes:

• Attendees will learn how student reporters are student conduct process stakeholders and can be key allies in building student-administration trust. Knowledge Area: 6.1 Internal and External Partnerships: Relationship Building and 6.2 Internal and External Partnerships: Collaboration & Execution
  
  
• Attendees will learn promising practices regarding successful communication with student reporters, including setting clear boundaries and referring reporters to other sources when needed, to maintain an accurate campus understanding about student conduct proceedings. Knowledge Area: 4.2 Education: Capacity Building
  
  
• Attendees will learn ways to anticipate the needs of student reporters and campus community to accurately understand student conduct processes and diffuse campus community distrust of student conduct processes during politically salient moments. Knowledge Area: 4.4 Education: Equity and Inclusion
  

Knowledge & Skills:

Pricing:

• ASCA Professional Members: $39.00
  
  
• Non-Members: $59.00
  
  
• ASCA Student Members: $20.00

Please ensure to review ASCA's Refund and Cancelation Policy prior to completing your registration.

Each registration payment applies to one attendee only. For group registration and rates, contact ASCA Director of Member Experience and Operations, Josh Cutchens, at asca@theasca.org.

Please note registration will close at 11:45 PM EST the day prior to the event.  

A Zoom link will be provided the morning of the meeting.  If you need accommodations for this event, please contact the ASCA Central Office at asca@theasca.org or 979-589-4604 as soon as possible.

Presenter Information & Bios:

Ella Beiser (She/Hers) Ella is one of the co-organizers of the Campus Discipline Project and the editor-in-chief of the Bates Student newspaper. She's a graduating senior with a double major in Political Science and Hispanic Studies with a minor in Latin American and Latinx studies. Contact: campusdisciplineproject@gmail.com

Micah Clark Moody (She/Hers) is a co-organizer of the Campus Discipline Project. This project draws on her work as a freelance reporter, investigator for civil rights cases, and commitment to student-led organizations as an undergraduate at UChicago. In the fall, Micah will return to a campus as a sociology PhD student. Outside of work you'll find Micah on a walk sipping coffee and taking pictures of the plants. Contact: campusdisciplineproject@gmail.com 

Jamie Kalven (He/Him) is a writer and founder of the Invisible Institute. He is the author of Working With Available Light: A Family’s World After Violence and the editor of A Worthy Tradition: Freedom of Speech in America by his father Harry Kalven, Jr. He has reported extensively on patterns of police abuse and impunity. He was the plaintiff in Kalven v. Chicago, in which the Illinois appellate court ruled that documents bearing on allegations of police misconduct are public information. His reporting first brought the police shooting of Laquan McDonald to public attention; and he co-produced 16 Shots, an Emmy Award winning documentary on the McDonald case. His 2016 series “Code of Silence” in The Intercept exposed the criminal activities of a team of corrupt Chicago officers operating in public housing and has contributed to the exonerations of 183 individuals. Among the national awards he has received are the 2015 George Polk Award for Local Reporting, the 2016 Ridenhour Courage Prize, the 2017 Hillman Prize for Web Journalism, and the 2022 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. The Invisible Institute received the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and 2024 Pulitzer Prizes for Local Reporting and Audio Reporting. “Incident,” a documentary short by director Bill Morrison based on Kalven’s reporting was a 2025 Academy Award nominee. Contact: kalven@invisibleinstitute.com