First Amendment update: Classes cancelled

After an ongoing dispute with the College of San Mateo’s administration over a First Amendment issue The San Matean will not be printing for the fall 2012 semester.

The San Matean has been publishing since 1928.

The newspaper found out Aug. 14 that the classes that support the production of The San Matean were cancelled due to low enrollment.

First Amendment Update: New honors program

First Amendment Update: Adcamp ignored

  The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website. The San Matean has yet to receive any response from the administration about adcamp, an advertising program that would add to the journalism program’s budget for printing, equipment and membership costs, after an editorial that was published last issue about the matter.

First Amendment Update: Thwarted revenue?

  The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website. The San Matean is still waiting for the administration to act on an ad program, called adcamp, which Journalism Adviser Ed Remitz has presented multiple times.

First Amendment Update: Pursuing discussion

  The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website. The San Matean met with James Carranza, Academic Senate President, about the restructuring of the Digital Media program, but because he was not there at the time the program was restructured, he was unable to answer some of the questions completely.

First Amendment Update: Contrived classes?

The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website. 

The San Matean plans to meet with James Carranza, Academic Senate President, to discuss the restructuring of the Digital Media Program and the creation of DGME 101: Writing Across the Media and DGME 102: Mass Media Law and Ethics. 

First Amendment Update: Bombshell and bombardment

The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.

During the fall 2011 semester, The San Matean was looking into in depth but newsworthy topics — Student Learning Outcomes, class cuts and Faculty Service Areas — the last of which has brought about a troubling confrontation.

First Amendment Update: Adcamp the answer

The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.

The San Matean has just received a response from the administration regarding proposed signage in Building 10 directing people to its new location.

First Amendment Update: Borders remain

Our educational system is regarded as one of the highest prestige. There's no question why people come here: higher standard of living. Yet, we find it necessary to make it difficult for an out-of-country person to educate themselves in developing these ideas further. 

First Amendment Update: Questions still unanswered

The San Matean is continuing with First Amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.

Though The San Matean received some answers in its latest questions to Susan Estes, Vice President of Instruction, regarding the future of the publication, The San Matean is still unclear about specifics and has additional questions.

First Amendment Update: Answers received, more needed

The San Matean is continuing with first amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.

The San Matean has asked Susan Estes, Vice President of Instruction, six questions about this matter. Though questions have been answered, The San Matean still remains concerned.

First Amendment Update: Answers sought

The San Matean is continuing with first amendment updates, reporting on an ongoing dispute with the administration regarding the future of its newspaper and website.The Digitial Media program is still following the outline created by the Digital Media faculty and approved by the Academic Senate at the Sept.

The San Matean defends free speech

The San Matean is concerned by last year's review of the journalism program which compromises the role of a free and independent press on this campus as protected by the First Amendment.A national First Amendment rights group has been watching closely and advising as The San Matean gathers information regarding any current and future decisions about the journalism program through the California Public Records Act.

Keep speech free

A 2008 administrative review of the journalism program compromises the role of a free and independent press on this campus. A national First Amendment rights group is advising on The San Matean's investigation of the review through the California Public Records Act.

Records coming

The San Matean has requested additional records concerning the future of the journalism program and it's First Amendment student-run newspaper. This includes the creation of the media PIV and the implementation of it. President Michael Claire has told The San Matean that these records will be in hand by the end of next week.

First Amendment Update: Fall classes up in the air

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 Program Improvement and Viability review (PIV) of the program threatens the future of the publication as a bi-weekely print medium.

First Amendment Update: Access to meetings denied

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 program review of the media programs threatens the future of the publication and its associated website.The Academic Senate which ruled on March 23 that The Program Improvement and Viability Review be passed back to the original committee in charge of creating it, is waiting for the committee to present revised recommendations to the senate.

Special Editorial

'Egg on our face,' broken process

A March 23 Academic Senate meeting proved that the Program Improvement and Viability (PIV) process, which aimed to restructure the journalism program as well as other media programs at CSM, is clearly a broken and flawed process. How will this affect future programs that need to undergo PIV? How will the committee ever come to a conclusion as to what will the new Digital Media Program (DGME) look like? More importantly, how much taxpayer money has been spent on this process and how much more is the school willing to spend on something that is clearly not working? The San Matean demands to know how much taxpayer money is being spent on such a questionable process at a time when the state has no money.

First Amendment Update: PIV process stil secret, answers sought

Recent events surrounding the restructuring of Media programs raise concerns that need to be addressed regarding the future of The San Matean and the restructuring process itself. It has been a year since the publication first published an editorial about the PIV (Program Improvement and Viability) process and asked the administration to answer initial questions.

First Amendment update: : PIV commitee to present response to Academic Senate's Governing Council

PIV committee to present response to Academic Senate's Governing Council

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 program review of the media programs threatens the future of the publication and its associated website.After deliberation last semester and over the summer months the PIV committee has drafted a response that they will present at the Sept.

First Amendment update: Meeting requested

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concering the future of its newspaper and website.The editor of the publication is still awaiting answers from the Media PIV committee, who was in charge of gathering the recommended changes to the program that will be implemented by Fall 2010.

First Amendment Update: Answers needed

The San Matean continues to seek answers in the ongoing First Amendment situation with the administration. The San Matean has contacted some of the Media PIV Committee members with questions about what would happen to the journalism program and The San Matean if the recommendations suggested in the PIV are implemented.

First Amendment Update: Anonymity

The San Matean is expecting additional records from the administration by the beginning of next week.The editors will continue to provide First Amendment updates throughout the remainder of the semester and over the Holiday break via our website, www.sanmatean.

First Amendment Update: Records received

The San Matean has reviewed the inital records requested through The California Public Records Act regarding the future of the journalism program and its First Amendment student-run newspaper.The San Matean's editors will be pursuing all documents available.

First Amendment Update:Pursuit continues

The San Matean is continuing a conversation with the administration at CSM to ensure that our first amendment rights remain entact. The editors of The San Matean have reviewed some documents that were requested through The California Public Records Act. The administration is in the process of making copies of these records and we are expecting to recieve them early this week.

First Amendment Update: Digital media curriculm approved

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 program review of the media programs threatens the future of the publication and its associated website.An overview and outline were created by the Digital Media faculty which was voted on by The Academic Senate at its Sept.

First Amendment Update: Digital Media curriculm to be voted on

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 program review of the media programs threatens the future of the publication and its associated website.An overview and outline were created by the Digital Media faculty which was presented to The Academic Senate as an information item at it's Sept.

First Amendment Update: Classes Slated for Approval

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A 2008 Program Implementation Viability Review (PIV) of the program threatens the independent voice on CSM's campus. The Student Press Law Center, an advocate for student free-press rights; The California Newspaper Publisher's Association, a group protecting the interests of newspapers throughout the state; The Office of State Senator Leland Yee, a champion for First Amendment rights; and The Journalism Association of Community Colleges, a non- profit educational group dedicated to community college journalism continue to watch the situation.

First amendment update: We need answers

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. The publication has concerns coming out of a Feb. 18 meeting held with administration to discuss changes being made to journalism program.

First Amendment update: Meeting held

The San Matean is involved in an ongoing dispute with the administration concerning the future of its newspaper and website. A meeting was held on Feb. 18 to discuss any changes being made to journalism offerings and how this would effect the publication and the program.

What about the First Amendment?

After 81 years as a student-run First Amendment newspaper, the future of The San Matean is in jeopardy. Faculty-driven recommendations for restructuring the journalism program threaten the paper as a bi-weekly news medium.A faculty committee presented recommendations from a Program Improvement Viability review that included journalism courses to the Academic Senate in December.