2008 Woodie Awards
Another faculty member leaves MT
Journalism professor joins staff of Winston Salem State University
Alex Moorman
Issue date: 7/2/08 Section: News
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"My position here was temporary and initially it was only supposed to be for one year as the Geier visiting professor," Jeter said. "Then an offer was made last year for me to stay one more year so I did."
"Some people would say I'm moving up in positions but I'll have a lot more papers to sign and reports to write but I'm not sure if it's an improvement or just a change," Jeter said.
Jeter said that since his employment for MTSU was only temporary that when the offer arose for him to transfer to a school with longer-term employment, he had to just make the choice that seemed best at the time.
"An opportunity for me to stay at MTSU did develop fairly lately but it would just be the offer to stay here another year with temporary employment," Jeter said.
"I'm really going to miss the students at MTSU. This is the first place I have worked that the students actually show up on the first day of class and have great work ethic."
"I'm going to miss my colleagues as well. They are wonderful people. Based on that alone I probably would have stayed but again you have to make the best decision you can at the time.
"Working with Dr. Jeter has been great. I'll be sad for the school of journalism because he's been a calming force." Carol Pardun said, director of the school of journalism, who is also leaving by fall semester.
Jeter also said he's certainly going to miss the flexibility because he's a big night person and he'd come into work at 11 and not leave until three in the morning. Those are the kinds of things he said he'd miss the most.
"I was sort of looking for a job but only in certain geographical areas," Jeter said.
He said that he got a couple of offers in the Western region but having already battled the cold before he wasn't interested in leaving the warmer area.
At Winston Salem State University Jeter will have responsibility for the faculty and student advising. He's also a big advocate in recruitment so he'll be going to high schools and trying to bring students to the university.
Jeter has worked for United Press International in the Buffalo, New York Bureau as a news writer, television news with the Chicago Public Television station and was given a newspaper editor faculty internship at the state newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina.
"He gets along with all of his colleagues and is so knowledgeable in his field he will be a greatly missed," said Pardun.
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Debra Moorman
posted 7/02/08 @ 5:04 PM CST
Excellent article!
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