JMW registration information
What different options are there for JMW?
Our workshop strives to include students in the four days on KU's campus, regardless of their needs and person circumstances. For that reason, you will see many different ways of structuring the camp, in terms of tuition and overnight stays.
Registration costs
- Early Registration: $425 per student (before May 8, 2026)
- Regular Registration: $475 per student (between April 9 and May 26, 2026)
Other details
- Deposit: $175 per student due June 1
- Nonrefundable fee: $25 per student before June 1; $175 per student after June 1
- Final payment: Due before the start of camp
The student experience
- Stay in the dorms at the University of Kansas with your fellow workshop students and learn from the best journalism instructors around. For four days, you will learn new skills that will prepare you for a great year on your publication's staff.
- What's included?
- Three nights lodging
- Meals from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning
- Instruction from award-winning teachers for four days
- Access to technology and equipment through the KU School of Journalism
- Jayhawk Media Workshop T-shirt
- Jayhawk Media Workshop water bottle
- Social activities in the evening
Registration costs
- Registration: $375 per student
Other details
- Deposit: $175 per student due June 1, 2026
- Nonrefundable fee: $25 per student before June 1, 2026; $175 per student after June 1
The student experience
- Commute from your home to the University of Kansas with your fellow workshop students and learn from the best journalism instructors around. For four days, you will learn new skills that will prepare you for a great year on your publication's staff.
- What's included?
- A meal on Sunday evening during a welcome picnic and lunch each day
- Instruction from award-winning teachers for four days
- Access to technology and equipment through the KU School of Journalism
- Jayhawk Media Workshop T-shirt
- Jayhawk Media Workshop water bottle
Registration costs
- Registration Deadline: May 26, 2026
- Price for advisers attending with three or more students: FREE per adviser, plus lodging expenses, if necessary
- Price for advisers attending with two or fewer students: $300, plus lodging expenses, if necessary
Other costs
- Deposit: $175 per adviser due June 1, 2026
- Refund fee: $25 per adviser before June 1, 2026; $175 per student after June 1, 2026
The adviser experience
- Join the workshop's instructors in staying a Lawrence hotel while enrolling in our advisers course.
- Or, advisers can take part in one of our other student course sections — or sample a variety of what's happening in the student courses.
- Advisers will need to arrange and pay for their own lodging outside of the workshop's registration fee. (Lodging through KU's residence hall is not an option for advisers attending the workshop.)
- What's included?
- Meals from Sunday evening through Wednesday morning
- Instruction from award-winning teachers for four days
- Access to technology and equipment through the KU School of Journalism
- Jayhawk Media Workshop T-shirt
- Jayhawk Media Workshop water bottle