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, overnight stays and tribal affiliation.
Registration costs
- Early Registration: $425 per student (before April 19)
- Regular Registration: $475 per student (between April 19 and May 24)
Other details
- Deposit: $175 per student due June 1
- Nonrefundable fee: $25 per student before June 1; $175 per student after June 1
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
- Early Registration: $425 per student (before April 19)
- Regular Registration: $475 per student (between April 19 and May 24)
Other details
- Deposit: $175 per student due June 1
- Nonrefundable fee: $25 per student before June 1; $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
- 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 24, 2024
- Price: $300 per adviser, plus lodging expenses at Hampton Inn, if necessary
Other costs
- Deposit: $175 per adviser due June 1, 2024
- Refund fee: $25 per adviser before June 1, 2024; $175 per student after June 1, 2024
The adviser experience
- Join the workshop's instructors in staying at the Hampton Inn while enrolling in one of our eleven course options.
- Or, advisers can enroll in the Adviser session to learn from fellow teachers and an expert teacher who will lead the Jayhawk Media Workshop adviser session.
- 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
The Native Storytelling workshop is a multimedia workshop and the first of its kind at the University of Kansas (KU). This camp strives to teach Native youth how share their voices and stories via journalism and other forms of media. To learn more about this portion of our workshop, please visit here.