Department:Bates Student Newspaper

Supervisor: Kim Trauceniek

Office Location: Chase Hall

Email: ktraucen@bates.edu

Hours: 2

Workers: 1

Provide illustrations to the folder in Google Drive according to weekly deadlines. Produce original images to serve as visual aides alongside written articles. Dedicate one night a week to collaborative newsroom editing. Take creative initiative to improve digital reachability, presence, and interactivity across campus, including amongst alumni, staff, and faculty. Collaborate with the Digital Editor to maintain brand recognition and visibility standards across all digital platforms. Collaborate with the managing editor team to design and publish special editions of the paper including, but not limited to, a First-year edition, Sex Week edition, and Spudent. Uphold media standards as set by Campus Life and the EIC. This position is exempt from writing articles, but is expected to participate in all staff meetings. The total payment for this role is $200 for the semester. This is not an hourly paid position.

Campus Life embeds the Bates Leads Framework into its student leadership and employment positions. The following competencies are most relevant to this fellowship: Consciousness of Self & Impact: Awareness of one's beliefs, values, attitudes, and emotions; recognition that these are shaped by cultural context and other external forces. Self-awareness, including one's inherited and positional power and privilege. Awareness of one’s impact on individuals and community, recognizing the impact of each action and inaction Bates Student Newspaper Fellows will be most successful if they are able to know their own strengths and apply that knowledge to their work with other members of the Bates Student Newspaper staff, students, and the community. This includes considering the impact of one’s words and actions on others and communities; working to report and publish stories free from impropriety; and being a kind community member. Commitment: The passion, energy, creativity, and follow-through one brings to ideas, pursuits, and collective goals. This position involves a high level of responsibility, and requires individuals to hold themselves and others accountable by meeting deadlines, attending meetings and professional development opportunities, and working to produce the best work possible. Collaboration: Working reciprocally with others. Working across differences to achieve a shared goal. Bringing multiple perspectives, diverse experiences, and individual creativity to bear on a pursuit. This position requires working with Bates Student Newspaper colleagues, various Bates students, faculty and staff, and the community more broadly. Common Purpose: Cultivating a shared goal, direction, and sense of responsibility. Listening, learning, and acting together toward a shared goal. This position requires an ability to build consensus and share the work equitably. While members of the Bates Student Newspaper may have different roles and responsibilities, collectively, each fellow is working toward a common purpose: to effectively share information and news with the campus community, covering issues carefully and thoughtfully to provide independent and responsible journalism. Congruence: Alignment of values, beliefs, attitudes, and emotions with actions in the world. Bates Student Newspaper Fellows act and communicate with consistency, honesty, and transparency. Integrate individual and collective values. Fellows are listening to other peoples “why” and are willing to challenge their one “why.” Controversy: Acknowledging conflict, controversy, and dissent as opportunities for new insight, or new direction or deeper relationships. Disagreeing with others in a spirit of curiosity and learning. Disagreeing or dissenting from the norm without dehumanizing others. At times, Bates Student Newspaper fellows and members may disagree with each other, with the Bates community, and the community more broadly. It is crucial in these moments to communicate honestly, openly, respectfully, and to work to resolve conflict through collaboration and sometimes compromise. Fellows will work to develop the ability to use difference as a point of strength, creative intervention, growth, and direction. Fellows will learn to welcome dissenting perspectives and different points of view. Civic Agency: Embracing one's capacity and responsibility to work with others to advance communal goals. Actively supporting people's full participation in the decisions, systems, and processes that impact their lives and communities. Recognizing the impact of one's choices on others. Bates Student Newspaper Fellows are exploring and exposing injustices, challenges, and various perspectives. Fellows are open to having their position or perspective challenged and are open to feedback on their impact. Leadership Development Campus Life embeds the Bates Leads Framework into its student leadership and employment positions. The following competencies are most relevant to this position: Consciousness of Self & Impact: Awareness of one's beliefs, values, attitudes, and emotions; recognition that these are shaped by cultural context and other external forces. Self-awareness, including one's inherited and positional power and privilege. Awareness of one’s impact on individuals and community, recognizing the impact of each action and inaction Bates Student Newspaper Fellows will be most successful if they are able to know their own strengths and apply that knowledge to their work with other members of the Bates Student Newspaper staff, students, and the community. This includes considering the impact of one’s words and actions on others and communities; working to report and publish stories free from impropriety; and being a kind community member. Commitment: The passion, energy, creativity, and follow-through one brings to ideas, pursuits, and collective goals. This position involves a high level of responsibility, and requires individuals to hold themselves and others accountable by meeting deadlines, attending meetings and professional development opportunities, and working to produce the best work possible. Collaboration: Working reciprocally with others. Working across differences to achieve a shared goal. Bringing multiple perspectives, diverse experiences, and individual creativity to bear on a pursuit. This position requires working with Bates Student Newspaper colleagues, various Bates students, faculty and staff, and the community more broadly. Common Purpose: Cultivating a shared goal, direction, and sense of responsibility. Listening, learning, and acting together toward a shared goal. This position requires an ability to build consensus and share the work equitably. While members of the Bates Student Newspaper may have different roles and responsibilities, collectively, each fellow is working toward a common purpose: to effectively share information and news with the campus community, covering issues carefully and thoughtfully to provide independent and responsible journalism. Congruence: Alignment of values, beliefs, attitudes, and emotions with actions in the world. Bates Student Newspaper Fellows act and communicate with consistency, honesty, and transparency. Integrate individual and collective values. Fellows are listening to other peoples “why” and are willing to challenge their one “why.” Controversy: Acknowledging conflict, controversy, and dissent as opportunities for new insight, or new direction or deeper relationships. Disagreeing with others in a spirit of curiosity and learning. Disagreeing or dissenting from the norm without dehumanizing others. At times, Bates Student Newspaper fellows and members may disagree with each other, with the Bates community, and the community more broadly. It is crucial in these moments to communicate honestly, openly, respectfully, and to work to resolve conflict through collaboration and sometimes compromise. Fellows will work to develop the ability to use difference as a point of strength, creative intervention, growth, and direction. Fellows will learn to welcome dissenting perspectives and different points of view. Civic Agency: Embracing one's capacity and responsibility to work with others to advance communal goals. Actively supporting people's full participation in the decisions, systems, and processes that impact their lives and communities. Recognizing the impact of one's choices on others. Bates Student Newspaper Fellows are exploring and exposing injustices, challenges, and various perspectives. Fellows are open to having their position or perspective challenged and are open to feedback on their impact.

Kim Trauceniek, in the Office of Campus Life, serves as the professional staff supervisor and advisor to the Bate Student Newspaper and Bates Student Fellows. Bates Student Newspaper Fellows are directly supervised by the Editor in Chief and Managing Executive Editor. The Editor in Chief and Managing Executive Editors are directly supervised by Kim Trauceniek in the Office of Campus Life.Campus Life staff provide support and guidance to all members of the Bates Student Newspaper. As a student organization, the Bates Student is held to the mission of Campus Life and the Bates Student Code. Campus Life staff provide support and guidance to all members of the Bates Student Newspaper. Personnel matters that are related to the operation of The Bates Student newspaper or may impact your employment status or that of another Bates Student Newspaper Fellow, should be brought to the attention of Kim Trauceniek, or another professional staff member in the Office of Campus Life at once.