Check out the map above to see where other ASPA schools are located around the state!
The Alabama Scholastic Press Association, sponsored by The University of Alabama, seeks to empower K-12 newspaper, yearbook, newsmagazine, literary magazine and broadcast staffs around Alabama.
Simply fill out the ASPA membership form if want to get your high school or middle school media involved in ASPA.
ASPA hosts The Long Weekend, a summer journalism camp on campus each year, holds a convention on campus each spring, and presents a series of journalism workshops in various Alabama cities each September. ASPA also works in conjunction with and in support of the University’s Multicultural Journalism Program and its summer workshop.
ASPA is a member of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association, the National Scholastic Press Association and the National Elementary School Press Association, and also coordinates an annual critique of publications and broadcasts and offers individual contests and on-site competitions. ASPA stands ready to assist K-12 journalists and advisers.
ASPA Board of Directors, 2011-12
President: Melissa Dixon, Oak Mountain High School, Birmingham
Vice President: Connie Nolen, Pelham High School, Pelham
Secretary: Nikki Minoso, Vestavia High School, Vestavia
Past President: Erin Coggins, Sparkman High School, Harvest
Past ASPA Directors and Coordinators
1958-80 James L. Nisbet, director, High School Service, Division of Continuing Education
-1976 William F. O’Connor, director, Field Services, School of Communication
1976-81 Charles Arrendell, chair, Program in Journalism/AHSPA-AJEA liaison
1980- John K. Conroy, director, Office of Campus Programs
1981-82 Rita Oates, professor of journalism/AHSPA-AJEA liaison
1981-85 Charles Self, chair, Journalism Department, AHSPA liaison
1982-84 Marian Huttentine, professor of journalism/ASPA coordinator
David Heggem, Office of Campus Programs
1984-92 Marie Parsons, graduate assistant & journalism instructor /ASPA director
1985-87 David Sloan, acting chair, Journalism Department
1987-91 Jay Black, chair, Journalism Department
1991-92 Ed Mullins, chair, Journalism Department
1992-94 Kathy Lawrence, director, Student Media Programs/ASPA director
1992-93 Suzanne Cambell, graduate assistant/ASPA coordinator
1993-94 Jimmy McCollum, graduate assistant/ASPA coordinator
1994-01 Monica Hill, external relations specialist, Division of Student Affairs/ ASPA director
2002-04 Andy Duncan, assistant director, Office of Student Media/ASPA director
2004-05 Deidre Stalnaker, assistant director, Office of Student Media/ASPA coordinator
2005-07 Amanda Al-Betar, program coordinator, UA College of Continuing Studies
??-07 Marissa Reeves, instructor, journalism/public relations, liaison
2006-07 Loy Singleton, acting chair, Department of Journalism
2007- Jennifer Greer, chair, Department of Journalism
2007-2008 Marie Parsons, emeritus, ASPA interim director
2008- Meredith Cummings, journalism instructor, ASPA director