Teaching The Write Stuff: Black journalism professors live and breathe writing and research, yet there is very little information about their experiences. “With the exception of Wallace Terry’s book, a history of journalism at HBCUs that [Phillip] Jeter published in 2002, a 2008 Howard doctoral thesis on how HBCUs are dealing with accreditation, and a piece in Diverse in 2010, there is virtually no other published research on the topic,” says Dr. Kim Smith of North Carolina A&T. One reason might be that journalism professors are particularly fearful of bad press. Phillip Jeter, who is chair of the department of communications at Winston-Salem State University, says, “Many department chairs are very leery of someone else doing research on their faculty and students.”
