ACCM is for collegiate media advisers, for college publications, for university administrators, and for Christians everywhere. But at its heart, ACCM is for the students - the future of media.

We're interested in more than putting a religious spin on news, arts & entertainment. We're about more than creating Christian alternatives to "secular" media.

Our purpose is to facilitate support and cooperation between student media at Christian universities, provide resources for Christian media students and advisors, and ultimately to influence the future media industry by promoting Excellence, Creativity, and Engagement of our world's issues and the culture at large.

Read our Statement of Faith

"The Association of Christian Collegiate Media (ACCM) seeks to raise a standard of responsible, ethical, professional, service-oriented print and broadcast journalism in Christian colleges and universities.

We desire Christian advisers and students who share distinctive environments and challenges to meet and exchange ideas or needs, and to encourage, promote and evaluate student media of religious colleges and universities

ACCM is an organization founded on professional media performance standards grounded in the Judeo-Christian ethic, providing and promoting truth and balance in print and broadcast coverage, and shaping media with a distinctly Christ-centered worldview."

Click here to view the organization's official constitution. 

ACCM Council of Officers

 
President: Dr. Wally Metts, Spring Arbor University; Spring Arbor, MI  wmetts@arbor.edu

Vice President: Dr. Doug Tarpley, Biola University; La Mirada, CA   doug.tarpley@biola.edu

Executive Director: Dr. Mike Longinow, Biola University; La Mirada, CA   michael.longinow@biola.edu

Special Events and Projects: Dr. Sheridan Barker, Carson-Newman College; Jefferson City, TN   sbarker@cn.edu

The Association of Christian Collegiate Media (ACCM) was formed February 17", 1995, by a group of journalism educators attending a Regent University Journalism Conference in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The conference was co-sponsored by Christianity Today. The birth of ACCM grew out of a concern among Christian journalism educators for a national forum in which they and their staff members who produce student newspapers, magazines, and yearbooks, as well as television and radio programs, could achieve various objectives.

   Twenty-one journalism educators, more than 150 collegiate journalists, and nearly 20 professional veteran journalists came together at the conference in order to explore important cultural and professional issues, to expand their professional networks, and to enhance their journalistic skills.

    Colleges and universities represented were Asbury College, Bartlesville Wesleyan College, Biola University, Carson-Newman College, Evangel College, Florida A &;M University, Lee College, Liberty University, Lycoming College, Mount Saint Mary's College, Bartlesville Wesleyan College, Regent University, Spring Arbor College, and Washtenaw College.

    At the Virginia Beach conference, the educators laid the groundwork for ACCM, agreeing to charter the organization. The group approved a statement of purpose and a set of goals for the organization; read and revised the proposed bylaws; selected the name Association of Christian Collegiate Media in order to reflect a Christian worldview; elected officers and appointed committee chairpeople; and established an annual dues structure. The organization's charter membership materials were made available to schools in the fall of 1995.

  The second Regent University Journalism Conference, co-sponsored by Christianity Today and ACCM, was held March 14-16, 1996. Journalism students and advisers from 14 colleges and universities attended the three-day conference.

    During the conference, the ACCM advisers voted to move the annual conference to the fall on a trial basis beginning in fall 1997. One advantage of the move would be to allow student journalists to put into practice for nearly the entire school year what they learned at the conference. "With a spring conference, the seniors would only be able to use for a few months what they learned at the conference," according to President Ann Wharton.

    Regional conferences are also held from time to time.