Karen Flowers
Director of Scholastic Journalism Organizations
Adjunct Faculty

Karen Flowers is director of the South Carolina Scholastic Press Association (SCSPA) and of the Southern Interscholastic Press Association (SIPA), the state and regional scholastic media organizations with headquarters in the College. She also directs the Carolina Journalism Institute, a summer workshop for advisers and students who work with middle and high school publications throughout the Southeast.

Flowers is also active in national scholastic journalism organizations. She is chair of the Teaching Standards Committee of the Scholastic Journalism Division of AEJMC and is state director of the Journalism Education Association.

Flowers came to the College in 2000 to direct the PRO (Professionals Reaching Out) program, a partnership between the then College of Journalism and Mass Communications and the S.C. Press Association. When the program ended in May 2002, Flowers became the assistant director of scholastic journalism and assumed the directorship of SCSPA July 1, 2002.

Flowers spent 30 years in the public high school classroom, 28 of which were spent teaching journalism and advising high school newspapers.

Flowers has received numerous honors and awards from local, regional and national organizations: the Pioneer Award from the National Scholastic Press Association, the Distinguished Adviser and the Special Recognition awards from the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's Gold Key, the Reid Montgomery S.C. Adviser of the Year, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Journalism Education Association.

She received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the USC Alpha Chapter of Mortar Board in 2003.

E-mail: flowersk@mailbox.sc.edu

Office:
Carolina Coliseum 4000A
Phone: 803.777.6146
Fax: 803.777.4103

Syllabus:
Jour 202 - Mass Media Writing