CSPA will honor eight individuals during a special Advisers Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 15, 2024, in the Rotunda of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City. The Adviser Awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CSPA's Vimeo channel, linked here, starting at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 2024.
The Gold Key is the highest honor the CSPA can bestow upon an individual. Through their contributions to the Association, Gold Key recipients have demonstrated their support for excellence in teaching journalism and in student press advising.
This year, the Association will present its Gold Key to the following recipient:
- Justin Daigle — publications adviser, Brighton High School (Colorado).
Also during the luncheon, CSPA will present the following awards named for former CSPA leaders:
- Eric Thomas, of the University of Kansas, will receive the James Frederick Paschal Award for outstanding service to the Kansas Scholastic Press Association;
- Thomas Hayes of Ben Davis High School (Indianapolis, Indiana) will receive the Charles R. O'Malley Award for excellence in teaching; and
- Chris Waugaman, of Virginia State University, will receive the Joseph M. Murphy Award for service to the Association.
- Emmy Martin, Editor-in-Chief, and Caitlyn Yaede, Print Managing Editor, of The Daily Tar Heel will receive the Edmund J. Sullivan Award
Talvin Dhingra, student journalist, and Adviser Sara Barber-Just, of The Graphic, Amherst Regional High School will receive the Edmund J. Sullivan Award
CSPA to present scholastic and collegiate Gold and Silver Crowns on Friday, March 15, 2024, on the Columbia University campus. A livestream of the Crown Awards ceremony will be available on CSPA's Vimeo channel, linked here, starting at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, March 15, 2024.
The Columbia Scholastic Press Association will present its highest awards for scholastic (middle/junior high school and high school) and collegiate publications, their Gold and Silver Crown Awards, during the closing ceremony of its 100th Spring Convention, taking place March 13-15, 2024, on the Columbia University campus in New York City.
This year's Spring Convention saw more than 1,500 middle school and high school student journalists and their advisers arrive on the Columbia campus for three days of exciting sessions and networking.
The Crown Awards ceremony will take place in the Roone Arledge Auditorium of the Alfred Lerner Hall student center, located at West 115th Street and Broadway, on Friday, March 15, at 2:30 p.m.
This will be the first time since first awarding Crown Awards in 1982 that CSPA will present Gold and Silver Crown Awards to both scholastic (middle school and high school) and collegiate publications during the same ceremony.