Trevor Dyches, a student at John Adams College, has won the award for Best Feature in the Collegiate Network Student Journalism Awards, a competition organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Mr. Dyches’ submission, “Keeping Up With Mr. Jones,” appeared in the inaugural edition of The Rostra, student journal of John Adams College.
The individual awards are given in five categories: Investigative Reporting, Commentary, Criticism, Features, and photography. ISI submitted three entries in each category to a panel of professional journalists. The panel judging the Features category, in which Mr. Dyches’ piece was entered, consisted of New York Times columnist and author Ross Douthat, Curt Mills from The American Conservative, and Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire.
Dr. Jennifer Jensen, chair of the JAC Board of Trustees observed that “Trevor’s accomplishment is one more recognition of the quality of the students at John Adams College, and of the results of an education in the classical liberal arts, which has always included rhetoric, the discipline which produces fine writing.” “JAC students have been admitted to prestigious graduate programs and journalistic fellowships,” she added. “Seeing the excellence of their work recognized by outside organizations is proof of our concept that independent and unaccredited colleges can compete with government-financed and abundantly funded private universities – tho we wouldn’t mind some help from grant-makers seeking to foster an independent collegiate environment.”
John Adams College began eight years ago as Mount Liberty College. Now located in Provo, Utah, JAC is proudly unaccredited, with a curriculum focused on the study of the classic works of literature and history thru original sources.
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