Professor [Michael Bugeja](/) was a judge for the North American Agricultural Journalists writing competition. His category was agricultural blogs. Bugeja will visit our sister school at the University of Iowa on April 7 to give two presentations on diversity—one on devising an proactive public plan and website and another on being sensitive to microaggressions and other multicultural issues in the classroom. He has given interviews to various media on the importance of tenure and the practice of journalism in the age of alternative facts. He is in the proofing process of his forthcoming book from Oxford University Press: [Interpersonal Divide in the Age of the Machine](https://interpersonal-divide.org/). Bugeja also blogs for the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. His latest post is titled [“Explaining Academe: A Place of Judgment, Not Complacency](http://asjmc.org/contemporary/workarticles/recent/bugeja_032117.php). Bugeja also is reading accreditation reports in preparation for the Accrediting Council meeting in Chicago next month. He represents the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.