Maintaining a Successful Academic Journal at a Small College - Slides

Maintaining a Successful Academic Journal at a Small College
Barry Devine, Cecilia Groth, The Rock Creek Review, Heidelberg University
Maintaining both student interest and faculty participation in the publication of an undergraduate academic journal can be a challenge. Students come and go every year, and faculty can often change with little notice. The Rock Creek Review at Heidelberg University has developed a simple formula that is easily transferrable from one Managing Editor to the next and from one Faculty Advisor to the next with little to no interruption. While some undergraduate publications struggle to make it past two to three years, The Rock Creek Review is competing its sixth annual issue and is setting up the editorial staff for our seventh. We are happy to share our process so that other schools can establish and maintain publication opportunities for undergraduate research.