2025 ICPA Conference & Awards Lunch

Saturday, April 12 • Indiana Memorial Union • Indiana University-Bloomington

Join students and advisers from across the state for the annual ICPA conference. We’ll have speakers and sessions for students working on their college websites, newspapers, literary magazines, news magazines and yearbooks in the morning. The awards lunch follows in the afternoon. We’ll announce 300 awards at the lunch. A complete list of awards will be posted at icpaconnect.org after the lunch.

Registration is $40 per student/adviser. Registration is open for the conference here.

A schedule will be posted on this page Monday, March 31.

FAQs

When: Saturday, April 12, 2025. Registration begins at 9 a.m. Sessions begin at 10:30 a.m.

What? There will be sessions for websites, newspapers, yearbook, magazine and literary journal staffs from 10:30-11:20 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. After the sessions, we’ll gather for the annual awards lunch. Speakers include Kris Cundiff, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Lisa Renze, Free Press Indiana; and Ethan Sandweiss, Indiana Public Media.

Where: Sessions are in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Biddle Conference Center, Indiana University, 900 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana. All talks are in the Tree Suites on the mezzanine level. Lunch is in the Georgian Room on the first floor. Here is a map of the IU campus and a floor map of the IMU.

Where should I park? There are a variety of parking lots adjacent to the IU campus. Two are next to the IMU. See the link to the map above. Discounted parking passes are included with registration.

What should I bring? Bring a stack of your publications to share on the publication exchange table. If you didn’t prepay your registration fees, bring a check payable to ICPA.

Questions? Contact Ruth Witmer, ICPA interim director, 812-855-5898, rwitmer@iu.edu.