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"Agricultural Media" - the best student Media Center among agricultural universities within the country, second among universities in Russia!

The 3rd year student of the Faculty of Economics of the Stavropol State Agrarian University Elena Khomutova is a prizewinner of the All-Russian competition of student government in the nomination "The Best Manager of Student Mass Media".

The competition is established for the purpose of development and promotion of the activities of student self-government professional educational institutions and educational institutions of higher education. Its organizers are the Russian Union of Youth and Student Association and Student associations of Russia with the support of Department of State Policy in the sphere of education of children and youth Ministry of Education of Russia and the Russian Student Center.

The annual national competition traditionally consists of two stages are full-time and remote participation. More than 550 applications from all over Russia were submitted to participate in the absentee stage in 2016. As a result of the work of the expert committee in the intramural stage could pass only 80 educational organizations. It is in this number and entered the head of the Student Media Center "Agricultural Media", a student of the Stavropol State Agrarian University Elena Khomutova for further participation in the personal category. By the way, the presence of personal nominations became a novelty of this competition.

The final was within the Russian school of student self-government "Leader of the 21st Century" in Rostov-on-Don in February 2017.

- My full-time defense was held in two stages - says E. Khomutova - self-presentation as the Head of the Media center and the competitive test, which is a preparation of the essay which is more than 5,000 words on "Fundraising young media centers when financing educational organization is absence .”

There was such creative case for SSAU student. She had to not only give the arguments, but also to offer their solutions to problems of each of the participants in this nomination.

According to Elena, "the most difficult to position themselves on a high level with the universities with faculties of journalism or PR and public relations. After all, we have professionals who would be able to educate our team. But there is a desire and initiative in work, as well as opportunities to implement their own educational projects for the training of the first years. "

To the question "What is difference of SSAU Media center from others?" The Head of "Agrarian MEDIA" E. Khomutova answers:

- This amount of work does not make one an educational institution in the region. And now we are boldly prove at a national level: our agrarian university is the only one who is competent in the field of media, which does not apply to existing profiles to date training in the Stavropol State Agrarian University. But it does not interfere with the friendly team of agrarian students to work effectively and to cover perfectly not only the life of the home university, but also to Russia! "

After the evaluation of the performed work of the Media center in 2016, self-presentation and the competitive test, the Stavropol State Agrarian University took second place in Russia and the first among the agricultural universities! Our student media can be proud of it!