The Traveler
Experiential Learning · Case study
Glendale Community College’s award-winning student literary and arts magazine, made end to end by students and advised through Volumes 44 to 58.
Goal
Give students authentic, end-to-end publishing experience and a finished, printed piece for their portfolio.
Audience
The campus community and the students who make it. Back issues live in the Glendale Community College library archive, and are preserved in the Arizona state library’s digital archive through the Arizona Memory Project.
Process
It is student-run from submission to press, guided by faculty advising: students solicit and select the writing, art, and photography, edit it, design and set the type, and take a finished piece to print.
Technology
- Adobe InDesign for layout and typesetting, Photoshop for preparing art and photography, produced as a printed annual.
Outcomes
Ongoing: each cycle, a new cohort takes a real magazine to press. It is a multiple Pinnacle Award winner from the College Media Association, including College Literary Magazine, with recognition at the AIGA Design Week competition. The result is an authentic audience and a permanent record, not an assignment that ends at a grade.