SOUTHERN INTERSCHOLASTIC PRESS ASSOCIATION (SIPA)

The Southern Interscholastic Press Association is a not-for-profit organization of public schools, including middle, junior and senior high schools, and independent schools.

Its purpose is to encourage a high degree of professionalism in scholastic journalism and mass communications in the Southeast.

Founded at Washington and Lee University in 1926, SIPA moved to the University of South Carolina in 1972.

Members are from District of Columbia and 15 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

QUICK LINKS

2008-2009 Membership Application

2009 Convention Registration

2009 Pre-Convention Brochure (pdf)

2009 SIPA Convention Information