The Associated Collegiate Press is the largest and oldest national membership organization for college student media in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. The ACP is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association

National Scholastic Press Association

The National Scholastic Press Association is a nonprofit organization founded in 1921 for high school and secondary school publications in the United States. The association is membership-based and annually hosts high school journalism conventions across the country...

. It awards the newspaper, magazine, and online National Pacemaker Awards

National Pacemaker Awards

The National Pacemaker Awards are awards for excellence in American student journalism, given annually since 1927. The awards are generally considered to be the highest national honors in their field, and are unofficially known as the "Pulitzer Prizes of student journalism."The National Scholastic...

, which are considered the highest honors a student publication can receive.

Membership fees are based on enrollment

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

. Membership is also open to student publications outside the U.S.