NAEB Newsletter (September 1, 1966)

University of Denver Study Five grants totalling more than $249,000 will fund studies investigating effective utilization of mass communications, includ¬ ing ETV for the disadvantaged. Research¬ ers will aim to develop methods for closing educational gaps, see how television can re¬ duce costs for students and universities. One project will explore the impact of disseminating traffic safety information via mass communications. Another will exam¬ ine current materials, develop new materials to supplement closed-circuit public service programs. Overall research is under the direction of Dr. Harold Mendelsohn; Noel Jordan, chair¬ man, mass communications department, is director of productions. News Notes y University of Wisconsin Radio-College on the Air courses were selected for State broadcasts. This fall, play-by-play football, directed by Ken Ohst, technical production handled by Don Voegeli, Karl Schmidt do¬ ing color reporting. y Auburn University ETV is supplying newspapers throughout Alabama with fill¬ ers; has daytime radio promoting night¬ time ETV. y Introduced this semester, Division of General Education, New York University- courses covering television studio techniques, formats, programing, direction, scriptwriting and broadcast theory. Instructors are pro¬ fessionals in the field. ^ Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, opened its new Center for Radio and Tele¬ vision, named Dr. William H. Tomlinson, director; Darrell E. Wible, assistant pro¬ fessor; Roger E. Young, instructor-direc- tor. y Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, schools be¬ gan 2500 me telecasts to 340 public and parochial classrooms. State level coordina¬ tors—Dr. Marcus Konick, Blaze J. Gusic; Lawrence D. Bergman, director of curricu¬ lum. y WUHY-FM, silent.in August to expand facilities, went back on the air September 1. Parent organization, WHYY, Inc., an¬ nounced that the radio guide will be incor¬ porated in a new magazine, Broader View, which also covers television operations. y Memphis State University, School of Arts and Sciences, offers to condense tapes of the Summer Broadcasting Conference. Cost minimal. For more information write David Yellin, director of broadcasting, Memphis, Tenn., 38111. Fall semester in¬ troduces courses leading to M.A., Radio and Television, part of speech and drama pro¬ gram. Two new staff people—James R. Ludwig, supervisor of radio production; Craig Leake. y These educational radio and television experts addressed the American Manage¬ ment Association Conference on Educa¬ tional Realities, New York City mid- August: Robert Hilliard, Seymour Siegel, John Culkin, Lee Campion, C. R. Carpen¬ ter, Phil Lewis, Richard Lewis. Palo Alto Seminar Richard Bell, Ph.D., associate director, National Project for the Improvement of Televised Instruction, called the 3-week seminar conducted recently at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, “highly productive.” Sixteen participants focused on future di¬ rection of ITV, evaluated its role in com¬ puterized learning programs, discussed new approaches for presenting telecourse ma¬ terials, in keeping with trends to break away from stereotyped lecture presentations. Another major concern—is ITV “distribut¬ ing mediocrity? If so, then we must quick¬ ly upgrade instruction in order to improve televised instruction,” Dr. Bell said. Papers scheduled for publication soon will cover individual instruction, perception, learning and instructional theories, imple¬ mentation, decision-making, structures and goals. GRANTS • $500,000 to KCET, Channel 28, South¬ ern California, from the Ford Foundation. • Two grants, one for $7,000, to WGTV, Channel 8, University of Georgia, for pro¬ ductions aiding the University’s Institute of Higher Education and the Institute of Government. • $352,000 to Wayne State University, College of Nursing, for development of training course telecasts for nursing schools in Detroit. Awarded under the Nurse Train¬ ing Act of 1964. • $65,000 to KUAC-FM, University of Alaska, to expand public service program¬ ing to Fairbanks, and develop tape dupli¬ cating system. Awarded under the Higher Education Act. 1966 IBS Awards The International Broadcaster’s Society has awarded its medal of honor, The Ex¬ ecutive Shield, to the following members: Eugene Bernald, president, Pan American Broadcasting Co., New York Auguste Moutongo-Black, director, Ra¬ diodiffusion del la Republique Feder- ale du Cameroun, Yaounde John Gregory, Ph. D., Pasadena City Col¬ lege, Pasadena Liang Han-chou, chairman of the Board, Broadcasting Corporation of China, Taipei, Republic of China Reverend Edwin Robertson, executive di¬ rector, World Association for Chris¬ tian Broadcasting, London Monsenor Jose Joaquin Salcedo G., di¬ rector general, Accion Cultural Popular, Bogota, Colombia The Brothers Verwey, owners and di¬ rectors, Radio Veronica, On the High Seas NAEB Newsletter, a monthly publication is¬ sued by the National Association of Education¬ al Broadcasters, $5.00 a year. Editor: Udell S. Ehrlich. NAEB Headquarters: 1346 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036. Phone 667- 6000. Area Code 202. JCET Elects Officers, Board Recently reorganized Joint Council on Educational Telecommunications, formerly the Joint Council on Educational Broad¬ casting, announced the following elections at its annual meeting: President and mem¬ ber of the Board—Harold E. Wigren, ETV consultant for NEA; Vice President—Rob¬ ert Anderson, University of Georgia; Ex¬ ecutive Secretary — James A. Fellows, NAEB assistant to the president. Repre¬ sented on the Board of Directors are: American Association of School Admin¬ istrators, American Council on Education, Association for Higher Education, Council of Chief State School Officers, NAEB Na¬ tional Education Association, National As¬ sociation of State Universities and Land- Grant Colleges, National Educational Tele¬ vision. HEW is reviewing these applications for funds awarded under the ETV Facilities Act: • Tacoma School District No. 10, Taco¬ ma, Washington, to expand KTPS, Channel 9. • Educational Television of Northwest Pennsylvania, Inc., for a new ETV sta¬ tion on Channel 54, Erie. • Kentucky State Board of Education, for a new station on Channel 22, Pikes- ville; Channel 25, Ashland; Channel 53, Bowling Green. • School District of Kansas City, Mis¬ souri, to expand KCSD, Channel 19, Kansas City. • Greater Cincinnati Television Educa¬ tional Foundation, to expand WVIZ, Channel 25, Cleveland. • Georgia State Board of Education, for a new station on Channel 18, Chats- worth. WCMU's $240,000 Expansion Channel 14, Central Michigan University, begins broadcasting from a new studio in January. New recording and film equip¬ ment will be integrated with live cameras, film and tape equipment already in use, al¬ lowing the closed-circuit facilities to serve as a laboratory for several courses the University offers in radio and television production. The Michigan Educational Tele¬ vision Council will use some of the tele¬ courses. Broadcasts are expected to reach an estimated 200,000 students. WMSB, Michigan State University; WUCM, Delta College, are also participants. WTTW Telecourses Available Oscar E. Shabat, Chicago City College executive director and Hyman Chausow, dean, television instruction, announced that 31 courses produced for WTTW, Channel 11, will be distributed by the Great Plains Instructional Library, Lincoln, Nebraska, for use by other institutions throughout the U. S. Courses cover subjects from phys¬ ics and literature to data processing and business law. At the end of three years, the Chicago City College faculty will eval¬ uate the exchange of telecourses between schools. 2 NEWSLETTER