NAEB Newsletter (Feb 1935)

- 6 - is of the opinion that a most needed form of activity in radio education is to encourage high schools to equip themselves with receiving sets and to help them de¬ vise ways and means of how to do so* Few high schools in that area have as yet become radio-minded. "One interesting development of this service is the broadcasting of addresses by notable men before convocation of the students at the State College of Washing¬ ton from time to time* "Another factor being emphasized at Washington State is the radio ’high school report* that is planned as a feature of the Thursday afternoon High School Activity Hour, to which as much as fifteen minutes may be devoted in telling the world some of the interesting things that the high schools of the Northwest states are doing* "Effective cooperation between the educational radio and the press is most desirable. There is need of a constant campaign of education among the papers of many states in which there is an educational radio station, to get the press to dif¬ ferentiate between educational stations, whose interests are practically identical with those of the press, and the commercial stations which have for years been taking from the papers a large part of their revenue—that derived from advertising. "Many editors, thinking 'a radio is just a radio*, are unwilling to discrimi¬ nate between broadcasting stations that help them and those that hurt them. Sta¬ tion KWSC has for some time carried on persistent campaigns for the education of the newspapers in the State of Washington, and results are beginning to come in. Certain of the largest dailies in the state now give KWSC’s programs in a regular place in their columns. In a number of other instances, items of news interest are printed, thus building up this logical and strong relationship." # The Ohio State University representative in N.A.E.B., R.C.Higgy, Director of WOSU, and long a faithful servant of the educational broadcasting group, tells what's going on in the Buckeye State: "A series of programs, known as the Emergency Radio Junior College, completed the first year of formal class instruction of college level by radio. The interest int hese classes has been phenomenal, and the size of the registered audience is growing steadily. "The cooperation of the Ohio Emergency Schools Administration, a division of the State Relief Commission, has been most helpful, and has contributed approximately $2,000 each three months for office help, postage and printing, and the preparation of supplementary test materials. The class enrollment, during the present quarter, for each of eight courses, averages 400* "A few broadcasts have been conducted directly from university class-rooms, the radio audience hearing the part of the class hour devoted to straight lectures in one course, and in another hearing the complete class discussion. Radio listen¬ ers, who fill out a registration card, receive, free of charge, supplementary test materials, varying from the 120 page mimeographed "book" used as a text in the French course, to a 12 page syllabus giving an outline and suggested references. Students, following the French and Spanish courses, have later enrolled in the Uni¬ versity and been able to carry advanced courses, securing credit, after a proficiency examination had been given covering the radio course. "Many of the radio courses parallel regular university courses. In these cases a student is informed that should he later enter the University he may take a proficiency examination and receive credit for his radio work, if satisfactory.