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NAEB News Letter March 1, 1939 Page 5 REPORT OF THE HBG TO THE NASU The above is to attract your attention. There are certain portions of the report of the Radio Broadcasting Committee to the National Association of State Universities, which should be of particular interest to NAEB members. The excerpts of the report, presented by President A, G, Crane of the University of Wyoming, followss »»PROGRESS — Great progress has been made during the past year in the broadcasting programs of the universities in this Association, All in all it has been one of the most favorable years in the actual growth of educational broadcasting, and particularly in the development of working organization. The production of programs is being studied and attacked with a fuller realization of the magnitude and importance of the task. 11 COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS — It is Indeed remarkable and heartening to note the spread of organization for the cooperative production of programs The wide adoption of the principle of cooperation shows that the soundness of this principle is gaining wider and wider acceptance. Cooperation between institutions, between great public agencies, cooperation in faculties through advisory committees and councils, are examples of cooperating between producers of broadcasts. There are also additional gains in cooperation with commercial broadcasting stations, A deliberate effort to create machinery for cooperation also implies a keener realiz~ ation of the Importance of the program itself. Cooperatively a group of individuals or institutions will have greater selective power and a larger reservoir of talented broadcasters and will make possible a division of the work of production, w M The following is a summary of information secured from the institutions constituting the National Association of State Universities. The information was secured in reply to recent inquiries. It Includes only those institutions that have a sizeable program of broadcasting. Institutions omitted are either those from which no report has been reoel^l or ones doing very little broadcasting, “Florida, The most significant development of the past year has been thaT'oF'the Florida Hadio Service Council. In an effort to organize the support of education by radio. President John J. Tlgert of the University suggested to a number of state civic bodies that they form a group ® express this support of educational broadcasting, and to unite the various interests desiring to encourage such work. More than a responded, and a constructive program of work Is firmly established and centered around the support of the University's own radio department and Its radio station WRUF. The program of the Council calls for an effort to bring together the various commercial, cultural, fraternal and social Interests of the state In a united front to accomplish the purposes formally adopted. “Illinois. In its radio work this year .the University of Illinois has taken two significant steps; (1) A standing "Radio Advisory Committee," composed of seven prominent members of the faculty, was appointed to stuc^sr the programs being offered to determine how they could be Improved education ally. This committee has arrived at certain definite conclusions ahd has made suggestions to the President concerning future development of