NAEB Newsletter (June 1948)

-19- SURVEYS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS???? An increasing number of stations report a continuing flood of requests for survey r information from students of all ages and levels in scores of institutions . Typical request from a student who maybe (li an advanced graduate student; (2) a casual gra d uate st udent; (3) any radio course enrollee, high school or .junior college, involves spending 15 minutes to 2 hours filling out questions on staff, policies, salaries, etc,. of tho ed uc ational station being queried . Much of this material will be turned to good useage as in the case of advanced students to wit.studies such as those conducted by Indiana University under Skornia or the University of Wisconsin under McCarty. At the same time much of it is strict ¬ ly T/aste motion on the part of both the student and the station; it is time - consum i ng a n d unv/arranted « Suggestions for some central method of handling this problem will be appreciated. Should N-A-E-B set up a clearing house to evaluate or clear such inquiries? If such a plan were in operation any station manager could simply refuse to answer inquiries unless the letter carried N4A-E-B certification. That re¬ fusal could carry the admonition to clear with the N-A-E-B Survey Committee SURVEYS. QUESTIONNAIRES, AND NEW EDUCATIONAL STATIONS Inquiries of another kind are also flooding N-A-E-B stations. Concensus of most members is that every attention should be given to properly and adequately ans ¬ wering these questions. For instance a Board of Education in some ma.ior U.S. city sends a detailed questionnaire about salary, staff, operating policy, etc*, with respect to your station, or a college or a university makes the same survey approa ch, Again suggestions as to how some simple and basic method of handling might be adopted would be appreciated. For one thing members might well send to N-A-E-B headquarters a list of studies they have done and whether or not reprints or copies of such studies are available. N-A-E-B is still waiting for permission to distribute Skornia's study of 20 edu¬ cational stations made at Indiana University. This study and others such as the one recently completed b y Robert Davy at VJHA (University of Wisconsin) will do much to simplify answering questions of this kind. PROGRAM DIRECTOR WANTED AT KUSD. SOUTH DAKOTA Irving Merrill, director of N-A-S-B station KUSD, University of South Dakota at Vermillion, S.D. has an opening for a program director. Position involves dir¬ ection of programs and teaching of orientation course in radio at the University Vermillion is located 30 miles from Sioux City, Iowa* KUSD has new studios, transmitter, and participates in comprehensive radio teaching program operated , by university department of speech. Contact Irving Merrill, KUSD. Vermillion,S.D« : PROGRAM MANAGER WANTED AT N-A-E-B STATION N-A-E-B station located in Midwest, operating with 5000 watts, serving large rural-urban area wants program manager January 1, 1949 or shortly before. Appli¬ cant should have both commercial and educational station experience, bachelor's degree in science or arts, be prepared to sho?; record of previous administra¬ tive responsibility and experience with program and production problems. Job will entail supervision of program department and coordination of FM and AM pro¬ gram operation. Excellent salary, permanent tenure if satisfactory. Contact either M.S. Novik, NAEB Secretary, Room 370 at 630 Fifth Avenue, Mew York City or Richard Hull, N-A-E-B Headquarters. Station WOI, Ames, Iowa. _