NAEB Newsletter (June 1964)

■ A E B NEWSLETTER NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL BROADCASTERS VOL. 29, NO. 6 JUNE, 1964 U. of Denver Considers Info Center Geoffrey Z. Kucera, assistant professor, radio-television-film, University of Denver, writes that his department is consider¬ ing establishment of an International Mass Media Information Center. He would like comments on facilities and services which such a center might offer—and opinions of NAEBers as to whether it would be useful to them and to others in the mass media area. The basic function of the proposed center would be to collect and disseminate information concerning film, press, radio, and TV in every part of the world. As proposed, the center would provide, without charge, the following services: • Monthly bulletins in the areas of film, press, and radio- TV, containing up-to-date information on important develop¬ ments in these media. • International directories in various areas of the media (key broadcasting personnel, press training facilities, educational film producers). • Occasional papers. • An international yearbook and atlas—a compendium of the most significant and useful information with regard to the mass media in every country of the world. Also, the center would answer specific inquiries and con¬ vene conferences of American media personnel and students interested in the international aspects of the media. It would offer its services to scholars in various parts of the world interested in research into the mass media, providing guid¬ ance and acting as intermediary between such scholars and foundations which might underwrite the research. More Summer Workshops University of Missouri, Kansas City. Six graduate and un¬ dergraduate courses, the first beginning June 8, in radio speech, audiovisual and TV materials, ETV production, ETV production-classroom projects, utilization of ETV programing, and a workshop seminar in television educa¬ tion. New York University. From June 30 to August 7, two courses in teaching by television carrying graduate credit, Work¬ shop in Instructional Television, eight points, and Tele¬ vision and Education, six points. Contact Professor Charles A. Siepmann, NYU School of Education, Wash¬ ington Square, New York, N.Y., 10003. 1967 NAEB Convention Bids Wanted NAEBers in the West who want to submit bids for the 1967 convention should have formal bids in the Washington office by July 31, 1964. Members of the Permanent Convention Committee will examine the bids prior to the fall convention in Austin, and the site for 1967 will be chosen at that time. Information to be included in the bids is listed on page 1 of the January Newsletter. Journal to Inaugurate Program Reviews With the September-October issue, the NAEB Journal will begin a column of radio and TV program reviews. Art Weld, Michigan State University, will serve as program review edi¬ tor. He is now accepting suggestions for regular reviewers. Region II Meets The South Carolina ETV Center at Columbia hosted the NAEB Region II April 9-11. Participants were able to attend special-interest conferences—for ITV producers and direc¬ tors, studio and classroom teachers, engineers, and radio per¬ sonnel. They could also view (via closed-circuit) instructional or general-audience TV programs and discuss them. FCC Commissioner Kenneth A. Cox spoke at the lunch¬ eon, and Fr. Hugh Michael Beahan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, was the banquet speaker. R. Lynn Kalmbach was conference host, and Arch Lugenbeel was coordinator. Six NAEBers who came to the field from different backgrounds discussed their recipes for professionalism. Other topics considered were broadcast station administration and finance, the Federal ETV Facilities program, the allocations picture, and the ECS project. Region III Meets About 100 NAEBers registered for the Region III meeting at Indiana University’s new radio-TV building March 22-24. Among the I. U. staffers participating were George C. John¬ son, director of radio and TV education, chairman; Douglas G. Ellson, department of psychology, keynoter; Philip Peak, associate dean of the school of education, banquet speaker; and Elmer G. Sulzer, director of radio-TV communications, who served as chief director of tours of the facilities of the new three-story building. Topics under discussion were FM and ETV programing, news and public affairs programing, the ITV teacher, the large-city educational radio station, “Educational Media: Gad¬ gets or Teaching Aids?” and the future of the radio school of the air. NAEB personnel presented reports on the new In¬ structional Division, the ECS project, and network educa¬ tional radio. News Notes STATE AND REGIONAL ^ Texas Governor Connally’s Committee on Education Be¬ yond the High School has endorsed the use of educational television as a means of enriching and improving college and university instruction. A sub-committee has been appointed to make recommendations on implementing a state-operated ETV system. One consideration to be dealt with by the subcommit¬ tee is whether a state ETV system for higher education should be operated as a state-wide network or whether col¬ leges in such areas as far west Texas and the Panhandle should be served by taped rather than live television. 1