NAEB Newsletter (Oct 1965)

VOL. 30, NO. 10 WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER, 1965 Witherspoon Announces ECS Model Systems John Witherspoon, director of the NAEB-USOE Educational Communications System project, has announced the composi¬ tion of the three model systems set up un¬ der the third phase of the project. He also said that design operations are moving into high gear with the start of the new aca¬ demic year. Oregon is the site of the intrastate model, with Kenneth L. Warren serving as asso¬ ciate director. The interstate model has been set up in the Midwest, in cooperation with the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (the Big Ten plus the University of Chica¬ go). James S. Miles and John Glade, both of Purdue University, share responsibility /"-N for conducting the Midwest project. The educational resources model is based in New York City and covers the north¬ eastern Atlantic seaboard. Harold W. Roeth is in charge of this project, which will study linking research groups, cultural and scientific institutions and other non¬ university resources with institutions of higher education. Phase III, which began last May, is scheduled for 18 months, to be followed by Phase IV, which will demonstrate the sys¬ tem. SREB to Investigate Interinstitutional ITV The Southern Regional Education Board, under a USOE grant of over $300,000, will investigate and develop procedures and techniques for interinstitutional use of ITV. Duff Browne will head the new project. These broad areas will be studied: 1. Problems and possibilities associated with administering interinstitutional use of TV and related media, including state, in¬ stitutional, faculty, and financial arrange¬ ments necessary to a continuing, regional effort. 2. Identification of curricular needs in the various disciplines and development of procedures for producing instructional ma¬ terials. 3. Procedures for establishing high media standards, in terms of both conten* and technical quality. Rhodes Joins NAEB Staff Lewis A. Rhodes has joined the NAEB staff in Washington as assistant director of the project to improve instructional TV, set up under a three-year $600,000 Ford Foundation grant. He was formerly with the Central Michigan ETV Council and had recently been named chairman of the state’s ETV advisory committee. Lester Nelson is acting director and Richard H. Bell is associate director of the ITV project. Bell is also executive di¬ rector of NAEB’s Instruction Division and acting director of the Individual Member Division. Leonard Directs ETS Program Service David H. Leonard, former network pro¬ gram manager for TV at KOAP and KOAC in Oregon, has been appointed di¬ rector of the ETS Program Service re¬ cently established on the Indiana Univer¬ sity campus. The service will collect high- quality ETV programs and distribute them to ETV stations. Grants from the Kellogg and National Home Library foundations have made it possible to begin the service—which is aimed at self-support in six years. Members of the ETS Program Commit¬ tee—supplemented by Leonard, Chalmers H. Marquis (ETS executive director), and James R. Jordan (assistant to the Indiana University president)—will be responsible for selecting and screening programs for the ETS Program Service. Leonard, who assumed his new post Oc¬ tober 1, has been associated with Oregon’s ETV stations since 1960. Before that he was an instructor in telecommunicative arts at Iowa State University, and had worked in TV at WMSB, East Lansing; WTTW, Chicago; WOI, Ames, Iowa; and KMTV, Omaha. ITV Center Established The Indiana University Foundation will operate the new National Center for School and College Television, being set up under a two-year USOE contract of $1,104,652— largest ever awarded under Title VII B of the NDEA. The NCSCT will acquire out¬ standing school and college courses and dis¬ tribute them to TV facilities serving class¬ rooms throughout the nation. This will continue and enlarge the NITL demonstration begun in 1962 by NET, and Edwin G. Cohen, former NITL director, will move to the I.U. campus as executive director of NCSCT. After the two-year contract expires, the center will continue on an increasingly self- supporting nonprofit basis, with initial as¬ sistance from the I. U. Foundation and sus¬ tained support from course users. • Kenneth Winslow, coordinator of ITV, University of California, Berkeley, will op¬ erate a West Coast office for the NCSCT, on a half-time basis. He will retain his po¬ sition at the university on a half-time basis, and also will be director for the Western Radio-TV Association. NAEB Board to Consider Multiple Division Membership At their meetings during the national convention October 31-November 3, mem¬ bers of the NAEB Board of Directors will consider, among other topics, the matter of institutions belonging to more than one NAEB division. The NAEB staff has pro¬ posed the following as a change in the By- Laws : “Licensees of standard educational broadcasting stations must relate to the NAEB first in support of the appropriate NAEB broadcast division, but may elect to participate additionally in another division of NAEB if they are eligible to do so.” This will be the only item involving an amendment to the Constitution or By-Laws which can be decided at this meeting. WUNC-TV Covers Hearings on Speaker Ban Law In 1963, the North Carolina General As¬ sembly passed a law prohibiting the facili¬ ties of state-owned educational institutions to Communist speakers. The law has been consistently opposed by such organizations as the American Association of University Professors, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and by the Univer¬ sity of North Carolina and other institutions of higher education in the state. The Amer¬ ican Legion and some other organizations in the state have supported the law. The 1965 General Assembly authorized a commission to study the law. The commis- 1