CoJMC Town Hall Spring 2022

Jaime Wenz Author

01/25/2022 Added

56 Plays

Description

The College of Journalism and Mass Communications student advisory board and Dean Shari Veil hosted a town hall for CoJMC students to hear the college's plans for the spring semester and on. Students were also invited to bring forward any questions, concerns or ideas.

Searchable Transcript

Search:

[00:00:00.240]I'm Shari Veil, I'm the Dean
[00:00:01.810]of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications
[00:00:04.240]and I wanna thank our student advisory board
[00:00:07.240]for arranging tonight's town hall.
[00:00:10.547]The plan for the evening,
[00:00:12.340]I'm gonna go through a little bit of information
[00:00:14.580]on the college.
[00:00:15.413]I'm keeping it very specific to the college
[00:00:18.100]and things that we're working on right now,
[00:00:20.090]some initiatives that we're focusing on as a college,
[00:00:23.150]and then we'll also open it up to questions at the end
[00:00:26.300]or comments or suggestions for the college.
[00:00:29.530]Right now you can go ahead and drop any questions
[00:00:31.860]that you have in the chat and we'll get to them as we go.
[00:00:35.110]Or if you have questions as we go along,
[00:00:36.770]you can drop them in the chat
[00:00:38.420]and then, what I'm hoping for,
[00:00:40.125]toward the end of the presentation,
[00:00:42.460]we'll be able to open it up
[00:00:43.570]and then you'll be able to just raise your hand
[00:00:45.930]and ask to be un-muted, turn on your camera,
[00:00:48.740]and the host will go ahead and feature you
[00:00:51.520]so that you can ask your question directly as well.
[00:00:56.740]So this evening, I'm gonna talk about a few different areas,
[00:01:01.741]focusing on our strategic plan,
[00:01:04.540]college resources and facilities.
[00:01:06.541]Some changes that you may have noticed are happening
[00:01:08.941]around Anderson Hall.
[00:01:11.290]We'll talk a little bit about curriculum changes.
[00:01:13.540]Some that are still in the works
[00:01:15.450]and some that have already been developed.
[00:01:17.880]We'll touch on scholarship and awards.
[00:01:20.760]And then a big part of is talking about communication
[00:01:23.330]and engagement.
[00:01:24.163]And how do you learn more
[00:01:25.690]about what's happening at the college,
[00:01:27.710]and also how you can get involved here
[00:01:30.410]in a bigger impact on what we do
[00:01:34.020]and where we go as a college.
[00:01:37.320]So I'll start off with our strategic plan.
[00:01:39.240]We actually spent a good chunk of last year
[00:01:42.180]focusing on our strategic plan.
[00:01:44.330]We had over 75 individuals
[00:01:46.141]who are part of that planning process,
[00:01:48.510]including faculty, staff, current students,
[00:01:52.280]as well as alumni and our industry partners.
[00:01:55.123]And ultimately what we came down to with that strategic plan
[00:01:59.260]is our very first aim,
[00:02:00.360]which is focused on launching a college wide
[00:02:03.210]experiential learning lab.
[00:02:04.980]I'm sure by now, any students would have heard
[00:02:07.040]of the experience lab or at least heard murmuring about it
[00:02:10.260]and what we're building here.
[00:02:12.120]The key was that we wanted to identify
[00:02:13.870]major related experiential learning opportunities
[00:02:16.680]across the college.
[00:02:17.560]We had many of them already in Nebraska News Service,
[00:02:20.280]Jacht, KRNU, 90.3,
[00:02:23.160]but we wanted to bring them all together
[00:02:24.610]and kind of align them so that students really understood
[00:02:27.130]what opportunities were available to them.
[00:02:30.040]We also set it up as a multi credit student led program
[00:02:34.950]so that each of these opportunities would be headed up
[00:02:37.390]by two student leads.
[00:02:39.120]So it really is students learning from students.
[00:02:41.730]In many ways, we took a page out of the book
[00:02:44.200]of the Daily Nebraskan, it is a student run newspaper,
[00:02:47.700]and there's a lot of opportunities and ways that students
[00:02:51.230]can really build their leadership capacity
[00:02:53.190]in taking on a venture like that.
[00:02:55.690]We wanted to make sure that we still had faculty engaged
[00:02:59.150]as part of the experience lab, but not teaching the class,
[00:03:03.720]they're liaison, they're support for the students
[00:03:06.060]who are leading the programs, but they're definitely engaged
[00:03:09.170]that we can keep that connection from what's happening
[00:03:11.110]in the classroom to what's happening in the experience lab.
[00:03:14.930]I'll get into some of these other pieces a little bit later,
[00:03:16.922]but the other thing that was key with what we are doing
[00:03:19.280]with the experience lab
[00:03:20.243]is that we wanted to bring in professionals and residents,
[00:03:23.280]individuals who are currently working in the field
[00:03:26.280]to come back and work with our students.
[00:03:30.790]So the different experience labs we brought together,
[00:03:33.023]as I mentioned, some that have been around for a while,
[00:03:35.500]like Jacht, Nebraska News Service,
[00:03:37.800]we had Unlimited Sports which had been up and going.
[00:03:40.470]And 90.3 KRNU of course has been around
[00:03:43.100]for now over 50 years, 52 years.
[00:03:46.320]We also changed some and added some new ones.
[00:03:49.440]We used to have Star City News.
[00:03:51.240]We changed that to be Nebraska Nightly,
[00:03:54.230]which is focused more on a news broadcast
[00:03:56.900]that right now we're doing every few weeks.
[00:04:00.310]We want to eventually move it to every week
[00:04:02.460]where we are doing a news broadcast.
[00:04:04.880]We added Buoy, which is another advertising and PR agency,
[00:04:09.960]but it's focused more on mission driven opportunities.
[00:04:13.630]So engaging nonprofit organizations
[00:04:15.930]with a priority for working with those
[00:04:17.510]who are supporting underrepresented communities.
[00:04:20.820]We added Heartland Webzine,
[00:04:23.060]which is really focused on writing feature stories
[00:04:26.850]of opportunity here in Nebraska.
[00:04:29.200]So focusing on community development,
[00:04:30.842]economic development across the state,
[00:04:33.630]ways that you can engage in the business community
[00:04:36.210]as part of that program.
[00:04:38.560]I have coming soon there because
[00:04:40.480]as we build up this program,
[00:04:42.500]we launched it initially with 90 students here in the fall
[00:04:45.790]as an elective, we have about 120 students in it
[00:04:48.980]as an elective this spring, eventually this will move
[00:04:51.910]to a three semester requirement,
[00:04:54.130]which means we're gonna have about 600 students
[00:04:56.210]in the experience lab each semester,
[00:04:59.020]which means we're going to need to add
[00:05:00.990]some additional labs as well,
[00:05:02.770]including potentially areas in photography and videography,
[00:05:07.060]as well as those related to name, image, and likeness,
[00:05:10.170]and pulling more of a sports agentry opportunity.
[00:05:15.580]I mentioned the faculty liaisons
[00:05:17.490]were a huge part of the experience lab.
[00:05:19.871]They're the ones kind of keeping the bumper rails on, right,
[00:05:22.820]to make sure that students are able to get support
[00:05:25.940]and ask questions, make sure things are focused,
[00:05:28.470]make sure that they're aligned with getting into the classes
[00:05:31.130]when they need to get into them
[00:05:32.670]and really have that support function.
[00:05:36.330]The professionals and residents, this is just a list
[00:05:39.260]of those we've been working with for the last year.
[00:05:41.823]We're still adding some,
[00:05:43.840]actually just sent out an invitation
[00:05:45.810]right before this meeting.
[00:05:46.840]So we'll have more who are coming on.
[00:05:48.810]And they're working in different experience labs.
[00:05:51.050]And sometimes they're crossing over.
[00:05:52.820]I mean, those who are working on the TV side of news
[00:05:55.850]still have a good understanding
[00:05:57.160]what's happening on the print side of news.
[00:05:58.810]So they can always cross over back and forth
[00:06:00.580]as we need them as well.
[00:06:03.870]Of course, our student leads each one of our experience labs
[00:06:07.130]have two student leads and I dropped Jacht off of this one
[00:06:10.770]because Jacht is still staying on as that capstone course
[00:06:15.170]where all the rest of our experience labs
[00:06:17.350]are open for students starting
[00:06:18.840]as early as first semester, freshman year.
[00:06:21.460]So this is truly giving students the opportunity
[00:06:24.090]to do from day one, to come in, to experiment,
[00:06:28.200]to try something new, to fail fabulously
[00:06:32.580]in a place where they have that support
[00:06:35.340]with the faculty and the professionals and residents
[00:06:37.970]learning how to do their jobs, not just about those jobs.
[00:06:45.070]A big part of the aim one of our strategic plan
[00:06:48.261]was also to secure technology and physical space
[00:06:51.640]to deliver the practicum programs and make learning visible
[00:06:55.590]across the college, the campus and the community.
[00:06:58.620]And this falls in line with our college resources
[00:07:01.270]and facilities.
[00:07:02.838]If you've been around Anderson any of this last year,
[00:07:06.640]you might've noticed that we've been walking across
[00:07:08.800]the Capitol mall here quite a bit.
[00:07:11.320]We've added over 13,000 square feet on the third floor
[00:07:14.870]of the Lincoln Children's Museum,
[00:07:16.780]specifically for our advertising
[00:07:18.950]and public relations experience labs.
[00:07:21.920]We came in, we signed the lease on August 1st
[00:07:25.150]and it was a whole lot of primary colors
[00:07:28.780]that were over there right at the time.
[00:07:31.050]So it was our faculty and staff who actually came in
[00:07:33.750]and put on that first coat of paint
[00:07:35.530]so that we could be in and ready for the fall semester.
[00:07:40.060]We then partnered with other agencies around the community
[00:07:44.400]in order to really make it a professional agency feel,
[00:07:48.970]almost more like a startup.
[00:07:50.540]Furniture's a little mismatched here and there,
[00:07:52.810]but it's a good working environment
[00:07:55.610]for those who are engaged in the experience labs.
[00:07:59.270]I mentioned those industry partners.
[00:08:01.570]We asked agencies and organizations around the community
[00:08:04.710]to come in and one, help us pay for the lease,
[00:08:07.730]as part of the sponsorship, the space,
[00:08:10.150]but also to make it look and feel like the culture
[00:08:13.510]of their organization.
[00:08:15.430]I keep repeating, it's a big difference
[00:08:17.430]between the student who feels comfortable on a beanbag chair
[00:08:20.840]versus those who feel comfortable at corporate boardroom.
[00:08:24.050]So this gives them a different feel
[00:08:25.580]for the types of organizations
[00:08:27.300]who would one day be hiring them
[00:08:29.070]and students can really find their right fit
[00:08:31.490]in these different spaces.
[00:08:35.670]We're still making changes to the experience lab
[00:08:38.480]over in the Lincoln Children's Museum.
[00:08:41.380]One, we're gonna be adding another agency checkout area,
[00:08:45.040]just like we have here in Anderson Hall,
[00:08:47.398]down in the lower level,
[00:08:49.080]we're gonna be adding a second agency
[00:08:50.930]or second checkout room
[00:08:52.710]so that students who are working over on the agency side
[00:08:54.821]can get cameras and equipment and everything that they need
[00:08:58.560]over on that side of the Capitol mall as well.
[00:09:02.950]We're gonna be adding a new multimedia classroom
[00:09:05.420]in the back of the agency space,
[00:09:07.570]where we can move our campaign classes,
[00:09:09.840]our advertising and PR campaign classes,
[00:09:11.706]maybe even some of our sports promotion classes
[00:09:14.120]once we get that built out and then back down the hall
[00:09:17.800]of that space, we'll be adding a new photography studio.
[00:09:21.200]So for students who are coming in
[00:09:24.770]that may be another opportunity to engage
[00:09:26.700]in the experience lab in another way.
[00:09:30.290]Over here in Anderson Hall, we are also making changes.
[00:09:33.559]You'll see some construction going on right now,
[00:09:36.980]thanks to generous support
[00:09:38.600]from the Nebraska Broadcasters Association,
[00:09:41.010]as well as the Dawn and Loreena Meyer Foundation,
[00:09:43.920]we are taking what is currently our second floor newsroom
[00:09:48.200]and building it out into a new three set studio.
[00:09:53.030]So we will have an interview studio, interview space.
[00:09:56.640]We'll have the news desk.
[00:09:57.970]We'll also have a full virtual set.
[00:09:59.919]And in the middle of all of that is where the newsroom
[00:10:02.970]will continue to live.
[00:10:04.490]So what makes it different
[00:10:06.490]is we're gonna actually move the faculty
[00:10:08.550]who are currently on that side of Anderson Hall
[00:10:11.280]over to the other side and expand out that space
[00:10:14.030]that we have over 4,000 square feet
[00:10:15.960]dedicated to that new multiset studio.
[00:10:20.060]What is currently the dilapidated second floor studio
[00:10:24.040]will become the Pepsi Unlimited Sports Lab
[00:10:27.660]so that we have space for our students
[00:10:29.530]who are working in the new sports media
[00:10:31.950]and communication major to be able to have their classes
[00:10:34.520]in that space.
[00:10:35.580]Also for the unlimited sports students,
[00:10:37.470]to be able to work in that space.
[00:10:39.100]You can envision TVs along the wall there,
[00:10:41.450]showing different sports
[00:10:42.590]as they're working on their projects.
[00:10:44.726]Also, we're gonna add in a pop-up studio
[00:10:48.170]so that they can do coming to you live
[00:10:49.960]from the Pepsi Unlimited Sports Labs.
[00:10:51.770]So that there's an opportunity for live coverage
[00:10:54.703]right there from that studio,
[00:10:56.718]can do pregame shows, post games shows in that space
[00:11:00.780]and really be working on developing those stories
[00:11:02.690]while also covering those games
[00:11:04.780]that you're focused on for the week.
[00:11:08.290]Couldn't do it without our sponsors.
[00:11:09.860]You'll see those over on the wall in the agency,
[00:11:13.830]as well as a lot of the promotions with the experience lab,
[00:11:16.740]really these partnerships with organizations
[00:11:19.640]in our community is what's making a difference.
[00:11:21.720]It's what's allowing us to be able to engage our students
[00:11:25.460]in these opportunities from day one.
[00:11:29.420]And all of it comes down to
[00:11:31.160]what came out of our strategic plan, our mission
[00:11:33.327]and our vision.
[00:11:35.300]Our vision is to be a national leader
[00:11:37.540]in experiential journalism and mass communication education,
[00:11:41.150]and really launching the experience lab
[00:11:43.300]allows us to be just that type of a university.
[00:11:48.830]Our mission, as we adjusted it here with the strategic plan
[00:11:52.186]is to focus on nurturing curious and creative minds
[00:11:55.050]to thrive in the ever-changing
[00:11:56.830]media and communication professions.
[00:11:59.600]We're still focusing on that do from day one experience,
[00:12:02.560]but it's rooted in hard work, collaborative problem solving
[00:12:06.050]and the ethical pursuit of truth to uphold democracy.
[00:12:09.683]You're gonna see that a lot over this next semester,
[00:12:12.065]as we've been making changes to curriculum
[00:12:14.700]to really focus on ethics, on the role of the media
[00:12:18.930]in our democracy.
[00:12:22.290]I talked a lot already so far about that first aim,
[00:12:26.010]but we have eight aims across our strategic plan,
[00:12:29.680]including advancing the field
[00:12:31.260]by bridging research and practice,
[00:12:33.087]embracing and protecting that ethical pursuit of truth.
[00:12:37.146]Really focusing on challenges
[00:12:39.070]that are critical to our industries.
[00:12:41.280]And that's what some of the classes and the workshops
[00:12:43.390]that we'll be working on this semester will focus on.
[00:12:48.200]So a few curriculum changes to know about.
[00:12:50.800]And keep in mind that these are not retroactive.
[00:12:52.980]So if you are a senior, you do not suddenly
[00:12:54.960]have to take on these requirements.
[00:12:56.520]This is for all students coming in new next fall
[00:13:00.330]will have these new requirements.
[00:13:03.230]So the experience lab,
[00:13:05.060]starting next fall, all students coming into the college
[00:13:07.910]will have to spend at least three semesters
[00:13:11.070]in one of the experience labs.
[00:13:13.240]Now you have the choice of staying with the same one
[00:13:15.870]all the way through or picking three different ones.
[00:13:18.720]And you can also stay on for six semesters
[00:13:20.860]in the experience lab,
[00:13:22.200]but you have to do at least three,
[00:13:23.722]gives you the opportunity to really go deep into an area
[00:13:27.100]where you know that you want to work one day
[00:13:29.370]or to try something out, see if maybe
[00:13:32.280]there's a better opportunity somewhere else in our field.
[00:13:35.400]And this gives you the chance to try it out
[00:13:37.150]without fully committing into that new major.
[00:13:41.220]We're adding the social justice and media class
[00:13:44.170]as a requirement for all students coming into the college.
[00:13:47.600]Again, to really understand the role of media
[00:13:50.830]and make sure that that's clear across the curriculum.
[00:13:55.060]We're having conversations right now
[00:13:56.960]about adding some requirements
[00:13:58.460]within some of the majors as well.
[00:14:01.070]I know the advertising and public relations faculty
[00:14:03.205]are talking about adding research methods,
[00:14:05.980]journalism and broadcasting have been talking
[00:14:07.810]about adding data journalism as one of their requirements.
[00:14:10.980]So that may be coming down the road as well.
[00:14:14.920]Some new programs that we're working on,
[00:14:17.765]one new joined in
[00:14:19.087]an interdisciplinary social entrepreneurship certificate.
[00:14:23.080]This is interdisciplinary.
[00:14:24.410]There's multiple colleges
[00:14:25.670]that are part of the certificate program.
[00:14:27.765]We're currently working right now
[00:14:29.730]on four plus one master's programs
[00:14:32.490]where our undergraduates
[00:14:33.780]would be able to finish their bachelors and their masters
[00:14:36.640]in five years.
[00:14:39.140]Some new programs that we're still discussing
[00:14:41.125]potential of a PhD program
[00:14:43.800]in journalism and mass communications,
[00:14:46.100]maybe even a minor in strategic communication.
[00:14:48.360]We get about 50 students a year
[00:14:50.320]just from the college of business.
[00:14:52.560]And oftentimes they come in a little bit later,
[00:14:55.080]or maybe if we had a minor in strategic communication,
[00:14:57.870]it would move them over a little sooner
[00:15:00.270]so that they can get started on their curriculum
[00:15:02.350]and really pair those two areas to focus together.
[00:15:08.370]We've added a number of new electives
[00:15:10.880]and there's two pages of these.
[00:15:13.250]This is really just to give you an idea
[00:15:14.730]of how creative our faculty are in trying to come up
[00:15:17.610]with new ways of engaging students
[00:15:19.400]and really to stay on the cutting edge
[00:15:20.880]of what's happening in the industry.
[00:15:22.862]From a fun one, we did this last fall
[00:15:25.880]that was focused on short form TV series
[00:15:28.150]writing and producing.
[00:15:29.481]We currently have the general manager Rokeya Kan
[00:15:32.740]is teaching media sales and promotion.
[00:15:35.022]We've got some really cool depth reporting projects
[00:15:38.281]that we've been working on,
[00:15:39.760]environmental podcasting this last year,
[00:15:42.041]we have several more that are coming up as well.
[00:15:45.260]We're looking at digital motion graphics
[00:15:47.040]is being taught this semester,
[00:15:48.330]social media data mining and analysis,
[00:15:51.070]lot of advanced classes in audio content creation
[00:15:53.801]and videography and multimedia.
[00:15:57.170]Some of the classes that I mentioned
[00:15:58.580]that are really also looking to solve
[00:16:00.470]some of these critical issues in our industry
[00:16:03.090]focus on these programs like the business of news.
[00:16:08.030]So right now, for example, professor Joe Weber
[00:16:11.190]is teaching a class
[00:16:12.023]where he's bringing in news organizations
[00:16:15.930]from around the country who are really focused
[00:16:18.260]at different ways of establishing the business side of news.
[00:16:22.230]So some are non-profit,
[00:16:23.202]some are running complete marketing companies
[00:16:25.780]in order to pay for creating a news program.
[00:16:29.320]So just different ways of looking at it.
[00:16:31.000]We're gonna have some great speakers coming in
[00:16:33.082]as part of the Seline lecture series
[00:16:35.170]that's tied to that class as well.
[00:16:38.230]We've got classes that are focusing on news literacy,
[00:16:41.310]especially now understanding this hyper polarized era
[00:16:46.100]and how media fits into that.
[00:16:48.940]We have a depth reporting program right now
[00:16:50.910]where we're actually partnering with the Omaha World Herald
[00:16:53.460]to look at how race and racism
[00:16:55.523]has been covered by the media over the years.
[00:16:58.970]In sports we're also looking at racial reckoning
[00:17:01.560]and how that fits in with the culture of sports.
[00:17:04.290]I know John Schrader had some great speakers
[00:17:06.180]in this last week to focus on that.
[00:17:09.230]We're teaching a sports photo journalism class,
[00:17:11.860]as well as a global sports media and entertainment class
[00:17:14.284]that'll be coming up here in Spain this summer.
[00:17:16.790]So a lot of opportunities to really try out new things.
[00:17:21.760]We have lost some faculty or we will be soon.
[00:17:24.630]We have some recent retirements in the last year
[00:17:27.240]with a few more coming up,
[00:17:28.560]Bruce Thorson and John Bender will be retiring here
[00:17:31.020]at the end of this year.
[00:17:32.640]But as faculty go on, we also have new faculty
[00:17:35.790]who are coming in.
[00:17:36.740]So we have six new faculty who had started this year.
[00:17:39.560]And actually there should be a seventh one on there.
[00:17:41.300]Ken Fisher started last week.
[00:17:43.310]So we have another new faculty member
[00:17:44.930]who's bringing in some of these new ideas
[00:17:47.820]and new opportunities for our students.
[00:17:52.270]Scholarships and awards.
[00:17:53.950]Really what I wanted to focus on here
[00:17:55.380]is that we have scholarships available.
[00:17:58.340]In fact, we have a number of scholarships
[00:17:59.760]that are just for juniors and seniors
[00:18:01.370]after they've been in the college for awhile.
[00:18:03.760]This last year, we awarded over 340,000 scholarships,
[00:18:06.762]just out of the college, 28% increase over last year.
[00:18:11.770]We had workshops already this year on January 12th
[00:18:14.590]and the 25th, there's another one coming up here
[00:18:16.370]on the 26th.
[00:18:17.680]This is an opportunity to really understand
[00:18:19.500]what scholarships are available
[00:18:21.590]and which ones you might be able to apply for.
[00:18:25.050]We have a number of competitions
[00:18:26.560]that also come in line with scholarships.
[00:18:28.790]Perry Photo Challenge will be coming up here in March,
[00:18:31.570]Roper Sports Writing, Grimes Memorial,
[00:18:34.010]Bailey Lauerman Diversity Challenge.
[00:18:35.766]These are all ways to engage
[00:18:37.620]and really test out your skills a little bit
[00:18:39.490]and they come with money.
[00:18:40.980]So it's not a bad opportunity.
[00:18:44.610]We also focus on a word coordination across the college.
[00:18:47.480]These are just some of the organizations
[00:18:49.690]where the college pays to submit student work
[00:18:53.680]in order to potentially win awards,
[00:18:55.360]which sometimes also results in scholarships.
[00:19:00.570]Communication, and engagement.
[00:19:02.677]I really want to talk through this a little bit
[00:19:05.850]and I'm open to questions or comments
[00:19:08.050]as we move forward on this
[00:19:09.562]about ways to engage within the college
[00:19:12.030]and really to have the opportunity to have your voice heard,
[00:19:16.330]be part of the decision-making process.
[00:19:19.550]Few things of just receiving information,
[00:19:21.590]make sure that you are getting Today@CoJMC,
[00:19:24.540]make sure it's not going into your spam folders
[00:19:26.740]so that you know what's happening in the college.
[00:19:28.703]You might've noticed, if you've been watching it carefully,
[00:19:32.290]I've added a note.
[00:19:33.742]Each time it goes out we'll continue to do that
[00:19:36.290]to keep you on top of what's happening.
[00:19:39.300]The career bulletin gives you updates
[00:19:41.010]of all the internships and career opportunities
[00:19:43.620]that are available that comes out each weekend.
[00:19:45.990]Of course, all of our social channels
[00:19:47.970]that you can join us on.
[00:19:49.860]Office hours, we have office hours every Wednesday
[00:19:53.270]from nine to 11, where you can just show up,
[00:19:56.100]come in, have a conversation, ask me questions,
[00:19:59.700]give me feedback, tell me what's wrong,
[00:20:02.170]tell me what's right.
[00:20:03.220]It's just a place to have a conversation and really engage.
[00:20:07.820]Can always reach out to our associate deans,
[00:20:09.823]John Bender and Adam Wagler.
[00:20:12.140]And really to give you an idea on their roles.
[00:20:13.810]John really focuses more on working directly
[00:20:16.430]with the faculty.
[00:20:17.680]Adam's often working with the students and classes.
[00:20:20.560]So if you have complaints about a faculty member,
[00:20:22.360]you go to John.
[00:20:23.380]If you have complaints about the class, you go to Adam,
[00:20:25.400]or if you want to tell them good things, that's okay too.
[00:20:27.400]We welcome that once in a while.
[00:20:29.900]Can always go to your advisors, your peer mentors,
[00:20:33.130]who are part of that onboarding class
[00:20:36.450]as a freshman coming in,
[00:20:38.200]your college ambassadors are incredibly knowledgeable
[00:20:40.880]what's happening in the college.
[00:20:42.730]And of course, the group of students
[00:20:43.960]who put all of this together, your student advisory board,
[00:20:47.150]following them on social, being able to ask questions,
[00:20:49.730]if you would like to have an event
[00:20:51.150]or have concerns about what's happening talk to them,
[00:20:54.610]they're a direct line of communication to me but so are you,
[00:20:58.230]if you come into office hours or just send me an email,
[00:21:01.630]let me know what's going on.
[00:21:03.482]I also have student evaluations of teaching.
[00:21:06.870]I've heard students say, well, it doesn't pay
[00:21:08.670]to fill them out because nobody reads them.
[00:21:10.340]I read them every single semester.
[00:21:13.610]I read the comments in the student evaluations.
[00:21:16.570]So use them, take advantage of that opportunity.
[00:21:18.869]Again, tell us what we're doing well,
[00:21:20.920]tell us what we're not doing well,
[00:21:22.400]but know that someone is reading them.
[00:21:24.210]I am reading them, John Bender is reading them.
[00:21:26.620]We want to know what's happening in our classes.
[00:21:31.760]A few ways to engage,
[00:21:32.870]the experience lab, as I mentioned earlier,
[00:21:35.080]deadline's actually today.
[00:21:36.370]So you'd have to get it past Joe and Griffin
[00:21:38.950]and Joe Martin to be able to get in that
[00:21:41.070]but it may still be possible.
[00:21:43.540]We have a student club fair tomorrow.
[00:21:45.440]So all of the clubs and organizations
[00:21:47.270]that are associated with the college
[00:21:48.610]will be part of that club tomorrow afternoon.
[00:21:50.840]Please come to Anderson Hall tomorrow afternoon to stop in,
[00:21:54.340]to see what's available.
[00:21:56.485]You'll be receiving quite a bit of communication
[00:21:59.060]coming up on some different events that are coming out.
[00:22:01.980]A media ethics panel,
[00:22:03.400]we're actually bringing our professionals and residents
[00:22:05.840]who are part of the experience lab here to campus
[00:22:08.610]to talk about ethical issues they've had to deal with
[00:22:11.480]in their careers.
[00:22:12.770]You'll actually be able to get an idea
[00:22:15.170]of how you might have handled that situation
[00:22:17.672]and then hear directly from them how they did handle it
[00:22:20.460]and what they do differently next time.
[00:22:23.320]We have a career fair coming up
[00:22:24.670]here in the middle of February,
[00:22:26.420]we're gonna have a workshop on covering the courts
[00:22:28.780]so that you know how to handle legal proceedings
[00:22:30.943]if you're working as a journalist.
[00:22:33.730]We have a panel on race in the media.
[00:22:35.560]That's coming up end of February.
[00:22:37.530]The Perry Photo Challenge, as I mentioned
[00:22:39.670]is the beginning of March,
[00:22:41.020]that Seline lecture series where we're looking
[00:22:43.150]at different ways of how news organizations
[00:22:46.959]are running today.
[00:22:49.270]And then heads up way down the line
[00:22:51.430]but the beginning of May we're going to
[00:22:53.630]put on a student showcase that will give you the opportunity
[00:22:57.050]to show off what you've done
[00:22:58.510]over the course of the semester,
[00:23:00.058]how you have developed as a student
[00:23:02.893]and whether or not you're ready to hit the main streets
[00:23:06.470]and the profession.
[00:23:10.720]There I'll leave it for questions and suggestions.
[00:23:13.615]I want to hear from you.
[00:23:15.270]I'll stop sharing here so that I can see the chat
[00:23:18.300]if you've dropped any questions in there.
[00:23:20.440]But then also if you have questions,
[00:23:22.010]you can raise your hand and turn on your camera.
[00:23:24.640]And then the host will go around and turn on your mic
[00:23:28.320]as well so that you can ask that question,
[00:23:30.396]but I want to hear from you.
[00:23:31.880]What's going well, what do we need to improve?
[00:23:34.410]What are we missing and how can we better support you?
[00:23:38.710]Thank you.
[00:23:48.800]All right I see the chat.
[00:23:50.399]I don't see questions in the chat.
[00:23:52.412]So come on, if you want to add on,
[00:23:57.598]open up your camera and please ask away.
[00:24:00.760]Colby, I believe you are up.
[00:24:04.040]Yes, is my audio piping through?
[00:24:06.342]Yep, I can hear you.
[00:24:08.015]All right, yeah.
[00:24:11.860]I don't know why my video's not coming through.
[00:24:13.898]Anyhow I'm not sure if I can share a screen.
[00:24:21.210]Maybe that doesn't matter.
[00:24:22.410]I was going to offer a suggestion,
[00:24:24.410]which is in the introductory journalism courses,
[00:24:27.533]which I thought were good.
[00:24:29.950]I satisfied and enjoyed them,
[00:24:33.100]thought they were very informative,
[00:24:35.039]but one research tool that I think definitely should be
[00:24:41.800]part of the curriculum is using the news bank database
[00:24:47.500]that we have access to
[00:24:49.840]as a result of being students at the university
[00:24:53.510]to look up what the established reporting is
[00:24:57.160]on particular topics and politicians and various localities.
[00:25:06.079]I used it when I was doing the news lab
[00:25:09.480]and I found it to be a very invaluable resource.
[00:25:13.390]I definitely think that that sort of a backgrounding
[00:25:19.030]should be an integral part of those introductory courses.
[00:25:22.850]And that specific resource should be something
[00:25:25.500]that people are shown and shown how to use.
[00:25:30.591]All right, so getting that to you earlier
[00:25:32.610]in your curriculum, rather than waiting until news lab
[00:25:35.510]before you get the chance to really play around with it?
[00:25:38.770]Yeah, yes, it's a pretty expensive database
[00:25:43.010]to have access to and smaller newsrooms don't,
[00:25:46.239]bigger ones do so we should definitely
[00:25:50.570]get our money's worth, I suppose.
[00:25:54.740]Awesome.
[00:25:55.920]All right, thank you, Colby.
[00:25:57.410]I believe Adam is on here as well.
[00:26:00.690]I can bring that into the curriculum committee
[00:26:02.640]as we move forward.
[00:26:06.980]All right I have a question here in the chat
[00:26:09.876]with the addition of the experience lab classes
[00:26:12.200]to the curriculum, are there any classes
[00:26:13.730]that are being taken out or removed from the curriculum?
[00:26:17.396]So are all the other class, this comm class the same
[00:26:20.790]as all those other classes the same?
[00:26:22.830]Yes so one thing that has changed,
[00:26:25.610]which really allowed us to expand out the curriculum
[00:26:28.620]before our accrediting body,
[00:26:30.950]the Association for Education, Journalism
[00:26:33.130]and Mass Communications had very strict rules
[00:26:36.310]on how many classes had to be taken outside the college
[00:26:39.098]versus inside the college.
[00:26:41.820]And they've laxed that quite a bit
[00:26:44.435]so that we have a little bit more flexibility
[00:26:46.799]in our curriculum.
[00:26:47.980]We still are making sure that we're keeping an even balance
[00:26:52.120]of those that are really focused on journalism
[00:26:55.390]or advertising or PR, sports media or broadcasting,
[00:26:58.240]depending on your area.
[00:26:59.620]And then you also have your other courses.
[00:27:02.700]You'll still be required to have a minor
[00:27:04.520]as part of your program,
[00:27:06.693]but it just gave us a little bit more cushion
[00:27:09.236]so that we aren't so worried about students
[00:27:11.870]getting to the point of graduation
[00:27:13.280]and they have too many classes in the college.
[00:27:15.510]We were able to open that up, add those requirements
[00:27:18.370]without increasing the total number of classes you have.
[00:27:21.396]So essentially what this does
[00:27:23.650]is bring down the number of classes that you have to take
[00:27:26.530]outside the college without going over your 120 hours.
[00:27:31.150]So it doesn't increase the number of credits
[00:27:33.380]you have to take to graduate.
[00:27:35.040]It just increases where they're taken.
[00:27:37.040]So a few more classes that are inside the curriculum
[00:27:39.650]versus outside the curriculum in the college.
[00:27:48.880]Other questions.
[00:28:10.450]Alright, this is the chance,
[00:28:12.460]questions, comments, suggestions.
[00:28:15.640]Even you can say positive things too,
[00:28:18.530]if you had something to add.
[00:28:20.020]All right, we have another one.
[00:28:23.173]Alana raised your hand.
[00:28:28.913]If you can get to her Jamie.
[00:28:38.594]Hello, yes let me see if I can put my video on.
[00:28:44.870]Oh boy, okay nevermind I can't do my video,
[00:28:47.210]but so I'm a senior in the school
[00:28:51.100]and I am a broadcasting major.
[00:28:53.370]And I think looking back, I just wish that I would have had
[00:28:58.010]more practice on camera and maybe in a studio
[00:29:02.770]just presenting in general earlier on,
[00:29:05.140]because like I know that's one of those things
[00:29:06.700]that I took my first performance class junior year,
[00:29:10.030]and I'm now working at a news station and it's great,
[00:29:12.630]but I just know how much you can improve just by doing it.
[00:29:16.800]And I think had I had a little more exposure
[00:29:18.735]to that earlier on, it would have been great.
[00:29:21.250]I remember freshman year in either 130 or 131
[00:29:24.560]or one of those I did my first stand up for my video module,
[00:29:29.150]but it was after that, I didn't have any practice
[00:29:32.500]in that area for about two years.
[00:29:34.900]So I just think that a little more exposure
[00:29:37.670]for those broadcasting students earlier on
[00:29:40.370]would make us better by the end
[00:29:42.815]and also potentially rope in more interest
[00:29:45.630]in the broadcasting field earlier on.
[00:29:48.470]I don't know if that makes any sense,
[00:29:49.570]but it's my thought. Oh, that makes sense.
[00:29:51.591]And actually that's part of the reason
[00:29:54.900]why we're making changes to the studio as well.
[00:29:57.570]I mean, we're looking at a 28% increase
[00:30:00.090]in video production and editing.
[00:30:02.360]We need students who are excited about broadcasting
[00:30:05.560]and really putting the studio right in the center
[00:30:08.550]of Anderson Hall will bring some of that attention
[00:30:11.560]will really make it shine a little bit
[00:30:13.800]and we're keeping it underneath the third floor balcony.
[00:30:16.270]So those who may want to go into this area
[00:30:19.250]can actually stand up on the balcony,
[00:30:21.140]watch the newscast happening,
[00:30:22.940]and then also see what's going on onto the air.
[00:30:25.260]So it's to get them excited about it.
[00:30:27.320]Part of adding in Nebraska Nightly
[00:30:29.420]is also to give students experience from that first day.
[00:30:32.950]So they can come and start working on it,
[00:30:34.820]start building their reel.
[00:30:36.670]And when I came in, came in as dean this last year.
[00:30:39.960]One of the things that we talked about
[00:30:41.160]was the fact that we don't require a portfolio
[00:30:43.660]of our students.
[00:30:44.890]And I heard from one student
[00:30:46.660]who is having their roommate film them
[00:30:49.012]in order to get some camera time for their reel,
[00:30:53.730]that shouldn't be happening.
[00:30:55.330]That's why we just hired a new staff member, Jamie,
[00:30:58.960]who's helping to host this right now
[00:31:00.954]to be able to help in that newsroom a little bit more
[00:31:04.610]and engage with our students.
[00:31:06.090]Ken Fisher started just last week
[00:31:07.951]as a new assistant professor of practice in media production
[00:31:11.492]so that we can get students that camera time
[00:31:15.080]in front of the camera and behind the camera.
[00:31:17.520]I recall talking to one of our alumni, Just Deleni
[00:31:20.780]who's senior white or was senior white house correspondence.
[00:31:24.550]Now he's doing national news for CNN.
[00:31:27.918]First time he was on camera
[00:31:30.150]was when he was covering the Iowa caucuses
[00:31:32.575]and he was horrified.
[00:31:34.600]He was never required to be on camera
[00:31:37.980]all while he was getting his journalism degree.
[00:31:39.898]I think we should be providing those opportunities
[00:31:42.780]for students.
[00:31:44.319]So that's where you'll see some of the changes
[00:31:45.720]in the curriculum where you see more of a focus now
[00:31:48.280]on broadcasting.
[00:31:49.190]We also added a broadcasting minor
[00:31:51.380]to be able to hopefully lure students in
[00:31:54.660]a little bit earlier,
[00:31:55.610]so they can start moving toward the major classes.
[00:31:58.360]And then everything that we're doing in the experience lab
[00:32:01.070]really gives the students the opportunity
[00:32:02.620]to build up their portfolio from that first day.
[00:32:06.607]That sounds amazing, thank you so much.
[00:32:08.590]Cause I mean, I think COVID probably didn't help either,
[00:32:11.330]but I've never even been in the studio.
[00:32:14.149]It's my first time in the studio
[00:32:16.020]was the first time I fronted something at Channel Eight.
[00:32:18.710]And I just remember thinking why didn't I have this?
[00:32:20.787]And so now hearing all of this.
[00:32:21.970]I'm like, this is so amazing.
[00:32:23.448]And I'm really jealous that I am graduating in May.
[00:32:27.340]Well you can always come back,
[00:32:29.180]only professionals and residents after all
[00:32:31.660]to keep working with the students.
[00:32:33.669]But one thing I want to add
[00:32:35.590]is that even with adding that huge studio
[00:32:39.190]at the end of Anderson Hall
[00:32:40.850]and creating that separate studio, multimedia lab
[00:32:44.410]for unlimited sports,
[00:32:45.829]we're gonna keep the third floor studio as is,
[00:32:49.660]key card access for students to be able to come in,
[00:32:52.469]again, experiment, create something.
[00:32:55.890]I don't even care, I care a little bit about what it is,
[00:32:58.280]but get in there and create something
[00:33:00.870]that's unique to what you want to do.
[00:33:02.990]You should be able to experiment and try things out
[00:33:05.600]in college to figure out what kind of media
[00:33:08.180]you want to produce.
[00:33:09.560]And that really provides you that opportunity
[00:33:11.390]to at least have that space, to be able to engage.
[00:33:14.040]You'll have to go through training,
[00:33:15.170]make sure that you aren't gonna crash the equipment
[00:33:18.130]when you come in.
[00:33:18.970]But once you have that, you'd be able to get access,
[00:33:20.900]to be able to go in there and produce media
[00:33:23.170]that is specific to what you want to do as well.
[00:33:29.960]Thank you, Elena.
[00:33:30.860]I see other questions on the side,
[00:33:32.767]ballpark idea of plans for the renovations.
[00:33:36.426]Haley Hamill our director of business and operations
[00:33:40.540]chimed in, we're looking to have the new studio will
[00:33:46.586]well supply chain willing we'll be done here for this summer
[00:33:50.410]so that we can do training with the faculty
[00:33:52.420]who will be working in the studio as well,
[00:33:54.160]as well as our student leads,
[00:33:56.190]who will be part of the experience lab
[00:33:58.950]so that they'll be able to get a feel for the studio
[00:34:01.400]and the equipment there for us to be able
[00:34:03.250]to be up and running by the fall with the new studio.
[00:34:06.266]As far as timelines on the other pieces,
[00:34:09.525]the multimedia lab and photography studio and checkout room,
[00:34:14.465]we hope to have done this spring.
[00:34:16.730]So the new spaces that are being added over
[00:34:19.004]in the agency experience lab
[00:34:21.010]will hopefully be done this spring.
[00:34:22.790]And the Unlimited Sports Center,
[00:34:25.120]the Pepsi Unlimited Sports Center,
[00:34:27.010]that will also be done this semester.
[00:34:29.100]So we'll get the faculty offices built first.
[00:34:32.320]We'll finish out the Unlimited Sports Center,
[00:34:34.520]move the faculty over and then construction will start
[00:34:37.125]on the studio.
[00:34:45.690]All right, other questions?
[00:34:54.280]Can raise your hand and we can go over to you
[00:34:57.920]or you can just drop something in the chat as well.
[00:35:14.341]Okay, I'm not seeing any more questions right now.
[00:35:18.780]If you do have questions after this session,
[00:35:22.510]shoot me an email.
[00:35:23.440]Stop by office hours, I'm here.
[00:35:24.888]I spend, my office hour time
[00:35:28.080]is when I write thank you notes to donors.
[00:35:30.460]So I might be here sitting at my table working away,
[00:35:33.170]but it's still time for you.
[00:35:35.000]I just set it aside when you walk in.
[00:35:36.670]So we can have a conversation,
[00:35:38.670]just know that your ideas are welcome here.
[00:35:41.760]Your questions and concerns are always welcome.
[00:35:45.150]You are a part of this college
[00:35:47.140]and we want it to be the college that you can be proud of.
[00:35:51.420]That you can feel like you're part of what we're doing here,
[00:35:54.130]because you're gonna be alumni of this place.
[00:35:56.170]And we want you to be proud of us.
[00:35:58.810]We're certainly proud of you.
[00:36:02.330]Thank you for your chiming in tonight.
[00:36:04.260]Glad to have you here.
[00:36:06.040]Look forward to opportunities
[00:36:07.360]to talk with you again in the future.
[00:36:09.680]Have a great evening.

The screen size you are trying to search captions on is too small!

You can always jump over to MediaHub and check it out there.

Comments

0 Comments

CoJMC Town Hall Spring 2022

Description

Searchable Transcript

Comments icon comment

Related Channels

Comments