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Category Board Blogs
19 Apr
Board Blog: Celebrate Your Squeaky Violin
I recently had a student come to my office asking if I would help them put together an aircheck for a potential job. While I am always happy to help our students, the cold hard fact was that this person has neglected many opportunities to work on our campus radio station — no regular air […]
READ MORE5 Apr
Board Blog: Pitch in this fall in San Antonio
We are getting to that time of the school year where everyone seems to be focusing on just one thing: getting to the end of the semester. Hopefully, as you are nearing the end of the school year, you are doing so with success. But as you plan for the last few months of school, […]
READ MORE29 Mar
Board Blog: No Sacred Cows
There’s an old joke that management consultants like to tell: Q. What are the seven words that will destroy any successful organization? A: But we’ve always done it that way. Even student media — with its transient staffs and “underground” ethos – fall prey to the tendency to resist change. It can be very difficult […]
READ MORE1 Mar
Board Blog: Practice Making Mistakes
In 2nd grade, on a school project for South Carolina history, I misspelled the name of the state of “Georgia.” All of our posters were hung in the hallway, and there was mine, with my teacher’s big red circle around my mistake, for all passers-by to see. Granted, this was a small elementary school in […]
READ MORE26 Jan
Board Blog: Listen to my Mother
“I make my lists and list my dates” are words I heard mom every time she would have someone ask her how she could juggle working, advocating for special needs children/adults, painting, raising a teen, managing a husband, and being a Minister’s wife. She lived by her lists and had a color coding system in […]
READ MORE11 Jan
Board Blog: The Umbrella Adviser
Last spring, I took a graduate course in project management. The textbook talked about the role of the project sponsor, essentially the “cheerleader” for the project, and showed a clip art umbrella labeled project sponsor protecting the project team from rain. The more I looked at the picture, the more I thought it was a […]
READ MORE28 Dec
Board Blog: Radio is Multimedia Now
“Seven years of college down the drain!” – despite the great quote from Animal House, thankfully I have learned something in college (and it only took four years). But as my role runs the calendar year, it is time to wrap up my career in college radio, and graduate in the spring. What will I […]
READ MORE21 Dec
Board Blog: Our new Secretary goes live
Hello, everyone. My name is Paul Crutcher and I am the Broadcast and Emerging Media Specialist at Lander University in Greenwood, South Carolina. I teach two radio production courses here and serve as General Manager for XLR – Lander University Radio. It is a great honor to be elected as interim secretary for the CBI […]
READ MORE7 Dec
Board Blog: Hello, bonjour, and aloha
Greetings from the new president of CBI. As the new president of CBI, please allow me to introduce myself. I’m an instructor of Radio and TV at the University of Southern Indiana and the Faculty Advisor/General Manager of our student radio station, 95.7 Evansville’s Alternative. I’ve been at USI since 1993, but I moved into […]
READ MORE1 Dec
Board Blog: Goodbye, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Yesterday was my final day as CBI President. After more than five years in office, I’m passing the scepter to the capable hands of John Morris of the University of Southern Indiana. While it’s hard to let go (and, technically, I could have run for re-election), I believe that new leadership is essential to the […]
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