Vitae
Education (in reverse chronological order):
Master of Liberal Arts: SUNY: Empire State College. Degree awarded July of 2005. Thesis: How has local TV news changed: An analysis of the economics, technology and the personnel decisions affecting local television news. The degree program encourages interdisciplinary study.
Bachelor of Arts. Special Studies in Communication. SUNY: Fredonia. May 1974.
Teaching Experience:
Assistant Professor: College of Saint Rose starting fall 2006. Teaching 4 courses dealing with media production.
Adjunct Faculty Member: College of St. Rose. Teaching a section of TV field production during the spring semester of 2006.
Instructor. New Visions in Communications. This high school career exploration internship is run by the local BOCES. High school students who have an interest in either print or broadcast journalism spend an entire academic year engaged in the program for 3 hours each morning. The students are usually academically superior. The students receive up to 9 advance placement college credits for successfully completing this coursework, depending on the academic institution.
Visiting Instructor: Siena College. Filled in for Dr. Doug Lundstrom, Siena College business professor. Conducted classes discussing the various business aspects of the TV industry and how it uses statistics. Fall 2005 and Spring of 2006.
Instructor: Career exploration internship program for Columbia and Mohonasen High Schools. Taught three high school seniors the basics of TV story construction. Each created one TV news story about subjects important to them.
Instructor: Senior Project, Albany Academy for Girls. A senior class member in good standing, who elects to study journalism and / or communications, works with me for about 4 weeks. In 2005 this student learned about alternative energy automobiles and prepared a special TV story about them for presentation to her class.
Lecturer: Various High School and College Classrooms in the Albany, NY Region. I am a frequent guest lecturer on a variety of topics related to my field.
Instructor: Schenectady High School. I created a cooperative of TV, Radio and Newspaper organizations in the Albany area to collect election returns. We use 45 high school students from Schenectady to input the data. As part of our arrangement with the school district we not only teach them the basics of the software being used but we also give them a lesson in government and some background on the candidates seeking office.