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BEA2003 Overview & Theme

Theme: The Next Generation

Concept: In many respects, we are the next generation. Our teachers, our mentors, are leaving academia and have entrusted with us the future of the discipline. They gave us the skills and critical thinking abilities to continually evaluate and add to the knowledge base of our field. In other respects, as an association of educators, we are responsible for the next generation of media and broadcast practitioners as well as broadcast educators. We are helping our students to understand the shape, scope, and future of broadcasting from a variety of different perspectives. For all of us, our students have and will become the next generation of broadcasters and broadcast educators. I hope to see BEA celebrate The Next Generation.

Challenge: We can celebrate The Next Generation by looking at where we are now, while at the same time trying to understand where we are going. I'd like to see each interest division, as members of the next generation, program to this challenge by looking at their own mission statements and goals. Part of this challenge would entail evaluating how they have met and can continue to meet their objectives. I would again challenge each interest division, as educators training the next generation of practitioners, to plan/program with the future of the next generation in mind.

A Second Challenge: As Convention Program Planner, I am challenging the interest divisions to have one new BEA member on each invited program/panel. If we are truly helping to mentor The Next Generation of broadcast educators, what better way is there than to bring them to the BEA annual convention!