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LATEST REV: April 5, 2005

All meetings to be held in the Las Vegas Convention Center

Wednesday, April 20, 2005:

9:00 AM-4:30 PM NABEF/BEA/RTNDA Career Fair, 2005 (00090)
Las Vegas Hilton, Ballroom C
Career Fair for Student and Entry-Level Job Seekers
9:00 A.M. -- 12:00 P.M.
Break/Lunch is on your own.
12:00 -- 12:30 P.M.
Career Seminar
Developing and Enhancing Your Broadcast Skills"
12:30 -- 2:00 P.M.
Career Fair for Professional Job Seekers
2:30 P.M. -- 4:30 P.M.
11:00 AM-3:00 PM BEA Board Committee Meeting: Publications Committee (00095) N231
1:00-3:00 PM BEA Festival of Media Arts Committee Meeting (00096) N233
1:00-4:30 PM BEA Student News Critiques (00097)
Las Vegas Hilton, Conference Room 15 (Sign-Ups start at 12:30pm)
3:30-4:00 PM BEA Executive Committee and Finance Committee of the Board
of Directors Meeting N236 (00098) (Executive Committee only)
4:00-8:00 PM BEA Board of Directors Meeting (00099) N236

Thursday, April 21, 2005:

7:30-8:00 AM Division Chairs Pre-Convention Meeting (00100) N252
8:00-9:00 AM Opening Continental Breakfast (00101) N250
8:00-5:00 PM Convention Registration (00102) N250 Lobby, near Walkway to the Las Vegas Hilton
9:00-5:00 PM TDA Breakout Sessions (00103) N231

Thursday Session 1, 9:00-10:15 AM
N232: Diversity Across the Curriculum: Creating Better Classes and Better
Broadcasters (00110) [Gender, News, CCA, Multicultural]
N239: Writing Division Business Meeting (00111)
N233: Current Issues in Law and Policy (00112) [Law & Policy]
N234: History Division Business Meeting (00113)
N235: The Global Status of the Diffusion of Digital Television (00114) [International, Comm. Tech.]
N236: Managing a Small Department (00115) [2yr/Sm. Col.]
N237: Endangered Species: The TV Newsroom Internship (00116) [News]
N238: Live Remote TV Coverage: Real Field Experiences, Too Real Budgets
(00117) [PAC]
N243: HD Radio™ Is On The Air: An Introduction To Digital Terrestrial Radio Technology, Hardware, and Regulation (00118) [BIRD]
N240: Teaching Basic Broadcast Skills by Incorporating Student Media Facilities
and Operations (00119) [SMA]
N242: Airbrushing Make-Up for HDTV: A Demonstration in New Technology for a Multicultural Age (00121) PAC]

Thursday Session 2, 10:30-11:45 AM
N232: Bringing Together Research on Diversity and Newsroom Practice (00125)
[Multicultural, News]
N233: Digital Storytelling 101: Teaching Basic Principles of Design and Production in a Convergence Curriculum (00126) [PAC, CCA]
N234: History Division Paper Competition (00127)
N243: Building the Bridge to Public Radio (00128) [BIRD]
N236: Communication Technology Division Business Meeting (00129)
N237: The News Audience and the Future of TV News (00130) [News]
N238: Shifting communities and identity claims at online chat rooms (00131) [Gender]
N239: An Overview of Moving Image Archives: Accessing the Television Record (00133) [BOARD]
N240: Preparing The Next Generation of Newscasters on College Television Stations (00134) [BOARD]
N242: NAB Research and Information (00135) [BEA, NAB]
N235: Writing Division Faculty & Student Scriptwriting Competition Awards (00136) Writing, BEA Media Arts Festival]

Thursday Session 3, 12 noon-1:15 PM
N232: Writing Division Scholarly & Research Paper Competition presentation and Awards Session (00140)
N233: Tidal Waves of Broadcast History: Perspectives on Five Sweeping Developments that Changed the American Landscape (00141) [History, Law & Policy, News]
N234: Research Division Business Meeting (00142)
N235: The Realities of Teaching Broadcast Journalism in an Environment of Changing News Values (00143) [News, CCA]
N236: Communication Technology Division Paper Competition (00144)
N237: Multicultural Division Business Meeting (00145)
N238: Finding Sources of Data and Secondary Data Analysis (00146) [Management & Sales, Research]
N240: Academia and the Real World: Ideas and Projects that Motivate Students and Produce Unique Results (00148) [PAC, CCA]
N239: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Convergence: How Organizational Culture Affects Cross-Media Partnerships (00149) [News]
N243: Student Audio Competition Awards (00150) [SMA, BEA Media Arts Festival]

Thursday Session 4, 1:30-2:45 PM
N232: Airchecks: Who is Doing What, Where and How in Student Newscasts? (00155) [News]
N237: Multicultural Division Paper Competition (00156)
N233: Local radio news in an XM/Sirius world (00158) [BIRD, Comm. Tech.]
N235: From Script to Screen (00159) [Writing, CCA, PAC]
N236: Reaching Ethnic Audiences: Strategies for Struggling With Strangers (00160) [Multicultural]
N238: The Syllabus: Continued Excellence in the Age-Old Art of the Academic Professor-Student Contract (00161) [CCA]
N239: Determining Audience: Challenges in Audience Measurement (00162) [Management & Sales]
N240: When Worlds Collide: An International Exploration of the Interaction of Art, Broadcasting & New Media (00163) [International, BIRD, Management & Sales]
N234: Research Division Paper Session I (00164)
N242: BEA Distinguished Scholars (00165) [BOARD]
N243: Student Video Production Competition Awards (00166) [PAC, BEA Media Arts Festival]

Thursday Session 5, 3:00-4:15PM
N232: Courses, Curricula & Administration Division Business Meeting (00170)
N234: Law & Policy Division Business Meeting (00171)
N235: Broadcast Reform in the Middle East: 50 Years of Changes and Challenges (00172) [International]
N233: Student Media Advisors Division Business Meeting (00173) [SMA]
N236: Digital Video Recorders at Five Years: Is the Revolution Still Coming? (00174) [Comm. Tech.]
N252: BRI Research Workshop Part 1. Research Case Studies for Broadcast, Cable, Print, Radio, & Web. How Research Solves Business Problems (00175) [Research, Management & Sales]
“Establishing a Research Certification Program and a Professional Association”
“Following the Audience into a New Media Era”
N238: The Final Bush/Kerry Debate: A Convergence Project Case Study (00176) [News]
N239: From the Classroom to the Studio: Innovative Strategies for Teaching Radio Production (00177) [BIRD, PAC]
N240: New Directions in Teaching Nonlinear Post-Production (00178) [BOARD]
N237: Meet the Editors (00179) [BOARD]
N243: Faculty and Student News Competition Awards (00180) [News, BEA Media Arts Festival]
N242: Achieving Your Facility Goals (00181) [PAC]

Thursday Session 6, 4:30-5:45 PM
N232: Courses, Curricula & Administration Division Paper Competition (00185)
N242: Creeping Commercialism in TV News (00186) [News]
N236: People, Place and Time: How Real Is Reality TV? (00188) [International, History, PAC]
N252: BRI Research Workshop Part 2. Research Case Studies for Broadcast, Cable, Print, Radio, & Web. How Research Solves Business Problems (00189) [Research, Management & Sales]
“Establishing a Research Certification Program and a Professional Association”
Gary Corbitt Research Director WJXT/Post Newsweek Stations
“Best Practices in Teaching Broadcast Research”
N238: Truth or Dare: Making Television News Relevant to 21st Century College-Age Students (00190) [News]
N239: Today’s Media Centric Youth: A New Paradigm for Communications, Teaching and Learning (00191) [Comm. Tech.]
N234: Law & Policy Division Paper Competition (00192)
N240: Integrating Your Local Community into a College Internet Radio Station (00193) [BIRD]
N243: Faculty Video Production Competition Awards (00194)
N237: Faculty Production Showcase (00195) [2Yr/Sm. Col.]
N235: Fox : A Fair and Balanced Look at Fox News (00196) [News]
N233: Student Media Advisors Division Paper Competition (00197)

6:00-7:00 PM BEA Awards Ceremony (00198) N250

7:00-8:00 PM Opening Night Reception (00199) N250

Friday, April 22, 2005:

8:00-5:00 PM Convention Registration/Email/Lounge (00200) N250 Lobby, near Walkway to the Las Vegas Hilton
9:00-5:00 PM Email/Lounge (00200.1) N255
9:00-5:00 PM Exhibit Hall (00201) N255, N257, N259, N261
9:00-5:00 PM Avid Hands-On Classroom (Free Training Lab) (00205) N251
9:00-5:00 PM Apple Hands-On Classroom (Free Training Lab) (00204) N249
9:00-5:00 PM Technology Demonstration Area (00202) N261
9:00-5:00 PM Adobe Hands-On Training Lab (Free Training Lab) (00203) N241
9:00-5:00 PM TDA Breakout Sessions (00206) N231

Friday Session 1, 9:00-10:15 AM
N242: Research Division Paper Session II (00210)
N234: 2-year/Small College Division Business Meeting (00212)
N235: Annual Telecommunications Act Update (00213) [Law & Policy]
N236: Working in a Digital News Environment – a Student’s Perspective (00214) [BOARD]
N237: Transnational and cross-cultural media instruction: Preparing future industry professionals for excellence in the global media environment (00215) [Multicultural, International, CCA]
N238: Election Coverage by Student Media: The Where, How & Why (00216) [SMA]
N240: Tapping into Resources to Enhance Your Curriculum… On-line, On-campus, and in the Community (00218) [CCA]
N233: From Initial Idea to Final Distribution (00219) [PAC, CCA]
N243: Faculty Audio Competition Awards (00220) [BIRD, BEA Media Arts Festival]
N232: Reinventing the Local TV Station: Ground-Breaking Ideas from Innovative Thinkers (00221) [Management & Sales]
N239: Establishing a Research Certification Program and a Professional Association (00222) [BOARD]
“Stump the Research Executive”

Friday Session 2, 10:30-11:45 AM
N231: TDA Breakout Session (00224) Round Trip Production using Apple’s Production Suite
N234: Service and Selection: Meeting Service Expectations in an Electronic Media Academic Unit (00225) [SMA, CCA]
N239: Going Tapeless: Challenges for Broadcast Journalism Educators and Professionals with server-based systems (00226) [CCA & Comm. Tech.]
N238: Grading Broadcast News Stories: Ways to Get Past the “Subjectivity” Factor (00227) [News]
N240: Where the Boys are: Television for Men (00228) [Gender, Research]
N233: 50 Years of Student Media: Approaches to Teaching, Learning and Public Service (00229) [BIRD, History, SMA]
N232: ATAS College Television Awards Showcase (00230) [BOARD]
N235: A “How To” Guide for Hiring in Mass Communication: What to Embrace, What
to Avoid (00231) [CCA]
N237: Trash or Trend? Do Reality Shows have Any Place in a College Writing Curriculum? (00232) [PAC]
N236: 2+2+2 Role of High Schools, 2-Year and 4-Year Colleges and Universities in Preparation for School, Careers and Employment (00233)
N243: Analysis and Experiments in Surround Sound (00234)
[PAC, Comm. Tech]
N242: BEA Past Presidents: Reflection on How We Got Here and Where We Are Going (00235)[BOARD]

Friday Session 3, 12:00-1:15 PM
N242: District 1 meeting (00241)
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Western Europe incl. Britain
N240: District 2 meeting (00242)
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Caribbean and Africa
N239: District 3 meeting (00243)
Delaware, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington
DC, West Virginia, Mid-east and Eastern Europe including Russia
N238: District 4 meeting (00244)
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Canada and Scandinavia
N237: District 5 meeting (00245)
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Mexico, Central
America, South America, and Australia
N236: District 6 meeting (00246)
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Asia and Pacific
N235: District 7 meeting (00247)
All two-year schools in the USA

Friday Session 4, 1:30-2:45 PM
N231: TDA Breakout Session (00254) Teaching Collaboration
N232: Managing Student Media Organizations (00255) [SMA]
N242: BEA Scholarship Workshop (00256) [BOARD]
N234: News Division Business Meeting (00257)
N235: Assessing Media Education: Developing and Measuring Student-Learning Outcomes (00258) [CCA]
N236: Games Mother Never Taught Us, But We Wish She Had: Preparing Female Students for Their First Communication Job (00259) [Gender]
N237: Young adults and sexual content of media: New findings and Implications (00260) [Law & Policy]
N238: The Past is Present: Helping Journalism Students Understand the Role of History in Everyday Reporting (a.k.a. “Hey Dude, What’s a Watergate?”) (00261)
[History, International]
N239: Teaching and Doing Documentary: A Creative Balancing Act (00262) [PAC, CCA]
N240: Broadcast & Internet Radio Division Business Meeting (00263)
N243: 2-year/Small College Competition Awards (00265) [2Yr/Sm. Col., BEA Media Arts Festival]
N233: Grading in an Era of Assessment (00266) [CCA]

Friday Session 5, 3:00-4:15 PM
N231: TDA Breakout Session (00269) Sapphire Plug-ins Primer
N242: From the Old to the New: Integrating Multimedia Production with a Traditional Radio TV/Broadcast News Curriculum (00271) [Comm. Tech., PAC]
N240: Broadcast & Internet Radio Division Paper Competition (00272)
N235: Assessing Media Education: Developing and Measuring Student-Learning Outcomes (00273) [CCA]
N234: News Division Paper Competition (00274)
N237: Media and Telecommunications Management: Defining the Core Curriculum (00275) [Management & Sales]
N238: Favorite Production Exercise (00276) [2Yr/Sm. Col.]
N233: Hands Above the Keyboard: Writing Description (00277) [Writing]
N243: Localism under Siege (00278) [Law & Policy, BIRD, Comm. Tech.]
N239: Student Interactive Multimedia Competition Awards (00279) [Comm. Tech., BEA Media Arts Festival]
N236: Past JOB(EM) Editors Look At Research (00280) [BOARD]

Friday Session 6, 4:30-5:45 PM
N231: TDA Breakout Session (00284) Digital Video for the Classroom featuring
Adobe Premiere & Adobe After Effects
N234: Defining and Assessing the Mission of College Radio (00285) [BIRD, SMA]
N232: Tips and Tricks for Student Newscasts (00286) [SMA, News]
N236: Broadcast And Electronic Media Historiography: Methods of Historical Analysis and Criticism (00287) [History]
N237: 50 Years of US Influence on Global Radio and Television News (00288) [International]
N238: Media and Telecommunications Management: Scholar Task Force Workshop (00289) [Management & Sales]
N240: Is it any better half a century later? An inside look at women and minorities in prime time television (00290) [Gender, Multicultural, Management & Sales]
N242: Meeting of the Documentary Division Group (00292) [BOARD]
N252: Scholar-to-Scholar Competitive Poster Session (00293) [BOARD]
N239: Faculty Interactive Multimedia Competition Awards (00294) [Comm. Tech., BEA Media Arts Festival]
N233: Fifty Years of Excellence for Electronic Media Academics, Industry and Future Professionals: Sharing our Teaching Expertise (00295) [CCA]
N235: Research Traditions: What used to be a battle between ChiSquare and Green Eye Shades is now more complex (00296) [Research]

6:30-7:30 PM CBS Television City (00297) [BOARD]

N250 6:00-8:00 PM BEA Best of Festival: The Charles and Lucille King Foundation
Awards (00299) [BEA Media Arts Festival]

Saturday, April 23, 2005:

9:00-5:00 PM Email/Lounge (00300) N255
9:00-5:00 PM BEA Placement Center (00301) N253 [BOARD]
9:00-5:00 PM Exhibit Hall (00302) N255, N257, N259, N261
9:00-5:00 PM Avid Hands-On Classroom (Free Training Lab) (00306) N251
9:00-5:00 PM Apple Hands-On Classroom (Free Training Lab) (00305) N249
9:00-5:00 PM Technology Demonstration Area (00303) N261
9:00-5:00 PM Adobe Hands-On Training Lab (Free Training Lab) (00304) N241
9:00-5:00 PM TDA Breakout Sessions (00307) N231

Saturday Session 1, 9:00-10:15 AM
N232: The Action’s In The Writing III: Exercises And Methods To Give Characters Life (00310) [CCA, Writing, & PAC]
N235: One Year Into The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Is it working? (00311) [Law & Policy]
N236: Management & Sales Division Business Meeting (00312)
N237: Interactive Video Tools for Fixed and Online Media (00313) [Comm. Tech.]
N243: Coffee With Jonathan Prince (00314) [BOARD]
N238: Incorporating Diversity: Courses that Reflect All of Us (00315) [Multicultural]
N239: Studies in Radio History and Imagination (00316) [BIRD]
N240: What are the Most Fertile Areas of International Research? (00317) [Research]
N242: Why Is Radio News the Stepchild in Your Broadcast Journalism Curriculum? (00318) [News]
N233: Production, Aesthetics & Criticism Division Business Meeting (00319)
N234: Using RAB Tools to Enhance Classroom Experience and Increase the Value of Your Students in the Marketplace (00320) [BIRD, Management & Sales]

Saturday Session 2, 10:30-11:45 AM
N250 BEA2005 50th Anniversary Plenary (00325)

Saturday Session 3, 12:00-1:15 PM
N242: Producing Producers III (00340) [News]
N234: Back to the Future: From the Files of the Communication Technology Division (00341) [Comm. Tech.]
N235: Gender Issues Division Business Meeting (00342)
N236: The Value of Playing Radio: A Survey of Student Media Experiences (00343) [SMA, BIRD]
N237: Production, Aesthetics & Criticism Division Paper Competition (00344)
N238: Uncle Sam came to Visit and stayed! – The impact of 50 years of US broadcasting on four regions of the world (00345) [International]
N239: My Favorite Screenwriting Exercise (00346) [Writing]
N240: Finding Jobs For Your Sports Students (00347) [CCA, Management & Sales]
N243: Annual Student Production Showcase (00349) [2 Yr/Small Colleges]
N232: Mining the Gold in Our History (00350) [BOARD]

Saturday Session 4, 1:30-2:45 PM
N231: TDA Breakout Session (00354) Experience combustion 4 and 3ds Max 7, A New Level of Integration!
N237: Disruptive Communication Technologies in the Home (00355) [PAC, Comm. Tech.]
N232: Shaping the News: Classroom Discussions of Race & Prejudice for Future Electronic Media Professionals (00356) [Multicultural, CCA]
N242: Partnering with PBS (00357) [News, SMA]
N238: International Division Business Meeting (00358)
N239: Building a New Broadcast Facility: If I had only known then what I know now! Things to think about as you Construct your Media Facility/Building (00359) [SMA]
N240: Teaching Theory and Research: Black Hole or Bright Light? (00361) [Research]
N236: Global and Local Marketing of Reality Television, Action Adventure Films, and National Identities (00362) [International, Research]
N235: Gender Issues Division Paper Competition (00363)

Saturday Session 5, 3:00-4:15 PM
N235: For the Good of All Students: Integrating Radio/Audio Production Skills Throughout the Entire Curriculum (00370) [PAC, BIRD, CCA]
N238: International Division Paper Competition (00371)
N237: Interdisciplinary Techniques for Dramatic Writers (00372) [Writing]
N234: Student Media and the International Student: Diversifying Opportunities (00374) [SMA]
N239: Online Entertainment Reporting (00375) [Comm. Tech.]
N242: Top Teaching Tips- Convergence in the Public Affairs Reporting Class (00376) [News]
N232: What are Next Steps in Promoting Research by BEA? (00377) [BOARD]
N243: Cool Audio/Video Tools (and Ones to Avoid) (00378) [PAC]

Saturday Session 6, 4:30-5:45 PM
N232: Research Division “Research in Progress” Competition (00386)
N240: Broadcasting in Denmark: Unique Media Education (00387) [International, CCA]
N239: Teaching the Law Class: Courses and Context (00389) [Law & Policy, CCA]
N238: An International Look at the First 50 Years of Broadcast Education (00390) [International, CCA]
N237: Art and its relationship to film/video production pedagogy (00391) [PAC]
N242: Management & Sales Division Paper Competition (00392)
N236: The Packaging, Production and Framing of News during the 2004 Presidential Campaign (00393)

4:30-5:30 PM Post Convention Festival Committee Meeting (00399) N256

5:45-6:30 PM Post Convention Chairs Meeting (00400) N252

6:30-7:30 PM Post Convention Board Meeting (00420) N254