Current EEOC Outreach Activities
Year: 2/1/07 - 1/31/08
Activity:
Participate in at least four (4) events or programs relating to career opportunities in broadcasting sponsored by educational
institutions.
Description of Initiative:
- KSLU once again continued its relationship with Mandeville
High School in hosting the school’s online radio station. General Manager
Todd Delaney worked closely with Mandeville High School teacher Rusty Gregoire
in instructing Gregoire’s high school students on programming philosophy
and music rotation.
- KSLU also worked closely with Mandeville High School
in establishing an internship program with the school. Each semester a group
of students are chosen from Mandeville High School to participate in an
internship with KSLU. Students learn how the radio station operates and
eventually gain hands-on experience at KSLU. Some of the Mandeville High
School students were tasked with writing and producing afternoon newscasts
on KSLU while others participated in producing pre-recorded imaging elements.
- General Manager, Todd Delaney, worked with Dr. Richard Louth of the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project in producing a documentary about the group's Writing Marathon. The program chronicled the journey writers in the group took as they travelled around the French Quarter in New Orleans, stopping to write at local historic places. The program was the sixth collaboration between the Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project and KSLU.
- Todd Delaney and KSLU engineer Steve Portier worked
with local Southeastern Louisiana University (SLU) professor, Steve Bellas,
in maintaining and upgrading several audio editing stations in Bellas’ classroom.
This enabled SLU Communication students to produce audio documentaries and
learn how to use digital audio editing equipment..
Activity:
Establish a training program designed to enable station personnel to
Description of Initiative:
General Manager Todd Delaney began teaching and Introduction to Radio Production class at Southeastern Louisiana University.
Topics covered the hearing process, digital editing, programming strategies among other topics.
