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Media Group
Media Community Breakfast Comments, September 22, 2005
What role could NMC play in helping you address these trends?
- Look for ways to partner with business in the community to educate and grow business.
- Look at the changes in technology and start training and preparing for these changes as they work through the system.
- Recognize the changing culture and work with the business leaders in how this will impact us all.
- Adapt curriculum to reflect changing job scene-shift from traditional jobs to new technology-globilization electronic access to classes.
- Continue efforts to communicate with the community-dialogue.
- Continue community leadership efforts.
- Sell the value of education.
- Present panel/forum on role of media in society
- Facilitate or teach civil discourse - role of higher education to foster citizenships in a democratic society.
- Continue offering topic experts and instructors as sources, be it NASA or other.
- Film Festival and Epicurean Classic are becoming mainstays for community.
- Marketing knowledge for different types of media: Can NMC convene a place for sharing such information?
- Offer workshop on role of media in society…accuracy of stories…prepare people to assess different types and its accuracy and credibility.
- Keep the press aware of the expertise of NMC instructors on topical issues.
- Respond to need for people in the health-related fields and particularly prevention-related fields.
- Educate people on the benefits to all of a more caring and integrated society--and the richness and desirability of diversity in thought and experience.
- Altruism with capitalism.
- More resources for the White Pine Press.
- More resources for public affairs programming at NMC.
- Special events, lectures, conferences (i.e., symposium for environmental journalists).
- Provide training for local journalists, in the form of workshops and seminars.
- Provide internships for journalists with the Water Studies Institute, or other groups, in order to expose more people to the area.
- Host conferences for journalists for the same reason - show off our area.
- Offer more journalism or advance media or mass media courses for inexperienced staff writers.