2014 BEA Two-Year/Small College Business Meeting Minutes

2014 BEA Two-Year/Small College Business Meeting Minutes

BEA 2014 Business Meeting

April 8, 2014

District 7 Meeting

8:20 :  Jim Crandall starting the District 7 meeting 

Report from the board meeting: (District 6) indicated that we should court high school teachers, which is one of the major tenets of our interest division/district.

Promoting Elkhorn Valley/District 7 Media Festival for high school students to submit.

BEA Connect is going away, the focus is back on the Facebook page (Two Year/Small College page)

Two Year/Small College Business Meeting

9:00: Troy Hunt kicks off division meeting

9:01: Michael Bruce says hi! 

Division needs new panel ideas/interactive communication between members of the division.

BEA Connect is going away

High School teachers should be encourage to participate in TYSC panel/attend BEA

BEA is healthy.

More interaction with professionals, especially in panels is needed for BEA15

9:07: Troy submitted 9 panels, all accepted. Heather Birks was impressed

9:11: Shane Tilton was elected as secretary for division

9:14: Brian Shelton was elected the chair of the Student Festival of Arts, Evan Wirig is the co-chair of the Student Festival of Arts

9:20: Panel ideas: 

9:45: Lowell discussed the festival, Is there anything we would like to see differently done?  The after party could show the full length of the winning pieces.

Brian mentioned a screening room that could show the winning piece throughout BEA with a schedule of the winning piece sin the 

9:49: Michael discussed to create more categories for the TYSC Festival of Arts. Tom discussed split the video categories: non-fiction and fiction.  Jim called the motion. Evan seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously

9:56: Peter Orlik talked about the scholarships, especially the Founder’s Scholarships that focused on two year/small college students at member’s school. The applications are online at beaweb.org

Video engineer position at Joni’s school to be posted on TYSC page. No other announcements.

10:15: Motion to adjourn was approved.