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.
