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| Trinity Professor to Lead Broadcast Education Association |
| January 14, 2000 - Suzanne Williams-Rautiola, associate professor of communication at
Trinity University, has been elected president of Broadcast Education Association (BEA) for 2000-2001. The higher education association serves as a critical link between electronic media academic departments and professionals in the broadcasting and electronic media industry.
For more than 13 years, Williams-Rautiola has been an active member of the BEA. She has been a member of the board of directors, has served on their planning committee, and was chair of their membership and finance committees. Recently, Williams-Rautiola was the association's secretary-treasurer, then vice president for academic relations. In 1994, she served as the convention program chair. In addition to developing its theme, she organized and coordinated more than 100 sessions, including scholarly panels and poster sessions, paper competitions, juried faculty production competitions, student production showcases, technology demonstrations, and workshops. She also is the co-founder of the Juried Faculty Production Competition, which provides a forum for evaluating faculty productions and awarding outstanding submissions. Williams-Rautiola has been a faculty member of Trinity since 1987. She received her Ph.D. and master's in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received her B.A. in speech from Marquette University in Milwaukee. The Broadcast Education Association was established in 1955 as the Association for Professional Broadcast Education. The organization changed its name in 1973. Currently, the BEA includes more than 1,300 professors, students, and media professionals as individual members. About 250 college and university departments are listed as institutional members. The BEA also includes associate members composed of broadcast stations, cable systems, advertising agencies, and law firms. The BEA provides a broad range of services and affiliations to its academic and professional members to help keep them abreast of the latest electronic media developments in radio, television, new technologies, management and sales, news reporting, production, research, communication law and policy, and international systems. Trinity University, founded in 1869, is a highly-selective, professionally-oriented liberal arts and sciences institution. This residential, primarily undergraduate university is noted for its superb facilities and undergraduate research opportunities. Through its academic and co-curricular programs, Trinity seeks to develop leaders with high moral and ethical standards. It is a learning community that has charted its course with a steadfast commitment to excellence for more than 130 years. |
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