Silvestri says that students use the space for filming, editing and broadcasting campus news and other programs. He also says the studio even has its own HD sports channel that is broadcasted to the surrounding region.
“UTVS also has sports anchors and meteorologists and they’re taking all of that as part of the student work,” Silvestri says. “This combination is a big melting pot of everyone together. That’s the way we do most of our shows, from sports production to entertainment to the news casts.”
Most importantly, Silvestri says communications and journalism students are getting real world experience because of the broadcast studio environment.
“I think that’s something we strive towards, this is how the real world is, we’re going to try our best to mimic what they do,” he says. “It’s an education facility, and we’re trying to populate. Our alumni are going into the industry after they graduate, so it’s a perfect opportunity for us to find new things and new ways of doing things, pushing the new development in the real professional world.”
Silvestri says that real world experience in SCSU’s new broadcast studio pays off because students have gotten jobs right out of graduation in their respective communications fields.
“A lot of our students are getting jobs right out of this market producing and associate producing for Fox Sports North,” he says. “We’ve had alumni go to E Networks, Fox Sports out of LA, and all different news stations. We have alumni in every single Minnesota news market from SCS that’s on camera and behind the scenes. It’s countless.”
Vikram Savkar says he’s seen similar trends in the realm of law schools.
He says that many law schools are ditching the traditional textbook route and are investing in campus renovations and learning technology to better prepare their “lawyers-in-training.”
“In law school, it’s like they’re in the 1950’s, they use print books,” says Savkar, Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Education. “[Students] go to law firms and they’re expected to know how to use these advanced research tools. I’ve heard students want to be taught in ways that are more in line with how they are going to work as lawyers one day.”
Savkar says law students are similar to traditional undergraduates, where law students expect institutions to customize their educations based on their needs and interests. As a result, he says the concept of digital learning is becoming key for his and other technology companies’ product goals.
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