Student Media Board
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As a standing University committee, the Student Media Board serves "as the institutional publisher" for Student Media.
The SMB is primarily responsible for selecting student leaders, approving annual budgets and hearing any grievances that cannot be otherwise resolved. The SMB does not dictate or determine editorial content. Responsibility for day-to-day editorial operations belongs to the selected student leaders. The Director of Student Media is responsible for day-to-day business operations and long-term strategy for Student Media.
The board consists of students, staff and faculty from across the university, as well as media professionals outside of KSU.
Check out the guidelines, members and meeting documents below.
Student Media Board Guidelines
Voting Members
Rick Danals
Assistant Dean of Student Engagement
Jeff Fruit
Interim Director School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Karl Idsvoog
Faculty Senate Appointee
Jennifer Mani
KSU graduate student
Owen McDougald
KSU undergraduate student
Hannah Peters
KSU undergraduate student
Carol Robinson
Faculty Senate Appointee
Eugene Shelton
JMC Faculty
Noah Sitch
JMC undergraduate student
Mark Turner
Media Professional
Hannah Wagner
JMC undergraduate student
Thor Wasbotten
JMC faculty
Non-Voting Members
- Ella Abbott, Fusion Editor
- Starr Bodi, TV2 General Manager
- Christian Caudill, Student Sales & Marketing Manager
- Shannon Christen-Syed, Uhuru Adviser
- Tami Cindea Bongiorni, Student Media Advertising & Marketing Manager
- Kevin Dilley, Director of Student Media
- Brooke Forrest , Black Squirrel Radio General Manager
- Cameron Gorman, Luna Negra Editor
- Anna Katsas, KSUIF President
- Jacquie Marino, A Magazine & The Burr Adviser
- Henry Palattella, Kent Stater Editor
- Amanda Rabinowitz, Black Squirrel Radio Adviser
- Brianna Robinson, Uhuru Editor
- Becky Rolnick, KSUIF Adviser
- Mikayla Wawrousek, A Magazine Editor
- Kim Winebrenner, Luna Negra Adviser
- Bruce Zake, Fusion Adviser
- Sue Zake, Student Media Newsroom Adviser (Kent Stater, TV2)
