The Eagle newspaper adviser elected director of state association
Faculty advisers from the eight-member Nebraska Collegiate Media Association elected Michael D. Kennedy, Chadron State College journalism instructor and adviser of The Eagle, as the association’s executive director during its annual meeting awards ceremony at Hastings College last Saturday.
In accepting the post, Kennedy, who was president-elect, abdicated the association’s presidency, a one-year post he would have assumed effective Saturday. The executive director’s position carries a five-year term. David Swartzlander, adviser of The Doane Owl and doaneline.com, Doane College, Crete, was elected president to fill the vacancy.
Kennedy said he was grateful his colleagues from the member schools have the faith in him to execute the responsibilities of NCMA’s executive directorship.
Kennedy, who already served two terms as NCMA president, 2011-13, has been serving as acting-executive director since December 2013.
NCMA President Max McElwain asked Kennedy to step in temporarily after the executive director at the time, Jason Elznic, former adviser of The Viewpoint, the student newspaper at Northeast Community College, Norfolk, left NCMA when he assumed a new teaching position in the English department at NCC.
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