Our History
College Media Association represents the people who advise the nation’s collegiate media including newspapers, yearbooks, magazines and electronic media.
Founded in 1954 as the National Council of College Publications Advisers, CMA now has more than 600 members from coast to coast. It supports both new and veteran advisers of collegiate media programs with conventions, workshops, publications and national networking.
In 1948, Fred and Lucille Kildow, the directors of Associated Collegiate Press, initiated an organization of advisers whose students attended ACP meetings. After a few years of informal conferences, a small group of advisers met in Washington, D.C., and selected a name — the National Council of College Publications Advisers. Nov. 19, 1955, was declared the birth date of NCCPA. Norman D. Christensen, of the University of Miami (FL), was elected the first chairman. Arthur M. “Sandy” Sanderson, ACP general manager at the University of Minnesota, was the first executive secretary-treasurer.
When Sanderson joined the University of Iowa faculty, the NCCPA headquarters moved there. It remained in Iowa City until 1964. From 1965 to 1982, John A. Boyd, of Indiana State University, served as executive director. From July 1982 until 2011, Ron Spielberger managed CMA headquarters at the University of Memphis. From 2011 – May 2015, CMA headquarters were operated under Executive Director Chris Carroll and a management team based at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In November 2011, CMA changed its name to College Media Association to reflect its broader mission.
CMA is now managed by Executive Director Mike Breslin and Administrator Alex Grandin of Capitol Hill Management Services in Albany, NY.
CMA members maintain strong lines of communication through print and electronic media. CMA’s website and social media outlets inform members of trends and news. College Media Review, its flagship journal, is the leading academic journal on advising collegiate media, both print and electronic. The CMA list-serv gives members the opportunity to gain quick advice from colleagues and discuss breaking news and issues affecting collegiate media.
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Past Presidents
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2023-2024 Jackie Alexander, University of Alabama-Birmingham
2020-23: Chris Whitley, Tarrant County College
2019-20: Kenna Griffin, University of Southern Indiana
2017-19: Chris Evans, University of Vermont
2015-17: Kelley Lash, Rice University
2013-15: Rachele Kanigel, San Francisco State University
2011-13: David Swartzlander, Doane College
2009-11: Sally Renaud, Eastern Illinois University
2007-09: Ken Rosenauer, Missouri Western State University
2005-07: Lance Speere, University of Illinois-Edwardsville
2003-05: Kathy Lawrence McCarty, University of Texas at Austin
2001-03: Jenny Tenpenny Crouch, Middle Tennessee State University
1999-2001: Chris Carroll, Vanderbilt University
1997-99: Mark Witherspoon, Southern Methodist University
1995-97: Jan Childress, Texas Tech University
1993-95: Ron Johnson, Kansas State University
1991-93: Laura Widmer, Northwest Missouri State University
1989-91: Lesley Marcello, Nicholls State University
1987-89: David Adams, Kansas State University
1985-87: David Knott, Ball State University
1983-85: Richard Sublette, University of California at Los Angeles
1979-83: Nancy Green, University of Texas-Austin
1975-79: Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International University
1971-75: J.W. Click, Ohio University
1969-71: Reid Montgomery, University of South Carolina
1967-69: Dario Politella, University of Massachusetts
1966-67: K.P. Orman, Texas Tech University
1964-66: Herman R. Estrin, Newark College of Engineering
1962-64: John A. Boyd, Indiana State University
1959-62: Donald R. Grubb, Northern Illinois University
1958-59: Donald E. Swarts, University of Pittsburgh
1957-58: Frank W. Gill, Wayne State University
1955-57: Norman D. Christensen, University of Miami |
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