[SBE] defining broadcast engineering education

[A9xw at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/18/2008 3:08:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
sbe at hidden-valley.com writes: 

> 

> I raised the subject for a personal reason:  I went back to school for

> my Bachelor's, and I wondered how others had leveraged a BS to best

> advantage in this field.

I went back for a BS in business management. In today's HR driven 
environment, not having a degree means your resume is not read. When I got in 
broadcasting in the 60's, all managers wanted was your FCC license and some idea you knew 
your way around equipment. I have my DeVry certificate from 1966 which was 
plenty good then and part of it was FCC 1st phone prep (with radar endorsement). 
I think the SBE has done a good job of replacing that with the certification 
schedule. But when you walk in with 40 years experience  you likely got to 
walk in for the interview because you have a degree in something.  Being a HSG or 
GED means nothing in the work world because the quality of HD grads is so 
low, many are functionally illiterate but got their "certificate of attendance" 
for being there 6 years. 

Henry