The panelists represent four universities from different regions of the country with graduate programs that specialize in or have an emphasis on documentary education and that culminate in an MFA degree. Each panelist will discuss approaches adopted to prepare students for the changing professional marketplace in the industry and/or academe to provide an overview of “best practices” of entrepreneurship at their respective programs.
Moderator: Mary Dalton, Wake Forest University
Panelists: C. Melinda Levin, University of North Texas; Social Media Development and Entrepreneurship: A Tiered Curricular Model
Dennis Aig, Montana State University; Funding the Decisive Moment: Financing Nonfiction in the Cloud
Mary Dalton, Wake Forest University; Integrating Entrepreneurship into the Traditional Documentary Curriculum