FCC Equal Opportunity Reports
WILL-AM-FM-TV
Campbell Hall for Public Telecommunication
300 N. Goodwin Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
217-333-1070
EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT: A station may accumulate the relevant information for the past year (using previous Internal Job Vacancy Summary Form) and place a completed EEO Public File Report in the public inspection file annually on the anniversary of the deadline for filing its license renewal application.
FCC Equal Opportunity Report 8/1/07 - 7/31/08
A. Full-Time Vacancy Filled
Job #1 Title: Broadcasting Engineer
Date Filled: October 16, 2007
Job #2 Title: Director of Development, WILL AM-FM-TV-Online
Date Filled: January 8, 2008
Job #3 Title: HR Specialist/Special Projects Coordinator
Date Filled: February 4, 2008
Job #4 Title: Television Broadcast Equipment Operator
Date Filled: May 4, 2008
Job #5 Title: Creative Specialist/On-Air Promotions Coordinator, WILL-TV
Date Filled: June 16, 2008
Job #6 Title: Television Broadcast Equipment Operator
Date Filled: July 27, 2008
B. Recruitment/Referral Sources
University of Illinois Personnel Services *
Denise Hendricks 52 E. Gregory
Champaign, IL
217-333-3101
Positions 1, 4, & 6 listed here only
For position #1: 1 hired; 3 interviewed
For position #4: 1 hired; 1 interviewed
For position #6: 1 hired; 3 interviewed
*Civil Service employees hired through University Personnel Office; must be tested and ranked on a register and names submitted in order from the register for interviewing.
Livingston Associates
Tom Livingston
3000 Chestnut
Suite 400
The Mill Centre
Baltimore, MD 21211
401-243-1974
Position 2 listed here
Position #2: 1 hired; 3 interviewed
Internal posting and online
WILL-AM-FM-TV
300 N. Goodwin
Urbana, IL
217-333-0850
http://www.will.illinois.edu
Positions 2, 3, & 5 listed here
For Position #3: 1 hired; 1 interviewed
For Position #5: 1 hired; 1 interviewed
ACJOB Listserv
(e-mail listserv for U of Illinois Academic Professional positions)
Positions 3 & 5 listed here
For position #3: 0 hired; 2 interviewed
Chicago Tribune Classified Ads
435 N. Michigan
Chicago, IL 60611
312-222-2222
(includes Red-Eye
commuter newspaper,
Hoy Spanish newspaper,
& JobFinder magazine
Careerbuilder.com
Chicago Tribune online posting
Positions 2 & 5 listed above here
For Position #5: 0 hired; 1 interviewed
Current (public broadcasting newspaper)
1612 K St. NW
Suite 704
Washington, DC 20006
202-463-7055
Position 2 listed here
U of Illinois Employment Center N
http://uihr.uillinois.edu/index.html
Positions 1, 4, & 6 (notice of civil service test to be given listed), 2, 3, & 5 listed here
The News-Gazette (newspaper)
15 E. Main
Champaign, IL 61820
217-351-5288
Positions 2 & 5 listed here
Position #2: 0 hired; 2 interviewed
Peoria Journal Star (newspaper)
309-686-3230
Position 5 listed here
Chicago Defender (newspaper)
312-225-2400
Position 5 listed here
State Journal- Register (newspaper)
Springfield, IL
Position 2 listed here
Herald-Review (newspaper)
Decatur, IL
217-422-5555
Position 2 listed here
Pantagraph
Bloomington, IL
http://www.pantagraph.com
Position 2 listed here
PBS Connect (PBS system online service to stations.)
Positions 2 & 5 listed here
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Jobline (a CPB system online service to stations.)
Positions 2 & 5 listed here
National Public Radio Direct Access Communications System (an NPR system online service to stations.)
Positions 2 & 5 listed here
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
philanthropycareers
Position 2 listed here
CASE (Council for Advancement & Support of Education)
Position 2 listed here
PRADO (Public Radio Assn of Development Officers) listserv
Position 2 listed here
Usenet newsgroups :
alt.radio.networks.npr (National NPR group)
chi.jobs (Chicago area jobs group)
cmi.jobs (Central Illinois jobs group)
uiuc.misc.jobs (University of Illinois jobs group)
Position 2 listed here
Stations are encouraged to retain the names of interviewees for purposes of responding to a potential FCC audit or third-party complaint.
C. Attachments
No organizations requested vacancy information.
Description of Supplemental Outreach Intiatives
Sponsorship of Community Event. On an on-going basis, the WILL Stations work with faculty at University High School in Urbana, Illinois to develop an oral history curriculum to train students, including minorities, in the basics of audio production and journalism. Each year, the students produce a documentary that is broadcast on WILL Radio, and a few have chosen to major in journalism at the college level.
Sponsorship of Community Event. The WILL Stations have developed a community outreach initiative, designed specifically to reach young minorities, with assistance from a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois. Dr. Will Patterson is co-director of the project with WILL’s Kimberlie Kranich. The Youth Media Workshop is a collaboration between public radio station, WILL-AM 580, and Innovative Ed. Consulting, Inc., an educational programming, multimedia marketing and action research company. The workshop partners with public schools in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois to teach African-American youth how to make radio and television documentaries that link their generation, the hip-hop generation, to the civil rights and black power generations. Middle school age female minority students put together a radio documentary each year. The students learn about basic audio production and receive instruction in newswriting from WILL’s professional staff. (Audio access to the most recent production is available at: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/FranklinSite05/index.html.
African-American male students from Urbana High School are working with WILL-TV and the Youth Media Workshop on a video production.
Establishment of Training Program. Station WILL-TV hires minority trainees, with little or no experience in television production, and teaches them the rudiments of camera operation and studio production. The young people involved in this program are provided with skills that can qualify them for higher level, full-time, positions in broadcasting.
