Academics
Faculty and Staff
| Craig Kois | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Station Mgr. WLUW; PT Inst. |
| Office #: | Damen Hall 105, Lake Shore Campus |
| Phone: | (773) 508-8071 |
| E-mail: | ckois@luc.edu |
Craig Kois is a part-time instructor and the Station Manager of Loyola University's WLUW community radio station. He is a PHD candidate at Northwestern University's School of Speech, Radio/Television/Film Department. Mr. Kois received an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mass Communications and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee in Communication Arts.
Mr. Kois has been at Loyola University since 1990 as a Faculty Member in the Communication Department. He was the Community Program Coordinator for WLUW Radio from 1990-1997, and has been WLUW's station manager since then, including throughout the transition to the WBEZ alliance in 2002. His accomplishments at the radio station include shifting it from a Top 40/commercial model to community model, founding and administering the Lake Shore Community Media Project, and increasing fundraising and obtaining many grants for the station. He helped facilitate the relocation of the station, vastly increased participation in it, and planned many of its events.
As an instructor he has extensive classroom experience teaching media and radio, including writing, news, and audio production. Mr. Kois primarily focuses on radio as a tool of community building and as a site for service learning and social justice. As such, some of his classes qualify for Magis units (a service-learning organization). The courses he currently instructs include a course in Community Radio Production and a course in audio production.
Mr. Kois has professionally served in the American Friends Service Committee, Chicago Independent Media Center (IMC), the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Reeling (a Gay and Lesbian Film Festival), Third Coast International Audio Festival, and the Union for Democratic Communication. He is has participated in many professional conferences, especially community media conferences. He has membership in the Broadcast Education Association, Experimental Sound Studios, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Union for Democratic Communication, World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC), and the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.
