Back to the beginning
Autumn Lowry, Associate Writer
Learning about the history of a place we love can sometimes make us feel closer to it. Having the knowledge of how things came to be connects us to it.
In Genesis we learn about the beginning with creation and how God started the world. This is where we get the land and the sea, the birds and the trees, and the start of the human race.
To have full understanding of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, you wouldn’t watch Avengers: Endgame without watching Captain America or Iron Man’s origin story.
For the students at North Greenville University, we need to dive back into the past to see where it all began to fully love and appreciate The Vision Media.
I sat down with Vision Online Advisor Karyn Campbell to get the inside scoop to where Vision Media began. In 2008 when Campbell first came to work at NGU, we had a newspaper called, The Skyliner that came out once a week. They also had a yearbook called The Aurora. Both of which have been discontinued.
We also had a TV station and a radio station which are still active today.
There was a website, but it wasn’t like the one online today. The website was just the articles from the newspaper copied and pasted.
Years later, Campbell and NGU faculty member Andrew Stevens unfortunately couldn’t get staff on the yearbook and felt like they should faze it out. They also felt it was time to put the newspaper to bed.
No one was reading the newspaper in the professional world; newspapers were moving to the web.
The NGU faculty wanted to prepare their students for the right careers.
To move forward they started focusing on the website, but students also wanted to have a magazine.
Now, NGU’s vision Media is the magazine, website, radio station and TV station
Stevens advises the Broadcast Media department and Campbell advises the Digital Media department. With the yearbook and newspaper put to rest, it was time to look to the future.
A student created a website on square space that allowed students to upload their work.
The first year Vision Media had the website, they entered into the South Carolina Press Association and got second place in the state. It was a huge shock considering it was their first year, but it was the perfect amount of confidence they needed to know they made the right decision.
A lot of universities did not have websites for their schools, so it was all brand new and something to get used to. Over the years Vision Media has formed into one organization to bring all forms of media together. North Greenville University was one of the first schools to do that.
Vision Media is a group of students who love using their gifts and talents to tell great stories. Whether that be through the radio station, the TV station, the magazine or the website, students can express themselves audibly, visually, or literary.
What’s great about this day and age is that students can self-promote their own work through Social Media. This allows for more people to experience students work and get the Vision Media’s name out there. As of right now Vision Media has 2,000 followers on their Facebook page.
“Vision media is a practicum. It’s not just a club or just a place to get news. It’s a place for students to practice what they’re gonna do in the real world. Real people read real stories about real people. It’s personable.” – Karyn Campbell, Instructor of Mass Communication.
It’s all student led.
Connor Boulet – Station Manager of The 95.5 The Vibe
Bethany Fowler – Vision TV’s News Director
Taylor Deaton – Editor in Chief of Vision Website
Lauren Dibble – Editor in Chief of The Vision Magazine
