Kelley Callaway is the student publications director at Rice University and incoming president of the College Media Association (CMA). She also just completed another go-round helping organize and stage CMA's annual Summer Advisers' Workshop (SAW), held this year at the University of Houston.

For this edition of the College Media Podcast, recorded near the tail-end of the workshop, Callaway chatted with me in person at the school's massive new Welcome Center. The principal focus of our talk: five valuable tips for new (and veteran) student press advisers. She also teases out the secret behind her iconic caramel frappuccino cupcakes. And there's even a "Sopranos" shout-out.  

The gist of her advice for advisers: Build an advisers' entourage. Remain aware of all that you AND your students don't know. (Those darn millennials are sneakily stuck in their ways.) Know your limits when it comes to both newsroom production and school-sponsored complaints. And the key to convincing students you might be onto something is repetition and outside sourcing, repetition and outside sourcing, repetition and outside sourcing... Click and listen to learn more.

In addition, as always, for more college media big ideas and breaking news, check out College Media Matters at www.collegemediamatters.com.

Here are a few other relevant links:

Kelley Callaway, https://twitter.com/Eaglefan3

College Media Association, http://www.collegemedia.org

Rice U. press release on Callaway's CMA prez appointment, http://bit.ly/1MqA5dy

Rice Thresher student newspaper, http://www.ricethresher.org

Rice Campanile yearbook, http://ricecampanile.com

Random caramel frappuccino cupcake recipe, http://bit.ly/1KpQUmK

College Media Podcast: Kelley Callaway, Rice University & College Media Association

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College Media Podcast: Kelley Callaway, Rice University & College Media Association

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