{"id":13032,"date":"2010-09-28T08:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T12:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=13032"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:41:41","slug":"student-version-of-c-span-makes-events-accessible-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2010\/09\/student-version-of-c-span-makes-events-accessible-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Version of C-SPAN Makes Events Accessible Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

With classes, homework, part-time jobs, club activities, sports, and community service, students can find it difficult to find time to attend another event. A student organization at the University of Connecticut is working to resolve that problem.<\/p>\n

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The University of Connecticut Student Public Access Network, or UCSPAN, is creating an online archive of video coverage of campus events. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The University of Connecticut Student Public Access Network (UCSPAN)<\/a>, created in 2008 as a UConn version of C-SPAN, was designed to cover Undergraduate Student Government (USG) events, but the program quickly expanded to record a variety of public events on campus.<\/p>\n

Each year, UConn offers a wealth of events to the campus community, often resulting in sparse attendance at some venues and overflow audiences at others. UCSPAN tries to bridge this gap by creating a public archive online where students, faculty, and staff can view footage of events.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Internet allows us to begin this unique experiment in information distribution,\u201d says Chris Mattera, a\u00a0senior political science major and executive producer of UCSPAN. \u201cWe want this program to become a part of the way students and the public get their information.\u201d<\/p>\n

UCSPAN will consider filming any event open to the public. While all student groups are encouraged to request event coverage, the program reserves the right to decide what it films. There is minimal editing before the final product is uploaded to the UCSPAN website, where anyone can view the footage free of charge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to pick events based on what we feel is most beneficial and relevant to the student body,\u201d says Dan King, a\u00a0senior cognitive science major and operations director of UCSPAN. \u201cThis means that an event like a forum on tuition increase at UConn will take priority over other, less critical events.\u201d<\/p>\n

Currently, UCSPAN regularly films the biweekly USG senate meetings and a monthly event called \u201cStraight from the Source,\u201d a forum where students ask questions of UConn administrators.<\/p>\n

UCSPAN aims at providing transparency in University administration while offering new opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to participate in some of the many events that take place at UConn.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be really hard to find time in my schedule to attend all of the events that I\u2019d like to,\u201d says Kevin Henri, a\u00a0senior history major. \u201cI wish I could attend everything, but it\u2019s just impossible. If I can go online to watch an event that I just don\u2019t have time to go to in person, that makes life so much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

UCSPAN is a pilot program funded directly by USG. Members of the executive board are currently speaking with students from other universities to see whether they would like to start similar projects of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No time to go that event? Check out UCSPAN’s online archive of public events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-13032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 22:20:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21921,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13032\/revisions\/21921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=13032"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}