Celebrating 75 years of service to high school journalism
NCSMA Advisers Association provides a space for advisers to create a network of other student media teachers in the state.
Former student journalists use the skills they learned through their experience at NCSMA in their current jobs.
In 75 years, countless people have supported and helped shaped NCSMA.
Meet Monica Hill, the current director of NCSMA.
Kay Phillips served as director of NCSMA from 1994-2002.
Rich Beckman served as director from 1988-1993.
Bill Cloud was the NCSMA director from 1982-1988.
Meet Jan Yopp, the current UNC Summer School dean who served as NCSMA director from 1979-1981.
Richard Cole was director of NCSMA from 1973-1979.
Meet Walter Spearman, the first director of NCSMA.
Meet Stuart Rabb was one of the founding fathers of NCSMA.
Lucy Jane Hunter was instrumental in the summer Institute’s third year.
David Stick became the director of the NC Scholastic Press Institute when he was a first-year at UNC.
As editor-in-chief of The Daily Tar Heel in 1936, Smith worked closely alongside Stuart Rabb to create and carry out the first North Carolina Scholastic Press Institute.