N. Eckhardt Ned Eckhardt has been teaching in the Rowan Communications Department since 1979. He holds degrees from Colgate University and Case-Western Reserve University. His specialties are television production and writing for television. The television production courses are a dynamic mixture of technical and creative learning.
Students have an opportunity to experience all of the jobs involved in quality productions.
Rowan students have won many local and national television production awards, including student Emmys. Eckhardt has been a producer for WCAU-TV, Philadelphia, where his productions have won an AP Broadcaster's Award and have been Emmy and Iris award nominees. Currently, he is the video director for Odyssey of the Mind , an international educational association. Currently there are 14,000 schools in the United States that participate in the Odyssey of the Mind experience. Worldwide, over 30 countries have schools participating in the OM program.