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(Archive April 2019) Professor John Little: Audio Slave

By editorialteam on April 3, 2025

Audio Professor Reshapes the MRT Program

By Daniela Perez | Observer Contributor

Professor John Little
Photo by Betsabee Torres

John Little, 53, owns his own recording studio and is responsible for expanding the MRT program as well as providing more in-depth courses and professional equipment for students.

Before Little began teaching at MWCC, the Media Arts and Technology program offered only a general degree without a specific field concentration. In 2005, he was asked to work part-time as a teacher. 

Little expanded the MRT program in 2009 so that there would be six different concentrations. He also rewrote the former audio classes as well as added three new audio concentrated classes.  read more

(Archive April 2016) Catching Up With John Little

By editorialteam on August 27, 2024

By Jason Greenough | Arts & Entertainment Editor

MRT Students! You’re going to want to read this! We caught up awhile back with John Little, the super chilled-out Audio Professor and Department chair that has been showing you cool microphones and sound stuff for the past 11 years. We talked about a bunch of cool stuff, so take a look and find out what John had to say about his musical and audio genesis, and his time at the Mount!

Q: What got you started in the Audio Production field?

A: “[I was a drummer] in high school. Someone said to me, ‘hey, you’re getting pretty good, so if you’re serious about this, you should go to this thing they do at UNH in the summer for high school kids,’ and it was a two-week intensive college course for music, tailored for high school kids. It was there that I discovered Pro Audio. They taught a course in it, and as soon as I saw it, I said ‘this is for me,’ and never looked back.” read more

(Archive November 15, 2011) Guest Speaker: Tineke Floris on European Media

By editorialteam on August 20, 2024

By Leigh Edwards | Observer Contributor

On October 27, Tineke Floris spoke in Professor Sue Goldsteins Journalism class to about her Profession her perception on the news and media in the Netherlands.

Floris is an ESL teacher in the Netherlands for adults 18- 60. Many of her students are refugees, mainly from Iraq and Somalia, who hope to become citizens of the Netherlands. In order for someone to become a citizen of the Netherlands, Floris informed the class that one must learn the Dutch language through taking ESL classes at least five hours a week. read more