A phone, a tripod, and a school event became a broadcast. The Cube made that ordinary scene available to distant families - until the economics of free video caught up with it.
At California Baptist University, students publish the news, preserve the year and make television. The useful part is that somebody outside the classroom actually gets to see it.
Free advice, student politics and a place to spend the afternoon: SOAS Students' Union puts them under one roof. Its harder job is paying for the community while representing students to the university that helps fund it.
A former college newspaper editor got tired of cold-calling campuses one at a time. So he built the switchboard - and turned 2,300 student media outlets into a single ad buy for brands chasing 20 million students.