Archive for April 21, 2010

Michael Matthews presented his paper "El Camino de Ultratumba: Porfirian Railway Development in Popular Verse" at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam were selected as National CASTL (Carnegie Academy of Teaching and Learning) Teaching Scholars and will present their research at the 2010 National CASTL Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., this summer.

Several students in the School of Communications presented their research at the 2010 National Conferences on Undergraduate Research April 15-17 at the University of Montana.

From the Wilmington Star-News (4/18/10): State education officials are finally working to make it tougher for incompetent or immoral teachers to keep getting jobs in North Carolina. But even as they propose requiring more information in the teacher licensing process, they advocate keeping those facts secret from the public.

From the Morganton News-Herald (4/19/10): One lawsuit filed in 2009 against the Burke County Board of Education will be dismissed, but local attorney Stephen Schoeberle is going ahead with a second.

Elon University School of Law celebrated the contributions of Jeffrey Kinsler, a founding member of the Elon Law faculty, for his contributions to the law school's progress since 2006. Kinsler recently accepted the position of Dean for the new College of Law at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

From the Raleigh Telegram (4/8/10): After a recent lawsuit in North Carolina where a public official successfully defended against a lawsuit from an online newspaper that had requested a copy of an e-mail that was characterized as "personal," we asked Raleigh media attorney John Bussian some questions about the topic.