Archive for May 12, 2011

The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) announces new reading groups, course design working groups, and two new workshops this summer, and continues to offer individual or group consultations about teaching and learning.

Thirty-five years ago, before his Broadway career and faculty position at Elon University, Richard Gang was denied the lead role of Don Quixote when a small community theatre in Maine performed "The Man of La Mancha." Now he’ll have his chance. Gang stars this month in the same show at the Open Space Café Theatre in Greensboro, N.C., where eight students in the Department of Performing Arts will join him onstage.

From the Raleigh News and Observer (5/9/11): Some public records would not really be public - at least to that segment of the public comprising inmates, probationers and parolees - under a bill that surfaced last week in a judiciary committee meeting. HB 348, sponsored by Rep. Shirley Randleman, a Republican from Wilkes County, is meant to protect state agency employees by blocking offenders' access to their personnel files.

From American Medical News (5/9/11): A long-running push for increased transparency in the medical profession has led medical boards nationwide to release more information about physicians' professional and disciplinary history online during the last 15 years.

From the Asheville Citizen-Times (4/23/11): City officials have declined to release detailed information about a former police evidence manager under an exemption in state personnel law designed to bolster public confidence in government.

Jeffrey Pugh, professor of religious studies, detailed the dreams and potential of the 2011 Lumen Scholars at a banquet on May 10.

On May 5, the School of Education honored the academic excellence of 23 undergraduate and 18 graduate students as they were inducted into the Sigma Gamma chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education. KDP was founded in 1911 by leading thinkers in education at the University of Illinois. Since that time, it has grown to an international organization of over 60,000 members.

A new website has been created to allow the Elon community to continue discussion of issues raised at this spring's Convocation for Honors. The "We Can Be Better" website includes video excerpts, transcripts of panelist comments and the opportunity for you to add your comments and ideas on each of the convocation topics.