Colin Donohue

From the Morganton News-Herald (4/30/09): City and county government officials, including their chief law enforcers, had to strong-arm school board Chair Tracy Norman into moving Monday's board of education meeting to a larger site and allowing almost unlimited public comments.

Faculty members and students in the School of Communications participated in the annual Broadcast Education Association conference April 22-25 in Las Vegas.

The faculty and administrators of Elon's School of Communications hosted the institution's annual awards ceremony in McEwen Studio B April 30.

From the Charlotte Observer: Gov. Bev Perdue has sent a letter to appointees on state boards and commissions reminding them that they must comply with the Open Meetings Law.

From the Charlotte Observer (4/30/09): A state House committee cleared legislation Thursday that would improve the odds that people illegally denied requests for public documents could get their legal fees paid by the offending government agency.

Senior broadcast journalism major Mitch Pittman was named to the UWire 100, a selective list of the best and brightest student journalists in the nation.

Twelve School of Communications students were among the many student researchers who presented their work at Elon University's selective Student Undergraduate Research Forum April 28.

Associate professor Jessica Gisclair and assistant professor Ken Calhoun delivered their research and creative presentations as part of SURF's Celebration of Faculty Scholarship April 28.

Below, find five bills regarding open government, open meetings and public records that are before the North Carolina State Legislature.

For the third consecutive year, the Elon University Bateman Team has received recognition in the nation's highest competition for public relations students.