Faculty & Staff

Glenda Crawford, education professor and director of the Elon teaching fellows program, was selected to be a 2011 Wye Fellow with the Aspen Institute and traveled to Maryland for the Institute’s annual faculty seminar, July 16-22.

Tony Crider, associate professor of physics, presented Aug. 3 at a education and public outreach conference on “Connecting People to Science” in Baltimore, Md.

Susan Wise, Coordinator for Disabilities Services, attended the national AHEAD conference in Seattle, Washington, July 11-16, 2010. AHEAD or Association on Higher Education and Disability has delivered quality training to higher education personnel through conferences, workshops, publications and consultation since 1977. AHEAD members represent a diverse network of professionals who actively address disability issues on their campuses and in the field of higher education.

Matthew Valle, professor of management in the Love School of Business, and alumna Kaitlyn Schultz, admissions counselor in the Office of Admissions and Financial Planning, have recently published their research on the factors that contribute to the production of significant (top-tier) research outputs in the management discipline.

Larry Garber, associate professor of marketing at Elon and visiting associate professor at the Institute of Management Technology in Ghaziabad, India, was recently interviewed about his interests, research and experience this summer teaching integrated marketing courses at IMT.

Ron Klepcyk, director of human resources at Elon University, has been honored by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources with its 2011 Distinguished Service Award in recognition of his work with the association through constituent activities, such as governance or leadership roles, and through professional development contributions in support of the association.

Todd Coleman, associate professor of music and coordinator of music technology, spent the first week of August adjudicating scores and recordings entered in the Barlow Endowment's international music composition prize - a $12,000 commission to compose a major new work for woodwind quintet.

Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) launches a tablet initiative beginning fall 2011, to explore uses in teaching and learning.

Media entrepreneurship comes in many sizes and would-be entrepreneurs should consider how their passions might grow into full-blown enterprises, said associate professor Michelle Ferrier at the National Association of Black Journalists in Philadelphia on Aug. 12-13 in Philadelphia.

Janet Myers, associate professor of English and director of national and international fellowships, attended the biannual meeting of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors in Chicago July 13-16.