School of Communications

It was in the middle of the mountains of Haiti where no English was spoken that the hymn “How Great Thou Art” took on a new meaning for Kyle Johnson ’10. “How Great Thou Art” was the only song Johnson’s father, Richard, had requested be played at his funeral six months before. Inspired by his father’s brave last days – which included creating a “bucket list” of things to do and places to see before he died – the younger Johnson embarked upon a yearlong mission program called The World Race mere days after graduating from Elon.

The 39 Elon in Los Angeles students are interning throughout the city and outlaying areas at various organizations. Here's a look at where they're working this summer:

Michelle Ferrier, an associate professor in the School of Communications, and Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, conducted a workshop on journalism entrepreneurship and experiments in diversity at the International Council for Small Business in Stockholm, Sweden on June 16. The workshop, “Emerging Journalism Innovations and the Role of the Academy,” examines media entrepreneurship and curricular and process-driven solutions.

When a member of the pope's choir begins shouting, "The priest is gone, we need the priest," in broken English peppered with a thick Italian accent in the middle of Rockefeller Plaza, and it sort of sounds like, "The police is gone, we need the police," it can create quite a commotion. And it can cause some anxious moments for Elon University rising junior Lexi Circle, a strategic communications major.

Associate Professor of Communications Amanda Sturgill completed the Newsplex Summer Seminar training Teaching and Research in Convergent Media in early June.