School of Communications

Paul Parsons, professor and dean of the School of Communications, is the author of an article on diversity plans and implementation in the Spring 2010 issue of Insights, a publication of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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

When four black students from North Carolina A&T University decided to sit at a segregated lunch counter in a Greensboro, N.C., Woolworth's store 50 years ago, they didn't plan on using media to affect national change. They were simply making a principled stand in their small corner of the nation.

Barbara Miller, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, received a research grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication at Penn State to study ethics in environmental communications.

Live Oak Communications, Elon University's student-run, full-service communications agency, received two awards Jan. 28 from the Tar Heel Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America at the annual Spinks Awards banquet in Greensboro, N.C. The Spinks competition is a professional awards program for agencies in the Triad region of North Carolina.

Elon University's 2010 Bateman Team campaign has partnered with the U.S. Census Bureau to bring the 2010 Census Portrait of America Road Tour Bus to campus.

Brooke Barnett, an associate professor of communications, spoke with WFMY News 2 for a Jan. 28 morning show segment on the changing face of activism in the age of social media.

Elon students on a study abroad course in Japan joined in a news conference Jan. 21 to hear the president of Suzuki Motor Corp. declare that the the humble corporate culture of the automaker won't change because of a new alliance with Volkswagen.

Janna Anderson, associate professor of communications, was the subject of the Encyclopedia Britannica blog on learning and literacy on Jan. 26. The blog contains excerpts of Anderson's cover story in the January-February issue of The Futurist magazine.