School of Communications

Tom Nelson, an associate professor in the School of Communications, presented at the Broadcast Education Association District Conference on Oct. 11 at the University of South Carolina.

Imagine hundreds of North Carolinians turning off their lights, unplugging their appliances and pitching tents in their backyards for one night. That is exactly what happened last October when Earth Share of North Carolina (ESNC), a nonprofit network of regional environmental organizations, held its first annual statewide campout called Campout! Carolina.

Jurate Kazickas, an Elon parent who was a war correspondent in Vietnam, will speak on "Women War Correspondents from Vietnam to Iraq" at 4 p.m. Thursday in Whitley Auditorium.

Three School of Communications professors were featured at the American Journalism Historians Association conference Oct. 2-4 in Seattle.

A film produced by elondocs, a documentary production program supported by the School of Communications at Elon University, will be screened this month at the New York Museum of Modern Art and at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain.

Dale Harrison, an adjunct associate professor and assistant director of the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition, was quoted in a Fayetteville Observer editorial on Sept. 25 in which the newspaper explained how local politicians were "skirting the letter of the state’s Open Meeting Law, but most certainly violating its spirit."

In the midst of the worst American financial crisis in decades, the next president of the United States faces decisions sure to impact future generations, according to Jonathan Alter, a nationally recognized political commentator and author on campus Sept. 29 for a lecture sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum and the School of Communications.

The School of Communications Advisory Board will make its fall semester visit Friday, Oct. 10.