School of Communications

Elon University, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and the School of Communications will host a day-long Religion and Media conference on campus March 9. The conference, titled "Faith, Doubt and the Media," will feature an evening keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.

Senior Randy Gyllenhaal, a broadcast communications major, finished third in the Hearst Foundation Journalism Awards Program news broadcast competition.

Editors at The Pendulum were awarded Region 2 Mark of Excellence Awards by the Society of Professional Journalists for their reporting and photography.

Two students in the School of Communications were selected as Elon University's first recipients of the Scripps Howard Foundation Award.

The School of Communications advisory board will be making its spring semester visit Friday, April 3.

Elon University will host a one-day conference on Monday, March 9, that blends religion, film, politics, popular culture and the news business. Speakers from across the country will be on campus to discuss, as the title of the conference states, "Faith, Doubt, & The Media."

Ten teams participated in Elon University's 50/50 Film Festival this weekend, a project that required students to write, shoot, edit and finalize their short films in only 50 hours.

From the level of interest that many African-American male students show toward schooling, to a lack of adequate role models in high schools, leading voices from North Carolina historically black colleges and universities gathered Feb. 26 at Elon University for a panel discussion on how to address issues affecting minority participation in higher education.