School of Communications

Elon University’s Public Relations Student Society of America has been selected from PRSSA chapters across the nation to host a regional conference in 2009.

Jurate Kazickas felt shrapnel tear through her legs and face during the Battle of Khe Sanh and dug her own foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle. But in Whitley auditorium Thursday afternoon she told the audience of Elon students and faculty that it doesn’t matter if a war reporter is male or female—bombs don’t discriminate.

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."