News Bureau

Campus Grotto, a national college news site that covers topics such as student finance, college rankings and other topics related to college life, has named Elon the nation's top private university when it comes to affordability.

The Triad Business Journal published a column by Andrew J. Haile, an assistant professor of law, in its Dec. 26-31 edition. “Ponzi scheme a painful reminder, but so was Enron” offers a cautionary lesson in the wake of the Bernie Madoff investment scandal.

Lee Bush, an assistant professor of communications, had a column published in the Dec. 21, 2008, edition of the News & Record in Greensboro, N.C. “Americans waiting for straight talk from CEOs” challenges financial executives to take responsibility for the economic crisis facing the United States.

News organizations around the world have reported in recent days on research by associate professor Janna Q. Anderson for the Imagining the Internet Center in Elon's School of Communications, conducted in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

David Noer, the Frank S. Holt Jr. Professor of Business Leadership in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, had his monthly column published Dec. 14, 2008, in the (Greensboro, N.C.) News & Record. "Gifts for 'interesting' times" uses the concept of a holiday gift list to comment on the past election and the economy.

Margaret Miller, an instructor and executive-in-residence in marketing, provided expert commentary for News 14 Carolina in a recent news segment that examines what retailers are doing to lure shoppers in a holiday season overshadowed by a recession.

Faculty members in the Elon University School of Law co-authored an article for the Winter 2008 edition of The North Carolina State Bar Journal. In “Back to the Future: Creating a 21st Century Legal Education at Elon Law School,” Catherine Ross Dunham, Steve Friedland and George Johnson share ideas for instructing future lawyers in the Internet era.

Steve DeLoach, a professor and chair of the Department of Economics, spoke with Fox 8 WGHP (High Point, N.C.) on Dec. 10, 2008, about the ongoing recession, consumer behavior and what kind of economic outlook to expect in 2009.

Elon's study of the nation's switch to digital television broadcasting was included in a Nov. 1 Broadcast Engineering story.