News Releases

Darris Means, the assistant director of the Elon Academy at Elon University, has been named one of the Triad’s “40 Leaders Under Forty” by a weekly regional newspaper that covers the business community.

A slight majority of North Carolina residents approve of how Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole is handling her job and are satisfied with her representation of North Carolina, according to the latest Elon University Poll, but state residents give low performance marks to President George W. Bush and to Congress as a whole.

The head of a nonprofit corporation that focuses on school reform visits Elon University this week for a presentation on engaged learning.

Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, visits Elon University on Wednesday for a talk titled “The Joy of Service” about the benefits of volunteering time to help others.

North Carolina citizens cite the economy as the most important issue facing the state and say it will strongly influence how they vote in the upcoming presidential, congressional and gubernatorial elections, according to the latest Elon University Poll.

Jo Watts Williams, who has devoted a lifetime of distinguished service to Elon University and the Burlington, N.C., community, has been selected to receive the university's top award recognizing leadership in business.

The Joseph M. Bryan Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series continues this spring with programs featuring Bonnie McElveen-Hunter (Feb. 20), Jim Melvin (March 7) and Jim Hunt (April 29). Each program will be moderated by John Alexander, Isabella Cannon Distinguished Professor of Leadership. Details...

Academic and business leaders from around the region will host a three-part symposium next week on fair trade practices and work conditions in foreign countries that supply goods to the United States. The symposium culminates with a panel discussion on the North Carolina textile industry’s struggle to stay profitable as it follows fair trade practices.