Campus safety features added for 2008-09
Technology upgrades, from video cameras in parking lots to new
procedures for using library computers, have enhanced campus security
as students return to the university for the start of the fall semester.
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8/28/2008
Elon president: "Dream boldly and with confidence"
Elon University President Leo M. Lambert welcomed employees to the new academic year on Aug. 25, 2008, with a speech that lauded past
accomplishments while encouraging faculty and staff to "think beyond
the walls of the campus" as leaders begin work on a new strategic plan
for the school.
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8/28/2008
U.S. News & World Report names Elon nation's top “Up-and-Coming” university
Elon University earns a top national ranking in a new feature included in the 2009 U.S. News & World Report “America’s Best Colleges” guide. The magazine named Elon the top “Up-and-Coming” school in a listing of colleges and universities that have made “striking improvements or innovations – schools everyone should be watching.”
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8/28/2008
Young, Sullivan & Rich receive Elon Medallions
President emeritus J. Fred Young, retired professor John G. Sullivan
and retired associate dean Lela Faye Coltrain Rich received Elon
Medallions on Aug. 25, 2008, in an annual ceremony that celebrates the
highest honor a person can receive from the university.
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8/27/2008
Elon alum wins national scholarship
Jaclyn Marie Tordo, a 2008 graduate of Elon with a bachelor of arts degree with a major in human
services, has received a premiere graduate scholarship from the Jack
Kent Cooke Foundation to help fund her studies in law and social work
at Washington University in St. Louis.
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8/20/2008
Elon expands footprint in Italy
The culture. The art. The history. Not to mention the food. Student
interest in spending a semester abroad in Italy has never been higher.
And starting this fall, Elon University answers that demand with a new
program based in Florence, the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance.
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8/18/2008
New Elon-Pew survey reveals top Internet policy issues
A survey conducted by Elon faculty and students at the United Nations-sponsored Internet Governance Forum in Brazil identifies top issues facing development of network communications around the world. The study was conducted by the Imagining the Internet Center in the School of Communications in partnership with the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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8/17/2008
Elon Law welcomes Class of 2011
The message was simple: “You complete us.” The Elon University School of Law welcomed its third class Aug. 7 with a day of orientation activities – faculty introductions, book purchases, formal portraits – for a group that brings the school to full capacity.
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8/15/2008
Elon University establishes graduate program in Interactive Media
Elon University will launch its fifth graduate program beginning in
summer 2009, offering a master of arts degree in interactive media
through the School of Communications. The program will be the first of
its kind in North Carolina, preparing students to become leading
professionals in the rapidly evolving communications industry.
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8/15/2008
The Princeton Review names Elon one of "The Best 368 Colleges"
Elon
University is named one of the nation's best-administered schools in
the 2009 college guide published by The Princeton Review. "The Best 368
Colleges" rankings are based on a survey of 120,000 college students across the nation. Details...
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8/15/2008
Fiske Guide names Elon one of nation's top 26 "Best Buy" private universities
The "2009 Fiske Guide to Colleges" lists Elon as one of the nation's "best buy" universities and a "rapidly rising star among liberal arts colleges in the
Southeast and an emerging name nationwide."
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8/15/2008
Future of the Internet explored in new book by Janna Anderson and Pew Internet colleagues
How will the Internet change the workplace, family life, education and many other foundations of society between 2004 and 2014? Significantly in a future that’s up for grabs – that’s the view of the nearly 1,300 technology experts and scholars who responded to The Future of the Internet I survey.
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7/22/2008
Davis to step down as Elon University School of Law Dean
Leary Davis, founding dean of the Elon University School of Law, will step down as dean on August 1. He will remain with the school as founding dean emeritus and professor of law, and will continue to teach courses in the law school.
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7/17/2008
Paul Parsons elected VP of national communications organization
Paul Parsons, dean of the School of Communications, has been elected vice president of the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication (ASJMC) during 2008-09. He will become President-Elect in 2009-10 and then ASJMC President in 2010-11.
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7/15/2008
Senior receives Love School award to help fund research
Elon University senior Miya Micole Stodghill, a business administration
major from Decatur, Ga., has been named the recipient of the second
annual Martha and Spencer Love Excellence in Business Leadership Award.
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7/15/2008
Farmers markets get fresh look from Elon professor
When it comes to fruits and vegetables, about the only place you can
find anything fresher than the produce at a local farmers market is in
your own garden. But markets offer another benefit – informal
associations with others in a community – that Elon economics
professor Thomas Tiemann examines in the latest issue of The Journal of Popular Culture.
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7/13/2008
Janna Q. Anderson named nation’s top journalism educator by AEJMC division
Janna Quitney Anderson, associate professor in Elon’s School of Communications, has been named the 2008 winner of the Outstanding Educator Award in the Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC).
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7/4/2008
Philosophy department faculty collaborate to produce interdisciplinary journal
Faculty members in Elon’s philosophy department have collaborated to produce a special issue of a national academic journal focused on the theme “Philosophy as Transformative Practice.”
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7/4/2008
Elon Law achieves American Bar Association approval
The Elon University School of Law has been granted provisional accreditation by the American Bar Association, substantially meeting ABA standards for curriculum, faculty, facilities, funding, library and admissions. The ABA approval, achieved at the earliest possible date under accreditation guidelines, means that Elon Law graduates may take bar exams in any U.S. jurisdiction and may practice professionally with full rights after passing the bar.
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6/23/2008
Students honored for spring 2008 grades
Elon University has released the President's List and Dean's List academic recognitions for the 2008 spring semester.
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6/23/2008
Kernodle Center names grant recipients
A university senior who wants to combat childhood obesity, and a junior
with plans to help disabled people learn to garden, are the recipients
of the first ever Student Initiative Grants awarded by the Kernodle
Center for Service Learning at Elon University.
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6/23/2008
Elon chef Beijing-bound for Olympics
What does it take to feed 15,000 athletes, their trainers, journalists
and other support staff at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing? Tag Gray,
executive chef and a food services director at Elon University, is
about to find out.
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6/23/2008
Eight Elon students chosen for N.C. public service internships
Four Elon undergraduates and four Elon Law students have been selected for 10-week summer internships with North Carolina state agencies. The N.C. State Government Internship Program, in its 38th year, is coordinated by the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office in the Department of Administration. Details...
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6/23/2008
Elon holds 118th Commencement
Rain clouds gave way to a crystal blue sky as the 118th Commencement exercises got underway May 24, 2008, when bachelor degrees were conferred on the largest graduating class in Elon University history.
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6/3/2008
Elon MBA students receive diplomas
University leaders conferred 40 degrees to MBA students in the Martha
and Spencer Love School of Business on May 23, 2008, during a Commencement
attended by faculty, staff, family and friends.
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5/27/2008
Baccalaureate sermon: Love others as family
If you look back far enough – 130,000 years, to be exact – people today
share a common ancestor. For the Right Rev. Michael B. Curry, who
delivered the sermon May 23 at Baccalaureate, that bond requires
Elon graduates to leave what he called this “sacred place” and to
always treat others as family.
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5/26/2008
Faculty earn praise at annual banquet
Four professors were honored for superior scholarship, teaching, mentoring and service at the annual faculty-staff awards luncheon on May 14. Those recognized included Jim Bissett, Chalmers Brumbaugh, Brian Digre and Earl Honeycutt.
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5/19/2008
Elon alum accepted into premier research program
Geoffrey Lynn, a chemistry major who graduated in 2007, has been accepted into
the National Institutes of Health Oxford/Cambridge Scholars Program, a
doctoral training program for outstanding science students committed to
biomedical research.
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5/15/2008
