Glenn Scott

Glenn W. Scott teaches courses such as Reporting for the Public Good, International Communications, Sports Information, Media Writing, Sport & Media, and the Great Ideas senior research seminar.  He has guided students in various learning experiences in Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Lithuania.  He has served as advisor to the student-run newspaper, The Pendulum.  He has taught more than a dozen different courses in the school. 

His research interests focus on participatory journalism, commentary writing, media practices in the Asia-Pacific region, and aspects of reporting on international sporting activities.  He takes pride in regularly mentoring undergraduate scholarship projects, having worked with an enviable list of student scholars, including Elon Honors Fellows, Multifaith Scholars, and Communications Fellows.  A former coordinator, he remains active in arranging activities with the non-profit Pulitzer Center, which funds reporting (including by selected Elon journalism students) on international topics. The School of Communications is a member of the Pulitzer Center's Campus Consortium.

He invested two years, 2016-2018, as faculty-in-residence in Elon's Global Neighborhood, engaging with students in the university's program to promote learning outside of the classroom.  During that time, he advised and helped to grow the International Living & Learning Community, the largest LLC on campus.

Scott served as a Fulbright lecturer in the 2011-12 school year at the University of the Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan, where he taught courses and gave outside lectures on American culture, international media, and aspects of the Olympic host-city selection process.  He has worked as a journalist and/or professor in Japan for a total of four years. He has remained active in the Fulbright program, serving on campus committees to develop candidates and as a national, peer reviewer. 

After a year enrolled at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, as an Asian studies fellow, he earned his doctorate in journalism from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2006. Prior to his return to higher education, he worked for more than two decades as an editor, metro columnist, and reporter at newspapers including The Honolulu Advertiser, The Modesto Bee, Nikkei Weekly, and Pacific Stars & Stripes (in Japan).  In a parallel career, he traveled widely as a correspondent covering international volleyball, working at many championship events, including a handful of Olympic summer games.

Prior to Elon, he taught as an adjunct at UNC, University of Hawai'i, and in Japan for the University of Maryland's Asian Division.