ELON COLLEGE – Elon College’s first undergraduate advisory board will hold its first meeting Feb. 18-19 to help guide the rapidly growing journalism and communications department.
The board’s 17 members are senior practitioners in their fields. Five members work in the broadcast industry, four in journalism, and eight are in public relations.
The department’s faculty believes board members will help facilitate its thinking about programming, professional expectations, resource opportunities and interaction with students. The department currently serves more than 550 majors.
The board will review the curriculum and develop a professional, academic partnership with the faculty. Its members will work with students on preparing for internships and careers in journalism communications. They also will be invited to serve as guest lecturers and speakers.
The members: Forrest W. Anderson, senior vice president and
director of research and account planning, Golin/Harris Communications, Chicago; Fred Barber, senior vice president for broadcasting, WRAL, Raleigh;
Don Bolden, publisher, Burlington Times News, Burlington; Phyllis Brotman, executive vice president, Gray, Kirk/VanSant, Baltimore; Rennie
Corley, vice president, WXII-TV 12, Winston-Salem; Joseph P. Gleason,
managing director, Manning Selvage & Lee, Washington, D.C.; Ellen Weaver Hartman, vice president-corporate communications, AFC Enterprises, Atlanta; James R. Hodges,The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles; and Van King, publisher,The News and Record, Greensboro. Also, Robert Larsen, public relations director, Rhone-Poulenac AG Co., Research Triangle Park; Hugh Meenan, partner, Price/McNabb, Charlotte; R. Douglas Norwood, The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.; George Pemberton, vice president – operations, WGHP, High Point; Diane Pucko, senior counsel, Public Relations Partners Inc., Cleveland; Darren Richards, news director, WFMY, Greensboro; Richard Rosenbaum, bureau chief, ABC News Radio, Washington, D.C.; and Bill Warren, public affairs director, Walt Disney World Co., Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
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