Archive for December 5, 2008

Marty Peters, a professor of legal education at the Elon University School of Law, made a series of presentations in October at the American Bar Association’s “Bar Passage Conference: Outcome Measures and Student Achievement,” a national conference on bar pass issues.

It was the ultimate post-election trip for 10 students from the two journalism groups at Elon University. The students from the Elon chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the Radio & Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) toured major Washington, D.C., news outlets and other media sites the week before Thanksgiving. The media tour was sponsored by SPJ, RTNDA and the School of Communications.

Elon celebrated a traditional holiday event on Dec. 4 by filling the campus with 2,000 glowing luminarias. The Holiday Lighting Ceremony featured hot chocolate and cider, with Christmas carols and the lighting of a Menorah leading up to the moment when thousands of lights illuminated the heart of campus.

The Elon University School of Law Advisory Board held its fall meeting Dec. 3-4, providing input on a variety of key issues.

New Voices, the national Jewish student magazine, included Elon in a Nov. 24 article about the boom in Jewish student enrollment at Southern colleges and universities. The story mentions Elon, Vanderbilt University, Millsaps College, and the University of Charleston as schools that are experiencing rapid Jewish enrollment growth.