Archive for June 22, 2009

In a June 21 opinion column in the News and Record of Greensboro, John Alexander, the Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Elon University, identifies numerous benefits in the council-manager form of government and urges city and county elected bodies in the region not to abandon the government structure that has "a long and successful history in North Carolina."

Job-Hunt.org cites Elon Career Services (Twitter.com/HireElonGrads) in a list of 50 "Best and Brightest" colleges and universities supporting students and alumni through Career Services Twitter accounts.

Mike Sprague, a rising second year law student at Elon University School of Law, was recognized on June 22 for his successful work on behalf of a client at Legal Aid of North Carolina's Greensboro office.

Twenty Elon students are living and working in the Big Apple this month as part of the inaugural Summer in the City: Elon in New York program sponsored by the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Students are interning at major firms and nonprofits in the fields of finance, marketing, communications and entrepreneurship while residing in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and completing a professional development course.

Assistant Professor of Communications Lee Bush had her paper "Student Public Relations Agencies: A Qualitative Study of the Pedagogical Benefits, Risks and a Framework for Success" published in the spring 2009 issue of Journalism and Mass Communication Educator.