Colin Donohue

"Whereas the public bodies that administer the legislative, policy-making, quasi-judicial, administrative, and advisory functions of North Carolina and its political subdivisions exist solely to conduct the people's business, it is the public policy of North Carolina that the hearings, deliberations, and actions of these bodies be conducted openly."

The Pendulum, Elon's award-winning weekly newspaper, will have several executive staff positions open starting in the fall semester.

Nineteen School of Communications students were among the many student researchers who presented their work at Elon University's selective Student Undergraduate Research Forum April 27.

From the Fayetteville Observer (4/24/10): Fayetteville City Manager Dale Iman wanted to hold some preliminary budget talks this month with elected officials away from the glare of television cameras, reporters or anyone else.

Sang Nam, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, presented a session at a workshop for Korean heritage school teachers April 23 at Duke University.

Faculty, students and alumni from the School of Communications were honored by the Broadcast Education Association's Festival of Media Arts in several awards categories at the annual conference from April 15-17 in Las Vegas.

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, widely known as a "father of the Internet" and Google's Chief Internet Evangelist, will be among the more than 60 speakers leading more than 20 different events at the three-day FutureWeb conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 28-30. The event is being organized by the Imagining the Internet Center of Elon's School of Communications, and will involve more than 40 Elon students, faculty and staff.

Metacarpus, a film by School of Communications instructor Nicole Triche, will be a part of the Celebration of North Carolina Arts at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, N.C., April 24.

Communications assistant professors Phillip Motley and Sang Nam were selected as National CASTL (Carnegie Academy of Teaching and Learning) Teaching Scholars and will present their research at the 2010 National CASTL Institute at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., this summer.