Communication Design

Faculty members Israel Balderas, Amanda Sturgill and Shannon Zenner were recognized with awards at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2022 national convention.

The on-campus residential learning workshop, made possible through $300,000 in grant funding from the Scripps Howard Foundation, supports high school juniors interested in pursuing careers in journalism and the media industry.

The professor of strategic communications and A.J. Fletcher Professor in Communications succeeds Dean Rochelle Ford, who was recently selected as the eighth president of Dillard University.

In the spring 2022 issue of the Elon Journal, six student researchers delve into a variety of media-related topics, including the media framing of mass shooters and whether the portrayal of these perpetrators changed after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

Here's a look at where some of the 2022 School of Communications graduates are headed after they graduate.

The communication design major received an honorable mention in the Graphis New Talent Annual, which celebrates the top creative work from students across the globe.

During its annual awards ceremony, hosted May 5 in Turner Theatre, the school acknowledged high achievement from students, faculty and staff, hosted the first induction of its Kappa Tau Alpha honors society, and bid farewell to retiring Associate Professor Michael Skube.

The communication design and media analytics double major will intern with Bloomberg Law in Washington, D.C., this summer.

Colonnades, Elon News Network and Phi Psi Cli collect 11 first-place awards, as well as three Best of Shows, at the annual North Carolina College Media Association gathering hosted on Feb. 26.

This two-year award will support multi-institutional work to better prepare students and institutions to develop and sustain community-based learning initiatives.