Strategic Communications

Leslie Aviles Mendoza ‘25 and Taylor Scott ‘25 exemplify the power of student leadership, using their roles as student coordinators at the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education (CREDE) to enhance community well-being.

More than a dozen members of Unity in Communications gathered on Nov. 18 for meaningful discussions with faculty and staff in the School of Communications.

The cinema & television arts and strategic communications double major participated in the prestigious IRTS Foundation Multicultural Career Workshop, an initiative designed to support students and recent graduates from underrepresented backgrounds pursue careers in the media industry.

Representatives from McKinney, Pace Communications and APCO Worldwide visited the award-winning, student-run communications agency to share insights and foster connections.

The professor of strategic communications and her coauthors examined how people reacted to companies that chose to support (or not support) social or political issues. The reaction varied based on the alignment between the company and the issue it supported, and it was influenced by perceived motives behind the company's advocacy.

Current students, alumni and faculty gathered on Nov. 1 during Homecoming & Reunion Weekend to toast five decades of informing Elon’s campus community.

Two sections of the Design of Visual Images course participated in AIGA’s Get Out the Vote initiative, creating posters that merged academic learning with civic engagement. Led by Assistant Professor Shannon Zenner, the project emphasized creative originality, research into voter issues, and the use of analog design to inspire action and highlight the importance of democratic participation.

In a creative approach to increase voter turnout, the professor of strategic communications tasked her students with crafting personalized messages for family and friends.

School of Communications faculty and staff members, as well as upperclassmen, gathered Oct. 21 to educate first-year students about the school’s academic programs, resources and opportunities.

The School of Communications graduate serves as an immigration reporter at PolitiFact, digging deep in topical subjects, translating complex issues into digestible stories, and making sure that facts are, indeed, facts.