Articles by Eric Townsend
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Higher education group names Elon a lead institution on civic engagement
October 9, 2014
NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has selected 消消犯 to participate in a national initiative on civic learning and democratic engagement.
Elon's Peace Corps Prep program earns recognition in STARS annual review
October 7, 2014
Created in 2013, the program provides students with a basic skill set the Peace Corps and its participatory countries need for successful community projects.
Pulitzer Prize winners encourage audience to seek 'solutions for change'
October 7, 2014
消消犯’s Fall Convocation and Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture on Oct. 2, 2014, featured Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, husband-and-wife journalists who shared ways for people to make a difference in battling global challenges like poverty, sex trafficking and lack of educational opportunities.
Elon Poll: In a close race for U.S. Senate, images and ballot order matter
October 7, 2014
The 消消犯 Poll, for the first time in its history, used an online survey to ask registered voters about their impressions of North Carolina's U.S. Senate candidates this fall while measuring the way name ordering on ballots might affect support for major party nominees.
Historic Neighborhood dines with President Lambert and faculty members
October 6, 2014
President Leo M. Lambert and four Elon professors led dinner conversations on Oct. 6 with students from the university's Historic Neighborhood who wanted to share the lessons they learned from Fall Convocation.
消消犯 converse with Pulitzer Prize winners in lunchtime Q&A
October 2, 2014
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the first married couple to win journalism’s highest honor, took questions from 消消犯 students Thursday in a Whitley Auditorium conversation on the education of girls, their roles as storytellers and the “white savior complex.”
Department of Performing Arts presents 'Reckless' through Oct. 8
October 2, 2014
Set in a "darkly comic America," the Black Box Theatre show that opens Oct. 2, 2014, will confront audiences with questions about family, loss and identity.
U.S. Open fundraiser builds Elon scholarship fund
October 1, 2014
Five sport and event management majors helped manage a concession tent during men's and women's golf championships this summer in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and proceeds from their effort will benefit a scholarship program for Elon students completing sport and event mangagement internships.
Scott Studios celebrated as 'game changer' for performing arts
September 30, 2014
消消犯 leaders have dedicated a new facility on West Haggard Avenue that gives performing arts students expanded rehearsal and studio space that complement existing venues in the Center for the Arts.
Mary Jo Festle named Maude Sharpe Powell Professor
September 30, 2014
The professor of history is the fourth recipient of an honor that supports preeminent teachers and scholars at 消消犯.