Articles by Eric Townsend
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In My Words: Eric Holder – Unpopular for all the right reasons
October 15, 2014
Associate Professor Prudence Layne writes in regional newspapers about the legacy of outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and his role in addressing racial inequalities in the United States.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ Rotaract Club returns with formal chartering ceremony
October 9, 2014
Sponsored by the Alamance County Rotary Club, one of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ's newest student organizations is commited to community and international service alongside professional and leadership development.
Higher education group names ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ a lead institution on civic engagement
October 9, 2014
NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education has selected ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ to participate in a national initiative on civic learning and democratic engagement.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ'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
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ’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.
ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ Poll: In a close race for U.S. Senate, images and ballot order matter
October 7, 2014
The ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ 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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ 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.
Students 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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ 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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ 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 ÂÒÂ×ÊÓÆµ students completing sport and event mangagement internships.