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Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff who oversee the Alternative Breaks Program in the Kernodle Center for Service Learning and Community Engagement have published a book that features insights from students on service work performed in communities near and far.

David Bockino, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, penned his first book, “The Guidebook Experiment: Discovering Exploration in a Hyper-Connected World,” examining how the proliferation of guidebook material has fundamentally altered the nature of travel. 

Jessalynn Strauss, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, wrote her first book, "Challenging Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons for public relations from the casino industry," demonstrating the paradoxes in contemporary corporate social responsibility through the example of the gambling industry.

See what campus life was like for the 76 students who enrolled in Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s first academic year.

Carpenter will lead the University Archives & Special Collections department in all aspects of archival management, including the identification, assessment, acquisition, description, storage, access, preservation and disposal of archives in all formats.

 

Tom Parham, a distinguished former Â鶹ÊÓƵ coach and professor, authored “The Little Green Book of Tennis” to share winning techniques learned from mentors and observations from his own five decades helping others enjoy the sport.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ's outreach librarian spoke in May about Belk Library’s Personal Librarian Program at the Librarians’ Association at UNC-Chapel Hill 2015 Research Forum.

Belk Library staff members presented at the Triad Academic Library Association's Paraprofessional Conference at High Point University

 

In "Mexico in Verse: A History of Music, Rhyme, and Power", Associate Professor of History Michael Matthews, along with Stephen Neufeld of Cal State Fullerton, use music and poetry to gain access to the worldviews and beliefs of ordinary people often overlooked in the historical narrative.