The Lindenwood University School of Communications will host a digital media summer camp for high school students interested in learning multimedia, design, photography, web, or editorial skills. The three-day journalism boot camp, Media Now STL, will be June 25-27 at the St. Charles campus.
Lindenwood University has announced that Dan Korte, president of the Rolls-Royce Defense business, will be the keynote speaker at its 2012 Undergraduate Commencement ceremony. He is joined by fellow Lindenwood alumna Rev. N. Deliza Spangler, dean and rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Buffalo, N.Y., who will speak at Baccalaureate and Graduate Commencement the night before.
Ryan Guffey, PhD, assistant vice president for student development and special projects at Lindenwood University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. He was selected from a pool of highly competitive applicants following the completion of an eight-month review process.
Lindenwood University has partnered with the City of St. Charles to produce an updated edition of the city’s Accessibility Guidebook for People with Disabilities. Students from the university’s School of Human Services are working with the St. Charles Citizens with Disabilities Board to assess the compliance of local businesses with guidelines set forth by the American with Disabilities Act.
Lindenwood University has formed a debate program and has selected Dr. Robert Burns to lead the team. Director of Student Life Sports Tim Canavan made the announcement on Thursday.
Room, board, tuition and fees for traditional undergraduate resident students at Lindenwood University will increase 3.8 percent in the fall of 2012 to $22,180 per year from their 2011 level of $21,360 per year.
Kerry Cox, director of Student Life and Leadership at Lindenwood University, has received from Power Performers the 2011 Event Planner of the Year Award in the Most Memorable Event category. The New York-based entertainment agency selected Cox for his work on the “Robert Channing- The World’s Greatest Mind Reader and Hypnotist” event that took place at the university in 2011.
Lindenwood University is putting out a call for some of the finest young chess players in America and abroad. And the university is willing to provide scholarship money to build the nation’s top collegiate chess program.
A research report from Lindenwood University’s Institute for the Study of Economics and the Environment (ISEE), indicates official unemployment rates significantly understate the true levels of unemployment in the United States and the St. Louis Metro Area.
Lindenwood University’s Theatre Department will present William Shakespeare’s magical comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 1-4 and at 2 p.m. on Feb. 5 in the university’s Emerson Black Box Theater.
