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  • Business Dept. announces survey results: 55% of family businesses will maintain ownership

    Business Dept. announces survey results: 55% of family businesses will maintain ownership

    The results of the second annual Family Business Survey were presented Wednesday, March 27 at 1:00 p.m. in the Hoover Center. The department of business and the S. Dale High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College conducted this research project jointly. The survey aimed to discover how family businesses feel about the economy and

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  • First graduation fair to take place in April

    First graduation fair to take place in April

    Elizabethtown College is hosting its first graduation fair April 2 from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in the KĀV. The fair, which is sponsored by the College Store, will act as an assembly of information for seniors regarding commencement and the events surrounding the ceremony. “In the past, the College Store has been the gathering

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  • Fox to be SCAD Keynote speaker

    Fox to be SCAD Keynote speaker

    The Scholarship and Creative Arts Day (SCAD) keynote speaker has been announced. This year’s speaker is filmmaker and environmental activist Josh Fox, who is best known as the director of the Oscar-nominated HBO documentary “Gasland.” The keynote speaker was chosen by a group made up of faculty members and students known as the SCAD Committee.

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  • One of five: Elizabethtown College one out of five in Pa. to be named to the President’s Honor Roll for commitment to service

    One of five: Elizabethtown College one out of five in Pa. to be named to the President’s Honor Roll for commitment to service

    The Nutrition Challenge has now begun at Elizabethtown College. Students can complete four nutrition challenges in four weeks to win various prizes. The challenge is taking place from March 11 to April 17. Participants select four different challenges and each day that a participant accomplishes the challenge for that week, a point is rewarded and

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  • College initiates ‘4 Nutrition Challenge’

    The Nutrition Challenge has now begun at Elizabethtown College. Students can complete four nutrition challenges in four weeks to win various prizes. The challenge is taking place from March 11 to April 17. Participants select four different challenges and each day that a participant accomplishes the challenge for that week, a point is rewarded and

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  • German-based center invites Silberstein as scholar

    Dr. Michael Silberstein, the philosophy department chair at Elizabethtown College, was recently invited to be a scholar at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) for the month of July 2013 and was elected vice president of the Society for Mind-Matter Research (SMMR). The MCMP deals with applications of logical and mathematical methods, as well

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  • HCFB names new exec. director

    Michael Mitchell, the new executive director of Elizabethtown College’s S. Dale High Center for Family Business (HCFB), began his duties on March 19. As the HCFB director, Mitchell hopes to incorporate his experience owning and managing a multigenerational family business. He is an Etown alumnus who graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing.

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  • Helb honored, named chair

    Helb honored, named chair

    This past year, Dr. Colin Helb was selected to serve as the Internet Cultural Studies Chair for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. The PCA/ACA seeks to analyze and examine trends in online media, as well as promote and establish conferences and publications among scholars and graduate students. It seeks to identify where the new

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  • Strikwerda addresses tuition rise

    Strikwerda addresses tuition rise

    Dear Elizabethtown College students: At the February 21 Student Senate Forum, questions surfaced about the 4.4 percent increase in next year’s comprehensive fee—the total cost of tuition, room and board. In response to those questions, I am sharing an outline of those investments the College has made as a result of increases in the comprehensive

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