Visiting professors discuss how to broach volatile subjects in classroom
Robert Nash and Sydnee Viray, professors from the University of Vermont, visited Elon University Nov. 8 to discuss religion and spirituality on college campuses.
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Robert Nash and Sydnee Viray, professors from the University of Vermont, visited Elon University Nov. 8 to discuss religion and spirituality on college campuses.
Melissa Martlock, now a sophomore, inherited the role of both teacher and student during last Winter Term when she taught a crochet class as part of the Burst the Bubble program.
Few are strangers to failure. But Elon University’s book club, Read and Lead, selected this year’s book, “Failing Forward,” to teach students how to learn from failures and improve upon them.
The Elon Academy recently received a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to provide financial support for Elon University students to work with high school students in the Elon Community Garden through a gardening class.
The Fat Frogg gets a makeover once a month and is turned into a gathering place for the community to learn about modern science without the jargon that lulled them to sleep in high school physics.
Family Weekend is all about timing. Usually scheduled for the end of September, it sits snugly between the start of school and fall break.
The Elon Academy held an open house Sept. 25 to showcase the new location of the Elon Academy offices in the Powell House.
After purchasing the Elon School property June 1, Elon University is currently deciding how it will be used.
The Loy Farm property by the Magnolia Cemetery of Elon will be converted into a restored meadow this fall and will be renamed the Elon Environmental Education Center. A restored meadow means the property will be restored to its natural state.
A $50,000 grant allowed the dean of the School of Communications to hand pick a new professor for Elon University. Dianne Finch, former Bloomberg reporter and multimedia manager for the Knight Foundation’s Science Journalism Program at MIT, will be coming to Elon in the spring of 2013.
This year, the Elon Alumni Association compiled and distributed a “bucket list” of items for students to consider completing before graduation. The list includes Elon traditions such as attending College Coffee, the December luminaries and seasonal sporting events. But the list encourages students to get off campus, too, whether by studying abroad or completing an internship.
A constant interest led Jeffrey Pugh, a professor of religious studies at Elon University, through college at Wesley Theological Seminary, to a master’s and doctorate degree from Drew University, to teaching at Elon and most recently, to being interviewed by CNN.
If the recent email sent to students from new associate director of residential education Laura Arroyo seemed urgent to recruit new resident assistants, it’s because all empty RA slots needed to be filled by the start of training this Thursday.
Think of how many friends you have on Facebook and how many followers you have on Twitter. Now, think of the people in those lists that you actually know. Going even farther, how many of those people that you know would you spend a Saturday afternoon with? And going even farther still, how many of those people could you call at 4 a.m. and know that they would pick up?
Although gas prices are currently dropping, by the end of the month, the national average is predicted to cost a whopping $4.25 per gallon, according to predictions from the Department of Energy.
Colin Beavan identifies himself primarily as a father, but he is most well known as No Impact Man, who in 2006 pledged to reduce his impact on the environment.
Politics – it’s not a four-letter word, but it’s rapidly becoming a dirty word. Candidates running for office seem to be more occupied with attacking each another with socially charged comments, such as, “The American left hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization” (thank you Rick Santorum). This is tather than providing the public with insight into what needs to be done in order to pull our country out of a nosedive.
You meet up, you get down and dirty, you get out – most likely in only a night. Two people barely know each other and in only a few hours, they’re going at it like rabbits. To quote “Crazy, Stupid, Love”, “God bless technology.”
Artists often put countless hours of effort into their craft, only to discover the space they need to share what they have created doesn’t exist.
Perhaps it’s the temptation to scrawl a witty inscription on a Belk Library study desk. Maybe your favorite band came out with a new album today, or maybe you stumbled onto a fascinating new website that you just can’t resist surfing. Regardless of all this, it’s college, we’re busier than ever, we’ve got stuff to do and we’ll do it — tomorrow.