Center for Leadership encourages good deeds through Pay It Forward week
Making others feel important isn’t very difficult, according to freshman Kate Sims.
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Making others feel important isn’t very difficult, according to freshman Kate Sims.
At a university where engaged learning is a primary focus, finding the means to manage an investment portfolio as an undergraduate can be a difficult task for students aspiring to be professionals in the financial services industry.
Although construction continues on Elon University’s campus, a few projects have been finished just in time for the start of fall semester. Students arrived back on campus to find the completion of construction on The Station at Mill Point, progress on Lakeside Dining Hall and Numen Lumen Pavilion and several other projects beginning.
Just days before students arrive back on campus each year and prepare for the upcoming semester, faculty members gather to make preparations of their own.
There was a kind of mystique surrounding Elon University’s 122nd commencement, held under the oaks Saturday morning. That’s how Trevis Billey, a family member of Class of 2012 graduate LaDonna Davis, described the morning.
Most people, at some point in their lifetimes, will encounter someone with autism, be it a family member or acquaintance. Such is the idea behind Elon University’s Autism Speaks organization, a group of students who intend to raise awareness of autism on campus and in the local community and use their resources to help families and individuals facing autism.
Across the nation and at Elon University, a dispute over church-affiliated organizations, hospitals and colleges having to cover birth control in their employees' health insurance plans has resulted in a debate that stems from two arguments: the lack of contraception availability for some women versus a violation of religious liberty for employers.
The combination of a $5,000 prize and a create-your-own menu item at Biscuitville calls to students' imaginations. Elon University students made up more than half of the entries in the Brand Your Biscuit product development challenge, a contest open to students at seven universities in the Greensboro area.
At Elon University, to experience is to learn — and studying the issue of poverty is no exception. For 10 years, religious studies and human services classes at Elon have participated in poverty simulations, hour-long events during which students are presented with the problems and decisions people living in poverty face on a daily basis.
What happens when professors want to hear about their peers' tried teaching methods without committing to listen for too long? Speed teaching.
When sophomore Eryn Gorang began riding the BioBus to tutor at Burlington Housing Authority her freshman year, she noticed that no one got off at the Cummings High School stop.
Sophomores and juniors attempting to squat their current on-campus apartments may be relocated to the Station at Mill Point during phase one and two of housing selection beginning this week.
Rachel Wilson’s bike has been stolen three times since she arrived on campus almost four years ago. Though Wilson, a senior, said she typically used a coil bike lock to secure her bike to racks, she found the problem of people snatching bicycles that aren’t theirs to be a recurring issue for her and other students with bikes.
This is an age of convenience. A culture of drive-thru establishments and vending machines has enabled us to get what we want when we want it, without having to plan ahead.
Brad Moore, former associate director of planning, design and construction management, was named director of the department after Neil Bromilow retired earlier this year. Moore discusses his new position and job responsibilities, role in recent campus construction and the reason he has chosen to stay at Elon since being hired as assistant director of construction management in 2005.
The founders might be surprised to see how the small Christian college they birthed from a church became a place where no one deity holds preeminence.
Junior David Campbell has completed two summer internships but only registered for academic credit for one because of the related cost.
Though hammering won't stop anytime soon at some construction sites around Elon University's campus, other projects are running on schedule and new additions will be unveiled as soon as next year. University building projects to construct on-campus housing options and a renovation in Moseley Center to house the Career Center began this year, as well as construction of Elon Community Church's fellowship hall.
On New Year's Eve, the complete renovation of the Gerald L. Francis Center is scheduled to be finished. The former Smithfield Ham building will house Elon University's doctorate of physical therapy and new master of physician assistant studies programs.