The Ranking Game
Since the creation of the U.S. News & World Report rankings in 1983, prospective college students have looked to the rankings to navigate the myriad of opportunities available to them.
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Since the creation of the U.S. News & World Report rankings in 1983, prospective college students have looked to the rankings to navigate the myriad of opportunities available to them.
Elon students expressed their concerns about free speech on private campuses as part of this month's First Thursday forum. Students addressed recent censorship of a student's posters and Elon's future plans to help facilitate and promote free speech on campus.
While I was doing interviews for my story about the changes to SUB this week, I was surprised to learn how much work and planning goes into every SUB event. There are dozens of people involved in the organization. They had a bustling office when I visited them. PIT crew members now undergo weeks of training where they learn to work every type of event, although their hard work is invisible to most students.
Teams of up to 10 students will compete in the Elon University Innovation Challenge beginning this week, which requires students to add value to an everyday item by giving it an additional purpose.
Computer science majors from Elon University competed in the annual Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest against other students in the mid-Atlantic region at Duke University Nov. 5.
The Alamance-Burlington School System will soon stop being an orange.
This year, the city of Burlington will receive an additional $50,000 from Powell Bill funds, a North Carolina Department of Transportation program that is distributing $138 million this year to more than 500 North Carolina municipalities for purposes of local road maintenance. NCDOT distributed the first half of the money at the beginning of October and Burlington's funds will total $1.4 million.
Colleges across the country have seen increasing instances of mental health issues and psychological problems on their campuses. A 2010 survey of directors of campus psychological counseling centers reported that counselors noticed the trends among their respective student bodies.
Dozens of local high school students will be welcomed on Elon University's campus Feb. 23 to compete in Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathemathics and Science, a competition coinciding with National Engineers Week.
This month, many Elon University students will apply for high-level international scholarship programs sponsored by the federal government. These programs, like the Boren Award and Fulbright Program, are highly competitive and faculty and staff at Elon have been working closely with students and will serve as the preliminary evaluation committee.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Elon University $1.2 million for the training of math and science teachers as part of its Robert Noyce scholarship program. The grant money will fund student scholarships and stipends to subsidize internships at local schools.
President Barack Obama has proposed a new tax on individuals making more than $1 million per year. The tax is meant to ensure that the wealthy pay the same tax rate as middle-class Americans.
by Nick Zanetti Senior Reporter
Elon's Student Government Association offers loans of up to $300 and any current Elon student may apply for the loan. However, no students have applied this year.
John Sullivan, a former Elon University philosophy professor, presented the first session of the LIFE@ELON program last week, a non-credit educational program for alumni and friends of Elon who are 50 years of age or older. The first session was called Welcoming the Gifts of Later Life: Lessons from Autumn and Winter.
The School of Communications at Elon University has updated its technology to include high definition equipment. Computers, cameras and an entire studio that has been rewired for high definition encompass the largest technology initiative at Elon since the School of Communications moved to McEwen in 2000.
Bobby Rawlings wasn't up to much for most of the summer, but that all changed Aug. 20, when he began orientation leader training. The Elon University junior was one of almost 500 students who began moving back to campus early beginning Aug. 8.