Elon University president encourages class of 2027 to form community, learn at convocation
Updated as of 12:20 p.m. Aug. 19 to include video from the Convocation ceremony.
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Updated as of 12:20 p.m. Aug. 19 to include video from the Convocation ceremony.
Lily Weber, a freshman from Stowe, Vermont, said she has been pleasantly surprised by how smooth the move-in process has been so far.
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The “It Takes a Village” Project partnership between Alamance-Burlington School System and Elon University celebrated 15 years of tutoring elementary school students across the county.
Elon University will offer a new FinTech major this fall in the Love School of Business for students wanting to pursue data analysis and programming within the field of finance.
The Human Life Protection Act of 2023, proposed in the North Carolina House, would ban nearly all abortions, except when a mother’s life is in danger.
The Elon in Los Angeles program added four new business courses and a business internship for fall 2023 to its mainly communications-focused catalog.
Elon University’s Kernodle Center for Civic Life partners with the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s Center for New North Carolinians in an after-school tutoring program for K-12 children of immigrant and refugee families.
North Carolina Senate Republicans passed Senate Bill 49 — the “Parents’ Bill of Rights” — which expands parental access to information about their children’s lives at school Feb. 7.
The College Board released a stripped-down curriculum for its new Advanced Placement African American Studies course, removing topics like critical race theory on Feb. 1 — the start of Black History Month.
The North Carolina Court of Appeals overturned a June 2021 order to release unredacted police body camera footage from the Oct. 31, 2020, “I Am Change” march to the polls in Graham that ended in the use of pepper spray and 23 arrests. The vote was 2-1.
Maria Hernandez, education and resource coordinator for CityGate Dream Center — a community center based in Burlington that serves a majority Spanish-speaking population — said the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alamance County changed the way students learn, especially those from Spanish-speaking households. So last year, the Dream Center began implementing the “Book Nook” program, aiming to improve bilingual reading skills in the county’s pre-kindergarten to sixth-grade students.
Eight years after graduating from Elon University, J. McMerty ‘00 created a program on the other side of the country from Elon that would serve a number of students, especially those with a passion for arts and communications. The program that McMerty created was Elon in LA — a study USA experience that has become one of the most popular study away programs at Elon University.
When freshman Alan Montemayor tried horseback riding in seventh grade, he despised it because he felt he knew nothing about the sport.
Priscilla Awkard ’95 will return to campus for Homecoming Weekend, having not missed a single Homecoming since she graduated from Elon 26 years ago.
According to junior Nadine Jose, being able to learn about experiences different from her own is one way to break out of the Elon bubble and gain new perspectives. That’s why Jose chose to attend the Intersect Conference when she was a freshman. Her interest in diversity and leadership has sparked since then.
Retired professor of anthropology Anne Bolin was in London with a group of 40 students in September 2001. Despite anxiety about the high alert for potential terrorism, they were able to finish the remainder of the semester in London.
Like other universities across the country, Elon University’s class of 2020 was unable to hold an in-person commencement ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, after a year and a half of planning, the class of 2020 will return to campus for the long-awaited event on Sept. 5 Under the Oaks.