On paper, the TA serves only as an assistant to the faculty or staff member instructor and explains parts of Elon the instructor isn’t familiar with. But the TA should take a more interactive role that allows him or her to better engage new students and prepare them for life at Elon both inside and outside the classroom.
The Elon University men’s soccer team was one point clear atop the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) standings entering their regular season finale against the University of Delaware.
The transition to the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) has been a mixed experience for Elon University thus far.
Let your geek flag fly. Because we all have a passionate geek inside us if we’re willing to admit it, and we are all are a heck of a lot more interesting when we connect our social lives with our intellectual ones and let our inner geeks out.
Coming into college, many of us were told, “Watch out for the Freshman 15,” those pounds you may or may not pick up after late-night snacks and forgetting to go to the gym for a few weeks in a row. It doesn’t end with freshman year, though.
The running teams were the class of the Elon University athletic department in 2014-15. Sophomore distance runner Kimberly Johansen and the women’s track and field team captured the school’s first Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) title, winning the outdoor championships in May.
There are plenty of demands and concerns associated with moving back to college and starting a new semester. It would be nice if acquiring textbooks weren’t one of them.
This fall, 16 Elon University students will study at the new Elon Center in Shanghai. The center’s program, geared toward business majors, will provide students with the chance to learn about the economy of the world’s most populous country. For the new program, Elon partnered with the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE), a study abroad organization, to create custom course offerings.
The Elon University women’s soccer team had a difficult end to its season in 2014. After a victory over the University of Delaware on Senior Day, the Phoenix had to travel to the College of William & Mary, Towson University and James Madison University to conclude its season. The result: three losses, two of which were shutouts, on the road in the span of seven days. Any hope that the team wouldn’t have an end-of-season road trip again was thwarted when the schedule was released.
The scene was depressing, with blank stares across many Elon University men’s soccer players’ faces as they coped with their loss to Northeastern University in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Tournament. Their chances at a fourth straight NCAA Tournament berth had all but disappeared. Without a doubt, that loss still stings.
The kickoff of the 2015 season for the Elon University football team will happen at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept.
The start of school has a curious effect on the Phoenix student body. We here at Doctor’s Orders have this theory that seniors eventually build immunity to return-to-school-itis, whereas freshmen experience the full brunt force of the plague.
For the past three seasons, former Elon University men’s soccer goalkeeper Nathan Dean ’15 played all but five minutes of action in net for the Phoenix.
This offseason, the Elon University volleyball team added six new players, a rather large recruiting class.
Snug in the corner of second floor Moseley, a three-roomed, brightly colored office bedecked with rainbows celebrates its second birthday this year. But don’t underestimate the office, Elon University’s Gender and LGBTQIA Center (GLC), for its age. After two years of programming, policy changing and community building, it was announced Monday that the GLC placed 15th in a nationwide study ranking LGBTQIA-friendly campuses.
Elon University women’s soccer head coach Chris Neal has never been afraid to play freshmen. Sometimes, that’s been out of necessity.
In response to an Elon Local News story questioning unpaid training planned for tour guides from the Office of Admissions, tour guides
Many Elon students are not only returning to classes this semester, but also returning to work. After a long summer, student employees can expect a refresher training session at their respective on campus jobs.
Hi There, I am Jacob Ingle's (c/o 2016, #77 OG on the football team and music major)mom. I thought it would be an interesting story the fact that Jacob and his younger brother Will (c/o 2019 #90 DE on the Richmond football team) will play against each other...literally on October 10th.
Turning the key in the door with a small click, Sidney Hager enters her room for the first time. She sets down the boxes in her arms and before heading back out to retrieve the rest of her things, she takes a quick look out her window. In the foreground is several other students just like her, carrying suitcases and boxes into the neighboring hall, West.
