Two pandemics weigh heavily on Black students
As the coronavirus pandemic disproportionally impacts Black people, Black students, faculty and staff also deal with the mental health impact of the ongoing push against racial injustice.
As the coronavirus pandemic disproportionally impacts Black people, Black students, faculty and staff also deal with the mental health impact of the ongoing push against racial injustice.
“Operation Summer Heat'' resulted in the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, Mebane Police Department and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to arrest 21 people, some from all over the state, for soliciting for profit prostitution, including three of the 21 on drug related charges, according to Sheriff Terry Johnson.
The Boldly Elon Solidarity Collective — a coalition of student organizations looking to cause policy change on campus — will be holding a virtual town hall on Monday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m. titled “We Won’t Die for Elon,” to discuss Elon University’s decision to resume in-person classes this fall.
Elon University students and faculty as well as Duke University's faculty union are standing in solidarity with and offering financial support for Elon non-tenure adjuncts who have been laid off for the upcoming semester. The Boldly Elon Solidarity Collective has condemned the layoffs of adjuncts.
Students seek alternative housing at the Acorn in for the 2020-21 academic year as study abroad plans fall through and on and off-campus housing fills up. The inn hopes to make up for lost business during the coronavirus pandemic.
After a lawsuit and subsequent protests, Graham City Council has repealed its ordinance requiring protesters to apply for a permit in order to gather. On behalf of the Alamance County chapter of the NAACP and other protesters, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit on July 2 against the city of Graham and other Alamance County officials.
High-risk faculty and staff can apply for accommodations for the fall semester as the coronavirus pandemic remains a threat. According to Elon's Human Resources website, the process for requesting accommodations in the fall is a seven-step process.
Tuition and fees will not be refunded if Elon University classes go remote for the 2020-21 academic year. Housing and meal plan refunds would be discussed in the "unlikely" event the university moves to remote learning, according to a university spokesperson.
Once the test is conducted, students are instructed to quarantine before returning to campus. Students will not be allowed to return to campus if they do not quarantine, according to new details from Elon University’s Ready & Resilient committee.
North Carolina K-12 public schools are allowed to open for in-person classes this fall, Gov. Roy Cooper announced in a press conference today. However, Cooper is giving school districts the flexibility to choose what model is best for them.
Elon University’s Winter Term study abroad programs have been canceled because of coronavirus concerns, according to an email sent out to students enrolled in Winter Term travel courses from the Global Education Center.
About 700 protesters attended the Burlington-Alamance March for Justice and Community, a march and protest hosted by the Alamance Alliance for Justice and was attended by students and faculty from Elon University. Demonstrators were met with counter protesters at the Confederate monument.
Organizers and Elon sophomores Kennedy Boston and Kasey Fountain called for the resignation of Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson. In addition to Johnson's enforcement of Graham Police's protest permit freeze, they disapprove of his past treatment of minority communities.
Catherine Bush and Robin Gary are two non-tenure faculty members who found out they won't be teaching at Elon University in the fall semester. According to Provost Aswani Volety, the budget reduction and enrollment numbers are some of the reasons non-tenure adjuncts aren't rehired.
Visa-holding students attending schools with in-person classes, like Elon, can take a maximum of one class online under the new regulation, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. If a mixture of online and in-person classes are offered, students can take more than one online class.
This comes after more than 5,000 people signed a petition to rename the building due to Harper's participation in the lynching of a Black man. This move is a part of a series of announcements university will be making.
Down Home North Carolina, a non-profit advocating for rural communities in the state, established a mutual aid fund in March to help those impacted by the coronavirus in Alamance, Jackson, Hayward, Madison, and Cabarrus counties.
The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina filed a lawsuit and temporary restraining order against the city of Graham and Alamance County officials. The lawsuit challenges Graham’s Code of Ordinance on granting protest permits, claiming it is unconstitutional, as well as the refusal to grant permits.
Incidents involving bias, specifically those dealing with race, are not infrequent at Elon — but recently, students have been calling for a reform of the bias reporting system. Read a series of stories on what concerns students have about the bias reporting system, how the system works and how the system has evolved.
Students continue to push for the bias reporting system to evolve, but Elon did not always have a bias reporting system — students were first able to submit online reports and use the reporting hotline starting in the fall of the 2012-2013 school year.