Nyah Phengsitthy '23 is studying communication design and media analytics at Elon University. Phengsitthy serves as the managing editor of The Pendulum, Elon News Network's student-run newspaper. She manages the weekly paper, in addition to reporting, taking photos and working with new reporters every day. Phengsitthy focuses on writing news and investigative stories of Elon and Burlington. When she is not reporting, Phengsitthy enjoys shopping, watching Law & Order and hanging out with her family. She hopes to go straight into a newsroom after graduation. See Phengsitthy's best work on her online portfolio.
While the crash blocks a portion of the road, the road is not completely closed off as of 8:33 p.m.
Elon University published the increase in tuition, and room and board. The tuition and fees will increase by over 9% for the 2022-23 school year, to $42,241, according to Elon’s Undergraduate Admissions.
While Elon has tried to make its campus more accessible to his needs and to other students with physical disabilities, the university’s older campus, which is continuously growing in population size and property width, brings new changes every day.
Teaching and dancing have always been the goal for adjunct faculty members Kate Shugar and Jiwon Ha, but doing that as an adjunct at Elon also comes with setbacks.
Senior Emily Wilbourne will present her research on Thursday, Oct. 28, at the Tradition & Innovation in Korean Dance event, sharing the richness and depth of Korean dance both then and now, in addition to highlighting adjunct instructor in performing arts Jiwon Ha. Ha, who is from Busan, South Korea, virtually guided Wilbourne while she studied there in both the fall and the summer.
La sensación de estar limitada a una identidad siempre estuvo presente para Cici Salazar a medida que crecía. Marcando casillas en cualquier aplicación que preguntara sobre la raza y la etnia, la primera pregunta que siempre tuvo que responder fue: ¿Eres hispano/latino? Pero esos dos términos no fueron suficientes para describir las culturas y orígenes reales no sólo para ella, sino también para otros miembros Hispanos y Latinxs.
Checking off boxes in any application that asked about race and ethnicity, the first question junior Cici Salazar always had to answer was ‘are you Hispanic/Latino?’ But those two terms weren’t enough to describe the actual cultures and backgrounds for not only her, but for others who either identified as Hispanic or and Latinx.
Elon University identified a COVID-19 cluster from 15 positive cases among members of the Alpha Kappa Psi co-ed business fraternity over the past week. The cluster comes from the 43 students who participated in an off-campus trip over the weekend on Oct. 1 through 3.
It all begins in kindergarten — the female-male gender gap in education, that is. Beginning in K-12 schools, the gender gap has increased throughout the years, according to Tom Mortenson, senior scholar at the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. But 2021 has officially been marked the year with the largest female-male gender gap in the history of higher education.
Elon University’s economic impact study found that the university generates $695 million in annual economic impact. According to a press release from the university, Elon has sustained more than 7,400 jobs while producing $34.6 million in tax revenue in the state of North Carolina.
Elon News Network spoke with students who said neither the university nor a local health official directly asked for a list of close contacts after testing positive for coronavirus.
While the medical leave of absence has been available for years now for students, the pandemic leave of absence was offered beginning fall 2020 for students who felt uncomfortable returning to school because of COVID-19. Going into the 2021-22 academic years, LOA numbers have changed.
Elon’s Public Health Society was created to provide a community for students interested in public health. Discussing everyday issues, current events, programs and initiatives surround public health, the organization has the goals of bringing the community together.
“We couldn’t make sense of what was happening that day,” Jennifer Parris, one of the leaders of the Pendulum team covering 9/11 at Elon University, said. “I remember going up to The Pendulum office and regrouping with all of the team like, ‘OK, what do we do now?’ As the university was announcing prayer vigils and meetings and gatherings, we just spread out and tried to cover them the best we could.”
Immediately following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Elon University junior Zain Khan’s parents were one of thousands of Muslims across America who faced religious and ethnic discrimination. 20 years later, some of the preconceived negative feelings about Muslims still exist.
Vaccine exemptions forms rolled into Dean of Students Jana Lynn Patterson’s email when the university declared a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all students. While the university reached 96% of its undergraduate students fully vaccinated, only 307 vaccine exemptions were approved. There’s an additional number that Elon has reached: zero student disenrollments after the vaccine requirement.
Alamance Virtual School will join ABSS this year as a new learning space for students who applied for the virtual school option. The school system’s response to the pandemic offered a perspective to both an in-person and online option for K-12 students this year.
Janet Williams joined Elon’s faculty in April to serve as the vice president for finance and administration. Her role at the university includes having an executive oversight for a broad range of financial, business, and support operations and planning.
From leading new students to their first residential neighborhood meeting to attending the hypnotist event together at Rhodes Stadium, orientation leaders are one of the first faces incoming students see when they arrive on campus.
The moment after each New Student Orientation ends, Director of New Student and Transitions Programs Emily Krechel and her team are already planning for the next one. But after the 2020-21 school year, Krechel was unsure of what would be in store for the class of 2025’s arrival.
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