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Individual academy in N Carolina, U.s.

Coordinates: 36°06′26″N 79°thirty′05″Due west  /  36.1071867°N 79.5013207°W  / 36.1071867; -79.5013207

Elon University
Elon University seal.svg

Former name

 Elon Higher (1889–2001)
Motto Numen Lumen (Latin)

Motto in English language

 Intellectual and spiritual light
Type Individual academy
Established 1889; 133 years ago  (1889) [one]

Religious amalgamation

 Nonsectarian/Contained (celebrated ties with the United Church of Christ)
Endowment $335 million (2021)[2]
President Connie Ledoux Book
Provost Aswani Volety

Academic staff

 447[1]
Students 7,117[one]
Undergraduates 6,291[1]
Postgraduates 826[1]
Location

Elon, N Carolina

,

U.S.
Campus Suburban
656 acres (265.v ha)[1]
Colors Maroon & gold[iii]
Nickname Phoenix

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Sectionalisation I – CAA
Website world wide web.elon.edu
Elon University logo.svg

Elon University is a individual university in Elon, Due north Carolina, U.s.a.. Founded in 1889 every bit Elon College, Elon is organized into six schools, most of which offer available'due south degrees and several of which offer chief's degrees or professional doctorate degrees.

Located in North Carolina's Piedmont region, Elon is situated on a 656-acre (265 ha) suburban campus betwixt the cities of Greensboro and Raleigh. Less than twenty per centum of Elon'south undergraduates are native to the state of Due north Carolina. Elon's intercollegiate able-bodied teams compete in NCAA Division I athletics equally a fellow member of the Colonial Able-bodied Association.

History [edit]

Presidents of Elon
President From To
William S. Long 1889 1894
William Wesley Staley 1894 1905
Emmett Leonidas Moffitt 1905 1911
William Allen Harper 1911 1931
Leon Edgar Smith 1931 1957
James Earl Danieley 1957 1973
James Fred Young 1973 1998
Leo Michael Lambert 1999 2018
Connie Ledoux Volume 2018

Elon College was founded by the Christian Connection, which subsequently became a role of the United Church building of Christ. The charter for Elon Higher was issued by the North Carolina legislature in 1889. William South. Long was the first president, and the original pupil body consisted of 76 students. In 1923, a fire destroyed most of the campus, including schoolhouse records, classrooms, the library, and the chapel. The Board of Trustees voted to rebuild immediately. Many of the buildings that were erected in the years following the fire still stand and make upwardly the bedrock of Elon's campus.

An institution that for many years enrolled mostly Due north Carolina residents, Elon began to enroll significant numbers of students from the mid-Atlantic states in the mid-1970s, and began to improve its academic standards for admission.[iv] Past the start of the 21st century, most 68 percent of Elon's students came from out-of-country and were only accepted if they met high academic standards.[5] Elon became known as a selective university and, past 2013, 82% of incoming students were from out of land.[six] Elon'south transformation was the subject of an academic study by George Keller of the University of Pennsylvania titled Transforming a College: The Story of a Trivial Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction. The study, published past Johns Hopkins Academy Printing, depicted how Elon transformed itself from a regional religious college to a selective, nationally recognized university.[7]

Elon is no longer affiliated with the United Church of Christ.[8] [9] Elon'due south mission statement states that the university "embraces its founders' vision of an academic community that transforms heed, body, and spirit and encourages liberty of idea and liberty of conscience," and emphasizes its delivery to "nurture a rich intellectual customs characterized past student engagement with a faculty dedicated to excellent didactics and scholarly accomplishment."[10]

On October ix, 2017, the Elon Lath of Trustees elected Dr. Constance "Connie" Ledoux Book as the ninth president of the academy. Volume became Elon's starting time female President on March one, 2018.[11]

Academics [edit]

The university includes Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences; the Martha and Spencer Honey Schoolhouse of Business; the Schoolhouse of Communications; the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Instruction; the School of Law; and the School of Health Sciences. Master'southward programs are offered in business administration, business analytics, bookkeeping, interactive media, education, medico assistant studies, and doctoral programs include concrete therapy and law. Elon operates on a iv-1-4 bookish calendar, including a 4-week term in January known as Wintertime Term.

In 2009, the Phi Beta Kappa Club voted to establish a affiliate at Elon.[12]

Elon is accredited by the Southern Clan of Colleges and Schools.[13]

Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences [edit]

Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, offers 51 undergraduate majors within iii divisions: the Arts and Humanities, the Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Natural, Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Elon College is the largest of the university's colleges.

Martha and Spencer Love Schoolhouse of Business [edit]

The Martha and Spencer Honey School of Business offers undergraduate degrees in bookkeeping, business assistants, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, international business organisation, direction, and marketing.[14]

Schoolhouse of Communications [edit]

The Elon School of Communications is one of xviii accredited communications programs for individual universities in the US by the Clan for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The program encompasses twenty% of students and is divided into six main concentrations: Journalism, Strategic Communications, Movie house & Television Arts, Communication Pattern, Media Analytics and Sport & Upshot Direction.[15]

School of Constabulary [edit]

The Elon University School of Law opened on Baronial 10, 2006. The School is located in downtown Greensboro, Due north Carolina in the former city library. Former United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Twenty-four hours O'Connor delivered the Dedication Address on September 19, 2006. The School of Law houses a working court—the Northward Carolina Business Court.[sixteen]

School of Health Sciences [edit]

Established in April 2011, Elon'south Schoolhouse of Health Sciences offers a doctor of physical therapy (DPT) plan and a physician banana (PA) studies chief'southward program.

Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education [edit]

The Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education offers both licensure and non-licensure undergraduate majors,[17] equally well as Principal of Teaching (M.Ed.)[18] and Master of Arts in College Education (MHE)[19] degrees.

Admissions [edit]

For the class of 2024, the university received approximately 15,306 applications from early conclusion, early action, regular decision, and transfer applicants. From the awarding pool, around 1,587 students enrolled with an credence charge per unit of 71%.[20] The average student coming to Elon in the class of 2024 had a grade point average of four.04, an average Sabbatum score of 1233, and an ACT average of 27.[20]

Rankings and reputation [edit]

Academic rankings
National
Forbes [21] 133
THE/WSJ [22] 143
U.S. News & World Report [23] 83
Washington Monthly [24] 132

U.S. News & World Report ranks Elon tied for #83 overall among national universities and as #1 in the country for "Best Undergraduate Teaching." Elon is ranked equally the #9 most innovative national university.[25] In 2020 Elon was the just university with acme-10 rankings in all of U.S. News 's "Academic Programs to Look For" categories.[26]

Student body [edit]

Elon has a pupil torso of half dozen,291 undergraduate students and 826 graduate students. Approximately lx% of students are female person. Elon students come from 46 states and 49 countries; the leading suppliers of undergraduates are N Carolina, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia and Maryland.[1]

Athletics [edit]

Elon's 17 varsity sports teams, known as the Phoenix, joined the NCAA's Division I Colonial Athletic Clan on July one, 2014, afterward a decade in the Southern Conference. Intercollegiate sports include baseball, basketball game, cross-country, football, golf, soccer, and tennis for men, and basketball game, cross-country, golf game, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, softball, tennis, lacrosse, and volleyball for women. The football game team competes in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA).

Campus Recreation offers intramural and lodge sports programs, such every bit baseball, cycling, lacrosse, flag football game, equestrian, swimming, rugby union, triathlon, h2o skiing, water ice hockey and Ultimate Frisbee. During Winter Term the intramurals include bowling, arena football game, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, and a monster golf tournament.

Up until 2000, the mascot of Elon was the Fighting Christian. Early Elon athletic teams were known as the "Christians" with the proper noun "Fighting Christians" gaining popularity past 1923.[27] The nickname was chosen due to Elon'due south proximity to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, Guilford Quakers, and the Knuckles Bluish Devils.[28] Every bit Elon committed itself to diversity, and the number of non-Christian students increased, the decision was made to change Elon's mascot.[29] In 2000, a new mascot was adopted, the Phoenix. The selection came from the 1923 burn that destroyed almost the entire campus and the college's subsequent recovery.

Facilities [edit]

Elon's sports facilities include ii gymnasiums, Schar Center, Walter C. Latham Baseball game Park, Rhodes Stadium, Rudd Field, Hunt Softball Park, Alumni Field Business firm, Koury Field House, Jerry and Jeanne Robertson Rails and Field Complex, six club athletic fields, Worseley Golf Centre, and Koury Center, which features the 2,400 seat Alumni Gym, an aerobic fitness center, a weight room, racquetball courts, an indoor pool, and a dance studio. The Jimmy Powell Tennis Eye, a twelve-court complex, won an "Outstanding Facility Award" from the The states Lawn tennis Association.[30] The 30,000-square-foot (two,800 chiliad2) facility at the north end of Rhodes Stadium in the North Athletics Complex is the new headquarters for Phoenix athletics.[31] Construction was completed on the v,100-seat Schar Center in 2018. The Schar Centre is the habitation to Elon's basketball and volleyball programs, every bit well as a venue for other major Elon events, such every bit convocation.[32]

Campus [edit]

Elon's celebrated campus is located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, adjacent to Burlington, a city of 50,000. Elon is twenty minutes from Greensboro and inside a one-60 minutes drive of many other universities – Duke, NC State, UNC-Chapel Loma, UNC-Greensboro, Due north Carolina A&T State University, Guilford College, and Wake Forest.

Elon'due south 656-acre (265.v ha) campus is divided into vii major neighborhoods: Historic Campus, Central Campus, Global Neighborhood, The Oaks, The Station at Mill Signal, Danieley Center, Eastward Neighborhood, The Colonnades, and South Campus. There are 77 residence buildings on campus and 34 bookish buildings. Elon too has numerous lakes and fountains throughout its campus. The Elon College Celebrated District and Johnston Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[33]

Spike Lee used Elon as ane of the university locations for the picture He Got Game. The Alamance Building, Fonville Fountain, and the Moseley Heart's exterior patio were the setting for the movie'due south "Tech Academy".

Campus life [edit]

The academy has more than than 250 campus organizations and programs, including 12 national fraternities and 13 national sororities.

Pupil media [edit]

The Pendulum, Elon'south undergraduate weekly newspaper is published every Wednesday. WSOE, the university's student-run non-commercial campus radio station, has been airing since 1977. ESTV (Elon Student Television set) is the Student television station featuring numerous pupil-created and -run programs.

In 2016, with advice of their faculty directorate, the two largest student media organizations on campus; Elon Local News (ELN) and The Pendulum paper, merged to form the new Elon News Network (ENN). ENN at present operates out of the newly constructed newsroom in the McEwen Building of the School of Communications. Following a 2016 expansion of facilities, The School of Communications consists of Iris Holt McEwen Hall, the Snow Family Grand Atrium, Turner Theatre, Dwight C. Schar Hall, Steers Pavilion, and Long Hall, which houses the MA in Interactive Media graduate program and the sport management major.[34]

[edit]

Numerous student government, special involvement, and service organizations are represented on campus, including Elon Volunteers, Habitat for Humanity, Model Un, Epsilon Sigma Blastoff, Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Phi Omega, the Inter-Residence Council, the Elon University Student Government Association, and the Student Union Board. Cultural groups on campus include the Asian-Pacific Islander Pupil Clan, Black Student Marriage, the Caribbean Student Association, Hillel, Intercultural Gild, and Spectrum (Gay-Directly Alliance).

Elon is home to the Fire of the Carolinas Marching Band (FOTC), which delivers pre-game, halftime, and occasionally post-game performances at dwelling house football games. The band as well includes color guard (flag spinning) and trip the light fantastic toe auxiliary squads.[35]

Religious life [edit]

Religious groups on campus include Catholic Campus Ministry, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, the Iron Tree Blooming Meditation Society, the Muslim Student Association, Baptist Student Union, and Campus Outreach.[36]

The Jewish population at Elon has grown especially speedily in recent years, with twelve percent of recent classes self-identifying as Jewish.[37] [38] Elon was profiled in Reform Judaism magazine in 2011 as a school which has "gone the actress mile" to make itself more bonny to Jewish students,[39] and since 2013 information technology has been listed as i of the "top schools Jews cull."[xl] [41] The Muslim pupil population is small just has increased dramatically in size in recent years,[42] and a Muslim Student Association formed at Elon in 2011.[36] The Hindu population has also increased in size,[42] Hindu festivals accept become an important part of the university calendar,[38] and Hindu students report feeling accepted at Elon.[43]

Elon has worked closely with the Interfaith Youth Core in developing religious variety and interreligious dialogue.[38] [44] The Truitt Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, located within the Numen Lumen Pavilion of the Academic Hamlet, serves a wide diverseness of purposes and all religious traditions.[45]

Fraternity and sorority life [edit]

Elon Academy recognizes 27 social Greek organizations. Twoscore-four per centum of undergraduate students belong to one of the following campus-chartered organizations.[46]

Interfraternity Council National Pan-Hellenic Council National Panhellenic Conference Professional Fraternity Association
ΑΕΠ ΑΚΑ ΑΧΩ ΑΚΨ
ΒΘΠ ΑΦΑ ΑΟΠ ΔΧΞ
ΔΥ ΔΣΘ ΑΞΔ ΣΙΕ
ΚΑ ΚΑΨ ΧΥΣ ΒΑΨ
ΛΥΛ ΩΨΦ ΔΔΔ ΒΓΣ
ΣΧ ΦΒΣ ΚΔ ΔΣΠ
ΣΦΕ ΖΦΒ ΦΜ ΟΔΕ
ΣΠ ΣΓΡ ΣΚ
ZBT ΣΣΣ
ZTA

Pupil traditions [edit]

At the commencement of each school year, Elon Academy holds a New Pupil Convocation ceremony for showtime year and transfer students.[47] It is held "Nether the Oaks" behind the W Dormitory. Each new educatee receives their ain acorn at the close of the ceremony to symbolize their beginning at Elon. Upon graduation, each pupil receives an oak sapling, which is supposed to symbolize their growth at the university too every bit the growth in their own lives.[48] The use of the acorn and oak sapling is significant because Elon was named after the Hebrew word for "oak" considering of the grove of oak trees it was founded on.[49] The Oak Sapling tradition began in 1991, and the Acorn tradition began in 1999 after Leo Lambert became president of the university.[47]

Notable faculty [edit]

  • Crista Arangala - mathematician
  • Shane Atkinson – imam and clergyman
  • Connie Ledoux Volume – ninth president of Elon
  • January Boxill – ethicist
  • Peter S. Brunstetter – Professor of Police force, and member of the Due north Carolina Full general Assembly
  • Cardon V. Burnham – composer, arranger, conductor, and performer
  • Ann J. Cahill – feminist philosopher
  • Eileen Claussen – American climate and free energy policy administrator, diplomat, and executive-in-residence at Elon
  • Geoffrey Claussen – rabbi, Jewish ethicist and theologian
  • David Grand. Crowe – historian
  • James Danieley – sixth president of Elon
  • James G. Exum – Distinguished Professor of the Judicial Process at the Elon Police School
  • David Gergen – inaugural Isabella Cannon Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Elon
  • Thomas S. Henricks – professor of sociology
  • David C. Joyce – now president of Brevard College
  • Leo Lambert – eighth president of Elon
  • Sandra Lawson – sociologist, rabbi and chaplain
  • Elliot Mazer – audio engineer and music professor
  • Jon Metzger – Professor of Music and artist-in-residence
  • Paul Neebe – classical trumpeter and former professor of music at Elon
  • Guy Owen – novelist
  • Brian Chiliad. Pennington - scholar of Hinduism[50]
  • Rebecca Todd Peters – feminist Christian ethicist
  • Jeffrey Pugh – theologian
  • Michael Skube – journalist on the kinesthesia of the Elon University Schoolhouse of Communications
  • Megan Squire - calculator scientist[51]
  • Justin Tornow – dancer and choreographer
  • A. R. Van Cleave – professor of philosophy and football game motorbus
  • Anthony Weston – philosopher and ecology ethicist
  • Tripp York – religious studies scholar
  • James Fred Young – 7th president of Elon

Notable alumni [edit]

Academia [edit]

  • John Decatur Messick – Onetime President of Due east Carolina Academy (1947–1959)
  • H. Shelton Smith – scholar of religion at Duke University

Arts, literature, and amusement [edit]

Politics and armed services [edit]

Sports [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website
  • Elon Athletics website

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