During the past year, students contributed 88,084 hours of service, with more than 3,200 students participating in volunteer and community engagement efforts.
During the 2025-26 academic year, thousands of students contributed their time and talents to address community needs, strengthen local organizations, and build meaningful partnerships through curricular and co-curricular community engagement. The infographic below highlights the powerful impact that students, faculty, staff, and community partners have made together.
Alongside this infographic, these stories highlight some of the positive impact across campus through community partnerships during the past academic year:
- Elon receives Carnegie classification for community engagement
- Elon recognized for advancing nonpartisan student civic engagement
- Elon creates community through Special Olympics and Elon Athletics partnership
- Turning service into impact: How an Elon alumna is bringing Alamance County together
- Literary Journalism class engages Town of Elon mayor in civic dialogue
- Writing for Impact students secure funding for local nonprofit
- Showing up, growing together: Inside KING/PINK Academy’s power of mentorship
- Students reflect on service, community and connection during Fall Break
- New HealthEU course encourages students to go ‘beyond the Elon bubble’
- Elon empowers staff to make an impact in the community through paid volunteer leave