Community Engagement & Service

How a student and a professor are partnering with a local neighborhood to help its community garden flourish

With the end of fall tutoring, It Takes a Village Project celebrated the semester by hosting a Book Bash for community members. With free books, crafts, and community resources, the event left families with access to materials and connections to support students learning beyond the classroom.

Years after graduating, Junie Vargas ’21 continues to carry the lessons she learned at Elon into her work with Charlotte Family Housing. By welcoming students into meaningful engagement, she shows how service creates lasting change for both volunteers and the communities they serve.

Power+Place 2025 Public Screening brings stories and food from Alamance County to over 200 community members, students, faculty and staff.

Elon Music Ambassadors Share Inspiring Program with Wilmington High Schools

Frederick Hulse L’25 was recently awarded the North Carolina Bar Student Pro Bono Award for more than 100 hours of service to Triad residents. His generosity extended to classmates, who call him “selfless” and “genuine.”

The event focused on diabetes prevention and nutrition education, with the help of developed recipes by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).

Elon University’s Engineering in the Village program brings ABSS students together each month for free, hands-on STEM activities that spark creativity and confidence.

A two-semester capstone course gives engineering students the opportunity to apply the knowledge they’ve gained throughout their degree while directly serving the local Alamance County community.

The funding for a community-based initiative in the university's Physician Assistant Studies graduate program will expand medically based STEM curriculum for students in the Alamance-Burlington School System and strengthen research mentorship.