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Paula Patch facilitates workshop on successful Common Reading programs

March 10, 2026

Along with other members of the Penguin Random House Common Reads Advisory Board, Paula Patch, associate director of the Common Reading Program and First-Year Foundations in the Elon Core Curriculum and associate teaching professor of English, facilitated a half-day workshop on launching and sustaining a Common Reading program at the annual Conference on the First-Year Experience in Seattle in February.

Elon Day challenge raises and razes eyebrows

March 6, 2026

Professor Joel Karty set a $20,000 goal to benefit the Department of Chemistry that, if met, would have him shave his bushy arches. You can guess what happened next.