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Heather Barker publishes paper on using topic modeling to identify motivations to enroll in online professional development
March 4, 2024
The paper by Barker, an assistant professor of mathematics and statistics, appeared in the Online Learning Journal and focused on using topic modeling, a type of computational text mining, to identify participant motivations in enrolling in an online professional development course for teaching statistics.
The Future of AI: Launch of Imagining the Digital Future Center fosters conversations about artificial intelligence
March 1, 2024
Members of the campus community gathered in McKinnon Hall Thursday for a special workshop event to mark the launch of the Imagining the Digital Future Center.
Elon’s Charlotte Smith named to Diverse: Issues In Higher Education’s list of 40 Outstanding Women
March 1, 2024
Smith, who has served as Elon’s women’s basketball coach since 2011, has been named to the 2024 class of leading women in higher education by media outlet Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Women on the list have helped make a difference with leadership skills, positive impacts and more.
Gendle advocates for self-defense strategies for DEI programs in Inside Higher Ed column
February 29, 2024
In this essay, which was published on Feb. 29, the director of Project Pericles and professor of psychology contends that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in higher education must prepare effective and proactive self-defense strategies against the multiple forces that wish to see them fail.
The Imagining the Digital Future Center: Technology experts, general public forecast impact of artificial intelligence by 2040
February 29, 2024
Elon University’s new Imagining the Digital Future Center has launched with a report that pairs a national public opinion poll with a survey of tech visionaries.
In My Words: In vast space to deepest ocean, explorers push to the edges so we don’t have to
February 28, 2024
In this column distributed by the Elon University Writers Syndicate, Professor Rosemary Haskell examines what we as a society gain by the triumphs of those explorers who brave danger to accomplish new things. The column was published by the Fayetteville Observer and other media outlets.
The Hon. Cheri Beasley named Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Professor at Elon Law
February 28, 2024
The former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court is teaching classes and mentoring students as a yearlong member of the Elon Law faculty.
NC Local News & Information Summit heads to NC Central’s campus March 8
February 27, 2024
With support from presenting sponsor Google News Initiative, the daylong conference will feature a keynote conversation between Sailor Jones (Common Cause North Carolina) and Cierra Hinton (Blue Engine Collaborative, Scalawag Magazine), touching on news, freedom of information, and rebuilding trust across North Carolina.
President Connie Ledoux Book to host webinar on AI in academia
February 27, 2024
The March 8 conversation will feature four leaders active in artificial intelligence issues
Catherine Quay selected to lead the Elon University Department of Nursing
February 26, 2024
Quay comes to Elon from the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions where she was a course chair for holistic gerontological nursing.