Center for Access and Success

As the back-to-school season begins, the Village Project reflects on the students who took home the magic of literacy this summer.

While Elon Academy students are not required to attend Elon University, the Elon Class of 2029 features the most students ever from the university’s college-access program.

Elon University is featuring a variety of photos every month to highlight the exceptional learning, work and activities of students, faculty and staff.

The newest cohort of Odyssey Program scholars was welcomed to campus during Odyssey Week from July 12-18, the annual orientation event for the merit-based scholarship program.

Odyssey Program alumni Dinora Guadarrama Flores ‘21 and Yousaf Khan ‘20 reflect on how the support of the Odyssey Program assisted them in their post-graduate journeys.

The A.J. Fletcher Foundation made a meaningful investment in Elon’s First-Generation services, now led by their former fellow, Kenneth Brown Jr. ’19.

Seventy high schoolers will spend the next three weeks taking classes and building relationships through Elon University’s college access and success program for academically promising students in Alamance County with a financial need or no family history of college. 

Celebrations such as the First-Generation Stole Ceremony, Celebremos!: Graduates Take Flight, Donning of the Kente, and Lavender Graduation highlighted the achievements of students who embraced, and were embraced by, communities of support throughout their college experience.

Elon University celebrated over 60 first-generation students, the largest to date, during an inspiring stole ceremony on May 21 that highlighted the strength, support and achievement of the first-gen community.