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From Sept. 15 through Oct. 15, Elon University will have many events and activities to celebrate the histories of the Latinx/Hispanic communities.

Emphasizing the importance of Black culture and a revival of the arts, the Black Solidarity Conference will feature keynote speaker Alex Bohannon ’17.

The Elon women’s basketball team hosted elementary students from Alamance Burlington School System during Education Day as they took on the University of Richmond and set a new attendance record.

Elon welcomes a national leader for diversity and inclusion work with previous experience at Wake Forest University and the University of Missouri.

The group prepared its final report during summer 2021 that detailed nearly 40 recommendations for redesigning the university’s bias response and reporting system.

The keynote speaker of the eighth Black Solidarity Conference at Elon is Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate.

As part of their sophomore Periclean coursework, members of the Periclean Scholars Class of 2024 created interactive exercises and discussion questions related to the Common Reading, and worked with fellow Elon students as peer-educators to facilitate engagement with this text.

The dean of the School of Communications was presented on Sept. 27 with Page’s Distinguished Service Award, recognizing her contributions to strengthen the role of corporate communications and public relations in business and society.

This overview details accomplishments and future work toward 46 recommendations detailed by the Latinx/Hispanic Working Group, which issued its final report in 2018.

The site is a hub for resources, news and information related to the division's work, which per its vision is “to create a community where people strive to dismantle oppression and where individuals flourish.”