Inclusive Excellence at Elon

Russaw is an associate professor of the Old Testament at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminar and an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, where she serves as the chair of the African American Biblical Hermeneutics program unit.

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

CREDE to host two discussions and a showing of Colin Kaepernick's Netflix series for Multicultural Awareness Week.

All first-year students in the School of Health Sciences participated in a professional identity formation activity that connected self, colleagues, future healthcare team collaborators and the Maker Hub.

Professor of Exercise Science Eric Hall is the principal investigator on the grant, titled, “Building a meaningful mentoring program with and for Black college athletes at a predominately White institution,” and was awarded $24,665 from The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

The North Carolina poet laureate, Green delivered the keynote address and sparks Black joy at the 2022 Black Solidarity Conference.

This two-year award will support multi-institutional work to better prepare students and institutions to develop and sustain community-based learning initiatives.

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.

Longmire-Avital is one of 120 Scholars Selected for National Center for Institutional Diversity’s National Scholars Network.