New Student & Transition Programs

Eric Hall, associate professor of exercise science, and Angela Passarelli and Mallory Anderson, former directors of leadership, recently co-authored a research article in a special issue of the Journal of Experiential Education.

Campus Technologies held its 3rd annual Connected @ Elon event on Aug. 29, 2010, during New Student Orientation. Created to help incoming students learn about the technology available to them on campus, the theme of this year’s show was Family Feud.

With stories of alumni who left Elon University this spring to launch ambitious careers, and advice from administrators on engaging with the world as global citizens, New Student Convocation on Aug. 28 brought together freshmen who gathered as the Class of 2014 for the first time Under the Oaks of campus.

Students now have expanded e-mail capability as a result of Elon's partnership with Google. All student e-mail accounts have been converted to Google’s web-based e-mail service, Gmail. The conversion took place on June 1 and required no action from students. Returning students' e-mail addresses (student@elon.edu) and passwords remain the same. Inbox contents, including calendar appointments and contacts, were automatically transferred to the new Gmail accounts.

The Elon Center for Leadership, in cooperation with the Elon Center for Public Affairs, has concluded its first series of summer workshops and training events at the 4th annual International Human Rights Law Summer Study in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Three Elon students won top awards last week for their performance in the moot court competition at the 4th annual International Human Rights Law Summer Study in Vilnius, Lithuania, a program co-sponsored by the university’s Center for Public Affairs.

College is the beginning of many new experiences. Challenges such as living on your own, sharing a room, deciding a major, and meeting new friends aren’t always as easy as they seem. By scrambling over rocks on an 8.8 mile hike, canoeing six miles down a river, and helping preserve and maintain trails in the Shenandoah River State Park, 20 incoming students chose to jump start their college experience in a positive way.

Hand dryers in local middle school bathrooms would be better for the environment than paper towels. Additional electives would keep students from getting bored in class. New textbooks and laptops would be nice, too. Local seventh graders shared ideas Wednesday to strengthen their school communities as part of an annual youth leadership program at Elon University.

Student leaders from a variety of academic disciplines were honored April 29 at the annual Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony in Whitley Auditorium, an annual ceremony that coincides with CELEBRATE! week. ODK recognizes students who have provided outstanding leadership in their junior or senior years, and who have maintained high academic performance.