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Elon has released the inaugural edition of the President's Report, which highlights faculty and student scholarship during the 2010-11 academic year.

With about 1,425 first-year students, Elon’s Class of 2015 is the largest, most qualified and most diverse in the university’s history.

The Class of 2015 gathered together for the first time “Under the Oaks” in front of the West residence hall on Aug. 26 as Elon University administrators, faculty and student leaders welcomed them to the start of their academic journeys during New Student Convocation.

As families in luggage-laden minivans and SUVs arrive on Elon's campus each move-in day, you usually can count on one or two sets of twins to be among the new students. Not this year: the Class of 2015 holds six sets of twins.

Towing their suitcases and luggage trunks, their televisions and their refrigerators, more than 1,400 students in the Class of 2015 arrived at Elon University on Friday morning under a sweltering summer sun with humidity blanketing the region.

Elon's Phoenix athletics program placed 198 student-athletes on the Southern Conference's 2010-11 Academic Honor Roll. Elon had the third highest number of honorees among the conference's 12 colleges and universities.

The Orientation events for Saturday, Aug. 27, will be held as scheduled.This includes the Farewell Picnic, which will be at 12:30 p.m. on the Belk Library lawn. Read this note for details of today's schedule

Students arriving on campus today (Aug. 26) should read this note for details about schedules, routes into campus and unloading instructions.

When Elon’s economics department began requiring all seniors to complete a written thesis, Greg Lilly, associate professor of economics, noticed an interesting trend. “One of the things we noticed fairly early was that there seemed to be this spread in performances, and it seems to be a spread we can’t get rid of,” he said. Read more about Professor Lilly's research...