Model United Nations (MUN) at Elon is an academic club and a class, where students work together to simulate the United Nations Security Council on and off campus. Elon’s MUN is a student-administered club, with a faculty advisor overseeing its activities.
Model United Nations (MUN) at Elon is an academic club and a class, where students work together to simulate the United Nations Security Council on and off campus. Elon’s MUN is a student-administered club, with a faculty advisor overseeing its activities.
In weekly meetings, students get a chance to debate and practice public speaking through role-playing of their assigned country’s policies. The club also competes nationally at a variety of intercollegiate conferences, where delegates travel to different campuses and compete with other schools. Each semester, in consultation with the MUN faculty advisor, the club’s executive board selects from its active members respective Elon delegations to represent the university at these intercollegiate conferences. MUN members attend five to six different each academic year.
In addition, MUN also runs its own conference (International Crisis Conference at Elon, or ICCE) every semester; students in the club, and any other interested Elon student participate in a day-long simulation. MUN also hosts nearby schools once a year in a training camp on Elon’s campus.
In Fall 2018, Elon’s MUN had a busy and successful semester. MUN members attended three intercollegiate conferences, returning with multiple awards (five outstanding delegates, two honorable mentions, and one best delegate) from each one of them. Griffin Barriss, Taylor Deacon, Michael Kaether, Matt Kimball, Blaire Palmer, Pearl Sullivan and Alexander Yalcin were recognized at these intercollegiate competitions.
Early in the semester, the club hosted a training conference, which helps prepare new delegates for competition in intercollegiate conferences. Approximately 150 delegates from seven universities attended the one-day event on Elon’s campus. Then in November, about 200 Elon students participated in ICCE. President Connie Ledoux Book offered the opening remarks at ICCE this year. In her talk, President Book discussed crisis management skills.
Lastly, MUN’s activities and success in the fall were recently recognized by bestdelegate.com, which ranks Model United Nations teams across North America. According to the webpage, Elon’s MUN was one of the top 50 MUN clubs in their rankings.