Learn

Innovative teaching and learning in an era of opportunity

Boldly Elon, the university’s strategic plan for 2030, encompasses four key themes — Learn, Thrive, Connect and Rise. Building upon decades of curricular innovation and national leadership in experiential learning, under the Learn theme, we will:

Set the standard for engaged learning and mentoring
Implement a distinctive model for STEM, engineering, nursing and data competency
Innovate teaching and learning across the curriculum and for a lifetime

Read more about the pillars of the Learn theme below, and explore some of the College of Arts and Sciences’ responses to those charges on the following pages.

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Engaged learning and mentoring

Boldly Elon will magnify the transformative power of student- and learning-centered relationships. With Elon’s characteristic drive for continual improvement, we will deepen engaged learning, providing every student with access to high-impact experiences. Through a groundbreaking mentoring model, students will learn to build developmental networks that include peers, staff and faculty, as well as others beyond the university.

This lifelong constellation of mentors will emerge as a hallmark of an Elon education, engaging all students in developing essential skills and fluencies – writing, speaking, creative problem solving, collaboration, intercultural learning, data competency, media literacy, ethics and personal and professional agility.

Two students displaying their STEM projects for Elon's Maker Takeover.

STEM, engineering, nursing and data competency

In response to the global demand for more engineers and STEM-related skills, Boldly Elon will advance a distinctive and cross-disciplinary STEM program. Graduates of these programs, grounded in the liberal arts and experiential learning, will be sought after as problem-solvers focused on the common good.

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Innovative teaching and learning across the curriculum and for a lifetime

Elon’s rich intellectual community has been propelled by the strategic choice to place excellence in arts and sciences — central to the development of freedom of thought and liberty of conscience – at the core of the undergraduate curriculum and fully integrate it with outstanding professional schools and graduate education. Boldly Elon will deepen the arts and sciences, Core Curriculum and work across disciplines, ensuring that graduates are creative, culturally agile, ethically grounded and well-prepared to address questions of societal importance.