Faculty & Staff Resources
Below you will find resources to guide you in supporting the first-year student experience through Elon’s lens of Learn, Connect, and Thrive.
Learn
Faculty and Staff who are interested in learning more about the First-Year Experience are invited to explore these resources:
- CORE Curriculum: First Year Foundations
- Elon Common Reading
- Belk Library First-Year Experience Resource page
- Resources for Advising – Koenigsberger Learning Center
- First-Year Community Development Pathway – Residence Life
- National Resource Center – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition | University of South Carolina
- The Gardner Institute
- Teaching First-Year Students (Center for Teaching, Vanderbilt University)
Connect
- Connect with the First-Year Experience Advisory Committee members
- Consider joining the committee’s work and supporting the core initiatives.
- Engage in the residential campus by teaching residentially linked courses, advising living-learning communities, mentoring students through a live-in faculty role, and/or serving on a neighborhood association.
- Teach and advise students through ELON 1010: The First-Year Advising Seminar.
- Campus partners and units that can support your growth as a teacher-scholar-mentor in the context of the first-year experience:
Thrive
- Recommend reviewing Kognito At-Risk: Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Training modules
- Counseling Center
- Student Care and Outreach
- HealthEU
- Koenigsberger Learning Center
- Wellness Connections – Student Involvement
- Teaching the Whole Student: Integrating Wellness Education into the Academic Classroom
- Beyond Academics: First Year Student Success Requires Mental & Emotional Well-being (naspa.org)