Princeton Review names Elon one of nation’s “Colleges with a Conscience”

Elon University is among the nation’s top universities in fostering social responsibility and public service according to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact. Elon is one of 81 institutions in 33 states that The Princeton Review commends and features in its forthcoming book, “Colleges with a Conscience: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement.” The book, published by Random House/Princeton Review Books, will be available in bookstores on June 21.

The Princeton Review partnered with Campus Compact, a national organization committed to the civic purposes of higher education, to choose the schools and develop two-page profiles that are featured in the book. The book’s editors also invited dozens of organizations with expertise in campus community service and student engagement to nominate colleges for inclusion.

The Princeton Review and Campus Compact developed the list of top schools from a pool of over 900 colleges. Criteria for selection included: the college’s admissions practices and scholarships rewarding community service; support for service-learning programs, student activism, and student voice in school governance; and level of social engagement of its student body. The 81 schools chosen represent a diverse range of institutions by geographic region, campus size, setting (urban/rural), and type (public/private).

Elon is one of four schools chosen from North Carolina. The other schools are Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“A college with a conscience has both an administration committed to social responsibility and a student body actively engaged in serving society,” says Robert Franek, Princeton Review vice president “Education at these schools isn’t only about private gain: it’s about the public good.”

Eighty-eight percent of Elon’s graduating seniors have participated in volunteer service projects coordinated through the Kernodle Center for Service Learning. Elon is the host campus for North Carolina Campus Compact and is one of 10 founding colleges and universities in Project Pericles, a national effort that encourages and facilitates commitments by colleges and universities to include education for social responsibility and participatory citizenship as an essential part of their educational programs.

The Princeton Review is known for its classroom and online test-prep courses, books and other education services. Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents committed to supporting the public purposes of higher education. Its national office is in Providence, RI, and it has local offices in 30 states.

SCHOOLS APPEARING IN
“COLLEGES WITH A CONSCIENCE”

Alaska

University of Alaska Anchorage

California

California State University–Monterey Bay

Humboldt State University

Pitzer College

San Francisco State University

Stanford University

University of California–Berkeley

University of California–Los Angeles

University of San Diego

University of Southern California

Colorado

University of Colorado–Boulder

Connecticut

Connecticut College

Trinity College

District of Columbia

George Washington University

Florida

Florida State University

Miami Dade College–Kendall Campus

Rollins College

Georgia

Mercer University–Macon

Spelman College

Illinois

DePaul University

Loyola University Chicago

Rockford College

Northwestern University

University of Notre Dame

Indiana

Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Kansas

University of Kansas

Kentucky

Berea College

Georgetown University

Louisiana

Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge

Tulane University

Maine

Bates College

Maryland

University of Maryland–College Park

Massachusetts

Bentley College

Brandis University

Clark University

Hampshire College

Harvard University

Smith College

Tufts University

University of Massachusetts–Amherst

University of Massachusetts–Boston

Williams College

Michigan

Alma College

Michigan State University

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Minnesota

Augsburg College

Macalester College

Metropolitan State University

University of Minnesota–Twin Cities

Missouri

Southwest Missouri State University

Montana

University of Montana–Missoula

New Hampshire

Dartmouth College

Saint Anselm College

New Jersey

Princeton University

New York

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Syracuse University

North Carolina

Duke University

Elon University

North Carolina State University

University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Ohio

Antioch College

Defiance College

Dension University

Miami University of Ohio

Oberlin College

Oklahoma

Northeastern Oklahoma A & M

Oregon

Lewis & Clark College

Portland State University

Pennsylvania

Allegheny College

Swarthmore College

University of Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Brown University

Johnson & Wales University–Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

South Carolina

Clemson University

Tennessee

Vanderbilt University

Texas

St. Edward’s University

St. Mary’s University Texas

Vermont

Middlebury College

University of Vermont

Virginia

James Madison University

Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin–Madison