Three Elon professors whose interactions & mentoring have been defined by the residential experience share insight on the plan.
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As a major initiative of the Elon Commitment strategic plan, nearly $100 million will be invested over the next decade to create one of the nation’s most vibrant residential campuses, fully integrating student life with the university’s outstanding academic programs.
Russell Gill, Stephen Braye and David Vandermast have long been supporters of Elon University’s residential experience and value the creation of opportunities for students to learn outside the classroom.
Residential facilities will need to be built and modified to support this ambitious plan. The construction of the Global Neighborhood begins this summer where North Area now sits, and The Station at Mill Point residential neighborhood will open in August 2012 for rising juniors and seniors.
In addition, Elon has added new campus housing over the past year in the Colonnades neighborhood and in the Loy Center, home to several Greek organizations. A new dining hall is currently under construction and, once open, will nearly double the size of the existing Moseley Center.
In this video, Gill, Braye and Vandermast reflect on the residential experience and how you as faculty can more fully develop young minds by engaging students to critically think and analyze lessons not only in the classroom – but where they live in the Elon campus community.