Academic Advising

Brian Chandler volunteers his time with a local fire department. But for the month of April, the Elon University HVAC mechanic learned how to control brush fires that promote healthy forests, and to monitor logging companies that work near water supplies.

An Elon University professor traveled to Suriname this spring to help its largest university develop a stronger physical therapy program in an impoverished nation with few trained therapists.

A university librarian spent a week in Mexico last month tutoring students in English, and now that she is back on campus, Dianne Ford wants to start a program that takes Elon students there each spring to help their counterparts learn the language.