Center for Engaged Learning

The three-summer research seminar will facilitate multi-institutional research on study abroad and off-campus domestic study as integrated global learning practices.

Seven Elon professors are part of a larger effort funded by the Teagle Foundation to study new classroom approaches to the humanities with an emphasis on engaged learning.

Professors from 26 colleges and universities were on campus July 13-18, 2014, for a research program hosted by the Center for Engaged Learning.

Elon University professors Charity Johansson and Peter Felten have co-authored a book that explains how colleges everywhere can better help students learn and develop through meaningful experiences both on and off campus.

Professor Ann J. Cahill and Associate Professor Stephen Bloch-Schulman received the 2014 Lenssen Prize from the American Association of Philosophy Teachers for "Argumentation Step-by-Step: Learning Critical Thinking Through Deliberative Practice."

James Honan of Harvard University and Peter Felten of Elon University will talk about the social and technological forces shaping American higher education in a 5:30 p.m. program co-sponsored by Elon's Politics Forum and the Center for Leadership.

Apply today for the Thomas Barnett Breaking Down Barriers Scholarship awareded to a member of the campus community.

The associate professor of English and coordinator of the university's African & African-American Studies program led participants in a session titled "Whose Intercultural Learning? Study Abroad, Research and Scholarship: Creating Opportunities for Faculty, Staff and Students."

Deandra Little with the university’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning will serve for the next three years on the executive board of the POD Network in Higher Education.

Jessie L. Moore, Peter Felten, and Michael Strickland contributed a chapter on Elon University's Faculty Writing Residencies to a new edited collection. "Supporting a Culture of Writing: Faculty Writing Residencies as a WAC Initiative" describes the annual writing residency that the authors launched in 2006.