Civic Engagement

A top Republican in North Carolina politics has bolstered his visibility leading up to a May 6 primary where the GOP will elect a candidate to challenge Democrat Kay Hagan for her U.S. Senate seat this fall.

What started as an academic exercise in a service learning class has transformed into a student-led community organization that has raised thousands of pounds of food for the hungry in Alamance County in just its first two months.

More than a dozen Elon University programs & student organizations are taking part in a free downtown Burlington community festival from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, May 3, with transportation to and from the McMichael Science Center parking lot.

Rebecca Berube '12 will spend 2014-2015 enhancing environmental awareness in Panama through the Princeton in Latin America program.

Elon University students can use TurboVote to register to vote and obtain absentee ballots should they wish to participate in either their home states' primaries or North Carolina's primary set for May 6, 2014.

Most media attention about West Virginia focuses on poverty or the coal industry, but the Periclean Scholars Class of 2014 at Elon University is dedicated to a different aspect of the state — the people.

Television personality and author S.E. Cupp visits campus on Feb. 27 for a program in Oaks 212 sponsored by Elon University student groups Young Americans for Liberty and the College Republicans.

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

Polls from Feb. 21-26 will ask residents of Alamance County and of North Carolina about their opinions on various social, economic and political issues.

Expert panelists and members of the public will share diverse views on poverty in a McKinnon Hall “Community Connections” program designed to foster conversation in a respectful environment.