Diversity and Global Engagement

Elon University students, faculty and staff traveled for a week in late March to assist communities with service work while learning about social issues that impact communities both in the United States and abroad.

The Elon African Society, in collaboration with CREDE, the Global Education Center, African and African American Studies, and the Latin American Student Organization, hosts Elon's first Africa Week, celebrating Africa's influence around the world. 

The university is among 20 schools and state health agencies taking part in a program meant to increase racial and ethnic diversity in the North Carolina healthcare workforce.

Members of the Global Neighborhood Association presented to a group of international educators at the NCAIE State Conference on March 13.

Students in the spring semester course "Disarming Injustice: Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement" traveled with their professor to Alabama as they remembered a violent episode in American history.

Elon University students and faculty raised money this year to purchase a desktop system to help an African family adjust to life in the United States.

Guest lecture by Professor Michel Bondurand, Université Paris 3 -  Sorbonne Nouvelle

Students, faculty and staff expressed their deep sorrow, lit candles and prayed together as they honored the three Muslim students who were murdered this week

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Nearly 100 students, faculty and staff met on Jan. 26 at a forum sponsored by the Black Cultural Society and The Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity Education.