Diversity and Global Engagement

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas "came out" as an undocumented immigrant three years ago and shared his story with an Elon University audience on Feb. 22 during the Intersect: Diversity & Leadership Conference.

Glenda Phillips Hightower visited the university on Thursday and spent part of her day talking with current students about her struggles and triumphs in 1963 as Elon's first full-time African-American student.

Join the fireside chat in the McBride Gathering Space of the Numen Lumen Pavilion about Elon's efforts to create an inclusive campus and disrupt bias and hate in our community. 

The Winter Term course "Disarming Injustice: Nonviolence and the Civil Rights Movement" included visits to the 16th Street Baptist Church and the National Voting Rights Museum.

The 4:30-5:30 p.m. program on Thursday is sponsored by the Multicultural Center and open to the community.

Elon University’s Black History Month Steering Committee is recognizing physical plant workers, program assistants, and faculty & administrative staff members in a series of College Coffee presentations throughout February.

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."

The essay, "Wye Diversity Matters," is part of a collection from 18 of the more than 1,000 participants who attended the faculty seminars since 1983.

LD Russell in the Department of Religious Studies will lead a weekly Monday program this spring to teach the concepts, ideas and practices of several of the world's biggest religions.