First-Year Experience

Adventures in Leadership sessions focus on the successful transition of incoming first-year students through community building, finding resources and having conversations about college life at Elon.

The Engage program at Elon provides an opportunity for incoming students to spend a week on campus before their first semester, learning more about the university and volunteering in the local community.

The project was prompted by a common love of dogs among the students in the Elon 1010 class of Senior Lecturer April Post.

The author of "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" will speak to the Elon community and host workshops on Thursday, Sept. 21 and Friday, Sept 22.

Elon continues to be the leader in the “Programs to Look For” feature as the only college or university in the country ranked in the top 20 in all eight categories of academic programs linked to student success and positive learning outcomes.

The website for New Student Programs at Elon provide students and their families with an overview of events and helpful tips as the academic year prepares to begin.

Incoming first-year Elon students spent a week with on-campus organizations and community partners to get first-hand experience of service opportunities Elon provides.

Five Elon first-year students describe their unique Elon experiences since arriving at the university in August.

Twenty incoming first-year Elon students spent a week with on-campus organizations and community partners to get first-hand experience of service opportunities Elon provides.

Rudd, LePors, and Tennant discussed librarians as partners in first-year student success