Student Life

The new First Thursdays Current Issues Forum is an initiative co-sponsored by Project Pericles and the Office of the Vice President for Student Life. Join fellow students, faculty and staff the first Thursday of every month for a lively discussion of a current event.

We regret the need to cancel the Community of Care program scheduled for Monday, September 19, 2011 and hope that our speaker, Kim Novak, feels better soon.

The EMT-Basic Certification program here on campus, offered through Alamance Community College, starts Monday, Sept. 12 at 5:30 pm.

Phoenix athletics is calling for photos that show how people at Elon "Live the Maroon Life"

Elon's New Student Orientation is Aug. 26-29. Members of the Class of 2015, as well as transfer students, should explore all the orientation resources online at a special website: www.elon.edu/orientation

Whitewater rafting, hiking, camping and rock climbing in West Virginia were on the docket this month for 64 incoming first-year students as part of Adventures in Leadership, a summer experience for rising freshmen sponsored by the Center for Leadership and Campus Recreation.

For the second consecutive year, Elon University students who took part in the annual springtime ELONTHON dance marathon raised more than $100,000 to benefit young patients and their families with the nonprofit Children’s Miracle Network and Duke Children’s Hospital.