Elon University

Elon University

The university includes Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences; the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business; the School of Communications; the School of Education; the School of Law; and the School of Health Sciences. Master's programs are offered in business administration, interactive media, education and physician assistant studies, and doctoral programs include physical therapy and law. Elon operates on a 4-1-4 academic calendar, including a four-week term in January known as Winter Term.

In 2009, the Phi Beta Kappa Society voted to establish a chapter at Elon, a mark of distinction for the university's commitment to meeting the high standards of excellence in the arts and sciences advocated by the Society.

Elon University is a private liberal arts university in Elon, North Carolina, United States. Founded as Elon College in 1889, it became Elon University on June 1, 2001.

School of Communications

The Elon School of Communications is one of 18 accredited communications programs for private universities in the US by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). The program encompasses 20% of students and is divided into six main concentrations: Journalism, Strategic Communications, Cinema & Television Arts, Communication Design, Media Analytics and Sport & Event Management.The teaching staff is rich in professional experience, including a Pulitzer Prize winner, top corporate communicators, a CNN veteran and a Webby Honors winner. There are no lab fees, and students can sign out top-line digital media equipment to use for free.

Students each complete at least one required internship. Workplaces include NBC, 60 Minutes, National Geographic, MTV, DreamWorks, New York Times, Vogue and the Washington Post. Many students complete multiple internships. Some students complete an internship while enrolled in the London program and intern at international media companies headquartered there. There are summer programs in Los Angeles and New York City for students to intern and take classes there. Elon students also conduct research at or present their work at the United Nations Internet Governance Forum, Federal Communications Commission, the Broadcast Education Association conference and many other venues.

Students in this discipline have several opportunities to gain practical experience, whether through working on the newspaper (The Pendulum), the radio station (WSOE), or one of many award-winning shows on Elon Student Television (ESTV) including two Emmy award winning shows: One-on-One Sports, and Phoenix14 News, both recognized by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Elon also has a public relations company called Live Oak Communications, as well as a student film group known as Cinelon. In the summer of 2009, the school established an M.A. program in Interactive Media which lasts for ten months. Elon Communications is also home to sketch comedy show Elon Tonight, established in 2010.

Campus-

Elon's historic campus is located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, adjacent to Burlington, a city of 50,000. Elon is 20 minutes from Greensboro and within a one-hour drive of many other universities – Duke, NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, North Carolina A&T State University, Guilford College, and Wake Forest.

Princeton Review as well as the New York Times ranked Elon University as the nation's #1 most beautiful campus. Elon's 600-acre (242.8 ha) campus is divided into seven major sections: North Area, Central Campus, West Area, East Area, South Campus, Danieley Center, and Elon West. Each area consists of different services and facilities. There are 29 residence buildings on campus and 12 major academic buildings. Elon also has numerous lakes and fountains throughout its campus.

Spike Lee used Elon as one of the university locations for the movie He Got Game. The Alamance Building, Fonville Fountain, and the Moseley Center's outside patio were the setting for the movie's "Tech University."

Campus life

The university has more than 150 campus organizations and programs, including 12 national fraternities and 13 national sororities.

The Pendulum, Elon's undergraduate weekly newspaper is published every Wednesday. WSOE, the University's student-run non-commercial campus radio station, has been airing since 1977. ETV (Elon Television) is the Student television station featuring numerous student-created and -run programs in addition to its nationally recognized news program, produced by ESTV (Elon Student Television). Phoenix14News was ranked #1 college newscast by the Broadcast Education Association in 2009 and was recognized as the Best College Newscast by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Phoenix14News was at the center of controversy in March 2010, when former student journalist Nick Ochsner was denied a complete incident report from Elon's Campus Safety and Police Department following an open records request for the details surrounding a fellow student's arrest. Ochsner has since sued the university and the state attorney general's office for the records. On June 5, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the university and the attorney general's office, holding that private university police departments, like that at Elon, are not subject to the state's open records law.

Numerous student government, special interest, and service organizations are represented on campus, including Elon Volunteers, Habitat for Humanity, Model UN, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Alpha Phi Omega, the Resident Student Association, the Student Government Association, and the Student Union Board. Cultural groups on campus include the Black Cultural Society, Hillel, Intercultural Club, and Spectrum (Gay-Straight Alliance).

Elon is home to the Fire of the Carolinas Marching Band (FOTC), which delivers pre-game, halftime, and occasionally post-game performances at home football games. The band also includes color guard (flag spinning) and dance auxiliary squads.

Facilities

Elon's sports facilities include two gymnasiums, Walter C. Latham Baseball Park, Rhodes Stadium, Hunt Softball Park, the on-campus football stadium, Alumni Field House, Koury Field House, six club athletic fields, Worseley Golf Center, and Koury Center, which features the 2,400 seat Alumni Gym, an aerobic fitness center, a weight room, racquetball courts, an indoor pool, and a dance studio. The Jimmy Powell Tennis Center is a twelve-court state-of-the-art complex and is recognized as one of the finest collegiate tennis complexes in the nation The 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) facility at the north end of Rhodes Stadium in the North Athletics Complex is the new headquarters for Phoenix athletics.

Campus of Elon University

The Elon University campus is a 525-acre (2.12 km²) campus in Elon, North Carolina. The campus is mostly located along East Haggard Avenue between Manning Avenue and North Oak Avenue, and North Williamson Avenue between the railroad tracks and University Drive. There are other minor streets that travel through and into campus. The campus is about three miles (5 km) from Interstate 40/85 and abuts the city of Burlington.

Academic building--

Alamance Building

Alamance Building  was opened in Fall 1925, named for the citizens of Alamance County. It is the center of the historic central quad, facing Scott Plaza and Fonville Fountain. Houses Registrar, Bursar, Provost office on the first floor and classrooms on the second and third floors. It is also home for several departments: Academic Affairs, Business, Finance and Technology, English, Human Services Study, Institutional Research and Student Life.

Carlton Building

Carlton Building was opened in 1925 and named for the Carlton family of trustees. This building is another part of the historic central quad. It is home to the Isabella Cannon Global Education center, el Centro de Espanol Spanish language center, the domestic programs department as well as World Languages and Cultures department. Classrooms and offices are located on the second and third floors.

Center for the Arts

Elon's ever-growing performing arts department (theatre, music, technical production, and dance) is housed here: a 75,000-square-foot facility specifically designed for teaching and performance. The centerpiece stage is McCrary Theatre, a 600-seat theatre and concert hall. The 125-seat Yeager Recital Hall offers a more intimate setting along with digital recording capabilities. There is also a 100-seat Black Box Theatre. Behind the scenes, the Center for the Arts includes modular practice rooms and studios, rehearsal rooms, a complete scenery shop and costume shop, computer labs, classrooms and Steinway concert grand pianos. Three spacious dance/rehearsal studios with mirrored walls and state-of-the-art sound equipment provide additional space for rehearsal and instruction.

Duke Building

Opened in 1927, the building was named for Artelia Roney Duke by her sons James Buchanan and Benjamin Newton Duke. She was the niece of WIlliam H. Trollinger, who gave the land on which Elon College was built. The Duke Building  is part of the historic central quad which faces Scott Plaza and Fonville Fountain. the main floor is headquarters for Academic Advising, along with the high-tech Carpenter Lab for Computing Sciences. It is also a central building for the Mathematics and Statistics Department.

Koury Business Center

Built in 2006, the business center was named for former Elon trustee Ernest A. Koury by his brother Maurice J. Koury, both of whom are prominent business leaders in Alamance County and the surrounding region. The Koury Business Center houses the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business and its related academic departments.

The building includes: The William Garrard Reed Finance Center, Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Chandler Family Professional Sales Center, Porter Family Professional Development Center, LaRose Digital Theatre, 16 classrooms, 17 study rooms, 3 computer labs, 3 student research rooms, and a Java City coffee bar on the second floor.

Long Building

Mooney Building

The Mooney Building  is home to the School of Education on Elon University’s campus and it is located in the historic area near central campus. The building was completed in 1926 and is one of the original buildings on the campus. M. Obran Jr. named it after his father-in-law, Rev. Isaac Mooney. A variety of classes are offered to undergraduates in Mooney focusing on elementary education, special education, health education, and mathematical education, as well as many others. Mooney contains a variety of education departments and includes the Teaching Fellows Program, the Noyce Scholars Program, and the Teacher Education Committee. The education program embodies Elon’s mission statement through its goal to “CARE,” which is an acronym for Compassionate Activism Resulting in Empowered Students. The program attempts to educate undergraduates through experiential learning and practical application.

Powell Building

Powell Building  is located near the center of campus and includes the Office of Admissions, The Office of Graduate Admissions, The Office of the President, Sports and Event Management Office, and the Interactive Media Masters Program. It was first opened in 1970 and now includes one level of offices and two levels of classrooms, including several lab style rooms fully equipped for science and laboratory classes.

McMichael Building

Opened in 1998 and named after Dalton L. McMichael, Sr., the McMichael Building of Science holds the departments of Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Engineering, and Biochemistry. It houses 17 high-tech laboratories that give students a highly interactive learning experience in the sciences. It features three floors of office space and classrooms and a basement with a fully stocked cadaver lab. It is one of the only undergraduate programs in the United States that has real cadavers for research. There is also exceptional equipment, such as a nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer, that students are given access to in order to further their education. There is also a separate greenhouse built for research and observation.

McEwen Communications Building

The McEwen Communications Building was originally opened in 1968 and is named after trustee Iris Holt McEwen. It is the homebase for the School of Communications at Elon University and includes two high definition television studios, a film theater, 13 video editing rooms, an audio recording studio, and cutting edge teaching tools. It also includes the McEwen Television Studio Vista which provides modern video technology and equipment available for student use. The professional quality of the building enables real-world learning in the communications realm. There are currently plans in place to expand and rebuild the Communications Building. The dean of the School of Communications is Paul Parsons who was the recipient of the 2011 National Administrator Award. When in the program, students choose from four majors, including Journalism, Strategic Communications, Media Arts and Entertainment, or Communication Science. This school houses 20% of the Elon University student population. The School of Communications also encourages student participation in media organizations. These include the school newspaper, The Pendulum, Elon Student Television, WSOE 89.3 Student Radio, and Phi Psi Cli or the yearbook. There are also multiple internship opportunities facilitated by the school, including Elon in NYC and Elon in LA. Accepted students have the opportunity to travel to New York or Los Angeles and participate in an internship with big name companies in the media industry.