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Elon University
Elon University has built a national reputation as the premier student-centered liberal arts university that values strong relationships between students and their faculty and staff mentors. Elon’s 6,600 students prepare to become the resilient, ambitious and ethical leaders the world needs, putting their knowledge into action on campus, in the community and around the globe. Elon is known for academic excellence and for experiential learning programs in study abroad, internships, undergraduate research, service, leadership and civic engagement. Elon is ranked the nation’s #1 master’s-level university for study abroad and is a top-producer of Fulbright Student Scholars and Peace Corps volunteers. U.S. News & World Report recognizes Elon more than any other university in the nation for academic programs that “Focus on Student Success.”
Founded in 1889, Elon includes six academic divisions – 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 Health Sciences; and the School of Law, which is located in downtown Greensboro, N.C. The university’s main 636-acre residential campus in the Town of Elon, N.C., is consistently recognized as one of the nation’s finest environments for learning.
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Le syndrome de Gilles de la Tourette peut se traduire par le fait de proférer involontairement des obscénités et des insultes. Cette coprolalie très stigmatisante ne concerne toutefois qu’une minorité de patients.
Obscene language tics, called coprolalia, don’t reveal what people with Tourette’s think and feel. In fact, tics often compel people to say or do precisely what they most wish to avoid.
Forming study groups and reaching out to professors can greatly improve a first-year student’s chances for success.
Alex Jones lost a defamation suit by Sandy Hook parents for falsely claiming they helped fake the murders of their children. But the judgment doesn’t deal with important First Amendment questions.
Before you invest your money in going to a particular college, you should figure out if a school is financially healthy enough to keep its doors open, two veteran college administrators warn.
Done right, aid fosters greater stability and boosts the economy. That reduces incentives to move away.
Social media companies struggle to identify and remove hate speech when it’s posted. What can computer science reveal about how hate-filled texts and videos spread online?
We asked experts on ethics, constitutional law and European political history to analyze Trump’s Oval Office address. Here’s what they heard in his speech about ‘crisis’ at the US-Mexico border.
Students with larger and stronger networks of faculty and peer mentors tend to find college more rewarding, a new Elon University poll shows.
On the one-year anniversary of the tragedy in Charlottesville, we asked the presidents of Bowdoin, Elon and the University of Washington whether free speech should be treated differently on campus.
With Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Trump will appoint a second justice to the Supreme Court. Will his nominees be impartial if Trump ends up in the court because of the Russia probe?
Family members of Sandy Hook victims sued media personality Alex Jones over his claims that the killings were a hoax they participated in. Current law makes their lawsuit unnecessarily hard to prove.
Lotto scamming — a criminal enterprise largely targeting elderly Americans — is lucrative in western Jamaica, where it is thought to be behind 50 percent of all area murders last year.
Only a few parts of Buddhism’s much larger practice were transplanted into American soil in the late 19th century. Here’s how Buddhism changed when it migrated.
Its plan to stop lending money for oil and gas projects embraces the spirit of the Paris agreement at a time when the U.S. is going in a different direction.
A provision in the House’s pending tax bill would let religious and secular nonprofits engage in political speech without facing a penalty.
Dying in America 200 years ago was a simply family affair, devoid of pomp. The US Civil War and Abraham Lincoln’s embrace of embalming changed everything.
Governments’ efforts to weaken communications security undermine and distract from the need to protect the real weak points in our online communications.
For many disabled students, college is the first time that they’re put to the test of making their own way. The experience can be challenging, but there are strategies to help ease the way.
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Assistant Professor of Communications, Elon University
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Assistant Professor of Human Service Studies, Elon University
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President , Elon University
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Assistant Professor of Politics and Policy Studies, Elon University
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Professor of Law, Elon University
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Senior Vice President, Elon University
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Director of the Elon University Poll, Elon University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies, Elon University
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Professor of Education, Elon University
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President Emeritus and Professor of Education, Elon University
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Professor of Computer Science, Elon University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Elon University
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Assistant Provost for Teaching and Learning and Executive Director, Center for Engaged Learning, Elon University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Elon University
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Professor of Accounting, Elon University