Elon University Case Study

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1. Elon is located in the state of North Carolina in the Piedmont Triad area, 20 minutes east of Greensboro and 30 minutes north- west of Durham and Chapel Hill and the address of the school is 100 Campus Drive, Elon, NC 27244.

2. The amount of people that currently live in the town of Elon which is in Alamance County, as of the 2010 census was 9,419. The town of Elon is home to Elon University.

3. The North Carolina legislature chartered for Elon College which is a four year “coeducational institute,” which means both boys and girls can attend. Which is located at Mill Point. Founded by the Christian Church; William S. Long in 1889 and was founder and first president of this college.

4. Two American events happened during the time that …show more content…

Tuition and fees are 32,172 and Room and board are 10,998.

6. Here are some fact to show how selective and competitive the college is. This school has a 57% acceptance rate and there typical SAT is 1690-1920, ACT is 25-29 and their average GPA is a 3.95 on a 4.0 scale.

7. Some of the main courses or majors are arts, sciences and business, but they also have some popular additional courses too like Astronomy and African and African-American studies.

8-9. Elon University is a gorgeous school located Alamance county. If you don’t know North Carolina it’s beautiful. It’s always pretty warm with very hot summers. Elon is thirty minutes north of Durham and Chapel Hill . This school has everything for everyone from art classes to business classes. Some interesting facts about Elon is that the size of the school it 636 acres, there colors are maroon and gold with a phoenix as a mascot. The male to female ratio is 41% to 59% and they have 17% for ethnic diversity. Also more that half of the kids live on campus. Elon is the third largest of 36 private colleges in America. A private college means that people that live in the state that want to go there don’t …show more content…

Modern and medieval schools have some similarities. If a medieval student came and visited a modern school today they would see that there schedules would be similar and some of the classes they took. At medieval schools they would get up very early pray, eat and then go to class, then they would get a short break and go to a later afternoon class. In their classes they would be lectured for long period of time. This very similar to what people do in college now, kids can schedule their classes but they can space them out differently so that they can have breaks in between. In these classes kids get long lectures like in the medieval times. Another thing that is similar in their classes they took arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music, grammar, rhetoric and logic and there were separate programs for the further study of law, medicine and theology. In modern times lots of kids go to colleges and study these different classes, they don’t take them all at once anymore but all these classes are still very popular to

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