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Aspiring
Community
Engaging
Transforming
Enduring
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Elon College Then
Elon University Now
Imagine
founding a college...
…A vision emerges from a group committed to the education of young men and
women; they form a board of trustees, write a charter, and seek a location. A president
and administrative staff are selected to guide the institution’s development. They recruit a
faculty to develop a curriculum and students to teach. As the fledgling institution matures,
subspecialties emerge: an admissions staff recruits students; a student life staff orients and
houses them and tends to their holistic welfare. An advancement team solicits an endowment
to sustain the project; generous donors respond. Advisors advise; career specialists prepare
for life after college. Buildings are built; lawns and gardens are planted and beautifully
maintained. An athletics program builds school spirit. And the faculty keeps inventing new
ways to enhance the programs of study.
A wonderful byproduct of all this effort is the assembling of a group of people like us, indeed
precisely us. … Let us pray.
We are grateful, O God, for this institution we have inherited from the faithful labors
of generations who preceded us. We are grateful for the integrity of the vision that set
Elon in motion, for the strategic choices that have brought us to this moment in our
history, and for the evolving vision that shapes our future.
We accept our collective responsibility to provide opportunity and education for
students; and, especially on this evening, we acknowledge that among the purposes of
a good university is that it collects folks like us together, committed to serving this larger
purpose and inspired by those whose devotion to Elon has personified her mission.
Accept our gratitude for this meal that strengthens us, for the good earth that
provides it for us, and for this ceremony that presents us the good work of stewardship.
By Your Grace. Amen.
Richard W. McBride
University Chaplain and Director of Church Relations
Invocation Ever Elon Campaign Kickoff October 11, 2008
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Elon University Now
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Thanks to scholarships,
the Elon University
community comprises
students from a wide
variety of backgrounds,
experiences and a broad
range of abilities.
Aspiring
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An Extraordinary Story
Elon University’s quantum leap in reputation and range is one of the
extraordinary stories in the history of American higher education. It’s a
new story, not torn from the pages of colonial or pioneer days. It’s an
unfolding story, too, still being written.
Equally remarkable is the broad array of measures Elon has launched to
secure and build on its new level of eminence. Those measures include
broadening access and opportunities for the best students and attracting
new and promising teacher-scholars, in part by fighting off recruiting
raids on its own star faculty by better-endowed universities. At the
same time, our highly dedicated faculty is reaching toward new levels
of scholarship and creativity and devising new ways to engage students
here and abroad in learning, leadership and service. At Elon, faculty and
students work shoulder-to-shoulder in and out of the classroom.

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Time and Money:
the Hard Currencies of Quality
Every measure, every step, takes determined effort over time. Time
and money are the hard currencies of excellence. To provide a
$10,000 scholarship, for example, Elon must have the income
from more than $220,000 in endowment funds—or equal income
from some other source. Scholarships matter, both to individual
students and to the university. Thanks to scholarships, the Elon
University community comprises students from a wide variety of
backgrounds, experiences and a broad range of abilities. Some of
the most compelling stories of the transformative nature of the Elon
experience come from students in the Leon and Lorraine Watson
North Carolina Scholarship Program. The program provides
college access and program opportunities for first-generation, high-
need North Carolina students who have achieved success despite
hardships and extraordinary challenges.
“I’m being eaten alive. Students
come to me all the time with
great ideas for projects. On
the faculty side, summer is
the perfect time for travel to
do research or present at a
conference or to write an article
or book. That summer work
elevates the name of Elon.”
Paul Parsons, dean of the School of
Communications
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“To meet growing competition, the MBA
program should have at least three or four
more full scholarships. Global internships are
increasingly important and very expensive.
Similarly, our undergraduate semester
abroad program is important—we need to
give students more of that cultural experience
than they can get in just the Winter Term. As
we climb in reputation, the competition is
changing for students and for faculty. And
we have to offer the same opportunities as our
new competitors. Our students do very well
when we give them the opportunity to show
what they can do. We must give them the
opportunity to shine.”
Mary Gowan, dean of the Martha and Spencer
Love School of Business
EVER Aspiring
Elon continues to jump to higher levels of
quality. All of our schools are accredited at
the highest level (provisionally in the case
of the School of Law, after only two years).
National rankings are up, students are
claiming prestigious national scholarships,
and the athletics program is soaring.
The jewel in the new crown would be a
Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Good news there:
Elon has moved to the second round in the
exhaustive, multi-year process of “sheltering”
a chapter of the nation’s oldest honors
society.
Other scholarship recipients have their own stories, and this is
true, to varying degrees, whether their awards are need-based or
talent-based, whether based on academics, the arts, athletics or
any of the other qualities and abilities that are prized by the Elon
community. Their contributions to the academic and campus life of
the university make Elon what it is today.
While Elon needs more scholarship funds to broaden access and
opportunity for talented and deserving students, the demands of
quality extend beyond students to faculty. Through the year 2014,
Elon plans to increase annual expenditures for faculty development
by $2.75 million, providing additional travel and research grants
for the summer, and much more. One telltale sign of quality is the
percentage of faculty awarded sabbaticals each year; Elon’s goal is to
reach 10 percent, up from the current 6 percent, to match selected
peers. As a result, says President Leo M. Lambert, “Elon will be in
a dramatically improved, competitive position for recruiting and
retaining the faculty we want to hire and keep.”
Every bit of time has a price tag. For every sabbatical granted, a
temporary replacement must be chosen and additional salary
budgeted. There are many, many more requests for grants than can
be awarded. That’s true in the college and in every school.
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Needed: a Sizeable Endowment
Building the endowment is the decisive next step—without which
every other step ultimately will be hobbled. Elon’s path to greatness
lies in building its small endowment—merely $80 million—into a
dynamo that will power quality. Only in that way can Elon secure its
transformation from a small college to a comprehensive university
with a national presence.
Why endowment? It is income from endowment—funds for
investments and rainy days—that fuels the schools from Elon’s peer
and aspirant groups. The nation’s most prestigious schools have
enormous endowments, some with millions of dollars per student.
“The ability to educate, not only
for the mind, but for the heart,
is one of the enduring values of
this place.”
Dr. Jeffrey Pugh is the Maude Sharpe
Powell Professor of Religious Studies.
He is a prolific scholar and sought-after
speaker whose books include The
Matrix of Faith: Reclaiming a Christian
Vision and Entertaining the Triune
Mystery: God, Science, and the Space
Between.
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A Hurdle Elon Must Overcome
A small endowment means Elon competes at a disadvantage.
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$300,000,000
$600,000,000
$900,000,000
$1,200,000,000
$1,500,000,000
Elon University
Stetson University
Wofford College
Rhodes College
Rollins College
Davidson College
Furman University
Washington and Lee University
Wake Forest University
University of Richmond
Our most significant hurdle
is the lack of a sizeable
endowment. We compete
at a disadvantage with an
endowment valued at roughly
one-sixth that of Furman,
a school with a smaller
enrollment, and one-twelfth
that of Wake Forest, a school
of comparable size.
In addition to other resources, endowment size per student is an
important factor in annual rankings of the best universities. By that
measure, Elon has been an overachiever since even before the days
of the Great Depression, when President Smith resolutely dodged
both creditors and bankruptcy.
Our most significant hurdle is the lack of a sizeable endowment. We
compete at a disadvantage with an endowment valued at roughly
one-sixth that of Furman, a school with a smaller enrollment, and
one-twelfth that of Wake Forest, a school of comparable size.
Elon climbed to national distinction through strategic planning,
expert marketing and an educational program that made outstanding
teachers truly accessible to bright and caring students with a desire
to do well and to do good. Astutely managing enrollment growth,
Elon has pursued the most promising initiatives and funded must-
have improvements such as a library, labs and student center. Now
the university’s leaders are moderating enrollment increases while
holding the line on the rate of tuition increase. Elon is a phenomenal
value, as Kiplinger’s and other observers report every year: The Board
of Trustees, the president and his colleagues are intent on keeping it
that way.
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The Campaign for the Future of Our University
Endowment
$70,000,000
Access and Opportunity
$30,000,000
Scholarships (need and merit)
Athletic Scholarships
School of Law Scholarships

Excellent Teaching and Scholarship
$12,000,000
Professorships

Faculty Development

Center For Advancement of
Teaching And Learning


In Support of Engaged Learning
$10,000,000
Undergraduate Research
International Study

Internships
Service Learning

Leadership Development
Elon Academy
Campus Preservation
$ 5,000,000
Other Endowment for Emerging Opportunities
$ 7,000,000
Unrestricted/Undesignated
$6,000,000
Operations
$20,000,000
Annual Giving of All Types
Preserving and Building the Campus $10,000,000
Academic Village Completion

Athletics Facilities Expansion

Multi-Faith Center
Total
$100,000,000
Our Goals
The drive to secure greatness by building
endowment is Ever Elon: The Campaign for the
Future of Our University launched October 11, 2008.
By engaging interested friends and attracting new
donors, the university seeks to raise $70 million in new
endowment and a total of $100 million for all purposes
by the year 2011.
Opportunity and impact: those are the true goals of the
Ever Elon Campaign. More endowment will underwrite
scholarships for students from all backgrounds and take
them to the heart of issues through study, leadership
and service on campus and abroad. Faculty will have
more of the precious gift of time to study, create and
perform; they will become even better teachers, models
and mentors to one another and their students.
We are seeking immediate gifts of endowment funds
and deferred gifts, which can provide attractive financial
benefits to the donor. While endowment must be our
primary focus, the Ever Elon Campaign also seeks gifts
of annual support to the university, including priorities
such as the School of Law and athletics. Selected capital
projects call for the construction of Lindner Hall to
complete the Academic Village, expansion of athletic
facilities and the development of a multi-faith center.
In the future, of course, new opportunities will arise.
Unrestricted endowment will provide funds at those
most critical junctures, where there comes an unusual
and time-limited chance for programmatic growth
or diversification, a requirement of one-time seed
monies to launch a new initiative, or a brief window of
investment time in a faculty member or student project.
A healthy endowment will meet the challenge and
opportunity of Elon’s future in perpetuity. Support
for endowment is the kind of gift that has no equal
in impact over time, impact that will be greatest at
a dynamic, emerging institution such as this one.
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Elon is poised at the threshold
of a new level of excellence
and impact. Endowment will
allow us to slow enrollment
growth, while strengthening the
experience of the entire Elon
community — students, faculty,
staff, alumni, and visitors.
And it is this special community
that is so dynamic at Elon.
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Thanks to Scholarships,
Elon’s First Truman
Thanks to the generosity of others, Breanna (Bre) Detwiler ’09 holds two
Elon “firsts“—the first Truman and first Udall scholarships, prestigious
awards that provide for study at a top graduate school and internships
with the federal government.
“I have scholarships to go here. Without them, I couldn’t afford Elon,” Bre says.
“I definitely couldn’t afford the wonderful opportunities for study abroad
and the internships that the Honors Program has given me.”
“It means the world to have the education you can get at Elon,” she adds. “A
scholarship may seem like a financial gift that you spend on your education
and then it’s gone. But that education goes with you all down the line.”
Bre is a Presidential Scholar and an Honors Fellow. Her remarkable
Elon career combines academic achievement and broad service. An
environmental studies major (with minors in nonviolence and religious
studies), she anticipates a career in environmental law. Her research
interests include food security and farmland conservation. She co-
founded and managed the Elon Community Garden, worked on
the student Environmental Sustainability Council and is the student
coordinator of the Elon academy. She studied in Ghana, Africa.
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Community
Ensuring
Access and Opportunity
Our job is to help outstanding young people seize their
futures. We are obliged to make available to more students the
kind of education and broad opportunities that make the university
a special place for learning…and becoming:
Scholars. Scientists. Teachers. Communicators. Government
officials. Lawyers. Business leaders. Athletes. Artists. Performers of
all kinds.
Need-based scholarships will ensure access to able students of all
backgrounds.
Talent-based scholarships will attract students of diverse talents
and abilities.
We have our work cut out for us. Competition is increasing for the
range and variety of students that Elon prizes and which make the
university a great choice for both undergraduates and graduates.
To serve students and society—to compete—we must enhance the
funds available to us for Elon’s Honors and Fellows programs.
Bear in mind that a number of those alumni who have made the
biggest contributions to the world, and to Elon, came to campus
on scholarships. They did not have the resources on their own. They
needed and got help. That is a cherished tradition we long to honor
and uphold.
On Broadway
Opportunity Knocks
Mathew Shingledecker ’08, a recipient
of the Wayne H. and Mable B. Perrine
Memorial Scholarship, starred in the role
of the Phantom in Elon's performance of
the classic Broadway musical. Weeks later,
in the spring of his senior year, he was
performing in a Broadway production.
Access and Opportunity $30,000,000


Need-based Scholarships
Honors Scholarships (talent-based)

Fellows Scholarships

Athletics Scholarships


Music or Performing Arts Scholarships
School of Law Scholarships




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Elon graduates are winning
highly coveted and prestigious
awards.
For example, Geoffrey Lynn ‘07, chemistry
major, won a scholarship in the National
Institutes of Health Oxford/Cambridge Scholars
Program, a doctoral training program for
outstanding science students committed to
biomedical research. Previously he was the first
Elon student to receive the coveted Goldwater
Scholarship, awarded nationally to outstanding
students in math, natural sciences and
engineering. His time at Elon was supported by
several scholarships, most notably the Jane M.
Baird Scholarship for pre-med students.
Lynn will earn dual medical and doctoral
degrees with training from Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine, the National
Institutes of Health and Oxford University in
England. These will take him an estimated eight
years to complete.
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Odyssey Scholarships
Level the Playing Field
“It takes more than scholarship aid to produce
a successful college graduate, ready to assume
a leadership position in society,” says President
Leo M. Lambert.
With support from generous donors, Elon’s
new Odyssey Program will help give our
top need-based scholarship students all the
academic tools they need to succeed. With an
endowment gift of $500,000 or more, donors
may create a named fund to ensure that a
student will not be barred from participation
in programs such as study abroad, internships
or undergraduate research due to financial
limitations.
In a comprehensive approach, Odyssey offers
participants academic and social support,
including mentoring. Some additional funding
will minimize loan burdens while encouraging
students to be full participants in “engaged
learning.” Students will find it easier to be active
campus citizens and, through their success, the
university will build its commitment to diversity.
Endowment gifts for scholarships are critically important.
They will provide us the agility we need to compete for the range and
variety of students that are Elon. We must increase our institutional
capacity to provide financial aid to first-generation college students
and to our law students, many of whom are training for careers in
public service. Elon also must increase the number of scholarships
available for the 16 Olympic sports that we sponsor for both
men and women, making us more competitive with our peers in
NCAA Division I. All of the funds raised for athletics through the
Phoenix Club during this campaign will go toward student-athlete
scholarships.
One of the seminal events in Elon’s rise in reputation was the
creation of the Kenan Scholarships, which have brought to us
some of our finest students and given an identity and a home to
the Honors Program at Elon. In 2008-09, the first recipients of the
“Susan” Scholarships were named; long-time university benefactor
Furman Moseley ’56 created the awards in honor of his wife, Susan,
with a $5 million gift — the largest scholarship gift in Elon’s history.
Together with the Watson and other scholarships, these programs
are adding strength to our people and luster to our name. We are
grateful that more than three-dozen new scholarships were created
as the Ever Elon Campaign began to take shape.
Law and the World
Clinton Moore ’09 studied economics at
Johnson C. Smith University and received a
general scholarship to study law at Elon. He
says that the Elon University School of Law’s
“focus on international education will give me
the opportunity to be the best lawyer that I can
be. International relations is a growing part of
the legal profession, and I want to make the
biggest contribution to the global community
that I can.”
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Life-Changing Opportunity
“The world is so much more competitive now,”
says Laura Roselle, an acclaimed teacher at
Elon since 1993 and president-elect of the
international communication section of the
International Studies Association. “Our students
need more opportunities to be competitive in
it. If faculty are active producers of scholarship,
prominent and involved in the work, they can
opens doors to students as well as open up the
world of ideas for them.”
Roselle knows first-hand how mentors can
open doors. She majored in math/computer
science and Russian at Emory University, but one
professor and one course in political science—in
her senior year—changed her life. She wrote a
paper and made a presentation at a professional
conference that attracted attention. Her new
mentor’s stature in international studies and
strong recommendation got Roselle into
Stanford’s program despite having taken just that
one course.
“It happens a lot. That one class—in my case
political science—leads to that research, and
then to that internship. It’s life changing.” For
example, she recalls Amanda Kloer ’05, who did
a research paper on trafficking in women. “The
paper was exceptional, and ultimately lead
her to Washington, D.C., and the American
Bar Association, where she is working in a unit
devoted to fighting slavery.”
At Stanford University, Dr. Laura Roselle,
professor of political science, was a
teaching assistant in Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice’s course on civil and military
relationships. She later worked for former
President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center
of Emory University, where she analyzed
Soviet media. Her most recent book is Media
and the Politics of Failure: Great Powers,
Communication Strategies, and Military
Defeats.
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Endowment for professorships and faculty development
is critical to nourish Elon’s academic life by appropriately
supporting our finest teacher-scholars in a variety of
ways. Our particular brand of engaged learning depends
on time-intensive interactions between students and
faculty. Mentoring in and out of class. Personal, caring,
demanding. This is where the magic happens.
Elon has focused for years on the development of a first-rate faculty of
committed teacher-scholars. In fact, larger and wealthier institutions
regularly seek many of our faculty members. Those schools can offer
salaries and research opportunities that challenge Elon’s current
capacity for faculty retention. We must secure our ability to recruit
and retain young faculty of great promise, while recognizing and
supporting those talented scholars who have since gained prestige in
their fields.
Investing new endowment in this area will provide new named
professorships for senior faculty. Term professorships lasting several
years will be awarded to emerging teacher-scholars. We plan to double
the number of annual sabbaticals available to our entire faculty
for professional renewal. Endowment funds also will provide the
invaluable gift of time in the form of stipends for research—often in
the summer and often with students—and new course development.
Endowing Support
of Excellent Teaching and Scholarship
“At Elon, education begins in the classroom, it doesn’t end there. I
tell my students, ‘We will never forget you. When you leave Elon,
you’re still part of us and we’re still part of you.’”
Dr. David Crowe, professor of history and a prolific author, is an
internationally known expert in the study of nationalities. His book Oskar
Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True
Story Behind The List (2004), was a selection of the History Book Club.
Excellent Teaching
and Scholarship
$12,000,000


Named Professorships


Professorships



Emerging Teacher-Scholars


Visiting Professorships
Faculty Innovation and Creativity Funds

Sabbatical Funds




Summer Faculty Fellowship Funds
Center for Advancement of
Teaching And Learning
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Engaging
“The great thing about Elon is that there are so many great teachers. I
used to think I was a great teacher. Then I came to Elon and now I
think I’m pretty average.”
Anthony Crider, associate professor of physics, is an astronomer, a
fellow at the Center for Advancement of Teaching and Learning and an
innovative user of the Internet and virtual reality to reshape science
education. He has presented his work at major conferences, including
the American Astronomical Society.
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Center for the Advancement of Teaching
and Learning
In conjunction with those investments in our faculty, we also seek
endowment for Elon’s extraordinary Center for the Advancement of
Teaching and Learning—a center designed to stimulate and nurture
Elon’s culture of creative teaching and transformative student
learning, while operating as a national focal point and model. Elon’s
ongoing exploration of new approaches to teaching and innovative
settings for learning will receive greater national recognition
through the publications and conferences spawned by the center
and spur widespread adoption of new teaching techniques.
“I don’t want to sound spiritual about it, but teaching is like a
calling. I really like what I do. And I found that I liked doing
research, too. I find that most of our faculty are the same way.“
Dr. David Copeland, A.J. Fletcher Professor of Communications, is
an admired teacher and an expert on media and history. He also is a
rigorously scheduled, prolific author. The working title of his current
book-in-progress, under contract for completion in 2010, is The Active
Voice: The Media and the Shaping of the Nation.
“It’s like a dance. In a duet each partner
has to learn the steps and interpret
the music in a personal way—that’s
scholarship. When the partners come
together to dance—that’s teaching.”
Dr. Prudence Layne, assistant professor
of English, is a 2008 recipient of the Elon
College Faculty Excellence in Service Award
and author of numerous research articles
and presentations. She is the coordinator of
African/African American Studies.
We must secure our ability
to recruit and retain young
faculty of great promise, while
recognizing and supporting those
talented scholars who have since
gained prestige in their fields.

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Seizing Opportunity
MIKE DONOFRIO ‘08
Cum laude, international studies and
political science
Fellow, Isabella Cannon Leadership
Program
Winter Term 2008: Traveled through the
Middle East
Summer 2007: intern, Office of Detainee
Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense
Toured Guantanamo Bay detention facility
Researched the backgrounds of detainees
to help assess their security threat
Summer 2006: intern, Near East South
Asia Center for Strategic Studies, U.S.
Department of Defense
Research Presentations: (Mentored by Dr.
Laura Roselle, political science)
“Selling Jihad: An Analysis Of Terrorists’ Use
Of Media”
“Myth, Media, And The Coverage Of
September 11”
President, Model United Nations at Elon
Service Learning Community: Director,
Challenge Course
SGA Organization Member of the Year
(2006), Center for Leadership
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Endowing Support
of Engaged Learning
Elon has formed a vibrant learning community by
embracing the distinct intellectual heritage of the arts
and sciences, sustaining premier professional programs
in business, communications, education and law.
“At Elon, we believe the single most important aspect of a quality
education is the direct, personal interaction between a professor
and a student,” Elon College Dean Steven House declares. “When
combined with Elon’s strong commitment to study abroad,
leadership, service learning, internships and undergraduate research,
these encounters open the minds of students and professors, and
transform the way they view the world. The relationships that
develop among students and faculty—in exchanging ideas, testing
hypotheses, conducting research and constructing knowledge—are
the cornerstone of Elon’s collaborative learning community.”
Engaged Learning
$10,000,000


Knowledge into Practice
Undergraduate Research Grants
Student Engagement Grants
International Study Grants
Internship Funds
Leadership for the Common Good
Service Learning Funds
Leadership Development Funds
Elon Academy
Elon’s strong commitment to
study abroad, leadership,
service learning, internships
and undergraduate research
opens the minds of students
and professors, and transforms
the way they view the world.
“Elon has helped me, not to
find a map, but to draw my
own map. My own plan of
attack on the world.”
Justin Hite ’08
Columnist, The Pendulum
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The Elon Experiences
With no substitute for experience, Elon emphasizes five programs collectively
called the Elon Experiences. Study Abroad. Undergraduate Research.
Internships. Service. Leadership.
Students track their progress on Elon Experiences transcripts. The transcript adds depth
and perspective to degree work, and helps graduates stand out when applying for jobs or
graduate school. Elon graduates have done more than attend class and pass exams.
Elon sends more undergraduate
students to study abroad (73%)
than any other master’s-level
school in the nation. Ever Elon
asks, “Why not 100%?” T
Study Abroad
Endowment for study abroad will guarantee that
every Elon undergraduate, regardless of economic
circumstances, has access to an international experience
during his or her four years with us. Every conceivable career
track now requires the skill and experience of working across lines
of cultural difference. Study abroad often provides that first taste
of a much larger world for our students. It gives them a chance to
expand their self-awareness, practice a second language and test
their skills in a different culture. Students regularly say that study
abroad is one of the most powerful aspects of an Elon education. By
adding locations where we have our own study centers and housing
facilities, we can greatly expand our offerings, allowing students
access to international internships and service projects.

Undergraduate Research
Endowment for the undergraduate research program
will make certain that this signature aspect of an Elon
education is more broadly available to students and
at a higher level of supplemental support across all
departments. During the summer months and the regular
academic year, about 250 students work closely with faculty mentors,
devising their own projects based on their intellectual curiosity. The
rigor and focus required in these projects are invaluable preparation
for graduate study and often provide our students “a leg up” in the
job market. With additional funds, we will underwrite more faculty-
student teams engaged in summer research projects and provide
additional opportunities for these teams to present their research at
national and international conferences.
Eighty percent of Elon
students complete
internships; one-third
of them hold at least
one leadership position
in the 150 campus
organizations and
programs; and about
250 students perform
undergraduate research
with faculty mentors
each year.
Transforming
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Internships, Service and Leadership for
the Common Good
Enhancing current university strengths by providing
internships and encouraging service and leadership, the
Ever Elon Campaign will profoundly broaden and deepen
the impact of the Elon Experiences.
About 80 percent of students complete internships. With financial
support, more students would be able to undertake internships in
cities where housing and living costs are high, here or abroad, or
take exciting and career-making, but perhaps unpaid, internships.
The role and importance of service is expanding at Elon, selected
as one of the three top universities in the nation for community
service by the federal government’s Corporation for National and
Community Service. With better funding, the Kernodle Center for
Service Learning could offer more Student Initiative Grant Awards.
Award winners receive up to $1,000 for projects they plan and
implement to meet needs in the community. Other service learners
The federal government’s
Corporation for National and
Community Service named
Elon one of the top three
universities in the nation for
community service.
Knowledge Into Practice
Dr. Tom Arcaro, professor of sociology and
founding director of the university’s Project
Pericles Program, works with Ashley Moyer ‘06
and AIDS orphans in Namibia. His work and
that of his students and colleagues has been
amplifying the meaning of service learning
since 2002. Periclean Scholars have addressed
the AIDS epidemic in Africa and nutrition
and poverty issues in Honduras and Chiapas,
Mexico. The program’s impact is felt through
36 grants made annually to help faculty
integrate service components into classes.
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would be assisted in their projects across the country and
abroad, whether in New Orleans through the Kernodle Center
or Namibia through Project Pericles. Dozens of students and
faculty serve each year through the Elon Academy, an academic
enrichment and college access program for local high school
students. Faculty and students have a lot of great ideas; they just
need more money.
Leadership skills are encouraged, prized and taught at Elon. The
National Survey of Student Engagement reported in 2008 that
the percentage of students here who take part in co-curricular
programs—like student government or club sports—is twice
that of the national average. About one-third of all students hold
at least one leadership position in the 150 campus organizations
and programs.
Every bit helps…
Alex Hopkins ’08 benefited from an existing
endowment fund as a Rawls Undergraduate
Research Fellow. He had a $1,500 grant
toward the costs of field research with native
fishermen in the Virgin Islands. “I was able to
be there, to meet the people, see the area,
see the fish, and see the issues personally.
It was incredible.” The result was an honors
thesis and an encyclopedia entry that he
wrote with his mentor, Heidi Frontani,
associate professor of geography and an
expert in the field. Alex presented his work,
including his findings on the tensions that
surface when fishing traditions, tourism and
the U.S. Park Service collide, to other students
and faculty.
Taken together, the five elements
of the Elon Experiences contribute
to a remarkable Elon fact: about
97 percent of recent graduates
praise Elon University for
their overall experience, a rate
exceeding the national average of
85 percent.
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We shape our buildings, and
afterwards our buildings shape us.
Winston S. Churchill, 1943
Enduring
EVER
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Preserving and
Building the Campus
While the Ever Elon Campaign emphasizes endowment,
a select few capital projects are envisioned or under way.
All are deemed important to the academic, physical and spiritual
vitality of the university. Lindner Hall will complete the Academic
Village, new facilities will enhance the athletic program and a multi-
faith center will serve the campus and local community.
Those new facilities will expand a campus that is celebrated for its
beauty. To conserve that campus and our facilities, additional gifts
are sought for a Campus Conservancy Endowment.
Completing the Academic Village
Lindner Hall is the 30,000-square-foot centerpiece to the Academic
Village, a quadrangle that celebrates the liberal arts and sciences, the
traditional core of Elon University. The new administrative home of
Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences, Lindner Hall will
have high-tech classrooms, a computer lab, faculty offices and space
for student-faculty mentoring. The project includes a handsome
Jeffersonian reading room that will give students a spectacular space
for reading, reflection and study. Construction was made possible in
part by Carl and Martha Lindner of Cincinnati, Ohio, Elon parents
who provided a $2.5 million gift in hopes of inspiring others to
support what they call a “signature building” and the university.
Lindner was designed to be the “greenest” facility ever at Elon.
Environmental sustainability is a key component in both the
construction and operation of the building. An estimated 8-10
percent of all power consumed by the building will be generated by
solar power cells and by solar energy used to heat water.
The Difference a Building—
and Friends—Can Make
Four faculty members happened to fall into
conversation in the hallway of their new home
on campus, the recently dedicated William Henry
Belk Pavilion in the Academic Village. Previously
they had worked in separate buildings across
campus. “The result of that conversation was
a new program, the Faculty Environmental
Sustainability Scholars,” says Peter Felton, director
of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching
and Learning. “The new space brought them
together; the conversation just happened.”
“For students, there is a ripple of success felt
across campus,” Felten continues. “They apply
what they learn here in Belk in their various
classes and departments."
Dr. Peter Felten
Preserving and
Building the Campus $10,000,000


Academic Village Completion
Athletics Facilities Expansion
Multi-Faith Center
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Seeing Law at Work
The ground floor of the School of
Law building has more than first-
rate facilities and technology; it has
a working courtroom—home of the
North Carolina Business Court—
and a jury room. That is another
dimension to making facilities part
of the learning experience.
EVER Aspiring
Elon’s physical growth alone is astounding: 38 new
buildings (and counting) since 1990—among them
a new library, student center, science center, arts
center, dormitories, an Academic Village, dining halls,
fitness center and football stadium. The campus is
regarded as one of America’s most beautiful. But
you have to travel to see all of it: the handsome
School of Law stands in downtown Greensboro, an
urban setting for a new and highly innovative school
focused on developing leaders.
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Drive to Excellence in Athletics
Athletics Facility Upgrades Planned
Membership in the prestigious Southern Conference, among
other advantages, has taken Elon to new heights in recruiting the
best and brightest Division I student-athletes. By competing with
outstanding institutions such as Furman, Wofford, Davidson and
Samford, athletics is elevating the university’s visibility and national
reputation – along with school spirit and Phoenix pride.
Elon is taking the next steps toward excellence by planning a new
state-of-the-art facility serving our student-athletes and coaches.
Overlooking Rhodes Stadium, the north campus project will
include a spacious weight room, meeting rooms, improved locker
rooms and offices for coaches and support staff.
“In terms of facilities, we are simply behind the folks who have been
competing in Division I for decades,” says football head coach Pete
Lembo. “We are improving and we are developing rivalries in an
elite conference. To compete on a level playing field, we need the
facilities that will help us recruit and support the student-athletes
who will benefit from and add so much to Elon.”
Early support is in hand. Among the donors are alumni Jay
and Amy Hendrickson, who made a $1 million gift to name the
Hendrickson Football Center in honor of Jay’s father, Horace J.
Hendrickson, one of Elon’s all-time great coaches. Alumnus and
trustee Zac Walker and his wife, Dot, gave $500,000 for the facility.
Zac’s father, Zachary T. Walker Jr., is a member of Elon’s Sports
Hall of Fame, and Zac’s uncle, D.C. “Peahead” Walker, is another of
Elon’s all-time great coaches.
Construction is tentatively scheduled to begin in spring 2009,
with completion expected in summer 2010. The spaces vacated by
coaches and administrators moving from Koury Athletic Center
will be reallocated to academic programs.
“The defining purpose of
athletics in the university
is to prepare future leaders,
to uphold the ideal of the
scholar-athlete and to
foster excellence.”
Leo M. Lambert, President
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Multi-Faith Center
Taking ‘mind, body, spirit’ seriously
The university’s mission is to be an “academic community
that transforms mind, body and spirit, and encourages
freedom of thought and liberty of conscience.” From its
beginning, Elon has enjoyed the mutual benefits of a relationship
with the Elon Community Church. In another expression of that
partnership, the university and its neighbor church plan to join
forces; both need more space to serve their missions. They plan to
build a multi-faith center at the corner of Haggard and Williamson
avenues. The center would include a large hall with flexible seating
for worship, lectures and receptions—as well as small rooms for
private reflection. For the church, the $4 million facility would
provide a much-needed second worship space and replace its
current Parish House. Space also is critically important for the
university and its many religious groups; Roman Catholic members
of the community already celebrate mass in the church sanctuary.
The center would promote the mission of the Vera Richardson
Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life. In the words of
Truitt benefactor Edna Truitt Noiles ’44, that mission is “to enable
Elon students to learn about their own and other faiths and to live
lives of reconciliation.”
“The UCC has long had an
ecumenical outlook, and we
at Elon take all dimensions
of our mission quite seriously.”
Leo M. Lambert, President
Campus Conservancy
The Campus Conservancy Endowment will guarantee that
Elon’s extraordinary physical plant continues to attract students
and new faculty and to astonish visitors. “It’s easy to have a false
sense of security about Elon’s beautiful campus because so many
of the buildings are new,” President Lambert says. “But in 20
years, these buildings will need new roofs and other maintenance.
We are trying to take the long view and ensure that we are good
stewards of the campus for those who will inherit it from us.”
Elon has no deferred maintenance liabilities, but recent campus
expansion requires that funds be secured now to preserve both
the natural and architectural assets we enjoy. Over the long term,
funds in this endowment may also be used to respond to the brisk
pace of innovation in communications and learning technologies,
and to incorporate additional energy-saving systems on campus.
To direct support to this area, Elon permits interested donors
to give to the conservancy while naming buildings or spaces on
campus. Two such gifts recently named McCoy Commons and the
Manfuso Plaza. This approach helps Elon recognize the generosity
of donors while being a good steward of a beautiful campus for
generations to come.
Leo M. Lambert, President
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There are many ways to give to Elon. Two of the most
important are annual giving and long-term unrestricted giving.
Both count toward the Ever Elon Campaign.
An annual gift is one way in which everyone—alumni, parents,
grandparents and friends—can help students today, personally
and immediately. Every year, annual gifts go directly where help is
needed most. They are made through The Elon Fund, the Parents
& Grandparents Fund, the School of Law annual fund and the
Phoenix Club to support athletics. Annual giving keeps us going,
providing scholarships to deserving students and maintaining
signature Elon Experiences such as study abroad, internships and
undergraduate research. The operating principle is that each member
of the community is asked to give every year and as generously as he
or she is able. It’s a way of helping out others while giving back.
Unrestricted endowment gifts often are made through gift planning,
and not just by the wealthy. Donors of varying means may choose
gift options that will help the university while serving their own
long-term financial goals. The Order of the Oak was established in
1988 to recognize those who help secure Elon’s long-term future by
including the university in their estate plans.
Unrestricted funds—annual and long term—are essential for
building Elon’s fundamental financial strength. While providing
support for on-going and basic activities, they will allow Elon to
pursue measured enrollment growth while lessening the percentage
of operating expenses covered by tuition.
Ensuring
Annual and Long-Term
Unrestricted Support
Alumni, parents,
grandparents and friends
contributed $5.1 million
in 2007-2008. To put that
amount in perspective, think
of it as income from invested
endowment funds. It would
take an endowment of about
$100 million to generate
investment income equal to
the annual gifts we gratefully
received in that one year.
Ensuring Annual and Long-Term
Unrestricted Support $26,000,000
Annual Gifts for Operations
Elon Fund
Parents & Grandparents Fund
Phoenix Club
School of Law
Unrestricted and Undesignated gifts
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Investments in the university through the Ever Elon
Campaign are vitally important to Elon’s quality, now
and for many decades to come. The generous support of
alumni and friends is requested and will be gratefully received. Ever
Elon focuses on endowment gifts, because that is Elon’s greatest
need, but donors may choose to direct their gifts to virtually any
school or program at the university. Gift officers are available to
assist donors by answering questions, describing gift opportunities
or providing any needed information.
The university always will depend upon the generous annual support
of its community to support students, faculty and programs. All
donors are asked to include as part of their gift a donation to the
Elon Fund or other annual giving fund.
Gifts or pledges to the university may be tax deductible and may
take many forms, such as:
n Cash
n Marketable securities
n
Irrevocable planned, or deferred, gifts
n Revocable testamentary commitments
n
Life insurance policies
n Real or personal property
n Gifts or commitments by corporations or foundations
n Matching gifts, which the donor must initiate, and
which are important annual sources of revenue for

the university
n
In-kind gifts related to Elon’s academic mission

Taking part in
Development officers are available to
discuss giving opportunities and to
provide more information about gift
crediting and reporting policies related
to the Ever Elon Campaign.
Please direct your inquiries to:
Office of University Advancement
2600 Campus Box
Elon, North Carolina 27244
336.278.7440
Fax: 336.278.7458
www.everelon.org
The Campaign for the Future of Our University
Go to www.everelon.org to see and
hear more about the university’s goals
from students, faculty, alumni and
friends. Share your own Elon story!
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Officers of the
Corporation
Allen E. Gant, Jr.
Chair of the Board
Mark T. Mahaffey
Vice Chair
Barbara Day Bass ’61
Secretary
Gerald O. Whittington
Treasurer
Gerald L. Francis, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary and
Assistant Treasurer
Leo M. Lambert, Ph.D.
President of the University
Board of Trustees
Terms Expiring May 31, 2009
Howard F. Arner ’63
Jacksonville, Fla.
Michael G. Bumbry ’07
Raleigh, N.C.
Gail McMichael Drew
Durham, N.C.
Allen E. Gant, Jr.
Burlington, N.C.
William N.P. Herbert ’68, M.D.
Charlottesville, Va.
Victoria Silek Hunt
Burlington, N.C.
Mark T. Mahaffey
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Bob E. McKinnon ’62
Newton, N.C.
Warren G. Rhodes
Elon, N.C.
Terms Expiring May 31, 2010
Noel L. Allen ’69, J.D.
Raleigh, N.C.
Cody Jennings Andras ’08
Houston, Tex.
Barbara Day Bass ’61
Richmond, Va.
Michele Skeens Hazel ’78
Broad Run, Va.
Maurice N. Jennings, Jr. ’87
Greensboro, N.C.
Jack R. Lindley, Sr. ’56
Burlington, N.C.
Frank R. Lyon ’71
New Canaan, Conn.
Thomas P. Mac Mahon
Raritan, N.J.
Richard L. Thompson ’64, Ph.D.
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Deborah A. Yow-Bowden ’74
College Park, Md.
Terms Expiring May 31, 2011
A. Christine Baker G’88
Raleigh, N.C.
Thomas E. Chandler
Burlington, N.C.
Wesley R. Elingburg
Greensboro, N.C.
W. Bryan Latham, M.D.
Miami, Fla.
Robert E. Long, Jr.
Greensboro, N.C.
Jeanne Swanner Robertson
Burlington, N.C.
The Rev. Ann C. Rogers-Witte
Cleveland, Ohio
Zachary T. Walker, III ’60
Raleigh, N.C.
Katherine Stern Weaver
Greensboro, N.C.
Terms Expiring May 31, 2012
Kerrii Brown Anderson ’79
Columbus, Ohio
Louis DeJoy
Greensboro, N.C.
Edward W. Doherty
Saddle River, N.J.
James A. Hendrickson ’71,
Raleigh, N.C.
William J. Inman
Reston, Va.
James W. Maynard
Burlington, N.C.
The Rev. Marvin L. Morgan ’71,
D.Min.
Atlanta, Ga.
Anne Ellington Powell
Burlington, N.C.
William H. Smith
Burlington, N.C.
Kebbler McGhee Williams ’98
Raleigh, N.C.
Ex Officio Members
The Rev. Dian Griffin Jackson
President, Southern Conference,
UCC
The Rev. Stephen W. Camp,
D.Min.
Conference Minister, Southern
Conference, UCC
Leo M. Lambert, Ph.D.
President of the University
Trustees Emeritus
Walter L. Floyd, M.D.
Edmund R. Gant
Roger Gant, Jr.
The Hon. Elmon T. Gray
Sherrill G. Hall ’55
William A. Hawks
R. Leroy Howell ’51, D.D.S.
Maurice N. Jennings, Sr. ’57
Ernest A. Koury, Sr. ’40
Mittie Crumpler Landi ’96
Donald A. Lopes
W.E. Love Jr. ’48
The Rev. G. Melvin Palmer, Ed.D.
Thomas E. Powell, III, M.D.
Janie Evans Reece
William D. Rippy ’43, M.D.
Samuel E. Scott, M.D.
J. Harold Smith
Royall H. Spence, Jr. ’42
Robert A. Ward
Life Trustees
Wallace L. Chandler ’49
Richmond, Va.
Robert E. LaRose ’66
Clifton, Va.
James B. Powell, M.D.
Burlington, N.C.
Chair
Mark T. Mahaffey P’01, P’97
St. Petersburg, Fla.
Director
Charles E. Davis III
Assistant Vice President
University Advancement

Vice-Chairs
Thomas E. Chandler
Burlington, N.C.
Michele S. Hazel ’78, LP’09
Broad Run, Va.
Frank R. Lyon ’71
New Canaan, Conn.

Members
John Deford P’09, P’11
Owings Mills, Md.
Patricia S. Deford P’09, P’11
Owings Mills, Md.
Edward W. Doherty P’07
Saddle River, N.J.
Joan M. Doherty P’07
Saddle River, N.J.
Allen E. Gant, Jr.
Burlington, N.C
Maurice N. Jennings, Jr. ’87
Greensboro, N.C.
Leo M. Lambert
Burlington, N.C.
Anne E. Powell
Burlington, N.C.
Ever Elon Campaign Leadership Committee
Elon University Board of Trustees
The Campaign for the Future of Our University
Tell your Elon story at www.everelon.org