According to its website, Elon University is a “mid-sized private university renowned as a national model for engaged and experiential learning”. Located in the sleepy North Carolina woods, Elon is comprised of five different schools, playing home to roughly 6,800 students. The town that houses the university shares its name and takes up 3.9 square miles of land between Raleigh and Greensboro. Elon, North Carolina’s Wikipedia page mentions the city’s musky vibes (get it?) and celebrates a recent town center renovation that includes a Pandora’s Pies.
For those of us west of the Mississippi River, this faraway institution can be easy to forget, or perhaps not even know about at all.