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=<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#800000;">'''Overview'''</span></span>=
<div>Founded in 1889, Elon University is a private institution with an undergraduate enrollment rate of more than 67,000 students. Currently organized into six schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, School of Communications, School of Education, School of Health Sciences, and School of Law, this university allows students to decide from nearly 60 majors. While the curriculum is grounded in the traditional liberal arts and sciences, all first year students are given the option to choose among multiple programs and organizations. As of 2022, Elon University withholds more than 250 organizations ranging from academic honors to undergraduate research associations. In addition to this, Elon University is also currently ranked #1 for Study Abroad and Undergraduate Teaching, and #6 for Most Innovative University by the US News and World Report. Students and faculty members at this university are joined in classrooms with a ratio of 12:1 with all the average class size being 20. All faculty and staff members exhibiting in every area of expertise exhibit vast skills in research, scholarship, and academic affairs.</div><div><br /></div>
==<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#800000;">'''Promotes Student Entrepreneurship and Innovation'''</span></span>==
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e8a966d-7fff-e50d-3857-dc859a4d89d4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Elon currently offers a major and a minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation through the Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation major places strong emphasis on business, startup processes, and design thinking. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation minor places a strong enphasis on the entrepreneurial process and developing the tools and abilities needed for students to create their own startups. As a registered major and department under the Love School of Business, this program prepares students to become entrepreneurs in either for-profit or social businesses. </span></span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-1e8a966d-7fff-e50d-3857-dc859a4d89d4"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Established in 2018, the Sankey Hall building houses Entrepreneurship and Innovation professors and staff, as well as the Doherty Center. Our promotion of I&E seeks to inspire students to create and change the world around them in a variety of majors, requiring widespread faculty support and appeals to creativity that match all kinds of students. Doherty Center Director Alyssa Martina is continuously seeking to expand interdisciplinary opportunities to students from a variety of majors. She has established numerous events and programs that are offered as interdisciplinary in focus and the Doherty Center Scholar Interns work at establishing relationships with students across campus. Its signature event is a 24-hour "hackathon" challenge, known as the Elon Innovation Challenge, where student teams from several schools collaborate to solve a wicked challenge. This past year, several universities across the East Coast joined the Challenge. Two other important annual events for the Center are the W.E Do! Women and Entrepreneurship conference and the Black Innovation Matters Conference. Both the Elon Innovation Challenge and the W.E. Do! conferences are co-chaired by a UI Fellow. </span></span>