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Elon is a true success story. When I moved to Burlington 55 years ago Elon was a small college of about 800 students. Today it is a growing university with an enrollment of over 6,000. They use to play their football games at Burlington Williams’ stadium.Studying law in the Queen City. How Elon's efforts are restoring legal education in Charlotte.
After a for-profit law school closed its doors a decade ago, NC's largest city has lacked legal education. Elon is changing that.
Don't know if it is true or not, but the story back in the day was that Elon College had a "friendly" admission policy back when there was a draft and there was a student deferment from the draft. And a lot of kids were able to successfully avoid the draft and Vietnam due to Elon. And when these people went on to have successful careers, they remembered Elon and contributed correspondingly. One thing lead to another, . . ., and Elon is today one of the finest small universities in the United States and one of the reasons why North Carolina is really growing. THANK YOU ELON and all its graduates who made its reputation.
I’ve heard the same story. The campus has grown a great deal and they are still adding on. They recruit students from the northeastern part of the country. And a lot of them come from wealthy families. This couple that are friends of ours bought a house just off campus to rent to students. They said it was nothing for the students who rented from them to leave all their furniture they had bought for the tear when they went home. The parents didn’t want to mess with having to get it moved so they just left it. Our friends usually just donate the stuff to charities in the Burlington area.
Same. I actually thought he was studying to become a lawyer.
I get that, but Queens is exactly the type of small college that is at extreme financial risk over the next few years. Their endowment is only about $165 million.
When we first moved to Charlotte, Queens was in the process of admitting men for the first time. I have a cousin in Charlotte and we arranged to have dinner out. This was the first time I was meeting his wife. He was a Davidson graduate and she was a Queens graduate. So I somewhat mischeviously asked her about Queens admitting men. What I didn't know was that she was the current President of the Queens Alumnea organization and her life had been an absolute hell for the previous year as the hallowed halls of Queens readied itself to be defiled by men. She launched into me with barely contained rage as she "mansplained" to me that men or no men wasn't the choice. The choice, she let me know was men or close the school down and she greatly preferred keeping it open. Her husband, my cousin, wasn't laughing at me, but it was a close thing. All I could do was sagely nod my understanding and when she started to wind down I was able to express my admiration for how successfully Queens was navigating the post-baby-boom higher education environment.
Agreed. Their administration was clear-eyed enough to understand that. I think the alumni will feel better when the path forward is more concrete. What will the school be called? They are concerned their degrees from Queens will get lost in the shuffle.
I grew up a few blocks from what was then Queens College. It was an all women’s school throughout most of my childhood. Most of the baby sitters I had growing up were students at Queens.
The county allocated/loaned Queens land for athletic facilities behind Marion Diehl center on Tyvola back in the 00's. Wonder what the fate of those will be?
Same.
Sounds like they're going with something like Elon University, Queens Campus. I really do understand the concern. I probably wouldn't be as enthusiastic about it if I were a Queens alum. But I'm confident the effect this will have on their degrees is neutral at best, and it may actually help.
I’m not even sure where they have room to build around their main campus. It’s all pretty compact.