Elon University
Location: Elon, North Carolina
Size: More than 6,000 students
Motto: “Numen Lumen,” or “Intellectual and Spiritual Light.”
Mascot: Pheonix
Fun fact: Elon’s campus is designated as a botanical garden and includes the 56-acre Elon University Forest, a land preserve and natural area for scientific research; and Loy Farm, a center for environmental research and sustainability that includes a solar farm.
Type of engagement with SDI: Deep member
Hollins University
Location: Roanoke, Virginia
Size: Less than 800 students
Motto: “Levavi Oculos,” or “Lift Thine Eyes.”
Fun fact: At Hollins, classes are canceled on a random fall day so students and faculty can hike up Tinker Mountain. Wearing zany costumes, they sing and share in a traditional picnic of fried chicken and Tinker cake.
Type of engagement with SDI: Deep member
Lawrence University
Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
Size: More than 1,500 students
Motto: “Veritas Est Lux,” or “Truth Is Light.”
Mascot:Viking
Fun fact: Each year, more than a thousand Lawrence students flock to Björklunden, a 425-acre estate on the shore of Lake Michigan that serves as Lawrence’s “northern campus,” where students are encouraged to leave old assumptions behind and barriers are removed in order for students and faculty to learn from each other.
Type of engagement with SDI: Deep member
Cornell College
Location: Mount Vernon, Iowa
Size:More than 1,000 students
Motto: “Deus Et Humanitas,” or “God and Humanity”.
Mascot: Ram
Fun fact: At Cornell, students study just one course per three-and-a-half-week block, and in 1858 it became the first college west of the Mississippi to award a degree to a woman.
Type of engagement with SDI: Training and Events
University of Notre Dame
Location: Notre Dame, Indiana
Size:More than 11,000 students
Motto: “Vita Dulcedo Spes,” or “Life, Sweetness, Hope.”
Mascot: Leprechaun
Fun fact: The architecture of the South Dining Hall reminds many people of Harry Potter, which prompted food services to host a now-annual Harry Potter-themed dinner.
Type of engagement with SDI: SD as a Course
UNC Charlotte
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Size:More than 50,000 students
Mascot: Norm the Niner
Fun fact: UNC Charlotte is one of a generation of universities founded in metropolitan areas of the United States immediately after World War II in response to rising education demands generated by the war and its technology.
Type of engagement with SDI: Residential Life Training