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Emory University
The seal of Emory University
Motto:	Cor prudentis possedibit scientia
Motto in English:	The wise heart will possess knowledge
Established:	1836
Type:	Private
Religious affiliation:	United Methodist Church
Endowment:	US $5.5 billion[1]
President:	James W. Wagner
Students:	12,755
Undergraduates:	6,890
Postgraduates:	5,865
Location:	Druid Hills, Georgia, US 33°47′28″N 84°19′24″W / 33.79111°N 84.32333°W / 33.79111; -84.32333Coordinates: 33°47′28″N 84°19′24″W / 33.79111°N 84.32333°W / 33.79111; -84.32333
Campus:	Suburban 631 acres (2.6 km²)
Colors:	Blue and Gold
Nickname:	Emory Eagles
Athletics:	NCAA Division III UAA
Website:	www.emory.edu

Emory University is a private research university in the metropolitan area of Atlanta in the Druid Hills CDP in unincorporated Dekalb County, Georgia.^[2][3] In addition to its two undergraduate divisions, Emory has nine graduate and professional schools, including schools of business, law, medicine, theology, nursing, and public health, as well as thirteen graduate programs in arts and sciences.

Emory was originally chartered in 1836 by a small group of Methodists as Emory College in honor of John Emory, a popular bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church.^[4] The school struggled financially until a generous land-grant by Asa Candler, the president of the Coca-Cola Company, allowed the small college to move to DeKalb County and become rechartered as Emory University. The philanthropy of Coca-Cola fortunes such as those belonging to the Candlers, the Woodruffs, the Goizuetas, and others enabled Emory's growth and empowered its ambition.

Emory is one of several major research universities in the U.S.^[5] In its 2009 edition, U.S. News & World Report ranked the university's undergraduate program 18th among national universities,^[6] while ranking the medical, law, and business programs among the top 25 in the country.^[7][8][9] In 2008, Emory received $411.2 million in total research funding awards, more than any other university in Georgia.^[10]

[edit] History

Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church near the main entrance of Emory University

In 1836, a small group of Methodists from Newton County contemplated the establishment of a new town and college. The town was called Oxford after the school's prestigious British cousin, ^[4] which graduated the two founders of Methodism, John and Charles Wesley.^[11] The college was named after John Emory, an American Methodist bishop who inspired them.^[4]

Events preceding the chartering of Emory College began in 1783, when the Georgia State legislature provided for the founding of "a college or seminary of learning." However, general support of education in Georgia was meager until the 1830s, when an educational fad in Germany inspired Georgia Methodists to create a school for manual labor.^[11] At the Georgia Methodist Conference in 1834, a preacher known as "Uncle Allen" Turner suggested that Georgia Methodists should develop their own school rather than support Randolph-Macon in Virginia.^[12] As a result, the Manual Labor School was created in Covington, Georgia in 1835.

On December 10, 1836, the Georgia General Assembly granted the Georgia Methodist Conference a charter to Emory College, named for John Emory, a popular bishop who had presided at the 1834 conference but had died in a carriage accident in 1835.^[11] Two years after the chartering, the college opened its doors, and on September 17, 1838, the college's first president, Ignatius Alphonso Few, and three faculty members welcomed fifteen freshmen and sophomores.^[12]

Emory College quad in Oxford, Georgia

Class of 1846 in front of Seney Hall

For the duration of the nineteenth century, Emory College was a constricting academic environment. By signing their names into the Matriculation Book, students were bound to obey the "Laws and Statutes of the College," which bound students to their rooms during study hours, and forbade them from leaving the town limits without the president's consent and engaging in immoral activities.^[11] Until the presidency of Warren Candler in the 1890s, Emory prohibited intercollegiate sports. He thought the practice "evil, only evil, and that continually," his principle objection being the cost of intercollegiate athletic programs, the temptation of gambling, and the distraction from academics^[11]. However, he was not unalterably opposed to athletics, and during his presidency he raised funds for the first gymnasium at Emory and oversaw the creation of the nation's first model intramural program.

Emory College was closed briefly during the Civil War. In the autumn of 1861, every student left to fight, and the college's trustees closed for the duration. During the war, the college's buildings saw duty both as a Confederate hospital and Union headquarters.^[11] When Emory reopened in January 1866, the school's library was destroyed and its small endowment was depleted.^[12] Only with the aid of a state G.I. Bill could students afford to resume their education.

In the years following the Civil War, Emory, along with the rest of the South, struggled to overcome financial devastation.^[4] The first step toward financial stability came in 1880, when Emory President Atticus G. Haygood preached a Thanksgiving Day sermon expressing gratitude for the end of slavery captured the attention of George Seney, a Brooklyn banker and Methodist. Seney gave Emory College $5,000 to repay its debts, $50,000 for construction, and $75,000 to establish a new endowment.^[12] Over the years, Seney invested more than a quarter-million dollars into Emory College, helping to erect the administration building in Oxford that bears his name.

Under the direction of President Haygood's direction, Emory College began to offer many technical and professional subjects in addition to courses required for degrees.^[13] By the turn of the century, Emory had evolved its traditional liberal arts program into a broad curriculum encouraging students to pursue degrees in science, study in theology and law, and even learning and expertise in technology and tool craft. The technology department was launched by President Isaac Stiles Hopkins, a polymath professor at Emory College, who was later convinced by state legislators to become the first president of what is now the Georgia Institute of Technology.^[11]

[edit] Move to DeKalb County

Candler Library

In 1914, after a long struggle between the Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South over control of the university, the Board of Trust won a decision in the Tennessee State Supreme Court. The church subsequently severed its relationship with the university and forged plans to create a new Methodist university in the Southeast with a school of theology. The General Conference decided to charter one university east of the Mississippi River, and one to the river's west (Southern Methodist University).^[14].

It was Asa Griggs Candler, the founder of The Coca-Cola Company and brother to former Emory President Warren Candler, who persuaded the church to build the new university in DeKalb County, and to make Emory the nucleus.^[12] He endowed the school with one million dollars and a gift of 75 acres (304,000 m²) of land in the newly emerging Druid Hills community, located northeast of downtown Atlanta in DeKalb County.^[11] The campus is less than a mile from the current Atlanta city limits. For Asa's generosity, the campus library at the east end of the quadrangle—recently restored to its original 1920s appearance—was named after him.

Matheson Reading Room

In light of these developments, Emory College was rechartered by DeKalb County on January 25, 1915, as Emory University^[4]. Within three months of Asa's endowment, in September 1914, the first unit of the university—the school of theology—had begun classes.^[11] Henry Hornbostel was chosen to design many of the buildings on Emory University's new campus. His designs incorporated local stone and materials, including marble and red terracotta tile, which established the institution's unique architectural character. By September 1919, Emory University had created a school of law, medicine, business, and graduate studies. In time, schools of nursing and dentistry would join the university, although the dental school has since been closed and replaced with a school of public health.^[11] Doctoral studies at Emory University were established in 1946, and the school has continued to strengthen its graduate and professional schools since. In 1949, Alben Barkley returned to Emory to receive an honorary LLD degree and give the commencement address, the first Emory event to be televised.^[15]

[edit] Emory Junior College at Valdosta

Plans for an additional campus in Valdosta, Georgia began to be developed in the mid-1920s, when that town's leaders offered Emory 43 acres of land; a distinctive, white-columned building that housed classrooms and administrative offices; and a $200,000 endowment.^[16]

In 1928 the Emory Junior College at Valdosta was founded, welcoming its first class of fifty freshman in September of that year. Two years later, sixteen students made up the first graduating class. In 1931, the college completed construction of its first dormitory, allowing students to live on-campus rather than at local inns and family homes.^[16]

During World War II enrollment plummeted as students left to join the military. Emory administrators decided to close the campus for the remainder of the war, but when Valdosta leaders objected, they compromised by moving the remaining students and faculty to the DeKalb County campus. The school reopened in 1946, and, due to the G.I. Bill and an aggressive recruiting drive, managed a record enrollment of 247. Additional classrooms and dorms were brought from a nearby Air Force base to help adjust to the increase.^[16]

When the Georgia State Women's college (now Valdosta State University) began to admit men in 1950, the Valdosta campus's fate was sealed. By 1953, just 65 students were enrolled. Emory could not compete with the lower in-state tuition offered by Valdosta State, especially without the support system enjoyed by the larger DeKalb County campus. When the junior college closed its doors in 1953, the facilities were given to the University System of Georgia and are now also part of Valdosta State. ^[16]

[edit] Expansion since 1950

Clock tower at Cox Hall

Formerly an all-male school, in 1953 Emory officially became a coeducational institution. Although it had previously admitted women under limited circumstances, the university had never before had a policy through which they could enroll in large numbers and as resident students. Shortly after, in 1959, sororities first appeared on campus. In 1962, in the midst of the American Civil Rights Movement, Emory embraced the initiative to end racial restrictions when it asked the courts to declare portions of the Georgia statutes unconstitutional. Previously, Georgia law denied tax-exempt status to private universities with racially integrated student bodies. The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled in Emory's favor and Emory officially became racially integrated.

In the 1970s, the university embarked on an ambitious building program, substantially improving its facilities. Due largely to the generosity of Robert Woodruff, the president of The Coca-Cola Company, the U.S. Center for Disease Control opened on Clifton Road, next to Emory. The presence of the CDC was a major reason why the American Cancer Society moved its headquarters to Atlanta, and also made it possible for Emory, in 1990, to launch its first new school in fifty years: the Rollins School of Public Health.^[11] During this time, the university also built a series of new concrete brutalist structures, including the Robert W. Woodruff Library in 1969, the Sanford S. Atwood Chemistry Center in 1974, the Goodrich C. White Hall in 1977, and the Paul Rudolph-designed William R. Cannon Chapel in 1982.

The course of Emory's history changed dramatically when, in November 1979, Robert and George Woodruff presented the institution with a gift of $105 million in Coca-Cola stock. At the time this was the largest single gift to any institution of higher education in American history, and it made a profound impact on Emory's direction in the next two decades, boosting the university to the top ranks of American research universities ^[11].

Another important factor in the university's growth over the last two decades has been its location in metropolitan Atlanta. The 740-acre Emory campus in the historic Druid Hills neighborhood shares the Clifton Corridor with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Cancer Society. A few miles away is the Carter Center. Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, is a University Distinguished Professor and occasionally visits classes and lectures students. Each year, Carter has a town hall meeting at the university, in which he gives a lecture and answers questions from Emory students and members of the Atlanta community.

The latest additions to the Emory campus include the Rollins School of Public Health, the O. Wayne Rollins Research Center, the Michael C. Carlos Museum (designed by Michael Graves), the Roberto C. Goizueta Business School, the Whitehead Biomedical Research Building, the Mathematics and Science Center, the Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, a recent expansion to the business school that was completed in 2005, as well as the continuous expansion of Emory University Hospital.

Emory in autumn

Emory's six libraries have also seen enormous growth over the 1990s as they increased their holdings to more than 3.1 million volumes. The Special Collections Department of Woodruff Library houses the papers of the British poet Ted Hughes, as well as an extensive Irish collection (William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Seamus Heaney, and several contemporary Irish writers). Emory's Special Collections also has concentrations on southern imprints and writers (James Dickey, Alfred Uhry, Mary Hood, and certain papers of Huey Long, for example), and a growing concentration of African American papers, including the work of activist Malcolm X and the Hatch/Billops Collection. Recently, author Salman Rushdie, who has joined the faculty as a Distinguished Writer in Residence, announced he will donate his extensive archive to Woodruff Library.

The Michael C. Carlos Museum houses a permanent collection of some 18,000 objects, including art from Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania as well as European and American prints and drawings ranging from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Twenty-nine galleries are maintained for permanent collections, and eight galleries present special exhibitions from all periods.

Emory has received four of the 100 largest donations in higher education history. Emory is the only university with two donations among the fifteen largest in higher education history. These records are tracked by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Many of these donations stemmed from the school's close ties to the Coca-Cola Company and its leaders.

The largest donation to Emory was for $295 million, received in 1996 from the Lettie Pate Evans, Joseph B. Whitehead, and Robert W. Woodruff Foundations. Other large donations include:

• $50 million: July 9, 2007. From the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins to the Rollins School of Public Health to double its physical space and attract new faculty.
• $83.3 million: 1999. From the estates of W.I.H. and Lula Pitts.
• $109 million (the largest gift in higher education history at the time): 1979. From the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation. Established the Emory Scholars Program and facilitated Emory's rise in national prominence.
• $261.5 million: Nov. 16, 2006. From the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation to overhaul the Emory Clinic, renovate the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Administration Building, and facilitate Emory's Strategic Plan.

Emory University celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary in 1986, when it featured a student body of about 8,500 undergraduate and graduate students. Emory is generally considered a shortlist member of the so-called "Southern Ivy League" and consistently ranks among the top universities in the United States. In 2004, Emory University's endowment was ranked 8th in the nation at an estimated $4.4 billion.

Emory University recently completed a strategic planning process in 2005 led by Emory President James W. Wagner, Provost Earl Lewis and Executive Vice President Mike Mandl. After broad consultation with the entire Emory community, the comprehensive plan was put forward and approved by the Board of Trustees. The anticipated $3 billion plan will strengthen Emory University's programs in specific areas focused on key themes centered on major world issues.

On November 16, 2006, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation announced that it would give Emory $261.5 million over four years to enhance the Emory Clinic, establish a Presidential Fund to provide seed money for the strategic plan, and to renovate the Woodruff Health Sciences Administration Building.

On September 15, 2008, The Emory Wheel reported that the Emory Board of Trustees had officially changed the name of Emory College to College of Arts and Sciences and the name of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to Graduate School. The former ends the founding Emory College name after 172 years. ^[17]

[edit] Organization

Administration Building

The College of Arts and Sciences is the undergraduate institution of Emory University with 66 majors, 53 minors, 17 joint concentrations, and 10 interdepartmental programs leading to a bachelor's degree. It enrolls approximately 6,000 undergraduate students. The Oxford College of Emory University, located in Oxford, Georgia, enrolls about 700 students. Students at Oxford traditionally complete their first two years of their degree at Oxford and then continue at the College of Arts and Sciences (located on the Atlanta campus) to complete their bachelor's degrees. Because of its size, Oxford College provides low student-teacher ratios in classrooms and a close-knit social community typical of liberal arts colleges.

The Graduate School has degree programs in 26 divisions in which students receive either master's or doctoral degrees. The Candler School of Theology is allied with the United Methodist Church, but enrolls students from many denominations. The Goizueta Business School was ranked 20th nationally by U.S. News and 18th by Forbes for their MBA program; the undergraduate program was ranked 4th by BusinessWeek in 2007. Emory Law School is currently ranked 20th by U.S. News and World Report.

The Emory Healthcare System is the largest healthcare provider in Georgia and educates doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. The Emory University School of Medicine enrolls approximately 425 medical students, 1,000 residents and fellows, and 350 allied health students. Collaborating with the nearby Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other public health organizations, the Rollins School of Public Health has about 800 graduate students. The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing enrolls approximately 175 undergraduate students and 175 graduate students.

The Financial Aid Office awards need-based financial aid to all qualifying students through institutional and federal grant and loan packages. In January 2007, the University announced its newest aid program, Emory Advantage. Emory Advantage seeks to help undergraduate dependent students from families with assessed annual incomes $100,000 or less who demonstrate a need for financial aid. The program reduces the amount of money borrowed to pay for an undergraduate Emory degree. The goal is to make an Emory education attainable for any qualified student, regardless of income.

The Loan Replacement Grant (LRG] replaces loans for dependent undergraduate students whose families' assessed annual incomes are $50,000 or less. Grants replace need-based loans to cover expenses including tuition, room, and board. The eligible grant amount represents the student's self-help portion normally given in the form of a loan.

The Loan Cap Program (LCP) caps cumulative need-based debt at $15,000 for dependent undergraduate students whose families' assessed annual incomes are between $50,001 and $100,000. With the Loan Cap Program, students receive a standard financial aid award for freshman and sophomore years. This estimated award could include federal or state aid, institutional loans or grants, or Work-Study. After a student has accrued a total of $15,000 in need-based loans, Emory will provide grants to cover any remaining need-based funding incurred through degree completion.

[edit] Academics

[edit] Profile

Main Quad on Emory's Druid Hills Campus

Emory's student body consists of 6,890 undergraduates and 5865 graduate and professional students (as of Fall 2008). Its student body is the most ethnically and religiously diverse of any of the top twenty national research universities, with 12,755 students from fifty states and 106 countries.^[18][19] For the undergraduate class of 2012, Emory received a record 17,499 applications, and accepted 26.6% of them.^[20][21] Academically, the incoming freshman class earned an average GPA of 3.82 in high school. Their median SAT scores range from 1330 to 1470 for the combined critical reading and math sections. In terms of admission selectivity, The Princeton Review gave Emory a score of 98 out of 99.^[22]

Emory University has four schools for undergraduates: College of Arts and Sciences (formerly Emory College), Oxford College, the Goizueta Business School, and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. The university's graduate and professional schools include the Graduate School (formerly the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Candler School of Theology, Goizueta Business School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health, and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing. Undergraduate students are invited to apply to the business school and nursing school after four semesters at either Emory College or Oxford College.

After graduation, 42% of undergraduates plan to continue to graduate or professional school; 30% of those pursue a medical degree; and 20% plan to pursue a law degree. Emory has matriculated 18 Rhodes Scholars and 10 Marshall Scholars, and houses a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious national academic honor society. Two-thirds of all Emory College classes have fewer than 20 students; 7% have more than 50. The university practices need-blind admissions and meets 100% of the admitted students' demonstrated need. More than 40% of students receive financial aid, with the average grant being $28,425.^[23] Also, Emory recently created a nationally recognized program called Emory Advantage, which helps reduce debt for undergraduate students and families with incomes and assets less than $100,000 per year.^[19]

[edit] Rankings

In the 2009 U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate programs at doctoral granting institutions, Emory ranked 18th (tied with the University of Notre Dame and Vanderbilt University), and has been ranked as high as 9th by the same publication in the past.^[6] Emory has also been ranked the 62nd best university in the world. ^[24] Additionally, Emory is one of twenty-five top schools in the nation tapped as a "New Ivy" in Kaplan/Newsweek's 2007 "How to Get Into College Guide" and is ninth in the country for best values among private universities in the 2008 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine.^[19] Its undergraduate business program was ranked 9th nationally by BusinessWeek in 2009, and has been ranked as high as 4th by the publication in the past.^[25]

In U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools 2009," Emory's medical school ranked 22nd for research and 46th for primary care^[7][26], while the law school ranked 20th.^[8] Among business schools in the United States, the Goizueta Business School was ranked 22nd by U.S. News & World Report in 2009 and 23rd by BusinessWeek in 2008^[9][25]. The Rollins School of Public Health was ranked 7th by U.S. News & World Report, while the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing was ranked 26th. The political science, English, and history departments of Emory Graduate School frequently rank in the top 20 of their respective disciplines among U.S. universities. Their African history and social psychology concentrations rank within the top 10, coming in at eight and nine respectively.

[edit] Student Life

[edit] Residential Life

Emory requires its students to live on campus for the first two years of undergraduate life. This requirement is justified by the administration as an effort to help "foster a sense of community and involvement in college life."^[27] Thus more than 70% of undergraduates live on campus. All freshmen are housed in one of nine residences on the Druid Hills campus. Sophomores may elect to live on the Druid Hills campus or in the Clairmont Tower, which is located on the Clairmont Campus. Juniors and Seniors may elect to live off-campus or on the Clairmont campus.

[edit] Greek Life

Fraternities have existed on Emory's campus as early as 1840. One early chronicler makes the case that Emory's "temple" of the Mystic Seven may have been the first chapter of a national fraternity established anywhere in the South. Today, the Greek-letter sororities and fraternities play an important part in leavening Emory's campus life. For undergraduates, Greek life comprises approximately 30% of the Emory student population. The Office of Greek Life recognizes 12 fraternities and 13 sororities. Eleven fraternities have on-campus housing located on Eagle Row. Ten sororities live in Sorority Village, a series of townhouses facing the fraternity houses on Eagle Row. Emory also has four secret societies—the D.V.S. Senior Honor Society, the oldest society, founded in 1902; Ducemus; the Order of Ammon; and the Paladin Society.

[edit] Dooley

Dooley, the unofficial mascot of Emory University

Traditions at Emory include Dooley, the "Spirit of Emory" and the unofficial mascot of the university. Dooley is a skeleton and is usually dressed in black. The name "Dooley" was given to the unofficial mascot in 1909. Each year in the spring, during Dooley's Week, Dooley roams Emory's campus flanked by bodyguards dressed in all black ("Dooley guards") and lets students out of class with unscheduled appearances in classrooms. He typically walks slowly with an exaggerated limp. A spokesperson amongst the bodyguards walks with him to deliver his messages as he never speaks himself. His identity is unknown and this is often fodder for campus gossip. He adopts the first name and middle initial of the University's current president. As such, Dooley's current full name is James W. Dooley, after James W. Wagner. Dooley's Week culminates with Dooley's Ball, a grand celebration that takes place in the center of campus on McDonough Field held in celebration of Dooley and Emory University. A sporting match called the Dooley Cup is played between the university administration and the student government association (SGA) each spring as well, and the SGA remains undefeated.

[edit] Clubs & Activities

[edit] Student Organizations

Approximately 320 student clubs and organizations operate on Emory's campus. These include numerous student government, special interest, and service organizations. The most prominent amongst these are the Emory Student Government Association (SGA) and the Student Programming Council (SPC). The Student Government Association (SGA) charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups, and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration. ^[28] The Student Programming Council (SPC) is the school's primary programming organization, and they are responsible for planning four big events every year: Homecoming Week, Fall Band Party, Spring Band Party, and Dooley's Week.^[29] According to the 2006 National Survey of Student Engagement, Emory students spend an average of six to ten hours a week participating in co-curricular activities on campus (more than double that of their peers), including a variety of intramural sports, cultural clubs, volunteer organizations.^[30]

One of the most popular activities on campus is competing in sports. Emory has 20 sports clubs and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams that are officially recognized.^[31][32] Performance groups such as Aural Pleasure, Emory's oldest coed a capella group, is also prominent, and can be seen in venues throughout the region. ^[33]

[edit] Community Service

About 25% of Emory students participate in Volunteer Emory, Emory's umbrella community service group. As one of the most popular groups on campus, Volunteer Emory offers dozens of ways to serve the community, working with varied organizations including the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Trees Atlanta, PAWS Atlanta, and Jones Boys and Girls Club. Students provided nearly 150,000 hours of service in 2008, working with more than 200 community partners. For their vast contributions, Emory received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, the highest federal recognition made to a college or university for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civil engagement.

[edit] Student Media

The Emory Wheel, Emory's award-winning undergraduate student newspaper, has been continually published since 1919 and has a circulation of about 5,500 throughout the campus and surrounding area. It is financially independent from the University, covering its costs from self-generated advertising sales. More than 100 students staff The Wheel and its sister magazine, The Hub, which is published quarterly.^[34] WMRE, Emory's student operated radio station, began broadcasting in 1989. Although it was initially only available to on-campus listeners, it now enjoys a worldwide audience.^[35]

Other University publications include The Spoke, The Lullwater Review, Emory Political Review, and Black Star Magazine.

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Intramural and Club

From its initial founding until the presidency of Warren Candler, intercollegiate sports was prohibited at Emory. Candler thought the practice "evil, only evil, and that continually." His principal objections were the cost of intercollegiate athletics programs, the temptation to gambling, and the distraction from scholarship. Candler was not unalterably opposed to athletics, however. During his presidency, he oversaw the creation of the nation's first model intramural program. ^[11] This "athletics for all" strategy, which emphasized the physical and social aspects of student development and learning in conjunction with academic pursuits, rose to national prominence during the 1920s, prompting many other institutions to emulate it.

Today the intramural program provides an athletic outlet for the entire Emory community. Undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty and staff members of the Woodruff Physical Education Center (WPEC) compete in both competitive and recreational leagues including flag football, soccer, softball, and basketball. The Office of Recreational Services also offers annual tournaments in golf, swimming, wrestling, and tennis, among others.

Club sports provide additional competitive opportunities. Club teams include crew, rugby, ultimate frisbee, roller hockey, lacrosse, racquetball, volleyball, sailing, table tennis, and the newly formed club baseball among others. Emory's crew, ultimate frisbee and lacrosse teams have had considerable success and deserve particular note. The student body participates heavily in athletics, with eighty percent of students participating in intercollegiate, club, recreation, or intramural sports sometime during their time at Emory. Many students also participate in the Outdoor Emory Organization—an organization that sponsors weekend trips of outdoor activities, such as rafting, rock climbing and hiking.

[edit] Intercollegiate

Emory's 27 varsity sports teams, known as the Eagles, are members of the NCAA's Division III University Athletic Association. Emory's intercollegiate programs regularly rank among the top ten NCAA Division III programs in the country and graduate more academic all-Americans than any other university in Division I, II, or III. The swimming and diving team, according to the NCAA rankings, is considered to be one of the top programs in the nation. The men's tennis team placed first in the nation in 2003 and 2006, the women's tennis team placed first in 1996, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, and the women's swimming and diving team placed first in 2005 and 2006. In 2003 and 2004, Emory finished second in the nation among more than 395 NCAA Division III schools in the NACDA Director's Cup for the best all-around athletic program. In golf Emory won three tournaments in the 2006 -2007 season, Rodrigo Olivero won back to back tournaments with 4 rounds under par setting new records. More recently, the Emory baseball team has emerged in prominence, finishing seventh in the nation in 2000, fifth in 2003, and second in 2007. According to 2008 pre-season polls, the team is ranked fifth in the nation. The women's volleyball team won the NCAA Division III national championship in 2008.

[edit] Notable faculty

Author Salman Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students

Notable faculty members at Emory have included:

• Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, Nobel Laureate (2002) and University Distinguished Professor since 1982
• The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), Nobel Laureate (1989) and Emory Presidential Distinguished Professor in 2007
• Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (died January 2007), a feminist American historian and a primary voice of the conservative women's movement
• Dennis Liotta, Professor of Organic Chemistry and coinventor of the best selling AIDS drug emtricitabine along with Raymond Schinazi
• Deborah Lipstadt, Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies and author of Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory (1994)
• Jean-François Lyotard, late Robert Woodruff Professor and prominent French postmodernist philosopher
• Catherine Manegold (retired to write her second book in 2005), Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter as part of a team at The New York Times
• Charles W. Nuckolls (1990-1999), winner of the Stirling Award for Contributions to Psychological Anthropology and author of Culture: A Problem that Cannot be Solved
• Sir Salman Rushdie, author and literary scholar
• Kevin Young (poet), a well-published poet
• Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate (1986) and author, former Distinguished Visiting Professor
• Sam Cherribi, former member of the Dutch House of Representatives (1994-2004). Now a senior lecturer in the department of sociology
• Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Professor of English
• Desmond Tutu, Nobel Laureate (1984) and Anglican archbishop, past visiting professor of theology
• Frans de Waal, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
• Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winner reporter and former New York Times correspondent
• Johnetta B. Cole, renowned African-American educator, former president of Spelman College and Bennett College
• Marion Creekmore, former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka
• Sanjay Gupta, an American physician and a contributing CNN chief health correspondent based in Atlanta, Georgia
• Jonathan Simons, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation
• Narasimhan Jegadeesh - Dean's Distinguished University Chair in Finance at the Goizueta Business School and creator of the Momentum (finance) theory

[edit] References

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[edit] Further reading

• "Emory University", in New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 1, 2006.
• "Emory University", in Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, ed. C. R. Wilson and William Ferris (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).
• English, Thomas H. Emory University 1915–1965: A Semicentennial History. Atlanta: Emory University, 1966.
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[edit] External links

• Official website
• Official Athletics website

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