Emory offers opportunities that inform students’ worldviews in ways the traditional classroom cannot. It is a living laboratory, where philosophy students can explore ethics, nursing students can experience public health problems up close, and sociology majors can understand the impact of social inequality.
Emory has a record of turning promising students into leaders who make decisions from their hearts as well as their minds. Leadership and service in today’s difficult world require courage, compassion, and the understanding that individuals can make a difference. The Division of Campus Life offers all these things, along with lasting friendships and unlimited opportunities to serve the community.
Your gifts support Campus Life’s ambition to infuse health practices into all aspects of cocurricular education and develop students who are ethical leaders and conscientious, compassionate, and active global citizens. Your gifts are invested in people, programs, and facilities to advance holistic well-being among members of the Emory community and cultivate a campus culture that values service learning.
The success of student athletes creates members of the Emory community who are experienced ethical leaders and champions of both athletic and academic pursuits. Campus Life envisions an athletic experience that is qualitatively unique, memorable, and led by knowledgeable and prepared coaches in unparalleled facilities. Campaign Emory will fully endow the Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics and Recreation position. The campaign also will endow four sports programs and fund first-rate athletic facilities to attract the finest student athletes and coaching staff.
The Barkley Forum, home to Emory’s nationally ranked intercollegiate debate team, is best known for creating the Urban Debate League in Atlanta, which has grown into a national educational movement serving more than 40,000 students in urban cities across the nation. Campaign Emory will fully endow the Barkley Forum director position and raise annual funds to support the debate team and innovative programs that add value to the advancement of debate across the curriculum.
The Career Center supports all students in the career exploration and professional process through career counseling, coordination of on-campus recruiting, and preparation for graduate school applications. The relocation of the Career Center to the Boisfeuillet Jones Center presents an opportunity for the center to be more visible and accessible. Campaign Emory will provide the funds necessary to renovate the Boisfeuillet Jones Center to include interview rooms, recruiter lounges, and a state-of-the art career resource library.
Through Volunteer Emory, students participate in weekly service trips to visit the elderly, plant and protect area trees, tutor children, pack donated medical supplies for shipment to developing countries, help families of sick children, and advocate for babies waiting for foster placement. During their breaks from classes, students travel to help clean up the Gulf Coast and build houses for Habitat for Humanity.
Campaign Emory will establish a Volunteer Emory endowment for existing programs and provide funds to expand service learning efforts, including FISH (Freshmen in Service to Humanity), Alternative Break, and programs similar to the Bonner Leaders Program.
Campus Life focuses Emory’s most passionate volunteer resources—students—on community problems large and small. It helps foster understanding of international health issues, the ethics of science, and cultural and racial unity.
The unforgettable experiences Campus Life offers build character and shape career choices. Campus Life does not just make students smarter. It makes them better.
