Oxford College plans to use the residential modular units (the Mods) for an additional year. The Mods were introduced in fall 2021 as a temporary solution to address over enrollment at Oxford. First-year enrollment increased from 492 in 2020-21 to 593 students in 2021-22, a 20.5% increase. Sullivan noted the importance of keeping it temporary [...]
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Emory University will launch the second phase of its Twin Memorials Project on Feb. 17, which seeks to construct parallel memorials on the Oxford and Atlanta campuses, recognizing enslaved persons who built parts of the University. During this phase, Baskervill, a design firm from Richmond, Virginia that Emory hired to work on the Twin Memorials, [...]
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In the fall semester, Javier Trujillo (24C) worked with two close friends, one in a pre-med fraternity and the other in a pre-business fraternity. Upon hearing his friends’ pre-professional opportunities, Trujillo felt that Emory University lacked many resources geared toward pre-law students. With dead-end emails to pre-law organizations and no sense of pre-law communities, he [...]
Read MoreOctober is a month notoriously busy with midterms; it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the schoolwork. But for Oxford students, Halloweek is something that everyone can look forward to. (Courtesy of Kelly Zhuang/The Emory Wheel) Hosted by Oxford’s Student Activities Committee (SAC), Halloweek consists of an event every night from Oct. 25 to 29 [...]
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In anticipation of Emory University’s bicentennial anniversary, the school launched the 2O36 campaign on Oct. 22 as the second phase of a fundraising initiative designed to garner $4 billion by 2025. According to the campaign website, fundraising efforts will focus on student flourishing, faculty eminence and research excellence by “investing in people for the benefit [...]
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