Category: Academics
Nursing school offers culture immigration course to non-nursing students
Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing will offer NRSG 435, “Culture, Immigration, and Health Outcomes” in spring 2023. This will be one of the few nursing school courses open to both nursing and non-nursing students. According to the Emory Course Atlas, the class will provide “an overview of key interdisciplinary topics in culture, [...]
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Informal resolution meetings increase under unified Honor Code
Before Emory University’s new honor code went into place, Associate Dean and Director of the Honor Council Jason Ciejka (11G, 17L) said that about half of students with honor code violations opted to have an informal resolution meeting (IRM). Now, Ciejka said they’re seeing over 70-75% of students use the IRM process, which allows students [...]
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Emory’s course on death and dying expands to Air Force Academy
Content warning: This article contains references to suicide. Few courses at Emory University are consistently described as students’ favorite undergraduate class, and even fewer spur schools across the country to teach the curriculum in their own classrooms. And yet, this past spring, the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) offered a course created, developed and [...]
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Rose Library unveils new Southern Jewish Archives Collection
Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library recently updated its Southern Jewish Archives Collection after cousins Rabbi David Geffen (59C) and former Emory Board of Visitors member Marc Lewyn announced the new Geffen and Lewyn Family Southern Jewish Collections Research Fellowship Fund. The Rose Library used the donation from the Geffen [...]
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Free speech debate reignited at law school with Emory Free Speech Forum event, students allege transphobia
When the Emory Free Speech Forum (EFSF) began to promote their event with the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) at the Emory University School of Law last month, controversy quickly followed. Within a couple days, EFSF’s fliers about the event — coined “A Pro-Human Approach to Civil Rights” — were met with student-made fliers [...]
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New Goizueta Business School undergraduate curriculum, minor set to roll out January 2023
Beginning January 2023, students will have the ability to matriculate into the business school in the fall of their sophomore year and a new Emory College of Arts and Sciences (ECAS) business minor will be introduced. These are just two of the curriculum changes, which have been in the works for almost five years, that [...]
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School of Nursing roundup: Edge Runner designation, new learning center, $11 million from federal government
The Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing received $11.8 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) on Oct. 4 and opened a new $20.6 million learning center on Sept. 16. Alongside these two School of Nursing accomplishments, Nell Hodgson also received the American Academy [...]
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Emory now ranks No. 22, lowest position since 1994
Emory University fell to No. 22 in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report’s (USNWR) “Best Colleges” ranking for national universities, following five consecutive years of Emory being ranked No. 21. The last time Emory’s rank dropped was in 2017, when it lost its No. 20 spot in the USNWR rankings. Emory’s No. 22 position [...]
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Summer 2022 news roundup
2022 Election Guide By Matthew Chupack and Madi Olivier | May 13 Georgia’s 2022 election features U.S. Senate, governor, secretary of state and other key races. Primary election day was May 24, and runoffs were held on June 21 for the secretary of state Democratic nominee and the lieutenant governor Democratic nominee. Gubernatorial candidate Stacey [...]
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Emory, Oxford will require experiential learning GER for Class of 2027
Students entering Emory University in fall 2023 will be required to fulfill an experiential learning general education requirement (GER). The new GER, which will be mandatory for students at both Oxford College and the Emory College of Arts and Sciences, is intended to facilitate learning “through reflection or doing” to improve students’ grasp on conceptual [...]
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Crossing the stage, turning tassels
For the first time in three years, Emory University’s graduation and Commencement festivities took place on campus, starting with undergraduate Class Day Crossover on May 5 and culminating in Emory College, Goizueta Business School and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing undergraduate graduation ceremonies on May 9. In 2020, graduation and Commencement occurred completely [...]
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Emory admits 9% of Regular Decision applicants
Regular Decision applicants received their Emory University admission decisions on March 30 at 6 p.m. According to Dean of Admissions John Latting, 9% of all Regular Decision applicants were admitted. The Early Decision I round of applicants had an acceptance rate of 32%. The overall admit rate was 10.6%. “When I got in, I started [...]
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