For practical and educational and deeply ideological reasons, I think the college has to remain the crown jewel for the university.
—Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History

I felt as if the college had too hallowed a place in the university's collective imagination.
—Judith Miller, Associate Professor of History

How five other institutions organize graduate and undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences

At a Crossroads: The future of graduate education at Emory
by Amy Benson Brown, from the September 2000

The Academic Exchange Who are the arts and sciences faculty?

Dean Bobby Paul The arts and sciences refers to that sector of the university that has as its primary mission scholarship—the production and transmission of new knowledge—as an end in itself. But this does not define clearly enough who exactly is to be designated by the term “the faculty of arts and sciences.” My position on this matter is clear in my mind, but the issue has not been formally settled, and it’s a little bit complicated. I’m on leave from the job of dean of the graduate school of arts and sciences. I am now interim dean of the college and the faculty of arts and sciences. Those two bodies, each referred to as the “faculty of arts and sciences,” are different. They overlap, but they are different. So the phrase “arts and sciences at Emory” is institutionalized as meaning two contradictory things. The graduate school arts and sciences faculty means anyone who teaches in a program that offers a Ph.D. For example, a faculty member of Candler who teaches in the Graduate Division of Religion (GDR) has been granted the status of graduate faculty in the GDR and is a member of the faculty of the graduate school of arts and sciences. Likewise nursing faculty who teach in the Ph.D. program, people who teach in the two programs in public health, and everybody in the Graduate Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

As interim dean of the college and of the faculty of arts and sciences, however, I am dean of the faculty of the college only. Given this existing contradiction, I think the most workable solution is that the phrase "faculty of arts and sciences" should refer to the faculty of the college. The gdr, for example, is in the graduate school of the arts and sciences. Any graduate student who goes through it gets a degree from the graduate school of arts and sciences. But members of the gdr faculty are not thereby members of the faculty of arts and sciences. They are faculty in Candler. Their salaries are paid in Candler; they are hired, evaluated, and promoted in Candler; and so on. That’s why I think the phrase “arts and sciences faculty” has to be coterminous with the college faculty. In most areas, I don’t think we should even concern ourselves with who’s in and who’s out; we should encourage as much intellectual interaction as we can. But the governing body of the college is its faculty, and it would be absurd to suggest that faculty in Candler (or the nursing, medical, law, or other professional schools) should have a vote in college faculty meetings.

AE What is the fiscal relationship between the college and the graduate school?

BP It is widely believed that the graduate school’s expenses, the great bulk of which go to stipend support, are paid for wholly or in part by undergraduate tuition. This is not the case. The income from undergraduate tuition does not even pay for the whole of undergraduate education, much less for graduate education. While the college, like other income-generating units, does contribute generously to an overall university operating budget, graduate stipends are largely supported by the income from endowment funds that have long since been especially designated for that purpose and have no impact on or connection with the college’s finances one way or the other.