BusinessWeek ranks Emory’s Evening MBA Program #2 in Nation
In BusinessWeek’s first ranking of Part-time (Evening) MBA programs, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School ranks number 2 among all Evening MBA programs in the nation and number 1 in the Southeast.
BusinessWeek ’s ranking of Part-time (Evening) MBA programs is based on program selectivity; quality of the program, and student feedback.
Goizueta’s Evening MBA Program received an “A” in teaching quality, was named “best for career switchers,” and was ranked number 2 in student satisfaction.

EMORY ALUM MAKES $250,000 DONATION TO ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT
Deborah Jackson, a 1985 graduate of Emory University has made a donation of $250,000 to the university’s athletic department. The announcement was made Saturday afternoon at the Birdies for Eagles Golf Outing held at Stone Mountain Golf Course.

The donation in part will serve as an endowment to name the athletic director’s position, the Clyde Partin Sr. Director of Athletics.  Known around Emory circles as “Doc,” Partin spent 50 years working at Emory in various capacities (1951 through 2002) including athletics director and department chair of health and physical education from 1966 through 1986. During his tenure, Emory athletics saw unprecedented growth culminating the in construction of the Woodruff PE Center that opened in 1983. From 1986 until his retirement in 2002, Partin served as a professor in physical education.

CLASS OF 2008 SETS RECORD FOR BEING MOST DIVERSE AND INTERNATIONAL IN EMORY'S HISTORY
Emory College welcomes to campus this year the most selective and diverse freshman class in its history. The Class of 2011 — 1,265 in all — was chosen from a record 15,374 applications, up 8.1 percent from last year's pool.

The Emory College Class of 2011 hails from 43 states and beyond, including the largest international enrollment in school history, with 11 percent of the students representing 40 different countries. About two-fifths of the class hails from a Southern state, with another fifth from the Mid-Atlantic region and the rest spread among the West, Midwest and New England. Georgia enrollees comprise 18 percent of the class.