SPONSORED PROGRAMS
The Sophomore Season Seminars and the Academic Support Programs are designed to help students navigate their academic and co-curricular lives here at Emory. The offerings range from… how to study Chemistry, to strategies in handling the challenges of relationships, to study abroad options, to community service alternatives for Fall and Spring Break. These programs are designed to:
- Promote student academic excellence
- Assist students in developing the skills needed to make the transition to college;
- Engage students in life long learning;
The Enter/Phase workshopsduring Orientation are designed to introduce first year students to the academic and co-curricular options here at Emory. This program is a partnership between the Office of Student Development and the Office of Undergraduate Education.Click here to visit the Orientation website.
FAME is the University’s Freshman advising program and as co-director of the program, The Direcotr of the Office of Student Development recruits staff participants and also serve on the FAME committee which plans the FAME experience each year. The Director encourages staff who are not involved in FAME to get involved with FAME. It is a wonderful way to mentor first year students and to get to know them one-on-one. I have been a part of the program for many years and I have always enjoyed my experience.Click here to visit the FAME workshop website.
Journeys of Reconciliation
The Journeys of Reconciliation Program is an inter-religious project promoting relationships between Emory University and communities around the world that have a history of violence and exploitation. Each May, Journeys of Reconciliation sponsors two-week immersion expriences for Emory students, staff and faculty.
The program evolved out of an Oxford College service learning program that began in 1985. In 1999, the program took its current name and began to embrace both the Oxford and Atlanta campuses. Although it is for students of Oxford College and Emory College primarily, it welcomes graduate student applicatons. Past destinations include: South Africa, Northern Ireland, Cuba, Bolivia, the Texas/Mexico border, Oaxaca, Mexico, Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta and the Cheyenne and Northern Crow reservations in Montana. Click here to Visit the Journeys of Reconciliation Website
Volunteer Emory
VE is a 27-year institution at Emory and their main focus is to provide Emory University students, staff and faculty with community service opportunities not only in the greater Atlanta area, but also around the country.
Below are some of Volunteer Emory's signaure programs:
- VE sponsors an average of 12 weekly service trips each semester taking Emory students into the Atlanta community. Last year a little over 700 students participated on a regular basis in these weekly service trips.
- Special Awareness Weeks like AIDS Awareness Week and Hunger and Homeless Awareness week are also important Volunteer Emory events. This past October, Volunteer Emory raised $1300 for the AIDS Atlanta through the AIDS walk and they also raised a little over $2,000 during their Spring “Get Fit to Volunteer” 5k run program. The money raised from the 5k run was distributed in the form of grants to various non-profit agencies in the Atlanta community.
- Over the fall break, Volunteer Emory sponsored a trip to New Orleans to help in the post Katrina rebuilding efforts and 30 students signed up and made that trek to the 9th ward in New Orleans. As you might imagine that rebuilding effort will take years so Volunteer Emory plans to continue to sponsor trips to the area, which includes the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
- Last month VE was one of the partners in a new effort by the Association of Emory Alumni called “Emory Cares.” Volunteer Emory was instrumental in gathering together nearly 400 students and alumni to participate in dozens of service project around the Atlanta area. This event was a kind of “Hands on Atlanta Day” for the Emory community and it was very successful.
These events and all of the activities of Volunteer Emory attract large numbers of Emory students. A third of Emory undergraduate students volunteer either through Volunteer Emory or individually and given the University’s emphasis on “engaged students” and getting our students out into the community, VE expect that number to grow. Click here to Visit Volunteer Emory Website
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