Impact on the Community. In addition to its intensive teaching and research agenda, Emory reaches out to Atlanta through a number of community partnerships—from health care and housing to child advocacy and counseling. For example, students in Emory’s Candler School of Theology serve in various agencies and ministries throughout metro Atlanta as part of the required contextual education program. The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing provides volunteers for Mercy Mobile Health Care, a permanent clinic for indigent patients with AIDS in Atlanta and a mobile HIV clinic. And finally, 50 percent of Emory undergraduates volunteer in the Atlanta community by graduation.

Numerous volunteer groups provide community service through the Woodruff Health Sciences Center and Emory Healthcare: faculty from The Emory Clinic have provided medical care to migrant farm workers in South Georgia; Emory Healthcare has formed a partnership with Washington High School and its feeder schools to enhance the schools’ new Health and Human Service Career Academy; and Emory physicians have participated in medical mercy missions in refugee camps and relief efforts in Albania.

Additionally, Emory offers an array of cultural opportunities each year, including nearly eighty music concerts—more than half of which are free—theater and dance performances, and films. The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory provides innovative and engaging workshops in which children and their families can explore its well-regarded collections and exhibitions. Last year the Carlos Museum hosted some 20,000 schoolchildren on museum tours. And some 400,000 Atlantans have enriched their lives through the noncredit adult-education courses offered through Evening at Emory during its nearly fifty-year history. In fact, nearly 3,500 Atlantans have “graduated” from Emory’s MiniMedical School, another Evening at Emory program.

Beyond the community partnerships, cultural events, and educational opportunities that Emory makes available to the Atlanta community, many of the University’s 19,000 employees serve their neighborhood communities as youth sports coaches, Scout leaders, and church lay leaders.

Emory¹s impact on its hometown economy, citizens, communities, and cultural life reaches as far as the metro-Atlanta area itself.

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