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Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322

Release date: April 15, 1999
Contact: Elaine Justice, Assistant Director

ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU TO REMAIN AT EMORY DURING 1999-2000 ACADEMIC YEAR

Archbishop Desmond Tutu will remain on the faculty of Emory University for the forthcoming academic year 1999-2000. He will continue in residence teaching courses at the Candler School of Theology as the William R. Cannon Visiting Distinguished Professor of Theology.

The South African Nobel laureate arrived at Emory in August 1998 as the Robert W. Woodruff Visiting Professor of Theology at Candler. He spent the fall of 1998 speaking on campus and off, and working on a book. Currently Tutu is teaching two courses at Candler, according to Dean Kevin LaGree.

"Archbishop Tutu's very public commitment to human rights and his singular ministry to the people of South Africa has made a profound impact on Candler as he shares his unique insights in the classroom," says LaGree. "We have been deeply moved by his witness and enriched by his presence with us in the Emory community."

Tutu's affiliations with Emory go back a decade. He received an honorary degree from the university in 1988, and spent several months at the campus on sabbatical in 1992. Tutu also had spoken at several Emory events, including international conferences on Christianity and democracy in 1991 and on religious human rights in 1994.

Originally scheduled to be a visiting professor at Emory in 1996, Tutu's arrival was delayed by his appointment as chairman of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which submitted its final report last fall.