Activities
The several hundred student organizations on campus all draw their vitality, growth and impact from one source: student interest.
Engaged Scholars
Emory received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, the highest federal recognition made to a college or university for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement. Students provided nearly 150,000 hours of service in 2008, working with more than 200 community partners.
Volunteer Emory, a popular group on campus, offers dozens of ways to serve the community, working with varied organizations including the Atlanta Community Food Bank, Trees Atlanta, PAWS Atlanta and Jones Boys and Girls Club. Special events include campus-wide service days, issue-based awareness campaigns and alternative break trips.
This kind of focus on purposeful contribution is an example of the university's intent for students here to become "engaged scholars," who use their education in service to others. Several offices and initiatives help students integrate this goal into their Emory experience:
- Office of Student Leadership and Service
- Ethics and Servant Leadership program at the Center for Ethics
- Pierce Institute for Leadership and Community Engagement at Oxford College
- Emory Community Building and Social Change Fellows Program
Variety
The variety of extracurricular activities here reflects the individuality, energy, enthusiasm and collegiality of Emory students:
- Club sports and intramural teams
- Honor societies
- Office of Multicultural Programs and Services
- Office of Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgender Life
- Outdoor Emory
- Sororities and fraternities
- Student media, such as The Emory Wheel
- Volunteer Emory
Student government provides access to decision-making forums:
- Student Government Association, the university-wide student governing body
- SGA's Student Programming Council, which plans campus-wide entertainment
- College Council, which makes student appointments to college and university-wide academic standing committees
- Graduate Student Council and Graduate Senate
