Emory Everywhere
From the EAA
More than 1,500 community members volunteered for Emory Cares International Service Day in November. In Tucson, Arizona, Matt Riley 06C and Mildren Johnson 72N got dirty at the Community Food Bank's Marana Heritage Farm.
Alumni volunteers helped out at the Peace House for disabled men in Seoul, Korea.
Lindsey Whitlock 08B pulled weeds and more at a community garden in Chicago.
(From left) Melvin Sheih 14C, Max Gomas, Jennifer Lang 14C, and Paoula Gueorguvia 13C worked at Atlanta's Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services (below right). In all, the "day" encompassed seventy-six projects in twenty-seven cities and four countries.
“What’s new at the EAA?”
That’s a question I’m asked quite a bit—perhaps even more so at the beginning of the new year. And every year I’m pleased to say, “Quite a lot.”
The EAA recently completed a three-year strategic plan—the contents of which address, in large part, comments and requests alumni like you made in response to surveys we distributed in early 2010.
One area that figures prominently in our plan is alumni career services, and we are focusing our efforts on connecting alumni for professional networking on LinkedIn. We’ve moved several of our alumni groups, such as the Emory Alumni Consulting Group, to this easily accessible and very popular professionally oriented site. If you aren’t already a member of the EAA’s group (just search the site for “Emory alumni”), I encourage you to join today and connect to the more than four thousand fellow alumni who are already there.
We’ve also just launched our redesigned website, which enhances the online experience for our alumni by offering easier navigation, upgraded features, better connection, and faster service.
Not all of our connections are online, of course. If you’re going to be in Atlanta on February 18, I hope you’ll be our guest at our MWAH Open House. Like Emory itself, we’ll always be your home.
