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1980–The
University embarks on a plan to examine its academic strengths
and needs in light of the landmark $105 million gift from
Robert and George Woodruff. |
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1980–William
Fox is appointed the first vice president and dean of campus
life. Michael P. Lischke ’90C-’92PH writes,
“His leadership and ability to spread his enthusiastic Emory
spirit to the students–and now alumni–was clearly an
investment that is paying huge dividends to the University.” |
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1981–Two
hundred of the College’s eight hundred fifty freshmen take
part in a pilot project–the Emory College Seminar Program–designed
to improve the quality of student advising. By 1988, the program
is expanded to include all entering students. |
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1981–The
University consecrates the William R. Cannon Chapel, designed
by architect Paul Rudolph and named for a longtime University
trustee and bishop of the United Methodist Church. |
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1981–Volunteer
Emory, a clearinghouse for student volunteers, is founded
by Emory College sophomores Wendy Rosenberg and Debbie
Genzer. In subsequent years, Volunteer Emory becomes a major
force in student life. |
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1982–The
first twelve Robert W. Woodruff Scholars enroll in Emory
College, heralding a new era in undergraduate education. An additional
twenty-one Robert W. Woodruff Fellows enroll in
the schools of business, dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, and
theology, and three George W. Woodruff Fellows enter the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. |
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1982–Former
President Jimmy Carter is named University Distinguished
Professor, and the University announces plans to develop a public
policy center in conjunction with Carter’s presidential library. |
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1982–The
first two Robert W. Woodruff Professors, William Arrowsmith
and Richard Ellmann, are named. |
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1983–The
George W. Woodruff Physical Education Center opens. |
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1984–Steve
Gittleson, an Emory College sophomore on the men’s tennis
team, becomes the University’s first All-American athlete. |
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1984–The
first major undertaking of The Carter Center of Emory University
brings to campus representatives of six Middle Eastern governments
and the Palestinian community, as well as some thirty academics
who specialize in the region. The conference is hosted by former
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford. |
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1985–Michael
C. Carlos Hall, a post-modern renovation of the beaux arts Old
Law Building, opens. Named for the Atlanta businessman whose $1.5
million gift funded its renovation, Carlos Hall houses the Emory
University Museum of Art and Archæology (later the Michael
C. Carlos Museum). |
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1985–The
American Dental Association approves an Emory plan to phase out
the School of Dentistry’s doctor of dental surgery
degree by 1988. |
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1985–Former
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald R. Ford chair
an international consultation on Soviet nuclear strategy
and military capabilities. |
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1985–Physicians
perform the first five heart transplants at Emory University
Hospital. The transplant center unites the heart transplant
program with existing cornea, kidney, bone, and bone-marrow transplant
programs. In 1987, physicians at Emory Hospital perform the first
liver transplant in Georgia. |
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1986–Emory
joins seven academic peers (Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve,
the University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Washington University,
New York University, and the University of Rochester) to create
the University Athletic Association. (Brandeis University
joins later.) Interim co-director of the Association of Emory
Alumni Gerald B. Lowrey, who served as director of athletics
in the 1980s, writes, “The UAA finally gave Emory a proper
context in which to compete in varsity sports with peer institutions.
. . . Since the UAA was formed . . . Emory teams have consistently
ranked as some of the most successful competitively. I believe
that Emory’s membership in this association has served to
strengthen campus life and community.” |
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1986–The
University celebrates its sesquicentennial. |
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1986–The
R. Howard Dobbs University Center is dedicated. |
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1986–Former
President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, are
joined by President and Mrs. Reagan at the dedication of
the Carter Presidential Center. |
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1987–The
George and Irene Woodruff Residential Center is dedicated. |
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1987–The
University libraries acquire their two-millionth volume,
a rare sixteenth century atlas. |
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1988–The
University libraries inaugurate DOBIS,
a computerized public-access catalog system. |
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1988–South
African Archbishop and Nobel Laureate Desmond M. Tutu delivers
the Commencement address. |
