Editing Emory University (section)

==Student life==
{| class="wikitable floatright sortable collapsible"; text-align:right; font-size:80%;"
|+ style="font-size:90%" |Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
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! Race and ethnicity<ref>{{cite web|title=College Scorecard: Emory University|url=https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?139658-Emory-University|publisher=[[United States Department of Education]]|access-date=May 8, 2022|archive-date=July 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706032509/https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?139658-Emory-University|url-status=live}}</ref>
! colspan="2" data-sort-type=number |Total
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| [[Non-Hispanic whites|White]]
|align=right| {{bartable|37|%|2||background:gray}}
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| [[Asian Americans|Asian]]
|align=right| {{bartable|23|%|2||background:purple}}
|-
| [[Foreign national]]
|align=right| {{bartable|15|%|2||background:orange}}
|-
| [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]]
|align=right| {{bartable|11|%|2||background:green}}
|-
| [[African Americans|Black]]
|align=right| {{bartable|9|%|2||background:mediumblue}}
|-
| Other{{efn|Other consists of [[Multiracial Americans]] & those who prefer to not say.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|5|%|2||background:brown}}
|-
! colspan="4" data-sort-type=number |[[Economic diversity]]
|-
| [[American lower class|Low-income]]{{efn|The percentage of students who received an income-based federal [[Pell grant]] intended for low-income students.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|21|%|2||background:red}}
|-
| Non-low income{{efn|The percentage of students who are a part of the [[American middle class]] at the bare minimum.}}
|align=right| {{bartable|79|%|2||background:black}}
|}

===Student body===
Emory University's total enrollment for fall 2021 was 15,846 students, with 8,197 undergraduates and 7,649 graduate and professional students. Twenty-one percent of students are Georgia residents, the remaining come from 49 other states, D.C., American territories, and more than 100 countries. Forty percent of students are male, 60% are female.<ref name="provost.emory.edu">{{Cite web|url=https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/data/factbook/enrollment.html|title=Dashboard – Fall Student Enrollment &#124; Emory University &#124; Atlanta GA|access-date=June 5, 2020|archive-date=June 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605210406/https://provost.emory.edu/planning-administration/data/factbook/enrollment.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The student to faculty ratio is 7:1, with an average class size of 25 students.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty and Teaching |url=http://www.emory.edu/home/academics/faculty/index.html|website=Emory University|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=July 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200705014428/http://www.emory.edu/home/academics/faculty/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Of the 1,534 freshmen enrolled in fall 2021, 31% were White, 22% were Asian, 13% were Black/African American, 11% were Latino/Hispanic, 18% were International, 1% were Native American and 4% did not identity; 57% were female and 43% were male.<ref name="Admission Profile">{{cite web |title=Admission Profile >> Fast Facts >> Discover >> Office of Undergraduate Admission >> Emory University |url=https://apply.emory.edu/discover/facts-stats/first-year.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502215914/https://apply.emory.edu/discover/facts-stats/first-year.html |archive-date=May 2, 2022 |access-date=July 24, 2022 |website=Apply.emory.edu}}</ref>

===Arts===
Students may engage in the performing and fine arts as an area of academic study or as extracurricular activities. Undergraduates may pursue a major in the performing arts (dance, theater, or music) or in film studies, art history, visual arts, or creative writing.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arts.emory.edu/about/index.html |title=About Arts at Emory |publisher=Emory University |access-date=July 16, 2010 |archive-date=October 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031092448/http://arts.emory.edu/about/index.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Graduate programs in art history, film studies, and music are offered.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gs.emory.edu/academics/index.php |title=Degree Programs |publisher=Laney Graduate School |access-date=July 16, 2010 |archive-date=July 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726202922/http://www.gs.emory.edu/academics/index.php |url-status=live}}</ref> There are more than 50 student organizations dedicated to the arts. Students can explore artistic interests as diverse as architecture, breakdancing, poetry, and improvisational comedy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.creativity.emory.edu/student-art-groups.shtml |title=Student Arts Groups |publisher=Emory University |access-date=July 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727194639/http://creativity.emory.edu/student-art-groups.shtml |archive-date=July 27, 2010}}</ref> Emory routinely hosts arts events in the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts that are open to the Emory and Atlanta communities. Recent{{when|date=March 2022}} performances include Bang on a Can All-Stars (a side project of drummer [[Glenn Kotche]] from the rock band [[Wilco]]), jazz performer [[Esperanza Spalding]], and New York's Cedar Lake Dance Company. A program called Creativity Conversations brings artistic minds to campus to discuss art and the creative process. Guests have included [[Philip Glass]], [[Jimmy Carter]], [[Salman Rushdie]], [[Seamus Heaney]] and [[Rita Dove]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://creativity.emory.edu/creativity-conversations-index.shtml |title=Creativity Conversations |publisher=Emory University |access-date=July 16, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610081757/http://www.creativity.emory.edu/creativity-conversations-index.shtml |archive-date=June 10, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIobJXZ-cg| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/9xIobJXZ-cg| archive-date=October 30, 2021|title=Creativity Conversation with Rita Dove and Natasha Trethewey|date=April 8, 2011|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59fQ3ujjLA|title=Creativity Conversation with Rita Dove, Alvin Singleton, and Robert Spano|date=April 8, 2011|publisher=[[YouTube]]|access-date=September 7, 2015|archive-date=October 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015024410/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J59fQ3ujjLA|url-status=live}}</ref> Rita Dove also gave the keynote address at Emory's 2013 Commencement.<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4MSdIPxRLo| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211030/P4MSdIPxRLo| archive-date=October 30, 2021|title=Commencement Keynote 2013|date=May 14, 2013|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Barkley Forum===
The [[Barkley Forum]] Center for Debate Education is an intercollegiate debate organization at Emory University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Barkley Forum|url=http://www.emory.edu/BF/competitive_debate/historic_success/index.html|website=Emory University|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906052211/http://www.emory.edu/BF/competitive_debate/historic_success/index.html|archive-date=September 6, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The center is named in honor of Emory alumnus [[Alben Barkley]], 35th [[Vice President of the United States]]. Debating was established at the university in 1837 and the intercollegiate debate team was formed in 1914. Emory's Barkley Forum debate team has won three [[National Debate Tournament]]s and over 25 [[List of National Debate Tournament winners|individual champion speaker awards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=National Tournament Results|url=http://www.emory.edu/BF/competitive_debate/historic_success/national_tournaments.html|website=Emory University|access-date=July 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911230002/http://www.emory.edu/BF/competitive_debate/historic_success/national_tournaments.html|archive-date=September 11, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Community service===
The university received the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service, which is the highest federal recognition given to higher education institutions for their commitment to community service, service-learning and civic engagement.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=26552 |title=Emory Receives Top Service Recognition |newspaper=[[The Emory Wheel]] |date=September 2, 2009 |access-date=August 2, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119194001/http://emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=26552 |archive-date=January 19, 2012}}</ref> About 25% of Emory students participate in Volunteer Emory, Emory's umbrella community service group. As one of the most popular groups on campus, Volunteer Emory 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://volunteer.emory.edu/|title=Volunteer Emory|publisher=Emory University|access-date=July 18, 2011|archive-date=April 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415044026/http://volunteer.emory.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory Cares International Service Day brings together students, alumni and other community members to volunteer at a number of projects organized by Emory and its many partners around the city of Atlanta and in cities worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory Alumni Association website |url=http://www.alumni.emory.edu/volunteer-and-give/emory-cares.html |access-date=November 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111029040933/http://www.alumni.emory.edu/volunteer-and-give/emory-cares.html |archive-date=October 29, 2011}}</ref>

===Newspaper===
''[[The Emory Wheel]]'' is the [[Student publication|student-run newspaper]] of Emory University. The ''Wheel'' is published weekly on Wednesdays, during the regular school year. Serving the Emory community since 1919, the ''Wheel'' is editorially and financially independent from the university. The staff is composed entirely of students, with the exception of the general manager, who oversees advertising and whose salary is paid by the newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |title=About |url=http://www.emorywheel.com/about/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309180325/http://www.emorywheel.com/about/ |archive-date=March 9, 2009 |website=[[The Emory Wheel]] |access-date=July 3, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_emory_wheel/ |title=The Emory Wheel facts |website=Freebase |access-date=March 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811061700/http://www.freebase.com/view/en/the_emory_wheel |archive-date=August 11, 2011 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Programs abroad===
Through the Centers of International Programs Abroad, Emory University students can study in over 40 countries at the top academic institutions in the world including the [[National University of Singapore]], [[Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies]], [[Nanjing University]], [[Oxford University]], [[Imperial College London]], the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]], [[Yonsei University]], [[Trinity College Dublin]], [[University of St. Andrews]], [[University of Melbourne]], [[Hertie School of Governance]], [[University of Amsterdam]], [[Sciences Po]], [[University of Cape Town]], and [[Tel Aviv University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Program Search (results) |url=http://abroad.emory.edu/index.cfm?Program_Type_ID=1&Program_Name=&pt=%7F&pi=%7F&pc=%7F&pr=%7F&FuseAction=Programs.SearchResults&SimpleSearch=1|website=Centers of International Programs Abroad, Emory University |access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=January 18, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150118221704/http://abroad.emory.edu/index.cfm?Program_Type_ID=1&Program_Name=&pt=%7F&pi=%7F&pc=%7F&pr=%7F&FuseAction=Programs.SearchResults&SimpleSearch=1|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Greek life===
[[Fraternities and sororities|Fraternities]] have existed on Emory's campus as early as 1840. One early chronicler makes the case that Emory's "temple" of the [[Mystical Seven (Wesleyan)|Mystic Seven]] may have been the first chapter of a national fraternity established anywhere in the South. Today, approximately 20% of the Emory student population participates.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emory University Student Life |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/emory-university-1564/student-life |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230918151037/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/emory-university-1564/student-life |archive-date=Sep 18, 2023 |website=US News Best Colleges}}</ref> There are approximately eight sorority chapters<ref>{{Cite web |title=Emory Panhellenic Council {{!}} Emory University {{!}} Atlanta GA |url=http://osfl.emory.edu/current-members/panhellenic.html |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=osfl.emory.edu |language=en}}</ref> and eleven fraternity chapters.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interfraternity Council {{!}} Emory University {{!}} Atlanta GA |url=http://osfl.emory.edu/current-members/interfraternity.html |access-date=2024-03-17 |website=osfl.emory.edu |language=en}}</ref>

===Student organizations===
Hundreds of student clubs and organizations operate on Emory's campus. These include numerous [[student government]], [[Special interest group|special interest]], and [[community service|service organizations]]. The Student Government Association charters and provides most of the funding for other student groups and represents students' interests when dealing with the administration.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.students.emory.edu/SGA/sga/ |title=Emory University SGA — Student Government Association |publisher=Students.emory.edu |access-date=July 30, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508103008/http://www.students.emory.edu/SGA/sga/ |archive-date=May 8, 2009}}</ref> Emory also has several [[secret societies]]—the [[Paladin Society]], the [[D.V.S. Senior Honor Society]], Ducemus, Speculum, and the [[Order of Ammon]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory University main website|url=http://www.emory.edu/home/about/history/index.html|access-date=November 16, 2011|archive-date=September 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924095929/http://www.emory.edu/home/about/history/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Emory has a partnership with Coca-Cola; the firm pledged three million dollars over a five-year period for "Service for Learning," which coordinates Emory student volunteers in various projects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2008/09/coca%20cola-foundation-grant.html|title=Coca-Cola Foundation Supports Emory's Education, Sustainability Initiatives {{!}} Emory University {{!}} Atlanta, GA|website=Shared.web.emory.edu|access-date=April 6, 2016|archive-date=July 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706032511/http://shared.web.emory.edu/emory/news/releases/2008/09/coca-cola-foundation-grant.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

There is an [[intramural sports]] program<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory Club Sports website|url=http://www.rec.emory.edu/clubsports/|website=Rec.emory.edu|access-date=July 18, 2011|archive-date=May 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520194816/http://www.rec.emory.edu/clubsports/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and a variety of recreational and competitive intramural teams.<ref>{{cite web|title=Emory Intramurals website |url=http://www.rec.emory.edu/rec/intramurals/ |access-date=July 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711053816/http://www.rec.emory.edu/rec/intramurals/ |archive-date=July 11, 2011}}</ref>