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Center for Women at Emory University

569 Asbury Circle
Phone: 404.727.2000
Fax: 404.727.2002
http://www.womenscenter.emory.edu/

The Center for Women at Emory exists for, through, and because of all Emory women, providing resources and support as women empower themselves, and one another, in their pursuit of individual and collective goals. The Center strives to create an atmosphere in which all people are free to affirm and celebrate their differences, including but not limited to differences of gender, race, sexual orientation, class, age, religion, and physical and mental ability.

To fulfill this mission, the Center for Women will provide adequate space and programs to aid and enhance the growth of women throughout the University; advocate for the removal of barriers that inhibit the full participation of women in the community; promote nonoppressive attitudes and behaviors in all individuals; and enrich the campus by providing an interdisciplinary forum for women's cultural, spiritual, aesthetic, intellectual and social lives.

Emory Employee Council

http://www.employeecouncil.emory.edu/index.shtml

Established in 1970 by the president of Emory University, the Employee Council facilitates communication between Emory employees and university administration and serves as an advisory body to the president.

The Employee Council represents the perspective of employees to the administration (recommending change when appropriate), facilitates communication between the administration and employees at all organizational levels regarding university policies, practices, and programs and fosters closer working relationships between organizational areas and groups of employees.

Have a question? Contact the Employee Council at empcouncil@emory.edu

Ethics Center

1462 Clifton Road NE
Suite 302
Phone: 404.727.4954
http://www.ethics.emory.edu/

The Center for Ethics exists to enrich moral imagination, to deepen knowledge of ethics, and to encourage lives of moral meaning and ethical practice. The Center for Ethics is committed to being a national leader, recognized for excellence in ethical research, education and outreach by:

• Strengthening ethical knowledge & stimulating moral imaginations
• Generating and promoting original scholarship in ethics
• Translating ethical thought into practice
• Fostering lives of moral meaning and ethical engagement

Faculty Staff Assistance Program (FSAP)

1762 Clifton Road, Suite P1100
Phone: 404.727.4238
Fax: 404.727.7500
http://emory.hr.emory.edu/fsap/index.htm

The Faculty Staff Assistance Program (FSAP) provides professional counseling and consultative services designed to enhance the health, performance and well-being of individuals and organizational units, while also fostering a greater sense of community.

In this capacity, it functions as a resource for faculty, staff, physicians, administrators, and their family members. It also serves as a management support system for leadership.

Services provided by the FSAP are confidential and are rendered in private office locations to ensure the comfort of the clients that are served.

The program is available to the faculty, staff, and family members of those employed by the Emory University and Emory Healthcare. House staff members in the Residency Training Program, School of Medicine are also served by the FSAP.

Human Resources

1599 Clifton Road, NE
Phone: 404.727.7611
Fax: 404.727.1922
http://www.hr.emory.edu

Emory University strives to provide its staff members with the most rewarding and fulfilling employment experience possible. Emory reaffirms its commitment to the principle of equal opportunity in employment and education for every current and prospective employee.

University policies and practices prohibit discrimination based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability or veteran status. Please direct questions about the affirmative action plan to the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs at (404)727-6016.

Office of Multicultural Programs and Services

Woodruff Residential Center
1495 Clifton Road NE, Suite 348
Phone: 404.727.6754
Fax: 404.727.2059
http://www.emory.edu/MULTICULTURAL/index.htm

The OMPS staff has significant experience working with students from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds. With three professionals and an administrative support team that includes interns, OMPS is committed to student accessibility. Both drop-in and pre-scheduled appointments are available for personal assistance with a variety of human relations concerns. Focused on student academic success, OMPS was established in 1979 to serve African-American students at Emory. In 1988 Minority Student Programs was reorganized to meet the growing needs of all students of color on campus. In 1990 the official name of the office was changed to the Office of Multicultural Programs and Services in order to better reflect the population it serves.

Office of the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life

Phone: 404.727.6226
Fax: 404.727.0728
http://www.religiouslife.emory.edu

As a university related to the United Methodist Church, Emory provides ample and creative opportunities for enhancing Religious Life on campus through worship, service, education, and undergraduate and graduate student organizations.

The Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life works with staff representing various religious traditions on Emory's Atlanta and Oxford campuses to develop an extraordinarily diverse program of religious life. On the Atlanta campus, the Religious Life Office has two locations: 316 Cannon Chapel, where Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life, has her office, and 260 Dobbs University Center, where Rev. Bridgette Young, the Associate Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life, is located. On the Oxford campus, Rev. Judith A. Shema is the Oxford College Chaplain. The Office of Religious Life at Oxford is located in the Card Student Center.

Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life

Dobbs University Center
Rooms 242E, 244E, and 246E
Phone: 404.727.0272
http://www.emory.edu/CAMPUS_LIFE/LGBTOFFICE/

Mission
Emory University's Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT) Life is an administrative office housed within the Division of Campus Life. We offer programs and services designed to improve the campus climate and create an open and welcoming environment for LGBT students and employees. Our efforts advance Emory University's goal of maintaining "a climate in which equality of all persons and openness to critical consideration of all ideas are encouraged and sustained."

The Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life is located in Rooms 242E, 244E and 246E of the Dobbs University Center. While school is in session, we are open weekdays from 9:00am-5:00 pm. Call for our summer and holiday hours.

The Director of the Office of Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Life is Dr. Saralyn Chesnut. Dr. Chesnut, a graduate of Emory, teaches Lesbian/Gay Studies and Women's Studies' courses in addition to directing this office. Her faculty appointments are in Emory's Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Emory Institute for Women's Studies.

President's Commission on Race and Ethnicity (PCORE)

http://www.pcore.emory.edu/index.htm

The purposes of this Commission are:

• To serves as a forum for discussion and analysis of issues of race and ethnicity on campus and of national impact
• To develop and support programs and activities that enhance the presence of persons of color and strengthen the community of color at Emory University.
• To gather data as well as conduct and publicize studies on the status of race and ethnicity at Emory University.
• To recommend actions that improve the representation, development, and success of people of color in the Emory community to the University President.
• To support the principles of equal opportunity based on the University's Affirmative Action Plan.

Do you have a question, concern, recommendation, suggestion, thought, idea, or a complaint? If so, e-mail us at pcore@emory.edu and someone will respond to your e-mail soon.

President's Commission on the Status of Women

http://www.pcsw.emory.edu/

Questions regarding the PCSW may be directed to the Chair Susan Gilbert, susan_gilbert@bus.emory.edu, or Junior Chair Allison Dykes, allison.dykes@emory.edu.

Mission
The President's Commission on the Status of Women (PCSW) acts as an advisory body to the President of Emory University. Its mission is:

• To identify and research issues that pertain to gender equity at the University;
• To convey to the Emory community information about resources, policies, and programs relating to women's issues;
• To develop and support education and awareness programs on gender issues related to women in general and specifically at Emory University; and
• To advocate recommendations to improve the quality of life for all women in the Emory community.

President's Commission on Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Concerns

http://www.emory.edu/PCLGBTC/

The President's Commission on LGBT Concerns (PCLGBTC) serves as an advisory body to the president, and derives its authority from the president. It is one of three presidential commissions funded through the Office Equal Opportunity Programs; the others are the President's Commission on the Status of Women and the President's Commission on Race Ethnicity. The PCLGBTC meets three time a semester during the academic year, and submits a report to the president at the end of each year.

According to its by-laws, the President's Commission on LGBT Concerns has four main purposes:

• To serve as a focus for matters of concern to LGBT persons across the University.
• To monitor the work begun by the previous LGB Committees [see History] and to advise the President on the implementation of their recommendations, including those concerning the University's Equal Opportunity Policy, benefits for domestic partners, the campus Office of LGBT Life and LGBT studies.
• To develop and support programs at Emory to reduce homophobia and heterosexism.
• To conduct studies as needed to address these concerns.

Religion and Health Connection

Phone: 404.727.6225

The Religion and Health Connection establishes a support network for persons interested in both religion and health issues and explores questions relate to the integration of physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of health. Emory faculty, staff, students and others from the Atlanta community gather over lunch to meet one another and hear speakers discuss interdisciplinary topics related to the well-being of the whole person.

Student Counseling Center

Cox Hall
Suite 217
Phone: 404.727.7450
http://www.emory.edu/SCOUNSEL/

The Emory University Student Counseling Center provides free, confidential counseling for enrolled undergraduate, graduate and professional students at Emory University. Consultation, outreach and educational workshops are provided for Emory's faculty, staff, and students.

The staff at the Counseling Center knows that student life is a transitional period and can being pressure and stress. We try to help students understand this period, find ways of coping with crises, and grow form their experiences. We also work with administrators, academic agencies, and other campus agencies to increase the effectiveness of student services in the area of mental health.

An Emory student interested in arranging an appointment can call (404) 727-7450 or come to the Counseling Center between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Counselors are on call in case of emergency.

Student Health Services

1525 Clifton Road
Phone: 404.727.7551
http://www.emory.edu/UHS/

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