A Beautiful RELATIONSHIP

Celebrating forty years of a close, impactful partnership

BY SUSAN CARINI 04G

The collaboration between Emory University and The Carter Center, established in 1982, has fostered an extraordinary community of scholarship and practice that has had an impact across the world, advancing peace and improving health. President Jimmy Carter referred to the partnership as a “marriage that has worked out quite well.”

Emory faculty, alumni, staff, and students contribute to Carter Center fieldwork, with students providing the largest cohort of interns for the center. And Carter Center experts are Emory adjunct professors, aiding faculty research and bringing their expertise in international affairs, conflict resolution, public health, and more into the classroom.

Sharing their time and expertise generously, Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter have touched nearly every facet of university life, including establishing a town hall tradition for Emory first-year students that is a magical, “where else but here?” event.

At the Carter Town Hall held on Emory’s campus, just weeks into their first semester, students had the unprecedented opportunity to hear from this incomparable naval lieutenant, peanut farmer, governor of Georgia, downhill skier (a skill learned in

CROWDING TO SEE CARTER Through the years, students filled Emory’s Woodruff PE Center for President Carter’s annual town hall, eager to listen to the wisdom and humor of the former president and engage him in dialogue. During the thirty-eight years Carter was at the lectern, some fifty thousand students heard unforgettable stories of his time on the world stage, including his hosting the 1978 Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.