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Other article: The Impact of Universities on Communities
February 24, 2010
Source: Community Partnership Update/March 2010
 Last month, Emory's President Jim Wagner spoke to the Atlanta Rotary Club about the role of universities and how they impact communities in which they exist. Below are some excerpts from the speech. View the entire speech here.
"… Universities have had a positive impact in their communities and have, at the same time, developed internally in positive ways. We are no longer operating in that old monastic mode, isolating ourselves from the outside world and from each other. We are becoming more of a 'Uni-Versity,' rather than a 'Multi-versity' of independent silos operating in competition. We embrace collaborations and partnerships as keys to interdisciplinary work and means to leverage potential. The internal spirit of partnership spreads beyond the campus as well, as the growing number of strategic partnerships indicates. Georgia Tech and Emory enjoy a distinctive partnership in biomedical engineering, now considered to be number two in the country and just last year having launched a joint Ph.D. degree program with Peking University in Beijing, China. Other partnerships in global safe water, predictive health, biomedical informatics promise the possibility of similar distinction. Other teaching and research agreements engage Emory with Agnes Scott, Georgia State, University of Georgia, Morehouse Medical, and MCG.
And the results? According to data compiled by ARCHE (Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Education) and published most recently just in May of 2008, our Atlanta area colleges and universities have performed remarkably as economic engines. They have employed over 55,000 people; expending annually nearly $6 billion in operations, and $1 billion for research -- all of which places Atlanta among the top 10 cities in each of these economic categories…"
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