Schools

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

The builders of the new university in Atlanta understood from the beginning that to merit the name "university," Emory would need a graduate school. As soon as Emory College moved from Oxford to its new home, it was joined by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which offered the master of arts and the master of science degrees. Not until 1941, however, would it expand its repertoire to include the master of arts in teaching degree, and not until 1948 did it award its first Ph.D. degree.

Meanwhile, the founding deans of the graduate school had laid a solid foundation. Theodore H. Jack, the school's first dean, would become the first president of Emory's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. For a time, after the departure of Dean Howard Odum from Emory College, Dean Jack would also hold the job of dean of the College, in addition to the deanship of the graduate school. In 1929, when he became the University's first vice president, Jack was replaced in the graduate school by Goodrich White, who would serve until his own move into the presidency in 1942. Between them, these two men had a vision for graduate education that persuaded the founders of the University Center in Georgia (now ARCHE) in 1938 that Emory alone could contribute a graduate school component to the consortium. Often innovative, the graduate school established one of the first truly interdisciplinary centers of learning in the country, when it launched the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts in 1952. Its Division of Religion, Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Ph.D. programs in political science, anthropology, psychology, English, and history, among others, have achieved real distinction nationally. Most recently it has sought to prepare students better for their careers in the professoriate, initiating the Teaching Apprenticeship, Teacher Training Opportunity (TATTO) program as a model emulated by other universities.

Source:  Hauk, Gary S.  A Legacy of Heart and Mind:  Emory Since 1836.