Monday, October 23, 2023, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT

Beth Michel, Senior Associate Dean of Undergraduate Admission

“Growing Institutional Efforts with an Indigenous Approach”

Beth Michel will describe Emory’s efforts to increase the visibility, voice, and contributions of Native American people. She will highlight people, departments, and initiatives at Emory that have been and continue to be instrumental in this effort.

She will bring news describing progress of the new Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, to be launched this fall in Emory College. The Center will advance research, scholarship, teaching, and learning rooted in and related to Indigenous studies.

Michel also will summarize and highlight Emory’s active relationship with the Tribal communities on and off campus including plans for continuing and growing engagement.

Throughout, Michel will incorporate Emory’s history related to Native Americans. Notably, “Emory University acknowledges the Muscogee (Creek) people who lived, worked, produced knowledge on, and nurtured the land where Emory’s Oxford and Atlanta campuses are now located. In 1821, fifteen years before Emory’s founding, the Muscogee were forced to relinquish this land. Emory recognizes the sustained oppression, land dispossession, and involuntary removals of the Muscogee and Cherokee peoples from Georgia and the Southeast.”