Key Initiatives
Student Flourishing
Emory’s Student Flourishing Initiative prepares students to define and achieve their own vision of success by educating them to see the world differently, to imagine what is beyond the horizon and create platforms, companies, programs, communities—whatever it might be—in creative and ethical ways.
Learn more about Student FlourishingArts and Humanistic Inquiry
The Emory Initiative for Arts and Humanistic Inquiry expands our commitment to the liberal arts at a critical juncture by recruiting outstanding humanistic and artistic scholars who are advancing our understanding of humanity and exploring the big questions of our times.
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AI.Humanity leverages Emory’s power to shape artificial intelligence and machine learning to benefit the human endeavor. Through a faculty hiring initiative, intensive community-building, and campus-wide educational opportunities, Emory is poised to lead a values-based data revolution.
Learn more about AI.HumanityEnriching the Academic Environment
Emory is committed to inclusive faculty eminence. Towards this end, the Office of the Provost, in partnership with the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, participates in its Faculty Satisfaction Survey.
Learn about the faculty surveyA POINT OF DEFINITION
What does a provost do?
As a college or university’s chief academic officer, a provost is responsible for creating and implementing its academic priorities and for the allocation of resources supporting those priorities. Working closely with the deans as well as the heads of related offices to provide the highest quality educational programs, a provost also ensures the recruitment, support, and retention of an outstanding, diverse faculty.

ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP
Emory’s provost
As Emory’s chief academic officer, Ravi V. Bellamkonda nurtures the intellectual life of the university to its fullest by engaging the community of faculty and students. By ensuring that Emory has the resources and strategic vision to embrace innovation and lead pathbreaking research across disciplines, Provost Bellamkonda makes it possible for Emory to excel in many areas: undergraduate and graduate education; cutting-edge faculty research; racial and social justice; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Above all, the provost ensures that the university's educational and research missions serve communities around the world.
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Faculty Affairs
The Office of the Provost supports faculty eminence, career development, and promotion through the Office of Faculty Affairs.
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Hatchery
The Hatchery supports student innovators and entrepreneurs from our Emory schools and covers all stages of innovation from ideation to implementation.
Explore The Hatchery
COACHE
Emory partners with the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to fully understand the faculty experience and retain, develop, and recruit the university’s best asset—faculty leaders making a difference in classrooms and laboratories across campus.
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Undergraduate Council
Provost Bellamkonda and other campus leaders meet regularly to identify and act upon opportunities to support students.
Learn more about the Undergraduate Council
One Emory: Ambition and Heart is a strategic framework that will guide Emory into a bold future. It is focused on strengthening all of Emory’s nine schools, making the university an unparalleled destination for education, elevating Emory’s world-class academic health system, and recommitting to Emory staff and the city of Atlanta.
