Emory Dining. The minimum dollar amount required for students to deposit funds to their Dooley Dollars meal accounts has been reduced. Students now can add funds in increments of $25 rather than the previous minimum of $75. The change follows meetings between Chad Sunstein, director of Dining, and concerned students who explained that the previous minimum imposed a financial burden on many students. Read more in The Emory Wheel: https://emorywheel.com/dooley-dollar-minimum-lowered/

Rapt by Others Book Club. Participants (see photo below) in the December session of this Emory Campus Life book club read James McBride’s The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother. January’s book is Janet Mock’s Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identify, Love and So Much More. The monthly sessions, which have a limit of 15 participants and run July through April, are already fully “booked.” Participants, who signed up beginning in June for each session, meet once to discuss their book, 4 to 5:30 p.m., at Barnes & Noble on campus. Ed Lee of the Barkley Forum leads the discussions. To sign up for one or more sessions, look for email invitations sent annually to all regular Campus Life staff.

Above, participants in the Rapt by Others Book Club session for December.

CCE served on Emory Cares Day. Campus Life’s Center for Civic and Community Engagement (CCE) partnered with DeKalb County community members, Emory undergraduate graduate students, and alumni to design and paint a mural for Columbia Elementary School.

Above, Emory Cares participants painting mural at Columbia Elementary School..

Emory Student Center. Construction of the former Campus Life Center moves forward on  schedule for a May 2019 opening. See recent construction photos below. For more information and/or to subscribe to the Emory Student Center Newsletter, visit: http://emorystudentcenter.com/. Photos provided by Emory Campus Services.

The view above is from the Alumni Memorial University Center (AMUC) toward the new Emory Student Center. It offers a preview of what the plaza between the two buildings will look like.

 
Above, work is underway on food stations in the restaurant area.