During spring semester, 18 community-listening sessions gathered input about the twin memorials that will honor enslaved individuals and their descendants who lived and worked on Emory’s original campus at Oxford College.
Oxford College of Emory University has renamed Language Hall after Judge Horace J. Johnson Jr., an alumnus who became the first Black Superior Court judge in the Alcovy Judicial Circuit, and established a scholarship endowment in his honor.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Emory University, Oxford College to require students get COVID vaccine; faculty optional Oxford College students sit socially distanced during the 2021 spring semester. All Emory University students, including those enrolled at Oxford, will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine ahead of the 2021 fall semester. (Photo courtesy of Oxford College)
OXFORD, Ga. Officials announced Monday, April 19, that all students of Emory University and Oxford College must receive COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of the fall semester.
Emory University President Gregory L. Fenves unveiled the institution’s plan in a letter directed to the “Emory community,” later obtained by