Contact Mary Ellen Nessmith at (404)-727-4177 if you have questions about the workshop or the Emory Caregiver Support Program.

Note:  For those of you who aren't able to attend the programs on campus, the Caregiver Support Program offers a series of webinars for which one only needs an Internet connection, so you can participate no matter where you live.  The webinars are free and are on a variety of topics.  Click here for more information about the webinars.

The Oxford College Organic Farm has been named one of the Top 30 Sustainable College-Run Farms, a ranking recently released by College Values Online (CVO), which considered a total pool of 100 farms.  Calling college farms "no longer just research sites, but...centers of student solidarity and community nutrition," CVO ranked each farm based on qualities such as total size, organic certification, sales to campus dining halls, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) offerings, academic courses, and sales to off-campus venues.
 
Oxford was ranked seventeenth out of the 30 colleges selected. "It has always been our goal that the farm bring together sustainability, education, and positive impact on the local community," says Stephen Bowen, dean of Oxford College.  "It is gratifying to have our efforts recognized nationally."
 
The organic farm began operation in 2014 on land donated by Trulock Dickson 72 Ox 74C, who bought it from Marshall and Fran Elizer, beloved figures at Oxford College who served for many years as administrator and library assistant, respectively.  The scale of the property--just over 11 acres--and the location--700 feet from Oxford's campus--were ideal for a college farm.
 
The operation is led by organic farmer/educator Daniel Parson, who was selected for the role in 2013, following a national search. Parson brought 15 years of experience in organic farming. He earned both a bachelor's degree in biological sciences and a master's degree in plant and environmental science from Clemson University.  His prior recognition includes both the Georgia Organics Land Steward of the Year Award and inclusion on the Mother Nature Network's 40 Farmers Under 40 list.
 
Parson is seen each Tuesday at the Emory Farmers Market, and students at Oxford regularly dine on produce from the farm in the College dining hall.  The CSA has participants from the College and surrounding Newton County community, who rapidly fill each subscription sign-up. The farm has been smoothly incorporated into Oxford's curriculum, and not just in biology and environmental science.  Courses in philosophy, economics, and sociology also make use of lessons provided by the farm. Including the dozen or so students who are assigned there through work/study, nearly 150 students spend at least some time on the farm each week.
 
Says Ciannat Howett, Emory director of sustainability initiatives, "To have only opened in 2014 and already achieved this ranking is remarkable. Because criteria for the ranking relate to selling to campus dining halls and other outlets such as the farmer's market, it is also a testament to David Fuhrman and the Emory Dining team's supportive leadership and vision.
 

Prevalent political rhetoric imagines a liberal, liberty-seeking legal or constitutional subject, spawning mantras of "individual choice" and "personal responsibility" and generating suspicion of state activity or intervention.  By contrast, a vulnerability analysis constructs a more comprehensive and complicated vision of political or legal subjectivity, one that makes it clear that achieving social justice in the 21st century will require a more active and responsive state than we have currently. After all, as Martha Fineman will explain to us, vulnerability is the primal human condition. As embodied beings, we are universally and individually constantly susceptible to injury, harm, and dependency over the life-course. The inevitability of vulnerability means that there is no position of invulnerability; there is only the possibility of resilience. And, significantly, we are not born resilient.  Rather, we gain the resources that give us resilience over time and within and through social institutions and relationships. We are inescapably embedded in society--and dependent upon it--in our weaknesses and for our strengths. If the ideal of social justice is to be achieved, it is important that the institutions that shape the rules, the very laws by which we live, be responsive to our needs, given the vulnerability and dependency that are universal and inherent in the human condition. 

William J. Carney

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Hello again everyone!

The photo from the September 14 Issue is of course, Dooley! 
The statue can be found on the main campus just off Asbury Circle between Cox Hall and Dobbs University Center (the DUC).  I'm sure most, if not all of you, have seen it (him).  If not, take a stroll and give Dooley a visit.