Former President Jimmy Carter has been granted tenure at Emory University in Atlanta after serving as University Distinguished Professor for 37 years, the university announced Monday.
Why it matters: The 94-year-old will be the first tenured faculty member at Emory to have been awarded a Nobel Prize and the first to have served as U.S. president.
The big picture: Carter has seen a resurgence during the 2020 Democratic presidential race. The announcement comes less than a month after he broke a hip in a fall at his home in Plains, Georgia.
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