At age 94, former President Jimmy Carter has finally been granted tenure at Emory University in Atlanta.
Carter earned the distinction after serving as University Distinguished Professor for the past 37 years, the university announced Monday.
He’ll be the first tenured faculty member at Emory to hold a Nobel Prize and the first to have served as U.S. president.
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