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 Since its inception, the Southern Center for International Studies has played a leading role in developing the international infrastructure that exists today in the southeastern region of the United States. Through its Peabody Award-winning annual conference series, educational materials, workshops, and other programs, SCIS promotes global awareness and understanding by placing important international issues on the national public agenda.
 In 1983 the Center began its Peabody Award-winning series of annual conferences with former Secretaries of State. Since the inception of the series, the program has grown to include former Secretaries of Defense, Education, and Treasury, former world leaders and foreign ministers, former U.S. Ambassadors to the United Nations, and other world leaders.
 In 1991, recognizing that academic institutions needed high-quality, up-to-date educational materials that reflect the rapid and important changes taking place in today's world, the Southern Center for International Studies developed a series of multimedia educational materials focusing on particular areas of the world, entitled The World in Transition Series. A unique feature of the series is the use of excerpts from the televised conferences.
 Today the Center serves as a valuable resource for state, county, and city governments, chambers of commerce and other business and professional groups. Foreign visitors, diplomats, and international delegations who visit the Center are provided with contacts and information on the national, local, political, economic, and social environment. In addition, the Center works closely with educational institutions and civic organizations throughout the United States. Members may attend events and obtain international information from the library.
 Internationally, the Southern Center has developed relationships with a broad range of institutions including the Atlantik-Brücke in Germany, the Ditchley Foundation in the United Kingdom, the NATO Secretariat in Brussels, the USA Institutes in Moscow and in Beijing, and the United Nations. On a national level, the Southern Center works with such organizations as the World Affairs Council, the United Nations Association, the Asia Society, the East-West Center in Hawaii, the College Board, the National Council for the Social Studies, and state departments of education. These relationships provide valuable resources and contacts for the Center and its members.
Corporate and individual memberships provide 10 percent of the Center's annual income. Other funding is received from program revenues and grants. In FY 2000/2001 the State of Georgia began funding a significant percentage of the SCIS educational project, and by FY 2004/2005 it was one third of the budget. Approximately 90 percent of the Center's annual $2.5 million budget is devoted to educational programs and activities.
 The Southern Center for International Studies is governed by a distinguished Board of Trustees. In conducting the activities of the Center, a full-time staff works closely with a volunteer educational advisory board, academic and media consultants, writers, educators, technicians, and numerous international experts.
  Since
1983, the Southern Center has been based in the historic Goodrum
House, which is located on 3.8 acres of land across from the Governor's
Mansion on West Paces Ferry Road in the Buckhead district of Atlanta.
The house, which was built in 1929, was designed by Philip Trammell
Shutze and is considered one of the finest examples of English Regency
architecture in the United States. Amid a park-like setting of formal
gardens and terraces, the house provides a gracious welcome to world
leaders, foreign dignitaries, and our members. Many corporate members
hold private meetings and social functions
at the Southern Center. Proceeds from these activities support
the upkeep of the property.
 The Southern Center for International Studies is an educational, nonprofit organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) and described in section 170(b)(1)(A)(ii) of the Internal Revenue Code. Charitable contributions to SCIS are tax-deductible as allowed by law. Businesses may deduct any expense that is an ordinary and necessary business expense.
 The Southern Center for International Studies admits students of any race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, marital or parental status, or disability to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students of the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, national or ethnic origin, marital or parental status, or disability in the administration of its educational and admission policies, scholarship, and other school-administered programs.
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