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Strategic Planning Group hears proposals
for two new academic units
The Institutional Strategic Planning Advisory Group spent the past three weeks hearing presentations from  faculty members involved in special initiatives that are under way or in the planning stage--including the possible creation of what would be the first new school or college at UGA since 1969.
Loch Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science, shared the report of a committee he chaired that recommends the creation of a new  School of Public and International Affairs.
The planning group also heard from Ron Pulliam, Regents Professor and director of the Institute of Ecology, about a tentatively named “College of the Environment,” to be formed by a merger of the Institute of Ecology and the School of Environmental Design.
President Adams testifies before
Web-Based Education Commission
While the World Wide Web can convey information and improve learning, it should never take the place of face-to-face “interchange and discussion” between teacher and student, President Michael F. Adams told a congressional panel.
Wake-up call
Newly discovered infectious diseases of free-living wild animals may pose an increasing and significant threat to  human health and to global biodiversity, according to a recently published report.
“With a new wave of globalization on an unprecedented level, we don’t even know what the greatest threats are in terms of emerging infectious diseases of wildlife,” says Peter Daszak of UGA’s Institute of Ecology and botany department. “The problem has largely been ignored by policy makers and the threat these wildlife diseases pose to humans, directly or indirectly, should be taken far more seriously.”
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Health insurance-plan deficit
results in coverage changes
Active and retired employees of the university may have more choices in levels of coverage under a new health-care plan being considered by the state Department of Community Health and the board of regents.
Faculty renewal of library books moves to Web; plans under way
to implement e-mail notification system
 The less-good news: Faculty members need to renew charged-out UGA library books based on this past year’s inventory due date of Feb.15.
The good news: The process now can be done electronically, saving faculty members the annual trek to the library with an armload of books.
Holiday schedule
announced for 2001
UGA has announced its schedule of holidays for faculty and staff for fiscal year 2001, the 12-month period which begins July 1, 2000.
The board of regents authorizes the observance of 12 paid holidays per year. Because Christmas and New Year’s days fall on Mondays in the coming fiscal year, only six days are necessary to cover that break. Therefore, the president and cabinet have decided to use the extra day to observe a Memorial Day holiday on May 28, 2001.
Georgia Repertory Theatre returns
Athens’s own professional theatre company continues its tradition of presenting Athens with professional world premieres. The Georgia Repertory Theatre is producing Salvage, a new drama by William Goulet, to open Feb. 16 at the Seney-Stovall Chapel.
Freshman seminar
Faculty are invited to submit proposals for fall 2000 and spring 2001 freshman seminars, sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors Program.
The Freshman Seminar Program offers one-hour academic seminars, under the heading of FRES 1010 and 1020, designed to introduce new students to research, study and the intellectual life of the university. Freshman seminar students meet with faculty on a regular basis and learn about their interests and research. For some students FRES seminars may serve as an entry to the major. A list of the seminars taught during this past year is available on the Web (ben.franklin.uga.edu/dstaff/hruppers/lists.htm).
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