A facelift of historic proportions
Restoration returns historic features to North Campus building
The university’s senior administration moved into new quarters in the restored and renovated administration building in late February, stepping back in time into a structure that looks much as it did when it was built more than 90 years ago.
Picking up the reins
New-official training emphasizes realitiesof public office
Each year, hundreds of Georgia citizens take up a cause and run for local government office. Some of them get elected and arrive equipped with ideas about change and plenty of professional experience. What they are not equipped with is knowledge about how local government works.
Establishing good connections
 Walter McRae, acting CIO and associate provost, along with UGA’s Information Technology Policy Board, is overseeing the work of the consultants who are developing a proposal for a chief information officer’s position at the university. He spoke with Columns about the goals of the project.
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Russell Foundation pledges
$3 million toward new building
The UGA Libraries has received a $3 million pledge from the Richard B. Russell Foundation for its planned building to house special collections.
In addition, the Russell Foundation has agreed to assist the libraries in raising another $3 million from private sources. The proposed special collections building is expected to cost $30 million and will be named in honor of the late U.S. Sen. Richard B. Russell, pending approval from the University System Board of Regents.
Dean resigns after 34 years
at UGA; will join faculty of Piedmont College
After 34 years at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, J. Thomas Russell announced on Feb. 24 that he will resign as dean effective June 30, 2000.
Sibley Lecturer to examine political campaigning and the Constitution
Samuel Issacharoff, a constitutional and voting-law expert from Columbia University, will examine that timely topic in the School of Law’s 91st Sibley Lecture, to be held March 16 at 4 p.m. in the law school’s Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. Issacharoff’s lecture, “Political Parties, the Constitution and Democratic Competition,” and the reception which follows are open to the public without an admission charge.
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