Academic year begins
with Opening Convocation

The university will start the academic year Aug. 16 with the Opening Convocation, a colorful ceremony that drew raves from new students last year for making them immediately feel a part of the UGA family.
The convocation--held the day before classes begin--will begin at 4 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. UGA alumnus and Rhodes Scholar Robert G. Edge, a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Alston and Bird, will be the main speaker.

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UGA acquires
Italian villa
for study-abroad program

Cementing a 30-year relationship with the city of Cortona, Italy, the university has signed a 12-year lease on a building that will provide permanent classroom and studio space for UGA’s popular study-abroad program in Cortona.
The lease, which includes a purchase option, allows UGA to strengthen a program that has brought more than 4,000 American students to the scenic hill town in historic Tuscany to study art, architecture and other subjects.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu accepts
Delta Prize, calls for U.S. aid to South Africa

Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on the United States to provide $2 billion in aid to South Africa for the next five years to help his country recover from the legacy of apartheid.
Tutu made the plea as he accepted the Delta Prize for Global Understanding, a new international peace prize created by the University of Georgia with an endowment from Delta Air Lines. The 69-year-old former Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.

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Secretary of state will speak
at first summer commencement in 25 years

The university will hold its first summer commencement in 25 years on Aug. 15 when an expected 700 students will receive degrees in Stegeman Coliseum.
Georgia Secretary of State Cathy Cox will speak at the 10 a.m. ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students who completed degree requirement

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District judge finds
UGA’s 1999 admissions policy unconstitutional

U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield of Savannah ruled in late July that three white female applicants denied admission to the University of Georgia in 1999 should be offered admission for the fall 2000 semester. In making the ruling, Edenfield said that UGA’s admissions process that was in effect in 1999 “violated Title VI and Title IX by intentionally discriminating against them based on race and gender.”

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The fifth season

Subscriptions to the Performing Arts Center’s 2000-2001 fifth-anniversary season are on sale now, at a savings of as much as 24 percent off single-ticket prices. Season subscribers are guaranteed seats to sold-out concerts and enjoy flexible exchange privileges if they cannot attend one of their assigned concerts.

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UGA-Tech-Emory spotlight federal research funding

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Annual fund raises
record $6.6 million

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Search under way
for next VP for human resources

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