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By Sharron Hannon
shannon@uga.edu
 Three faculty members have been named new Senior Faculty Fellows for the Foundation Fellows program, the university’s premier undergraduate scholarship program.
Judith Ortiz Cofer, Milton Masciadri and Loch Johnson will begin four-year terms serving as mentors and role models to the Foundation Fellows, joining a group of nine other Senior Faculty Fellows from a variety of disciplines. There are currently 80 students in the Foundation Fellows program.
“We are delighted to have these three very distinguished faculty members join the other senior faculty working closely with these students,” says Jere Morehead, associate provost and director of the Honors and Foundation Fellows programs.
All three have previously been involved with the Foundation Fellows, he notes. Ortiz Cofer, a poet and novelist who teaches in the English department, did a poetry reading for the group last fall. Masciadri, a noted bassist who teaches in the School of Music, led a spring travel-study trip to Argentina and Uruguay. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science, was among the team of interviewers who selected the incoming freshman Fellows class, which numbers 24.
The Honors Program also has initiated a new faculty mentor program to provide guidance and assistance to incoming Honors freshmen during their first year. “We have enjoyed a wonderful response to our nomination process, with 71 faculty accepting the invitation to participate in this program,” says Pam Kleiber, an assistant director of the Honors Program. “Faculty do not get paid to take on this duty, nor do they get release time. They are doing it because they want to work with exceptionally bright, motivated students and because they themselves have often been mentored and see it as a way of giving back.”
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