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Campaign for Charities gets off to healthy start
The Oct. 3 kickoff for this year’s Campaign for Charities will include, for the first time, free health screenings for UGA staff and faculty.
The annual fund-raising campaign will begin with a breakfast for campus coordinators at 8 a.m. in the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Campus coordinators will have an opportunity to meet representatives of the local agencies and pick up pledge cards and campaign materials for their areas.
In addition, Linda Medleau, professor of small animal medicine, will discuss how she has adapted to the challenges of working as a veterinarian and a teacher with disabilities.
Following the breakfast, blood pressure testing, cholesterol checks, blood sugar and diabetes screening, body fat analysis, bone density and osteoporosis screening, and hearing tests will be offered from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hill Atrium of the Georgia Center.
“The health screenings will give faculty and staff the opportunity to meet some of the agencies that participate in the campaign and to find out more about the services they provide,” says law school dean David Shipley, who will chair this year’s fund-raising effort.
The goal for this year’s Campaign for Charities is $450,000.
Business Week ranks Terry College among top 50
The Terry College of Business is ranked among the top 50 schools named to BusinessWeek’s 2000 ranking of the best business schools.
The Terry College M.B.A. program had been ranked among the top 50 in BusinessWeek’s previous survey, published in 1998. Earlier this year, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Terry College 48th nationally among the best graduate business programs and 28th among the best undergraduate programs.
“Public business schools are our true peers and competitors. Once again the Terry College is ranked among the top 25 publics,” says Dean P. George Benson. “Though we don’t dwell on these rankings, we are pleased to have the quality of our M.B.A. students and the performance of our faculty and staff recognized yet again.”
BusinessWeek, which has been evaluating business schools since 1988, determines its ranking of the top business schools by surveys of what it calls “the customers of M.B.A. programs: graduates and corporate recruiters.” The magazine sent questionnaires to 16,843 M.B.A.s of the class of 2000 at 82 schools, 15 of them outside the United States.
BusinessWeek also sent surveys to 419 companies that recruit M.B.A. graduates, including more high-tech and Internet companies to reflect the changes in the business landscape. Of those polled, 10,039 students and 247 companies responded. Student and recruiter survey results are weighted equally. “The Best B-Schools” is the cover story of the Oct. 2 issue of BusinessWeek.
Running back makes football coaches’ ‘Good Works’ team
Senior running back Brett Millican has been named to the 2000 National Good Works Team by the American Football Coaches Association.
Millican was one of only 11 Division I-A football players selected for the honor in recognition of their dedication to community service. He is the sixth UGA football player to be chosen for the award. Only Nebraska and Kentucky have as many honorees as Georgia since the program began in 1992.
Millican has assisted in numerous community service programs, including the Clarke County Mentor Program, the Special Olympics and the homeless shelter. He also has served as chapter president for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and as a youth minister at Snellville United Methodist Church.
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