Government relations
Randy Powers, who has worked more than 18 years in the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget, has joined the university as director of state government relations.
Steve Wrigley, vice president for government relations, selected Powers to fill the new position. Powers will be one of the university’s chief liaisons with all branches of state government.
In the planning and budget office, Powers has provided budget and policy analysis on many higher education issues, as well as matters involving elementary and secondary education and economic development. Most recently he was special assistant to the OPB director, working primarily on the Gov. Roy Barnes’s A+ Education Reform Act.
New Media Studies
Bruce C. Klopfenstein, professor of telecommunications, has been appointed director of the Dowden Center for New Media Studies, housed at the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Klopfenstein joins the Dowden Center from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where he was professor and past chair of telecommunications. His appointment follows a nationwide search to name a successor to Scott Shamp, who became director of the New Media Institute, an interdisciplinary unit at UGA.
Klopfenstein is in his 16th year teaching new media at the university level and most recently was co-principal investigator for a $1.8 million U.S. Department of Education project to develop a Web-based system to introduce innovative teaching practices.
 Under Klopfenstein’s leadership, the Dowden Center will continue its instructional mission and expand its research mission, working to generate a base of knowledge about the new media industry.
Fanning Institute
Norma Q. Reed is interim director of the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership, a public service and outreach unit that provides leadership development resources and instruction to communities, youth and organizations statewide.
Reed, who has been program leader for the Fanning Institute since 1995, will serve as the interim director until a new director is chosen through a national search.
Reed joined the University System of Georgia in 1973 and has worked in UGA’s public service and outreach area since 1987, when she came to the Georgia Center serving in several successive roles until 1995.
As the Fanning Institute’s program leader, Reed has conducted needs assessments for potential audiences; developed proposals; supervised faculty, staff and graduate interns; monitored curriculum development projects; and planned for overall Fanning Institute marketing and public relations. |
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