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Columns::February 18, 2002
State legislator will give Black History Month lecture
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Holiday schedule remains unchanged
Public relations work wins awards
Taking the initiative
What went wrong: Accounting expert discusses accountability issues at Enron, Arthur Andersen
Campus Closeup
Kudos
Administrative changes
Bug’s-eye view
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Campus News
Senior VP Costello will step down March 1
By Tom Jackson
tjackson@uga.edu
Senior Vice President for External Affairs Kathryn R. Costello informed the board of trustees of the UGA Foundation at their
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winter meeting in Atlanta Feb. 8 that she will step down March 1 from her position with the university and as president of the foundation.
She told the trustees she wants to pursue a long-held goal of becoming a full-time consultant in the area of higher education external affairs before the end of the five-year period necessary for a planned capital campaign. Therefore, the timing was right to take this action before the campaign begins. She said she had discussed her decision with President Michael F. Adams in December and made her plans final in January.
Both Adams and the trustees accepted Costello’s resignation with regret.
“Kathy has an extraordinary depth of professional experience and possesses an outstanding degree of personal charm,” Adams says. “I appreciate all that she has done for the university and understand her personal desire to pursue what for her has been a long-term goal to establish herself as an independent consultant. She is one of the best in the field, so I am pleased that I could persuade her to continue to provide her expertise to the university as a consultant as we approach a capital campaign.”
Adams says Costello initially will be retained as a consultant in the university’s development and public relations efforts through February 2004, with particular focus on the $12 million fund-raising effort in support of the planned expansion of the Georgia Museum of Art.
During spring and fall semesters 2003 she will also teach courses in the College of Journalism and Mass Communication and through the Institute of Higher Education.
Citing the “exciting times that lie ahead” for the university, Costello praises the “strong, focused and enthusiastic” development staff, the university’s enhanced presence in Atlanta, and the engaged volunteers. “I cherish my years here and will remain a steadfast and enthusiastic advocate for UGA,” she says, adding that her action “clears the way for someone to be chosen who can commit to the full campaign period.”
Costello, a native of Jasper, came to UGA in October 1998 after three years as vice president for university advancement at Rice University.
In previous vice presidential positions at the University of Maryland, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Southern Methodist University and Vanderbilt University, she planned or led campaigns that raised more than
$900 million.
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She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communications from the University of Kentucky and pursued doctoral studies in anthropology at Kentucky and in public policy at Vanderbilt.
She has served as a consultant to universities and governing boards in the United States, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia.
She has held adjunct faculty positions in anthropology and journalism, and was an assistant professor of medical administration at the Vanderbilt School of Medicine.
Adams announced that Steve W. Wrigley, UGA’s vice president for government relations since July 2000, will become interim senior vice president for external affairs while maintaining his government relations duties. He previously was director of the International Center for Democratic Governance in UGA’s Carl Vinson Institute of Government, before which he served seven years in the administration of Georgia Gov. Zell Miller, the last five as chief of staff. Wrigley holds master’s and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in history from Georgia State University.
The board of trustees likewise made appointments to fill the foundation positions being vacated by Costello. Tom S. Landrum, chief of staff to Adams, was named interim executive director of the foundation to assume the duties of foundation president. He will continue in his role as Adams’s chief of staff.
Henry M. Huckaby, the university’s senior vice president for finance and administration, was appointed fiscal agent for the foundation. |
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