Photo: UGA President Michael Adams.Editors Note: This article has been updated to reflect information as of March 4.
Photo: UGA President Michael Adams.
Editors Note: This article has been updated to reflect information as of March 4.
By Tom Jackson
Robert Connor, president and director of the National Humanities Center, will deliver the keynote address for festivities March 59 marking the formal inauguration of Michael F. Adams as the 21st president of the University of Georgia.
Connor is professor of classical studies at Duke University as well as director of the center, which is headquartered in the North Carolina Research Triangle. Some 40 scholars from around the world are in residence at the center each year, working on significant research projects in the humanities.
Connor's inauguration keynote address, titled "Moral Knowledge," will be delivered March 6 at 10 a.m. in the Chapel and will provide focus for five days of events--symposia, receptions and all the pomp and circumstance of a formal academic investiture.
Staff symposium
University staff begin the celebration with a symposium on "Visions of the 21st-Century Workplace," March 5 at 2 p.m. in the Seney-Stovall Chapel. Gordon Maner, a public service assistant with UGA's Vinson Institute of Government, will address challenging issues for higher-education support staff in the coming century.
He will be joined by a panel including Arthur N. Dunning, senior vice chancellor for human and external resources for the university system, and Ramona M. Hasan, administrative coordinator in the Education Office of Academic Assistance at Georgia State University and chair of the statewide Staff Council.
| Inauguration Events |
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| March 5 Staff symposium: "Visions of the 21st-Century Workplace," 2 p.m., Seney-Stovall Chapel |
| March 6 Keynote address: W. Robert Connor, 10 a.m., UGA Chapel Academic symposium: "Challenges Facing the University of Georgia in the 21st Century," 2 p.m., UGA Chapel |
| March 9 Inauguration ceremony: 10 a.m., Ramsey Student Center volleyball arena Student question-and-answer session: 3 p.m., Reception Hall Tate Student Center Student ice cream social: 4 p.m., Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center |
The panel will be moderated by Clyde Anglin, work management supervisor for UGA Physical Plant and chair of the UGA Staff Council. Following a question-and-answer period with the audience, President Adams will deliver a response and summary remarks.
Academic symposium
An academic symposium, beginning at 2 p.m. March 6 in the Chapel, will focus on "Challenges Facing the University of Georgia in the 21st Century." Panelists include President Jacquelyn Belcher of DeKalb College discussing diversity issues, Doug Bachtel of the UGA Consumer Research Center on the socioeconomic future of Georgia, and Michael Hannafin, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in the College of Education, on technology and the future.
University Council Chair Scott Shamp, an associate professor of telecommunications, is moderator for the discussion. Following a question-and-answer session, President Adams will respond. A reception will follow on the North Campus quadrangle in front of the Chapel.
Inauguration ceremony
Monday's inauguration ceremony begins at 10 a.m. when Clarke County Sheriff Jerry Massey leads the traditional academic procession into the Ramsey Student Center volleyball arena. The modern arena's state-of-the-art design converts into an auditorium setting, complete with seating for 1,700 in upholstered chairs.
UGA alumnus Robert G. Edge, an Atlanta attorney and emeritus trustee of the University of Georgia Foundation, will lead the procession of delegates representing more than 150 institutions of higher education, arranged in order of the school's founding. As UGA's 1960 Rhodes Scholar, Edge will represent Oxford University, founded in 1167.
Among delegates representing learned societies and higher education associations is Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education.
Other special guests will include Gov. Zell Miller, members of the General Assembly and the board of regents, trustees of the University of Georgia Foundation and presidents of most of the university's sister institutions in the University System of Georgia.
The program will open with greetings from Gov. Miller, from regent chairman S. William Clark Jr., and from Student Government Association president Kevin D. Abernethy.
President Ann H. Die of Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., a longtime friend and colleague of President Adams, will bring greetings on behalf of university and college presidents, and Carl E. Swearingen, president of the UGA National Alumni Association, will speak for alumni and supporters.
"Chorale and Fanfare for Symphonic Wind Ensemble," composed by professor of music Lewis J. Nielson and dedicated to President and Mrs. Adams in honor of the occasion, will be performed by the University of Georgia Wind Symphony conducted by Dwight Satterwhite.
The formal investiture by University System Chancellor Stephen R. Portch will be followed by President Adams's inaugural address.
The inauguration festivities will conclude with a question-and-answer session with President Adams for students at 3 p.m. in the Reception Hall of the Tate Student Center. It will be followed at 4 p.m. by an ice cream social for students in Georgia Hall of the Tate Student Center.
Further details on the inaugural weekend schedule and participants are available on the inauguration Web site http://www.inau guration.grady.uga.edu.
