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Columns::January 21, 2003
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Campus News
New lecture series marks Founders’ Day
By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu
The University of Georgia Alumni Association will celebrate UGA’s 218th birthday Jan. 27 by introducing the Founders’ Day
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Ronald Simpson
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Lecture, a new lecture series developed by a group of retired faculty members who continue to be involved in the university’s academic life.
The lecture is sponsored by the UGA Alumni Association and the Emeriti Scholars, a group organized last year by 11 retired faculty members. Members of the group, who are especially known for their teaching abilities, are carrying out part-time teaching, research and service assignments.
Ronald D. Simpson, emeritus professor of education and former acting director of UGA’s Institute of Higher Education, will deliver the inaugural Founders’ Day Lecture on Jan. 27 at 3 p.m. in the Chapel.
That is the date on which UGA was established in 1785 when the Georgia General Assembly adopted the charter creating the university, America’s first state university to be chartered.
In the past, the Alumni Association observed Founders’ Day at UGA by holding an event around Jan. 27. Dave Muia, executive director of the association, says the new Founders’ Day Lecture offers a way to focus the celebration on academics while taking advantage of the experience and talents of outstanding teachers and scholars.
“The Emeriti Scholars represent a high level of academic excellence at the university, and the Alumni Association is delighted to have the opportunity to work with such a fantastic resource,” says Muia. “We plan this lecture to be an annual event that recognizes both the university’s historical importance and scholastic leadership.”
Students, faculty and staff are invited to join the alumni who will be attending the lecture.
The title of Simpson’s lecture is “A Search for the Complete Education: Balancing the Needs for Survival and Fulfillment.” After Simpson’s talk, alumnus and columnist Dick Yarbrough and UGA student Sachin Varghese will offer brief commentaries on the speech. A reception will be held in Moore College immediately afterwards.
Simpson retired in 2001 after a 40-year career in higher education. He served 15 years as the first director of UGA’s Office of Instructional Support and Development. He helped start a number of programs that support and improve teaching, including the Lilly Teaching Fellows, the Senior Teaching Fellows and the Teaching Assistants Mentoring Program. He also was coordinator of the National Peer Review of Teaching project at UGA and coordinated the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program.
Simpson received the University System of Georgia Regents Teaching Excellence Award in 2000, and has also received UGA’s Creative Research Medal. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was editor or an editorial board member of several leading professional journals.
All of the Emeriti Scholars are members of UGA’s Teaching Academy and all were Senior Teaching Fellows. Four members of the group won the Josiah Meigs Award--UGA’s highest teaching honor--and all received other awards for outstanding classroom teaching. In addition to developing the Founders’ Day Lecture, members of the group have worked this academic year with the Honors Program, teaching courses and seminars, lecturing at special events and serving as mentors to Honors students.
Members of the Emeriti Scholars, in addition to Simpson, are Gilles Allard, geology; Robert Anderson, physics; Joseph Berrigan, history; Jean Bowen, Institute of Higher Education; William Flatt, foods and nutrition; Thomas Ganschow, history; Richard Hill, chemistry; Bernard Dauenhauer, philosophy; Sylvia Hutchinson, reading education and Institute of Higher Education; and Genelle Morain, language education.
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