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Columns::March 3, 2003

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Two university employees named outstanding advisers for 2003

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

A faculty member in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and an adviser in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences will receive the 2003 Outstanding Adviser/Mentor Award.
The award is presented each spring to recognize faculty or staff members for excellence in advising undergraduate students on selection of classes and courses of study, assisting them with academic problems, and providing guidance on related matters such as decisions about graduate school and careers.
This year’s recipients are Adam J. Davis, assistant professor of poultry science, and Leigh L. Holland, a senior academic adviser in the arts and sciences college’s Office of Academic Advising.
Davis won the award for a tenure-track faculty member. He has been advising students who are biological sciences majors in the agricultural and environmental sciences for five years and averages advising 80 students per semester.
Holland was selected in the staff/non-tenure-track category. A full-time adviser for 21 years, she works in both the arts and sciences advising office in New College and the satellite advising office in Brumby Hall. She advises about 400 students each semester.
Davis and Holland will receive a $500 prize and a plaque, and will be recognized in April at Honors Day and the Faculty Awards Banquet.
Award winners are chosen by a committee composed of a majority of students. In addition to Davis and Holland, the committee voted to present three Certificates of Excellence in Advising. The recipients are Mary Carruth, assistant director of the Women’s Studies Program; Angela Jones, an academic adviser in the Honors Program; and Kirsten Lynn Strausbaugh, a lecturer in advertising and public relations in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
The committee also recognized Jere Morehead, associate provost and director of the Honors Program, for leadership in providing excellent academic advising services for undergraduate students.

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