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Carmical gift will be used to increase number of honors journalism courses

By Larry B. Dendy
ldendy@uga.edu

The Honors Program and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication have received a $600,000 gift from the

Jere Morehead

J.H. Carmical Foundation of Atlanta that will be used to increase the number of honors journalism courses taught at UGA.
The gift will create an endowment in the UGA Foundation earmarked for the Grady College. The college will use endowment funds to hire new faculty members, known as Carmical Lecturers, to help teach up to six new courses for Honors Program students.
“The quality of the faculty is one of the factors that makes the UGA Honors Program one of the best in America,” says President Michael F. Adams. “I am confident that the Carmical Lecturers in the Grady College will strengthen an already strong program and will have a great impact in the area of journalism and mass communication.”
Jere Morehead, Honors Program director, says the first course will be offered in spring semester of 2004 and others will be added over the next three years. Details about subject matter of the courses are being worked out, Morehead says.
This is one of the largest single gifts the Honors Program has ever received and the second major gift from the Carmical Foundation in three years. The foundation gave $250,000 in 2001 to expand the Honors Program lecture

John Soloski

series and other academic initiatives.
“We are indebted to the Carmical Foundation for its continued support of Honors education at the University of Georgia,” says Morehead. “We look forward to working closely with the Grady College to enhance our honors course offerings.”
The Carmical Foundation is named for the late John Huland Carmical, who graduated from UGA in 1917 and had a 46-year career as a financial reporter and editor with the New York Times. After his death in 2000, at the age of 104, trustees of his estate created the foundation with a major goal of supporting academic programs at UGA.
John Soloski, dean of the journalism college, expressed appreciation for the gift, which he said will “advance our ongoing commitment to excellence in journalism education.”
The new courses will be limited to students in the Honors Program, which provides accelerated learning opportunities for UGA’s most academically talented students. Honors courses typically are small, seminar-type classes taught by senior faculty in which students receive individualized faculty advising and assistance.

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