| Faculty
Senate releases poll results
A majority of Arts and Sciences faculty who took part in a non-binding
online poll in January have expressed no confidence in President
Adams’s leadership.
Seventy percent of the 474 faculty who voted said “no”
when asked “Do you have confidence in President Adams as the
leader of UGA?” Fifteen percent responded yes, and another
15 percent abstained. Two-thirds of Arts and Sciences faculty took
part in the survey.
“The Faculty Senate…recognizes that President Adams
has made many positive contributions to the university,” according
to a statement released by the Faculty Senate. “We acknowledge
that a number of the difficulties faced by the university stem from
the current economic climate, over which the president has no control,
and we thank him for his efforts to mitigate the effects of hard
economic times. We do, however, have serious concerns about the
direction in which the university has moved, and continues to move,
under President Adams’s leadership.”
“When a colleague expresses an opinion about your work performance,
it is important first to listen, think about it objectively and
then learn from it,” says President Adams, in response to
the Faculty Senate statement. “The faculty members within
Arts and Sciences, who are essential to our core instructional mission,
have expressed a viewpoint that I intend to take as constructive
criticism. It is important to take criticism and learn from it.
“My personal goal will be to listen and follow a collegial
approach that will allow us to make the University of Georgia a
better place for our students and a place responsive to our many
constituencies,” Adams says.
University files its response with NCAA
University officials have filed their response with the NCAA regarding
allegations of rules violations committed in the men’s basketball
program.
UGA’s response included a 52-page report and some 1,500 pages
of evidence. UGA officials flew to the NCAA’s offices in Indianapolis
earlier to deliver the response. A hearing is expected to take place
next month. The NCAA’s 10-month investigation led to four
allegations:
• in the summer of 2001, former assistant coach Jim Harrick
Jr. provided $300 in a wire transfer payment to a friend of the
former player for that player’s expenses;
• Harrick Jr. “failed to deport himself with the generally
recognized high standards normally associated with the conduct and
administration of intercollegiate athletics and violated the NCAA
principles of ethical conduct for his involvement in allegation
number 1”;
• during the fall of 2001-02, Harrick Jr. fraudulently awarded
grades of “A” to three men’s basketball players
in a basketball course he taught; and
• in December 2001, six men’s basketball players received
extra benefits by making $1,572.66 worth of personal long-distance
telephone calls from three team hotels.
Students co-host writers conference
Graduate students in the English department in conjunction with
the British Women Writers Association will host the 12th annual
18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference March 25-28.
The interdisciplinary conference, entitled “Location, Location,
Location: Textual Spaces and Places,” brings renowned scholars
Susan Gubar, (distinguished professor of English and women’s
studies at Indiana University), Yopie Prins (associate professor
of English and comparative literature at the University of Michigan)
and Susan Wolfson, (professor of English at Princeton University)
as keynote speakers. |
