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Ag college assistant dean Broder named University Professor |
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| By Faith Peppers |
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Referred to as “the best teacher and adviser I ever had” by many alumni of UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Broder is being recognized for the significant impact he has had not only on the students that passed through his classroom and advising sessions but for the major impact he has had on the university. “Dr. Broder has been a true academic leader at the university and has had a major impact on the teaching and learning programs on our campus,” says Gale Buchanan, dean. “He has become well known for his leadership through the University of Georgia Teaching Academy.” The Teaching Academy is a faculty-organized and faculty-driven organization that promotes faculty leadership through teaching and learning projects. Broder has chaired its executive committee since the Academy was founded in 1999. In addition to his role with the Academy, Broder has been instrumental in numerous other campus-wide teaching initiatives. In 2002, he led a delegation of university faculty and administrators to a Summer Academy sponsored by the American Association of Higher Education. During the week-long academy, the university delegation drafted a blueprint for extending the university’s academic programs beyond the Athens campus. That blueprint was later used in the development of academic programs at the Gwinnett and Tifton campuses. UGA now offers upper-division undergraduate courses and bachelor’s degrees, as well as graduate courses and degrees and continuing education, at the Gwinnett University Center. And, the agricultural college now offers UGA degrees with majors in agriscience and environmental systems and in agricultural education on the Tifton campus. On a college level, Broder has led several innovative programs that prove that he is deserving of the University Professorship. Early in his tenure, Broder developed a summer-long program for high school students to work with research faculty in the college. This program, the Morgan County Agri-Science Internship Program, evolved into the Young Scholars Program, which brings more than 50 diverse high school students to the Athens campus for a six-week internship experience. The Young Scholar Program has become one of the university’s outstanding pre-collegiate educational diversity programs for high school students. Broder also was a leader in the college’s Congressional Agricultural Internship Program. When it began, the program placed one student in a 12-week internship with Congressman Saxby Chambliss’s office in Washington, D.C. Under Broder’s leadership, the program has grown to six internships and includes the offices of Sens. Zell Miller and Saxby Chambliss and Reps. Sanford Bishop, Jack Kingston, Max Burns and Jim Marshall. The internships also pay students up to $6,000 in scholarships and compensation, making them some of the most attractive Congressional internships on campus. Broder will be presented with the University Professorship at the annual Faculty Awards Banquet on April 22 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. |
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