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Professorship honors retiring legislator
A professorship named for State Rep. Louise McBee of Athens
has been established in the university’s Institute of
Higher Education.
McBee retired from UGA in 1988 after 25 years as a faculty member
and administrator, and has served in the General Assembly since
1992. She is not running for re-election.
The Louise McBee Professorship of Higher Education, created
by a $257,185 endowment, was approved by the University System
of Georgia Board of Regents at the request of President Michael
F. Adams.
Tom Dyer, director of the Institute of Higher Education, says
a national search will be conducted to fill the position with
a leading scholar who will teach courses and conduct research
in higher education, and supervise doctoral candidates.
“The institute is highly honored to house the professorship
named for Louise McBee, a professor emerita in IHE and a person
of great distinction in American higher education,” said
Dyer.
Education has been one of McBee’s top priorities as a
legislator. This year she was chair of the House Higher Education
Committee and was co-chair of a special committee that developed
new policies governing the HOPE Scholarship.
She has been responsible for several pieces of legislation that
benefited educators, including a bill permitting unused sick
leave to be applied toward retirement service. She introduced
the 2001 bill that permits tax-free savings accounts for college.
UGA president elected president of SEC
University of Georgia President Michael F. Adams was elected
president of the Southeastern Conference by fellow SEC presidents
and chancellors at the league’s annual meeting this past
month in Destin, Fla.
Adams brings extensive intercollegiate athletics leadership
experience to the position, having served as a member of the
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and as vice president
of the SEC. He has been a member of the SEC’s Executive
Committee, chairing the league’s Investment Committee.
Adams began serving a two-year term as SEC President July 1
and, by convention, other officers in his administration will
assume leadership roles in the conference. For example, Arnett
Mace, UGA’s academic provost, will head the SEC’s
Academic Consortium for a two-year term.
“In size and potential, the Southeastern Conference is
one of the nation’s premier intercollegiate athletic leagues,”
says Adams. “The conference presidents are providing great
leadership at a time when campus athletic programs are facing
many challenges. I believe this election is an indication of
the esteem that UGA enjoys in the SEC, and it certainly gives
UGA an additional opportunity to have a positive impact on the
conference’s academic and athletic development.”
Jere Morehead appointed vice provost
Jere W. Morehead, associate provost and director of the Honors
Program and Foundation Fellows, has been appointed vice provost
for academic affairs. He will assume his new duties Aug. 1.
Arnett Mace, senior vice president for academic affairs and
provost, says Morehead will fill the position held by Bonnie
Yegidis, who is leaving UGA to become provost and vice president
for academic affairs at Florida Gulf Coast University.
Under Yegidis, the position had been called associate vice president
for academic affairs and associate provost. Mace says the position
was renamed to reflect expanded duties and responsibilities.
Morehead, a faculty member in the Terry College of Business
legal studies department since 1986, is an award-winning teacher
and researcher and served in 1998-99 as UGA’s acting executive
director of legal affairs. He has led the Honors and Foundation
Fellows programs, as associate provost, since 1999.
Mace says Morehead’s duties will include oversight of
the Honors Program, Foundation Fellows Program and Center for
Undergraduate Research Opportunities. In addition, he will oversee
the Faculty Affairs office and will be the liaison between the
provost’s office and the admissions office and student
affairs division.
Morehead—who in 1997 chaired a task force on the quality
of the undergraduate experience at UGA—will also lead
a new task force to assess changes in student learning and develop
ways the university will respond to those changes.
A screening and advisory committee will be appointed to recommend
a new director of the Honors Program from the ranks of UGA tenured
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