UGA, Spelman extend agreement
A five-year renewable cooperative agreement between UGA and
Spelman College was extended for an additional year, which began
Sept. 1 and will run through Aug. 31, 2005. The agreement allows
students from Spelman to participate in the UGA Graduate School
Feeder Program.
Under the agreement, approved students from the historically
black women’s college will sign a contract of participation
that will make Spelman seniors eligible for annual graduate
assistantships with mentorship at UGA. Spelman College will
identify students who meet UGA admissions requirements and who
are interested in the program, review applications, and administer
the program through its Office of Graduate Studies Preparation.
Both institutions will provide contact persons to work directly
with students participating in the feeder program.
The partnership is in keeping with UGA’s goals to build
the new learning environment and promote diversity, according
to UGA President Michael F. Adams.
“This is an exciting step in our ongoing effort to increase
the diversity of the UGA campus at all levels,” says Adams.
“Graduate degrees for minority students are an important
component of improving access to higher education, and the students
who participate in the Graduate School Feeder Program will serve
as mentors for the next generation.”
The Graduate School plans to develop similar agreements with
other institutions at the Atlanta University Center, Paine College,
and Albany State, Savannah State and Fort Valley State universities.
Georgia Farm Bureau endows lectures
The Georgia Farm Bureau has donated $100,000 to the College
of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to endow the Georgia
Farm Bureau Land Grant University Lecture Series.
Income from the endowment will support an annual lecture on
or near the July 2 signing anniversary of the 1862 Morrill Act.
This federal law provided public land to each state that could
be sold to create funds to establish at least one university
in each state to teach agriculture and mechanic arts.
“Georgia Farm Bureau and the University of Georgia share
a great deal of common history,” says Wayne Dollar, Georgia
Farm Bureau president. “The Georgia Farm Bureau board
of directors and I believe it is important we not lose sight
of the purpose of our land grant universities and the concept
and premise on which they were built.”
Screening raises more than $6,600
A capacity crowd of 500 packed the Tate Theater earlier this
month to watch a special 35mm pre- release screening of Hotel
Rwanda and to support the Sudan programs of Amnesty International
and the International Crisis Group.
The event, co-sponsored by the George Foster Peabody Awards
and R.E.M., raised more than $3,401. That amount has been matched
by the nonprofit Omidyar Network, making the amount raised minus
expenses total $6,639.68.
Hotel Rwanda is a story
of courage during the 1994 genocide in which nearly one million
people were killed in that African nation. MGM/UA, who loaned
the 35mm print for the screening, said the film will probably
not be shown again in Athens. Brian McQuinn, senior program
associate in the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center
and a native Kenyan, introduced the film and spoke about the
tragic genocide and difficulties that continue to plague Rwanda.
The benefit at UGA raised $1,008 through online ticket sales,
and $2,321 from ticket sales and raffles, along with an additional
$72 of direct donations to Amnesty International. The funds
go toward relief activities in Darfur, Sudan. |
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