Chancellor delivers annual state of system address to board
of regents
As the University System of Georgia prepares to turn the corner
from “some very challenging budget years,” Chancellor
Thomas C. Meredith used his annual State of the System address
on Feb. 2 to highlight significant accomplishments that have
both strengthened the state’s 34 public colleges and universities
and driven the board to exhibit national leadership on key higher
education issues.
Addressing the monthly meeting of the board of regents, Meredith
recapped key strides made by the University System during the
past 12 months in fulfilling the central themes of his administration:
maintaining and enhancing academic programs and efforts, preserving
access and quality, and operating more efficiently and effectively.
Accountability was one of the central threads running through
Meredith’s report, and he outlined the system’s
progress in serving as good stewards of state dollars as well
as developing programs to improve performance on key accountability
measures.
“We have made significant progress in these areas, so
much so that, on a number of higher education issues, today
Georgia is viewed as a national model,” Meredith said.
The chancellor’s address is available in its entirety
at www.usg.edu/admin/oc/reports/2005/.
Poet will give reading at UGA
Poet Bin Ramke will visit campus and read from his work on Feb.
14 at 4 p.m. in room 265 of Park Hall.
Ramke has published eight books of poetry, most recently Matter
(University of Iowa Press, 2004). His first book won the 1978
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. Ramke teaches at the University
of Denver and at the Art Institute of Chicago. He is editor
of Denver Quarterly and
also edits the poetry series for the University of Georgia Press.
Ramke’s previous books include Airs,
Waters, Places (University of Iowa Press, 2001),
Wake (University of Iowa Press, 1999),
Massacre of the Innocents (University of Iowa Press,
1995), The Erotic Light of Gardens
(Wesleyan University Press, 1989), The
Language Student (Louisiana State University Press, 1986),
White Monkeys (University
of Georgia Press, 1981), and The
Difference Between Night and Day (Yale University Press,
1978). His essays have appeared in the Denver
Quarterly, Ohio Review, American Notes and Letters and
Boston Review.
Honors student receives fellowship
Peter Courtney, a senior Honors student from Alpharetta, has
been awarded a 2005 Foreign Policy and National Security Fellowship.
Courtney is working in Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s (R-Ga.)
Washington, D.C., office during spring semester. The senator’s
office and UGA’s School of Public and International Affairs
awarded the fellowship.
Courtney, who will receive a bachelor’s degree in international
affairs in May 2005, is working with Sen. Chambliss’s
senior policy advisers for national security affairs. His responsibilities
include assisting with the development of background papers,
attending meetings, analyzing major ongoing world events, conducting
research and coordinating with the executive branch on international
affairs, security policy and intelligence issues.
He will receive academic credit for the -additional academic
projects (papers, essays, readings) he completes while in Washington.
Gary K. Bertsch, a UGA professor and director of the Center
for International Trade and Security, will supervise his academic
work.
The Foreign Policy and National-Security Fellowship is a paid
staff position in Sen. Chambliss’s office.
This is the inaugural year of the fellowship, and Courtney is
its first recipient. |
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