Staff Council, BFSO elect officers for 2005-2006 academic
year
Staff Council and the Black Faculty
and Staff Organization have elected officers for the 2005-06
academic year.
Bob Ratajczak, who has served as president of the Staff Council for the past
year, has been re-elected for another year.
Ratajczak, a research coordinator in the Warnell School of Forest Resources,
was elected at the council’s June 1 meeting. Other officers are vice president,
Shannon Scott, a publications specialist in the Institute of Continuing Legal
Education; coordinator, Brenda Keen, business manager of the Georgia Review;
and recording secretary, Bonnie Norwood, senior administrative secretary in the
Office of Corporate and Foundation Relations.
Linda Brawner, a scientific administrative specialist in the genetics department,
was elected to serve a one-year term as BFSO president. Other elected officers
are vice president for faculty, Ron Baxter Miller, professor of English and African-American
studies and director of the Institute for African-American Studies; vice president
for staff, Michael Hodgeson, a fire safety inspector in environmental safety
services; treasurer, Cheryl Gantt, a senior administrative secretary in the genetics
department; corresponding secretary, Tera Hurt, a project coordinator at the
Institute for Behavioral Research; and recording secretary, Marian Wells, a student
affairs counselor in the Career Center. The new BFSO officers will be sworn in
at the group’s August meeting; however, they will assume their new responsibilities
July 1.
The Staff Council is an advisory body to the university president, representing
the interests of classified and other non-faculty university employees. Members
of the council, which originated in 1987 and became an officially recognized
organization in 1992, are elected by fellow staff members in academic and administrative
units.
BFSO’s mission is to create and maintain a coordinative function relating
to recruitment, retention, advocacy, intellectual growth, political awareness,
and social enhancement of, and on behalf of black faculty and staff at UGA.
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