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Foundation trustees
Atlanta businessman C.V. (Jim) Nalley III has been elected chairman of the board of trustees of the University of Georgia Foundation.
Nalley, president of the Nalley Companies, was elected at the foundation’s annual meeting this summer. In addition to choosing new officers, the trustees elected six new advisory members and elected or re-elected six managing trustees.
The UGA Foundation, established in 1937, is a non-profit organization that manages private financial support for the university’s academic goals. Trustees administer the foundation’s assets, provide volunteer leadership for UGA fund-raising programs and give advice and support to the university’s president.
The new advisory trustees are David Boyd, a retired Atlanta insurance executive; Rachel Conway of Atlanta, president and CEO of House Parts Inc.; Tom Dowden of Cashiers, N.C., chairman of Dowden Communications; C.L. Morehead of Athens, president of CLM Inc., a holding company for Flowers, Inc.; Calvin Smyre of Columbus, executive vice president for corporate affairs for Synovus Financial Corp.; and Herschel Walker of Irving, Texas, one of the greatest running backs in Georgia football history.
New institute
The board of regents of the University System of Georgia has approved institute status for UGA’s Program on Human Development and Disability.
The newly named Institute on Human Development and Disability (IHDD) is Georgia’s University Affiliated Program, a national network of universities and teaching hospitals that link higher education with service delivery systems.
“The institute exists to make a difference in the lives of people with disabilities and their families,” says Zolinda Stoneman, director. “And to make a difference, we train the next generation of professionals in disability-related fields.”
Institute projects include research on former River’s Crossing residents who have returned to the community, which will guide administrators who plan future institutional closings in Georgia and across the nation. A research grant received recently from the Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities will study statewide welfare reform as it affects people with disabilities.
The Georgia UAP was founded in 1965 as part of a federal initiative to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. The institute is one of the oldest continuously funded federal programs on the Athens campus. Offices are located in the River’s Crossing building, 850 College Station Road.
UGA one of 20 best
Kiplinger’s magazine says UGA is one of the 20 best public universities in the country. The magazine’s September issue ranks 100 state universities, based on factors such as tuition, graduation rates, SAT scores and admission rates. UGA, ranked number 20, is one of eight Southern universities in the top 20.
The magazine describes the 100 institutions as “schools where students can graduate with a high-caliber education but without a mortgage-sized debt.”
UGA was also ranked one of the nation’s “best buys” among colleges and universities in a recently published book by UGA grad Lewis Lindsey, America’s 100 Best College Buys: 1999. Lindsey is president of Institutional Research and Evaluation in Gainesville. He produced the first edition of his college survey last year. He evaluated only schools that offer a full range of scholarship support (need-based, athletic and academic), based on cost, student achievement, student-teacher ratio and the number of instructors with doctorates.
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