Governor’s proposed supplemental budget includes $52 million for UGA
 If the Georgia General Assembly approves the fiscal year 1999 supplemental budget submitted by Gov. Roy Barnes, several key UGA construction projects appear poised to move rapidly forward in the coming year.
The budget amendments for the current fiscal year allot about $52.2 million for UGA projects, including the student-learning center and the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership and Community Development.
New UGA policies deal with dispute resolution, dismissal
Conflict-resolution program establishedPresident Michael F. Adams has announced the  establishment of a conflict-resolution program as part of the ongoing reorganization of the Office of Legal Affairs. The program has been created to help employees and students resolve disagreements and will provide the resources necessary to resolve disputes informally, pursue mediation of disputes and file grievances.
Summary-dismissal policy
now in effect
Under a new policy approved by President Michael F.  Adams, University of Georgia student affairs officials have authority to dismiss students and suspend student-organization activities in response to the most severe violations of student conduct regulations.
In cases involving misconduct by individual students, the new “summary-dismissal policy” replaces the previous “interim suspension policy,” which required a full hearing within 10 days of the interim action, a time period in which police investigations are rarely complete.
 1999 State of the University Address
On January 7, President Michael F. Adams delivered the State of the University Address. In it, he assessed the goals of 1998, discussed the key tasks of the past year, and opened a dialogue for new avenues of education.
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U. of Kansas administrator to direct minority services office
 A new director has been chosen for the university’s Department of Minority Services and Programs.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs and Multicultural Resource Center at the University of Kansas since 1991, will take the UGA post pending approval next month by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.
Dickie, American poetry scholar
and Lanier Professor of English, dies
 Margaret M. Dickie, a noted authority on American poetry who was the Helen Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the university until her retirement in December, died Jan. 11 of lung cancer.
A memorial service was held Jan. 14 in Athens. Burial was in Bennington, Vt.
Dickie, 63, was to have received the first Women’s Studies Faculty Award from the university’s Women’s Studies Program on the day she died.
This week on campus
The university’s annual observance of the life, legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. continues throughout the week.
Man with a mission
David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, will give the Charter Lecture on Jan. 25.
 As commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, David Kessler was a vigorous and sometimes controversial advocate for public health, working to reduce restrictions on new drugs, regulate tobacco sales and improve food safety.
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