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Top students, teachers to be recognized at Honors Day
The university will hold its annual Honors Day program April 14 to recognize top student scholars and outstanding classroom teachers.
Twenty-nine students who have maintained perfect 4.0 grade point averages during their academic careers will be recognized as First Honor Graduates. In addition, several hundred students will be recognized for being in the top 5 percent of their class and for their election to scholastic and leadership honor societies.
Winners of the 1999 Josiah Meigs and Richard B. Russell teaching awards will also be recognized. The Meigs Award is UGA’s highest honor for teaching excellence. The Russell Award is given to junior faculty members for outstanding teaching.
In addition, outstanding teachers in each school and college, and in the Honors Program, will be recognized.
Historian to give graduate
Commencement address
 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William McFeely will be the speaker for the university’s commencement ceremony for graduate students May 8.
The ceremony, at 2:30 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum, is for students who will complete requirements for master’s, specialist and doctoral degrees at the end of the current spring semester.
Sanitizing the news
 Conrad Fink, William S. Morris Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management and director of UGA’s James M. Cox Jr. Institute for Newspaper Management Studies, is a former foreign correspondent and vice president of the Associated Press.
Columns sought his response to news coverage of NATO’s current bombing campaign in the Balkans.
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General Assembly budget funds capital construction, salary increases, sick leave’
Based on a conservative revenue estimate, the $13.3 billion fiscal year 2000 budget  passed by the 1999 Georgia General Assembly provides a 5.6 percent increase over fiscal year 1999 funding.
For the University System, it continues formula funding for residential instruction and major repair and rehabilitation of facilities, and provides a 4 percent pool for faculty and staff salary increases. The salary-increase pool, based on 4 percent of occupied personnel lines, will provide pay increases based on merit which will be effective July 1.
State budget director is named associate vice president at UGA
The director of the governor’s Office of Planning and Budget since 1995, Timothy P. Burgess, has been named associate vice president for finance and administration at the university.
Burgess, who will begin work April 19 pending approval by the board of regents of the University System of Georgia, will work primarily with Robert E. Bugbee, associate vice president for budgets and fiscal planning, who has expressed his desire to retire during the coming fiscal year, says Allan W. Barber, senior vice president for finance and administration.
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