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CNN senior news analyst Jeff Greenfield acted as emcee for the 58th annual Peabody Awards, presented May 17 in a luncheon ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. On hand to accept personal achievement awards were Linda Ellerbee, for her news-for-kids shows on Nickelodeon; Jac Venza, for cultural arts programming; and Robert Halmi Sr., chairman of Hallmark Entertainment.
Other award recipients included Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Christiane Amanpour, honored for their international reporting; David E. Kelley, creator and producer of Ally McBeal and The Practice, both of which won awards; Maria Shriver, for a Dateline NBC segment on welfare-to-work issues; Ken Burns, for a documentary on Frank Lloyd Wright; Pat Mitchell, for CNN’s multipart series The Cold War; and Bill Moyers, for a documentary on campaign finance scandals.
A total of 33 awards recipients were chosen from nearly 1,300 entries. The Peabody Awards are administered by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
Major in women’s studies
University Council voted unanimously at its April 29 meeting to establish an undergraduate major in women’s studies. If the proposal is approved-- first by President Michael F. Adams and then the board of regents--UGA will become the first institution in the university system to offer a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies, which has been a program at the university since 1989. Plans call for the women’s studies major to be in place by fall semester 2000.
Higher education leader
The Atlanta Regional Consortium for Higher Education last month released the results of research it sponsored comparing America’s largest urban areas in terms of the cumulative magnitude of higher education.
The report, called “Atlanta in the National Landscape of Higher Education,” looks at the 60 largest metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in the United States, ranking each in terms of key higher-education measures. The results document Atlanta’s comparative prominence. For purposes of this study, the University of Georgia was included in the Atlanta MSA.
“Atlanta has a large and diverse mix of academically strong colleges, universities and institutions of higher learning, which makes it a national leader in higher education, and which helps make it one of the ‘hottest’ economic regions in the country,” says Michael Gerber, president of ARCHE.
Atlanta ranked third per capita, behind Boston and New York, in enrollment and degrees conferred, and third behind Boston and Philadelphia in higher-education expenditures. The Atlanta MSA was third in research expenditures, has the fourth-highest number of African-American students and ranked in the top 10 in all disciplines except foreign languages, in which it was 11th.
The full text of the report is available on the ARCHE Web site (www.atlantahighered.org).
Magazine awards
The Georgia Review, the university’s quarterly journal of arts and letters, was a six-time winner when the Magazine Association of Georgia announced its 1998 awards May 7.
The Review took all three prizes in the fiction category, with Mary Clyde’s “Jumping” taking the gold award, Keith Lee Morris’s “Objects Past the Shoreline” earning the silver and Sheri Joseph’s “The Elixir” capturing the bronze.
The Review won two more awards in the best feature writing or reporting category. Paul Zimmer’s “Blind World, Atomic Battlefields” received a gold award, and Sally Fitzgerald’s “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love” received a silver award.
The sixth award was a silver for general excellence among consumer-paid or controlled magazines.
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