Staying the course
Academic measures continue to be main criteria, race will remain one of several factors used in evaluating some applicants for fall 2000
The University of Georgia will continue to apply a variety of factors, including race but excluding gender, in making admissions decisions for a portion of the freshman class of 2000. Some 80 to 90 percent of the class will be admitted solely on academic criteria--such as high school grade point average and scores on standardized tests (either the SAT or ACT). But additional criteria will continue to be used in making decisions for the remaining percentage of the class. A new factor will be that admission will be extended to one valedictorian and one salutatorian from each Georgia high school fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Mini courses with a major impact
From modest beginnings, the freshman seminar program has grown to include some 60 faculty and nearly 900 students
Sometimes a great notion takes a while to become established. That hasn’t been the case with the freshman seminar program, which has doubled in size since last year and shows no signs of slowing. From modest beginnings in the fall of 1997, the program, sponsored by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the Honors Program, involves some 60 faculty members and nearly 900 students this fall.
Lesson Plan
UGA professor presents his proposal for state education reform to governor
Education professor Carl Glickman will present a plan to improve Georgia schools to Gov. Roy Barnes and members of his Education Reform Commission Oct. 14. The plan, one of 50 reports assigned by the commission, greatly impressed members of the commission’s Accountability Committee when presented Aug. 26. Glickman recently discussed his ideas with Columns.
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An instrument for ‘useful change’: McBee lecturer discusses accreditation
 The leader of a national organization on accrediting for colleges and universities will speak this week at the university, where the decennial self-study to retain accreditation is under way.
Judith S. Eaton, president of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, will deliver the annual Louise McBee Lecture Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. Titled “Assuring the Quality of Accreditation,” the lecture will be in rooms K-L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and is open free to the public.
Forum generates ideas for making UGA’s self-study a ‘living document’
Judith Eaton’s topic for the Louise McBee Lecture--making the accreditation process an instrument for useful change--is especially relevant to the University of Georgia because of the self-study now under way.
Immediately following her lecture, Eaton will join with members of the university and Clarke County communities in an interactive forum aimed at generating ideas about how the self-study can be a “living document” for improving the undergraduate experience at UGA. The forum will be from 2 to 5 p.m. in the same location as the lecture--rooms K and L of the Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
Chemistry professor’s research turns into ‘bonding experience’
First-time visitors to Gregory Robinson’s office on South Campus might be forgiven for thinking they are in the wrong building. Robinson doesn’t exactly look like a chemistry professor. At 6-feet 2-inches tall and weighing 245 pounds, he resembles the top-flight football player he was two decades ago at Alabama’s Jacksonville State University.
But make no mistake. Robinson is one of the top young chemists in America. His name exploded on the world of chemistry in 1997 when he and colleagues in his laboratory reported the first evidence of a new bonding procedure between atoms of the element gallium.
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