Professor Jere W. Morehead, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

As of June 25, 2004, Professor Jere W. Morehead was appointed to Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at UGA by Provost Mace. Prior to this position, he served the University as an Associate Provost and the Director of the Honors Program and the Foundation Fellows Program since August 1, 1999. Professor Morehead became the first Honors Program director to also hold the title of associate provost. In announcing his appointment, Dr. Karen Holbrook, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, noted that the “title of associate provost appropriately reflects the university’s ongoing commitment to the Honors Program and the Foundation Fellows Program. Dr. Adams (University President) and I want him to play a significant role in academic issues confronting the university.”

After only a year in office, Professor Morehead has secured a new building for the Honors Program (Moore College), supervised the development of a ten-year strategic plan to better serve the needs of the University’s best students, expanded alumni development and fundraising activities, launched new scholarship programs to recruit and retain outstanding students, and substantially reorganized the office to improve the delivery of student services.

Professor Morehead is not a new figure to the University of Georgia or the Honors Program. Prior to his appointment, Morehead chaired, in 1997, the Task Force on the Quality of the Undergraduate Experience. In 1998-1999, Morehead served the University as the Acting Executive Director for Legal Affairs before accepting his current position. He has

regularly taught Honors classes during his tenure at the University and continues to do so even as a full-time administrator.

Morehead joined the University faculty in legal studies in 1986, following six years as an assistant United States Attorney for the Department of Justice. He is the recipient of 10 teaching awards including the 1995 Richard B. Russell Undergraduate Teaching Award, the 1998 Terry College of Business Teacher of the Year, and the 1999 Lothar Tresp Outstanding Honors Professor Award. His teaching methods also have won acclaim at the University’s law school where he served as the school’s moot court advisor from 1986-1995. Morehead’s law school teams won five national championships under his leadership. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1995.

Professor Morehead also has developed an impressive research record with over 30 books, book chapters, and articles in publications such as the Duke University Press, the Tulane Law Review, the Kansas Law Review, the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation, the American Journal of Trial Advocacy, and the American Business Law Journal. Morehead also is the co-author of a leading undergraduate legal textbook, “The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business,” published by Irwin/McGraw-Hill. He also has served as Editor in Chief of the American Business Law Journal.