Monday, February 18, 2013
Jere Morehead will become the University of Georgia president on July 1, 2013.
When he steps down from the UGA Presidency on June 30, Michael Adams will move his office from Jackson to Hull street. Instead of the Administration Building, he will be in the Richard Russell Special Collections Library Building. According to a story in the Athens Banner Herald, the university will spend less than $25,000 to convert a third-floor classroom into an office for Adams. Who uses the classroom now? The newspaper says freshmen Odyssey classes and others looking at archival materials or learning to use archival materials.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Morehead will officially replace University of Georgia President Michael Adams on July 1, according to a news release.
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Monday, February 4
University of Georgia Provost Jere Morehead was formally named UGA's next president on Monday, according to a news release from the university system's Board of Regents. Morehead was announced as the sole finalist for the job last week. Morehead, who will replace UGA President Michael Adams, will take over on July 1, according to the release. “Jere has devoted the bulk of his career to the University of Georgia and he has a great passion for the University and its service to students and the State of Georgia,” Board of Regents Chair “Dink” NeSmith says in the release. “He knows the University and it became clear to all involved in the search that he is the right person to take UGA forward. He has tremendous challenges ahead and the Board …
Monday, January 28, 2013
The Board of Regents will take final action on the selection at a future meeting.
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Monday, January 28
From a press release put out by the Board of Regents: Board of Regents Chair “Dink” Nesmith and University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby have announced the name of the finalist for the University of Georgia presidency, Jere Morehead. Morehead is currently the senior vice president for Academic Affairs and provost at UGA. He previously served as UGA’s vice president for Instruction, vice provost for Academic Affairs, director of the Honors Program, and acting executive director of Legal Affairs. Related Content: In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Morehead is the Meigs Professor of Legal Studies in the Terry College of Business where he has had a faculty appointment since 1986. In his current position, the …
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Here's what's happening in and around Oconee today.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Weather: Showers are possible, most likely before 10 a.m. The National Weather Service predicts high temperatures will be in the mid 50s. Top things to know: Be sure to check the Oconee Patch event calendar for more events. Have an event you would like added to the calendar? Click here to post it.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
The University of Georgia president says he's stepping down next year.
For a few seconds, it looked as though Michael Adams wasn't going to make it through a speech about his leaving the President's Office at the University of Georgia. He had said that when he accepted the job in June 1997, with him were his parents, both of whom have since died, and his wife Mary. His face collapsed a little, but he recovered. Many of those in the audience may not recover. The university community remains in shock over Adams' sudden announcement that he will step down from his job at the end of June 2013. Only a few of the inner staff and upper level administrators learned late Wednesday that he would be leaving. After his brief, formal speech, in which he thanked those who have helped launch the University into the ranks of…
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Will the Warriors or Titans come out on top in today's intra-county tennis match?
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Weather: A 30 percent chance of isolated thunderstorms is in today's Weather Channel forecast. Plan on a high temperature around 80 degrees and a mix of sun and clouds. Top things to know:
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Council urges the Board of Regents to rescind the policy preventing undocumented high schoolers from applying to selective public colleges.
After lively, impassioned debate, the University Council voted overwhelmingly Thursday to ask the Board of Regents to reconsider a policy that violates rules about non-discrimination. They want the Regents to lift a rule that bans undocumented high school students from applying to the state's five selective institutions. These include UGA, Georgia Tech, Georgia State, Georgia College and State University and the Georgia Health Sciences University. The faculty was "within their rights to do what they did," said UGA President Michael Adams, who's meeting with Chancellor Hank Huckaby on Friday. "They debated the issue thoroughly and then reacted and voted." The resolution that passed is modeled largely on one adopted unanimously in early …
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
His total compensation? $660,318.
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
A $50,000 raise? In these troubled economic times? Apparently so, if you’re the president of the University of Georgia and the longest sitting president among the state’s research institutions. He's been in office since Bill Clinton was on his second term. The Board of Regents has decided to give President Michael Adams an additional $50,000 for his compensation package. This brings his total salary for next year to $660,318, according to a story in the Athens Banner-Herald. He’s the highest paid president in the state system. The $50K isn’t being paid out of funds from tuition or tax money. It’s coming from the University of Georgia Athletic Association, the non-profit that runs the UGA football, basketball, baseball and other NCAA sports…
Rebecca McCarthy
4:45 pm on Thursday, May 3, 2012
Milton, you can thank the Hope scholarship for bringing bright (translate: educated parents who value education themselves) students to campus, especially when the cap of $100,000 on a family's income was lifted. And before they tightened up the academic requirements. That was starting when he arrived. What he has done is to systematically get the things he thought the university needed to … more ›