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Vol. 43, No. 8
September 14, 2015
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Dorothy Kozlowski
UGA President Jere W. Morehead and state Agriculture Commissioner Gary Black co-hosted members of the Georgia General Assembly Sept. 2 for the third annual farm tour, which this year included a stop at a pumpkin patch in Alto.
‘Connect the dots’
Lew K. Hunnicutt, an administrator who oversees two campuses of Frank Phillips College in Texas, has been named assistant provost and campus director at UGA’s Griffin campus. Hunnicutt, whose appointment at UGA is effective Nov. 1, is currently the vice president of extended services at Frank Phillips College in the Texas Panhandle, where he is responsible for the operation of branch campuses in Perryton and Dalhart and where he oversees extended education programs such as continuing education and corporate development. “I am excited that Dr. Hunnicutt will be leading the UGAGriffin campus,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “His extensive experience in administering instruction,
UGA, state officials get firsthand look at partnership between university, agricultural industry ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
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From vineyards to vegetable patches to state-of-the-art food processing and food safety operations, agriculture in northeast Georgia is made up of a large and diverse set of enterprises. UGA President Jere W. Morehead took time Sept. 2 to learn more about the farms, factories and laboratories that contribute to the region and the state’s largest industry during the UGA/State Department of Agriculture’s annual farm tour. “Candidly, there’s nothing more important to the University of Georgia than its linkage with the agricultural industry,” Morehead said during one stop on the tour.
“This tour gives the university a chance to showcase what it does for the agricultural industry and how important that industry is, not only to the state today but to the future of the state.” This is the third year Morehead has joined Georgia’s Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black and members of the Georgia General Assembly to visit local farms and food-based businesses around the state. In 2013, the delegation visited farms in northwest Georgia, and in 2014, they visited farms in southwest Georgia. This year the focus was on northeast Georgia. “This tour is just another example of our efforts to help connect the dots, and we feel that we did that with some great dialogue between the businesses visited and
the members of our delegation,” Black said. Rep. Terry England, c hairman of the state House’s Appropriations Committee; Sen. John Wilkinson, chairman of the state Senate’s Agriculture and Consumer Affairs Committee; and J. Scott Angle, dean and director of the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, accompanied Morehead and Black on the tour. With agritourism, poultry and food manufacturing all playing key roles in northeast Georgia’s agricultural economy, the tour covered six points of interest— from Tiger, in the north Georgia mountains, to Flowery Branch, south of Gainesville. See TOUR on page 4
2016 BEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES LIST
UGA continues to place among nation’s top public universities in ‘US News & World Report’ ranking By Stephanie Schupska schupska@uga.edu
UGA continues to rank as one of the nation’s top public universities, according to U.S. News & World Report, which placed UGA 21st on its list of 2016 Best Public Universities, released Sept. 9. On the Best National Universities list, which is traditionally dominated by private institutions, UGA moved up to 61st this year and tied with Syracuse University, Southern Methodist University, Purdue University and Clemson University. UGA tied with two institutions for the No. 21 spot
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UGA-Griffin campus will be led by Texas college administrator By Sam Fahmy
By Merritt Melancon
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among public universities, and no public university was ranked 20th this year due to ties. “The University of Georgia consistently ranks among the nation’s best public research universities,” said President Jere W. Morehead, “and I am excited about the future of our institution as we implement a number of transformative initiatives—including an experiential learning requirement—to further enhance the world-class education we provide.” The state of Georgia is one of only four in the country with two institutions—the Georgia Institute of Technology and UGA—listed
among the top 25 public universities. UGA was one of only two institutions in the Southeastern Conference, along with the University of Florida, to rank in the top 25 among publics. UGA’s position in the national rankings was helped by two critical measures of student success: a strong freshman retention rate of 94 percent and a record-high graduation rate of 85 percent. UGA’s Terry College of Business continues to receive high marks overall, and two of its specialties—insurance and risk management, and real estate—ranked
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research and outreach— particularly at a college with multiple campuses—will serve UGAGriffin and our community partners well.” Lew Hunnicutt The assistant provost and campus director of UGA-Griffin is a newly created position, and Hunnicutt will oversee all research, extension and instructional programs at UGAGriffin. He will report dually to the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost to support instructional missions of the campus and to the dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences to support the research and extension
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Fall Signature Lecture series to include 3 Pulitzer winners By Camie Williams
lecture offerings early in the semester and encourage students to take advantage of these unique academic Business leaders, world- opportunities. These speakers are renowned historians, influential excited to talk to our students.” Many of the lectures are supadvocates for public health and the environment and three Pulitzer ported by endowments, while Prize-winners are set to visit UGA others honor notable figures and this fall as part of the Signature milestones in the university’s hisLecture series. tory. Signature Lectures are des“The Signature Lectures des- ignated at the beginning of each ignation underscores the rich and semester by the Office of Academic varied array of speakers coming Programs. The fall 2015 Signature to campus each semester,” said Lectures lineup includes: Meg Amstutz, associate provost • University Lecture—Bob Ingfor academic programs. “Through lis, executive director of the Energy this targeted collection of lectures,I and Enterprise Initiative at George hope faculty can more easily r eview See LECTURES on page 4 camiew@uga.edu
GRADY COLLEGE, LACSI, UGA LIBRARIES
‘Latino USA’ host will screen documentar y about diversity By Noel Holston
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UGA’s Peabody Awards in partnership with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute and the UGA Libraries will present a screening and public discussion with special guest Maria Hinojosa Sept. 17 at 12:30 p.m. at the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries. Hinojosa, the Peabody-winning host of the public radio program Latino USA, will speak and lead a public discussion on the topic “The New South: People of the New America.”
The event will include a screening of an episode of Hinojosa’s PBS televis i o n s h o w, America By the Numbers, that assesses culMaria Hinojosa tural diversity in Clarkston, just 60 miles from UGA. She examines cultural interactions in Clarkston, a microcosm of America’s more diverse future since the community is home to immigrants from more than
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