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UGA News Roundup

Fund raising, committee appointments, awards and performances.

The University of Georgia raised $126.2 million in gifts and commitments for the fiscal year that ended June 30, officials said Monday. The money and promises come from 56,284 contributors.

The UGA Athletic Association raised $30 million in fiscal year 2011, with $28 million coming from its ticket priority program.

The Georgia Fund annual giving campaign raised  $11.6 million, a 13 percent increase from fiscal year 2010.  Unrestricted gifts increased slightly more at 14 percent, accounting for $1.16 million of the total.

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Pledges to the university more than doubled this fiscal year with a total of $50.9 million compared to last year’s total of $20 million. Ten years ago, the university raised only $43. 8 million.

For schools and colleges:
• $9.2 million was raised by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
• $8.9 million was raised by the Terry College of Business
• $4.8 million was raised by the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences
• $4.6 million was raised by the College of Veterinary Medicine.

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 UGA Provost Jere Morehead has named a search committee to begin searching for a new vice president for public service and outreach.

“Public service and outreach is a key part of the university’s mission,” said Morehead. “To lead the institution’s public service and outreach efforts, we are searching for an innovative academic leader who will engage partners within our state and around the world to address the increasingly complex issues that impact quality of life.” 

Chair of the search committee is David Lee, vice president for research.

Other members include Phaedra Corso, professor and head of the department of health policy and management in the College of Public Health; William Crowe, director of the for Continuing Education Conference Center and Hotel; Mallory Davis, president of the Student Government Association; Dennis Epps, associate director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government; Mel Garber, director of the Archway Partnership; James Jeter, president of Standard Discount Corporation in Moultrie; Maritza Soto Keen, public service associate, ; and Laura Meadows, interim director, Carl Vinson Institute of Government.

 Other members are Gwen Moss, administrative financial director in the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach; Daniel Nadenicek, dean of the College of Environment and Design; Wilf Nicholls, director of the ; Jeffrey Sanford, director of entrepreneurial studies at the Small Business Development Center; Courtney Tobin, assistant director, Fanning Institute; Randal Walker, director of the Marine Extension Service; and Shannon Wilder, director of the Office of Service-Learning;

The committee will be assisted by UGA’s Executive and Faculty Search Group. Jennifer Frum is serving as interim vice president for public service, succeeding He’s now executive vice chancellor for administration for the University System of Georgia.

 

Nancy McDuff, associate vice president for undergraduate admissions and enrollment management, is the incoming chair of the Association of Chief Admission Officers of Public Universities. She will take office next June at the organization’s annual meeting at the University of Colorado, and serve for two years.

ACAOPU is a professional association of admissions directors from major public institutions nationwide. The group meets three times a year to share information and discuss issues that impact the admissions field. As president, McDuff will stay abreast of current and emerging admissions issues across the country and speak on behalf of the membership.

“The association is completing a set of best practices in the admission of athletes, which will provide colleges with a useful resource,” McDuff said. “We also are working on a best practices summary for high school guidance counselors.”

McDuff has headed UGA’s undergraduate admissions office since 1995. She is also the past chair of the Georgia state council for the ACT.

 

Marketing professor John Hulland is the new Robert O. Arnold Professor of Business in the UGA Terry College of Business.

Hulland joins the Terry College faculty from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, where he had been a member of the marketing faculty and the director of the school’s doctoral program. In 2000, he was a visiting professor at the Wharton School. For 11 years prior to that, he served as a marketing professor at the University of Western Ontario’s Ivey School of Business.

“Professor Hulland is an accomplished empirical researcher and a versatile teacher,” said Charlotte Mason, head of Terry College’s marketing department. “His teaching expertise is an excellent fit with the department’s needs—particularly for the graduate-level marketing courses we offer.”

Hulland has published almost 30 papers in a wide range of academic journals, including the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, the Journal of Consumer Studies, MIS Quarterly and the Strategic Management Journal.

His research focuses on understanding and managing the relationship between marketing resources and an organization’s financial performance. He has also studied how to improve the effectiveness of marketing and sales groups and their interactions within companies.

He has taught marketing courses from the undergraduate to the doctoral leve and has written 35 case studies. He also has taught in executive programs in the United States and overseas.

Hulland currently serves on the editorial boards of several prominent academic journals. He has been named a “Best Reviewer” three times in his career, including by the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science in 2010.

 Notably, Hulland and new marketing faculty colleague Sundar Bharadwaj have been named the co-chairs of the 2012 Winter Marketing Educators’ Conference sponsored by the American Marketing Association.

Dean Robert T. Sumichrast said the Terry College has turned a major corner in its bid to restore faculty positions during the past two years. In 2010, 15 professors joined the business school faculty, most of them new assistant professors. This year, the hiring focus was on senior faculty with well-established academic records, like Hulland.

 “Of the 10 new faculty members starting this fall, four of them will hold privately endowed chairs or professorships,” Sumichrast said. “It has been decades since the Terry College has been able to recruit such a large and distinguished group of faculty in back-to-back years.”

A gift from the Arnold Fund established an endowment for the Robert O. Arnold Professor of Business chair in the 1980s. It is named in memory of Robert Arnold, a 1908 graduate of UGA. Arnold served as mayor of Athens and was chairman of the state Board of Regents at the time of UGA’s integration in the early 1960s.

 

 

The UGA Symphony Orchestra begins the 2011-2012 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series on Thursday, Sept. 8, at 8 p.m. in Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. The hall is in the

Under the direction of Mark Cedel, the symphony orchestra will present a program of American classics. Tickets for the concert are $15 for the general public and $5 for UGA students with a valid ID. They are available through the box office at 706/542-4400.

The program will open with the Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein, followed by Charles Griffes’ The White Peacock. Griffes is the American contribution to the Impressionist period, characterized by the work of such composers as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

The orchestra will conclude the first part of the evening with a performance of Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid Suite, complete with a musical gun battle. The concert will end with a performance of Howard Hanson’s Symphony No. 2, “Romantic.”

This is the thirteenth consecutive year in which the 80-member, all-student symphony orchestra has opened the 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series.

Established in 1980, the 2nd Thursday Scholarship Series offers showcase performances by UGA students and faculty on the second Thursday of each month throughout the academic year. Proceeds from individual ticket sales and season subscriptions allow for year-long academic scholarships and assistantships. In 2011, the 2nd Thursday series provided scholarships to 45 students based on faculty recommendations, academic achievement and performance ability.


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