UGA's Michael Adams Gives His Last State of the University Address in Athens, Ga.
Adams devoted much of his speech to thanking those he has worked with over the past 16 years.
During Michael Adams' 16 years in Athens, the UGA campus has been transformed into one of the most attractive university campuses in the country. His staff and he increased the school's endowment markedly, helped raise the national profile of UGA, built classrooms and research facilities, renovated arts buildings, tore up asphalt and replaced it with grass and gardens. He dedicated money to the arts, literature and the life of the mind and worked to improve the intellectual environment. Outgoing UGA President Michael Adams also shephereded through the Georgia Legislature two huge developments that will alter how UGA--and Athens-- develops in the coming years: the new health sciences campus and the new engineering school. Observers will …
