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The ADVANCE, December 8, 2021/Page 14A
Auxilians Wanda McCranie (far left) and President Lisa Parker (far right) with nurses from
the hospital's Women's Center.
Meadows Auxiliary Shows
Appreciation to Hospital Employees
The Memorial Health
Meadows Hospital Aux
iliary recently showed ap
preciation to hospital em
ployees for their hard work
and dedication by giving
them a tube of lotion with
a sticker that said, “Here’s
to smooth sailing ahead!”
“We are glad COVID
numbers are down,” said
Lisa Parker, Meadows Hos
pital Auxiliary President.
“By giving these gifts, we
wanted to show our appre
ciation for the work done at
the hospital and encourage
the staff to continue offer
ing first class patient care.”
Meadows Gift Shop is
the main source of revenue
to raise funds that support
hospital and community
projects and is staffed en
tirely by volunteers. Gift
shop hours are Monday
through Friday, from 9 a.m.
to 2 p.m., and on Saturday
from 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
University professors group
urging Board of Regents to
rescind changes to faculty tenure
By Dave Williams
Bureau Chief
Capitol Beat News Service
Eight Southern state
chapters of a national orga
nization of university pro
fessors are asking the Uni
versity System of Georgia
to rescind changes in tenure
policies they argue would
essentially abolish the ten
ure system.
The system’s Board of
Regents voted in October
to replace a system that per
mits professors to be fired
only for a specific cause fol
lowing a peer review with a
system that lets professors
be dismissed if they fail to
take corrective steps follow
ing two consecutive subpar
reviews.
“The board’s new pro
cedure for post-tenure
review exposes faculty to
censorship, ideological bias
and notoriously fickle crite
ria like student evaluations
and performance,’” leaders
of the eight state chapters of
the American Association
of University Professors
(AAUP) wrote in a letter
Wednesday to Teresa Mac-
Cartney, the university sys
tem’s acting chancellor.
“When implemented,
the University System of
Georgia will no longer have
tenure and, therefore, mean
ingful academic freedom
will cease to exist.”
The letter went on to
warn that the new policy
will discourage professors
from wishing to come to
Georgia and motivate those
already in the system to
leave.
The changes in post
tenure review, which will
apply to all 26 of the sys
tem’s colleges and universi
ties except Georgia Gwin
nett College, emerged from
the recommendations of a
working group formed in
September of last year.
The goal of the changes
was to ensure faculty mem
bers continue to do their
jobs well after they have
achieved tenure, the regents
wrote in a prepared state
ment following the October
vote.
But about 1,500 profes
sors on university system
campuses signed a petition
opposing the changes.
The national AAUP is
conducting an investigation
of the changes that could
lead the group to censure
the university system. A re
port is expected before the
end of the year.
The chapters signing
onto the letter represented
the Southern states ofNorth
Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Louisiana, Texas,
Tennessee, Kentucky and
Oklahoma.
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STUDENTS OF THE MONTH — J.D. Dickerson Primary School has announced the Stu
dents of the Month for November, (Lto R): Top row: Tydaci Hill, Hannah Gilman, Brinley
Lowery, Kylee Riner, Vivian Bailey, Third row: Jahair Blount, Joel Taylor, Wyatt Moore,
Graham Carter, Ethan Hodge, Second row: Adan Ramirez-Rojas, Kellen Nee Smith,
Charlotte Crawford, River Aldrich, Payfon Simmons, Front row: Ansh Patel, Tripp Moon,
Bella McKinney, and Emma Kate Lindsey,
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VHS COMPETES IN VFW VOD CONTEST — Students at Vidalia High School competed
in the county Voice of Democracy contest, which is sponsored by the local Veterans
of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Sophomore Dottie McDaniel won 2nd place, while Mikkelle
Peters, a Senior at VHS, won First Place. Mikkelle had placed 3rd in the local contest for
the past 3 years, but her 2021 speech will be entered in the District competition, and if
she wins that level, her speech will go to the State VOD contest. L to R: Aleah Ajohda
(Freshman), Dottie McDaniel (Sophomore), Seth MacGregor (Junior), Mikkelle Peters
(Senior), and Ryleigh Ellis (Freshman),
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Ho, Ho, Ho....Lovins Realty is now an Official Drop
Off for "Letter's to Santa". We are sooo excited
because the Elves have dropped off our Mailbox
and we are ready for all of the children to start
dropping off their letters. Parent's if your child
would like a letter back from Santa, be sure to
include their complete name and address in the
return address spot. You will find "Santa's
Mailbox" in our front yard right beside our walk.
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THANKFUL PUMPKIN — This year for fhe month of Novem
ber Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Ricks' Pre»K Class at Wheeler
County Elementary School did a Thankful Pumpkin. Each
day of class the students told the teachers one thing
that they are thankful for. Some of the items they named
were Ranch Dressing, McDonald's Chicken Nuggets,
Christmas, God, and Jesus.
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