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Latino programs get $4 million
By CRISTEN CONGER
cconger@randb.com
The University received a
$4 million grant last week to
expand its outreach to
Georgia’s Latino population.
The Goizueta Foundation,
which provides grants to edu
cational and charitable insti
tutions gave the University $4
million, through the Arch
Foundation, for three Latino-
targeted purposes.
The grant will fund need-
based scholarships to under
graduate and graduate stu
dents through the Goizueta
Foundation Scholars Fund,
expand the work of the
Center for Latino
Achievement and Success in
Education (CLASE) and start
the Latino Pipeline Initiative,
which will reach out Latino
students in middle and high
schools to promote attending
college.
“If you look at the way the
grant is structured, it’s all
about pipeline,” Karen
Watkins, associate dean of the
College of Education said.
Since Georgia’s Latino
population has dramatically
increased in the past decade,
schools face new challenges.
University efforts such as
CLASE are working to help
educators and administrators
meet those challenges.
“Really, this is going to be
the new Georgia,” Watkins
said.
In 2001, the University’s
office of public service and
outreach launched the Latino
Initiative to support the bur
geoning population. With the
new grant, the Latino
Pipeline Initiative, composed
of two programs — the Latino
Youth Leadership Program
and UGA Days — will aug
ment that mission.
“We’re delighted to reach
out with this underrepresent
ed group with our precolle-
giate efforts at the
University,” said Art Dunning,
vice president for public serv
ice and outreach who over
sees the Latino Initiative.
The Latino Youth
Leadership Program, started
in 2003 for Latino high school
students, and UGA Days, a
new program for middle
school students, will comprise
the Pipeline.
“Exposing students to
higher education and possible
career options is central to
the Pipeline Initiative,”
Maritza Soto Keen, director
of the Latino Initiative, wrote
in an e-mail. “The idea is for
students to visit campus,
meet with students and facul
ty and (begin to) understand
the importance of remaining
in school and furthering their
education beyond high
school.”
The programs also teach
student participants that
higher education is a possibil
ity.
“Students need to see that
college is a viable option — at
the same time they need to
understand what classes to
take in high school and how
GOIZUETA GRANT
The University received a $4 mil
lion grant from the Goizueta
Foundation. It will be used for
three primary purposes:
> To increase the financial assis
tance provided through the
Goizueta Foundation Scholars
Fund
>- To expand the work of the
Center for Latino Achievement and
Success in Education
>- To start the Latino Pipeline
Initiative, which includes the Latino
Youth Leadership Program for high
school students and UGA Days for
middle school students.
to prepare themselves to
compete academically.”
While the Latino communi
ty is benefitting from out
reach such as this, there is a
reciprocal relationship with
the University.
“The more you do to
emphasize this diversity (on
campus), the stronger the
programs,” Watkins said.
New deans define goals for University
Clark, Holt,
and Strange
named for fall
By AUBREY SMITH
basmith@randb.com
Upon Board of Regents
approval, there will be new
faces at the helm of three
University institutions this
fall.
The University named E.
Culpepper Clark, former
dean of the College of
Communication and
Information Sciences at the
University of Alabama, as
the new dean of the Grady
College of Journalism and
Mass Communication.
Clark said being chosen to
head a school like Grady is a
“dream job.”
Although he emphasized
that it is not a dean’s position
to change a college, Clark
says he hopes to increase
Grady’s resource base.
Although educated in his
tory, Clark became interested
in communications while
coaching a debate team to
pay his way through graduate
school.
Karen E. Holt, for
mer executive direc
tor of Project Pericles,
has been named
director of the
University’s Fanning
Institute.
“I love a puzzle and
a challenge, and what
is going on at Fanning
is the absolute best-
case scenario for
someone like me,” Holt wrote
in an e-mail.
Realigned in 2005, the
Fanning Institute now is
composed of the University’s
four public service and out
reach programs.
Constituents of the new
Fanning Institute “should
expect to see changes in how
we at Fanning define, discuss
and pursue our mission,”
Holt said.
The new Fanning Institute
also “will demonstrate a
more holistic approach to
identifying and addressing
complex issues.”
Prior to directing Project
Pericles, a
New York-
based not-for-
profit that
works with
colleges and
universities
with special
missions to
provide edu
cation for
civic engage
ment and
responsible citizenship, Holt
headed the University of
Virginia’s Equal Opportunity
program.
Georgia Strange, director
of the Henry Radford Hope
School of Fine Arts at
Indiana University, has been
named director of the
University’s Lamar Dodd
School of Art.
“My interest in the Lamar
Dodd School of Art
was developed in a range of
personal experiences: stu
dent, Cortona program par
ticipant, faculty and visiting
artist,” Strange wrote in an
e-mail.
“University of
Georgia, Lamar Dodd
School of Art and
Athens itself have con
tributed to me as an
artist, teacher and
human being,” she
said.
Her goals for the
school — which soon
will be housed in a $40
million building under
construction — include
increasing resources,
expanding the exhibition
program and obtaining new
equipment and technologies.
“The University of Georgia
clearly values the arts as
integral to an excellent liber
al arts education,” Strange
wrote.
“The new building project
is a great opportunity for me
as a sculptor and an adminis
trator,” she said.
CLARK
HOLT
ADAMS: SGA backs
pledge period veto
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the Council not to pass the
resolution since they don’t
initiate their members until
after receiving their grades
for the fall semester. Based
on those, the new members
then can be initiated.
The Council disagreed
with the organizations’ aca
demic creed and chose to
approve the eight-week
pledge period.
Once the Council passes
a resolution, the president
has 30 days to veto it.
Matt Winston, assistant
to the president, said
Adams chose to veto the
decision because he
believed the resolution was
made too quickly.
“The president has asked
the Vice President of
Student Affairs (Rodney
Bennett) to work with the
committee to explore other
alternatives,” Winston said.
Throngs of support from
SGA and the Greek commu
nity backed Adam’s deci
sion.
“I think it’s a good deci
sion and a student support
ed decision,” said SGA pres
ident Jamie Peper. “The
decision to veto realizes that
organizations punished by
the resolution were actually
upholding the values of aca
demic rigor.”
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