Making peace in Georgia: a university and its foundation reconcile.The battle at the University of Georgia Organization The President of the University of Georgia (as of 2007, Michael F. Adams) is the head administrator and is appointed and overseen by the Georgia Board of Regents. is over, and what a strange one it was. The UGA UGA opal codon, one of the three stop codons. Board of Regents An independent governing body that oversees a state's public Colleges and Universities. All 50 states have governing bodies that oversee the administration of public education. agreed in midsummer that the University of Georgia Foundation could remain affiliated with the university. The decision followed a year-long dispute between the regents and the foundation, in which the regents ordered the foundation to sever TO SEVER, practice. When defendants who are sued jointly have separate defences, they may in general sever, that is, each one rely on his own separate defence; each may plead severally and insist on his own separate plea. See Severance. official ties with the university. The foundation countered that it "owned" the right to be the UGA Foundation and that it would continue its mission to raise funds for the university. It is certainly unusual for a university to break ties with its fundraising foundation, but the UGA situation was anything but usual. At one point President Michael Adams--himself the source of derision from fans and alumni after firing popular Athletic Director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic Vince Dooley--announced that he was cutting ties with the foundation. That was after the foundation refused to pay him $300,000 in deferred compensation. As part of the reconciliation, the foundation agreed to pay Adams, but decided that it would remove itself from giving presidential compensation in the future. From now on UGA presidents will be paid with state funds and supplementary donations made by private individuals and organizations. In other matters, Georgia's attorney general ruled that UGA regents could no longer do business with the university system, after critics charged two regents profited from the relationship. |
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