Grades
Grades are due in Athena on Monday, Aug. 4 at noon. Please remember courses such as independent study, thesis, and dissertation hours.
Class modality
Classes that are offered in modalities other than the approved public modality are not allowed. Specifically, the way that a course is coded is how the tuition and fees are coded in students’ billing. Therefore, if the instructor taught the class online when the course was designated as in-person, then students were overcharged fees for that course. The registrar also noted that students would have been misled by the institution and that is contrary to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges’ principle of operating with integrity.
The Office of Academic Honesty is seeking faculty members to participate in the administration of UGA’s academic honesty policy, A Culture of Honesty.
The policy calls for faculty to report all possible violations to the Office of Instruction. Once reported, the next step in the resolution process is a facilitated discussion, which involves the reporting faculty member, the student(s), and a trained facilitator. In most situations, a resolution is reached during this discussion. In less than 5% of the cases, however, the faculty member and student are unable to come to agreement during the facilitated discussion and the matter is sent to an academic honesty panel made up of two faculty members and three students.
The panelists review materials related to the allegation, hear from the instructor and student, and then decide (in private) whether a violation of the policy has occurred. As required by the policy, “panelists must be certified as qualified, willing to serve, and complete an orientation session about this policy.” Faculty panelists are drawn from the corps of instruction, as defined by the academic affairs policy manual of the University, including, for example, tenured and tenure-track faculty, instructors, lecturers, and other teaching personnel as defined by the manual. Academic honesty indicates that the total average time commitment of a faculty panelist is no more than three hours once or twice a semester.
If you are interested in serving in this role, please email associate dean Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett with your interest.
The Mary Frances Early College of Education will support a cohort to join the Faculty Success Program for fall 2025 (Sept. 15-Nov. 23). Tenure-track and tenured faculty who are budgeted for research time and “are looking for the perfect combination of empirically tested methods to improve research productivity through intense accountability, coaching and peer support, and to propel their work-life balance and personal growth to a whole new level” are eligible to participate in this intensive, semester-long program.
Participants will be expected to fully participate in the program as well as attend three one-hour sessions with the associate dean for faculty and staff services throughout the semester. It is our hope that program participants will bring back what they learn in the program to the College.
For more information about the program, please visit the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity (NFCDD) website. If you have any questions about the program or would like to talk to a former College participant of the program, please email Ed Delgado-Romero, associate dean for faculty and staff services.
As a reminder, faculty can claim a free membership to NFCDD by visiting the organization’s website. Under the “Services” menu, select “Institutional Members,” and then click on the University of Georgia link. Be sure to use your UGA email address to create an account. There are a variety of resources available on the website related to succeeding in academia. All doctoral students can also claim a free membership, which gives access to the same resources, as well as to the Dissertation Success Program.
Many people work hard behind the scenes to make our College run, but their work often goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Precisely because the work of unsung heroes tends to be behind the scenes, we need you to help identify these deserving individuals. Please let us know of an unsung hero using this form.
It only takes a few minutes to share a name, role, and brief description of their work. Please complete the form by Friday, July 11.
One staff member, graduate student, and faculty member will be selected as unsung heroes and will receive $300 and recognition at a College event.
Emily Dobbs is joining the Speech and Hearing Clinic as a new administrative associate. She is a local Athenian who is excited to be starting her UGA dream career.
Best wishes to the following individuals who departed the College during the month of June:
- Jonathan Bemid, human resources manager, Office of Faculty and Staff Services
- Thomas Clees, associate professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
- Margaret (Meg) Hines, senior lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology
- Leslie Moon, student affairs professional II, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
- Stephen (Alex) Pearson, business manager II, Office of Research and Graduate Education
- Cynthia Vail, professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education
- Date: Thursday, July 3
- Time: Noon-2 p.m.
- Location: Zoom
Join the UGA qualitative research program for a speculative symposium. This symposium will feature performances and readings of original speculative work from graduate students in Speculative Feminist Methodologies (QUAL 9800e). These performances are acts of research crafted from a semester of engagement with feminist theory, speculative fiction, critical pedagogy, and imaginative methodology. Through poems, monologues, field reports, letters, and multimedia pieces, scholars will present scholarly contributions that envision feminist futures, trouble inherited logics, and offer alternative possibilities for living, relating, researching, and knowing.
Find more information and the link to the Zoom registration on the UGA QUAL Lab Summer Speaker Series webpage. Please contact associate professor Maureen Flint with any questions.
Andrews selected to serve as faculty co-director of the Senior Teaching Fellows Program
Gayle Andrews, Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, will serve as co-director of the Senior Faculty Teaching Fellows Program. In this role, Andrews will mentor Senior Teaching Fellows and offer guidance on teaching, learning, and implementation of their teaching projects. She will also collaborate with the Center for Teaching and Learning co-director to develop and facilitate seminars and other events for the Senior Faculty Teaching Fellow Program.
Lee gives keynote and lecture on issues of difference at two institutions in South Korea
In May, Kyunghwa Lee, Omer Clyde and Elizabeth Pharr Aderhold Professor in Education, served as a keynote speaker at the spring 2025 Conference of the Korean Society for Early Childhood Education and Care, held at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She also delivered an invited lecture to faculty and graduate students in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Daegu National University of Education. These talks addressed issues of difference and explored their implications for early childhood education and care in Korea from the perspective of a Korean American educator.
Reeves, Stefaniak co-edit special issue of Journal of Computing in Higher Education
Thomas Reeves, professor emeritus, and Jill Stefaniak, an associate professor in the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology, co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Computing in Higher Education with Stephanie Moore, an associate professor at the University of New Mexico. The issue focuses on “The Research We Need” and includes 11 articles focused on educational technology and instructional design in higher education.
View the full issue.
Faculty receive 2025 Rural Engagement Workshop seed grants
Four faculty members in the Mary Frances Early College of Education received seed grants through UGA’s Rural Engagement Workshop for Academic Faculty:
- Erin Hamel, assistant professor in the Department of Educational Psychology, in collaboration with faculty from the Archway Partnership
- Sarah Grace Dalton and Hannah Krimm, assistant professors in the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education (partnering with Elizabeth Pienaar, associate professor in Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources), in collaboration with 4-H
- Lou Tolosa-Casadont, clinical professor and world language program coordinator in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, in collaboration 4-H
Since 2021, the workshop introduces faculty to rural community engagement with the goal of fostering community partnerships. The program provides seed grants ranging from $5,000-10,000 to support faculty research and scholarship that addresses rural needs.
Read the full story on UGA’s Public Service and Outreach website.