Attend the 22nd annual Mary Frances Early Lecture on Feb. 22

• Date: Tuesday, Feb. 22
• Time: 3-4 p.m.
• Location: Mahler Hall, UGA Center for Continuing Education & Hotel

Each year, an invited speaker delivers a lecture that honors the quiet determination and dignity with which Mary Frances Early pursued her efforts to ensure that the state’s flagship university became an institution of higher learning for all students.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Mary Frances Early’s graduation from UGA in 1962 as the first African American to earn a degree from UGA. To honor Ms. Early, Chancellor Robert J. Jones of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been invited to deliver the lecture. He is the first African American scholar appointed as chancellor of the University of Illinois, the state’s flagship, land-grant university. Chancellor Jones is a Georgia native who has worked to make education available to young scholars around the world.

A reception will follow the lecture. Please join us!

For those who cannot attend in person, a livestream of the lecture may be viewed on the UGA Graduate School YouTube channel.