UGA celebrates fifth anniversary of college’s naming in honor of Mary Frances Early
On Feb. 25, 2025, the University of Georgia celebrated the fifth anniversary of the naming of the College of Education in honor of Mary Frances Early.
This year also marks the 25th anniversary of UGA’s Mary Frances Early Lecture series, which was held earlier this month and featured Early as well as alumnae Tracey Ford and Valerie White. Ford and White helped name the spring lecture series in 2000 when they were leaders of Graduate and Professional Scholars, an organization for underrepresented graduate students at UGA.
In recognition of these milestones, Georgia’s U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock read Ms. Early’s accomplishments and the impact of her work at the university into the Congressional Record on Jan. 23, 2025.
The college will honor Ms. Early’s legacy through the first cohort of Mary Frances Early Scholars — a group of five students in the college who will each receive a $5,000 scholarship from funds raised during the initial campaign to name the college.