Seth Emerson of the Macon Telegraph is tweeting that UGA has selected Jere Morehead, the current Provost at UGA, as “The Finalist” in the search to replace Dr. Michael Adams. We’ll update more in a bit. But what’s more political than a US Senate seat opening up? Filling the top post in an untouchable ivory tower. Let’s hope that Dr. Morehead works will the entire UGA community as my alma mater moves into a new chapter.
Emerson’s full story can be read here.
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Political? Maybe in the strictly personal sense, sure. But the chances of the new guy not being some sort of soft (or not so soft) Progressive of some sort, even if just in a gauzy sort of way, is nil. Or at least, that is my opinion.
It is an excellent choice. Jere Morehead is as conservative as they come. He was an assistant U.S. attorney in Atlanta under President Ronald Reagan. He has been a legal studies professor in the Terry College of Business and a professor in the School of Law since 1986. Anyone who knows him can tell you that Jere Morehead is smart and hard working. He also ran the Honors Program at UGA and took it to a new level, among many, many accomplishments. He is a Georgia native and was educated at UGA, and nobody loves the Red & Black more than him.
Strange. Top universities usually hire out. As UGA is aiming to get into the AAU, I thought that they would hire a president from an AAU school.
Great choice. Jere is conservative, sane and well liked by faculty, students and alumni alike. The entire Bulldog nation should be proud.
Talked to a few folks tonight. All rave about him. One called him “the Anti-Adams”. I’m good with this choice. Sign him up. I can participate as an alum in activities at UGA again. Which is nice.
My apologies. I thought being a conservative was an impossibility at a major university. Guess I was wrong.
I love how the third graph of the story starts with: “From a sports perspective.”
Well, considering it’s an article by the sports beat writer in the sports e-section…
Psssh. Like anyone pays attention to “details.”
Face it. Most people in the state are more concerned with how this will affect the football team. UGA’s status in academia during Adam’s tenure matters less to the majority of the populace and probably even to the majority of the alumni than his perceived interference with the operation of the football program. It is telling enough that this news is on the sports page.
Or it could be that a newspaper from one of Georgia’s smaller markets that has a reporter who covers UGA (and every other college) was the one in Athens that day. And that this reporter is good on social media/twitter. And that said reporter was the first to tweet it that I saw. Thus said reporter, working outside his normal beat, gets the credit when I post the story here.
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