2008 Woodie Awards
University seeks to rename SLC after Zell Miller
HAYLEY PETERSON
Issue date: 8/19/08 Section: News
The building you're so fond of trekking to each day for class will no longer be the SLC - get ready to take class in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center.
"As the 76th governor of Georgia, Zell B. Miller forever placed his stamp on public higher education not just in the state but in the nation," according to the Board of Regents agenda for today's meeting.
The renaming will "commemorate the career of a two-term governor who spent 60 years in public service to the state ... (and) made education, particularly higher education, one of his policy priorities."
The BOR also will discuss the possible establishment of an Arabic major, an avian health and medicine master's program and a Master of Arts in Teaching program.
One reason for the proposal of an Arabic major is high student demand for the University's beginning Arabic classes. Another is an increasing need for Arabic-speaking individuals in the post-Sept. 11 job market, according to the meeting agenda.
The major would provide undergraduate students the opportunity to study abroad in Morocco and would include courses on the languages, literature, history and cultures of the Middle East.
In the proposed master's program in avian health and medicine the University would partner with the University of Melbourne in Australia. The program would give graduate veterinary students - mainly those who are fully or partially employed - the opportunity to specialize in poultry health and learn skills to diagnose and prevent diseases within the poultry population.
The proposed Master of Arts in Teaching program would offer the same majors currently offered in the Master of Education degree - early childhood education, middle school education, social studies education, mathematics education, science education, foreign language education and special education.
These majors would become available to students with bachelor's degrees in fields other than education who want to pursue a teaching certification at the master's level.
"As the 76th governor of Georgia, Zell B. Miller forever placed his stamp on public higher education not just in the state but in the nation," according to the Board of Regents agenda for today's meeting.
The renaming will "commemorate the career of a two-term governor who spent 60 years in public service to the state ... (and) made education, particularly higher education, one of his policy priorities."
The BOR also will discuss the possible establishment of an Arabic major, an avian health and medicine master's program and a Master of Arts in Teaching program.
One reason for the proposal of an Arabic major is high student demand for the University's beginning Arabic classes. Another is an increasing need for Arabic-speaking individuals in the post-Sept. 11 job market, according to the meeting agenda.
The major would provide undergraduate students the opportunity to study abroad in Morocco and would include courses on the languages, literature, history and cultures of the Middle East.
In the proposed master's program in avian health and medicine the University would partner with the University of Melbourne in Australia. The program would give graduate veterinary students - mainly those who are fully or partially employed - the opportunity to specialize in poultry health and learn skills to diagnose and prevent diseases within the poultry population.
The proposed Master of Arts in Teaching program would offer the same majors currently offered in the Master of Education degree - early childhood education, middle school education, social studies education, mathematics education, science education, foreign language education and special education.
These majors would become available to students with bachelor's degrees in fields other than education who want to pursue a teaching certification at the master's level.
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John Knox
posted 8/19/08 @ 10:49 AM EST
Am I the only person who thinks there's something wrong with omitting the word "Student" in the new name "Zell B. Miller Learning Center"? One of the most attractive aspects of the SLC is that the university and state invested so much into a space named for *students*. (Continued…)
Reeve Tuesti
posted 8/19/08 @ 11:22 AM EST
What the R&B failed to report on is that another of the Board of Regents' considerations is whether one of the East Campus dorms will be renamed after a hard-line racist and segregationist, Gov. (Continued…)
Unimpressed Dawg
posted 8/19/08 @ 12:23 PM EST
John Knox says, "The new name implies either that the old SLC is now off-limits to anyone not named Zell B. Miller, or else the entire place is now devoted entirely to learning *about* Zell B. (Continued…)
Weepel
posted 8/19/08 @ 4:56 PM EST
This seems vaguely analogous to USC's naming of their new fitness center in veneration to one of the most racist senators of our time- Strom Thurmond. (Continued…)
Dawggone
posted 8/19/08 @ 10:27 PM EST
Wow are we really upset that they might name something after Zell Miller, Earnest Vandiver or Strom Thurmond? Come on. By that logic we can't name anything after Washington or Jefferson. (Continued…)
Bryan
posted 8/21/08 @ 2:04 PM EST
Let's call it the Talmadge-Maddox Learning Center.
lokee
posted 8/21/08 @ 3:49 PM EST
Students will continue to call it SLC, regardless of the name change...what a waste of time, energy, and state funds.
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