Spring 2008 issue of Terry Magazine - (Page 10)

quickbites giFts & grants Cousins Foundation awards $500K grant to Music Business Program the Music Business Certificate program has been awarded a grant of $500,000 by the Cousins Foundation of atlanta. the grant will be paid in $100,000 annual installments, starting this year. the Music Business Certificate program is a joint venture of the terry College of Business and the Franklin College of arts and science, with the purpose of developing business leaders for the music industry. the grant will provide additional operating support to continue expanding the program’s size and offerings. this year’s class is twice as large as the first class that enrolled two years ago. the grant is the program’s second major gift. George Fontaine (BBA ’76), who helped found New west records, donated $750,000 to get the program off the ground. the Cousins Foundation is a private charitable foundation, autonomous of Cousins properties inc. Family and friends of Ricky Rice (BS ’77, MAcc ’79) have created a $150,000 Distinguished graduate Fellowship Fund in memory of rice, who died in 2005. rice, who began his accounting career at ernst & whinney before moving to the Coca-Cola Co., where he worked for 18 years, was a 1991 recipient of the college’s outstanding young alumni award. the endowment will be used to provide financial assistance to ph.D. candidates in the tull school of accounting. Colleagues who knew rice through different facets of his professional career led the fundraising effort, including Bill Douglas (BBA ’83), senior vice president and CFo at Coca-Cola enterprises, John Schraudenbach (BBA ’81, MAcc ’82), a partner of ernst & young in atlanta, and John Shurley (BBA ’77), a partner in the audit department of gifford, hillegass & ingwersen. Accounting Ph.D. fellowship fund endowed in memory of Ricky Rice n BusinessWeek’s newest ranking of undergraduate business programs, the Terry College of Business and UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School are the highest ranked public business schools in the Southeast. Terry’s high placement among publics wasn’t the result of a narrow survey or niche category that just happened to fit one of the college’s particular strengths. Rather it was a broad-based measure of student satisfaction, starting salaries, graduate school placement, reputation among corporate recruiters, and five measures of academic quality and rigor. Since the start of the year, the college has been alerted to Top 5 national rankings for research productivity, exam pass rates, and bang for the buck: • The management information systems faculty is ranked second nationally for scholarly productivity in its field [see story on p. 12]. • Undergraduates in the Tull School of Accounting scored the fifth-highest rate of passing the CPA exam on their first attempt, according to the most recent figures from the National Association of the State Boards of Accountancy. The Tull School’s 72 percent pass rate for bachelor’s degree graduates who sat for the exam narrowly trailed the University of Texas for the top pass rate, which was 77 percent. The national average for first-time pass rates is 20 to 30 percent. • The Terry MBA program was judged by the Financial Times of London to have the third best “value for the money” of any U.S. business school. The Times, which released its 2008 Global MBA rankings in January, measured value by calculating the salary earned by alumni three years after graduation and comparing it against the overall cost to enroll, including tuition and fees and the “opportunity cost” of not working for the duration of the full-time program. Overall, the full-time Terry MBA program moved up in the Financial Times ranking and is again ranked a top 50 U.S. business school. • Terry’s fixed position as a Top 5 program in both risk management and real estate. Last year, U.S. News & World Report ranked both programs second in the country to the Wharton School. This year, risk management and insurance repeated its second-place ranking and real estate was third. ■ Rankings continue to rise I John Keane teaching Pro Tools workshops Respected Athens music producer john Keane is teaching a series of four-day workshops at uga on the essentials of using Digidesign’s pro tools, the music industry standard for digital recording. the continuing education course will be based on Keane’s popular book, The Musician’s Guide to Pro Tools, which provides a strong foundation for home recordists and aspiring audio engineers and producers. Keane has worked on numerous gold and multi-platinum albums, and his studio has hosted a variety or recording artists, such as r.e.M., indigo girls, Drivin’N’Cryin, and widespread panic. he began using pro tools in 1991 and has written two editions of The Musician’s Guide. KEANE “For those interested in understanding the full potential of pro tools,” says Keith perissi, program coordinator for uga’s Music Business program (MBus), “it’s a great intro to the system and software.” Keane began teaching a segment on pro tools this past fall to undergraduates in the MBus certificate program, which is co-sponsored by terry. the collaboration went so well that the idea was expanded to include the open-enrollment workshops taught in four evening sessions. the pro tools workshop will be offered three times at Caldwell hall, where terry houses the MBus lab (March 17-26, aug. 18-27, Nov. 3-12) and once in atlanta at the terry executive education Center (sept. 23-oct. 3). For information, go to www.terry.uga.edu/musicbusiness or contact terry’s office of executive programs, which is co-sponsoring the pro tools workshops. registration is limited, and the cost for the athens workshops is $700. the registration fee is discounted $100 for participants who provide their own laptop computer and pro tools software. Cost for the atlanta workshop is $995, and participants must provide their own laptop. ■ Terry College of Gift adds new MBA assistantships Kessel and Carol Stelling of Marietta, ga., have made a gift of stock valued at more than $56,000 to the Dean’s excellence Fund. the gift will benefit the full-time terry MBa program in recruitment by funding as many as five graduate assistantships to be offered to outstanding candidates applying to the program. Kessel D. stelling jr. (BBA ’78) is president and Ceo of Bank of North georgia. ■ 10 • Spring 2008 BuSineSS http://www.terry.uga.edu/musicbusiness

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