We must not allow the siren songs of new programs to distract the institution from its first priority of allocating its resources to ensure that its teaching of both undergraduates and graduate students, in each of the programs of study it offers, is of the highest possible quality. Second, the University must indeed adjust its curriculum and its structures of disciplinary organization to meet the new challenges and opportunities of the rapidly changing world. UGA's library is already superb, and moving in all the right directions to continue to provide information support at the highest level. We must provide the support it needs to continue its leadership. National leadership in the disciplines comprising Arts and Sciences.
Agriculture remains the single largest segment of Georgia's economy.
Clearly, agriculture is important to the future of our state and the various and many programs at the University of Georgia which support and enlarge the agriculture of Georgia will continue to be of paramount priority. National-caliber schools of law and business. Both UGA's Law School and Terry College of Business, have the potential, if properly supported by their alumni and other external constituencies, to rank among the best in the nation at the end of a decade of focused hiring, management, resource development and ambitious labor by faculty and staff. New programs that respond to emerging interests of students, strengths of the current faculty and opportunities for new resource development. An expanded volume of research, scholarship and creative endeavors, supported by a substantial increase in badly needed research space across the campus.