Michael Adams, President of the University of Georgia, was elected Vice-President. Daughdrill, who also serves on the executive committee of the conference, succeeds Patricia Sullivan, president of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as president of the conference. He will serve a one year term. The Southern University Conference was organized in 1935 by presidents of the leading colleges and universities in the Southern United States. Rhodes has been a member of the conference since 1937.
Membership is by invitation.
Two other Rhodes presidents served as officers of the Southern University Conference. Peyton Nalle Rhodes served as president in 1962, and Charles E. Diehl served as secretary-treasurer of the conference from 1939 to 1947.