Caps and gowns for graduates at UGA, UNG, and Brenau

Today is a graduation day in Athens and elsewhere: the University of Georgia, the University of North Georgia, and Brenau University in Gainesville are all holding fall commencement exercises.

UGA’s undergrad graduation is set for 10 o’clock this morning in Stegeman Coliseum. Terry College Alum Harold Black (pictured), now professor emeritus of finance at the University of Tennessee, is today’s commencement speaker.

From the UGA website…

Harold A. Black is emeritus professor of finance at the University of Tennessee and previously served for 24 years as the James F. Smith Jr. Professor of Finance. A native of Atlanta, he earned his undergraduate degree from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He also earned master’s and doctoral degrees from the Ohio State University. The Terry College has established the Dr. Harold A. Black Professorship in his honor. In 2022, UGA has named its new freshman dormitory, Black-Diallo-Miller Hall, for Black and two other students who were the first African American students to enroll as freshmen and complete their undergraduate degrees at UGA. Black was the University’s first African American graduate of the Terry College of Business.

His faculty appointments include American University, the University of Florida, Howard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was appointed by President Carter to serve on the first National Credit Union Administration Board. He has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve and at the Congressional Budget Office and has served as chairman of the Nashville branch of the Federal Reserve of Atlanta and on the boards of two of the nation’s largest financial institutions. In September 2022, the University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga hosted an academic conference to honor the accomplishments of Professor Black with papers that directly examine, extend or build on Dr. Black’s scholarship.

His work has been published extensively in the leading journals in business and economics, and his consulting clients are among the country’s leading law firms and financial institutions.

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