Ted White is the Director of the Rankin Smith Academic Center for Student-Athletes at the University of Georgia.  Since taking the position in 2006, Ted has overseen a program that has helped student-athletes post record academic achievement numbers.  For the first time in department history, UGA student-athletes posted a combined grade point above 3.0 in 2008-09 and over half earned grade point averages over 3.0 individually – also a first.  Credit hours earned by football players have risen by 30% in three years and lost credit hours have dropped by 54% department-wide during the same period.  Currently, Georgia’s APR score for football is .976, tops in the Southeastern Conference and tied for first nationally among top-25 programs. 

Before arriving at Georgia, Mr. White was Director of Academic Support for Student-Athletes at Louisiana State University from 2002-2006, Director of Athletic Academic Advising at the University of California, Berkeley from 1997-2002, and Athletic Advisor/Eligibility Coordinator at the University of California, Davis from 1994-1997.  He is a member of the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics and serves as that organization’s liaison on the NCAA’s Football Academic Working Group. 

Mr. White has worked in various settings and knows first-hand the challenges facing programs and staff, from one-person shops with little or no budget to full-scale operations with multi-million dollar annual budgets.  He embraces new technologies and has created innovative monitoring and tracking systems at each institution for which he has worked.