UWG's Honor's College is the only one in the state, assisting academically gifted students reach their full potential. The Honors College offers smaller classes, capped at 16 students, in courses covering the entire university curriculum. Additionally, the Honors College facilitates undergraduate research opportunities for Honors students, including support for conference presentations and scholarly publications.
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The Carrollton fundraising committee recently met at the University of West Georgia Alumni House to develop plans for a fundraising event to be hosted by Dr. Walter and Ginger Reid, Tuesday, Sept. 21, at their home in Sunset Hills Country Club. Pictured, l-r, are Walter Reid, Ginger Reid, Michelle Morgan, Meghan Sullivan, Susan Fleck, and Carrie Penley. Committee members not pictured: John and Betsy Ayers, Ralph Fleck, Met and Corbett Lane, Jimmy Morgan, Randy and Deborah Pierce, Swede Sullivan, and Michael and Nalini Vavrick.
The League of Women Voters Carrollton - Carroll County invites the community to their third and final event in their Summer Writers Series. Jay Bookman, editorial writer, will speak on August 30, Monday, 6-8 pm at the Neva Lomason Library in Carrollton. Co-sponsored by Neva Lomason Library and Horton’s Books and Gifts, this series has hosted writers of political and historic importance.
Jay Bookman is a columnist and blogger at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, specializing in foreign relations, environmental and technology-related issues and state and local politics. He has won two national awards for outstanding editorial writing, the National Headliner Award and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award.
“What we are looking at in this Summer Writers Series is the past, present and future through the eyes and words of writers.” according to Robin Collins, president of the League, “Our work focuses on educating the public through engaging individuals and partnering with other organizations to stimulate informed, active participation and civil discourse.”
Prior to the League event, Mr. Bookman will visit the UWG campus to talk to Dr. Thomas Hunter’s Parties and Elections class. He will attend a reception in his honor in the Political Science Department Lounge. Sponsored by the Murphy Center for Public Service and the UWG Political Science Club, the reception is for the campus community.
Student, Chris Hardnett, UWG Political Science student remarked, "Such a powerful voice in media carries much influence and we are excited to know Mr. Bookman will be in town to share his thoughts and knowledge."
In addition, his work on environmental issues, Bookman has been recognized with the Aldo Leopold Award, granted by the Wilderness Society, and the American Conservation Award, by the National Wildlife Federation. He is an eight-time winner of the Best of Cox Newspapers Awards for columns and editorials.
In 2008, he became the only two-time winner of the $75,000 Eugene Pulliam Fellowship for editorial writing, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. He is using the fellowship to study the role of media in modern information warfare.
Bookman is also the author of “Caught in the Current: Searching for Simplicity in the Technological Age,” published by St. Martin’s Press in July, 2004, about the social impact of technology.
Collins describes the book, “In this thoughtful autobiographical story, Bookman and four friends go on their yearly trek down the Deschutes River in Oregon, leaving all technological communication devices behind. Seemingly isolated from the world, the four friends find the slow and easy flow of communication that always accompanies them on their annual guy trip as they fish and float and talk on the river.”
Bookman is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University with degrees in history and journalism. He has lived in Atlanta since 1990, and previously worked for newspapers in Washington state, Nevada and Massachusetts. He is married with two daughters.
The University of West Georgia recently received a three-year National Science Foundation award to take the lead on the Apalachicola Ecosystems Project. The project will fund 15 semesters of student and graduate student assistantships, project expenses and research efforts.
AEP is a collaborative effort with the University of Arizona, Columbus State University, Pennsylvania State University and the Muscogee Creek Nation. The grant, totaling $211,320, was awarded to the groups collectively.
The project was created to investigate how Native American populations adapted to changing biophysical and colonial frontier environments. Researchers hope to better understand Native American resilience in different ways during the historic period.
Public education is important to AEP’s research efforts. In collaboration with Creek Indian descendants, the AEP will develop educational programs for members in local and descendant areas on the findings of the project.
For more information, contact Thomas Foster, director of the Antonio J. Waring Archaeology Laboratory, at 678-839-6456, or at tfoster@westga.edu.
Construction on the $5.1 million, 23,000-square foot University of West Georgia Bookstore is officially under way after a groundbreaking ceremony Monday afternoon.
Yusuf Holloway looked around at all the folks sporting University of West Georgia Blue and Red on Saturday afternoon and couldn’t help but picture University Stadium packed full of those colors next Saturday.The University Community mourns the passing of Mr. Robin (Rob) Tornow, Director of the University of West Georgia-Newnan from 1996-2007. Tornow passed away early this morning in Newnan. A retired Air Force Brigadier General, Rob transformed the UWG Newnan Facility from a very small off-site center of approximately 200 students to the primary source of higher education for citizens of Coweta County and surrounding areas. When Tornow retired in 2007, the Newnan Facility had grown to an enrollment of more than 2000 students annually. Under his leadership, several degree programs began to be offered at UWG-Newnan, including the BSN in nursing, the MBA, and several graduate-level education programs. He also helped to facilitate more than $1 million in infrastructure improvements, funded in part through partnerships that he nurtured with Coweta County.
"Rob worked tirelessly. He had extraordinary administrative skills and a remarkable ability to work with both University personnel and community leaders,” said Dr. Don Wagner, Dean of the Honors College, Extended Degree Programs, and USG eCore. “His sustained commitment to higher education served to make the Newnan Center one of the units in which this University can take great pride. All of us in the Honors College and Extended Degree Programs will miss Rob greatly."
Tornow was 68. Visitation will be Tuesday from 6 - 8 p.m. at McKoon Funeral Home in Newnan. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church, 33 Greenville St., Newnan. In lieu of flowers, contributions should be sent to: Lung Cancer Research Foundation, 845 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, New York, or online at lungcancerresearchfoundation.org.
Frances Smith Foster, an author and professor at Emory University, will give a public lecture at the University of West Georgia on Wednesday, Sept. 29 at 3:30 p.m.
Her talk will be entitled “Love, Lies, History and Happiness,” and will be held in the Technology-Enhanced Learning Center room 1200.
Foster is one of the foremost scholarly voices in African-American literature. She has edited or written more than a dozen books, including Til Death or Distance Do Us Part: Love and Marriage in Early African America and Love and Marriage in Early African America.
Foster refutes longstanding myths about the fractured nature and instability of family relationships in early African America. Foster has written about the resilience and domestic happiness Afro-Protestant families of the Antebellum era experienced despite the many obstacles they faced.
For more information about the event, please contact Patrick Erben, assistant professor in the Department of English and Philosophy, at 678-839-6144 or perben@westga.edu.
This Saturday, be sure to take advantage of the chance to meet the UWG Wolves players and coaches on the eve of the season openers at the first annual Running With The Wolves celebration. This free event is for the whole family. All teams will be present for photos, autographs, and more! There will also be stadium tours and hot dogs on the grill.
In recent years, the University of West Georgia has undergone serious cosmetic changes. First, The Coliseum and Greek Village were constructed. Now, renovations to the library and a new on-campus bookstore are well underway, expanding the campus and helping to accommodate the growing student body. However, people often overlook the changes that occur within these buildings, such as projects and updates that are not as easily seen. Students studying mass communications know of an example: the forthcoming separation of the program into a discipline-based format. Instead of taking any broadcasting, journalism or public relations class desired, students will pick a track and stick to it, learning more about a specific area than a little about many areas.
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Recently a group of 12 students and two professors from the University of West Georgia and Georgia State University traveled to France with the Bayeux Art program from July 2-21. According to Dr. Anne Gaquere-Parker, the Bayeux Art program has been available for over a decade under various formats and directors. While abroad, students spend the first portion of the trip in various small cities throughout France, and then bring the trip to a close with a final week-long stay in Paris.
The University of West Georgia and the League of Women Voters Carrollton/Carroll County will present a forum for candidates for state school superintendent on Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on the UWG campus.
The candidates, John D. Barge, a Republican; Joe Martin, a Democrat; and Kira Griffiths Willis, a Libertarian, will discuss their ideas for leading Georgia’s public school systems. The statewide election will be held Nov. 2.
The candidates’ forum is free and open to the public.
Julia Alvarez, a prize-winning poet, essayist, and novelist will give a public reading at the University of West Georgia’s Coliseum on Wednesday, September 22, at 8 p.m.
Her multi-award-winning novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, has been chosen as a National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” selection for next year. Ms. Alvarez's novel is designed to inspire, as it celebrates the human spirit, as people struggle, sometimes fatally, with oppression and malevolence.
This event is free and open to students and the public. For more information about Julia Alvarez, please visit http://www.juliaalvarez.com/. For further information regarding the event, please contact Emily Hipchen, Associate Professor, English, at 678-839-4746 or ehipchen@westga.edu.
The University of West Georgia and the Department of Art
will host the Biennial Faculty Exhibition from Thursday,
August 12 through Thursday September 9, in the Bruce
Bobick Gallery and Gallery 2 in the Humanities Building.
There will be a reception on Thursday August 19 from 5 p.m.
until 7 p.m. and refreshments will be provided. The event is
free and the community is invited to attend.
The exhibition features a diverse selection of artwork from
the faculty including painting, ceramics, drawing,
photography, sculpture, printmaking and book arts. Faculty
includes Professors Dave Collins, Eilis Crean, Mariana
Depetris, Erin Dixon, Joey Hannaford, Richard Hill, Perry
Kirk, Casey McGuire, Kevin Rutherford, Clint Samples, Debrah
Santini, David Short, Stephanie Smith.
The University of West Georgia recently graduated five new clinical nurse leaders. The CNL program was started at UWG in 2007 in response to the nation wide initiative put in place by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. “We believe that patient benefits will be so positive that the CNL program will become a member of the healthcare environment in multiple settings across the country,” said Dr. Laurie Jowers Ware, Assistant Dean of school of nursing.
The UWG nursing program recently received praise for its 100 percent passing rate on the 2010 CNL certification exam. An accomplishment the school of nursing is proud of.
The University of West Georgia is one of only two institutions in Georgia that has a program preparing CNLs for contemporary practice. Students in the CNL program curriculum include course content varying from pharmacology, to health policy and leadership management. CNL graduates include physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals. CNL certified healthcare professionals go on to coordinate, supervise, and delegate the care given by health care teams across the nation.
OFFICE OF INSTITIUTIONAL DIVERSITY
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
2010-2011
August
August 17 & 18: Student Organizations Fair participant
August 25: Open House – 8:30 am - 6:00 pm: Row Hall 219
August 26: Minority Faculty Meet & Greet:4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Campus Center Ballroom
September
September 8::Multicultural Conversations Series: 11:30 am -1:00 pm
Hubbard Dining Room (Z-6)
September 15-October 15: Hispanic American Month Observance
Row Hall 219: 8:30- 5:00pm (Monday-Friday)
September 22: Poet and author, Julia Alavarez- Coliseum
(UWG collaboration) 8:00 pm
September 29:Dr. Frances Smith Foster:3:30 p.m.:TLC 1200
(collaboration with Department of English)
October
October 12 & 19: Asian Film Festival: 7:00 pm- UWG Campus Center
Ballroom 108 & TLC 1305
October 13: Multicultural Conversations Series- 11:30-1:30 pm Hubbard Dining(Z-6)
October 26- 4: Annual Multicultural Ball – 7:00-10:30 pm – Campus Center ballroom
November
November 1-30: Native American Heritage Month Observance
Row Hall-219: 8:30 am -5:00 pm (Monday-Friday)
November 2: Native American Celebration- Dr. Lucian L. Sneed
Row Hall-212: 10:00 am-2:00 pm
November 5: Fair Trade Coffee Tasting (faculty & staff) – Row Hall-212
10:00 am-2:00 pm
November 9: Mix It Up Day (co-sponsors MAP & Dept. of Education Diversity Committee)
Nov. 10: Multicultural Conversations Series- 11:30 am-1:30 pm: Hubbard Dining Room
(Z-6)
December
December 3: Multicultural Book Discussion- Row Hall-212; 12 Noon- 1:00 pm
Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker and economist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, will present a lecture at the University of West Georgia’s Townsend Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will conclude with Yunus signing copies of his book, “Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs.” The book will be available for purchase for $25.
Yunus is known throughout the world as the “Father of Microcredit” for his role in developing the system that extends small loans to entrepreneurs who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus discovered that such loans could make significant differences to impoverished people who are attempting to start a business. His first loan was $27 from his own pocket.
In 1983, he created the Grameen Bank, which specialized in this type of loan in order to promote economic and social development. By 2007, Grameen had issued $6.4 billion in loans to more than 7 million borrowers.
To ensure repayment, the bank employs a system of “solidarity groups,” informal gatherings that apply together for loans and in which members act as co-guarantors of repayment and back each other’s efforts at economic self-advancement.
In 2006, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Yunus and Grameen Bank to honor the efforts to create economic and social development. The Nobel Committee cited Yunus’s actions to benefit millions of people worldwide in fighting poverty.
In addition to “Building Social Business,” Yunus has also authored the books “Banker to the Poor,” and “Creating a World Without Poverty.”
Georgia Highlands College, the University of West Georgia and Douglas County residents celebrated the opening of a new instructional facility on Stewart Parkway.
The 35,000-square-foot space, which formerly housed Cub Foods, has been renovated to accommodate 1,000 college students with four classrooms, three computer labs, two science labs, a student center, two student lounges, faculty and administrative offices, and an auditorium.
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Jay Bookman is a columnist and blogger at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, specializing in foreign relations, environmental and technology-related issues and state and local politics. He has won two national awards for outstanding editorial writing, the National Headliner Award and the Scripps-Howard National Journalism Award.
The papers of Irvine S. Ingram, president of West Georgia College from
1933 to 1960, have been processed and are now open for research in
Ingram Library’s Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections on the University
of West Georgia campus in Carrollton. The Irvine S. Ingram papers contain
a wealth of information not only on the educator who led the college for
many decades, but also on the development of higher education in Georgia
during the 20th century.
Irvine S. Ingram became principal of the Fourth District A&M School, a
forerunner of the University of West Georgia, in 1920. In 1933, he was
appointed president of West Georgia College, a two-year teachers college,
when the A&M system of schools was abolished by the state Legislature.
Privately known as “Izzy” to his students, Ingram led the college in offering
desperately needed teacher training to the West Georgia region. He
obtained substantial grants from the Julius Rosenwald Fund during the Depression and early years of World War II, without
which many programs and buildings on the campus would not have been possible. Ingram developed College in the Country,
a nationally recognized program for rural education training and adult education, including programs for African Americans.
He pushed for the four-year degree program, which the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents approved in 1957.
The university’s library was named for Ingram in 1980 at the dedication of its addition.
Ingram was known for not bowing to the pressures of segregationists during the 1950s. His invitation to Atlanta editor Ralph
McGill to speak at West Georgia College’s 1959 commencement, the same year that McGill addressed the United Negro
College Fund, was deplored by a local “states rights” organization. Ingram stood by his invitation and received numerous
letters of support from lawyers, clergymen, and educators. He also smoothed over a local controversy in which a student
teacher at the Sand Hill Elementary School refuted a book that made the claim that African Americans were mentally inferior to whites.
A Methodist, a Democrat, and a cat-lover, Ingram was a vital part of the Carroll County community. His wife, Martha, was the
daughter of college trustee George Munro and a teacher at the A&M School before her marriage to Ingram. They had one child, Anne, a retired professor who lives in Carrollton today.
The Irvine S. Ingram Collection has been cataloged and currently contains 51 boxes of materials, mostly correspondence
between Ingram and other educators, members of the Board of Regents, newspapermen, governors, and numerous movers
and shakers in Georgia politics and education. A later accession of his collection is as yet unprocessed.
Concurrent with the release of Ingram’s papers is the conversion to DVD of a 1975 film entitled “I.S. Ingram a Great Georgian.”
Narrated by actor Lorne Greene, the film reviews Ingram’s life, including interviews with Ingram himself, his family, and other
educators, and also offers a good overview of the University of West Georgia’s history. The 30-minute film was part of a
University of Georgia series on “Great Georgians,” including Carl Vinson, Lamar Dodd, and Benjamin Mays among others.
The DVD is available in the library’s general collection.
To make an appointment to view the collection (while the library is undergoing a renovation), as well as for additional
information, contact Special Collections at (678) 839-6361 or sdurham@westga.edu.
The University System of Georgia (USG) State Charitable Contributions Committee is inviting all University System of Georgia faculty,
staff, and friends to support the United Way by being part of the Inaugural Chancellor’s Fall Classic Charity Cup Golf Tournament scheduled
for Friday, September 10, 2010 at The Georgia Club located at 1050 Chancellors Drive, Statham, GA 30666.
REGISTRATION WEBSITE
http://tinyurl.com/chancellor-golf
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Field is limited to the first 128 players registered
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Team registration is encouraged; Individuals will be placed on teams
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Four player teams/Scramble format
GOLF PACKAGE
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Cart and Green Fees
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Gifts and Prizes
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Boxed lunch
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Chancellors’ reception
GOLF TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
$500 entry fee per team
$150 entry fee per individual
$10 ‐ Mulligan (2 mulligan limit per player)
$10 ‐ 12" String (1 string limit per player)
SPONSORSHIPS
accepting monetary donations to support these events. Sponsors will be recognized via signage with their logo at
the golf tournament and also in the tournament agenda for their contributions.
$1,700 ‐ Breakfast
$2,000 ‐ Lunch
$3,100 ‐ Chancellor’s Reception
$250 ‐ Hole Sponsors (18)
$____ ‐ General Donations
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
8:00‐ Registration
9:00‐ Shotgun Start
Chancellors’ Reception following tournament
CONTESTS
Closest to the Hole; Longest Drive contests. Winners will receive a free round of golf compliments of the Georgia Club.
Overall Tournament Prize
Any team is eligible to win the overall tournament prize.
USG Teams
Participating teams employed by a USG college or university have an opportunity to be awarded a percentage of the proceeds that
will be donated to the charity of their choice based upon team scores. To be eligible all four players must be employed by the same
institution.
GOLF COMMITTEE
John Black, East Georgia College
Frank Butler, Kennesaw State University
Doogie Howser, Medical College of Georgia
Denise Samples, BOR Information Technology Services
Karen Scoville, BOR Information Technology Services
Mike Staman, Macon State College
All questions should be directed to Karen Scoville at Karen.scoville@usg.edu or by phone at 706.583.2017.
