While students were gearing up for finals, and preparing for winter break, The WOLF Internet Radio station was hard at work collecting new or gently used books to donate to the Tanner ReadER program. In November, The WOLF partnered with the Carrollton Dawnbreakers Rotary Club and assisted them in collecting the books by conducting a contest for all UWG organizations to participate. In return, The WOLF would provide free entertainment to one event that the winning organization was organizing.
Sarah Sulski, The WOLF event promotions manager and UWG student, assisted in organizing the book collecting contest along with Shawn Isaacs, general manager at The WOLF. Read more ...
WOLFstock, presented by the WOLF Internet radio, was held Wednesday, April 16, 2014, in Love Valley. The event began with a Spring Fling at 5 p.m., featuring prize giveaways including shirts, posters and keychains. A variety of bands began performing at 7 p.m.
The annual event is sponsored by the Mass Communications Society and featured an impressive lineup. DJ Reese, Patterson West and Death of Paris are only a few of the great up-and-coming artists that played at WOLFstock. Read more ...
It seems each semester has its own feel: its own rhythm, smells, tastes, even sounds. Fall begins orderly and planned, smells of popcorn and tastes of hotdogs from football concessions. Sounds chatty—students reconnecting with friends, making new friends; faculty and staff printing, stapling, sorting syllabi; shuffling across campus between meetings, classes. Spring, as I have written before, has a feeling of tremendous momentum—nearly ending before it begins, smells of flowers blooming across the hundreds of acres of campus. Tastes of cookies served at the innumerable events that mark the end-beginning of so many university, college, department, club cycles. Sounds like a giant inhale as so many students dive in to the semester that ends in their parents’ exhale at graduation. Read more ...
Serving humanity and doing public good. That is the mission of the College of Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia and the intention behind the second annual “Community Leaders-Honoring Community” event organized by the college. This year’s event took place on the 2014 UWG Honor’s Day, a day set aside by the university to celebrate students, faculty and staff.
Six Carrollton community figures, four of whom are UWG alumni, gave 10-minute TED Talks-style presentations to the audience of students, faculty, staff and visitors about various ways to honor the community. Read more ...
To participate in the formation of a community project is strange in all kinds of curious ways. It is stranger, still, to write about something that feels so new and wonder about the possibility of my words drowning out myriad other voices and accompanying experiences that have lent their presence to this project, as if mine could carry theirs. The privilege I have been afforded to bear witness to the narrative of a community earnest in understanding the truths of war is a reminder that it would be difficult to be too careful with a writing such as this; thus, I bring my doubts along with my words.
It seems to me that there exists the potential for our work to serve as a revealing of oneself. The monthly Just Listening program has been like this for me. Read more ...
The West Georgian, UWG’s student newspaper, won third place for most improved newspaper in the four-year college category at the Georgia College Press Association Conference & Awards Ceremony in February. The GCPA is an organization that is meant to protect, promote, foster and advance the interest of the newspaper industry in Georgia.
There was a mix of emotions when Ashley Copeland, editor-in- chief of The West Georgian and a senior at UWG, retired from her position as executive secretary for the GCPA executive board. “This year was a rewarding experience not only for myself as editor-in-chief, but for the staff as a whole,” says Ashley. Read more ...
I've never been someone who knows today's date. I cannot count the number of times I've struggled to come up with even the correct month. Much of my work lately has involved signing and dating forms to distribute to various departments on campus. In the blur of late afternoon, maybe last week or so,I looked desperately around my office for a clue to the date. That's when I noticed the calendar hung beside my desk--did I put that there? I scanned the weeks looking for something that seemed familiar and right; something that would resonate as "today." Struggling, I shifted from scanning the weeks to examining the month--July 2013. Yep, it's been nearly 9 months since I updated my wall calendar.
And it seemed the perfect metaphor for not only life in general, but that of a university campus, and especially for spring on a university campus. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia welcomed students, faculty and visitors to its 16th Student Psychology Annual Research Conference, Thursday, April 3, in Melson Hall. SPARC is one of the largest student psychology conferences in the Southeast. Approximately one-third of the presenters were undergraduate students; the rest were master’s and doctoral students. The presentations ran from 1-5 p.m. and covered a number of interesting topics such as extrasensory perception, women in gaming and archetypes in adolescent fiction.
“We teach students the foundations of psychology in the classroom and then push them to expand on what they've learned, to think critically,” explains Dr. Kathleen Skott-Myhre. Read more ...
Students and faculty members from the University of West Georgia overflowed TLC room 1301 on Tuesday, April 2, for the Waring Distinguished Lecture Series in Anthropology. The large crowd was forced to move to TLC room 1305, which is a one of the largest lecture halls at UWG.
The great amount of attendance was to support Waring Distinguished Lecturer Tom Belt. Tom is a Cherokee language program coordinator at Western Carolina University in North Carolina and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. As a fluent speaker of the Cherokee language, he has been working closely with native speakers from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to create literary material based on the Cherokee language. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia’s Department of Psychology hosted the Humanistic Psychology at Work: Transformational Leadership Conference on April 5, 2014. The event took place in the Education Building on campus.
“The purpose of the conference is to reach out to the community to share the department of psychology’s content and culture,” says Victoria Yang, office manager and graduate coordinator for the psychology department. Stress management, conflict resolution and navigating cultural and sexual diversity are but few of the lectures and workshops in which attendees were able to participate. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia’s Department of Political Science and Planning hosted the 16th Annual Conference for the American Society for Public Administration Georgia Chapter on March 28, 2014. The conference had an estimated 70 participants including academic researchers, government managers and graduate students attended the conference.
“The conference at UWG was one of the best,” says Dr. William Baker, interim director for the A.L. Burruss Institute of Public Service and Research. “The two MPA students who accompanied me were very impressed with the organization, the features, the Nursing building and the campus in general. I, too, was impressed and we all had a great day at UWG’s campus.” Read more ...
Dr. Neema Noori, University of West Georgia sociology professor, was the guest speaker for the March 27 Great Decisions lecture at the Tracy Stallings Community Center. The lecture, “Islamic Awakening,” began at 7 p.m. and was preceded by a half-hour PBS documentary about the aftermath of the Arab Spring in several African countries. The event, which was free and open to the public, was locally sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Carrollton and the Rotary Club of Carrollton. A lively discussion followed the lecture.
Dr. Noori explained the connection between agricultural economies and the recent revolutions for democracy in the Arab world. “The countries that experienced the Arab Spring were not big oil exporters,” he explains. Read more ...
The annual Jim Klee Forum was hosted by UWG’s Psychology Department on March 27 at 7:30 p.m. following the 7 p.m. reception. The topic was “Liberation Psychology and Feminist Participatory Action Research: Emancipatory Resources for Responding to Human Rights Violations.” Dr. Brinton Lykes, the lecturer, is a professor of community cultural psychology, associate director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and chair of the Department of Counseling and Applied Development and Educational Psychology at Boston College.
Dr. Lykes gave an eye-opening account of women’s rights around the world. She has assisted in the research, writing and publication of “Voices and Images: Mayan Ixil Women of Chajul.” Read more ...
The University of West Georgia’s College of Social Sciences presented “Research Day” March 26, 2014 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in TLC room 1305. The lecture hall was filled with faces from departments including Mass Communications, Criminology, Anthropology, Sociology and Psychology. The event, which allows students to showcase their noteworthy research projects, has been a tradition for the past seven years at UWG. With 14 projects presented, this year’s Research Day boasted the largest number of participating students to date. Read more ...
Thirteen graduate students from the University of West Georgia presented at the 2014 Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Midwinter Meeting. The meeting, which was part of Division 24 of the American Psychological Association, was held March 6-8 in Atlanta, Georgia. The twelve doctoral students and one master’s student received widespread praise for their poster and paper presentations. Read more ...
University of West Georgia’s College of Social Sciences will launch the Data Analysis and Visualization Lab this spring in an effort to improve the analytic skills of our students by connecting them with data analysis projects of organizations in the local community.
“We all live in an increasingly data-driven society, but most of us don’t know how to make sense of it all,” says Dr. Winston Tripp, UWG assistant professor of sociology. “Many large corporations like Facebook and Google have been exploiting all of this data to the fullest for years, but small local organizations often lack the means or the knowledge to conduct data analyses.” Read more ...
Several years ago the Criminology and Criminal Justice coordinators at the University of West Georgia, David A. Jenks, and West Georgia Technical College, Louis Shepard, got together to try and ease the transition of students who were interested in pursuing a four year degree once they finished a two year degree at WGTC. After articulating five courses (Lower Division Area F), the two schools monitored and continued work to create a seamless transition so that students would not lose credit or have to repeat equivalent coursework. The agreement was drafted in line with Chancellor Huckaby’s call for greater cooperation among educators and Georgia’s Higher Education Completion Plan and Complete College Georgia, both of which contributed to increased retention, promotion, and graduation within the University System of Georgia. Read more ...
The College of Social Sciences at the University of West Georgia presented another installment of their ongoing lecture series on March 6 in the Ingram Library Nook. Dr. Chris Aanstoos, professor of psychology discussed “The Human Sciences’ Identity Crisis: Who Are We Really?”
Through his presentation, Dr. Aanstoos explained the importance of accepting the uniqueness of the individuality for each of the human sciences. Dr. Aanstoos explained the late 20th century, the development of theoretical works and how they allowed the human sciences to establish their own unique methods and approaches to the discipline. Read more ...
The importance of a fair and pleasant work environment for faculty cannot be overemphasized. Teacher happiness and institutional progress are symbiotic and institutional effort is necessary to ensure the satisfaction and advancement of faculty. According to White House data, women earn 41 percent of science, technology, engineering and mathematics doctorate degrees yet represent only 28 percent of tenure track faculty. The figure is even less for minority women. Women of color represent only six percent of STEM faculty in the United States. One major contributing factor is institutional workplace condition. Read more ...
In celebration of National Criminal Justice Month, Dr. David Jenks, University of West Georgia professor and chair of criminology, will travel to West Georgia Technical College campuses to share information about the schools’ transfer articulation agreement. The agreement allows WGTC students with an associate’s degree in criminal justice to automatically transfer their credits to UWG and begin working on their bachelor’s degree in the award-winning criminology department. The information sessions will be held during March.
“It’s a fabulous partnership between us and West Georgia Technical College,” Dr. Jenks says. “We’re developing much stronger ties in the area.” Read more ...
On Wednesday, March 5, 2014, the Mass Communications department at the University of West Georgia presented the 33rd annual Media Day in the Campus Center. The annual event invites all mass communications students to partake in a professional panel and networking session. Media Day gives students the opportunity to network with professionals from public relations, film and media, and radio broadcasting.
This year, UWG welcomed around 70 professionals to network with students. Read more ...
The University of West Georgia will be represented by six mass communications students as finalists in the National Broadcasting Society Undergraduate Student Electronic Media Competition. The competition will be held during the NBS national convention in Hollywood, California. Alan Duke, a CNN reporter who graduated from UWG in 1984 with a degree in political science, will be a keynote speaker at the convention. Read more ...
On Friday, February 21, the Public Relations Student Society of America attended the Real World PR Conference at the Cobb Galleria. The annual conference is created and sponsored by the parent organization, PRSA Georgia Chapter. Public relations students come together from across Georgia, and even from other neighboring states to attend the daylong event. This year, UWG PRSSA was able to take 16 students to the conference; the most UWG PRSSA has ever had.
While attending Real World PR, students are given the opportunity to network with professionals of Atlanta’s top public relations firms. The professionals engage in panels that provide vital information that enlighten the students about what they must do in order to become successful in the complex world of public relations. Read more ...
UTV13 staff is set to update its already-successful programming with new shows and segments for this spring’s lineup. News Director and senior Darryl Forges will host many of the shows for the upcoming semester. UTV13, which stands for University Television, is produced by University of West Georgia students. The station provides residents in many Carroll county cities with 24-hour programming.
“We provide a lot of great opportunities for students on this campus,” Darryl says. The station already boasts interviews from Dr. Kyle Marrero, the university’s president, and Dr. Michael Greene, former CEO of the Grammys. Read more ...
Local students are digging into archeology at the University of West Georgia. The Antonio J. Waring, Jr. Archaeological Lab’s on-site mock excavation site teaches youngsters from the community about archaeology through a fun, hands-on experience. The excavation site is the one of several teaching activities offered by the Waring Laboratory’s Educational Outreach Program.
Local teachers can also access UWG’s “Traveling Teaching Trunks,” pre-packaged lesson plans that teachers can use to make learning exciting for their classes. The Waring Laboratory’s Teaching Trunks can be checked out for classes studying archaeology or Georgia history. Read more ...
Dr. Lisa Osbeck, professor and interim chair of psychology at the University of West Georgia, discussed her current sabbatical project, “Rational Intuition: Philosophical Roots, Scientific Investigations,” on Wednesday, January 15, in the Ingram Library nook.
The discussion brought together the philosophical history of intuition with more recent philosophy, cognitive science and psychology to understand how intuition is understood and how it is involved in many forms of rational processes. Dr. Osbeck covered a wide range of relevant research, prominent philosophers, psychologists and many other influential scholarly figures in hopes to make new comparisons and dialogue to bring more understanding to a difficult concept. Read more ...
January 2014: I resolve to tidy up my email inbox. There it is—my first resolution of 2014. I’m one of 45-ish percent of Americans that, come the first day of a new year, works on a list of changes to enact in the new year.
I looked online to see some popular 2014 resolutions. My friends and others are resolving to lose weight, exercise more, shop small, eat local, travel further, pay down (or even off!) debt, learn a new language, spend more time with family, etc. A few of these are also on my list, but that email inbox has been bugging me for a while. Read more ...
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