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In Focus

The Carrollton community and the UWG campus are recovering from the Mother’s Day storm that barreled through the area and crews are still cleaning up the mess at UWG. Facilities estimates the number of trees down on campus at more than 250. Photo submitted by Steven Broome. (In Focus features a photograph submitted by a UWG faculty or staff member. E-mail your photo and caption information to the Campus Chronicle photographer.)

Alum Receives Woodruff Fellowship

University of West Georgia alumna Vicki White, who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing in 2000 and a Master of Science degree in nursing in 2005, received a Woodruff Leadership Academy Fellowship from Emory University. MORE

UWG Receives Infrastructure Funding

Governor Sonny Perdue approved an appropriation of $1.9 million by the Georgia General Assembly in the 2009 state budget for road and bridge infrastructure to connect the current campus of the University of West Georgia to a gift of approximately 250 acres of land donated by the City of Carrollton. MORE

Impact Grant to Promote Science, Math Programs

The Alice Huffard Richards Fund granted $100,000 for one year for IMPACT (Improving Motivation, Performance and Attitudes of Children and Teachers) for Science and Mathematics. At the end of the first year, an evaluation will determine if the grant will be renewed for two-year cycles at $100,000 per year for a possible funding of up to $300,000. The grant will be administered through the Community Foundation of West Georgia. MORE

Pub and Print Receives Accolades

The Department of Publications and Printing, a division of University Advancement, won eight Print Excellence Awards in the state’s annual Printing Industry Association of Georgia competition. MORE

Faculty and Staff Honored

Service pins were awarded to faculty and staff in recognition of their years of service to West Georgia at the spring general faculty meeting in May. The annual awards for 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and even 40 years of service are made possible by contributions to the University of West Georgia Foundation. MORE

COE Hosts Annual Learning Festival

Hundreds of educators will descend upon the UWG campus for the second annual Learning Festival, a weeklong education conference for teachers in preschool through high school. MORE

Bulletins

• A note from the Office 2007 Committee:

As noted in previous Campus Chronicles, all computers on campus are being upgraded to Microsoft Office 2007 this summer. We expect some users will have questions relating to the new application. As such, the Office 2007 Implementation Team has developed a program to train at least one individual from each department or unit to serve as a first point of contact to answer questions relating to the new application. We feel this program will help provide a smooth transition to using this new application.

Other training programs are also being developed to train the local IT support groups, help desk assistants and the rest of the campus computer users. Stay tuned to the Daily Report for future training classes.

Your department/unit head will be asking someone from your group to attend the upcoming Office 2007 training class and serve as the first point of contact to answer questions relating to Office 2007 for your group. If you are interested in being the liaison for your department/unit, please let your department/unit head know.

A list of contacts will be provided to assist your Office 2007 questions.

If you have any further questions, please contact Brenda Valcke at bvalcke@westga.edu or x94002.

* Bulletins features such UWG news as announcements of meetings, policy changes, campaigns, competitions, office moves, and deadlines for grant applications, budget requests and award nominations. E-mail your news for publication consideration to the Campus Chronicle editor.

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