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UWG Chef Takes Top Prize

UWG Chef Takes Top Honors Chef Rodney Ridley, the executive chef at UWG, is congratulated by (l-r) Jerry Mock, assistant vice president for Business and Auxilliary Services, Don Redmond, associate vice president for Aramark Southern Region, and UWG Vice President of Business and Finance Jim Sutherland for his Bronze Medal Award in the Second Annual Higher Education Aramark Culinary Excellence North American Challenge. Ridley, a graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta, and two other chefs competed as a team against nine regional teams of chefs. The ACE competition began with a “mystery basket” of ingredients that the chefs were required to incorporate into their menu. The southern region’s winning menu featured a first course of grilled shitake sushi salad with roasted almond dressing, tofu with sweet and sour tomatoes, fried shrimp cake and marinated trout with hot and sour relish. A second course of stuffed roasted chicken breast with braised tongue, mashed fava beans with potato and thyme prune sauce was followed by a third course of vanilla panna cotta with lemon sorbet, chocolate tower with raspberry, chocolate ganache and peanut brittle, port wine and molasses reduction with balsamic berries. Lunch anyone?

New Record for West Georgia's MBA

New Record for West Georgia's MBA The Richards College of Business reached a milestone during the spring semester. For the first time in RCOB history, the MBA enrollment reached 100. Dr. Faye McIntrye, dean of the business college credited the accomplishment to the hard work of Associate Dean John Anderson, Dr. Hope Udombon (pictured), administrative director of graduate programs, and faculty at the RCOB.

Customer Service has its Own Reward

Mia Owens, Work Information Center, Misty Cash, Public Safety and Patresa Murphy, Bursar’s Office were the recipients of the Customer Service Employee Recognition Award for this quarter. The Division of Business and Finance accept nominations of staff and faculty who have exhibited exceptional caring and service on campus and award a parking space and lunch with Vice President James Sutherland to three employees each fiscal quarter. In addition to this award, the division has begun a new new customer service initiative, “Salute to Superior Service,” to thank faculty and staff across campus for the help they provide. The winner of the “Salute” program will receive a thank you card and a lapel pin to recognize their achievement. Karen West was recently pinned with the first “Salute to Superior Service” award. West, assistant director of Software Development, was instrumental in developing software for the “Bookstore to the Rescue” program. The program allows students with a Financial Aid balance to purchase books before having access to the funds, saving them money and time by buying used books while in stock and at an earlier time.

Kudos

The Division of University Advancement won the prestigious 2008 national APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for the Stadium Fundraising Campaign and for the design and layout of last year's Foundation Annual Report and Honor Roll.

Kudos features UWG faculty and staff articles and book publications, conference attendance and presentations, grants, organizational leadership and awards. E-mail your news to the Campus Chronicle editor.

Campus Talk

The Department of Asset Management announces the addition of Mr. Jeremy
Britt as the new Inventory Management Specialist. He has a degree in Organizational Development and Leadership from Mercer University, and
has more than fifteen years of inventory and logistical experience. He will be responsible for recording and maintaining the inventory and
asset records of the university.
He can be reached at jbritt@westga.edu or by phone at extension 96407.

The Office of Institutional Research and Planning has a new director, Dr. Ebenezer F. Kolajo. Before coming to UWG, Dr. Kolajo served as director of Institutional Research at Cecil College in Maryland.

In this position, he provided leadership in establishing and nurturing a culture of evidence and accountability by measuring and analyzing institutional effectiveness as a means of ensuring that the institution was meeting its vision, mission and strategic plan goals.

Dr. Kolajo has more than 20 years of higher education work experience and is bringing knowledge, skills and ability to the position.

kolajo Dr. Kolajo is married to Margaret Kolajo, who is a high school teacher. They have a daughter, Christianah, who is a pharmacy student at the University of Pittsburgh, and a son, Exekiel, an engineering student at the University of Maryland.

Campus Talk features UWG faculty and staff announcements of marriages, births, new hires, promotions, transfers, retirements, trips and volunteer work. E-mail your news for publication consideration to the Campus Chronicle special sections editor.