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Faculty, Staff Help "Unpack the Pack"

UWG football players Somto Okeke (left) and Adam Strakose, along with the rest of their teammates, help new students move into their dorms during the UnPack the Pack event held earlier this month.

UWG Community Helps "Unpack the Pack"

Earlier this month, many UWG faculty, staff and students volunteered a few hours of their time to meet, welcome and provide assistance to freshmen moving in their on campus residences. MORE

Drafting a Fresh Start

When Lee Jones left Georgia Tech in the 1960s without finishing his degree, he always regretted it. When Lee Jones left Georgia Tech in the 1960s without finishing his degree, he always regretted it.

“I had no direction,” said Jones. “By my junior year, I’d had three different majors and still didn’t know what I wanted to do.” MORE

UWG Hosts Social Studies Workshop

Earlier this month, many UWG faculty and staff members volunteered a few hours of their time to meet, welcome and provide assistance to freshmen moving in their on campus residences. On July 19-23, UWG was host to 18 middle and high school social studies teachers for a workshop entitled Using Technology to Teach Social Studies in Middle and Secondary School Classrooms. MORE

Vol. 45 • No. 41
August 27, 2010
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Feature

The papers of Irvine S. Ingram, West Georgia president from 1933 to 1960, have been processed and are now open for research in Ingram Library’s Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections. MORE

Web Watch

The Beloit College Mindset List provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college each fall. Created in 1998 by Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it was started as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references, and quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation. More
Kudos

Publications and Printing, UWG’s on-campus copy and printing center, recently received 11 first place awards for print excellence from the Printing Industry Association of Georgia. more

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