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ing designs using special software called Pyware 3D. Depending on the size of the band, which can range from 40 to 140 student musicians, Cudd averages between one week and one month for laying out a new design. Last summer alone, he designed drills for 15 different schools across South Carolina. Two of those schools — Pickens High School and Easley High School — won the title of 2018 South Carolina Band Director's Association state champions.
Carol Godfrey (Cline School of Music) has been hired as an adjunct professor to instruct students in elementary music methods at NGU. Godfrey is a National Board Certified Master Teacher.
Dr. Jackie Griffin (Cline School of Music) served as an Advanced Place- ment (AP) reader in Cincinnati, OH, in June 2018 for the AP Music Teory exam. Each summer, the Educational Testing Service brings high school AP teachers and college professors together for an intensive week of grading these exams taken by high school students in order to earn college credit.
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES Dr. Ben Coates (Modern Languages and Linguistics Department) presented his paper “A Glance Behind the Curtain of La Censura: Te Publication of 'Últimas Tardes con Teresa,’” at the Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville on Oct. 5, 2018. Te paper highlights one of Coates’ research interests: the process authors had to endure in order to achieve publication during the strong censorship of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, whose re- gime began at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with his death in 1975.
Te English Department’s literary and art magazine, “Te Mountain Laurel,” has had another banner year. Its 2018 volume, “Voices,” earned a Gold Medalist rating, along with All-Columbian Honors for Overall Design, from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA). In ad- dition, two student submissions in “Voices” won individual recognition from CSPA by earning Gold Circle Awards.
Garry Smith, South Carolina representative and adjunct political science professor at NGU, recently attended the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) State and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, D.C. Rep. Smith was honored for his four years of service as the ALEC’s pub- lic sector chairman of the Communications and Technology Task Force.
Dr. H. Paul Tompson, Jr., has become the founding dean of the Col- lege of Humanities and Sciences at NGU. Te new college includes the School of Humanities, offering academic programs in English, history, linguistics, and modern languages; the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, offering criminal justice and legal studies, political science, and psychology; and the School of Science and Mathematics, offering biology, chemistry, computer science, health sciences, math, and physical science. Te college also houses the interdisciplinary studies program. In addition to this new role, Tompson has also been named to the board of the Phillis Wheatley Association in Greenville, SC.
COLLEGE OF WELLNESS AND SPORT PROFESSIONS Dr. Jeff Briggs has been named the founding dean of the new College of Wellness and Sport Professions at NGU. Te new college includes three undergraduate degree programs: sport management, with concentrations in business, coaching, and ministry; physical education; and outdoor leadership. Briggs serves as NGU’s faculty athletic representative, co- chairs the annual Marion Moorhead Homecoming Classic Golf Tourna- ment, and co-chairs the annual Faith at Work Business Symposium.
NGU’s College of Wellness and Sport Professions and College of Ed- ucation have announced the establishment of the Bachelor of Science in Physical Education, implemented in the Spring 2019 semester. Te new degree program enables students to integrate academic discipline, Chris- tian lifestyle, and an enriched cultural experience through an academi- cally rigorous course of study that leads to state certification. Specifically, this program prepares students to teach physical education in elementary, middle, and secondary school systems in South Carolina.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Dr. Ed Sherbert, who serves as a Society for Human Resource Man- agement (SHRM) educator and ambassador, has worked to revise the curriculum for each of NGU’s five graduate-level human resources (HR) courses offered in connection with the Human Resource Professional certificate and the Master of Business Administration (MBA) with an HR concentration degree program. Tese changes better reflect the best practices and strategies in the field and align with the SHRM Compe- tency Model. With a focus on workforce planning and employment, selection and retention, global and strategic HR, and employee and labor relations, the curriculum update offers a foundation for preparation for the SHRM’s Certified Professional (CP) and Senior Certified Profession- al (SCP) certification exams.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF CHRISTIAN MINISTRY Dr. Matt Wireman planted a church — Christ the Redeemer of Greenville, SC — in September 2017, first meeting in homes and later in a hotel conference room. Te church recently found a new home in the former Brandon United Methodist Church building, located in the shadow of Brandon Mills, once a plant that churned out sheets of fabric, gauze, and parachute cords used during World War II. Te church building dates back to 1906. On one side is the former mill, now home to luxury lofts. On the other side, the old mill homes remain. Wireman hopes the new church can straddle those lines, inviting in people from the luxury developments, downtown, and the historic nearby neighbor- hood. Services began at the new location on Oct. 7, 2018.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Dr. Harold Long is now the director of NGU’s Center for Educational Leadership and Research, a new initiative dedicated to the advanced study of leadership, research, and capacity building.
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MUSIC EDUCATION Dr. Marianne Holland was featured in a publication of FBN Produc- tions Inc. from Columbia, SC, which is celebrating 25 years of bringing opera to students in the Southeast. Holland, one of FBN’s first and most dedicated supporters, shared her experiences with the company through- out her over 50 years in music education.
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