The University’s Health Center was awarded accreditation for all services, the highest recognition for health care organizations.

A three-day unannounced review was conducted by the Joint Commission. The review found the health center in full compliance.

The Health Center voluntarily goes through the accreditation process to insure that University students receive the highest quality health care. It is surveyed every three years and has been accredited since the mid-1970s.

Only 28 out of 1,700 college health centers nationally choose to go through the Joint Commission accrediting process. The University Health Center is the only college health center accredited by the Joint Commission in the state.

Award-winning novelist to read at symposium

William T. Vollmann, one of the nation’s most provocative writers, will visit the University on Friday, Feb. 15 for an afternoon symposium, question and answer session and an evening reading.

Vollmann is a novelist and journalist. Beginning with his first novel, 1987′s “You Bright and Risen Angels,” he has published seventeen books that include historical and contemporary fiction, a 3,400 page treatise on violence, short story collections, reportage and even a biography on Copernicus, “Uncentering the Earth.”

A hot commodity on the literary scene since winning the National Book Award in Fiction for 2005′s Europe Central, Vollmann is the recipient of the Whiting Award, the Shiva Naipaul Award and PEN/Faulkner Award. The American Academy of Arts and Letters selected him for the Strauss Living Award in Literary Excellence.

The symposium takes place at 4 p.m. in Peabody room 115, and the reading at 7 p.m. in the Instructional Learning Plaza North, room N106. Both events are free to the public.

Univ. provides marriage enrichment program

Engaged couples in Clarke, Oglethorpe and Oconee counties are being sought for a marriage enrichment program provided by the University’s College of Family and Consumer Sciences.

“With a divorce rate that hovers around 50 percent in Georgia, it’s clear that pre-marital counseling and education could provide couples the insight and support they need for a successful marriage,” said Ted Futris, an assistant professor in the child and family development department.

“In addition, a state law passed in 2005 offers couples a discount on their marriage license if they receive at least six hours of premarital instruction.”

Couples have two options for the program. They can enroll for a series of six one-on-one sessions with a trained counselor or can attend a series of workshops that include five to seven other couples.

A day-long program will be offered April 26.

Journal appoints prof. as consulting editor

University counseling professor Edward Delgado-Romero was appointed as a consulting editor to the Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Journal, a publication of the American Psychological Association.

Delgado-Romero, an associate professor in the College of Education’s department of counseling and human development services, serves on the editorial board of The Counseling Psychologist, the premier journal of counseling psychology. He is also a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Hispanic Higher Education and The Journal of Career Development.

Delgado-Romero is an APA Fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues and is president-elect of the National Latino Psychological Association.

He was honored in 2006 with the NLPA’s Distinguished Professional Early Career Award and was named Faculty Member of the Year by the Counseling Psychology Student Association at the University. He also serves on the University’s Latino Advisory Council.

Delgado-Romero came to the University in 2005 from Indiana University, where he was an assistant professor of counseling psychology from 2002 to 2005. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame in 1997.

- University News Services