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About University of West Georgia

The University of West Georgia, or UWG, is a comprehensive, residential University located in Carrollton, which is the county seat and the largest city of Carroll County, situated in the US state of Georgia, with a population estimated at a number of nearly 20 000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census. Besides being home to UWG, Carrollton is also known for the fact that it is home of Southwire, the world's largest privately-owned manufacturer of wire and cable.

UWG was founded in 1906, as the Fourth District Agricultural and Mechanical School, which had a first class composed of only 108 students. In 1933, the school became a two-year institution and was renamed West Georgia College, which became a four-year institution, in 1957. Today, the University of West Georgia has an enrollment approximated at a total number of more than 11 000 students, to whom it offers various educational programs at the Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate levels, provided through the following colleges: the Richards College of Business, the School of Nursing, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the Honors College, and the Graduate School.

Athletics

UWG's athletic teams are known as the Wolves, which have ''Wolfie'' as their mascot, their distinctive colors being red and blue, who compete in NCAA Division II, in all the traditional college sports, for both men and women, including in basketball, baseball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball and volleyball. The teams have experienced victory in many of the sports, in which they compete, including in football, in which they won one NCAA Division III National Championship (1982), in men's basketball, in which they won the 1974 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Championship, and cheerleading, in which they won eight consecutive NCAA Division II titles 2002-2009 (co-ed) and four NCAA Division II National Championships in 2004,2006, 2007, and 2008 (all female).

Notable Alumni

Among the most resonant names, on the list of notable UWG alumni, there are: Zac Brown - lead vocalist and guitarist of Grammy Award-winning country music artist, Zac Brown Band, C. Michael Greene - former president/CEO, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys), J. Willis Hurst - cardiologist to President Lyndon B. Johnson and author of The Heart, the premier textbook for cardiologists, and Richard Glanton - noted Philadelphia attorney, served as president of the Barnes Foundation in 1990 and was instrumental in creating a museum at Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) for the foundation's art collection.