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Academic Distinction CLASS Faculty are a professio nally active faculty who pursue significant original research , publish, present scholarly papers, write grants, and take leadership roles in professional associat ions at a remarkable level given their teaching obligatio ns. Our excellent undergraduate anthropology program is exceeded in enrollment and program diversity only by the University of Georgia. CLASS faculty members maintain a high level of mutual respect, intellectual stimulation, and cooperation. CLASS faculty organized a plethora of national and international conferences (e.g. British Commonwealth and Postcolo nial Studies Conference, International Brecht Society, International Society for Education Through Art, Internati onal Clarinet Association, etc.). Many CLASS faculty members serve as journal editors and/or editorial board members. The following journals are produce d by CLASS: Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolo nial Studies, Children’s

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Literature Association Quarterly , Politics and Policy, and Newslook. CLASS holds accreditations from the following: National Associat ion of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA ); National Association of Schools of Music (NASM); National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD); and National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). The Betty Foy Sanders Departm ent of Art received a $1 million art collection gift from Governor Sanders and his wife. They also received a $25,000 gift of stock and $100,000 collection of art from Smith Calloway Banks, entitled the “Smith Calloway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection.” Our Center for Irish Studies is emerging as the “go to” place within the BOR System and the region for research and outreach related to Irish Studies. We received a gift of $5,000 from Ms. Sally Powers for the Center. Judge Avant Edenfield gave Political Science a $25,000 gift for scholarships.

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, Vanessa mean. Along the way t. y Betty’s queen of beauty queen to Ugl exactly what they wan w from kno e gon who en has She for wom ritten the rule book Williams, 44, has rew VANESSA

who would kind of woman WILLIAMS isn’t the pair for a better-ﬁtting

“And you’re wearing plastic,” Williams replies acidly.

ask ankle rather than a street risk breaking her sets up a shot on crew of Ugly Betty she of shoes. As the ling for New York, doub is which L.A., more thing corner in downtown some of h searc person scurrying in robe is ward a she s te, send less than a minu black stilettos. In slip off comfortable than her pumps that won’t toe, patent leather presented with open her feet. toe, as beﬁts her ous from head to Williams is now fabul Slater – decked editor Wilhelmina scheming fashion pencil character, an oversize trampoline used by William’s youngest daughter, gray, knee-length a t; jacke silver high-collared in aand outhere; hair, but styled own who lives with her a Yorkshire terrier that belongs to her ked wig (similar to strea , sleek a skirt; her son, who is on the East Coast with his father. (Her two older

“I’m going to be late!”

daughters are in college.)

“You’re very rude!” says the double, dressed in an elaborate rain hat and poncho.

“And I’m going to get wet. I’m Wilhelmina Slater. I don’t

Williams grew up in a suburban milieu not too different from

get wet,” Williams says. She slams the specially rigged door

the canyon neighborhood she’s chosen for her California home

on the woman’s hand and throw a ball of wadded bills at her,

base. She and her younger brother were raised in Millwood, New

adding, “This should take care of it.”

York; her parents, both public school music teachers, taught

William’s ﬂair for putting the mean in Wilhelmina earned

her that she needed to work harder than other students. “ I was

her an Emmy nomination last fall and added another line to a

the only black kid in my class,” she says, “and my parents said

résumé that already included R&B and pop artist, ﬁlm star and

that I’d always have to excel just to be considered equal to the

Broadway showstopper. In Ugly Betty, she brings intelligence,

rest. Which was true.”

assertiveness to the maddest of

Excel she did, studying French horn, piano and dance;

Wilhelmina’s machinations. It’s a rare combination that makes

performing in the orchestra, chours and marching band; and

what could have been simply a cartoon villainess surprisingly

landing her ﬁrst lead role in high school, as the Madwoman of

human and , yes, even likable.

Chaillot in the musical Dear World. But she doesn’t feel she

poise and unapologetic

“It’s so much fun to play a strong, capable woman who

was an overachiever: “I did everything I wanted to do.”

isn’t an attorney in a suit or a doctor spouting medical jargon,”

In 1983, during her sophomore year at Syracuse University,

Williams says, restufﬁng her purse with fake dollar bills for the

Williams was spotted by local beauty pageant scouts. She

next take. “It’s great to be so broad. Usually you only get that

turned down their suggestions that she compete, until on e of

in theater. When a director on Ugly Betty says, ‘Go bigger’, it’s

her plays was canceled, freeing up the month of April. “I called

like, ‘Yeah, we’ll give you bigger!’”

my mom and I said, ‘What do you think?’” she recalls. “And she said, ‘Well, you get some scholarship money.’” The next

“It’s so much fun to play a strong, capable woman who isn’t an attorney in a suit or a doctor spouting medical jargon.”

thing Williams knew, at 20 she was the ﬁrst black Miss America – although some African-Americans carped that her features weren’t “black enough.” “It’s a way different world now than 25 years ago,” she says, shrugging off the issue. “There are many more images today of women of color. There are networks just for people of color. When I was growing up in the 1960s, black dolls were

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At this stage of her two-decade career, bigger is

rare; I had one whose name was Sasha, and I had such fond

deﬁnitely better. “I’m enjoying every moment,” she says. “In

memories of that doll that I named my youngest daughter

your twenties, you think, I’ve got to prove something. In your

Sasha.”

forties, you don’t. You realize you don’t have control over

Ten months into her reign as Miss America, nude photos

everything. Many times I’ve said, ‘What is the lesson I’m

Williams had posed for at 19 were published in Penthouse,

learning?’ It always reveals itself.”

and she had to relinquish the crown. “I was a teenager, and

It is the kind of 72-degree octocber day that southern

someone took advantage of me,” she says. The scandal –

california natives take for granted, and Williams, dress in jeans

which today might result in nothing more than a week’s worth

and a slate-blue sweatshirt, with scant makeup and her hair

of tabloid headlines and a “pardon” from the likes of Donald

pulled back in a ponytail, gets down to business, wing off a

Trump – made her a household name, but for all the wrong

patio table so that we can chat in her backyard. If her house – a

reasons. The one bright spot was her publicist, Ramon Hervey,

white contemporary on a hill, decorated with potted palms and

who worked with her to weather the crisis. They fell in love,

neutral fabrics - -feels a little unlived in, that may be because she

and he helped her launch a recording career that resulted in

splits her time between L.A. , and Chappaqua, New York. But

the chart-topping singer “Save the Best for Last,” two platinum

the yard is ﬁlled with kid-friendly trappings: a swimming pool:

albums and multiple Grammy nominations. During their 10-year

of and an hour’s worth r-than-life persona) 1983, for Wilhelmina’s large nt beauty who, in ms is still the radia do n’t does makeup. At 44, Willia sion televi Miss America. But became the ﬁrst black green eyes. ief in her striking blueher justice to the misch ‘mean eyes’ from that she gets her would “She always says her kids a look that mom would shoot who plays mom, because her Urie, ael Mich stand on end,” says just make their hair St. James. oyant assistant, Marc yet Wilhelmina’s ﬂamb d, resonant, silky her voice: low-timbre And then there is Betty insistent. strong-arming past says, she e,” “Midtown Nobu, pleas of a taxi. le into the backseat White’s stunt doub

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