{"id":4038,"date":"2012-08-13T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T03:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:43:37","slug":"ucf-on-wkmg-local-6-this-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-on-wkmg-local-6-this-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF on WKMG Local 6 discussing homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, August 12, WKMG Local 6 presented an\u00a0in-depth discussion about homelessness in Central Florida with HFUW President and CEO Robert H. Brown and\u00a0<strong>Dr. Jim Wright<\/strong> from the University of Central Florida. The segment was part of Flashpoint with Lauren Rowe and can be viewed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/Homeless-students-focus-of-Flashpoint\/-\/1637238\/16060482\/-\/120ewy7z\/-\/index.html\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A longtime supporter of United Way, Dr. Wright serves on HFUW\u2019s Alleviating Hunger &amp; Homelessness Cabinet; has authored 22 books; and is a nationally-noted expert on homelessness and poverty.<\/p>\n<p>James D. Wright is an author, educator, and the Provost\u2019s Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida.\u00a0 Wright also serves as the Director of the UCF Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences, as editor-in-chief of the journal\u00a0<em>Social Science Research<\/em>, and as editor-in-chief of the\u00a0<em>International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, <\/em>2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition, forthcoming in 2015 from Elsevier.\u00a0 He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and taught at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Tulane University before coming to UCF in 2001. \u00a0He has published twenty-one books and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, and polemics on topics ranging from poverty to homelessness to guns in America to NASCAR to survey and evaluation research methods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, August 12, WKMG Local 6 presented an\u00a0in-depth discussion about homelessness in Central Florida with HFUW President and CEO Robert H. 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