{"id":6503,"date":"2013-02-25T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2024-08-16T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T13:42:15","slug":"professor-honored-for-dedication-to-helping-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/professor-honored-for-dedication-to-helping-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Honored for Helping Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"

UCF sociology professor Jim Wright was recently honored for \u201cnine years of dedicated service\u201d to the Board of Directors of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida.\u00a0\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

Wright served three consecutive three-year terms on the Board (the maximum allowed under Board bylaws) between 2003 and 2012, during which time he served as Chair of the Board\u2019s Research and Evaluation Committee.He also received the Chairman\u2019s award for distinguished service in 2004.<\/p>\n

In a related ceremony, it was announced that the kitchen at the Women\u2019s Residential and Counseling Center (WRCC) had been named in honor of Jim and his wife Chris for their years of preparing and serving meals to the women of WRCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UCF sociology professor Jim Wright was recently honored for \u201cnine years of dedicated service\u201d to the Board of Directors of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida.\u00a0 Wright served three consecutive three-year terms on the Board (the maximum allowed under Board bylaws) between 2003 and 2012, during which time he served as Chair of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,13,6492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-news","category-sociology-department"],"yoast_head":"\nProfessor Honored for Helping Homeless - College of Sciences News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/professor-honored-for-dedication-to-helping-the-homeless\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Professor Honored for Helping Homeless - 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