{"id":521,"date":"2015-09-04T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cos.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2019-12-13T08:38:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T13:38:05","slug":"message-from-the-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/message-from-the-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from the Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t<div class=\"row\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\" col-lg-9\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>December 2018:<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest in the Social Sciences B.S. program at UCF! The program has seen a lot of changes in the past year.\u00a0 First, Dr. Liz Grauerholz, the former Director of the program passed the torch to me in the summer of 2018.\u00a0 Since taking over, my main goal was to try to do my best to keep things running smoothly; Dr. Grauerholz left some very big shoes to fill!\u00a0 I want to thank her for making the transition a success by having everything in top-notch order!<\/p>\n<p>Second, the Social Sciences program continues to grow.\u00a0 From fall 2017 to fall 2018, the number of Social Sciences majors increased by 30%!\u00a0 The majority of this growth came from our online-only majors, and we now have a total of 125 Social Science majors.\u00a0 I anticipate we will see continued growth in the major in the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>We also saw our membership in Pi Gamma Mu, the Social Science honors society, increase this past year, inducting 9 students during our spring ceremony.\u00a0 Further information on Pi Gamma Mu can be found on the organization\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pigammamu.org\/\">international website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or feedback regarding the Social Sciences program, please don\u2019t hesitate to reach out to me via email at <a href=\"mailto:michael.armato@ucf.edu\">michael.armato@ucf.edu<\/a> or swing by my office in HPH 409H.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Armato<\/p>\n<p>Director, UCF Social Sciences<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\" col-lg-3\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"person_card_vertical \"><div class='person_card_photo media-background-container person-photo rounded-circle'><a href='https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/person\/mike-armato'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/12\/Armato-e1469104610394-253x300.jpg\" class=\"media-background object-fit-cover wp-post-image\" alt=\"A man with a shaved head wearing glasses and earrings smiles against a gray background. He has a goatee beard.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/12\/Armato-e1469104610394-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/12\/Armato-e1469104610394-250x297.jpg 250w, https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/12\/Armato-e1469104610394.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class='person_card_info'> <h3><a href='https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/socialsciences\/person\/mike-armato'> Mike Armato <\/a><\/h3><h5>Lecturer & Coordinator, UCF Social Sciences<\/h5><p><a href='mailto:michael.armato@ucf.edu'>michael.armato@ucf.edu<\/a><br\/>407.823.3744<br\/>HPH 403<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-521","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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