universities in the United States offering a psychology program with a humanistic and transpersonal focus. In 1967, Mike Arons, a student of Abraham Maslow, Paul Ricoeur, and Jim Klee became chair of the West Georgia psychology department. Jim Thomas, then on the psychology faculty at West Georgia, and others had asked Maslow to recommend someone to them to initiate a humanistic emphasis there, and Arons was Maslow's recommendation.
The department has offered a Ph.D. in psychology since the fall of 2011. In February 2011 The Ph.D., "Psychology: Consciousness and Society," was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
=== 2019 faculty lay-offs ===
In the fall semester of 2019, UWG issued non-renewal letters to numerous tenure-track faculty that informed them they would be let go at the end of the Spring 2020 semester. Student protests ensued as some students were outraged faculty were let go before considering other options. The faculty that were non-renewed/laid off remain so and …
