Julie Langley, a professor like no other

GPC Biography
December 1, 2010
Lopez

Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you through thick and thin. Some weave their way through your life and disappear forever. But once in a while someone comes along who earns a permanent place in your heart. Professor Julie Langley is one of those people, “I remember that she had a great sense of humor and was really passionate about her work. She always did her best to make class fun!” said Mallory Kemp, a former student of Professor Langley. Julie Langley has been teaching for 17 years now and you would think that she had always known that she had wanted to become a teacher, but surprisingly she did not always want to become a teacher, “I fought against becoming a teacher because my teacher-family-members advised against it, but I knew in my twenties that I really wanted to teach.”

Professor Langley is more than just a teacher she is also a Campus Facilitator for GPC Reads, which is “a new college-wide book club. This fall we read Pat Conroy’s The Great Santini.” Said Langley; “Every student, faculty, and staff member that joins will be reading the same novel." Members will meet online through iCollege and on campuses several times each semester to discuss the novel and to share ideas and opinions.” To participate as part of the book club, you need to contact your campus facilitator to let her/him know that you want to join GPC READS. Then all you need to do is send professor Langley or Jack Riggs an email with your GPC ID Username. It is the same username that is required for your email, SIS and iCollege.
Once you send the Campus Facilitators your GPC ID Username you will then be entered in the iCollege GPC Reads iCollege Book Club.

Campus facilitators will announce meeting times and post information and questions about the books. Besides facilitating GPC READS Professor Langley also facilitates Great Reading in Newton (GRIN) which is another college-wide book club. Being that professor Langley in charge of two book related organizations you probably realized that Professor Langley loves to read, “I could not wait to learn to read!!!!!!!!!!”

Last year Professor Langley participated in the daffodil festival in Newton County, for those of you that do not know what the daffodil festival is a celebration of the Cultures and History of Newton Campus. The festival is sponsored by the Newton Arts and Humanities Advisory Council, the Newton Student Government Association, and the GPC College Foundation, “Daffodils are an important symbol at the Newton Campus and I wanted to be part of celebrating the heritage of Newton County and Campus.” Said Langley; professor Langley is more than a professor she is a teacher that actually make students want to get involved in school activities, instead of just complaining about how there is nothing to do. That is a rare thing to find these days. So, thank you to Professor Langley for making Georgia Perimeter more enjoyable for students like me.