Rate My Professor Charlene Wages

Dr. Wages' research specializations include the role of intramaze stimuli in spatial problem-solving, cholinergic blockade effects on spatial integration versus cue discrimination, problem-solving deficits in septal animals, cognitive maps in rats, and hippocampal memory mechanisms. Key publications are "Spatial problem solving by rats: Exploration and cognitive maps" (Ellen, Parko, Wages, Doherty, & Herrmann, 1982, Learning and Motivation), "Problem solving in the rat: Piecemeal acquisition of cognitive maps" (Ellen, Soteres, & Wages, 1984, Animal Learning and Behavior), "The use of intramaze stimuli in the attenuation of the problem-solving deficit of septal animals" (Ellen & Wages, 1984, Physiological Psychology), "Cholinergic blockade effects on spatial integration vs. cue discrimination performance" (Ellen, Taylor, & Wages, 1986, Behavioral Neuroscience), "The role of intramaze stimuli in spatial problem solving" (Wages, 1986, book chapter in Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man), "Effects of applicant’s adverse medical history on college students’ ratings of job applications" (Wages, Manson, & Jordan, 1990, Journal of Applied Social Psychology), and "Gifted residential education: Outcomes are largely positive, but there are some cautions" (Dorsel & Wages, 1993, Roeper Review). Awards include the Hugh K. Leatherman Chair in Public Service (2004), Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Francis Marion University (2004), Francis Marion University AAUP-Chapter Shared Governance Award (2001), and FMU African-American Faculty and Staff Coalition Diversity Award (2023). She has contributed extensively to governance as Chair of the Faculty (2000-2004), Faculty Senate Chair (1995-1997), SACSOC Accreditation Liaison since 2005, and through numerous committees. The Charlene Wages Shared Governance Award at FMU honors faculty governance contributions.