USG eclips for November 29, 2017

University System News: www.thebrunswicknews.com CCGA presidential search committee holds first meeting http://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-presidential-search-committee-holds-first-meeting/article_ca5b7e6c-28ed-5989-b6db-5f05b7316fe0.html By LAUREN MCDONALD College of Coastal Georgia kicked off the search process Tuesday for its next president. The presidential search committee came together for the first time and received its charge from University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley. “This is your committee […]

Healthy Tips by Text

In addition to information about health resources and discounts on products and services you might need, you’ll get wellness tips that help you eat better and move more along with reminders about health screenings and prevention information. To sign up, text HEALTHYTIPS to 268436. healthy-tips

ASF Early Alert

The college’s annual weekend trip to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery will be April 28-29, and Student Life will handle the sign-up during the first part of spring semester. The plays we will see at ASF are Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy by Shakespeare, and The Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller and […]

IQ Challenge Drawing

Five Georgia Highlands College employees were selected in a random drawing of participants in the TIAA Financial IQ Challenge that was part of the Fall 2017 HealthTrails Challenge. Those whose names were drawn won a prize from TIAA: Elizabeth Clark                             Smartphone Web Cam Cover Joel Hitzeman                               Shoe Wallet Trish Hoitt                                     Collapsible Car Trunk Organizer Annette […]

USG eclips for November 28, 2017

University System News: www.ajc.com Judge hopes to rule soon on campus carry injunction demand http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/judge-hopes-rule-soon-campus-carry-injunction-demand/XyvSIu6ARt1xvrLlXyY2DM/ By Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A team of attorneys made their case before a judge in Fulton County Superior Court Monday to stop Georgia’s public colleges and universities from continuing the state’s new campus carry law. The attorneys, […]

First Generation Student Celebration Day

Next week all of our locations will be having a day (or days) to celebrate our First Generation college students. New Student and Retention Programs will be partnering with Student Life to have a table with buttons for our first generation students, snacks for all, and a graffiti wall for students to voice why it […]

GHC continues one of its longest-running field courses, celebrates 20 years in Wyoming

The classroom is a mountain. The whiteboard is miles of short-grass prairie land. The bookcases are snow-capped. And the textbooks are fossils. The Georgia Highlands College summer field course trip to Wyoming in many ways is about moments that last forever in memory, in stone. Associate Professor of Geology Billy Morris has been trekking across […]

USG eclips for November 27, 2017

University System News: www.statesboroherald.com Town Hall meetings requested before Georgia Southern enfolds Armstrong Final consolidation vote by Regents may happen in December http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/82821/ By Al Hackle Georgia Southern donor and alumnus Burney Marsh asked the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to hold town hall meetings presenting the final plan for Armstrong State University’s […]