REMINDER: Three opportunities to meet and greet with Dana Nichols TODAY at Cartersville, Marietta, and Paulding! A schedule of meet & greet receptions has been planned for GHC’s newest member of Executive Leadership: Dr. Dana Nichols, Vice President for Academic Affairs. These campus receptions were designed for the faculty and staff of each GHC location […]
Monthly Archives: September 2018
HR SPOTLIGHT – FMLA- FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE
FMLA allows employees to balance their work and family lives by taking reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. The FMLA seeks to accomplish this in a manner that accommodates the legitimate interests of employers, minimizes the potential for employment discrimination on the basis of gender, while promoting equal employment opportunity for men […]
Do You Have a Personal Backup Plan?
The only way to protect yourself against valuable data loss is through regular backups. Ideally, important files should be backed up at minimum once a week, or every day, depending on how critical they are to you. This can be done manually, automatically, or using combination of the two methods. (Briefly review this 2017 backup awareness […]
New Student Success Counselor
Please join us in welcoming Kristopher (Kris) Reyes, Student Success Counselor, to our Georgia Highlands College community. His primary location will be the Floyd Campus. Kris was a “Marine brat” and will always consider San Clemente, California home even though he grew up in Rome, Georgia. Kris earned both his bachelor/masters in psychology and an […]
Miscellaneous Leave – Voting
Voting Georgia Highlands College employees are encouraged to exercise their constitutional right to vote in all federal, state, and local elections. See section 2 of GHC’s Miscellaneous Leave Policy: http://www2.highlands.edu/inc/files/userfiles/357-4d82597c129199d-HR357-MiscellaneousLeave.pdf
New Business Card App
Please use the new Business Card app located at: https://forms.highlands.edu/businesscards/
Office 365 Device Support Changes
Microsoft Office 365 is ending support for older, obsolete HTTPS security protocols on October 31st, 2018. The following devices and browsers are known to be incompatible with current HTTPS security protocols and may no longer be able to connect to email: Android 4.3 and earlier versions Firefox version 5.0 and earlier versions Internet Explorer 8-10 on Windows 7 and […]