Construction has started on Georgia Highlands College’s new academic building in Cartersville. GHC has installed progress cameras giving viewers a chance to watch the construction live. The link to those channels can be found here: http://www2.highlands.edu/site/misc/steambuilding/ GHC has also asked students, employees, and visitors to use caution and avoid the construction zone. Currently, the Cline […]

Georgia Highlands College was recognized by Great Value Colleges as one of the “Top 10 Colleges for an Associate Degree in Business Administration Online.” “Georgia Highlands College offers great tuition value and a gateway to an online bachelor’s from the University of Georgia,” said Jennifer Eisenberg, Editor of Great Value Colleges. “They go the extra […]

Georgia Highlands College’s student-run newspaper the Six Mile Post has been quite comfortable going head-to-head against larger schools in the state, bringing home several awards this past year, including first place in General Excellence and first place for Online Newspaper. The student paper started competing against four-year colleges for the first time in 2015. But […]

Georgia Highlands College was named among the top in the nation in the 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards program. The Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA) is an elite program recognizing higher education organizations for excellence in communications, marketing, advertising and promotions of their schools. Full story

Georgia Highlands College student Rena Couzzart has a few extra skills to help her navigate her college courses. She holds a black belt in two Korean martial arts: Taekwondo and Hapkido. Rena says the journey to completing anything in life, including college, is fueled by dedication and passion. Full story

Georgia Highlands College was touted by GeriatricNursing.org for being one of the top three most affordable nursing schools in the country in an article called “30 Most Affordable Nursing Degree Programs.” Full story

Wrayanne Glaze Parker’s story doesn’t start with much promise. She grew up in Polk County, Georgia, spending most of her childhood and young adult life struggling with drug and alcohol addictions. But she knew this was not the life she wanted. So she moved to a long-term treatment program in Rome to break her addictions. […]

Georgia Highlands College faculty, staff, students and alumni came together to display and define what diversity means to them on a new webpage devoted to “Diversity and Inclusion at GHC.”   The site was recently published and is in its first phase of many. Full story

Georgia Highlands College has announced students named to the spring 2017 President’s List and Dean’s List. To achieve President’s List status, students must earn a 4.0 grade point average and attain a minimum of nine semester hours of credit.  To make Dean’s List students must complete a minimum of nine semester hours and achieve at least […]

Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2017 Who’s Who in Education special section honors men and women who are leading the way in K-12 and postsecondary education in metro Atlanta. As William Butler Yeats said, “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” In this section, we included top education leaders from […]