With continued enrollment increases, building renovations, construction, program expansions and a successful athletics program, Georgia Highlands College is in the spotlight among the state’s university system. Spring enrollment is up 3.9 percent. This increase follows a 4.6 percent jump last fall, a 9.9 percent increase last summer and a 6.3 percent increase last spring. With […]

Georgia Highlands College will be holding a special groundbreaking event at its Cartersville site on April 26 at 11AM for its new academic building. Full story: https://www.highlands.edu/2017/04/03/date-set-new-ghc-academic-building-groundbreaking-cartersville/

Mecole Ledbetter has joined Georgia Highlands College as its new bachelor’s in business coordinator to work with students, faculty and the community as GHC launches two new bachelor’s degrees in healthcare management and logistics and supply chain management for fall 2017. “These programs will be important to our students, because it offers students a high […]

Georgia Highlands College’s Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) chapter’s stellar year reached a new height this month when the team brought home more honors than any other college in attendance at the All-Georgia Academic Team Awards luncheon in Atlanta. Full story: https://www.highlands.edu/2017/03/23/phi-theta-kappa-chapter-brings-home-honors-college-attendance-georgia-academic-team-awards-luncheon-atlanta/

The team posed for pictures and cut down the nets after the game, enjoying another hard-earned win and region championship. But Gaffney and his players are all aware that this is just the start of what they want, and the real prize is in Kansas. “Don’t take advantage of this right here,” Davenport said. “We […]

Arthen, 23, said Georgia Highlands is “already an incredible value with abundant opportunities” for students to work toward a career, “but adding free online textbooks is almost too good to be true — almost.” Full story: http://daily-tribune.com/newsx/item/7483-ghc-saves-students-3-8-million-with-online-textbooks

Georgia Highlands College has saved students $3.8 million over the past five semesters by eliminating the cost of textbooks in specific courses. GHC’s faculty have been working since Fall 2015 to expand Open Education Resources (OER) courses each semester. Almost half a million dollars’ worth of student savings was yielded the first semester alone. To […]

Georgia Highlands College has appointed Michelle Boyce as the new dean of Health Sciences. Boyce will oversee the Division of Health Sciences, which includes nursing and dental hygiene. GHC currently offers an associate and bachelor’s in both nursing and dental hygiene. Full story: https://www.highlands.edu/2017/02/15/ghc-names-michelle-boyce-new-dean-health-sciences/

Georgia Highlands College Assistant Professor of Sociology Christina Wolfe has been chosen to take part in the University of South Carolina’s International Perspectives on Higher Education (IPHE) in March. Wolfe stated that the goal of the trip is to discover South Africa’s rich cultural, historic and educational experiences while learning as much as possible about […]

About 1,300 freshmen from Adairsville, Cartersville, Cass and Woodland high schools — along with freshmen and sophomores from Excel Christian Academy and all high schoolers from Grace Academy — attended the Etowah Scholarship Foundation’s sixth annual Reality Store Friday in the Georgia Highlands College gym in Cartersville to experience what life might be like when […]