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 […]

Making a quality, four-year degree program affordable to students across Northwest Georgia is the top priority for Georgia Highlands College President Donald Green. “If we do not have the workforce, we cannot attract the business opportunities that will fuel our future economic development,” Green said to members of the Rome Rotary Club during Thursday’s meeting. […]

Georgia Highlands College’s Advancement Division recently received the 2016 Overall Institutional Excellence in Advancement award. The annual award is given out by the Georgia Education Advancement Council (GEAC), which selects a winner from all public, private and technical colleges and universities in Georgia each year. The Overall Institutional Excellence in Advancement award is presented to […]

There’s a new family sitcom at Georgia Highlands College called “Five Kids and College.” It stars a family of seven in all levels of schooling, from mom and dad in college to five kids ranging from pre-k to high school… Sounds like the perfect television show pitch, right? Well, stay tuned, because this isn’t a […]