YOU SHOP. AMAZON GIVES…. TO THE GHC FOUNDATION! If you shop amazon.com, don’t forget to shop through smile.amazon.com  for the GHC Foundation to get a small percentage of your purchase as a donation for the college and its students! AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.

YOU SHOP. AMAZON GIVES…. TO THE GHC FOUNDATION! Do you shop amazon.com? Then be sure to shop online through smile.amazon.com  and the GHC Foundation will get a small percentage of your purchase as a donation that will be used for the college and its students! AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same […]

Fulltime faculty should report to the Forum River Center, Berry-Shorter room located Upper Level beginning 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. Faculty should be dressed in full regalia by 9:30 a.m. The processional lineup will begin at 9:45. Faculty will form two equal lines for the processional led by honorary faculty marshals Frank Minor and Billy Morris. […]

Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. Forum River Center, Rome, GA   8:00 a.m. Setup Crew Arrives 9:00 a.m. Refreshments Available 9:00 a.m. Arrive Platform Party and Faculty (Upper Level), Graduates (Lower Level), and Staff Volunteers (per instructions) 9:15 a.m. Dwindle Optimum Parking 9:30 a.m. Faculty and Graduates Robed for Commencement 9:45 a.m. Processional Lineup 10:00 […]

What’s new, you ask? A lot! For starters, the processional will enter the Forum Arena in two lines to increase our time efficiency. What else, you ask? Well, two processional lines require two marshals. GHC’s most senior faculty, Frank Minor and Billy Morris (next in line to our very most senior faculty, Kristie Kemper, who […]

GEORGIA HIGHLANDS COLLEGE 2019 Commencement Activities May 11, 10:00 a.m.   9:00 a.m.    Faculty and graduates begin reporting to designated robing areas 9:45 a.m.    Processional assembles 10:00 a.m.  Processional enters Arena Bagpiper, Joe Dunaway Mace Bearer: Dr. Kristie Kemper Platform Party – Donald J. Green, President USG Regent Sachin Shailendra, Commencement Speaker Dana Nichols, VP […]

Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. Forum River Center, Rome, GA EMPLOYEE GRADUATES: Please email president@highlands.edu if you are a GHC employee who is graduating or if you have a family member who is graduating with Georgia Highlands’ Class of 2019. PARKING will be free for GHC attendees at the 3rd Avenue Parking Deck just south […]

Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. Forum River Center, Rome, GA  HONORARY FACULTY MARSHALS: As senior professors at Georgia Highlands College, Frank Minor and Billy Morris will serve as honorary faculty marshals for GHC’s 2019 commencement. COMMENCEMENT SPEECH and welcome from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia will be delivered by Regent […]

Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. Forum River Center, Rome, GA   FACULTY MARSHALS: As senior professors at Georgia Highlands College, Frank Minor and Billy Morris will serve as faculty marshals for GHC’s 49th commencement. FACULTY REGALIA: Rental requests should be emailed a.s.a.p. to Robin Klemm at rklemm@follett.com to reduce late fees and express shipping charges. […]

Saturday, May 11th 10:00 a.m. Forum River Center, Rome, GA DR. NANCY APPLEGATE, Professor of English, has been voted recipient of the Wesley C. Walraven Teaching Award for 2019. Please reference Dana Nichols’ email dated April 8 for details. (Congratulations, Nancy!) DR. KRISTIE KEMPER, Professor of English, will serve as 2019 Mace Bearer to lead […]