ASF Early Alert

The college’s annual weekend trip to the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery will be April 28-29, and Student Life will handle the sign-up during the first part of spring semester. The plays we will see at ASF are Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy by Shakespeare, and The Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller and […]

IQ Challenge Drawing

Five Georgia Highlands College employees were selected in a random drawing of participants in the TIAA Financial IQ Challenge that was part of the Fall 2017 HealthTrails Challenge. Those whose names were drawn won a prize from TIAA: Elizabeth Clark                             Smartphone Web Cam Cover Joel Hitzeman                               Shoe Wallet Trish Hoitt                                     Collapsible Car Trunk Organizer Annette […]

USG eclips for November 28, 2017

University System News: www.ajc.com Judge hopes to rule soon on campus carry injunction demand http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/judge-hopes-rule-soon-campus-carry-injunction-demand/XyvSIu6ARt1xvrLlXyY2DM/ By Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A team of attorneys made their case before a judge in Fulton County Superior Court Monday to stop Georgia’s public colleges and universities from continuing the state’s new campus carry law. The attorneys, […]

First Generation Student Celebration Day

Next week all of our locations will be having a day (or days) to celebrate our First Generation college students. New Student and Retention Programs will be partnering with Student Life to have a table with buttons for our first generation students, snacks for all, and a graffiti wall for students to voice why it […]

USG eclips for November 27, 2017

University System News: www.statesboroherald.com Town Hall meetings requested before Georgia Southern enfolds Armstrong Final consolidation vote by Regents may happen in December http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/82821/ By Al Hackle Georgia Southern donor and alumnus Burney Marsh asked the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to hold town hall meetings presenting the final plan for Armstrong State University’s […]

BBA Students: Service Learning Project to Impact Homelessness

In an effort to promote academic and community collaboration, BBA Healthcare and Logistics students are teaming up with Will2Way foundation for a service learning project to help combat homelessness this holiday season. Will2Way foundation is a local non-profit organization with a mission to serve our community. The non-profit organization provides for our local and long […]

USG eclips for November 22, 2017

University System News: www.ajc.com Report finds Kennesaw State didn’t follow guidance after cheerleaders took a knee http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/report-finds-kennesaw-state-didn-follow-guidance-after-cheerleaders-took-knee/smTiOUD3D7aHF88rh9fozL/ Eric Stirgus Kennesaw State University didn’t follow guidance from state officials when it made changes last month that kept cheerleaders from kneeling  on the football field during the national anthem to protest police misconduct and racial inequality, according […]

USG eclips for November 21, 2017

University System News: www.mdjonline.com DICK YARBROUGH: Paying tribute to the legacy of Dr. Betty Siegel http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/dick-yarbrough-paying-tribute-to-the-legacy-of-dr-betty/article_e544d7fc-ce5d-11e7-acf2-1fb9f6cff334.html Riding back from Athens one afternoon a number of years ago with the late Otis Brumby, Jr., publisher of the Marietta Daily Journal, he told me of a recent phone call he had received from a reader who sounded […]

USG eclips for November 20, 2017

University System News: www.myajc.com Georgia Board of Regents looks to logistics to grow educational opportunities http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-board-regents-looks-logistics-grow-educational-opportunities/mZatkOejesglTiYfxxsM5J/ By Eric Stirgus University System of Georgia officials discussed Wednesday how helping students improve their expertise in logistics may help the state in a growing segment of the economy. Dalton State College officials gave a presentation about its bachelor […]