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 […]

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 […]

GHC continues one of its longest-running field courses, celebrates 20 years in Wyoming

The classroom is a mountain. The whiteboard is miles of short-grass prairie land. The bookcases are snow-capped. And the textbooks are fossils. The Georgia Highlands College summer field course trip to Wyoming in many ways is about moments that last forever in memory, in stone. Associate Professor of Geology Billy Morris has been trekking across […]

Educational Support Leave

For the purposes of promoting education in Georgia and supplementing work life balance options for University System of Georgia employees, each full benefits eligible, non-temporary employee of the USG are eligible for up to eight (8) paid hours of Education Support Leave per calendar year. Such leave is in addition to, and not charged against, […]

Annual Compliance 2017

Every active employee at GHC should have received an email similar to the one below announcing that our 2017 Annual Compliance Training is now available for you to complete. Please work through the components of the training by the time we go on winter break (remember to save as D2L instructs you). Also, remember that […]

REMINDER: Holiday Event 2017 Begins Today!

Don and Cathy Green invite you to join them as they visit your campus to begin the 2017 holiday event!   Take time to welcome the season with friendly company and a delicious fresh-baked cookie treat.    Following is the campus tour schedule (with revisions):   11/27, Monday @ 12:00 noon – Heritage Hall Centre Stage Atrium […]

GHC part of initiative to support student-veterans

All University System of Georgia institutions agree on one thing: taking care of the state’s student-veterans should be a priority. The state’s 28 USG colleges and universities now have a dedicated space on campus just for veterans and also allow them to receive priority access to every course they need to graduate. Amy Wise, Veterans […]

Holiday 2017: Cookie Deliveries by President & First Lady

Dear GHC Employees:    As you prepare for fall break, be reminded of our 2017 campus-wide holiday planning (updates below).   This year’s holiday season will begin with a cookie tour followed by a holiday sweater contest, vintage holiday photo games, campus-wide voting, and prizes.    The campus visits have been scheduled for Don & Cathy […]