Let’s celebrate the New Academic Year at GHC by giving to others in our community! As part of our New Year kick-off celebration on July 22, we will be inviting some local children’s groups (Pre-K to 5th grade) to our Rome and Cartersville campuses to participate in a “Meet the Author” event for the book, […]

Georgia Highlands College recently updated the campus guidelines based on recommendations from the CDC and GDPH as well as new guidelines to campuses issued by the University System of Georgia on May 13, 2021. Visit chargeahead.highlands.edu for more details about GHC’s new campus guidelines, information for students, information for employees, and a comprehensive FAQs page. Data and reports regrading […]

Be sure to mark your calendars for next week’s exciting Wellness events: Date Time Sponsor Activity Monday, 6/28 11:30 am USG Well-being Yoga (All Levels) Monday, 6/28 12:00 pm USG Well-being Money Monday: Protecting Your Credit Tuesday, 6/29 10:00 am USG Well-being Office Stretch Break Tuesday, 6/29 1:00 pm KEPRO Maximizing Your Day: Effective time […]

Kevin Morang has been working in criminal justice for a number of years. He served as a police officer for the Rome Police Department from 2005 to 2016. And now, he works for the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) and teaches courses for the Georgia Highlands College-based Georgia Police Academy. Morang said when it […]

In May 2021, Governor Kemp signed a new Parental Leave law for state employees. The new law and University System of Georgia (USG) policy on parental leave is effective on July 1, 2021. USG employees who meet the established eligibility criteria and experience a qualifying life event as defined below may request parental leave.   […]

Statement from the University System of Georgia (USG): Since the beginning of the pandemic, the University System of Georgia has worked closely with the Georgia Department of Public Health and the Governor’s Office and Task Force to carry out its primary mission of educating students in a healthy and safe manner. Through effective planning, USG […]

Georgia Highlands College (GHC) recently hosted 35 educators from the Paulding County School District to engage in a Science Technology Engineering and Math (STEM) professional development workshop. The event, held at GHC’s Cartersville site, featured liquid nitrogen demonstrations, chemical reactions and chemistry experiments, DNA activities and demonstrations, bacteria and medical microbiology, concepts on electricity, demonstrations […]

Good Morning, Timesheet Approval for All Biweekly Employees  Biweekly Employees: Please enter all time worked and all Absence Request for the June 13 – June 26, 2021 pay period by 4:00pm, Thursday, June 24th . Employees no longer need to approve their own timesheet, however, employees will not be paid for any time or absences […]

Georgia Highlands College’s class of 2020 endured the effects of a pandemic as they successfully navigated a path to graduation last year. To further emphasize their success and to finally hold an in-person event after their virtual 2020 graduation, GHC held a special celebration on the Cartersville site recently. The event, which included cap and […]

Click on the photo below to open the album from the Class of 2020 Alumni Celebration.