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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lady Chargers at Home today 5:30pm
The Lady Chargers will be at home today for a 5:30pm tip off versus GCAA Conference foe Atlanta Metro College. Hope to see you all at the Corral!
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]