ATLANTA - Tift College of Education students will have the opportunity to perform focused student teaching and become KIPP Fellows at KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools through a $1 million grant from Race to the Top funds from Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal (CLA '64, LAW '66) announced the winners of a competitive grant program on Monday. The grant, to KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools, will help it create a teacher fellowship program and select future teachers from Mercer's Tift College of Education and Georgia State University.
MACON - The Princeton Review has again named Mercer University one of America's best colleges in the 2012 edition of the book, "The Best 376 Colleges." Only about 15 percent of the 2,500 four-year colleges in America and three colleges outside the U.S.A. were chosen for the book. This marks the ninth consecutive year that Mercer has been featured.
MACON - Wahaj Khan, a 2011 graduate of Macon's Central High School, has been named the first recipient of a new endowed scholarship created at Mercer University and funded by former Mercer trustee, alumnus and Macon businessman Benjamin W. (Benjy) Griffith III. Griffith has pledged $2.5 million to endow the Griffith Scholars program. This program will enable academically gifted graduates from Bibb County high schools with demonstrated financial need to obtain the premier education available at Mercer.
MCDONOUGH- Mercer University's Henry County Regional Academic Center will hold a Fresh Start Career Extravaganza Saturday, July 23, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The Center is located at 160 Henry Parkway. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Mercer's Jesse Mercer Stewards program and the Office of Career Services. Registration is required and should be submitted by Wednesday.
LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center will hold a Fresh Start Career Extravaganza on Saturday, July 30, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The center is located at 975 Blairs Bridge Road. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Mercer's Jesse Mercer Stewards program and the Office of Career Services. Registration is required and should be submitted by Wednesday.
ATLANTA - Torian White, a candidate in Mercer University's Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction 2013 cohort, was recently selected as an Emerging Leader by the Association for Supervised and Curriculum Development. He is one of only 36 selected from a large pool of students from around the world.
McDONOUGH - Tift College of Education assistant professor Dr. Jabari Cain was recently selected by Apple for its prestigious Distinguished Educator program. He is one of only 76 members around the country selected in this year's class. Dr. Cain was noted for his innovative hands-on projects with Apple iPads, digital videos and Web 2.0 resources in the classroom.
LITHIA SPRINGS - A class of students from Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center has worked with artist Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier to research one of the unique aspects of the county's history - its name. The students, enrolled in Dr. Melanie Pavich's History of African-Americans in Georgia class, spent the summer researching whether the county was named for famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass or for Sen. Stephen A. Douglas, who famously debated with Abraham Lincoln in the presidential race leading up to the Civil War.
Mercer University today issued the following statements from President William D. Underwood and Law School Dean Gary Simson regarding the disappearance and apparent homicide of recent Law School graduate Lauren Giddings. Statement from President Underwood Today the Mercer University community joins the family and friends of Lauren Giddings in our support of the determined efforts of law enforcement authorities to investigate the disappearance and apparent death of Lauren, a recent graduate of our law school. I ask that Mercerians everywhere keep Lauren's family and friends in their thoughts and prayers during this very difficult period in their lives. Statement from Dean SimsonWords cannot adequately express the grief and sorrow that the law school community feels in these tragic circumstances. Lauren graduated from the law school this past May after three years in which she distinguished herself in and out of the classroom. Among the student organizations in which she played a...
Distinguished Mercer University alumnus John M. Couric died Wednesday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. Couric, father of broadcast journalist Katie Couric, graduated from Mercer in 1941 with a journalism degree and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree in 1996. Katie Couric delivered the commencement address at that ceremony.During the commencement address in 1996, Katie Couric talked about the influence of her father on her life."I am in awe of my father's generation. And I am in awe of my father. He is a man of intelligence, compassion, gentility, humor, integrity and honor. Some parents tell their children to do as I say, not as I do. My sisters, my brother and I did as he said, but we also became the people we are by watching him every day," she said. "Recently, when my dad was getting a prescription filled, the pharmacist called out his name and asked, 'Are you Katie Couric's father?' 'No,' he said, 'she's my daughter.' I am indeed...and for that I am...
