McDONOUGH/LITHIA SPRINGS - Beginning in August, Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies will offer a new undergraduate major, human resources administration and development, at the Henry County and Douglas County Regional Academic Centers. The program will be offered in a flexible evening and weekend format that also includes hybrid online and face-to-face courses.
MACON - Campus Compact, a national coalition committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education, has selected Mercer University Senior Vice Provost Dr. Peter C. Brown as a finalist for the Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. Dr. Brown, who is also a professor of philosophy and interdisciplinary studies in the College of Liberal Arts, is one of only seven finalists from a group of 53 distinguished nominees for this national award.
What: Mercer University, the city of Macon and the College Hill Corridor Commission have scheduled a news conference to announce a major new grant for the College Hill Corridor.
MACON - Mercer University will add men's NCAA Division I lacrosse to its intercollegiate athletic program during the 2010-2011 academic year and will add a Division I women's team in 2011-2012, Athletic Director Bobby Pope announced today. Mercer is the first NCAA Division I institution in the state to announce the addition of lacrosse to its athletic program.
MACON - The Wal-Mart Foundation, as part of its community outreach in Georgia, has awarded Mercer University a grant to develop summer seminars for high school teachers to learn how to incorporate the Great Books into their curricula. Through the grant, Mercer's Center for the Teaching of America's Western Foundations is developing a summer seminar program and Web site that will help the teachers to understand and teach the Great Books. The two-week seminars will be modeled after Mercer's Great Books program and be organized around the theme "Citizenship and the Culture of Freedom."
MACON - About 250 criminal defense lawyers from across the nation will participate in the 26th Annual Trial Practice Institute of the National Criminal Defense College at Mercer's Walter F. George School of Law.
VIRGINIA, Liberia - The group of Mercer University faculty and staff in Liberia for their Mercer On Mission trip celebrated the inaugural "Mercer Day" on June 10 with their hosts, the Ricks Institute, in recognition of the partnership between the school and the University. Ten Mercer student-teachers from the Tift College of Education, three faculty members and four mentor teachers in the country for the Mercer On Mission trip.
MACON, Ga. -- Mercer has announced that Clear Channel Broadcasting Inc. will serve as the flagship radio network for the school's men's basketball games in 2009-2010. The broadcaster's Fox Sports Radio 1670 AM, WFSM, will carry all of the Bears' games live next season, while sister FM stations, WPCH 96.5 and WZCH 102.5, will also simulcast games that tip off at 6 p.m. or later. In addition, the games will be available on the World Wide Web on the Fox Sports Radio 1670 site at http://www.foxsports1670.com and the Mercer web site at http://www.mercerbears.com."We are extremely pleased with the contract with Clear Channel," said Athletics Director Bobby Pope. "It truly gives us a network with the games being carried on three stations along with the World Wide Web. We also have the opportunity to broadcast other Mercer Athletic events as well, and we will explore those options to get more recognition for sports other than men's basketball."Last year, under first-year head coach...
