WHO: Fifteen Mercer University engineering alumni, representing a number of career fields, will return to campus to talk with students in the School of Engineering. More than 150 students are expected to attend the event. WHAT: The Careers in Engineering Roundtable, now in its twelfth year, brings successful Mercer Engineering Alumni back to campus to speak with students about their experiences in the real world. This popular program, held in conjunction with National Engineers Week, helps students learn more about possible career paths after graduation. WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 20, 5-7 p.m. WHERE: Mercer University School of Engineering Building Room 210. Use the South Campus entrance, off Mercer University Drive. WHY: The Mercer University School of Engineering is hosting the event in conjunction with National Engineers Week, Feb. 18-24. Engineers Week is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and...
MACON - Mercer University President William D. Underwood has announced the appointment of Carson-Newman College President James S. Netherton to the position of executive vice president for administration and finance, effective Oct. 1, 2007. Dr. Netherton succeeds Dr. Thomas G. Estes Jr., who will retire as the university's senior vice president for finance and administration onSept. 30, 2007.
MACON/ATLANTA - Beginning this fall, the Tift College of Education of Mercer University will add a Higher Education Leadership track to its Ph.D. in Educational Leadership program, on both the university's Macon and Atlanta campuses. It is the second track of the college's Ph.D. offerings, with the first being a P-12 School Leadership track, launched in 2006.
Hailing from the People's Republic of China, The Peking Acrobats, a troupe of the country's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists and gymnasts will bring their 2,000-year-old tradition of acrobatics to Macon to premiere at The Grand Opera House, a performing arts center of Mercer University, for a three-day run.
The following students were named to the Dean's List at Mercer University for the 2006 fall semester. Inclusion on the Dean's List requires students to meet rigorous grade point average standards specific to their school within the University.
ATLANTA - More than 50 Baptist pastors, church musicians, composers, scholars and laymen from across the United States and Canada gathered at Mercer University's Atlanta campus Feb. 1-2 to begin fine tuning a new Baptist hymnal. Scheduled for release in 2009, the 400th anniversary of Baptists, the hymnal is a collaborative initiative of the Townsend-McAfee Institute Graduate Studies in Church Music at Mercer and the Mercer University Press.
(The following article was published Feb. 13, 2007, in the Macon Telegraph)By Sarah MeineckeTELEGRAPH STAFF WRITER
The following students were named to the President's List at Mercer University for the 2006 fall semester. Inclusion on the President's List requires students to meet rigorous grade point average standards specific to their school within the University.
MACON - Georgia State Rep. Brooks Coleman Jr., R-Duluth, the Chairman of the House Education Committee and 1962 graduate of Mercer University, will be the featured speaker of Founders' Day at Mercer University on Wednesday, Feb. 14. The program will begin at 10 a.m. in the Willingham Auditorium on Mercer's Macon Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
"Generations Through Traditions" is the theme for Homecoming 2007, which is being organized by Quad Works and celebrated through Feb. 17 on the Macon campus. Highlights of this year's Homecoming will once again be a televised men's basketball game on Friday night - when the Homecoming Court will be announced at halftime, a Women's Basketball Reunion, Founder's Day Convocation and the naming of new members into the Athletic Hall of Fame.
