LITHIA SPRINGS - Mercer University's Douglas County Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of Fall Semester on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the center's evening and weekend programs are invited to a free open house at 10 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 1. Academic advisors, professors, financial planning representatives and admissions counselors will be available to answer questions and discuss programs.
Located off Thornton Road, just south of I-20, Mercer's Douglas County Center is designed specifically with an evening and weekend format for adult learners who want to begin or complete a bachelor's degree at one of the nation's top universities. Classes are held one evening per week or on Saturdays in eight-week sessions. Financial aid is available for students who attend half-time or more.
Three of the University's 10 schools and colleges have degree programs at the Douglas County location. Tift College of...
MCDONOUGH - Mercer University's Henry County Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of Fall Semester on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the center's evening and weekend programs need to apply no later than Wednesday, Oct. 5.
Conveniently located off I-75 on Henry Parkway, Mercer's Henry County Center is designed specifically with an evening and weekend format for adult learners who want to begin or complete a bachelor's degree at one of the nation's top universities. Classes are held one evening per week or on Saturdays in eight-week sessions. Financial aid is available for students who attend half time or more.
Two of the University's 10 schools and colleges have undergraduate degree programs at the Henry County location and accept students for the second session. Tift College of Education provides initial certification in early childhood/special education and middle grades, as well as a bachelor of...
WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder and CEO of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) and Imam of Masjid Al-Farah, a mosque in New York City. He will lecture on "What Is Islamic Law?"
BAGHDAD, Iraq - About two decades ago, Steve Boylan was hanging out at his Mercer University fraternity and eating late-night breakfast at Denny's on Riverside Drive.
Mercer University wasn't on Matthew Cohen's college radar.
MACON - Mercer University President and CEO R. Kirby Godsey announced today the appointment of Martin L. Dalton Jr., M.D., FACS, as the dean of the School of Medicine. Dalton currently serves as professor and chair of Mercer's Department of Surgery and is chief of surgery and program director of the surgery residency at the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon. Dr. Ann C. Jobe, dean of the Mercer School of Medicine since 2001, is on sabbatical the remainder of the academic year.
The annual Fall BearBacker Golf Tournament will be played Oct. 5 at the Houston Lake Country Club. Lunch will be available starting at 12 noon and then a shotgun start will begin play.
Entry fee is $60 per individual. Participants are encouraged to enter the tournament as a team although individuals can sign-up and the Athletic Department will place you on a team.
For more information or to sign up for the tournament, contact the Athletic Department at (478) 301-2994, Proceeds benefit the Mercer Athletic Department.
Family and school audiences will see the Berenstain Bears in a new musical by children's authors Stan and Jan Berenstain at The Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St., Macon. Performances are scheduled for 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20-21. Tickets are $6 each.
Written exclusively for the Omaha Theater Company for Young People, Berenstain Bears On Stage! is based on five of the most popular Berenstain Bears books, including The Messy Room, The Double Dare, New Baby, Get Stage Fright and The Truth. With music by Elliot Lawrence, the musical director of the Tony Awards, and his son, Jamie Broza, and lyrics by Stan Berenstain, the famous Bears and their timeless messages come to life on stage through songs like "Parents," "Home Sweet Tree," "You Can't Make the Truth Out of a Lie" and "You Gotta Practice."
Tickets may be purchased through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu.
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MACON, GA -- The Department of Music of Mercer University's College of Liberal Arts is establishing a new children's choir that will perform throughout Georgia and the continental United States. The Mercer Children's Choir is based on the model of first-level children's choirs, such as the Spivey Hall Children's Choir in Atlanta. The program includes two choirs: a Preparatory Choir for children ages 7-9, and a Concert Choir, which will tour, for children ages 10-15.
Dr. John Simons, associate professor of music at Mercer, will serve as conductor of the Mercer Children's Choir. Rehearsals will be held 4:15-5:45 p.m. every Thursday in the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus, 1400 Coleman Ave. Tuition for the choir is $150 per semester.
Auditions for both choirs will be held 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 15, and 9:30 a.m.-noon on Saturday, Sept. 17, in the Choir Room (Room 110) of the McCorkle Music Building. Interested singers should come with a parent...
ATLANTA - Renowned mathematics educator Colin Hannaford, director of the Institute for Democracy from Mathematics in Oxford, England, will speak Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 at Mercer University on the connection between democracy and mathematics. The lectures are free of charge and open to the public.
