ATLANTA - The Superintendent of Georgia's largest public school system will address aspiring school leaders at Mercer University's E.L.I.T.E. Leadership Academy at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 11, on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta. J. Alvin Wilbanks, CEO and superintendent of Gwinnett County Public Schools, will deliver the keynote address about the impact of school leadership on student learning.
The Gwinnett County Public School system is the largest in Georgia as well as the state's largest employer, with more than 145,000 students and 23,000 employees. Wilbanks has been the leader of Gwinnett Schools for 11 years, and he will deliver the keynote address for Mercer's E.L.I.T.E. Leadership Academy.
"Mr. Wilbanks is an outstanding school leader whose insights will be invaluable to our candidates," said Vic Verdi, a former Gwinnett County administrator and principal who now coordinates internships and mentoring for Mercer's Educational Leadership program....
March 3, 2006
ATLANTA - Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner James E. Donald will deliver the keynote address to graduates of Mercer University's Public Safety Leadership Institute during a ceremony Monday, March 6, at 1 p.m. at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta.
Eleven public safety officers from the Metropolitan Atlanta area representing various agencies including law enforcement, rescue and fire departments will receive a certificate of recognition during the ceremony.
Donald, who retired as a major general from the United States Army, became the first African American to head Georgia's Department of Corrections when Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed him to the post on Dec. 1, 2003. Before leading the 14,400-employee Department of Corrections, Donald had a distinguished 33-year career in the Army.
Donald retired in September 2003 as Deputy Chief of Staff for the United States Army Forces Command, where he was responsible for the development, execution and...
MACON, Ga. - The Mercer women's basketball team opened the scoring on a Tanya Kessenich layup and never looked back. Kessenich and Sarah Russell led the Bear offense to a 76-64 win over the Jacksonville University Dolphins.
Mercer (12-14, 9-10 A-Sun) methodically worked the post early in the game and entered halftime with a 37-32 lead. The Bears got balanced scoring from Zsaquez Flucker, Russell and Kessenich as the trio scored six, seven and eight points, respectively.
The Dolphins (9-17, 6-13 A-Sun) struggled to close the gap in the second half, getting as close as three on three occasions. After JU trimmed the lead, Mercer answered each time.
Jacksonville cut things to three with 3:08 remaining but Sally Skeldon hit a lay-up to extend the Mercer lead back to five. After stealing the ball on JU's next possession, Skeldon found Kessenich for a layup to give Mercer a 67-60 lead with 2:16 left.
Down the stretch, Mercer could have added...
MACON, Ga.- The Mercer men's basketball team heads to Johnson City, Tenn., as the eighth seed in the Atlantic Sun conference tournament which runs Thursday-Saturday, March 2-4. The Bears will face the top-seeded Lipscomb Bisons in the first game of the event, with tip off scheduled for 1 p.m. today in the Memorial Center. 2006 Tournament Guide
Mercer (9-18, 7-13 A-Sun), which is competing in its fourth consecutive conference tournament and sixth in the last seven years, closed out the regular season by dropping two games, but won three of its last five contests.
Senior Andrew Brown leads the Bears' attack, averaging 15.7 points per game and collects an average of 4.6 rebounds from his guard position. Forward Will Emerson adds 11.8 points a contest, while grabbing a team-high 6.9 rebounds per game. Browns ranks 10th in scoring in the A-Sun and fifth in 3-point field goal percentage, shooting 42.9 percent from beyond the arc, while Emerson is in...
The Georgia House of Representatives honored Mercer President R. Kirby Godsey at the State Capitol on Feb. 28 with a resolution highlighting the many...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.- Using a balanced attack and a deep bench, the top-seeded Lipscomb Bisons ended the eighth-seeded Mercer Bears' basketball season by a 78-62 score Thursday afternoon in the Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Tournament at East Tennessee's Memorial Center.
In Mercer's last appearance as the number eight seed, the Bears advanced to the semifinals of the 2000 conference tourney after upsetting top-seeded Troy in the quarterfinals, but no such magic occurred Thursday afternoon as the Bisons avoided an upset. Lipscomb's only other appearance in the A-Sun tournament was last season when the Bisons fell, 68-64, to Jacksonville.
"We knew coming in that our margin of error was slim," said Mercer head coach Mark Slonaker. "We wanted to play more zone but their outside shooting prevented that. Our turnovers in the first half and the first five minutes of the second half were the keys to the game."
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Mercer President-elect and former Baylor Interim President William D. Underwood announced Tuesday the appointment of Larry D. Brumley as senior vice president and chief of staff at Mercer, effective June 1.
Currently serving as interim vice president for marketing and communications at Baylor, Brumley was associate vice president for university relations at Mercer for six years before joining Baylor in 1997.
"Larry Brumley is among the brightest young leaders in higher education today," said Underwood. "He has provided wise and effective leadership as a member of the senior executive staff of three presidents at Baylor. He has led a major communications effort at Baylor that has contributed to significant improvements in student enrollments. I am pleased that he has agreed to return to his home at Mercer."
As senior vice president and chief of staff, Brumley will provide executive leadership as a senior adviser to the president and...
MACON, Ga.- For the second consecutive year, Mercer basketball forward Will Emerson has been named to ESPN The Magazine's Academic All-America first team, one day after being named to the Atlantic Sun Academic All-Conference first team.
