MACON - Bill Jones III, chairman and chief executive officer of the Sea Island Co., will be the featured speaker at The Executive Forum on Tuesday, April 26. He will give a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room at the University Center on Mercer's Macon campus.
During the past decade, few Georgians have had a better seat at the state's table of influence than Bill Jones III. As chairman and chief executive of Sea Island Company, Jones served as the host for the G8 Summit that brought President George W. Bush and other world leaders to the exclusive resort and real-estate development off Georgia's coast.
Jones's leadership is being felt throughout the state. He is a charter member of Gov. Sonny Perdue's Commission for a New Georgia, a group charged with helping the governor find ways to make state government more efficient. He serves as a director for the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and is a trustee for The Nature Conservancy of...
It is no secret that one of the cornerstones of the Mercer Law School's award-winning curriculum is its nationally-recognized Legal Writing Program. With the release Friday (April 1) of law school rankings by U.S. News & World Report, those who know legal writing programs best - other faculty in the field - ranked Mercer number one in the country. Mercer and the Seattle University Law School tied for the top spot for legal writing among the nation's 179 accredited law schools.
MACON - Mercer University School of Medicine is one of the best family medicine medical schools in the nation, according to the annual "Best Graduate Schools" rankings released April 1 by U.S.News & World Report. The School of Medicine is the only medical school in Georgia to be recognized in this category.
Atlanta- On Saturday, April 30, Mercer University will offer preparation workshops for the Praxis I exam on Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta, 3001 Mercer University Drive.
The workshop will focus on the verbal section of the exam and be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The cost is $90 per workshop for the general public and $75 per workshop for Mercer students, alumni, faculty and staff. Materials are included. Registration is required. For more information, contact Angie Macon at (678) 547-6501 or macon_am@mercer.edu.
The first step to becoming a teacher in Georgia is to take and pass the Praxis I exam. The Praxis I Math Workshop will review the most important concepts of arithmetic, algebra and geometry. In addition, this course will provide participants with all the latest tricks and tips for scoring their highest on this important exam.
The Praxis I Verbal Workshop is designed to give individuals hands-on practice at taking the reading and writing sections of the...
MACON - Department of Music professor Ian Altman, piano, will present a concert featuring works by Bach, Schumann, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Chopin and Liszt, as part of the Mercer Music Faculty Artist Series. The recital begins at 7:30 p.m. April 5 in Neva Langley Fickling Hall of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer's Macon campus. The event is free and open to the public. Call (478) 301-2748 for more information.
Founded in 1833, Mercer University has campuses in Macon and Atlanta as well as three regional academic centers. With 10 schools and colleges, the University offers programs in liberal arts, business, engineering, education, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law and theology. For 15 consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has named Mercer University as one of the leading universities in the South.
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MACON-Former congressmen Jim Bilbray (D-NV) and Orval Hansen (R-ID) will visit Mercer University's Macon Campus April 11-12 as part of the Stennis Center for Public Policy's "Congress to Campus" program-which brings Congress members to institutions of higher education to discuss policy, citizenship and civic responsibility.
In addition to meeting with various classes and student and faculty groups, the former congressmen will give two community talks on the Macon campus: "The Importance of Serving Your Community" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 11, in the Medical School Auditorium and "Citizenship, Service and Civic Duty" at 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday, April 12, in Newton Hall. The presentations are free of charge and open to the public. The former congressmen will be available for media interviews.
After serving in the Nevada State Senate for seven years, Bilbray served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995. He was on numerous committees, including the House Foreign...
(MACON) The musical comedy sensation Crazy For You will highlight numerous Gershwin classics when the national tour performs at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 7-8, at The Grand Opera House. Tickets are available through Mercer Ticket Sales at (478) 301-5470 or online at thegrand.mercer.edu. Tickets range from $35 to $40.
The audience will be swept up in an artfully constructed tale of boy meets girl in the Wild West, where romance, mistaken identities, ribald humor and show-stopping musical numbers add up to irresistible fun. Adapted from the 1930 Gershwin hit Girl Crazy, the show tells the hilarious romp of a stage-struck playboy in a Nevada mining town.
Crazy For You is filled with the glorious music of two of America's most prolific composer/lyricists, George and Ira Gershwin. The show uses seven great Gershwin songs from Girl Crazy and thirteen other Gershwin hits from Broadway shows like Treasure Girl, Oh! Kay, Show Girl and Ladies First and Hollywood films like...
Macon-The Stetson School of Business and Economics of Mercer University and the Delta Sigma Pi honorary business fraternity will host a variety of activities in conjunction with their annual Business Week, March 28-April 1, on the Macon campus.
Designed to give students interested in the business field the opportunity to learn from professionals, the theme for this year's Business Week is "Plugging Into the World of Business."
"Business Week enables students to interact with business executives and working professionals so they can see the real-world applications of the business principles learned in the classroom," said James Nixon, public relations chair for Delta Sigma Pi's Business Week Committee.
Sponsors for Business Week include IKON Financial Services and General Electric Women's Network.
Listed below are the events planned for Business Week. All events are on the Macon Campus:
Monday, March 28: "Daring to Be Innovative and...
Macon, Ga.- The CRCT, ITBS, High School Graduation Test and other benchmark and standardized tests are at the forefront of many students', teachers' and parents' minds this spring. Dr. Karen Michael, an assistant professor at Mercer University's Tift College of Education, says it is up to parents and teachers to improve their students' confidence in testing to increase their motivation to do well on these standardized tests that are becoming increasingly important in this age of educational accountability.
Below, Michael, who completed her dissertation on the fifth grade standardized writing test and served on a testing committed when she taught school in Gwinnett County, lists some strategies for students of all ages to employ while taking tests. Michael taught pre-K through eighth grade for eight years.
Reading Strategies1. Read the questions first, and then read the passage.2. Analyze the characters and the plot as you read. Try to make a connection to...
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