MACON - Daisy Hurst Floyd, dean of Mercer University's Walter F. George School of Law since 2004, has announced that she will step down as dean at the end of this academic year to become University Professor of Law and Ethical Formation.
MACON - Mercer University and Mount de Sales Academy, an independent Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school located in the College Hill Corridor, have announced a dual-enrollment program that will allow academy seniors to take college courses for credit at the University beginning next fall.The program, which initially will be available to seven Mount de Sales students, is designed to provide an early college experience for talented and motivated high school students. They will take classes alongside current Mercer students and upon successful completion will be able to apply their credits toward degree completion at Mercer or another university. "I am very pleased that we have been able to develop this dual enrollment program with Mount de Sales," said President William D. Underwood. "The proximity of the academy to our campus, the rigor of its academic program, and the history of cooperation between the two institutions make this a logical partnership. We believe...
The Grand Opera House in downtown Macon will get close to $1 million in renovations this summer as the stage is replaced, the mid-level balcony gets an air-conditioning upgrade and other work is done.
MACON, Ga. – Mercer baseball, coming off a second consecutive series win, hits the road for the first time in 2006, heading to Gainesville, Fla., today to take on the nation's #1 ranked team, the Florida Gators.
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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.
MACON - Mercer alumnus Carl G. Fambro will be moving his restaurant, Francar's Buffalo Wings, to Mercer Village in January, adding another college-friendly business to the growing stable of student-friendly offerings across from the Macon campus. The business will relocate into a building in Mercer Village that includes the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios, between Montpelier and Coleman avenues. Renovation will begin in the next few weeks and the restaurant is expected to be open when students return from the Christmas break.
MACON - A Mercer Law School constitutional law expert and a conservative nationally syndicated columnist will square off tomorrow in a debate titled "Guantanamo: Should It Stay or Should it Go"?
ATLANTA - Faculty from Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences had a record number of poster abstracts accepted for the upcoming American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting. Mercer faculty will present 19 posters, and the School's Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning a 20th, the highest number accepted among all schools participating.
WHO: Eight Mercer University Sociology majors will be presenting the results of their yearlong research projects to their professors and peers. The event will also include a keynote address by Catherine Meeks, Ph.D., director of the Wesleyan College Center for Community Engagement and Service, the Clara Carter Acree Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies at Wesleyan.WHEN: Monday, April 7, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and 2 to 3:30 p.m. The keynote address will begin at 12:30 p.m.WHAT: The Fourth Annual Social Research Conference at Mercer University, presented by the William Fielding Ogburn Department of Sociology. Meeks, a noted sociologist, will give the address "Free to be Rooted in a Flat World." The students' topics at the morning presentation will include: the career attainment plans of female students, student participation in campus ministries, an examination of college student volunteerism and how networking effects students' ability to find a job....
MACON - Mercer University's Townsend School of Music has named Dr. Stanley Roberts, associate dean, the inaugural Arthur Lowndes Rich Endowed Professor in Choral Conducting. The late Dr. Arthur Lowndes Rich and his wife Helen Rich established the Department of Music within the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer. The professorship was established to honor their memory through a gift made by their daughter and son-in-law, world-renowned pianist Dr. Ruth Anne Rich and her husband, Fred Humphrey.
