WHO: Mercer Students and the Macon Community
(MACON) Thousands of Central Georgia elementary students are discovering the performing arts, thanks to GrandKids, an arts education program offered by The Grand Opera House and Mercer University.   Students at participating schools visit The Grand three times during the academic year for programs of varying art forms, including music, dance and theatre performances. Prior to each visit, their teacher shows a preparatory videotaped workshop, which helps move the arts performance beyond entertainment to a vivid learning experience. After viewing the taped workshop, students receive a GrandKids Gazette, which uses articles, puzzles and games to offer additional insight into the performance, which they attend thereafter.   GrandKids is an effort to bring professional performing arts into an educational context, building an appreciation and understanding of the value of art in children. Since its inception in 1996, more than 30,000 students have participated in the...
Atlanta-In conjunction with the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia (LPCA), Mercer University will host a series of workshops for counseling professionals, counseling students and the general public on Mercer's Atlanta Campus.   The first workshop will be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 30, in the Cecil B. Day Auditorium. This day-long session is entitled "Evolving Ethics: Trends, Dilemmas and Contradictions." Joanna Colrain, co-founder of Metropolitan Counseling Services, will serve as the moderator for the panel discussion. The workshop will count for 5 Continuing Education Units (CEU) for counseling professionals. The workshop is free for LPCA members, $85 for non-members and $42.50 for student non-members. A statewide counseling fair, designed for graduate counseling and psychology students, will feature speakers on a variety of topics, such as psychopharmacology. It will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, in Cecil B. Day...
Budding opera star Leah Hunt will return to the Mercer campus March 4, 7:30 p.m., for a free performance. Recently, Hunt has created quite a buzz as a rising opera star while performing around the country and abroad. With...
Atlanta--Georgia's premier business enrichment program, The Executive Forum at Mercer University, announces the speakers in its spring series: . George Israel, president and CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, in February; . Phil Jacobs, president of Georgia Operations for BellSouth, in March, and . Nancy Grace, Court TV anchor, Larry King Live guest host and Mercer Law School alumnus, in April. All speakers will present on both Mercer's Macon and Atlanta campuses, with details listed below. The Executive Forum is a business outreach program of Mercer University's Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and the Office of Advancement. In its 24th year, The Executive Forum provides business professionals with an opportunity to hear nationally noted speakers while networking with other business leaders. For registration information on these programs, call Mercer's Office of University Advancement at (478) 301-2724 or (800) 837-2911 outside of Macon.   Macon...
Macon-Mercer University students are busy preparing for the annual homecoming parade planned for Saturday, Jan. 31, at 10 a.m.   Mercer students and administrators have developed a new route for the parade, returning it to downtown Macon for the community to enjoy. The parade will begin at Bond Street in front of the Walter F. George School of Law. It will continue to Georgia Avenue, then to College Street and wrap around the outskirts of the University's main campus ending at Porter Track, off Stadium Drive. The internationally-themed parade will feature  more than 20 floats designed by Mercer students, Mercer athletes, two marching bands, fire trucks and the Neubian Knights Saddle Club.  Priscilla Danheiser, associate provost and interim vice president for student life at Mercer, will serve as the grand marshal. Prime spots to catch a good view of the parade include Tattnall Square Park and the sidewalks along College Street between Forsyth Street and Coleman...
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Macon--Former Olympic track and field coach and Georgia Sports Hall of Fame honoree Jimmy Carnes will be featured speaker at Mercer University's annual Founders' Day Convocation at 10 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Willingham Hall on Coleman Avenue.   A 1956 Mercer graduate, Carnes will share how his education at Mercer has influenced his success on and off the field. Carnes served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team at the Montreal Games in 1976. He was selected head coach for U.S. Men's Olympic Track and Field for the Moscow Games in 1980, which President Jimmy Carter decided the U.S. teams would boycott in protest of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. He later became the co-founder of Athletic Attic, a chain of retail sporting goods stores. An Eatonton, Ga., native, Carnes began his coaching career in Atlanta as track coach for Druid Hills High School from 1956 to 1962. He went on to serve as head track coach at Furman University...
MACON, Ga. -- Mercer University President R. Kirby Godsey announced today that Daisy Hurst Floyd has been named dean of the Walter F. George School of Law. She will join the Law School on July 1. Michael D. Sabbath, the Walter Homer Drake Professor of Bankruptcy Law, who has served as interim dean of the Law School since the fall of 2002, will resume his faculty responsibilities.
MACON, Ga. - Mercer will play its first home basketball game at the new University Center on Jan. 27 against in-state rival Georgia State, as announced by athletics director Bobby Pope on Thursday.

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