MACON – Mercer University's student chapter of the Financial Management Association (FMA) and the Consumer Credit Counseling Service (CCCS) of Middle Georgia will host a community-wide Family Financial Wellness Fair March 29 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the University Center on the Macon campus.
The College Hill Alliance hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on July 18 to welcome construction of the latest mixed-used development, the Lofts at College Hill, in the historic College Hill Corridor.
MACON - Mercer University's Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, the state's longest standing educator of nurses, has received state approval to expand its Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree to the University's Macon campus. The Georgia Board of Nursing, which approves programs that educate students to sit for nursing licensing exams, approved the expansion on Oct. 23. The program will open in fall of 2013 and offer the final two years of nursing education to current Mercer students, as well as transfers.
MACON - Michael Thurmond, former Georgia commissioner of labor and 2010 Democratic nominee for United States Senate, will speak at Mercer University on Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center. The speech is the keynote event of the 2012 Leadership MU Conference, sponsored by Mercer's Office of Campus Life and Division of Student Affairs.
Mercer University's 2013-14 Executive Forum, presented by BB&T, concludes Thursday with a 6:30 p.m. dinner presentation by George Bodenheimer, executive chairman of ESPN, in Hawkins Arena on the Macon campus.
Mercer University's Center for Theology and Public Life will host a one-day colloquium, titled "Faith, Duty, and Temptation in Intelligence-Gathering: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Torture Issue," March 19, 2-5 p.m., in the Medical School Auditorium on the Macon campus.
Mercer University Tift College of Education alumnus Dr. Philip Lanoue was named 2015 AASA National Superintendent of the Year on Thursday at the National Conference on Education, hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association.
Mercer University's Center for Leadership and Volunteerism will conduct its annual "Be a Good NeighBEAR" service day Saturday in neighborhoods across Macon.
Mercer University's Southern Studies Center will a host "Excavating the Native South," a symposium on the past and present of Native Americans in the South on April 19 from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. in Macon.
MACON - Two Mercer University technical communication faculty members have received national recognitions from the Society for Technical Communication. Dr. George Hayhoe, professor and director of Master of Science in Technical Communication Management Program, earned the 2012 Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication, and Dr. Helen Grady, associate professor and director and chair of the Department of Technical Communication, was elected as one of the Society's fellows.
