MACON, Ga. - Mercer University has achieved a major step in its aspiration to become a national center for Baptist scholarship with today's announcement that the American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS) will consolidate and relocate its vast collections to the University's Atlanta campus.
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MACON/ATLANTA - Nearly 1,500 students will participate in graduation ceremonies on Mercer University's Macon and Atlanta campuses in May. Awarding bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, the University will hold 10 commencement ceremonies and hear from an array of renowned speakers, including several prominent Mercerians. Below is a listing of commencement dates, times and speakers.Atlanta Commencements - Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional CampusCollege of Pharmacy and Health SciencesSpeaker: Dr. Roger L. Williams, executive vice president and Chief Executive Officer of United States PharmacopeiaSaturday, May 5, 9 a.m.Sheffield Student CenterGraduates: 142Georgia Baptist College of NursingSpeaker: Kerry Gough, member of Georgia Baptist College of Nursing Board of Visitors and retired district manager with Travelers Insurance CompanySaturday, May 5, 12 p.m.Sheffield Student CenterGraduates: 47College of Continuing and Professional StudiesSpeaker: Dr. Peter Rhea Jones,...
This story was published Monday, March 24, 2008, in the Macon Telegraph. Click here to read the story.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio - The National Middle School Association, the nation's largest organization focused solely on middle grades education, welcomes Mercer University's Dr. Karen Weller Swanson as the next editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online. Dr. Swanson will serve as associate editor during the first year, working closely during the transition with current editor, Dr. Micki Caskey of Portland State University (Ore.), before assuming the role of editor-in-chief. The RMLE Online editorship is a five-year term.
The place where who one is intersects with what one does.
-President R. Kirby Godsey's definition of "vocation"
It has been three years since University Commons initiated its Lilly Grant-funded Theological Exploration of Vocation. The idea behind...
MACON- As a part of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture Series, acclaimed authors and scholars Eric Klinenberg and Ellen Ruppel Shell will speak on two hot topics at Mercer University April 12 and 14. Both lectures are free and open to the public.
Klinenberg, author of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, (University of Chicago Press, 2002), will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 12, in the Mercer University School of Medicine Auditorium. In his presentation entitled "Why Heat Waves are so Deadly: Urban Vulnerability from Chicago to Paris," he will give insight into the social breakdown that occurred during the devastating heat wave in Chicago in July of 1995.
An assistant professor of sociology at New York University, Klinenberg is a Chicago native passionate about public and politically engaged social science. His book, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, was named Best Book in Sociology/Anthropology by the Association of...
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University will hold on Saturday, May 6, the first three of its 10 commencement ceremonies. The University's three health schools will graduate their students in separate ceremonies on their respective campuses in Macon and Atlanta. The remaining seven ceremonies will take place over the next two weeks.
The Southern School of Pharmacy will graduate 130 doctor of pharmacy and Ph.D. candidates at 9 a.m. at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Graduate and Professional Campus in Atlanta. Dr. Carmen A. Catizone, CEO and executive director/secretary of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, will be the keynote speaker. In this year's graduating Doctor of Pharmacy class, nine students have completed the exceptionally rigorous pharmacy program with a perfect 4.0 grade point average throughout their four years of study.
At noon, the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing will graduate 97 bachelor's and master's nursing degree candidates on the Atlanta campus....
Two Mercer Law alums, James Phillip “Phil” Bond ('83), and Richard Gerikitis ('81), were honored during the First Annual Mercer Law Alumni Dinner on Friday, March 6, in Atlanta.
Bond, who received the Outstanding Alumnus Award, is a Senior...
ATLANTA- Lithia Springs resident Lynn Clemons was recently appointed director of the Organization Leadership Program for Mercer University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Clemons has worked for Mercer for eight years, serving as a professor, mentor and coordinator of the University's Regional Academic Center in Douglas County.
The Organization Leadership Program is a degree completion program established by Mercer in 2000. To enroll in the program, students must have at least four years of work experience and 60 hours of previous college experience. As the program is designed for working adults, classes are held each Saturday for 16 months at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta and the Regional Academic Center in Douglas County. The program will also be offered at Mercer's new Henry County Center when it opens in August.
Clemons is excited about this chance to work in adult education, a field very close to her heart. The Douglas County...
