CNBC senior analyst and financial industry expert Ron Insana will address Mercer University's Executive Forum on March 23. Insana will give a lunch presentation at the Capital City Club, 7 Harris St., Atlanta, at noon and a dinner presentation at 6:30 p.m. in Macon at the University Center. Insana's presentation is titled "Now What? Managing Money through the Economic Storm."
BLACKSBURG, Va. - Three Mercer University student teams brought home awards from a recent American Society of Engineering Education Southeastern Section Student Poster Competition held at Virginia Tech. In all, five teams of Mercer environmental engineering students participated in the event, which was attended by students and faculty from engineering programs in the Southeast.
Reprinted from the Daily Herald By Clay Wilson
Classroom 142 of the Mercer Regional Academic Center was as tense as a newsroom on deadline Thursday.
Indeed, the click of keyboards and the concentration of the writers pointed to a looming deadline. The 20-or-so youngsters in the class were typing away on their almost-final drafts of works that were on their way to the publisher.
The rising fourth-through-rising sixth graders from the Henry and Spalding County school systems were participating in Mercer University's "College for Kids Budding Authors" program.
"You can see the tension," said program coordinator Natasha Griffin. "It's crunch time.
The program takes (students) through the writing process-the drafting, the editing, the revising.
"We're trying to help motivate them to keep writing and to make writing a lifelong learning experience," said Mercer's Larry Robinson.
The coordinator of the university's Macon...
MACON - Christopher Gardner, whose life story served as the basis for the hit movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" featuring Will Smith, will speak Saturday on Mercer's Grand Opera House at 7 p.m.
Mercer's Southern Studies Department held its second National Endowment for the Humanities Institute this summer for 24 selected teachers who traveled from New York, Washington, Hawaii, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, North Carolina and Alabama. The five-week institute, titled "Cotton Culture in the U.S. South, 1865-1965," was funded by a $185,000 NEH grant, and held June 24 - July 27 on Mercer's Macon campus.
ATLANTA/MACON - Mercer University will hold two panel discussions on its Atlanta and Macon campuses on Oct. 2, titled "Election 2012: Why Should I Care?" The two events are part of the Mercer Lyceum, a University-wide conversation and learning experience built around the theme "Rebuilding Democracy." The Atlanta panel will be held in the Trustees Dining Room on the Atlanta campus at noon. The Macon panel will be held at 7 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center on the Macon Campus.
Mercer's Student Government Association has launched the Paint the Town Orange initiative, an effort to increase engagement between Mercer and the community through job placement and shopping incentives. Today through Thursday, SGA and Delta Sigma Pi, a professional business fraternity, are co-sponsoring a student conference to help engage the student body in the initiative.
ATLANTA - Georgia Department of Corrections Commissioner James E. Donald will deliver the keynote address to graduates of Mercer University's Public Safety Leadership Institute during a ceremony Monday, March 6, at 1 p.m. at Mercer's Cecil B. Day Campus in Atlanta.
Eleven public safety officers from the Metropolitan Atlanta area representing various agencies including law enforcement, rescue and fire departments will receive a certificate of recognition during the ceremony.
Donald, who retired as a major general from the United States Army, became the first African American to head Georgia's Department of Corrections when Gov. Sonny Perdue appointed him to the post on Dec. 1, 2003. Before leading the 14,400-employee Department of Corrections, Donald had a distinguished 33-year career in the Army.
Donald retired in September 2003 as Deputy Chief of Staff for the United States Army Forces Command, where he was responsible for the development, execution and...
(Published Thursday, April 27 in The Macon Telegraph)
MACON - Mercer University will hold two commencements at the University Center on the Macon campus on Saturday, May 13. Students from the College of Liberal Arts, Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics, School of Engineering and Tift College of Education will graduate during a ceremony beginning at 10 a.m., while students from the College of Continuing and Professional Studies will graduate in a ceremony at 4 p.m.
The main Macon commencement, which includes four schools, is the largest of the University's 10 commencements, with more than 460 graduates in attendance. For the first time, commencements are being held on campus in the University Center, opened in 2004 as the focal point of campus activity.
This year's exercises will be the final ceremonies that Dr. R. Kirby Godsey will preside over as president and CEO of Mercer. Dr. Godsey, the longest serving president in the University's history, will step down as president on June 30 after more than 27...
