ATLANTA - Mercer University will offer four new or redesigned graduate programs on its Atlanta campus this fall. Three of the programs are in education and one is in public safety, and all are designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of dedicated public servants.
The College of Continuing and Professional Studies will introduce a Master of Science in Public Safety Leadership program this fall. The degree is at the leading edge of public safety education, according to Dr. Billy Slaton, the coordinator of Mercer's criminal justice degree program. The program is designed to augment all public safety disciplines and will include courses in terrorism, disaster planning, disaster response and budgeting.
"Today's public demands educated public safety leaders. Mercer University has stepped up to provide a comprehensive, integrated degree program that cuts across disciplines," said Stacey L. Cotton, chief of police for the City of Covington and co-coordinator of Mercer's...
MACON - Mercer University's Southern Studies Program will hold a semester of special events, titled "Civil War Memory," that will include the 55th annual Lamar Memorial Lecture Series. The Lamar lecturer for 2012 is Dr. Michael Kreyling, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Kreyling's theme will be "A Late Encounter with the Civil War." The lectures are all free and open to the public.Dr. Kreyling will present three lectures in the Medical School Auditorium on the University's Macon campus. The first is titled "Race Suicide and the Civil War: Semicentennial" and will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 15; the second, "Civil Rights and the Civil War: Centennial," at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 15; and the third, "The Afterlife of the Civil War: Sesquicentennial," at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 16.Dr. Kreyling is the author of six books, including The South that Wasn't There: Postsouthern History and Memory, Inventing Southern Literature and Eudora Welty's Achievement...
The2013 Mercer Law Review Symposium on Friday, Oct. 11, will focus on "Current Trends in International Trade and Their Impact on Multinational Business." The...
MCDONOUGH - Mercer University's Henry County Regional Academic Center will begin its second session of spring semester on Friday, March 10. Adults interested in earning a bachelor's degree through the Center's evening and weekend programs are invited to a free open house Thursday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m. Academic advisors, professors, financial planning representatives and admissions counselors will be available to answer questions and discuss programs.
MACON/ATLANTA - Two Mercer University faculty members were among 12 educators from across the state selected to participate in the prestigious Governor's Teaching Fellows Program this summer. Donald Ekong, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Engineering, and John Summerville, R.N., M.N., an assistant professor in the Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, were selected to participate in the program's intensive summer symposium.
(Mercer President William D. Underwood on Wednesday shared this message with faculty, staff and students as a follow-up to the tragedy that occurred this week at Virgina Tech.)
The entire Mercer family is saddened by the tragic events that occurred on the Virginia Tech campus earlier this week. In the aftermath of that tragedy, there are many questions about how this could happen on any college campus in America, and what could be done to prevent it from happening again.
MACON - Mercer University's 10th Annual College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series, which begins in September, will center on the theme of "National Identity and the Future of Democracy: Immigration and its Consequences." The Department of Political Science is sponsoring the six-lecture series, which will feature professors from inside and outside of Mercer speaking on a diverse array of topics related to the theme.
ATLANTA - Two students in Mercer University's new physician assistant program have garnered scholarships from one of the leading foundations in the profession. The students, Quentin Farmer and Dannyelle Wilcox of the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, were recently announced as winners of 2009 Physician Assistant Foundation Scholarship Program. The two are the first winners for the College, and both are members of the College's first cohort of students, which began in January 2008
Kellye Moore,'93, appeared in the June 2013 issue of ABA Journal as part of a feature story on six female law firm leaders at...
The Rev. Dr. Luke A. Powery, dean of Duke Chapel and associate professor of the practice of homiletics at Duke Divinity School, will deliver the 2014 William L. Self Preaching Lectures, March 10-11, at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.
