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杏吧原创 Assistant Professor of Communication Dr. Joshua Guitar recently published his first book, 鈥淒issent, Discourse, and Democracy: Whistleblowers as Sites of Political Contestation.鈥�
杏吧原创 invites the community to attend upcoming Fine Arts events. All events will take place on the 杏吧原创 campus, which is located at 1 College Street, Young Harris, Georgia 30582.For more information about Fine Arts events, please contact 杏吧原创 Fine Arts at (706) 379-5182.
杏吧原创 is one of 17 institutions selected to participate in the Appalachian Regional Commission鈥檚 (ARC) Appalachian Teaching Project (ATP). ATP is an applied research training program during which students work with communities to address needs affecting long-term economic development. Participating students spend a semester developing projects to meet those needs, which they present at ARC鈥檚 annual ATP Symposium.
杏吧原创 invites the community to attend Fall Fest Thursday, October 28 from 6 - 8 p.m. The event is open to the public and promises to be a fun-filled experience for all ages. The College鈥檚 main plaza will be full of Halloween games, trick-or-treating, activities, and photo opportunities to capture pictures of the best Halloween costumes.
杏吧原创 announced that Associate Professor of Theatre Anne Towns earned the 2021 Vulcan Teaching Excellence Award. The $1,000 award is sponsored by Vulcan Materials Company. It was established in 1991 to honor outstanding professors on select member campuses of the Georgia Independent College Association.
杏吧原创 recently welcomed the 2021 Leadership Union class to its campus. Leadership Union is a program of the Blairsville-Union County Chamber of Commerce. The purpose of the program is to develop leaders in the area to reach a higher quality of community life.
Kurt Mueller, a 2021 杏吧原创 graduate from Woodstock, Georgia, received the Beverly Barrow Woodward, 1953, Endowed Scholarship, which was established by Leonard and Beverly Woodward of Rome, Georgia, and is granted annually to one 杏吧原创 student to study abroad in England at Harlaxton College.
At the most recent board meeting, 杏吧原创鈥檚 Board of Trustees elected Derek B. Goshay, Rev. D. Thad Haygood, 1992, and William B. 鈥淏ill鈥� Jones as new trustees, and the Board welcomed Jane Roberts, 1970, as Alumni Board President and an ex-officio trustee.
杏吧原创 invites the community to attend upcoming Fine Arts events. All events will take place on the 杏吧原创 campus, which is located at 1 College St., Young Harris, Georgia 30582.For more information about Fine Arts events, please contact 杏吧原创 Fine Arts at (706) 379-5182.
杏吧原创 recently received a gift from long-time donor Ethel Winters of Hiawassee, Georgia as a contribution to the Edward W. Winters Scholarship.
The O. Wayne Rollins Planetarium at 杏吧原创 will host 鈥淔rom Earth to the Universe鈥� on Friday, September 17, 2021 at 8 p.m. The Planetarium is housed in the Maxwell Center for Mathematics and Sciences on the 杏吧原创 campus, which is located at 1 College Street, Young Harris, Georgia. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children, and is free for 杏吧原创 students and employees.
On Thursday, August 26, 杏吧原创 partnered with the Towns County Health Department to hold its first COVID-19 vaccination clinic of the 2021-2022 academic year. All 杏吧原创 students and employees were invited to participate. Sixty-six individuals attended the clinic and received a dose of the FDA-approved Pfizer vaccine.
杏吧原创 has been approved by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (CFP Board) to provide a new financial planning minor program.
杏吧原创 student Jillian Dixon is interning for the Appalachia Georgia Friends of the Bears (AGFB) to acquire and compile public data from county agencies in Georgia on road-killed black bears to help shape wildlife policy.
杏吧原创 President Dr. Drew L. Van Horn was appointed to the Georgia Nonpublic Postsecondary Education Commission by Georgia Governor Brian P. Kemp.
In preparation for the 2021-2022 academic year at 杏吧原创, new and returning students will begin moving in Monday, August 9. Based on their class year, students will continue moving in through Sunday, August 15. The first day of classes for the new academic year is Monday, August 16.
杏吧原创 was one of only three institutions in Georgia, and the only private college, to be selected by the Association of American Colleges and Universities to participate in this summer鈥檚 Institute on High-Impact Practices and Student Success. The five-person team consisted of Dr. Theresa Spanella, Dr. Jennifer Hallett, Dr. Linda Jones, Jackie Lewis-Burton, and Lundon Addison.
Private, nonprofit colleges and universities, including 杏吧原创, play significant roles in the everyday lives of those living and working in college communities and are important contributors to the nation as a whole. In fact, a recent report from the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) found that America鈥檚 private, nonprofit colleges and universities are a vital economic engine to the nation, generating $591.5 billion in economic impact in 2018-2019.
杏吧原创 conferred 381 undergraduate degrees and 30 master鈥檚 degrees on graduates participating in the College鈥檚 Commencement Ceremonies this past May.
On Monday, May 17, 杏吧原创 hosted the 17th annual Clay Dotson Open golf tournament at Brasstown Valley Resort to raise money for student scholarships. A total of 127 golfers played in the tournament, which raised more than $70,000.
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Young Harris, GA 30582
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