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NGCSU In The News – Archives
December 2008
Richard Ingram wants to fight for his country. He wants it so badly that he’s fought the U.S. Army for two years for the right to do just that. Ingram, a 25-year-old LaGrange Academy graduate, was commissioned Saturday as a second lieutenant in the Army during a graduation and commissioning ceremony at North Georgia College & State University. He is the first soldier in the war in Iraq to have such serious combat injuries and subsequently earn a commission through the Army ROTC program. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University Army ROTC Cadet Richard Ingram became 2nd Lt. Ingram during a commissioning ceremony at the school Saturday. The blast of a roadside bomb in Iraq's Sunni Triangle resulted in the amputation of a portion of Ingram's left arm, who was on duty with the Georgia Army National Guard at the time. [Full story...]
The belt tightening will continue at colleges and universities across the state, including North Georgia College & State University, as the Board of Regents recently decided to follow-up a round of six percent budget cuts with an extra two percent worth of trimming. This latest action will raise healthcare payments for state university employees while resulting in a one-time tuition fee for students. [Full story...]
Georgia will need an additional 20,000 nurses by 2012 and could easily miss the mark by 8,000. Yet some 4,000 applicants to nursing programs are turned away annually. One big part of the problem: a faculty shortage. ...Without waiting for the answer, North Georgia College & State University has designed a program specifically to create new nursing teachers, the MS in Nursing Education (MSNE). The program is designed to generate interest in teaching in colleges, or in hospital settings. [Full story...]
The snow arrived right on time to add a little magic to Dahlonega for about 400 visitors from across the state Monday when the OneGeorgia Authority came to town to dispense millions of state dollars in grants and loans. Lumpkin County made sure visitors, including Gov. Sonny Perdue and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle felt welcome. Sporting gold ties, development authority board members and city and county officials greeted everyone in the foyer of North Georgia College & State University's Memorial Hall gym. [Full story...]
Bill Knight is an avid genealogist and member of the Lumpkin County Historical Society. While working on a project to photograph all the inscribed grave markers in public cemeteries in the county, he discovered some of the oldest stones in Dahlonega's Mt. Hope Cemetery were being damaged ...Knight's concern led to a project now underway by historical society volunteers and interns from North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
Mike and Lynn Cottrell of Dahlonega were honored Tuesday as
"Philanthropists of the Year" by the North Georgia Community Foundation.
Mike Cottrell, whose family-owned company in Gainesville makes
automobile haulers, has supported a number of organizations through
financial gifts. The largest, a $10 million gift to North Georgia
College & State University, resulted in the naming of the university’s
business school in his honor.
A quartet of Lumpkin County officials welcomed Gov. Sonny Perdue to town by singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas." Perdue later responded by playing Santa Claus. The One Georgia Authority, the state panel that administers funds from the settlement with tobacco companies, met Monday at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
November 2008
Between 400-500 people from all around the state are expected to descend on Dahlonega Monday, Dec. 1, at the invitation of Gov. Sonny Perdue. Those coming are members of the OneGA Authority, of which Perdue is the head, and representatives of the counties that will be receiving OneGA grants this year, including Lumpkin County. ...The annual meeting will take place at the NGCSU gym, 2 p.m., Monday, Dec. 1, and the public is invited to attend. [Full story...]
Dr. Joe Chapman didn't have to worry about his arms getting tired as he prepared to conduct the North Georgia College & State University orchestra at the fall concert Tuesday. This, he said, is a sign of a well practiced musical group. Too much arm waving means the conductor is having a difficult time keeping his musicians in sync. [Full story...]
Earl Porter is the top Cadet in Cadet Command, No. 1 on the order of
merit list. But you'll have to hear that from someone else. Porter won't
come right out and tell you. That's not his style. In fact, what's
changed most around the senior at North Georgia College and State
University are some of the people around him.
More than 125 people gathered at the Sautee Nacoochee Center and Folk Pottery Museum on Sunday, Nov. 9, for the dedication of the Bob Owens Courtyard. Owens, who died in 2004, was a respected art professor at North Georgia College & State University. He had a big impact on the arts community in White County, having founded an arts festival for children with special needs. [Full story...]
Dr. David Potter had plenty of practice wielding a giant pair of scissors last Friday as the North Georgia College & State University president cut the ribbons on two major multi-million dollar projects. The first ribbon belonged to the three-story Library Technology Center while the second was draped near the entrance of the Student Recreation Center. [Full story...]
The Dahlonega Gold Museum is hosting a special exhibit for the month of November called "A Tribute to Georgia's Veterans." The display will cover Georgia's involvement in the wars from the American Revolution through the present day and will honor the service of Georgia men and women who have served in various branches of the Armed Forces as well as the cadets of North Georgia College & State University who are now serving the United States. [Full story...]
The North Georgia College & State University fine arts department will host a classical guitar summit, Nov. 21-22, that features recitals and master classes – open to the community – to showcase the guitar and its repertoire. Featured musicians include Luther Enlow, duoATL, Esteban Anastasio, Athens Guitar Trio, and John Sutherland. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University celebrated Friday the grand openings of two facilities that will have long-term benefits for the more than 5,000 students at the university, as well as members of the community. The Library Technology Center and Student Recreation Center opened to students this fall. [Full story...]
October 2008
The rules of the road are usually pretty straight forward. Green means go, red means stop, yellow means a little of both. But when it comes to parking in downtown Dahlonega, things become a little more complicated. ...Parking is a different matter altogether at North Georgia College & State University where each day thousands of students attempt to wrangle their vehicles into a series of crowded lots. [Full story...]
Two exhibits now on display at North Georgia College & State University show students today aren’t afraid to take on heavy subjects. "Reflexión," a mixed-media exhibit of self portraits by graduating senior Angel I. Alonso Terrón, and "Woven into War," a textile exhibit by senior Hailey Fowler, will be on display through Saturday. [Full story...]
Economic plans and military tactics have taken the reins in the presidential race, leaving the future of education in the hands of candidates jockeying for seats in Georgia's General Assembly. ...David Potter, president of North Georgia College & State University, said legislative candidates shouldn't forget about higher education. [Full story...]
What happens in a year that stocks have been in a downward free fall? That has left a number of organizations concerned about traditional year-end gifts of stock. "Most annual giving occurs at the end of the year, and we are anticipating some type of drop off on our annual fund support," said Bruce Howerton, vice president for institutional advancement at North Georgia College & State University. "I think most charitable organizations are expecting some type of drop off in their annual fund gifts." [Full story...]
More than 11,000 University System of Georgia employees are reconsidering their top-notch health care plans now that the Board of Regents has pulled $20 million from the system's health insurance program. The move was part of the Board of Regent’s decision to approve a $136 million budget cut for the state's 35 colleges and universities. ...The cut cost North Georgia College & State University $1.7 million in state funds, which accounts for 2.5 percent of the university's total budget. [Full story...]
Key Ingredients: America by Food, an award-winning traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution exploring 500 years of America's rich diversity of food culture, will be at North Georgia College & State University beginning in February, and the Appalachian Studies Center at NGCSU is collecting local stories and recipes for a companion exhibit. [Full story...]
Key Ingredients: America by Food, an award-winning traveling exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution exploring 500 years of America's rich diversity of food culture, will be at North Georgia College & State University beginning in February, and the Appalachian Studies Center at NGCSU is collecting local stories and recipes for a companion exhibit. [Full story...]
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia gave North Georgia College & State University the go ahead to offer the state's first online master's degree program in international affairs. The growth of the international affairs department at NGCSU is a direct correlation of the school’s history as a military and leadership institution. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University's new Appalachian Community Studies Certificate Program - which explores a wide variety of topics spanning from oral histories to bluegrass music to heirloom gardening, and more to provide a complete overview of the Appalachian mountain region - is open to area residents who are interested in learning more about the region. [Full story...]
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich is coming to North Georgia College & State University Oct. 14 to talk about his work as an editorial cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ...his presentation, "An Evening With Mike Luchovich," begins at 7:30 p.m. in the special collections room of the NGCSU Library and Technology Center. [Full story...]
September 2008
In Appalachian Georgia, generations of young people have received the same life advice: Get married. Get a job at the mill. Settle down into a stable - if slow paced - country life insulated from big city troubles. ...That blueprint too rarely includes going on to college or even finishing high school, said Shirley Davis, who heads the Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education at NGCSU, which is distributing $98,000 in grant money to 16 north Georgia high schools to support programs boosting graduation and post-secondary education rates. [Full story...]
Sixteen area high schools received a total of $98,000 in grant funding Wednesday from North Georgia College & State University's Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education. The funds were awarded to help encourage students to finish high school and pursue a college degree. [Full story...]
School officials from 16 rural north Georgia communities got the "feel" of poverty and what its like to cope at a "Welcome to the State of Poverty" program held at the Northeast Georgia History Center in Gainesville Wednesday. The program, conducted by the University of Georgia, was co-sponsored by the Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education (GACHE)... North Georgia College & State University also sponsored the activity. [Full story...]
The Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education (GACHE) at North Georgia College & State University is awarding 16 competitive grants totaling $98,000 to area high schools on Wednesday to support strategies to assist and encourage students to finish high school and pursue a college degree. [Full story...]
Brian Mann, head of the department of modern languages at North Georgia College & State University, said the university has made major steps to improve its Chinese language offerings over the past few years. This summer, 16 students took advantage of the school’s first summer language institute, an intensive summer program in Chinese. [Full story...]
After running at half capacity for almost two weeks, Dahlonega's water treatment plant was back to full strength Thursday afternoon. ...McCullough said he appreciates the efforts of residents, businesses and NGCSU, who all took steps to conserve water during the shortage. With about 5,500 students, the university is the system's biggest water customer. [Full story...]
The newest building at North Georgia College & State University is much more than a single library. In fact, according to director of library services Shawn Tonner, it's more like two. "We've got the traditional print library and then we've got a complete parallel library that's an electronic library," she said. [Full story...]
This fall about 1,000 freshmen at North Georgia College & State University will not only be hitting the books, they will be hitting the streets of Dahlonega as part of the learning process. It's all part of NGCSU's "service learning" initiative. [Full story...]
August 2008
There has been a nationwide shortage of nurses for at least two decades. But it’s not because nobody wants to be a nurse. "You have a lot of students who want to go into nursing," said Toni Barnett, head of the nursing program at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University is currently bracing for a round of six percent state budget cuts that could result in the loss of approximately $1.4 million in school funds. The university's current overall budget is a reported $44 million. [Full story...]
In addition to its established campus in Dahlonega, North Georgia College and State University is launching an evening MBA program for students wishing to secure a graduate degree in Business. Classes will be conducted on the 3rd floor of City Hall in Cumming, beginning this month. [Full story...]
A library nearly the length of a football field will have its grand opening today at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. Under construction since February 2007, the 88,600-square-foot Library Technology Center will open its doors to students and Lumpkin County residents before classes start Wednesday. [Full story...]
In early July, North Georgia College & State University, like all state public institutions, submitted a plan to the Board of Regents that identified potential savings totaling 5 percent of its state-funded budget. [Full story...]
Clayton Grant remembers getting his military haircut at Woody's Barber Shop in Dahlonega during FROG week of 1961. "It was rough," said Grant, who recently retired from the college. "I think they were rougher on you then than they are now. Of course, every generation thinks that." [Full story...]
Local Chinese are excited their home country has the opportunity to show off characteristic Chinese hospitality by holding the Olympics. ...Chi-Hsuan Catterson, lead instructor for the North Georgia College & State University Chinese Language Institute, said she thinks the Olympics are a positive step for China. [Full story...]
July 2008
Soon Waffle House and Wal-Mart won't be the only around-the-clock operations in town as construction at the North Georgia College and State University Rec Deck gears up for a final all-out effort. "Next week we'll probably go to 24 hours a day with rolling shifts," said Campus Project Manager Gerald Lord. [Full story...]
Allison Carpenter is returning to the stomping grounds of her youth, this time as a teacher. ..."I love to be around kids," said the recent North Georgia College & State University graduate. "I'm excited about being able to influence them in a positive way." [Full story...]
Billy Lachnit, a marketing major, was one of four division leaders and 17 students from North Georgia College & State University to participate in the Mike Cottrell School of Business' first Nonprofit Leadership Development Workshop. [Full story...]
This weekend will see the debut of the latest book by Anne Dismukes Amerson. Her new book, "Dahlonega Gold," is a historical novel ...one of the first books to be published under North Georgia College & State University's new publishing house. [Full story...]
Ashley Thompson and about 120 other high schoolers are getting the chance to explore their interests in aviation and aeronautics this week as part of the LeadAmerica Conference at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
Many high school seniors are trying to gain a competitive edge by entering joint enrollment programs. ...Admissions officer Jonathan Cueva of North Georgia College & State University said he has seen an increase in joint enrollment applicants. [Full story...]
A professor at North Georgia College & State University is trying to lure students out of the classroom and into research laboratories. Mark Spraker founded the school's first Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities last year. [Full story...]
1st Lt. William Lesley went to North Georgia College and State University for a degree in criminal justice. His parents, Dick and Diane Lesley of Tiger, believe he went to college "to major in the Army." On June 22, after 2 1/2 years of service in the U.S. Army, Lesley was honored with a Bronze Star for his achievements while serving in Iraq. [Full story...]
A new Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities at North Georgia College & State University has been awarded $25,000 from the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents to support major research activities. [Full story...]
June 2008
A new Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities at North Georgia College & State University is expanding its initiatives thanks to a a grant from the University System Board of Regents. School officials say the money will be used to help support major research activities at NGCSU. [Full story...]
Kevin J. A'Hearn was the #1-ranked graduate in his class recently completed at the U. S. Army's Mountain Warfare School in Jericho, Vt. ...A'Hearn is a ROTC cadet at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, Ga. [Full story...]
As far as hobbies go, weaving is a complicated one. But for Jo-Marie Karst, who has been weaving for about 10 years, the process is relaxing. ...This summer she will be teaching weaving courses at North Georgia College as part of the Appalachian Community Studies Certificate Program. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University's impact on the
regional economy was $145.7 million and 1,443 jobs during Fiscal Year
2007, according to a recent report from the Selig Center for Economic
Growth in the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business.
North Georgia College & State University's impact on
the regional economy was $145.7 million and 1,443
jobs during Fiscal Year 2007, according to a recent
report from the Selig Center for Economic Growth in
the University of Georgia's Terry College of
Business.
North Georgia College & State University will begin design work this week for a section of roadway that is the first phase of the university's planned development of more than 200 acres of property next to the main campus in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
Chinese courses at North Georgia College and State University
will be expanding thanks to a $240,000 grant. Dr. Brian Mann, the Head
of NGCSU's Department of Modern Languages, said the funds are especially
helpful considering China's influences in the world today.
Kate Maine of Gainesville has been named director of university relations at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
Apples, pecans, Vidalia onions. Catfish, fried chicken, barbecue. Are you licking your lips yet? That's the aim of "Key Ingredients: America by Food," a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Federation of State Humanities Councils. ...Over the next 18 months, the exhibit will visit Vienna and 11 other Peach State towns, including Dahlonega at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
May 2008
The North Georgia College & State University annual leadership conference on May 8-9 drew academics and military leaders from across the country and from various backgrounds and disciplines to focus on "Creating Leaders for Asymmetric Warfare." [Full story...]
While many recent high school graduates will venture off to college this fall with only a vague idea of their career plans, Chaston Stewart has his plan to become a military intelligence analyst all ironed out. ...he plans to spend four years in the ROTC program at North Georgia College & State University... [Full story...]
The Holly Theatre and North Georgia College & State University are collaborating for the first time to present "A Streetcar Named Desire" May 22-25. ...The project features both students and community performers, and students will receive class credit at North Georgia for their participation. [Full story...]
The Department of Defense announced today the award of eight major grants totaling $3.07 million dollars, as part of the 2008 Reserve Officer Training Corps Language and Culture Project. This year's recipients include North Georgia College and State University... [Full story...]
The recent North Georgia College & State University annual
leadership conference drew academics and military leaders from across
the country and from various backgrounds and disciplines to focus on
"Creating Leaders for Asymmetric Warfare."
Mike Cottrell, owner of Gainesville-based Cottrell Inc., received an honorary doctorate degree in business administration from North Georgia College & State University on May 3. [Full story...]
Carbon footprints, renewable energy sources, going green, composting – these topics may not be familiar to the average student, but North Georgia junior Duane Kelley clearly understands their relevance to humankind's survival.[Full story...]
April 2008
Carbon footprints, renewable energy sources, going green, composting – these topics may not be familiar to the average student, but North Georgia junior Duane Kelley clearly understands their relevance to humankind's survival. [Full story...]
Colleges nationwide are operating or putting in place security measures to help prevent a repeat of the Virginia Tech massacre, which happened a year ago today. ...North Georgia College & State University and other colleges have established communication systems that involve quickly sending messages in the event of an emergency. [Full story...]
Each year members of the Lumpkin County Historical Society honor those in the community who have contributed to the preservation of local history. ...Receiving certificates of appreciation included Dr. Pamela Sachant and Cynthia Horne, NGCSU. [Full story...]
A study conducted two years ago by North Georgia College & State University pinpointed a graduate program in business as the greatest educational need for the Forsyth County area. This August that need will be filled when North Georgia's Team MBA program enrolls its first class on the fourth floor of Cumming City Hall, located just off Georgia 400 in downtown Cumming. [Full story...]
March 2008
The beetle battle has begun. ...Sarah Osicka, the North Georgia College & State University Predator Beetle Lab coordinator, and her student assistant Michele Wiesner, are overseeing the development of thousands of adelgid-eating Japanese beetles. [Full story...]
An unconventional canvas was utilized by the artists of North Georgia College & State University earlier this month. The students created art-on-wheels in order to raise fund for the Appalachian Skate Klub's (A.S.K.) efforts to bring a skate park to the county. [Full story...]
Appalachian Skate Klub members are living up to their name. ...The kids have also helped with setting up for the opening of the new beetle lab at North Georgia College & State University, a project near to the heart of A.S.K. supporter Murray Lamb, vice-chair of the Lumpkin Coalition that raised money for the beetle lab through its HemlockFest event. [Full story...]
For most hikers, completing the entire Appalachian Trail would be the final realization of a lifelong goal. For Daren Wendell, it's the equivalent of a warm-up lap. Because 2,175 miles is an easy stroll when one's mission is to walk around the entire planet. [Full story...]
Professor Joe Morgan's PowerPoint presentation isn’t for those with weak stomachs. In a semi-darkened classroom of 30 students at North Georgia College and State University, Morgan projected image after image of grisly death scenes on a large screen. [Full story...]
February 2008
On February 23, the Environmental Leadership Center at North Georgia College & State University hosted a grand opening for its new Predator Beetle Lab, designed for researchers to raise beetles to help preserve the hemlock tree population of north Georgia. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University plans to start a master of business administration degree program in August at Cumming City Hall. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents approved the business program last spring. [Full story...]
In her 11 years at Brenau University, Anna Wilkins hasn’t seen a flu season like this one. ...The number of flu cases at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega has increased to 117 this year from 12 last year. [Full story...]
Max Burns, dean of the Mike Cottrell School of Business at North Georgia College & State University, began his new role on Feb. 1. Burns stepped into the position with more than 20 years of experience in higher education. [Full story...]
The top floor of Cumming City Hall soon will become home to a new program for North Georgia College & State University. The Dahlonega school's new masters of business administration program, TeamMBA, is expected to begin at the downtown site in August. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University and City of Cumming officials recently announced the inaugural location of the university’s new master of business administration degree program during the Feb. 19 Cumming City Council meeting. [Full story...]
Leaders in Forsyth County are so anxious to have a local, four-year college that they're willing to start small — on a vacant floor of Cumming City Hall. Starting in August, North Georgia College and State University of Dahlonega will offer a master's degree in business administration at City Hall. [Full story...]
Dr. Richard Byers knows that one man's runoff can save another man's garden. So, the native Australian decided to bring the same kind of rainwater filtration technology that he grew up with to the drought-plagued mountains of North Georgia. "I grew up on rainwater," said the North Georgia College & State University associate history professor. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University plans to expand its
wireless network during the next several months. The work, expected to
be completed in the fall, will provide most of the campus with wireless
coverage, said Bryson Payne, chief information officer.
Laptop and mobile device users at North Georgia College & State University will soon have more options and freedom to access the Internet as the wireless network grows during the next several months. [Full story...]
Hundreds of nurses and nursing students descended upon Georgia’s Capitol Thursday to share their professional concerns with legislators. ...Toni Barnett, head of the nursing program at North Georgia College & State University, said the problem isn’t that there’s a lack of people wanting to become nurses. [Full story...]
January 2008
"I think every vote does count ... if you didn't vote, then you haven't tried to change anything." These are the words - this is the voice - of 19-year-old Amanda Peck, a member of the College Republicans at North Georgia College and State University. [Full story...]
An English professor at North Georgia College & State University has been awarded a Fulbright grant to travel to Ukraine in April to teach a seminar on American literature. Eric Link, who specializes in pre-1900s American literature, will spend a five-week residency in Lutsk, Ukraine. [Full story...]
"I think we are now in the largest meeting room in Dahlonega," joked Dr. David Potter while speaking to a large assemblage in the cavernous parking deck of North Georgia College & State University. Chuckles echoed throughout the concrete building as dozens of officials and construction workers gathered for the "topping out" party. [Full story...]
The company building a 236-space parking deck at North Georgia College & State University held a "topping out" party today to mark the project coming to an end. The company treated its 130 workers and others associated with the work to lunch and some giveaways in the parking deck. [Full story...]
If a picture is really worth a thousand words, then an entire 19th century novel must be on display in the lobby of the Stewart Library at North Georgia College & State University. Portraits of men sporting handlebar mustaches and women wearing intricate feathered hats tell the tale of a bygone Dahlonega. [Full story...]
December 2007
Two national education groups have named North Georgia College & State University’s Linda Williams their 2007 Georgia Professor of the Year. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education selected her from more than 300 professors in the United States. [Full story...]
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education have named North Georgia College & State University's Linda Williams the 2007 Georgia Professor of the Year. [Full story...]
North Georgia is taking several measures to reduce water consumption in its daily internal operations and researching ways to implement other water-saving improvements in the future. The university - which serves more than 5,000 students, a number that exceeds the entire population of Dahlonega - is one of the top 10 water users in Lumpkin County and Dahlonega's largest water consumer. [Full story...]
Deceased Georgia House Speaker Tom Murphy will lie in honor at the state Capitol on Friday. ...One of Murphy's last public appearances took place in 2003, when he returned to his alma mater, North Georgia College and State University, where he graduated in 1943. ...Murphy was awarded an honorary doctorate from North Georgia. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University is taking several measures to reduce water consumption. The campus' 1,500 residents soon will notice a change when they shower. Maintenance workers are installing flow constrictors in residence-hall bathrooms to reduce the amount of water used in the showers. [Full story...]
Men living on campus at North Georgia College & State University no longer have to be members of the Corps of Cadets. Further, all freshmen and sophomore students, both men and women, must live in campus housing. College officials announced the changes Tuesday as part of revisions to a campus residence policy... [Full story...]
The campus residence policy at North Georgia College & State University, established in the early 1970s, is being modified to create equal access to residence halls for all students on the Dahlonega campus. [Full story...]
...In February of 2007, a delegation which included individuals from Gainesville State College, Kennesaw State University, North Georgia College and State University and the University of West Georgia traveled to the University of Hassan II with the same purpose: to work on an international partnership. [Full story...]
November 2007
The sky is falling over downtown Dahlonega. Luckily, the damage seems to be contained to the screen of the George E. Coleman Sr. planetarium. There, footage of the killer asteroid from "Armageddon" plays every Friday night on the domed roof of the North Georgia College & State University facility. [Full story...]
Brittany Hellmeister has had a reserved seat for Celine Dion's upcoming Atlanta concert for a while now. ...Last month a covert camera crew arrived on the North Georgia College & State University campus, under the guise of the college news, with a secret message for the freshman. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University has established a new criminal forensics concentration within the Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice this fall. The six-course concentration offers criminal justice majors a forensics program focused on investigative techniques. [Full story...]
The third annual Hemlockfest, which runs Friday through Sunday just outside Dahlonega, offers music, food, crafts and other fun stuff. But the event is really all about bugs. ...When the first Hemlockfest took place in 2005, the state’s first beetle-raising lab was just getting started at Young Harris College. ...And now, a third lab is about to open, this time at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
October 2007
In the wake of a probe of "purchasing card" activities at Georgia’s colleges and universities, area college officials say they have policies in place that closely guard against fraud. "Our policies and internal control processes ensure strict monitoring of all card transactions," said James Barnaby, director of materials management at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
Brooke Walker is making strides. Literally. And each small step represents the 20 months of grueling physical and mental rehabilitation that have led to it. "You're pretty tough," says her physical therapist Stefanie Palma as she assists the 16-year-old on a walk around the third floor of the NGCSU Health & Natural Sciences Building. [Full story...]
Stacey Ferris took a Chinese class on a lark at North Georgia College & State University. The decision proved life-changing, as she has since picked it up as a minor and spent nine weeks studying and traveling in the Asian country. [Full story...]
A group of computer students at North Georgia College and State University joined the search for missing adventurer Steve Fossett... without leaving Dahlonega. [Full story...]
September 2007
About 70 North Georgia College & State University students are using satellite images to search for missing aviation pioneer and millionaire Steve Fossett. Fossett made national headlines when he went missing in the Nevada desert on Labor Day. [Full story...]
August 2007
Three Polish educators are sampling American life, North Georgia style. They have toured area schools, sampled Southern foods and visited popular attractions ...They are visiting the United States as part of an educator exchange program sponsored through North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
For the past four years, North Georgia College & State University has consistently been included among the top Public Universities in the South among those institutions providing undergraduate and master's programs in U.S.News & World Report's annual edition of "America's Best Colleges." [Full story...]
Educators can earn a little extra cash – and other perks – by taking some newly established classes geared to improve math and science instruction. Pioneer Regional Educational Service Agency, in league with North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega and Piedmont College in Demorest... [Full story...]
July 2007
After a long tradition in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), North Georgia College & State University received word late last week that it is now official members of Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). [Full story...]
At least 11 area educators are participating in a program that helps pave the way for them to become administrators ...The state agency teams up with North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega and Pioneer Regional Educational Service Agency in Cleveland. [Full story...]
The Georgia Board of Regents has approved a North Georgia College and State University business graduate school program for Forsyth County, though negotiations are still ongoing on where it will be permanently located. [Full story...]
June 2007
Gainesville Police Chief Frank Hooper and his new deputy chief, Jane Nichols, have a bond that goes back longer than most law officers. ...she went on to earn a physical education teaching degree from North Georgia College. [Full story...]
"The Voice" has been silenced on North Georgia College and State University campus. As the 2006-2007 school year drew to a close, the school newspaper quietly folded as students appeared to grow increasingly fed up with a lack of quality and timeliness in the publication. [Full story...]
Sorry, San Francisco, but the first gold rush in U.S. history didn't start in California in 1849. It was 1828 when gold was discovered in a part of the Cherokee Nation known today as Dahlonega, Ga. [Full story...]
Read print and online news articles about the course and game at NGCSU during summer 2007.
May 2007
When the major replacing Marion Chalker arrived in Tah Ninh province, Chalker tried to make the transition as easy as possible. Chalker offered advice where he thought it would help. Then, before heading back to the United States, he said goodbye to the Vietnamese driver... When he finally got back to Georgia, Chalker used the GI Bill to enroll at North Georgia College. [Full story...]
Well respected and distinguished NCAA women's basketball official Sally Bell has been named the Sun Belt Conference's Coordinator of Women's Basketball Officials, Commissioner Wright Waters announced this week. ...Bell was born in Dublin, Georgia and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia in 1975 and a master's degree from North Georgia College in 1981. [Full story...]
He said it repeatedly: "Terminate the threat." Mike Ramsey was more interested in adrenaline rushes than fancy techniques from his pupils – 18 law enforcement officials from surrounding counties – as he instructed them in developing the "warrior mindset." "If you get called, you respond without hesitation," said Ramsey, a North Georgia College & State University campus officer. [Full story...]
Law Enforcement and School Resource Officers from around Northeast Georgia met in Lumpkin County Tuesday to train for school emergencies. They were mainly focusing on "active shooter response." An active shooter is an armed person who had used deadly force on other persons and continues to do so, like what happened in the Virginia Tech massacre. The officers were put in real situations and used live fire in the drill. [Full story...]
The principal of Silver City Elementary School in North Forsyth County has been selected as Georgia's 2007 National Distinguished Principal, the Georgia Association of Elementary School Principals announced Wednesday. ...A graduate of the University of Georgia and North Georgia College, Kieffer previously was principal at Vickery Creek Elementary. [Full story...]
Erika Porter lived her dream Saturday as she and 17 other North Georgia College & State University cadets got their commissions as second lieutenants. "The military is something I've always wanted to do," said the 23-year-old Roswell resident. [Full story...]
April 2007
North Georgia College & State University President David L. Potter talked about the school's progress, future and services Wednesday morning during the Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce's InForum monthly breakfast meeting. [Full story...]
Faculty members in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at North Georgia College & State University have received a $175,756 grant from the National Science Foundation. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University's Department of Mathematics & Computer Science is set to receive a $175,756 grant from the National Science Foundation. Robb Sinn and Dianna Spence, along with an interdisciplinary team of additional NGCSU professors, are involved in research focused on "Authentic, Career-Based, Discovery Learning Projects in Introductory Statistics." [Full story...]
With heads bowed, from left, Emily Brantley, Katie Knight and Rebekah Poss take part in a moment of silence alongside hundreds of fellow students and community members. The assemblage gathered in the darkness of the North Georgia College & State University's Owen Drill Field... [Full story...]
It was a first in Brad Strickland's teaching career. A student in one of his classes at Gainesville State College in Oakwood asked him last week if he could lock the door before class started. The student said she "would feel better" if he did... [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University, in Dahlonega, has received a pledge of $10-million from Mike Cottrell, owner of Cottrell Incorporated, a company that manufactures automobile-transport equipment in Gainesville, Ga., and his wife, Lynn, to support the School of Business and Government. Part of the gift will help establish the Center for the Future of North Georgia, which will study economic development and entrepreneurship in the region.
Students and faculty of North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega gathered Thursday night at a candlelight vigil to express their solidarity with those touched by Monday's tragedy at Virginia Tech. "They're us," said junior Meagan Pruitt, choking back tears shortly after extinguishing her candle. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University held a candle light vigil Wednesday night for its stricken sister school in Virginia. North Georgia and Virginia Tech are two of only six of the nation's senior military institutions... [Full story...]
A candlelight vigil is planned in Dahlonega tonight for the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre. Students, faculty and staff of North Georgia College & State University are being invited to gather on the school's drill field at 9:00 for a ceremony expected to last about 30 minutes. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University plans to see May 15 how it would respond to an "active shooter," a drill that had been planned before the real thing took place in horrific detail Monday at Virginia Tech. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University had some faculty members visiting the Blacksburg college recently, said NGCSU President David Potter. "They do such a good job supporting their Corps of Cadets," Potters said of Virginia Tech. Potter, like others, expressed total shock about Monday's massacre. [Full story...]
Portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt were displayed on the campus drill field at North Georgia College and State University Tuesday.The quilt is made up of tapestry panels formed by quilt blocks handcrafted by friends and family of AIDS victims. [Full story...]
Area residents will have the opportunity to view portions of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the campus of North Georgia College & State University. The free display of the quilt sections is set for Tuesday from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. [Full story...]
...North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega also held an open house Saturday. "This year, we had 170 prospective students and cadets attend, many of whom brought family members with them," said Keith P. Antonia, director of cadet admissions. [Full story...]
The fervor that had originally fueled passionate debate over a potential
dorm life policy-change on the campus of North Georgia College & State
University was nowhere to be found amongst the laid-back assemblage that
attended last week's special town hall meeting in the Health & Natural
Sciences Building.
[Full story...]
The North Georgia Symphony is making its way to Forsyth County to perform on Saturday at 7:30 p.m., at North Forsyth High School's Performing Arts Center. The orchestra features professionals from the north metro Atlanta area and students from North Georgia College and State University. [Full story...]
As a physical therapist and teacher, Frank Fearon has motivated and encouraged hundreds of patients and students. Now the tables are turned, and he's the one who needs a helping hand. Fearon, 53, has been battling a brain tumor since August 2004. The struggle has taken a heavy financial toll on his family, and his North Georgia College & State University friends have been holding fundraisers to help pay his expenses. [Full story...]
The pros and cons of allowing non-cadet male students to live on campus at North Georgia College & State University were aired at a meeting at the school Wednesday night. The change would allow male students who are not members of the cadet corps to live on campus. [Full story...]
Things could be getting hairier on the campus of North Georgia College & State University. Literally. Though the military buzz-cut is currently the required hair-style for all resident males, the shaggier manes of non-military students may become more commonplace if a possible residency policy change allows non-cadets to live on campus without enrolling in the Army ROTC. [Full story...]
A coordinator has been selected for the visual arts program of the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts (OICA), a joint venture among Southwestern Community College, the Eastern Band of Cherokee and Western Carolina University. Rickie Wesbrooks has accepted the position of Fine Arts Instructor/Program Coordinator ...Wesbrooks earned a master of education in art education from North Georgia College and State University... [Full story...]
A public meeting is set for 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday on proposed changes to North Georgia College & State University's residency policy. The meeting will take place in the auditorium of the Health & Natural Sciences Building on Sunset Drive off Main Street. [Full story...]
Part of a site the city of Cumming is negotiating to purchase on Pilgrim Mill Road for an aquatic center may include a four-year college affiliated with North Georgia College & State University, a city councilman says. [Full story...]
East Hall High School principal Mike Gillum has announced he is retiring after 32 years in the Hall County school system. ...A native of South Point, Ohio, Gillum graduated from Piedmont College in Demorest in 1974 and earned his master's degree in education from North Georgia College in Dahlonega in 1976. [Full story...]
A little bit of folk music along with some soft rock and a touch of country is all coming to the Brighton Center for the Performing Arts in a performance by singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins. ...Mullins started several garage bands, and played drums and guitar in his high school jazz band as well as singing in several choruses. He studied voice and majored in music education at North Georgia College in Dahlongega, Ga. [Full story...]
A $10 million gift, the largest donation to North Georgia College & State University in the institution's 134-year history, is being contributed by Dahlonega resident Mike Cottrell to benefit the School of Business & Government. [Full story...]
Perry Tomlinson, BB&T Bank's regional president, hands Ed Nix, chairman of the North Georgia College & State University Foundation, a ceremonial key to the Dahlonega branch bank building on Main Street. [Full story...]
Ninevah province, Iraq — The concept of time is altered out here in the northern Iraqi desert, where the days of war are marked not by calendars but by the sun and moon. And when the next mission begins. The birth of Tuesday, March 20, 2007, is heralded by three distinct sounds... (Mentions two North Georgia students) [Full story...]
A $10 million gift, the largest donation to North Georgia College & State University in the institution's 134-year history, is being contributed by Dahlonega resident Mike Cottrell to benefit the School of Business & Government. The school will be renamed the Mike Cottrell School of Business. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University is looking at ending the tradition of requiring resident male students to serve in the Corps of Cadets. An administrative team led by senior military leadership is recommending the change as part of a study of the four-year military college's residential policy. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University has received a $10 million gift, the largest in its 134-year history. Mike Cottrell of Dahlonega contributed the amount to benefit the School of Business & Government, which now will be named after him. [Full story...]
An ROTC instructor from North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega won the Fort Benning Commanding General's Cup Pistol Trophy at the Feb. 4 competition at Fort Benning. Sgt. 1st Class Eric Leid, a North Georgia military science instructor, won the Fort Benning Service Pistol Championship for the second year in a row. [Full story...]
Parlez-vous francais? Habla espanol? A group of students from five area high schools came together on Wednesday to demonstrate their knowledge of foreign languages. ...Lich said a group of teachers had regularly attended a similar language challenge at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, but wanted to create their own event where the questions were tailored to high school students. [Full story...]
Several administrative and academic offices in North Georgia College & State University's education building have moved to a nearby bank building bought by the NGCSU Foundation. Most of the offices are on the second and third floors of the BB&T Bank on Main Street. [Full story...]
Georgia is stepping up efforts to help meet the educational needs of the U.S. military through the Georgia Military Education Initiative, which is being planned by officials at North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
For some, it starts out innocent enough. A few thimbles here or an 8-track tape or two there. Before you know it, you have a bona fide collection on your hands. ...And that's exactly why people collect things, said David Broad, professor of sociology at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
Blake Ryan woke up one morning wanting to compete in a triathlon. But he faced an obstacle: He was obese. At his heaviest, Ryan weighed close to 500 pounds. ...Ryan, who has resumed studies at North Georgia College and State University, competed in his first triathlon in July. [Full story...]
At a small college in Dahlonega, Joseph Morgan teaches one of the country's toughest courses in the growing field of medicolegal death investigation. [Full story...]
Laura Anderson at Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund recently was promoted to manager in the tax and accounting services department. ...Anderson received a bachelor's degree from North Georgia College and an associate's degree from Dekalb College. [Full story...]
As North Georgia College & State University President David Potter prepared to break ground on the school's new state-of-the-art library last week, a screen to his right flashed a fitting quote which read, "The library doesn't need windows. The library is a window." [Full story...]
Construction has started on the new $23.3 million library at North Georgia College & State University. College officials held a groundbreaking ceremony last week for the Library Technology Center, which will be built several hundred feet from the current 30,000-square foot Stewart Library at 82 College Circle. [Full story...]
Just 19 months ago, Richard Ingram lay on his back trying to avert his eyes from the burning Iraqi sun. Ingram's left arm dangled, nearly severed, next to him, as he kneaded the ground with his combat boots to cope with the pain. Today, Ingram walks the halls of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta as an intern for Sen. John Douglas (R-Social Circle), chairman of the Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. [Full story...]
The son of two medical professionals, Capt. Alan Helmbold's parents may have been surprised when he joined the Army National Guard as an indirect fire infantryman. ...After four years at North Georgia College and State University he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor of science in biology. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University celebrated Valentine’s Day with a sunny but chilly groundbreaking for its new library technology center Wednesday. College and University president David Potter said he hoped the three story, 88,000 sq. ft. building would become a magnet for learning and for the community. [Full story...]
North Georgia State College and State University once again has the top graduation rate among state universities. The Georgia Office of Student Achievement says North Georgia's 44-point-eight percent grad rate trails only Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. It's the fifth year the school's been at the top of the 13 state universities in Georgia's university system. [Full story...]
The 2005-06 Annual Report Card from the Georgia Office of Student Achievement ranks North Georgia College & State University as the top state university in Georgia for graduation rates. This is the fifth year NGCSU’s graduation rates have been at the top of the 13 state universities in the University System of Georgia. [Full story...]
For Holly Payne, computer science lectures are all the rage. Payne, 29, is pursuing a master's degree at Kennesaw State University, but she has yet to set foot on campus. Her links to the classroom are her 30GB video iPod and her laptop. [Full story...]
San Francisco-based accounting and consulting firm Novogradac & Company LLP welcomes five new partners for 2007, including a Habersham County native. ...Tonya Nations Phongsavanh joined the firm's Atlanta office in 1999...She received a bachelor's degree in accounting from North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
When Shawn Mullins comes to Gainesville, he won't be far from home. Born in Atlanta, Mullins attended North Georgia College and played in the marching band before he went on to stardom. But it's his reputation as a storyteller that got him the first slot in the Arts Council Complex Singer/Songwriter Series. [Full story...]
After a long break from school to take up a career in marketing, advertising and public relations; to marry and raise a family; to hold down several jobs ...after moving to Dahlonega 12 years ago, settling down, and becoming a first-time grandmother, Cara Joy DeCelles is back in college, studying her first love - fine art. [Full story...]
Feb. 3 brings the return of the Mountain Music & Medicine Show to Dahlonega, at its new home - the Historic Holly Theater. ...Gina Wilson was born and raised in Dawsonville and has been singing since the age of 3. ...This will be her third performance on the "Mountain Music & Medicine Show." Currently a student at North Georgia College & State University... [Full story...]
Lt. Col. Marion Chalker, North Georgia College class of 1950, now of Newnan, is one of the few Americans who experienced combat in three wars: World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He is also one of the few who served in the Army, the Navy and the Marines. [Full story...]
A $40,000 grant will help North Georgia College and State University students look at the big picture... as in global. NGCSU is the first recipient of the Internationalizing the Campus grant from the Board of Regents Office of International Education. [Full story...]
Billy Roper never fit into the 9-to-5 world of time-clocks, lunch-breaks and paychecks. But that doesn't mean he didn't give it a try. In fact he was dutifully holding down a job on the campus of North Georgia College and State University, the site of his current art show, when he reached an artistic epiphany. [Full story...]
Learn to speak Spanish quickly and effectively with the terms and phrases used the most in your day-to-day business. Workplace Spanish Customer Service is offered in Cumming by North Georgia College & State University, and is specifically designed for the business professional who needs to communicate daily with Spanish-speaking customers. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega has been chosen as one of 12 sites across the state to host the Smithsonian Institution and Museums on Main Street exhibit called “Key Ingredients: America by Food.” [Full story...]
Industrial Properties Group has announced that David Williams has joined its I-85 Market Corridor Team as a regional sales agent. ...A graduate of North Georgia College, he has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. [Full story...]
ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today the following executive
appointments. ...Joseph "Joe" M. Hatfield, 46, Clarkesville (10th
Congressional District) - Hatfield is the executive vice president of
operations and serves on the board of directors for Fieldale Farms
Corporation. ...Hatfield earned a bachelor's degree in business
management from North Georgia College.
[Full story...]
The sweat-drenched scientist turned over yet another log in the Borneo rain forest. There, its chocolate-colored scales gleaming among the rotting leaves, was something new to science. Quick as a skink, Christopher Austin's hand flashed out. He grabbed the tiny lizard, and another nearby. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University will receive $2 million from a state bond package for equipment for the University's Library and Technology Center. The $2 million is part of the $228 million bond package for Georgia’s University System. [Full story...]
Things just got a little healthier in Lumpkin County with the opening of the Appalachian Nurse Practitioner Clinic (ANPC) at North Georgia College and State University. While headquartered in the college's towering Health and Natural Sciences Building, the federally funded project will provide medical care to an uninsured public throughout a seven county area. [Full story...]
The first book published by the University Press of North Georgia is a study of Appalachian art. “Billy Roper: Visual Storyteller,” features the work of a folk artist from the north Georgia mountains who finds inspiration from decades of struggle and his family background. [Full story...]
The first book published by the University Press of North Georgia is a study of Appalachian art. “Billy Roper: Visual Storyteller,” features the work of a folk artist from the north Georgia mountains who finds inspiration from decades of struggle and his family background. [Full story...]
A "Billy Roper: Visual Storyteller" exhibition in the North Georgia College & State University Fine Arts Gallery in the Hoag Student Center will continue until Feb. 22. A reception and book signing of the exhibition catalogue will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. [Full story...]
Dr. Donna Gessell's work as an English professor and Director of Graduate Studies at North Georgia College and State University is a far cry from the adventures from her youth. "We were doing pretty much what the chief wanted us to do," she tells NewsChannel 32. [Full story...]
Doug Collins, the freshman state lawmaker from North Hall, does not sound like a political novice. Nor should he. Collins, 40, has dabbled in campaigns and tracked political trends here and elsewhere since the 1980s. The North Hall High graduate majored in political science and criminal justice at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
By Rick Lavender Carey Michael Woodall looked the part of a 1940s U.S. Army Ranger headed to war: trim, dressed in khaki uniform, intense. But Woodall's intensity involved the video camera strapped to one hand and the volunteer actors struggling to stop grinning as they staged somber goodbyes Wednesday afternoon at the Gainesville Midland train park off Jesse Jewell Parkway. ...The scene using Engine 209 as a backdrop is one of the last the 26-year-old North Georgia College & State University student needs for a homemade movie. [Full story...]
Buzz Wehunt has been nomadic in his pursuit of athletic achievement, but it appears as if the Hoschton native has finally found a home in Dahlonega. The 6-4 senior guard, who attended Jefferson, Jackson County and Shores Christian Academy, transferred to North Georgia College and State University after his sophomore season at Georgia, where he played in 31 games from 2003-2005. [Full story...]
One former and three current Bainbridge High School Air Force Junior ROTC cadets are reaching for the bars of a second lieutenant through commissioning in the U.S. military. “You might say former Cadet Douglas Griffin, a freshman at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, and current cadets Alex Rentz, Josh Pope and Michael Love are reaching for the stars,” ROTC program director Col. Gary Breedlove said this week. [Full story...]
Lance Jones has been named senior vice president and loan officer at the National Bank of Gainesville. He is a graduate of North Georgia College and served in the U.S. Army, including two years in Germany as a tank platoon leader. [Full story...]
Laurie Ecke caught the education bug as a 3-year-old child, when her mother taught her how to read. She was "my first and best teacher," said Ecke, now a teacher at West Hall High School. ...She earned her master's degree in math education and later her gifted-education endorsement from North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University is getting $1,000 to preserve some of its historic pictures. The money is coming from the Georgia Humanities Council, a group that supports educational activities that help preserve Georgia's heritage. [Full story...]
A part of the North Georgia College & State University Stewart Library’s aging collection of historic images will be saved for future generations with the help of a $1,000 Special Projects Grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. [Full story...]
"A good place to work is one that respects employees and provides
tangible and intangible evidence of respect," says Dr. Elisabeth Teal,
associate professor of business administration and director of the
Entrepreneurial Leadership Center at North Georgia College and State
University. Showing that respect and providing those rewards takes work
on the part of the boss.
[Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University has received a $1,000 grant to help preserve the Stewart Library's aging collection of historic images. The special projects grant is from the Georgia Humanities Council, a nonprofit organization supporting educational activities that teach and preserve Georgia's heritage. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University cadets ran from Gainesville to Dahlonega in memory of a friend and fellow cadet Sunday morning. Twenty members of the Cadet Corps "Charlie Company" ran the entire 21 miles from Northeast Georgia Medical Center back up to the campus for pledges and donations. [Full story...]
To honor the memory of fellow cadet and friend Stephen Horton, North Georgia College & State University students will run 20 miles from Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville to the NGCSU campus in Dahlonega along Highway 60 Sunday. [Full story...]
A part of the North Georgia College & State University Stewart Library’s aging collection of historic images will be saved for future generations with the help of a $1,000 Special Projects Grant from the Georgia Humanities Council. [Full story...]
They're the houses that can be seen for miles away. Their brightly colored lights have an almost hypnotic effect. ...Another Dahlonega display can be found at the Baptist Student Center, across from North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
To honor the memory of late cadet and friend Stephen Horton, a group of North Georgia College & State University students are planning a 20-mile run. The event is set to start at 7 a.m. Sunday at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville. [Full story...]
C.W. Davis had a vision. It was an idea that would revolutionize high school basketball in Hall County. It started in 1960 with the concept of bringing together the four high school programs (East Hall, North Hall, South Hall and Gainesville) for a home-spun tournament. [Full story...]
Dr. David Potter, President of North Georgia College & State University, called Friday a “signal day for the university.” Dec. 1 was the official groundbreaking for a new parking deck/recreation center - which students are calling the Rec Deck. [Full story...]
State Rep. Alan Powell, D-Hartwell, has announced the availability of 39 full-military scholarships to North Georgia College and State University. The college is located in Dahlonega. Applicants, who must be nominated by their state legislator, are required to have at least a 1010 SAT, a 3.0 GPA, and be in excellent physical condition. [Full story...]
The first student honors recitals were held Wednesday in Gloria Shott Performance Hall at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. ...Overall, the recitals included 12 student vocalists, instrumentalists and pianists. [Full story...]
A colorfully lit tree topped with a gold star is more than a mere reminder of the holiday season. The Love Light tree is a symbol of all those who have made donations to help people with terminal illnesses. ...There also were musical performances by the Wauka Mountain Elementary School Choir and the North Georgia College & State University Patriot Choir. [Full story...]
Vickie Tribble was at a point in her life when she was "rethinking how do I want to spend the rest of my professional career?" She eventually looked toward the teaching part of the job she had in the health-care industry at the time and realized she was attracted to "helping others reach their potential." [Full story...]
Estelle Gilstrap, administrative specialist and coordinator in the North Georgia College & State University Fine Arts Department, has been named Outstanding Staff Member for 2006 at the university. A 30-year veteran of the staff, Gilstrap was called a role model. [Full story...]
Groundbreaking was held Friday for a parking deck and student recreation center at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega between the Hoag Student Center and the Smith House on South Chestatee Street. The $24.6 million project calls for three parking levels for 586 vehicles, with a state-of-the-art two-story Recreation Center built on the fourth level. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University plans to hold a ceremony today marking the start of work on a $24.6 million parking deck and student recreation center. The event is set to begin at 1:30 p.m. in the parking lot between the Hoag Student Center on campus and the Smith House on South Chestatee Street. State Board of Regents member Felton Jenkins of Madison is scheduled to speak at the ceremony, which is open to the public. [Full story...]
As early as spring semester, North Georgia College & State University students will be able to take part in a semester-long Chinese language and cultural program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. College president David Potter signed an agreement in October with Luo Lisheng, dean of the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua. [Full story...]
Forsyth County leaders are quietly pushing to add a new element to local education — a four-year college. They don't have a formal proposal to take to the state Board of Regents, which hasn't been eager in recent years to finance any new college campuses. But they are talking about building on an alliance they already have with North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
Gainesville native John Whitaker is one of Georgia's top cops when it comes to catching Internet predators. Whitaker, 47, was named this month as the Special Agent in Charge of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's Financial Investigations Unit, which also handles all Internet-related crimes. ...He is a graduate of North Georgia College and the University of Georgia. [Full story...]
The community gathered at the Hart County High School gym Nov. 14 for a program honoring veterans of all wars. ...Guest speaker was Cadet Staff Sgt. Jason Isgrigg, who is attending North Georgia College and State University on a Green to Gold Army scholarship offered to outstanding active duty soldiers. Dahlonega. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University students from Hall County have been active in musical programs at the university, with some serving as soloists this past week when they presented Mozart and Haydn programs at Dahlonega Baptist. [Full story...]
Ask Richard Oates how long he plans to keep the statistics for the North Hall High football team, and he'll insist this is his last year. But don't be surprised to see him back in the press box next football season. "I jokingly say this is my last, last year," Oates says while preparing for the Trojans' Nov. 3 game against the East Hall Vikings. Oates, associate dean of education at North Georgia College & State University, began keeping statistics for the Trojans when his son, Campbell, was a sophomore in high school. [Full story...]
Paula Gault, a fifth-generation Forsyth County resident, has served in the Forsyth County school system in many roles, including teacher, assistant principal, director of special curriculum programs, director of administrative services/administrative assistant to the superintendent and associate superintendent. She holds a bachelor of science degree in education from the University of Georgia, a master's degree in education from North Georgia College. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University graduate students in the department of physical therapy will hold a car wash from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday at Auto Zone, 475 Morrison Moore Parkway in Dahlonega. The fundraising event will recognize Physical Therapy Month and benefit the graduate program as well as a Lumpkin County High School freshman student. [Full story...]
Cindy Corbett, a second-grade teacher at Clarkesville Elementary, has been named Habersham County Teacher of the Year. Corbett, a resident of Clarkesville, joined the school system here during the 2001-2002 school year, said Personnel Director Angela Robinson. ...She received her undergraduate degree in elementary education from State University of New York College at Cortland in 1987 and a master's degree in early childhood education from North Georgia College & State University in 2006. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University graduate students in the Department of Physical Therapy will host a car wash on Saturday, Oct. 28, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Auto Zone, 475 Morrison Moore Parkway in Dahlonega. The fundraising event will recognize Physical Therapy Month and benefit the graduate program as well as a Lumpkin County High School freshman student. [Full story...]
Veteran bankers Chris R. Baumgardner and Andy Stewart have joined Peach State Bank in Gainesville. Ron Quinn, the bank's President and CEO, says Baumgardner will serve as Senior Vice President and Credit Administrator, while Stewart has been named Vice President of Real Estate and Construction Lending. ...Baumgardner is a 1995 graduate of North Georgia College and State University. [Full story...]
A University of Wisconsin professor tells an audience at North Georgia College that a violent faction of Islam is behind the unrest in the Middle East. Dr. David Morgan was speaking on the decline and fall of the 13th century Mongol Empire. He said while the Mongols conquered and plundered they did not export religion. [Full story...]
...In other Toccoa Clinic news, Marie K. Emery, a certified nurse practitioner with the center, authored two chapters in "Modules for Basic Nursing Skills," a nationally published textbook for nursing students. Emery earned a bachelor's degree in nursing from Georgia State University and a master's degree from North Georgia College and State University. [Full story...]
Much blood has been spilled in the shadow of Mosul's ancient Sumerian gates. The city has suffered through occupations by Persians and Turks, among others, and the murderous rule of Saddam Hussein. ..."In some places in Iraq, U.S. forces are fighting the bad guys and trying to drag Iraqis along with them. Here, we are blessed," said Col. Steve Townsend, commander of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. ...a 1982 graduate of North Georgia College. [Full story...]
On Monday, Jon F. Sica's promotion to assistant editor for the DeSoto Sun was made official. However, Sica has reported, written and assisted with editorial duties since May. He previously worked for the Sun doing copy desk design for nearly a year. ...After graduating from DeSoto County High School in 2000, Sica received a military education at North Georgia College and State University, which is something he says every 18-year-old boy should have to do. [Full story...]
A Military Scholarship Program is available at North Georgia College and State University located in Dahlonega. The scholarship program pays for tuition, books, fees, room and board, for students during their undergraduate studies. Students chosen for the program agree to repay the scholarship after receiving their bachelor's degrees by serving part-time in the Georgia Army National Guard as commissioned second lieutenants for four years after graduation. [Full story...]
The state of Georgia this week sold more than $578 million in general obligation bonds to fund many capital projects approved by the legislature this year. The money will pay for a number of Northeast Georgia projects, including a new South Hall library, an expanded student center at Gainesville State College and an expansion of Lanier Technical College's Forsyth campus. ...Two other projects at North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega were in the bond package. [Full story...]
Community counseling students at North Georgia College & State University now may find it easier to compete for internships, thanks to accreditation by a national group. The college graduate program has been accredited for two years by the Alexandria, Va.-based Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University’s seven-year-old graduate program in community counseling received first-time accreditation in late August from the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. This milestone for the program, one of North Georgia’s seven graduate-level programs, provides a two-year accredited status until October 2008. [Full story...]
...More than 400 North Georgia College & State University students, faculty and staff gathered for a Sept. 11 ceremony at noon on the drill field. Cannon shots were fired at the military college in Dahlonega at 8:45, 9:05, 9:40 and 10:10 a.m. to commemorate the times each hijacked airplane crashed. [Full story...]
A group of 20 women gathered on the Campus of Lanier Technical College in Forsyth on Aug. 23 ready for their first day of school. “I’m a little nervous,” said Courtney O’Donnell-Park. The group is Lanier’s inaugural class, in collaboration with North Georgia College and State University (North Georgia), pursuing Associates Degrees in Nursing on campus. North Georgia has been offering courses at Tech for the past five years; however, this is the first they have offered a degree program. [Full story...]
Over the four centuries since the piano was invented by Bartolommeo Cristofori in 1709, certain compositions have risen to the top of the list of audience favorites and most commonly recognized pieces. These piano classics, the “hit-parade” list of compositions, are included in the program of a piano concert by Dr. Joe Chapman, director of keyboard studies at North Georgia College & State University, on Sept. 18 and Sept. 21 in Dahlonega, and Sept. 23 in Cumming. [Full story...]
The board of directors of Ameren Corporation announced today that Jack D. Woodard has been elected to the Ameren board. ...A native of Nashville, TN, Woodard earned a bachelor's degree in physics from North Georgia College and a master's degree in physics from Auburn University. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University’s students who were deployed for active duty with the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade and spent a year in Iraq were honored at an Aug. 28 Welcome Home Ceremony on campus. More than 60 students served in Iraq and returned home in May. [Full story...]
The president of North Georgia College & State University on Monday thanked more than 60 students for upholding the school's "grand tradition of service" during military duty in Iraq. "We are grateful for their return," David Potter said during a welcome home ceremony, which began with a military parade on the campus drill field with the school's Corps of Cadets. [Full story...]
They left as students and returned as veterans of the war in Iraq and most of them plan to become students again and head back to the classroom at North Georgia College and State University. The entire cadet corps turned out for a parade in their honor Monday on the parade ground in a welcome home celebration hosted by the university and the "Boar's Head Brigade." [Full story...]
Bernard Braun couldn't be more proud today as he celebrates his son's return home from Iraq. Braun tells NewsChannel 32, "Ross always wanted to go into the military and I was against it until September 11, 2001. Since then things changed in America." After asking his father's permission, Ross left for Iraq last May to join the 48th Brigade. His father says it was the hardest 12 months of his life. [Full story...]
North Georgia College and State University students deployed with the Georgia Army National Guard’s 48th Brigade Combat Team were honored at a welcome home ceremony on the campus here. More than 60 members of the school’s Corps of Cadets served in Iraq and returned home in May. A majority of them re-enrolled in classes, which began Aug. 23. [Full story...]
A University of Georgia coed was crowned Miss Rome Saturday night. Jenison Cooper, 21, a UGA marketing education major, claimed the title of Miss Rome 2007, along with a $1,200 cash scholarship, and the chance to go to the Miss Georgia Pageant in June 2007. ...North Georgia College student Casey Popham took third runner-up, receiving a scholarship of $600. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University students deployed for active duty in Iraq will be honored in a ceremony set for Wednesday. Gov. Sonny Perdue, Dahlonega Mayor Gary McCullough and Brig. Gen. Stewart Rodeheaver, commander of the Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Brigade, are scheduled speakers. [Full story...]
The North Georgia College & State University military-orientation week, known as FROG Week, finished on Sunday with a graduation run up Dahlonega's Crown Mountain. More than 275 freshmen went through the training. [Full story...]
The North Georgia College & State University associate’s degree in nursing program will be offered for the first time at Lanier Technical College in Cumming, Ga., starting this Wednesday, Aug. 23, with an inaugural class of 20 students. The aspiring nurses will be part of North Georgia’s total first-year associate’s nursing class of 130. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University has received a five-year, $1.3 million grant to provide health care to rural residents in seven counties. The grant, from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, will enable the university's nursing department to open a 2,700-square-foot clinic in the Health and Natural Sciences Building. [Full story...]
U.S. News and World Report has ranked two area universities among the top
"master's universities" in the south. Brenau University in Gainesville has
been ranked number 41 on the annual list. The magazine ranks North Georgia
College and State University in Dahlonega at 56th.
[Full story...]
Jason Isgrigg is not a typical college sophomore. He's 27, married, and spent eight years in the Army — including a 14-month combat tour in Iraq — before enrolling at North Georgia College and State University here last year. Isgrigg, from Rochester Hills, Mich., is among a growing group of battle-hardened veterans infusing a new level of maturity into the military training at this scenic campus in the foothills of the Appalachians. [Full story...]
By Jeff Gill Two area colleges have been named among the top universities in the South, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual America's Best Colleges edition for 2007. The magazine placed Brenau University at No. 41 and North Georgia College & State University at No. 56 in the category of "master's" universities in the South, which includes institutions that offer a full range of undergraduate and master's programs but few doctoral programs. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University's students who were deployed for active duty with the Georgia Army National Guard's 48th Brigade and spent a year in Iraq will be honored at an Aug. 28 Welcome Home Ceremony. [Full story...]
University of Memphis head softball coach Windy Thees announced today the hiring of Ashley Blanton as an assistant coach. ...Blanton received her bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgia College & State University in 2004. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in business administration. [Full story...]
From Gainesville Times Jeffrey Parrish admits he's off to a late start in the education field, but he already has years of life experience in several subjects. "I've been a volunteer park ranger, firefighter, cowboy and a soldier in Civil War reenactments," says Parrish, who began his teaching career Aug. 4 at Gainesville Middle School. ...He was able to realize his dream through Dahlonega-based North Georgia College & State University's Forsyth County program. [Full story...]
From AccessNorthGa.com Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore, commanding general of First United States Army at Fort Gillem was the guest speaker Firday at the North Georgia College & State University commissioning ceremony, where 16 new Army lieutenants, including a Hall County man, were sworn in as officers. Honore was responsible for the active duty military forces involved in Hurricane Katrina operations. [Full story...]
From AccessNorthGa.com Jeffrey Parrish had some idea of what to expect when he began his new career teaching middle school. Parrish, age 50, admits he’s off to a late start in the education field, but he already has years of life experience in several subjects. [Full story...]
By Jeff Gill Area colleges, public and private, are set to welcome students for the 2006-07 academic year, with Piedmont College in Demorest starting classes last week and Gainesville State College in Oakwood this week. ...North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega expects that its reaffirmation status with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools will be completed in 2007. [Full story...]
From Gainesville Times Laura Sauls has been promoted to accounting officer with GB&T Bancshares, a Gainesville-based bank holding company. Sauls joined GB&T in April 2003 and is responsible for financial and regulatory reporting in the accounting division. She has more than 15 years of banking experience in the local market. Sauls is a graduate of North Georgia College with a degree in accounting and finance. [Full story...]
By Jack Stripling The VW minibuses have largely been replaced by SUVs, and the closest thing to "flower power" on the University of Florida's campus these days is a landscaping project. Despite what some critics see as the growing similarities between Vietnam and the war in Iraq - dwindling support at home, early underestimations of the enemy and no clear exit strategy - UF and other college campuses are hardly the flash points of protest they were in the 1960s. [Full story...]
By Johnny Vardeman A Gainesville man is following a family tradition of hand engraving, an art not quite lost, but becoming more of a rarity in an age of too-fast-to-keep-up-with technology. Casey Cochran was about 5 years old when his grandfather Oliver Whitter died, but he remembers vacation trips to the mountains with him and vaguely his work as an engraver. ...When he graduated from North Georgia College and State University with a business degree in 1994, he still didn't know what he wanted to do. [Full story...]
By Ida Brown Although different paths led them to Meridian, Sister Patricia Doody and Father Mario Solorzano share common ground in their purpose for being here. “I want to get to know the people here in the parish and the community to determine what is needed,” said Doody, the new pastoral associate for St. Patrick and St. Joseph’s Catholic churches. ...Doody received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English education from North Georgia College in North Dahlonega, Ga. [Full story...]
Texas A&M University-Commerce athletic director Jim Johnson and the Lions’ head women’s basketball coach Denny Downing announced on Tuesday that the women’s basketball team has been invited to participate in the 2006 Disney’s Division II Tip-Off Classic in Orlando, Fla. The Lions are among seven other NCAA Division II teams that were selected to play in this annual season-opening tournament at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex. Joining A&M-Commerce will be... North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University will launch its "Customer Service Improvement Initiative," along with the other University System of Georgia institutions of higher education on Aug. 1. Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. is asking the 38,000 faculty and staff employed by Georgia's 35 public colleges and universities to provide faster, friendlier, more efficient service to the USG's "customers," including more than 253,500 students. [Full story...]
Doris Wolfe sat with a friend Tuesday at Happiness Bag in Terre Haute, eating a spaghetti dinner as Elvis Presley’s “Jail House Rock” played in the background. Wolfe, 43, has been living with a form of cerebral palsy since the age of 4. The disability is caused from brain damage and affects muscles and speech. Wolfe’s condition is one reason 81 men are riding their bicycles on a “Journey of Hope,” a 4,000-mile cross-country bicycle trip. [Full story...]
If you're a casual stargazer, you could learn a lot at the planetarium. Every Friday night at North Georgia College & State University, experts and novices gather to swap knowledge about space and everything in it. Located in the new Health and Natural Sciences Building on Sunset Drive, the planetarium will be host to meetings every Friday night through Aug. 4, resuming again Aug. 25 for the school year. [Full story...]
"Education is the key to success," was the theme of the Lao Family Association of Habersham County's Senior Recognition Program, held Saturday. The program is held every year at the Lao Buddhist Temple in Baldwin to congratulate and recognize students who have graduated from high school, college or technical school. [Full story...]
Forsyth County teachers from across the public school system shortened their summer break for a hands-on educational experience at North Georgia College & State University for a week in June. A group of 40 teachers, representing elementary through middle grades, were part of the Math & Science on Wheels program, an NGCSU School of Education initiative to show educators an approach to teaching that provides rich hands-on experiences for children. [Full story...]
Two races were decided based on Republican votes Tuesday - the race for District 4 commissioner and the one for District Attorney of the Enotah Judicial Circuit. In the D.A.'s race, Stan Gunter has been elected to another term, though challenger Jim Hallman led the vote count in Lumpkin County. ...Gunter is a native of Cornelia. He attended North Georgia College in Dahlonega, where he earned a B.S. in chemistry. [Full story...]
The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced its 2005-2006 Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, NAIA and Junior College/Community College. ...In her first season at the NCAA Division II level, Buffie Burson has taken North Georgia College & State University into the ranks of the Academic Top 25. Burson and the Lady Saints appear in the rankings at 14th, with a 3.435 grade point average. [Full story...]
Central Heights Christian School of Mt. Airy recently announced its Teacher of the Year for the 2006 school year. Tina Sutton, much-loved and respected sixth-grade teacher, received the annual award. She was chosen by her peers for this special honor. ...She earned her master's degree from North Georgia College. [Full story...]
A sandstorm in Afghanistan limited the tour of U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal and a delegation visiting military medical facilities in the Middle East on Thursday. Speaking by telephone from Kabul, Deal said he was briefed on the war effort in Afghanistan by Brig. Gen. James L. Terry, a Chatsworth native with ties to Gainesville. Terry, a North Georgia College graduate, is married to the former Julie Grogan. [Full story...]
The Summer Transition Program at North Georgia College & State University provides students an advance start on higher education, physical training and an introduction to the university’s award-winning Corps of Cadets. [Full story...]
Nine Northeast Georgia Health System employees received scholarship funds for the 2005-06 school year through the Healthy Journey Scholarship Program. Recipients for the 2005-06 year were: ...Victoria Nix, an oncology administrative coordinator at NGHS who is pursuing a nursing degree at North Georgia College & University. Linda Williams, a patient care technician on the 4 East Medical/Surgical Unit at NGMC who is pursuing a degree in nursing at NGCSU. [Full story...]
A quiet riverside meal ended in the dramatic water rescue of a panicked 9-year-old by two fast-acting restaurant patrons last week, one of whom had initially planned to order take-out. However, as new Dahlonega resident Mark Pickens and his wife decided to dine-in at The Oar House last Monday their attention was continually drawn to the swiftness of the nearby rushing waters of the Chestatee River. [Full story...]
While many college students celebrate their graduation with thoughts of pop quiz-free days and homework-less nights, more than 20 North Georgia College & State University students are eagerly looking forward to more of both as they go on to graduate programs in medical fields. [Full story...]
Thursday, 15 fraternity men cycled into Laramie from Wheatland. This morning, they will set out to Cheyenne. A week later, they will be in Pueblo, Colo.; a week after that, Wichita, Kan.; one more week, and they will pedal into Union Mo.; followed by Indianapolis, Ind.; and Beckly W.Va. A week after Beckly, and the men will be poised to finish their cross country ride in Washington D.C. [Full story...]
Seven students recently received $3,000 scholarships from the Sawnee Electric Membership Foundation. The 2006 scholarship recipients are: ...Courtney Lynn, Dawson County High School, daughter of Kathy and Lawrence Lynn. Courtney plans to attend North Georgia College and State University. Erin Norton, Dawson County High School, daughter of Cindy Norton. Erin plans to attend North Georgia College & State University. [Full story...]
It must be Kudos Week. Here I am with this edition of Bibliofiles, writing nothing but laudatory things. And our redesigned paper now features my grinnin’ mug. I warn you, though: I reserve the right to be grumpy at any time. This week, though, it’s all smiles. First on the list: Kansas City native Brian Jay Corrigan has been named the Georgia Author of the Year. [Full story...]
Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) has named J. Shannon Glover as the new executive director of Managed Care Operations. ...Glover was raised in north Georgia and received his bachelor of Business Administration degree from North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
NOTE: Brian Jay Corrigan is a professor at North Georgia College & State University. Jimmy Carter can add another honor to his legacy: The former president is Georgia's 2006 Author of the Year. Carter won for his 20th book, an essay collection titled "Our Endangered Values" that spent several weeks at the top of The New York Times Bestseller List...The 42nd annual awards, sponsored by the grass-roots Georgia Writers Association, were presented Sunday night in ceremonies at Georgia Tech. Other 2006 winners include: ...Brian Jay Corrigan for his debut novel, "The Poet of Loch Ness." [Full story...]
Three pre-law students from the University of Georgia and North Georgia College and State University will be working in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office this summer. District Attorney Lee Darragh announced the selection of interns Bethany Cooper, Stacey Kirkland and Rustin Smith. [Full story...]
Chancellor of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, Erroll B. Davis, made a visit to North Georgia College and State University on June 8, just one day after the Board approved details of a controversial new fixed-rate tuition policy for students. Under the plan, students who take more than four years to complete a degree could face considerable tuition hikes. [Full story...]
The University System of Georgia's new Chancellor, Erroll B. Davis Jr., visited the campus of North Georgia College & State University June 8. Dahlonega’s campus was the 28th stop of his 35-institution-tour in his new role as the system’s top executive. During his visit Davis met with staff, faculty, students and community leaders to learn about the strengths, issues, challenges and opportunities facing the individual schools, and to allow the stakeholders to hear his vision for the university system as a whole. [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University's plan to build a parking deck for university students has expanded to include a recreation center atop the three-story deck. Because of the possible 2,500 students each day using the facility for either parking, recreation or both, says Mac McConnell, vice president for business and finance, the original location chosen for the combined facility had to be changed slightly. [Full story...]
Hall County School System's director of high schools plans to travel to China this month to meet with elementary and higher education officials. ...The school system also is working with Dahlonega-based North Georgia College & State University, which also is starting a Mandarin Chinese program and is sending its president, David Potter, on the China trip. [Full story...]
Alien plants are invading the Appalachian Trail, and ironically, it appears that hikers themselves are responsible for bringing non-native species into the forest. "People innocently walking the trail may have seeds attached to their clothing from their gardens or other places that they've been," said Alice Sampson, director of the Appalachian Studies Center at North Georgia College & State University. The center, in conjunction with the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, is sponsoring an invasive species workshop. [Full story...]
Each death of a 48th Brigade Combat Team soldier created a ripple of pain and grief that ran first through their comrades, then their families and friends and finally their communities. To honor all of the 48th's fallen, we have chosen eight we believe are representative of the 26 who died. We wanted those most affected by these deaths to tell the story in their own words so the readers could better understand who the soldier was and his impact on the lives of those around him. [Full story...]
The story of Kema’s hobby will soon be known nationwide due to an inquisitive click on a computer icon by its owner. Kema Clark is the owner and manager of the bookstore that sits in the middle of the streetscape on Atlanta Highway in Gray in-between Wesley Music and Curves. Anyone passing through Gray May 11 would have seen the street blocked off and professional photographers working diligently to capture the essence of the small business that is the fulfillment of Clark’s lifelong dream. [Full story...]
Tommye Scanlin’s life is a woven pattern of colors and textures. That life, through her beautiful tapestries, will be on display Monday. The Rome Area Council for the Arts gallery on Broad Street will be the setting for the exhibition by Scanlin, who has been working with tapestry since 1988. [Full story...]
Three of the five valedictorians at North Georgia College & State University this spring are from Gainesville - and a Gainesville woman graduated with her second set of dual degrees. [Full story...]
By early 2007, it will be easier for many Forsyth County residents to follow their college dreams, as North Georgia College & State University (North Georgia) makes plans to expand its offerings in the county by establishing a permanent facility. [Full story...]
The Gainesville Music Club recently held music scholarship auditions at Brenau University in Gainesville. ...Hyejeong Han, daughter of Kwang Kyo Han and Chang Eui Eim of Korea, was awarded the Mary Logan Brown Scholarship. She is a freshman piano major at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega, where she studies piano with You Ju Lee. [Full story...]
Thomas George, a man who bleeds Laker Blue and Orange, has been named Clayton State University’s Most Outstanding and Distinguished Alumnus for 2006. George, along with four other alumni honorees, was feted before a crowd of more than 100 at last night’s 14th Annual Clayton State Alumni Association Annual Meeting and Dinner at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. George is currently employed as the Director of Human Resources at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega. [Full story...]
It's difficult for Christine McNulty and her daughter to be away from their husband and father for so long. “I’ve lost my tag-team partner,” McNulty tells NewsChannel 32. Patrick McNulty is an army national guardsman. He's been training in New Jersey since January. He'll be home for Easter, but then he and his unit are shipping out to Iraq... After Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey spoke with cadets at North Georgia College and State University Thursday, he talked to NewsChannel 32 about how he wants to use the guard more effectively in the future. [Full story...]
Americans need to exercise patience with U.S. efforts to restore stability in Iraq, the secretary of the Army told North Georgia College & State University cadets Thursday. "We need to hang in there," said Francis J. Harvey to the group, which had packed into the Hoag Student Center auditorium. "... Everybody would like it to be faster and better. That's just normal. Our strategy is right and we've got the best damn army in there doing it." [Full story...]
Army Secretary Francis Harvey took time from his schedule at the leadership conference at NGCSU Thursday to talk to the student body. He told cadets about the lessons the army has learned in Iraq and how those ideas are changing the army's leadership style. He says more emphasis needs to be put on adaptability and flexibility, rather than just traditional battle tactics, especially early-on in the training of soldiers. [Full story...]
Choirs from two local colleges will join forces for a concert of sacred music April 2. North Georgia College & State University and Truett-McConnell College will each bring a large choir and a smaller ensemble to Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville for a concert titled "Choral Explosion," beginning at 7 p.m. NGCSU director Dr. John Broman said he selected his groups' pieces with the religious season in mind. [Full story...]
Several local college students have been named to the 28th Edition of the National Dean's List, 2004-2005... From Mt. Airy: Ryan Baker, Leah L. Littlejohn, Piedmont College; Angela D. Blair, Megan Parker, North Georgia College & State University; Nick Frady, Gainesville College; and Courtney Wade, North Georgia Technical College. [Full story...]
Denver-based Competency & Credentialing Institute elected Robin Lazenby, director of perioperative services, Day Kimball Hospital, Putnam, Conn., as president-elect. Also elected to the CCI board were Larry L. Asplin, clinical director, surgery and central processing at St. Cloud Hospital in St. Cloud, Minn., and Michelle Byrne, associate professor of nursing at North Georgia College & State University, Dahlonega, Ga. [Full story...]
Gov. Sonny Perdue has named Grace G. Newsome of Dawsonville to the State Health Strategies Council. Newsome, 56, is a professor of nursing and coordinator of the family nurse practitioner program at North Georgia College and State University. She is also a family nurse practitioner in Atlanta and Dahlonega. [Full story...]
Debbie Rana Martin of Gainesville has used new technology in art to tell her family's history. A senior at North Georgia College & State University, she has shaped a warm display of five generations with deep roots in Hall County. The exhibit includes the Thompson, Marlow, Loggins and Cook families on her mother's side and the Martin, Wiley, Couch and Whelchel families on her father's side. [Full story...]
By
Ashley McKinney Le Belle Voci, North Georgia College & State University's select women's ensemble, has been chosen to perform at the 2006 Georgia Music Educators Association in service conference. The performance, under the direction of John Broman, NGCSU's director of choral activities, will be at 8:15 p.m. Thursday at Christ Church in Savannah. [Full story...]
From Gainesville Times North Georgia College & State University would receive $4.7 million to renovate the historic Education Building. "We are delighted it got funded," said president David Potter, who added that he expects the building will require a "full overhaul to modernize it as a classroom building." [Full story...]
From The Northeast Georgian; Cornelia, Ga. Clarkesville's Brandi Owen ended her collegiate basketball career in style as the Habersham Central graduate was named to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics' 2005 Women's Basketball All-American Team. [Full story...]
By Don Fernandez Let it all out. The jokes, the stunned expressions, even a bellyful of ho-ho-hos if it tickles you. She's heard it for years. Starry-eyed flight attendants crowd around her on flights. College classmates stared with curiosity when the roll was called. Restaurant hosts offered cockeyed glances as if she were playing a tinsel-tinged practical joke. What else would someone expect with the moniker ... Mary Christmas. [Full story...]
From The Citizen Several band students at McIntosh High School have been successful in their auditions and participation in honor bands throughout the state. James Reilly passed the first round audition for All-State Jazz band, which enabled him to participate in a Jazz Clinic held at North Georgia College & State University Dec. 1-2. [Full story...]
By Michael Boylan Any coach will tell you that a key to a successful team is having good team chemistry. It is very important that players can play well together. For some teams building that relationship takes a few years but the Whitewater Wildcat basketball team had at least two players enter the program with that on court relationship already established. [Full story...]
By Jeff Gill, The Times The Hall County School System is getting a jump on the hiring game. On Monday, the Board of Education voted to hire three people, all students at North Georgia College & State University in Dahlonega and student teachers within the system, as teachers for the 2006-07 school year. [Full story...]
By Darrell Huckaby Note: The NGCSU student mentioned in this story is Richard Ingram. Every now and then something happens to put life in its proper perspective. Such was the case for me last Saturday afternoon. It was a glorious day in Athens. Let there be no mistake about that. The temperature hovered around 70 degrees most of the day, and what clouds there were, offered no threat of rain. I was surrounded by about 94,000 of my closest friends, and all was right with world. And then D.J. Shockley got hurt. [Full story...]
ACTION: 'I'm not going home until I've
got my arm . . .'
Washington – In a windowless storeroom deep inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Spc. Richard Ingram rummages through a pile of FedEx boxes. "I know my arm's in here somewhere," he says. "I've just got to find it." With the anticipation of a kid on Christmas morning, the 22-year-old Army scout from LaGrange, whose left arm was severed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, hunts for the package containing his first custom-made prosthetic. [Full story...]
Laurie Davis, manager, NGCSU Campus Connection, North
Georgia College & State University, Dahlonega
The call to duty came smack in the middle of sophomore year for Spc. Steven Russell. Just five days after he returned to campus from winter break in 2003, the North Georgia College & State University student was told to pack his bags, put college on hold and head out to the Iraqi desert with his National Guard unit. "I didn't really want to go," Russell said. "But I knew if the call came, I had to answer it." [Full story...]
North Georgia College & State University is
showing off some of the area's finest arts as part of a biennial exhibition.
Twenty art pieces hang in the school's gallery. They cover simple subjects
to more complex political issues.
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