Welcome to the spring 2013 edition of Highlander, GHC’s online quarterly magazine. As we near graduation, we believe that featuring our students who have...
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Seven prospective teachers have started their college careers early this week by enrolling in the Teacher Academy at the Floyd County Schools College and Career Academy. The institution partners with both Georgia Highlands College and Georgia Northwestern Technical College to offer a variety of college-level courses. The Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce is also...
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GHC One of 842 Awarded NEH Book Collection The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced that the library at Georgia Highlands College is one of 842 libraries and state humanities councils from among all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands to be awarded the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. The...
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Welcome to the winter edition of Highlander, the online magazine of Georgia Highlands College. This issue features a broad variety of subjects, from the serious (a recap and analysis of the recent presidential election) to the absurd (how a person more suited to exercising at the keyboard than the arena learns the language and...
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Corey Pitts was 10 years old when he arrived at his first National Youth Sports Program camp at Georgia Highlands in the 1990s. The college participated in the federally-funded program for 32 years, and influenced countless numbers of at-risk students to go to college and become influential leaders themselves. Some have become lawyers, others...
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Georgia Highlands College has been energetically working with The Floyd County Schools and Georgia Northwestern Technical College to develop the curriculum at the College and Career Academy in Rome. The purpose of the charter school is to give high-school students the opportunity to concentrate on their chosen fields of interest and accelerate their path...
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Amid much information and statistics about the financial and emotional benefits of higher education to individuals and communities, one fact is mysteriously missing: how much value a college brings to its service area because of the volunteer efforts of its faculty, staff and students. Imagine how much poorer our community would be without the...
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Traveling abroad is exciting and filled with opportunities to experience different cultures, meet new people and see historical places. But for those who are more in tune with nature and long for hiking trails, blue jean days and a deep sleep brought on by physical challenges met, try exploring the American West. Every year...
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