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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Georgia Highlands College E-zine
The subject of this issue’s Counterweights is gun control, a controversial and emotionally charged topic with strong critics and supporters on either side. Tackling this prickly piece of the Constitution are Dr. Steve Blankenship, assistant professor of history, and Shea Mize, lecturer in political science. The Second Amendment reads thus: “A well regulated Militia,...
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After school is out most elementary and middle-school children find themselves at the pool, camp or participating in summer fun. But a group of first- through sixth-graders found themselves at college – literally. The 51 students were part of Camp Invention, a science program for children designed to spark their creativity and problem-solving abilities. ...
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GHC-Marietta has grown dramatically since the college opened a site on the campus of Southern Polytechnic State University. Its quarters were ample for the need in 2005 when the site first opened. Now, however, GHC-Marietta boasts an enrollment of more than 1,000. It eventually outgrew quarters allocated to it by Southern Poly. That’s why...
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Green Highlands Sows Seeds on Earth Day On Earth Day this past April, Green Highlands, GHC’s student organization that promotes green living, planted an organic vegetable garden in a 50 by 50-foot plot contributed by USG Interiors, at their headquarters in Cartersville. Now the crops are coming in, and they will be delivered to...
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Welcome to the spring 2012 issue of Highlander. This edition offers a fascinating look at the world of games. But these aren’t the shoot-em-up extravaganzas that computer games like Mortal Kombat, Assassin’s Creed or Star Wars deliver. Rather they comprise a whole new genre called serious games. And they’re used for some very altruistic...
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The age of electronics and technology has changed the world in rather profound ways, and game playing is no exception. And those impacts don’t simply rest in childhood. The entire population seems to be walking around tethered to smart phones, iPods, iPads and/or laptops. We are never off the clock at work, and our...
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The GHC community has initiated several new projects designed to engage students and faculty more fully, and to enrich both learning and relationships. The idea behind learning communities, which is one such project, has been threading its way through academic conversations for several years. Now studies show that creating groups of students who pursue...
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