Barnes & Noble at Georgia College has a few overstock office supply items available at extreme discount. Items are available on a first come, first served basis. View the overstock items here.

To order, email office.supplies@gcsu.edu.  

Georgia College Theatre and Dance Department presents on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 23-24 “Aesop’s Fables Redux,” a fresh and heartwarming senior capstone production, directed by Haley Fusia, which will be at 6 p.m. in the Campus Box Theatre. Aesop was a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in Ancient Greece. He authored a collection of short stories with moral lessons for children.

In “Aesop’s Fables Redux” by Susan Pennington, a narrator helps children understand famous expressions by exploring Aesop’s fables. Human and animal characters bring fables like “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” and “The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg” to life. The free play will be performed on tour in local schools and hospitals as well. For more information, please call 478-445-4226.

Do you want to study abroad in Europe this summer? Come visit the European Council Study Abroad Fair on Thursday, Oct. 26, 11:00 - 2:00 at the A&S Fountain where you can check out  programs in France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, England, Ireland, Russia and Scotland. The European Council programs offer courses in English. Some of the courses include GC2Y and core classes, as well as upper level courses in political science, sociology, literature, anthropology, theater, art, chemistry and many more!  The summer 2018 program directors and faculty, as well as students who went on these programs last summer will be there to answer questions.

For more information, visit the online European Council program brochures; other GC summer and semester study abroad opportunities can also be found at that website.

The Georgia College School of Nursing has begun a yearlong exploration into developing a school-based health clinic at the Montessori Academy at the Early Learning Center. Development comes after Georgia College received a $10,000 planning and assessment grant from Emory University.

“A health care center like this would mean a lot to our community, where 16 percent of the residents are uninsured and one-third of the children live in poverty,” said Dr. Deborah MacMillan, director of Nursing Programs.

“The effects of poverty on children’s health and well-being are well-documented,” she said. “Parents working jobs with hourly wages and inflexible hours often struggle to keep up with routine screenings and physicals. In many communities, school nurses fill this gap in services by providing care during the school day.”

In Baldwin County, up to 1,266 students are serviced by one nurse, MacMillan said. If fully implemented, the new site would provide health care for Baldwin County School System students and their families, as well as serve as a learning experience for Georgia College students in a range of disciplines.

“It would provide an important service-learning opportunity for our students at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level,” said Victoria Bohan, nursing lecturer and grant manager. “Not only are they being exposed to servicing community health care needs, but by working together, their education will have much more depth.”

Since 2011, school-based health clinics have grown in the U.S. by 20 percent to 2,315 sites in 49 of 50 states. In rural areas, clinics like these serve an even greater purpose. Studies show clinics in rural areas serve more community populations in addition to students than suburban and urban clinics.

If funded, undergraduate students would perform vision and hearing tests and graduate students would complete health assessments. Doctoral students would have the opportunity to create innovative ways to serve community health care needs.

“One important aspect of this clinic would be to have our students gain exposure to children from varied socioeconomic groups with differing access to care,” Bohan said. “Our students often come from privileged backgrounds where they don’t have to worry about having access to health care. It’s all very theoretical to them. This would give them that perspective.”

The school-based health clinic has the potential to provide gaps in health care access in Baldwin and surrounding counties—a hallmark of the School of Nursing mission, MacMillan and Bohan said.

Throughout next year, the School of Nursing will assemble a community advisory group of local planning organizations, the school system, medical service providers, the public health department, local businesses and more. They’ll also complete a needs assessment and develop a business plan to establish the clinic.

“The School of Nursing is committed to improving health care outcomes and decreasing disparities in the middle Georgia region,” Bohan said. “We’re in a unique position to provide that care and work to close the health care gap.”

For more information, please call 478-445-1076.