Open Enrollment is now live! You will be able to login and make your benefit elections October 25 - November 5, 2021. This is an active open enrollment -- you MUST login and answer the tobacco user & working spouse (if applicable) surcharge questions. Failure to do so will result in default surcharges ($100 minimum) added to your monthly premiums beginning in January 2022. 

 

The Virtual Benefits Fair is also open this week, October 25 - 29th. Visit https://usg.vfairs.com/ and register using your name, email, and institution. The remainder of the week's live presentation agenda is below; you are welcome to join any of the live sessions at the times listed below, but you can also watch the recordings whenever is convenient to you through November 30th.

9:00 AM, October 28th: Weight Loss & Diabetes Support with Livongo

11:00 AM, October 28th: What Retirees Need to Know about USG and Medicare Open ...

When you make your way up to library stacks take a moment to look up!  Drawing 1 students are presenting their drawings in the stairwell all week.  They performed their value studies using charcoal and the subject of clouds - some are light and airy, puffy, textural, dark, and seemingly stormy.  A big thank you to Evan Leavitt who encouraged the drawing students to display their work in the library and helped our GC art students see their work in a new way.

Students:  Maggie Barnhardt, Bethany Barron, Rebecca Brooks, James Carter, Sam Gooden, Cara Radosevich, Petyon Riggott, Nevaeh Robinson, Emily Slepsky, Charlotte Snider, Tristan Sprankle, Mary Troupe, and Kelly Wong

As of Monday, November 1, 62 spaces in the Centennial Center Parking Lot will be reclassified as resident parking.   

For more parking information, including our interactive parking map, please visit gcsu.edu/auxiliaryservices/parking-resources.  

This event is the result of collaboration with the department’s Student Advisory Council (see attached poster).  All current English students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty, and staff are invited.

On Friday, November 5, at 3:00 p.m., we will gather in the Arts & Sciences building courtyard to visit, eat some snacks, and talk all things English.  Please feel free to invite a friend.

To help us make sure that we provide enough in the way of refreshments, please RSVP to melinda.martin@gcsu.edu no later than noon this Friday, October 29th.  Thank you so much—we look forward to seeing you there!

Faculty, Staff, and Students of Georgia College:

The Mass Communication Department invites you to follow "the___irreplaceables" on Instagram, a page created by a mass communication major for her practicum course. The page is designed to connect the GC community by serving as a window into the lives of the people who make the GC community special.

The page is updated regularly with feature stories of, interviews with, and photos of students across various majors and colleges. 

Follow the page at https://www.instagram.com/the__irreplaceables/.

It is time once again to complete the required Annual Employee Compliance Training at Georgia College.  You will be receiving an email from Percipio, the platform used to launch the training.  The email will state you have an assignment from GC in the subject line. Please open the email and click view assignments and it will direct you to the training.  

The training is a University System of Georgia requirement for all employees (faculty, staff and student workers). This year’s content consist of institutional and system policies and procedures, as well as motor vehicle use.

All employees hired prior to September 1st, 2021, including student workers, must complete the Policy Compliance and Ethics Refresher. Individuals who drive on university business must also complete the Motor Vehicle Use Program module. 

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West Campus parking lot #38 will be closed after noon on Thursday, October 28 for a Campus Life event.  

Do you have questions about healthy eating and nutrition?  Would you like to know more about weight management, food allergies, digestive health, and immune system support?  Sodexo Regional Dietitian Cristina Caro will be on campus Thursday, October 28 at the Farm to Campus Farmers Market on Front Campus from 2-4 p.m. to answer your questions.  

Thursday, Oct. 28 Georgia College’s Wind Symphony presents “A Jazzy Affair” at 7:30 p.m. in Russell Auditorium. Directed by Dr. Cliff Towner, this concert aims to lift the heavy and tiring weight of the pandemic with fun, light and uplifting music. Influenced by American jazz, there will be harmonic style and some improvisation––similar to a Pops Orchestra concert on a breezy summer evening in Atlanta. Songs dating back to 1927 will be featured, like “Latte Macchiato” by Naoya Wada; “Fly Me to the Moon” by Bart Howard and “Sweet Trombone Rag” by Al Sweet. Senior music therapy major Reed Tanner will be on alto saxophone. Reed is the 2019 Concerto Competition winner. He’ll perform Pedro Iturralde’s “Pequeña Czarada” which means “Little Dance.” A $5 donation is encouraged. All proceeds benefit music scholarships...

The English Department Council on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion presents:

Saving Juliette: A Documentary on Coal Ash & A Georgia Town's Fight for Clean Water

Please join us on Thursday, October 28th at 7pm in Peabody Auditorium for a screening of a 40-minute investigative documentary film, "Saving Juliette." The film follows residents of Juliette, Georgia after they find that the coal ash pond adjacent to Georgia Power's Plant Scherer is submerged in the same aquifer from which they draw their well water.

After the screening, we will hold a panel discussion with director, Evey Wilson Wetherbee (Mercer University Center for Collaborative Journalism), producer Grant Blankenship (Georgia Public Broadcasting), Dr. Allison VandeVoort (Environmental Science), and Dr. Veronica Womack (Executive Director, Rural Studies Institute).

This event is co-sponsored by the ...