Every April, Georgia College hosts the Celebration of Excellence Awards Ceremony to recognize staff who have shown excellence in their field and dedicated service to the University community. Staff Council is now asking for nominations. To nominate a staff member or team on campus, please fill out our online form. Below is the list of awards available along with a description of the award.

- Individual Service Excellence: This award recognizes individual staff members who have gone above and beyond in their service to students, colleagues, and other Georgia College community members during the last academic year.

- Outstanding Leadership Award:  This award recognizes individuals in leadership roles/capacities who have gone above and beyond in their service to students, colleagues, and other Georgia College community members during the last academic year.

- 'The Bright Idea Award' for Outstanding Process Improvement: This award recognizes teams, departments, or divisions that designed and implemented process improvements or initiatives over the last year that have significantly increased effectiveness and efficiency. ...

The Office of Inclusive Excellence, in collaboration with the College of Business and the Career Center, will present a virtual Diversity 360 event called “Inclusive Leadership” on Wednesday, March 23 at 4p.m. The Zoom link is https://tinyurl.com/bdhbyt5p. 

More than ever, companies are prioritizing and implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives. Organizations can recruit from a wide demographic of people. However, diversity efforts will not succeed unless businesses create environments where each demographic in the workplace feels welcomed and valued and has a sense of belonging. Therefore, organizations that commit to creating an inclusive culture not only improve their work environments, but they also positively affect their bottom line. 

We invite the GC community to hear from a panel of employers discussing how they inco...

The Office of Legal Affairs is working to increase the number of trained faculty and staff members to serve as potential Sexual Misconduct Hearing Panelists and Sexual Misconduct Advisors for the Complainant and Respondent. Training is offered via virtual platform by the USG Interim System Director, Brandi Williams, on the following dates:

 

Advisor Training Sessions - Participants are only required to attend ONE session.

Date: March 28, 2022

Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

 

Date: April 15, 2022

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

 

Date: May 5, 2022

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

 

New Hearing Panelist Training – Participants are required to attend BOTH sessions

Date: April 25, 2022

Time: 8:30 AM-12:30 PM

 

AND

 

Date: April 26, 2022

Time: 8:30 AM -12:30 PM

 

If you are interested in serving the university in this ca...

Mark your calendars and join President Cox for Walking Wednesday on March 23 at 9am. 

The group will meet in the courtyard by the campus Chick-fil-A and walk around the main block of campus.

Bring your walking shoes, get your steps in, and earn steps for the Mindful Exploration Steps Challenge!

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Jazz Jam 3.22.2022

Come out and enjoy our GC Jazz Jam Session Tuesday, March 22, 7-9 pm at Amici Café, downtown Milledgeville, presented by Jazz at Georgia College. Hosted by our faculty and student jazz musicians, the GC Jam Session is open to all members of the community interested in working on their jazz and improvisation skills. As last year was a bit of a challenge, we are happy to now be able to invite our community back out to play with us. Bring your instrument if you want to play or come just to enjoy the menu and the live music at Amici Café. We hope to see you there!

Dates: March 14-April 24

Employees and spouses enrolled in a USG healthcare plan can earn a $20 USG Well-being credit by tracking steps each week of the Mindful Exploration Steps Challenge.

The last date to upload your steps is April 25, 11:59 p.m. local time. Steps uploaded after this date won’t be counted in the final results. Try uploading daily—it’s more fun! The last day to add a team is March 28.

You have up to 14 days to go back and enter steps prior to the upload deadline

Sign in or register your USG Well-being account at ourwellbeing.usg.edu > go to Social > Challenges.

Connect with colleagues, make friends, and learn something new!

Join us as we celebrate Bi+ Community Week with a Bi+ Community Identity Circle on March 23 from 6-7 p.m. at Blackbridge Hall! Modeled after a restorative justice-style community circle, attendees will be invited to both share and listen to others in discussing Bi+ identity, biphobia, and Bi+ allyship.

The Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) application deadline for Summer 2022 is April 15, 2022.  TAP Program will waive (9) nine credit hours for the Spring Semester.

As part of its desire to meet its employees evolving needs, The University System of Georgia (USG) has established an educational assistance program, the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP).  The purpose of TAP is to foster the professional growth and development of its eligible employees.

Please visit the following link: https://benefits.usg.edu/work-life/tuition-assistance-program for a copy of the form and policy.  Please email the completed applications to benefits@gcsu.edu.

For assistance, please reach out to Tonya Anderson at benefits@gcsu.edu.

Scientific literacy is an essential skill for scientists, health professionals, and consumers of scientific information. For this reason, most biology instructors place an emphasis on the development of scientific literacy in the classroom. However, there are many definitions of scientific literacy and there is robust discussion on the best practices for developing this set of skills in students. The next themed issue of the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education will explore concepts related to scientific literacy in the classroom and the community. We envision that the issue will focus on topics such as, but not limited to: pedagogical practices that focus on scientific literacy skills, theoretical frameworks that inform the development and understanding of scientific literacy, ways to expose majors and non-majors to the importance ...

MS OneDrive is a tool to collaborate and share files or content. Collaboration is an effective method that allows groups to work together to achieve shared goals by brainstorming ideas to develop more solutions – thus helping to reach comprehensive learning. With OneDrive, you can share files for group work, track students' progress through real-time monitoring, organize materials by creating assignment folders that can assist you when building content in GeorgiaVIEW, and keep your files updated throughout the learning process. 

In this session on March 22 at noon, GC departments of Information Technology (IT) and the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) come together in a hybrid session to present you with information and ideas to maximize the use of OneDrive in the classroom! Angie Moxley of IT and Simeco Vinson of CTL will explore how to log in to OneDrive using yo...

Binghamton University and the Binghamton Biofilm Research Center will be focused on providing research opportunities for early-career students (rising sophomore or junior) from institutions with limited research opportunities (community college, primarily undergraduate institutions, colleges, etc.). The goal is to provide talented and motivated students with a well-mentored, collaborative research experience on microbial biofilms that has the potential to impact their career trajectory and future academic successes.

Our program is centered around the study of microbial biofilms, communities of bacteria and other microorganisms that grow attached to a surface or interface within a self-secreted extracellular polymeric slime matrix. Biofilm cells are distinct in the genes and proteins they express, resulting in unique behaviors that include altered resistance to antimicrobials and host immune systems. Bacterial biofilms have been implicated in more than 80 percent of chronic, infectious diseases and are also ...