For 24 years, The GIVE Center has helped connect students to volunteer opportunities and the Milledgeville community—creating a legacy of giving and philanthropy. The class of 2021 has made its impact on Milledgeville, with several students exceeding 1000 volunteer service hours. Here's what they said about the organizations they're involved with, why they value community service and how they encourage others to get involved. Kelly Bousquette 4 Majors - Psychology, Sociology,...
In 2021, Kamala Harris took office as the first woman Vice President of the United States. Jane Frasier became CEO of Citibank and the first woman to lead a major bank in the United States. Sarah Thomas was the first woman to referee a Super Bowl game. Women serve as CEOs of multi-million dollar companies including YouTube, Lockheed Martin and General Motors. Although they continue to make an impact in the business world, women still hold less than a third of senior management roles...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes to student life dynamics on college campuses around the world. Events morphed from in-person to online, social interactions were all distanced and the smiles of welcoming faces from student organizations were covered by masks. Through the challenges, Georgia College’s Department of Wellness and Recreation remained a positive outlet for safe student interaction—a way for them to connect and compete. Many changes were made during the...
Some Georgia College students will be doing a lot of streaming on winter break—but not the kind you do on Netflix. Home for the holidays, they’re not idle. Fifty students from all majors have turned ‘citizen scientist’ to monitor waterways in 26 counties across Georgia. They’ll make visual assessments, analyze chemical markers and log information to the state’s Adopt-A-Stream database. “This is truly a unique, cooperative and co-curricular experience that only a place like Georgia...
Throughout the 2020 ruckus of pandemic and political mayhem, a new student organization was born at Georgia College. It effectively proved that political discourse can be diverse—even polar opposite—and still remain civil and polite. What is a public liberal arts education, after all, if not the open discussion of ideas? That’s what senior Michael Haug was looking for last winter, as the presidential election earnestly got underway. On campus, he found groups for the Young Democrats,...
Georgia College’s Hillel was established 12 years ago—but it never had an actual house. Until now. Thanks to recent assistance from the GC Foundation, 200 Jewish students have a place to call their own. “It’s mind blowing. This all coincided at the same time. The stars aligned,” said Dr. Karen Berman, artistic director and chair of theatre and dance and advisor of Hillel at Georgia College. “To find a house within walking distance to campus is remarkable on its own,” she said, “and...
Recently, Georgia College had two opportunities to demonstrate Times Talk—the longest running program like it in the U.S.—for national audiences. Individuals from 50 U.S. colleges and universities participated in the two, first-ever national conversations titled, “So, what did you think of the debate?” The discussions were held the day after the U.S. Presidential and Vice-Presidential Debates. From Alaska to Delaware, 237 students, faculty, staff and community members chimed in to...
The COVID CARE Response Team—made up of 45 staff members from across campus—has been created to help students through the trying ordeal of testing positive for coronavirus or being exposed to someone who has. Dr. Shawn Brooks, vice president for Student Life, was concerned about the challenges students may face, so he formed a team to support them through those challenges. “Georgia College prides itself in the care we show to all members of our community. Student Life is at the...
Ileana Dejesus has a heart for helping others. An experience early in life that lead her to follow her passion in education by pursing a major in special education. In elementary school, Dejesus had a best friend who was impacted by a learning disability. The two did everything together, and were often compared to each other, but her friend sometimes struggled in school. “People would always say that ‘school wasn’t for her’ and things like that,” said Dejesus. “In the tenth grade,...
