In January of 2020, before Dr. Sandria Stephenson began teaching at Georgia College and before the pandemic changed everything, she was in the North Georgia mountains, engaging in a Holistic Educational Learning Partnerships (HELP) retreat amid the fog-covered peaks with a cohort of prospective doctorate students. Stephenson designed this HELP initiative to retreat with prospective students whom she felt were prepared to take the ultimate leap in higher education, pursuing a doctoral...
What first sparked your interest in SGA? I knew I wanted to do something more on this campus but I wasn’t really sure what that would look like. I was in a weird place in my college career right before joining SGA - I had just made a drastic change in majors and I wasn’t really sure what my next move was. I was just randomly checking my email one day when I saw an email blast saying that SGA had a couple vacant senate seats and they were taking applications. I didn’t know much about...
Dr. Micheal T. Stratton has been appointed to serve as new dean of Georgia College’s J. Whitney Bunting College of Business, effective July 1, 2020. Stratton is currently a professor of management at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He has served as Unit Head for the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and chair of the department of management and accountancy since 2014. “I’m delighted Dr. Stratton will be joining Georgia College as our new dean...
