Cathy Furtado and other Georgia Highlands College nursing students funneled into a small room at Heritage Hall Wednesday morning where several disaster victims were awaiting help during a disaster training simulation with the Floyd County Police Department and other emergency personnel. The disaster victims were played by other nursing students who were given unique health […]

Georgia Highlands College will host speaker Rainer Walter-Helk, CEO of Innotech Solar GmbH, for a presentation on “Entrepreneurship and the Solar Industry in Germany” on April 24 at 3:30PM at GHC’s Cartersville location. The event is free and open to the public. Walter-Helk will discuss his experiences as a CEO creating and operating a new […]

Georgia Highlands College is set to continue its annual Military Family Fun Day for the sixth consecutive year. This year’s event will be held on April 13th starting at 10AM and ending at 1PM on the Floyd Campus at the pavilion next to Paris Lake. The free event is a partnership between GHC and the […]

Georgia Highlands College will be holding a Career Expo highlighting a number of open positions on March 12 at Cartersville in the new GHC academic building from 1 PM to 3 PM.  The event is open to the public. GHC is looking to fill a variety of positions in areas like admissions, the business office and more, […]

Georgia Highlands College will be hosting “Passports for Life: Holocaust Rescue & Survival” on April 4th from 2PM to 3:30PM in Cartersville. The event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Students Without Borders. The event will take place in the Student Center in Room 102 A/B. GHC Assistant Professor of […]

After a successful pilot last year, GHC is continuing the STEMFIT “math boot camp” this summer. Its aim is to help incoming high school dual enrollment students or college freshmen start at a collegiate mathematic level of pre-calculus or higher. “In order to complete a STEM pathway in a timely manner and maintain momentum toward […]

Georgia Highlands College is hosting Cartoon Network’s Mark McCray at each of its locations for a special lecture series about African American influences in cartoons and comics this week. McCray is a senior manager of programming operations for Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network, overseeing Adult Swim’s on-air promotion and scheduling strategy. His presentation discusses […]

Georgia Highlands College was listed by Rice University-based publisher OpenStax as one of the top 10 schools that has served the most students with the adoption of free college textbooks in the 2017-18 school year. GHC was one of only two colleges in Georgia listed. The University of Georgia also made the list. To date, […]

Georgia Highlands College is hosting guest lecturer Karcheik Sims-Alvarado on February 24th from 2:00PM to 3:30PM at the Cartersville location for Black History Month. The event is free and open to the public. Sims-Alvarado has studied the history and culture of African Americans throughout the Black Atlantic World. Whether in the classroom, museum, or in […]

Georgia Highlands College has opened registration for the second annual Highlands Writers Conference set for March 2nd at the GHC Cartersville location. Attendees will have the opportunity to spend the day with acclaimed authors, including prize-winning poet Christopher Martin, memoirist and Vice President of Membership for the National Book Critics Circle Anjali Enjeti, and Charles […]