Georgia Highlands College will be opening its new academic building at the Cartersville location in October during a Ribbon Cutting and Open House event. The event will take place on October 16 from 4-6PM and is open to the public. To R.S.V.P. to the event, please visit: ribboncutting.highlands.edu The 52,000-square foot building has a full […]

Georgia Highlands College’s accreditation has been officially reaffirmed by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). The reaffirmation continues GHC’s accreditation for a 10-year period through 2028. The SACSCOC visited GHC in 2017 for its review. “All the time, effort and collaboration leading up to the SACSCOC review team onsite visit […]

Georgia Highlands College’s pilot STEMFIT “math boot camp” is the first of its kind in the University System of Georgia. Its aim is to help incoming high school dual enrollment students or college freshmen be prepared to start at a collegiate mathematic level of pre-calculus or higher. “In order to complete a STEM pathway in […]

Students, faculty and one member of the local business community spent nine days in China this summer on a “Business and Culture” study abroad program. The group visited the cities of Beijing, Xi’an and Shanghai, including historical and cultural sites such as the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden Palace, the Terracotta Army […]

Maggie Schuyler has joined Georgia Highlands College as its new director of admissions to work with future students and the community, as the GHC Admissions team launches new community events and a revamped campus tour program called Charger Tours. Schuyler graduated from Georgia Southern University with a master’s degree in higher education administration. Prior to […]

Georgia Highlands College has received a total of $4.1 million in state funding to renovate its Winn Building in Dallas near the current Paulding instructional site. The project will transform the facility into a modern academic building and expand degree and program offerings in the area. “We would like to especially thank our legislators for […]

Georgia Highlands College was honored with seven gold awards, two silver, and three bronze from two national award programs for work completed in communications, marketing, advertising and promotions of the college by the Advancement Division. GHC was up against over 900 entries from across the U.S. in the Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA). CAA awarded GHC […]

Georgia Highlands College’s Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) has had a busy year and has been named the “Regional Top Distinguished Chapter Overall” for the third year in a row at regionals. PTK students completed several local service projects, including a Christmas Angel Tree program, knitting scarves for the homeless and participating in GHC […]

In 2002, Derrick Lepard may have been a shy high school student taking his first class at Georgia Highlands College, but now, he owns his own business in Atlanta called Cultivators. “GHC was a great stepping stone for me right out of high school,” he said. “I was somewhat reserved and shy right out of […]

In 2017, Georgia Highlands College Assistant Professor of Communication Alexandra Van Ryn MacMurdo Reiter was contacted by the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Bern looking for more information about her grandfather. “As you may know, your grandfather, a former Polish consul in Latvia in the 1930s and a head of the Political Section […]