Georgia Highlands College Commencement will be held on Saturday, May 12th, at The Forum River Center in downtown Rome at 10AM. GHC will have 894 students receiving 906 diplomas (with a number of those students receiving more than one)*. The nursing pinning ceremony will be held at 6PM on May 11th at the First Baptist […]

Georgia Highlands College’s dental hygiene program is more than classes, textbooks and labs. Students get real world experience in the best way possible: volunteering to provide free oral health care to the community. “It is important for our students and our community for our students to go outside the classroom to meet people and identify […]

Georgia Highlands College has appointed Julius Fleschner as the new Dean of Libraries and College Testing. Fleschner will oversee all of GHC’s libraries which are open to students and the public in Cartersville, Douglasville, Paulding and Rome. Between 2015 and 2016, GHC’s libraries had a combined total of over 250,000 visits. And the library faculty […]

Georgia Highlands College has partnered with the University of West Georgia to jointly offer students in Douglasville the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree in mass communications with a concentration in public relations. The new mass communications degree partnership begins fall 2018 and offers students two years with GHC and another two years with UWG. […]

Nearly 80 students from across all Georgia Highlands College’s locations came together on April 13 to compete in the eighth annual GHC Public Speaking Competition at the Cartersville location. It was a record number of student competitors this year with a total of 78. The event invites GHC students to prepare and deliver a persuasive […]

Georgia Highlands College will be hosting a two-hour event on learning, hip-hop culture and the art of freestyle rap at its Cartersville location on April 18th from 2PM to 4:15PM in the Student Center. Starting at 2PM, GHC will host Soul Food Cypher, an Atlanta-based group who aims to provide “cultural events that create a […]

With an average attendance of over 200 people, GHC continues its annual Military Family Fun Day set for April 21st starting at 10AM and ending at 1PM on the Floyd Campus. The event is free and open to the public and hosts over 15 vendors and a 20-piece military band. The event is a partnership between GHC […]

Georgia Highlands College’s students now have access to year-round Pell Grant funds starting this summer. Before the change, students could only receive the Pell financial aid for fall and spring semesters, GHC’s Director of Financial Aid Donna Childres explained. Now, students can attend the summer semester and receive additional Pell funding. For example, if a […]

Brandi Rhodes is a mother of three. But the juggle of family life and attending college as a full-time student hasn’t kept her from maintaining a perfect 4.0 GPA. GHC chose Rhodes as its Board of Regents Academic Day representative. One student is chosen from each college in the University System of Georgia each year […]

A few years ago, Georgia Highlands College started a project called the Charger Food Pantry to help combat the nationwide problem of food insecurity among college students. GHC was recognized with the “Advocacy Award” at the 25th Annual Georgia College Counseling Association Conference, which brings together counselors from over 50 public and private universities across […]