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5/12/2014

Emmy and Grammy Award-Winning Artist and YHC Alumna Trisha Yearwood, ’84, Delivers Address to Graduates   YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – Young Harris College conferred 167 degrees on graduates participating in the College’s Commencement ceremony on May 10 in the YHC Recreation and Fitness Center. The College awarded bachelor’s degrees in art, biology, business and public policy, communication studies, education, English, history, mathematics, music, music education, musical theatre, outdoor leadership, ...

5/9/2014

Dr. Scott D. Hawkins has been elected chairman of the LaGrange College Board of Trustees. He replaces Bill Hodges, who rotated off the board at its meeting on April 25. “We are extremely blessed as an institution to have talented alumni to provide leadership for our trustees and our college,” said President Dan McAlexander. “Chairman Hawkins brings his business acumen, his years of institutional experience and his personal passion for this college to his new role. I have the utmost confidence ...

4/1/2014

A Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE) John Wesley Fellowships have been awarded to five United Methodist doctoral scholars, including Frederick "David" Carr who is pursuing his Ph.D. studies in New Testament at Emory University’s Graduate Division of Religion. The John Wesley Fellows program is designed to promote the renewal of theological education by supporting promising United Methodist scholars who are committed to classical Christianity and academic excellence. Scholarships are ...

3/20/2014

Eighteen inmate students were awarded a Certificate in Theological Studies (CTS) in a graduation ceremony at Lee Arrendale State Prison for Women last month. The CTS program is a collaboration between the Atlanta Theological Association (ATA) and Arrendale State Prison’s Chaplaincy Department. The program was co-founded in 2009 by Candler School of Theology's Elizabeth Bounds, associate professor of Christian Ethics, along with alumna Susan Bishop, chaplain at the prison. Candler students serve...

1/24/2014

The Rev. Lisa Garvin, associate dean of the chapel and religious life at Emory University, has been named acting dean of the chapel and religious life, effective Feb. 7. She will assume on an acting basis the post being vacated by the Rev. Susan Henry-Crowe, who was named general secretary of the United Methodist Church's (UMC) General Board of Church and Society, the denomination's main arm for social justice and advocacy, education and international outreach. Garvin, a deacon in the UMC, ...

1/23/2014

By Kim Urquhart | Emory Report | Jan. 17, 2014 The seed of an idea for an organic farm at Oxford College is beginning to take root. This spring, Oxford welcomes its first organic farmer who will help transform a grassy field on Emory Street into a thriving, colorful patchwork of crops and a living laboratory for students. "For several years we had had a vision of developing an organic farm, but the enabling event was the gift of land," explains Dean Stephen Bowen. The 11-plus acres at 406 ...

1/9/2014

The holidays are over and thousands of college students leave the creature comforts of home to head back to college campuses. Perhaps while at home, they attended one or two worship services with the family or perhaps even a Christmas Eve Service. It was good to be home and back in that familiar setting of worship but something, someone, had changed. Where do we go from here?   This may be a scenario not so different from what our churches throughout the conference see repeated year after year. ...

1/8/2014

Cathy Cox, president of United Methodist-related Young Harris College, was recently named to Georgia Trend Magazine’s 2015 list of 100 Most Influential Georgians.   The annual list reflects the state’s most powerful and influential citizens who affect the lives and livelihoods of all Georgians.   As the 21st president of YHC, President Cox has worked to transform the College into a world-class four-year institution with more than 1,200 students across five academic divisions. She was ...

1/3/2014

The United Methodist Connectional Federal Credit Union (UMC FCU) is now accepting applications for the 2014 UMC FCU Scholarship. In an effort to include the UMC's many graduate students, the credit union has expanded the age eligibility to ages 17-35. The application must be received in UMC FCU offices by April 30, 2014. The UMC FCU will award four $1,000 scholarships again this year. One winning applicant will be chosen from each of the credit union's four conferences: North Georgia, ...

12/11/2013

YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – On Dec. 5, Young Harris College held a “topping out” ceremony for the new $41 million, 125,000-square-foot Rollins Campus Center that is designed to catapult the student experience into the 21st century.   Hundreds of faculty, staff, students and friends of the College left their mark on the new building during the historic event by signing the facility’s final steel beam. Guests also watched as the beam was ceremoniously lifted and secured into place.   “It was great to see ...

10/17/2013

By Ansley Brackin Communications Specialist for North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church Students of Emory University received an opportunity of a life time: the chance to be in the same room with one of the world’s most well-respected spiritual leaders. His Holiness The Dalai Lama made numerous appearances of various sizes during his stay in GA, but the lecture Wednesday was within the Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church, filled with hundreds college students.  Along with the...

10/16/2013

The United Methodist Church (UMC) recently approved a Black College Fund grant totaling $300,000 to Clark Atlanta University (CAU) to support infrastructural improvements to McPheeters-Dennis Hall.  The historic building houses several academic departments, including Mathematics, Physics, African-American Studies and History, and was named in honor of deceased CAU educators Dr. Alphonso A. McPheeters, a former dean of Clark College, and Dr. Joseph J. Dennis.  The grant money was used to ...

10/7/2013

Exploration 2013 is a three-day event for young adults age 18-26 to hear, discern, and respond to God’s call to ordained ministry and to explore their gifts for service as a deacon or elder in The United Methodist Church. This event, sponsored by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, will be held Nov. 15-17 in Denver, Colorado. Registration is open at www.explorecalling.org/exploration. Rev. Jasmine Smothers, Associate Director of Connectional Ministries, will be MC for the ...

10/1/2013

United Methodist historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), supported by The United Methodist Church’s Black College Fund, are working to recruit more women and minorities in the academic areas of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). “Females make up only ten percent of the total population of engineers,” said Dr. Monique M. Johnson-Jones, Director of STEM at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. “Females either keep pace or surpass males when it comes to ...

9/27/2013

  Candler School of Theology is reaching out to doctors, lawyers, peacemakers, social workers, music directors, youth ministers and senior pastors with five new degree programs designed to expand the possibilities of reaching more people who want to make a real difference in the real world. "Professionals in health care, law and many other fields—including ministry—tell us they need help in navigating the theological challenges they face on the job every day, whether it’s in the hospital, court...

9/24/2013

Sherri Brown, director of a local nonprofit that helps families create their own path out of poverty, gets teary-eyed when she talks about the impact made by LaGrange College’s Servant Scholars on the participants of Circles of Troup County. “They provide childcare and help with homework while parents are in meetings,” she said. “This year, they’ll be focusing on intentional instruction, teaching social and academic skills. “But these students do so much more. They are incredible role models for...

9/10/2013

By Rachel Reiff Ellis Candler School of Theology   After more than three decades of almost daily use, Emory’s iconic and central worship space, William R. Cannon Chapel, has undergone its first building-wide systematic renovation. Built in 1981, the chapel hosts daily classes and five worship services a week for Candler School of Theology students, plus regular gatherings for other religious groups at Emory.   Updating Cannon was essential to Candler’s mission, according to Dean Jan Love. “...

9/4/2013

According to administrators, this year’s group of entering students at LaGrange College—including freshmen, transfers and graduate students—set a record at the United Methodist-related school. New incoming students across all categories now number 435, topping the 426 that enrolled in 2006. When numbers are finalized over the course of the next week, college officials also hope to have a record number of first-year students. That record stands at 267, and also was set in 2006, the year that the ...

8/16/2013

As school gets back in session, we thought you might like to meet a few of the past recipients of the UM Foundation's Scholarships. Every year, the Georgia United Methodist Foundation partners with the United Methodist Higher Education Foundation and United Methodist churches to award United Methodist Dollars for Scholars scholarships to deserving students attending United Methodist institutions of higher education in Georgia. Last year, the United Methodist Foundation awarded 67 scholarships. ...

4/22/2013

Participants of this year's LaGrange College Alternative Spring Break trip to Orlando in April said their experiences were life-changing.   The group of nine students and three staff members worked with Community Food and Outreach Center in its grocery and thrift store, and in the warehouse of Stop Hunger Now.   Sarah Carter, a senior from Riverdale, said the trip brought her face to face with the problem of hunger, and has inspired her to make it a personal mission to find ways to provide food ...