Former State Department Official Anne-Marie Slaughter and Newsweek Columnist Eleanor Clift to SpeakBrenau University will recapture this spring a tradition that has been on hold for close to a quarter of a century when it moves its commencement exercises on May 3 and 4, 2013, to the outdoor venue on the “front lawn” of the historic [...]
Teams from California to Massachusetts converge on the Brenau University campus here Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 1-3, for the 13th Annual National Intercollegiate Mock Mediation Tournament.Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Carol Hunstein, Georgia Appeals Court Judge J.D. Smith, noted mediation author Richard Calkins and internationally known mediator Tom Valenti are scheduled to participate in various [...]
At the midpoint of the fall term of the 2012-13 academic year, Dr. Debra Dobkins completes the first leg in her newest academic assignments – dean of the 134-year-old Women’s College at Brenau University. One of her biggest challenges, she said, is bridging the gap between the traditional 18- to 22-year-old residential students on the [...]
Brenau University scored the most points in team competition and Amy Broome from Gainesville State College won the top individual performance honors at the 10th annual Brenau Invitational Mock Mediation Tournament on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 5-6. The tournament, a regional program that has been regarded as a limbering up for teams that participate in national competition [...]
Bruce Burch, a successful songwriter and publisher who founded the music business programs at the University of Georgia and at Kennesaw State University, joined the Brenau faculty this fall to develop an entertainment and events management curriculum and create ways for students to acquire practical experience in the field before they graduate. As a Nashville [...]
UPDATE: For final results of the tournament, click here. Brenau University will host the 2012 USTA/ITA regional tennis championships Friday through Sunday, Sept. 28-30, with singles and doubles matches that feature some of the top collegiate tennis players in the country. Play commences Friday at 8:30 a.m. at the Lessie Smithgall Tennis Center on [...]
UPDATE: Hear an exclusive interview with WBCX-FM Her trilogy of life in a dystopian society began with Matched in 2010 and ends with Reached to be published this fall Ally Condie, the author of one of the hottest teen book series since the Twilight and The Hunger Games sagas, appeared at a special presentation at [...]
For the eighth consecutive year, Brenau University placed in the top 15 in the Southeast in the annual U.S. News & World Report’s “Great Schools, Great Prices” ratings of higher education institutions based on the value provided in exchange for student tuition dollars. Brenau at 13th place was the only other Georgia school on the [...]
Brenau University welcomed the Class of 2016 as well as its largest crop of graduate students as it begins the 2012-13 academic year. The undergraduate residential Women’s College at Brenau included about 175 first-year students and another 140 students transferred in from other institutions. “Our enrollment includes a good, diverse group,” said Scott Briell, [...]
When Grace Hooten Moore, WC ’38, was a drama and speech student at Brenau College in the 1930s, she had such a deep voice that the only parts she ever landed in theatrical productions at the women’s college were those of men. As one version of the story goes, her classmates in her senior year [...]
Brenau’s Master of Business Administration degree programs ranked No. 7 in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2012 listings of the top programs in the Atlanta area. The total enrollment of 453 students in the program topped the 401 posted by No. 8 Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and the 300 at the [...]
Former U.S. District Judge Sidney O. Smith Jr., a long-time and influential member of the Brenau University Board of Trustees, died Saturday, July 14, after an illness. He was 88 years old. Brenau President Ed Schrader described Smith as the “moral and intellectual compass” for the university and its leaders. Smith was so important to [...]
After a nationwide search, Brenau University has named Dr. Sandra L. Leslie to the post of dean in the university’s College of Education. She will oversee undergraduate and graduate programs for teachers and school administrators on campuses and online. The Pittsburgh, Pa., native began in her new role on July 2. For the previous six years, Leslie [...]
The National Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) has approved continuing the Brenau University College of Education accreditation for its undergraduate and graduate-level programs for an additional seven-year period. The action by the NCATE unit accreditation board affirmed that the Brenau programs met all six “rigorous standards set forth by the professional education community” for initial [...]
In a see-saw year, the Brenau Golden Tigers softball team entered the 2012 season as No. 5 in the nation, fell to 16th by the end of regularly scheduled play despite top pitching and defense, then knocked off a couple of top-ranked teams to make the Final Four in the championship tournament, and finished as [...]
The Brenau University Golden Tigers tennis team (16-5) finished the 2012 season ranked No. 6 in the nation in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics prestigious coaches’ poll. The Tigers lead singles player, senior LynSee Choo of Kuching, Malaysia, also won recognition for the third straight year as a first-team All-American. Choo and junior Eline [...]
Brenau University on June 1 celebrated more than a quarter century of operations at the U.S. Navy Submarine Base when it conducted its 25th commencement exercise for undergraduate students on its Kings Bay campus. The university commissioned the program at the behest of the Navy, and about half the members of the student population on [...]
Brenau University’s Golden Tigers softball team advanced to the next stage of the NAIA Softball National Championship with a 2-0, eight-inning win over top-ranked Concordia University on Saturday, May 19, in Gulf Shores, Ala. The No. 16 Tigers now face conference rival Auburn University-Montgomery, ranked 18th in the regular season-ending coaches’ poll, at 11 a.m. [...]
GULF SHORES, Ala., May 18, 2012 – Brenau Golden Tigers ace Anna Maness pitched a three-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and no walks Friday, May 18, to lead the Brenau team to an 8-0 victory over Talladega College for a second win in the national championship softball tournament. The Tigers opened play in the tournament [...]
Home for undergraduate research that reintroduces endangered plants to their native habitats Brenau University dedicated a new greenhouse on the Gainesville campus on Friday, May 18, that will expand the university’s successful undergraduate research project that is returning endangered species [...]
