ATLANTA, Ga. – Brenau Window magazine received top honors from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education here Feb. 19 at the annual District III meeting for the publication’s improvement of linking its Fall 2012 edition and future editions with a new online magazine.The Brenau University alumni and general interest quarterly magazine earned a Grand [...]
The Rotary Club of Gainesville, Ga., and the northeast Georgia district of the international organization on Feb. 11 presented Brenau President Ed Schrader with its W. Lee Arrendale Vocational Excellence Award for his role in spearheading the growth in career-oriented academic programs at the university.The Schrader record during his eight years as Brenau president includes [...]
Dr. Marcus Borg, one of the most widely known and influential voices in progressive Christianity and a major figure in scholarship related to the Historical Jesus, will present three lectures at Brenau University on Friday and Saturday, March 1 and 2, 2013, as part of a newly formed partnership of north Georgia churches and academic [...]
The Delta Mu Delta business honor society tapped Brenau University to host the newest chapter of the 100-year-old organization.The Brookfield, Ill.-based society, which operates on 240 campuses worldwide, recognizes academic excellence in baccalaureate, master’s, and doctorate degree business administration programs. Delta Mu Delta selects students in the top 20 percent of their classes for lifetime [...]
Brenau University President Ed Schrader joined 30 other college and university presidents in Washington, DC on Monday to collectively urge Congress and other lawmaking bodies to take “common sense” action of gun legislation and regulation that will enhance safety on their campuses.The group is part of about 350 college presidents who have come together through [...]
Dunn, whose lecture is titled “Focus on Strengths: Imagine the Possibilities,” has published more than 100 articles and books dealing with neuroscience and occupational therapy. Her work revolves around understanding how people perceive sensory input throughout their daily activities and how their ability to process that information affects their lives.“Dr. Dunn has a very strong [...]
Damon Stancil joins Brenau University’s growing athletic program as head golf coach, and he is teeing off by hitting the recruiting trail.Stancil, whose first day on the job was Jan. 31, needs to find at least six student-athletes who can “shoot the scores and make the grades,” he said.Women’s golf, Brenau’s 10th varsity sport, begins [...]
Softball, tennis and swimming projected to repeat 2012 Top 10 performancesIt’s not lonely at the top for some of Brenau University’s sports teams.For the first time in school history, three of its sports programs have attained Top 5 national rankings at the same time.The Golden Tigers tennis team is No. 3 in the 2013 NAIA [...]
When Brenau University acquired the first piano in its $1.5 million initiative to become an “All-Steinway School,” it already had a name: The Dempsey Steinway. That first piano, Number 481, a handmade Steinway & Son’s Model D Concert Grand, arrived on campus Dec. 4 and now resides in Pearce Auditorium. However, Brenau President Ed Schrader announced [...]
When Brenau University music professor and pianist Ben Leaptrott accompanies cellist Charae Krueger and violinist Kenn Wagner at a concert Tuesday night, Feb. 5, another “performer” will debut on the stage at historic Pearce Auditorium: a brand new Steinway & Sons concert grand piano.The concert, which starts at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to [...]
Following the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges approval for Brenau University to offer courses in Brenau’s Master of Business Administration program on the campus of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Suwanee, Ga., the university plans to offer its first class in the program at the beginning of the spring [...]
Brenau University named David L. Barnett senior vice president and chief financial officer, its second highest post, effective Jan. 1.Reporting directly to Brenau President Ed Schrader, the Watkinsville, Ga., resident and Smyrna, Ga., native assumes duties of Wayne Dempsey, who retired in 2012. “Those Dempsey shoes are big ones to fill,” said Schrader, who brought [...]
Brenau University named South Carolina native Toby Hinton to the post of vice president for financial services with responsibilities for managing and supervising all financial related services and responsibilities of the Business Office, budget maintenance and management, financial reporting and cash flow management for the 2,800-student institution.Although Hinton is already on the job, he replaces [...]
Launching a new era in both its academic progress and its 135-year-old relationship with its hometown, Brenau University has officially moved into to its newest location in Gainesville. The city-owned Georgia Mountains Center now becomes Brenau Downtown Center, which will be the home of expanded graduate degree programs in physical therapy and other health sciences. [...]
An informal Brenau Downtown Center “Move-in Ceremony” will be held at 301 Main Street SW, Gainesville, Ga., on Monday, Dec. 17, at 10 a.m. to usher in the university’s newest expansion. The ceremony is the first step of the $6.5 million program that involves renovation of the facility to house the university’s planned graduate programs in [...]
Brenau University is expanding its athletic program to include women’s golf, which will begin competition as a varsity sport in the fall of 2013. Athletic Director Mike Lochstampfor is in the process of interviewing candidates for the new head coach position and the university will immediately begin recruiting athletes. Lochstampfor says there are a number [...]
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 [...]
Brenau University will take possession of the city-owned Georgia Mountains Center Dec. 15 as part of a long-term lease agreement with the Gainesville Redevelopment Authority that will pave the way for a $6.5 million expansion of the university’s health care professions graduate programs.Brenau President Ed Schrader said that Brenau’s occupancy of the building means that [...]
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 [...]
