Brenau President Anne A. Skleder, and Consul General of Mexico in Atlanta Javier Diáz de León sign an agreement for a grant which will support Brenau students of Mexican origin. (Maria Iniguez/Brenau University)
A recent grant made possible by the Government of Mexico will allow Brenau University to help four students of Mexican origin offset tuition costs. Qualifying students for the grant were born in Mexico or have parents who were born in Mexico. It comes from El Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior — translated to […]
Daniel Pavilion. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
For the third straight year, Brenau University earned multiple awards in the Council for Advancement and Support of Education District III competition recognizing outstanding work in educational advancement. Brenau received three awards — including two Silver and one Bronze — in this year’s competition, which included more than 900 entries in 66 categories from public […]
From left: Hall County Schools Superintendent Will Schofield and Brenau President Anne Skleder sign a renewal of the agreement between the district and university for the Ivester Early College program as Melvin Douglas and Victoria Kay Ivester Foundation President Lynn Darby, center, and Brenau faculty and administrators look on. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
Brenau President Anne Skleder and Hall County Schools Superintendent Will Schofield signed an agreement for the university’s continued participation in the Howard E. Ivester Early College on Wednesday, Jan. 29. Ivester Early College is a Hall County School District program that gives students the opportunity to earn college credit and certificates while completing a high […]
The public is invited to attend a gallery opening and reception at Brenau University featuring two special guests: New York-based artist Margaret Evangeline and independent curator, journalist and critic Lilly Wei. The Gallery Talk and Reception from 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, will celebrate the opening of House and Universe: Margaret Evangeline. Held in Sellars […]
Several of Brenau University’s online graduate programs were recently ranked among the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The 2020 U.S. News Best Online Programs Rankings named Brenau among the Best Online Master’s Education Programs, Best Online MBA Programs and Best Online Master’s Business Programs in addition to the MBA programs. […]
With the pending addition of a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies slated to begin in January 2021, Brenau University continues to build on its reputation of growing and initiating new clinical-grade graduate programs over the past decade. Gale Hansen Starich, dean of both the Sidney O. Smith Jr. Graduate School and the Ivester […]
Daniel Pavilion. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
As 2019 draws to a close, I want to share some of the many accomplishments and successes at Brenau University since my arrival of which I am very proud. All that we have achieved and celebrated is organized around ensuring an excellent experience for our students while at Brenau, and preparing them to successfully take […]
Drs. Gale Starich, Stewart Bauck and Jessi Shrout visit on the Brenau University Gainesville campus in December 2019. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
The Dr. Louise Bauck Endowment for Environmental Studies was recently established to honor the memory and legacy of longtime faculty member Dr. Louise Astrid Brouwer Bauck, who died in July 2019 following a terminal stomach cancer diagnosis. Bauck was a faculty member in biology from 2005-2012 and served as chair of the Department of Math […]
Brenau President Anne Skleder, left, and student Jenna Schardt on stage during the 2019 winter commencement. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
Jenna Schardt expected to be sitting with her classmates in the 2019 winter commencement ceremony at Brenau University on Friday, Dec. 13. But a golf ball-sized mass in her brain changed her plans. Schardt was the guest of honor at the graduate commencement ceremony Friday — one of two ceremonies, including the undergraduate ceremony that […]
Guests view works by Charles Webster Hawthorne during a reception in November celebrating his works on exhibit in the Brenau University Downtown Center from the collection of Doug and Kay Ivester. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
The Brenau University Downtown Center is currently playing host to an ongoing special exhibition of works titled, “Charles Webster Hawthorne: Paintings from the Collection of Doug and Kay Ivester.” The Theatre on the Square Lobby’s towering walls now display 30 oil paintings and watercolors on loan from Doug and Kay Ivester by Hawthorne (1872-1930), an […]
Brenau University interior design students once again decorated for Christmas at the Callanwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta. Callanwolde is decorated seasonally for the holidays and Brenau interior design students have worked to decorate the mansion with professional designers annually since 2016. The center, built between 1917 and 1921, was the home of the family […]
Current and future Brenau University students can now receive assistance with child care costs as they finish their degrees thanks to the Child Care Access Means Parents In School program. CCAMPIS, a U.S. Department of Education program, supports low-income parents as they complete their postsecondary education through the offsetting of campus-based and community child care […]
Brenau University alumna and trustee Anna Jacobs, right, hugs Assistant Vice President for Executive Programs Juli Clay at the Entrepreneurs: Masters of Innovation awards program where Jacobs and her husband, Jay, were two of the honorees. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
A Brenau University trustee and alumna and six other local business owners were honored during the annual Entrepreneurs – Masters of Innovation presented by the Featherbone Communiversity held Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Business Incubator at Brenau University. Masters of Innovation is part of the Featherbone Communiversity’s Masters Series, which annually honors people working in […]
To help future nurses achieve their career goals, the Brenau University Norcross campus held a residency fair for the students in the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. The fair, held Thursday, Oct. 31, is the first for the new ABSN program, and Laura Hart, program coordinator and assistant professor of nursing, said there […]
In less than a semester at Brenau University, Elyse Lavender is already making history as a member of the tennis team. Lavender, a sophomore from Boynton Beach, Florida, is the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics representative at the Oracle ITA National Fall Championships from Nov. 6-10 in Newport Beach, California. To make it into the […]
Brenau University students were treated to music and dancing, along with a speech from President Anne Skleder during Grrrl PowHer Hour, an annual convocation by The Women’s College held during lunchtime on Thursday, Oct. 24, in Pearce Auditorium. In July, Skleder became the 10th — and first female — president in the 141-year history of […]
Freshman dance major Tiffany Kovash works on Halloween-themed projects with preschoolers in the Brenau Child Development Center as part of the First-Year Experience service learning projects. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
Brenau University freshmen had the opportunity to touch the lives of people in Hall County, Georgia, through a variety of service projects the week of Oct. 21. Students in the First-Year Experience, commonly known as FYE, packaged Christmas goodie bags for families in need, prepared art therapy kits for survivors of domestic violence, wrote cards […]
Destiny Gaudlock, left, and Dejah Williams represent Brenau University during the institution's 17th annual Mock Mediation Tournament. (AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
Brenau University hosted its 17th annual Mock Mediation Invitational Tournament Oct. 4-5, which brought more than 60 students to the Gainesville campus from eight universities across the country to practice their conflict resolution abilities. “The tournament was a success thanks to support from the local mediators, attorneys and faculty who assisted in judging the student […]
Irina Griffin participates in the As Gold Refined By Fire ceremony at Brenau University. The ceremony invites all new students to write a dream or goal on a piece of paper and add it to the fire, inspired by The Women's College's motto "as gold refined by fire." (Photos by AJ Reynolds/Brenau University)
For the first 14 years of her life, Maribrooke “Irina” Griffin didn’t know she was legally blind. Diagnosed her freshman year of high school with retinal macular dystrophy and accommodative dysfunction, Griffin is now a freshman dance major at Brenau University, and she’s not letting her visual impairment stop her. “I was most likely born […]
