Brenau University

Haley Bartoletta shook with excitement after finding out she was the 2021-22 recipient of the Baxter-Bryan Scholarship, Brenau University’s highest academic honor. “I’ve been going here for four years, and every year that I’ve been here, I’ve grown to love the community more and more,” Bartoletta said. “To be in this position where I get […]

Brenau University welcomed 16 new students from Panama on Thursday, April 8, as part of its new partnership with the Institute for the Development of Human Resources (IFARHU), Panama’s financial aid agency. The students’ arrival to the university’s historic Gainesville, Georgia, campus follows the signing of an agreement between Brenau and IFARHU in November. Students […]

Over the past month, Brenau has held multiple clinics at the John S. Burd Center in Gainesville to help its community get vaccinated and help stop the spread of COVID-19. With anyone over the age of 16 now able to get a vaccine in Georgia, many Brenau faculty, staff and students have taken advantage of […]

Brenau University recently announced the naming of the Charles D. Walters Theatre on the Square, made possible through a generous gift from the late Gainesville businessman and philanthropist James A. “Big Jim” Walters in honor of his younger brother, Charles. The elder Walters passed away on Feb. 22 after an extended illness. Charles Walters died […]

The newly named Swinton A. Griffith III Deanship of the College of Business & Communication at Brenau University is made possible through a generous gift of the Melvin Douglas and Victoria Kay Ivester Foundation. The naming honors the long friendship with both Doug and Kay and in recognition of Swinton’s work as a founding board […]

Three successful women shared their personal and professional achievements and advice to more than 500 virtual guests from 16 countries during the seventh annual Women’s Leadership Colloquium on Friday, March 19. The colloquium, hosted by The Women’s College, part of Brenau’s comprehensive university, featured Anne Skleder, Brenau’s 10th president; Antonina Lerch, a 2003 graduate of […]

Brenau University and Lanier Technical College signed a program articulation agreement on Thursday, March 18, in an effort to make it easier for Lanier students majoring in business to transfer to Brenau. With the agreement, which starts in the fall of 2021, students in Lanier’s business management program can transfer to Brenau to earn their […]

The Brenau University Women’s Leadership Colloquium is back with three successful women sharing their stories, advice and innovative vision for others who lead or aspire to lead. Brenau President Anne Skleder and alumnae Antonina Grib Lerch, WC ’03, and Dr. Jessica Herrera, WC ’05, will be speaking at the event at 1:30-3:30 p.m., Friday, March […]

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Michael Lowe Nearly 50 Brenau students and guests tuned in on Feb. 17 for the Center for the Arts & Design’s virtual Tiger Toons event, which featured a panel of industry leaders who offered career advice and insights into the world of animation. The second installment of CAD’s biennial animation festival included speakers from companies […]

Brenau University’s catering service offered curbside pickup meal deals with the added value of helping children in need on Thursday, Feb. 4. All cash proceeds from the meals are going to the Wesley Warriors Foundation Fund at the North Georgia Community Foundation to provide financial assistance to nonprofits and initiatives that support children and families […]

Brenau held the first of several COVID-19 vaccination clinics for students in the Ivester College of Health Sciences’ Mary Inez School of Nursing on Tuesday, Jan. 19, to train those who are willing to volunteer their time to help vaccinate the larger community. At the clinic on Brenau’s Norcross campus, students volunteered to be vaccinated […]

After years of planning and preparation, Brenau University’s new Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program officially launched Monday, Jan. 11, as students began classes in the recently renovated Brenau Downtown Center. The latest addition to the Ivester College of Health Sciences’ slate of graduate degree offerings features an inaugural cohort of 33 students […]

Kellie Price is an online student at Brenau and a working mother of two who also cares for her teenage sister. After her oldest daughter’s and sister’s schools went virtual due to COVID-19, Price and her husband began looking at ways to make the most of their new situation. Price learned about the Child Care […]

Brenau Head Tennis Coach Andre Ferreira received national recognition as one of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s winningest coaches, the national office announced on Wednesday, Dec. 16. Ferreira appears on all three of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics’s winningest coaches’ lists, including the ITA Top 10 by winning percentage, the ITA Top 10 All-Time by […]

David Barnett, executive vice president and CFO at Brenau University, is one of the newest members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) Board of Trustees, having been elected during the board’s recent December meeting. The 77-member board oversees the accreditation of colleges within the Southern region, which includes Alabama, […]

The Brenau University community gathered Friday evening, Dec. 11, for a virtual baccalaureate service to pay tribute to the university’s more than 700 graduates in 2020. While not intended to take the place of commencement, Brenau’s live-streamed baccalaureate ceremony — its first since 1994 — was an opportunity to recognize the resilience, patience and hard […]

Troy Heidesch is the newly appointed director of Brenau University’s Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing, having served the past seven months as interim director. Heidesch is no stranger to Brenau as he earned both his Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Family Nurse Practitioner at the university. He later received […]

Yolanda Williams’ 51st birthday is one she’ll never forget. That day, along with 60 other students and faculty members, Williams became one of the newest members of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective honor society for all academic disciplines. Unable to have the ceremony in person due […]