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Team Yazoo Delta and Brenau’s Dana Miller (far left), Danny Meadows of MBN (3rd from right) For the second year in a row, the judging at the Brenau Barbecue Championship came down to tenths of points to determine the Grand Champion between Jack’s Old South and the eventual winner, the professional team Yazoo Delta Q […]
Brenau University has officially reorganized all of its academic programs under two banners, Graduate School and Undergraduate School, as it continues execution of a strategic plan to double its enrollment by 2025. Brenau Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Southerland said the action consolidates programs in three previous academic units into more logical […]
Registration for the fall term of Brenau University Learning and Leisure Institute (BULLI) courses and enrollment for the 2010 – 2011 academic year begins at 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 12, in Thurmond-McRae Lecture Hall, adjacent to the Brenau Trustee Library on Academy Street in Gainesville. The eclectic offering for the term, which runs from Sept, […]
As part of an ongoing academic and administrative realignment, Brenau University named David Morrison vice president for communications and publications reporting directly to Brenau President Ed L. Schrader. At the same time the university reinstated previous titles for the university’s top academic officer Jim Southerland, who will be provost and vice president for academic affairs. […]
Brenau University has officially reorganized all of its academic programs under two banners, Graduate School and Undergraduate School, as it continues execution of a strategic plan to double its enrollment by 2025. Brenau Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jim Southerland said the action consolidates programs in three previous academic units into more logical […]
Brenau University will host a tasting reception and signing from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 16, for Joseph E. Dabney, author of “The Food, Folklore and Art of Lowcountry Cooking.” The reception will be in the Wilkes Board Room and veranda on the campus at One Centennial Circle in Gainesville. It is free and […]
In one of the nation’s best rating systems for higher education institutions, Brenau University moved up five places in the 2011 U.S. News & World Report rankings of best colleges and universities and for the sixth consecutive year placed in the top 15 ratings for best educational value in the 11-state southeastern region. According to […]
Brenau University won recognition as a Registered Education Provider by Project Management Institute, the professional standards body that establishes globally recognized best practices, credentials for expertise and resources for professional development and networking in the project management profession. The PMI sanction adds additional credibility to one of Brenau’s newest – and most popular – […]
For the seventh year in a row, The Princeton Review, a national education services company based in Framingham, Mass., named Brenau University Women’s College as one of the best colleges in the Southeast in its 2011 ratings of more than 620 higher education institutions in the United States. On a scale of 60 to 99, […]
Brenau University will host its 8th annual mock mediation tournament here Friday and Saturday, Oct. 1-2, an intercollegiate competition designed to give students practical experience as well as to illuminate one of the fastest-growing methods of solving legal disputes without costly, time-consuming litigation and courtroom dramatics. This year six teams from colleges and universities in […]
Brenau University presents the first showing anywhere of some new multi-canvass, multimedia works by Captiva, Fla.-based artist Darryl Pottorf, a longtime collaborator and friend of the iconic artist Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibit of a new series entitled Links will be on display from Thursday, Oct. 7, through Nov. 21 in the Sellars Gallery on Brenau […]
Dr. Taslima Nasrin, the Muslim-born Bengali ex-doctor, author, feminist and self-proclaimed secular humanist will spend time on the Brenau University campus Oct. 4-8 and will give a public presentation Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 7-9 p.m. in Thurmond McRae auditorium on the university’s Gainesville campus. Nasrin, a political refugee from her native Bangladesh since 1994 who […]
By Catherine Fox Leo Castelli, whose name emblazons the gallery in Brenau University’s John S. Burd Center for the Performing Arts, was one of the greatest art dealers of the 20th century. And, for close to a decade he served here on the Brenau University Board of Trustees. Possessed of an eye for spotting emerging […]
Jody York Wall, who for the past decade has been an administrative anchor in the executive offices of Brenau University, has been named chief of staff to Brenau President Ed Schrader. Wall joined the Brenau executive team in 2001 as assistant to then-President John S. Burd. Following Burd’s announced retirement, she assisted the search committee […]
Brenau University announced that six first-year students will each receive a $500 scholarship from the university’s Servant-Leader Scholarship program. They will join nine upper-class students who were previously tapped for the scholarship program. Scott Briell, senior vice president for enrollment management and student services, and the Rev. Don Harrison, university chaplain, said the six were […]
Brenau University Atlanta-area alumni will gather at Paizanos Italian Bistro at 7 Jones St. in the historic section of Norcross at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 26 in the first open event for the newly created BU Metro Atlanta Alumni Network. Although the program is aimed primarily at engaging alumni from the university’s online and […]
The Brenau University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to name all of its graduate programs after former U.S. District Judge Sidney O. Smith Jr. and to launch the process for creating its first doctoral degree-granting program. Smith, who is a fourth generation member of the governing board of the 132-year-old Gainesville, Ga.-based institution, received the […]
A Brenau University alumna who had served two previous terms on the university’s governing board and an Atlanta businessman whose parents were both members joined the Brenau Board of Trustees and attended their first meeting Oct. 22. At the recent fall meeting of the Brenau board, long-time member Sidney O. Smith Jr., nominated and won […]
Brenau University on Friday, Nov. 19, will host more than 80 college and university professors and administrators in the Atlanta regional meeting for Project Kaleidoscope, the academic leadership organization created to improve undergraduate programs in the so-called STEM disciplines – undergraduate programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Although Friday’s program has […]
Brenau University conferred its top non-academic awards Thursday night on Gainesville business leader Carole Ann Carter Daniel and on third-generation Clermont dairy farmer Dixie Truelove for their service to the community and the university. Brenau University President Ed Schrader presented the three awards at a Chattahoochee Country Club dinner honoring about 200 financial supporters who contributed […]