Friends of the Henderson Library plan signing of “The Southern Century”
Dr. Delma E. Presley will sign limited edition, one-of-a kind bookplates for his new book, ‘The Southern Century” on Thursday, Dec. 7, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Hosted by the Friends of Henderson Library at Georgia Southern University, the event takes place. at Gallery 33 West, located at 33 West Main Street in downtown Statesboro.
‘The Southern Century” is the official centennial history of Georgia Southern University, and has been in process for several years. The volume, which includes photos and writing that reflects the University’s 100-year history, is part of the centennial celebration that began Dec. 1. Cost of ‘The Southern Century” is $20 per copy.
In addition to the signing, guests are in for some fun if they bring a wrapped, hard-cover book for a book exchange game that will begin at 7:30 p.m. As guests arrive, they can leave their gift book, choose a number, and take part in the exchange as numbers are called. Light refreshments will be served during the evening.
For more information, call the Henderson Library at 912-681-5115.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Savannah seminar will focus on labor and employment law record keeping
Uncle Sam wants you to maintain a paper trail as proof that your business is following federal labor and employment laws.
Human resources and business managers in firms of all sizes are required to keep records throughout each staff member’s employment and even before their hiring and after their departure.
Labor law attorney Wade Herring will cover the why’s, the how’s, and the how-long’s of proper employee documentation during a Legal Awareness in the Workplace (LAW) seminar at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah.
The ‘Federal Labor and Employment Law Record Keeping” seminar will be held on Thursday, Dec. 14, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
Offered by Georgia Southern University’s Continuing Education Center, the seminar will address legal requirements and best practices related to federally required record keeping. Herring is an attorney from the employment law firm of Hunter, Maclean, Exley and Dunn, P.C.
Future LAW seminars will include ‘Best Practices in Running Background and Reference Checks” in January, ‘Immigration Compliance Issues for Businesses” in February, and ‘Coordinating the Triad of FMLA, ADA and Worker’s Compensation” in March.
The fee for each seminar is $69 per person. The fee will be reduced to $59 for any person who registers for three or more seminars, or for three or more people from the same firm.
To sign up for any of the LAW seminars, visit http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/lawseminar.html or call (912) 681-5551.
For more information about any of the professional development training courses offered by Georgia Southern, contact J. Marie Lutz, SPHR, at seminars@georgiasouthern.edu.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Georgia Southern’s College of Business Administration featured in Best 282 Business Schools
Graduate students speak highly of the both the MBA and the Master’s of Accounting program at Georgia Southern University, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features Georgia Southern’s College of Business Administration in the recently published 2007 edition of its Best 282 Business Schools (Random House/Princeton Review).
Best 282 Business Schools has two-page profiles of the included schools with descriptions of their academics, student life, admissions, and career placement services. In a ‘Survey Says…” sidebar, The Princeton Review lists topics that the College of Business Administration (COBA) students it surveyed for the book were in most agreement about.
“The administration at Georgia Southern has been very helpful,” said one student. ‘My schedule has been hectic, but they have worked with me to graduate in a timely manner.” Nearly 100 employers visit the Georgia Southern campus each year. Top employers of graduating MBAs include: Gulfstream Aerospace, Inc.; Memorial Medical Hospital; Great Dane Trucking, Inc.; and Sun Trust Bank.
Many of the full-timers are students who “got their BAs here and just stuck around. One such student explains, “I completed my undergraduate degree at Georgia Southern, and when the MBA program started a concentration in Information Systems, I took the opportunity to continue my education in a field that I am very interested in.”
Georgia Southern’s MBA program boasts “a highly diverse” student body. Students tell us that they “vary widely in terms of race, sex, and culture. Most are working in a related business field, but there are also students who have recently completed their undergraduate degrees and have no related experience to contribute. They range in ages between 23 and 53.” More than 10 percent of the student body is international.
The Princeton Review does not rank the schools in the book on a single hierarchical list from one to 282, or name one business school best overall.
‘We chose schools for this book based on our high regard for their academic programs and offerings, institutional data we collect from the schools, and the candid opinions of students attending them,” said Robert Franek, vice president of publishing at The Princeton Review. ‘We are pleased to recommend the College of Business Administration at Georgia Southern University to readers of our book and users of our Web site as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA.or an M.Acc.”
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Eagle News Network covers election on Channel 97
eorgia Southern’s broadcast students had a hands-on opportunity to demonstrate their craft on Tuesday, Nov. 7, beginning at 8 p.m., when they produced election coverage for the city of Statesboro. Northland Cable’s Channel 97, also known as the Eagle News Network, carried their coverage, which continued until almost all of the winners were declared.
‘In addition to operating cameras and production equipment, the students gathered information about returns, interviewed candidates, talked with political experts, and did all the things necessary to bring election coverage to the public,” said Mark Mohr, assistant professor of communication arts. ‘This was a great opportunity for the students and for community viewers who wanted a local angle on election night.”
Communication arts faculty members Reed Smith and Kent Murray oversaw the work of the 24 students in the Broadcast Applications course who worked during the evening. Faculty members Patrick Novotny, associate professor of political science, and Richard Pacelle, professor and chair of political science, were on hand to provide political commentary. Novotny also interviewed James Healy, editor of the Statesboro Herald, and Rachel McDaniel, editor of the George-Anne. Jane Hudak, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, was also on hand to discuss the communication arts program.
This is the second time that Georgia Southern students have stepped up to provide election coverage for Statesboro. They also covered the Presidential election in 2004.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Geologist Kelley will discuss Antarctic search for meteorites
A Georgia Southern University geologist who spent six weeks in Antarctica collecting meteorites will give a seminar on his adventure.
Michael Kelley will discuss ‘The 2005-2006 U.S. Antarctic Search for Meteorites Expedition” on Thursday, Nov. 16.
Free and open to the public, the seminar will be held at 6 p.m. in the College of Information Technology Auditorium (Room 1004).
Kelley is a research scientist and temporary assistant professor of geology in the University’s Department of Geology and Geography. In December 2005 and January 2006, he took part in the Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET), an annual expedition funded by the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs.
Meteorites provide essential data about the materials that make up asteroids, planets and other bodies in the Earth’s solar system. The continued retrieval of meteorites is the cheapest and only guaranteed way to obtain new specimens from other worlds.
Often described as a desert of ice, Antarctica covers about 5.4 million square miles. The continent’s bleak landscape is the primary reason it is considered the most reliable source of non-microscopic extraterrestrial material on earth.
Since the project’s creation in 1976, ANSMET has recovered more than 15,000 meteorites from Antarctica. Kelley’s expedition collected 237 meteorites that were forwarded to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for further study.
In addition to Kelley, the 12-person team included scientists from the Johnson Space Center, the Canadian Space Agency and the American Museum of Natural History.
During the expedition, Kelley maintained an electronic journal that was posted on Georgia Southern’s official Web site. His seminar will feature highlights of the expedition, including images and information that did not appear in his online journal.
For more information, contact Kelley at mkelley@georgiasouthern.edu or (912) 486-7913.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Eagle Entertainment sponsors trip to New York City
Eagle Entertainment is sponsoring a trip to New York City Saturday, Dec. 9, through Friday, Dec. 15.
Cost of the trip is $250 per person and includes transportation by bus and lodging at the Hampton Inn at the Meadowlands in New Jersey, just across the river from Manhattan. The hotel offers a complimentary shuttle within a five mile radius of the hotel, as well as a free shuttle to a train station that travels to Penn Station in central Manhattan. Additionally, there will be a free continental breakfast each day and free high speed Internet connections.
A non-refundable deposit of $100 is due before Wednesday, Nov. 22, with the balance due on Friday, Dec. 1. Payment may be made by check, Visa or MasterCard.
For more information, or to sign up, contact the Office of Student Activities at 912-486-7270.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Seven Nations Series focuses on Celtic art
The Seven Nations Series continues on Tuesday, Nov. 14, when Rebecca Ziegler, associate professor in the Zach S. Henderson Library, presents ‘The Severed Head and the Well: Tracing a Symbol from India to the Celts.” The lecture and discussion will be held in the College of Information Technology Building, Room 1004, at 4 p.m.
Studies of how certain symbols recur across time and civilizations include Robert Grave’s ‘The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth” and Joseph Campbell’s ‘The Hero with a Thousand Faces.” Many ethnologists believe that people called Celtic derive from those who migrated from India into Europe, taking their ritual practices and symbols with them.
Drawing on her own and others research, Ziegler analyzes one of the most pervasive and intriguing symbols found both in Asia Minor and Western Europe. Expressed in stone and metal and depicted in literature and art, that symbol is the severed head. According to Paul Jacobsthal’s ‘Early Celtic Art,” the Celts saw the head as the abode of the soul.
Admission is free and reservations are not required.
The events are sponsored by the Campus Life Enrichment Committee, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, Department of Communication Arts, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of History, Department of Music, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Center for International Studies, Center for Irish Studies, Southern Coastal Humanities Consortium, John Humma Cinema Arts Program, European Union Certificate Program and the Religious Studies Program.
To learn more about the Seven Nations Series, go to http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/irish/celtic/.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
Georgia Southern Opera presents “Amahl and the Night Visitors” Nov. 17-18
Georgia Southern Opera will once again present a spectacular Madrigale Feast on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18. In addition to a tasteful feast, this year’s production will feature the timeless operatic classic, ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors,” written by Gian Carlo Menotti.
Only an hour in length, ‘Amahl” is sung in English. With its beautiful score and touching libretto, it is appealing to all ages and musical backgrounds. It was written specifically for young imaginations and tells an inspiring story of how faith, charity, unselfish love and good deeds can work miracles.
Because the character of Amahl is a young boy, two boys from the Statesboro Youth Chorale will be joining the cast of Georgia Southern students for this event.
The feast will take place in the dramatic atrium of the Information Technology Building at Georgia Southern beginning at 6:30 p.m. each night. Tickets for dinner and the opera are $35 for adults and $27 for students, and they will go on sale Nov. 1 at the Performing Arts Center. For tickets call the Box Office at 912-486-7999 or toll free at 866-PAC-ARTS.
Last updated: 2/2/2018
