The Future is not What it Used to Be
When I look back at old newspaper clippings that quoted me, some things bring smiles of personal warmth and satisfaction. Others generate a slight tinge of embarrassment when they reveal today that only a few years ago I may not have been as farsighted as I thought. Don’t bother Googling. I will own up to […]
The Storyteller
At the grand opening of Brenau’s Florida campus, Brenau President Ed Schrader announced that Dennis Campay, whose paintings appear there and elsewhere on Brenau campuses, had been appointed the university’s first Master Artist. Not bad for a guy who technically did not start working as a “professional artist” until he was 42. In Jacksonville, Florida’s […]
Healing Arts
If you believe it is just a coincidence that one of the icons of the health care professions, Florence Nightingale, shares a name with a songbird, Brenau music professor Barbara Steinhaus suggests you may want to rethink your position. Dr. Barbara Steinhaus once visited a hospital patient who was recovering from a tracheotomy and suffering […]
Now Playing!
When a promising Golden Tigers basketball season ended early because of injuries to key players, it would have been nice to have a spare tank stocked with athletes who could step in. With addition of developmental teams in basketball and softball – along with expansion of the cheer program with a third unit – Women’s […]
ForeverGold
More than a year into the largest fundraising initiative in Brenau history, the ForeverGold campaign has exceeded 63% of its $40 million goal. How did we get to this point, and where do we go from here? The news was not merely good. It was great. Brenau University President Ed Schrader and members of the […]
What’s Happening With The Women’s Education Initiative
Throughout the institution’s 137-year history, it has been often said that Women’s College students learn leadership skills at Brenau because all the leaders in Women’s College organizations are women. True enough, but in the 2014-15 academic year, Brenau launched an initiative that literally institutionalizes the process – a curriculum- and experienced-based Women’s Leadership Undergraduate Certificate […]
What’s Happening With The Health Sciences Initiative
OT ‘Elite’ Status Draws Top Students. Dr. Barbara Schell, the gregarious founding director of the School of Occupational Therapy, quips that her department will use any excuse to gather around a cake to celebrate. For example, they had a cake-cutting for the first day of school for the eight candidates enrolled in the inaugural OT doctoral […]
What’s Happening With The Student Access And Experience Initiative
We often think of the college and university experience as a student’s first bold step into the world and as a doorway to endless possibilities. Brenau embraces that philosophy for the 137-year-old institution’s mission. The ForeverGold campaign provides for broader access to what Brenau offers and to richer experiences on campus and around the world. […]
Why Must Brenau Raise $40 Million Now?
SHORTLY BEFORE my March presentation on financial management to a group of new college and university presidents in Washington, D. C., at the American Council on Education annual meeting, a detailed article appeared in the Washington Post newspaper about the collapse of Sweet Briar, the 109-year-old Virginia women’s college. The seemingly “ripped-from-the-headlines” nature of my talk […]
The ‘Very’ Quotable Dr. Dana Barr
Reuters this year declared Dana Boyd Barr one of the most quoted environmental scientists in the world because of her expertise in global public health issues. On a late afternoon at the end of August, the Emory University campus in Atlanta has that new-school-year buzz of excitement. Shiny blue and gold balloons deck the main […]
