Brenau is ‘Best for Vets’
In its quest to win recognition as one of the most military-friendly schools in the country, Brenau hit an unexpected goal when it ranked No.12 in the Southeast among comprehensive universities in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 “Best Schools for Veterans” survey. In only the second year that the magazine has ranked institutions that […]
Sustaining Georgia Culture
Over three decades, two Georgia organizations – the state government agency, the Georgia Council for the Arts, and the private, nonprofit Georgia Humanities Council – have publicly honored individuals and organizations for their contributions to the arts and humanities in the state. During that time, parts of colleges and universities, including the University of Georgia […]
New Teams Signal ‘Era of the Athlete’
Athletics and sports always have had a place in Brenau’s notion of the well-rounded student. However, future historians might well define 21st-century Brenau as the era of the student-athlete. Starting with the 2015-16 academic year, the Women’s College will attract to the rolls an additional 30 to 40 young women who will be both students […]
Tigers Swimmers Finish #3 in Sport, #1 in Academics
Propelled by four individual national champions and a strong team showing, the Brenau University Golden Tigers swim team finished third at the 2015 NAIA Swimming and Diving National Championship Meet in Oklahoma City, March 3-7 – the highest ranking in school history. Two weeks earlier, however, the team picked up another honor when the college […]
Emmie 3.0
It is no surprise that Emmie Henderson Howard, WC ’01, won a position on the Brenau University Board of Trustees. What is surprising is how the 35-year-old entrepreneur managed to get as far as she has as fast and as gracefully without having the benefit of a clone. Four years after her 2001 graduation from […]
The Other Half of We
Involvement in the oversight of Brenau University has become a Seng family affair, as evidenced by recently appointed university trustee David F. Seng’s consistent use of the pronoun “we” when referring to Brenau engagement. The first half of the “we” is David’s wife of 46 years, Erin McCabe Seng, BU ’93, who joined the board […]
Man of Steel
This is a story about a North Georgia man who, over the years, has seen the inside of cells in jails and prisons throughout North America and the Caribbean. We’ll call him “Mike Smith.” Despite his considerable experience with prison cells, Mike Smith, one of Brenau University’s newest members of the board of trustees, openly […]
Lighting a Candle
America faces a shortage of health care professionals across the board. Nowhere is the problem more pronounced than in the rural south. Brenau nursing practice graduate Myron Faircloth is doing something about it. THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES estimates that by 2020, there will be a shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians with demand […]
Meeting Mr. Carter
Women’s College First-year Seminar Shakes Students from Comfort Zones In the spring of 2014, the seemingly indefatigable former President Jimmy Carter published his latest book, A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence and Power – a well-documented indictment of persecution and prejudice that women still endure around the world. Since the Georgia-based Brenau Women’s College assigns […]
Now Hear This! Now in Jax!
Both the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the Florida Department of Education’s Commission for Independent Education made it official and lifted the strict “Cone of Silence.” Brenau may now begin advertising for, recruiting and enrolling students at its newest location in Jacksonville, Florida, the first out-of-Georgia operation since the early […]
