Not Just a Cog in a Machine
For nontraditional students like Chris Davis, tuning up their educations becomes a life of commitment and balance. For the past four years, Chris Davis tinkers with the insides of classrooms from opposite perspectives. By day, he teaches traditional students at Augusta Technical College, where he is an automotive technology instructor. By night, Davis, 32, is […]
Long Story Short
If you think potty training a toddler is not a road block to completing your education, you are probably a man. However, Rosanne Short knows first-hand that minor distractions become major in the world of nontraditional students. Roseanne Chastain Short enrolled as a freshman at Brenau Women’s College in the 1981-82 academic year. That summer, […]
Getting a Life
Brenau’s North Atlanta/Norcross campus manager knows the needs of nontraditional students because she is one of them – working on a master’s degree in occupational therapy. Yarden Hixon was born to be an occupational therapist. Currently Hixon is enrolled in the graduate occupational therapy program at Brenau’s North Atlanta/Norcross campus. However, she also has a […]
Means to an End
What many an actor in motion pictures and television will tell you is that what they always wanted to do in their careers was direct. For John Means, who managed motion picture and television program rights and other legal matters for one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, what he always wanted to […]
Taking Control
Jack Hillis knew one day that he would have to deal with life and career after his service as a U.S. Navy submariner. He saw extending his education at Brenau with an M.B.A. in project management as a way to navigate the uncertain waters of civilian life. For U.S. Navy submariner Jack Hillis, there was […]
Risk Taker
Some undergraduates interrupt their college careers to spend their junior years abroad. You might say Debra Kolasienski did that – if your count a medical discharge from the Army after spending 10 months in one of the hottest Iraq war zones as a year abroad. Debra Kolasienski took a gamble when she joined the Army […]
Stand Out
If you are a rather tall black male in the Middle East or northern Europe, you will be noticed. 2013 Brenau business graduate Chris Carpenter brought a world of experience to his undergraduate studies at Brenau. Christopher Maurice Carpenter, 43, took a bit of detour on the way to the Fairburn campus by playing […]
Tennis Finishes 6th in National Polls with 4 All-America Selections
The Golden Tigers tennis team finished the 2013 season ranked 6th nationally in the NAIA Top 25 coaches poll with four players on the All-America list – all of whom return for the 2014 campaign. Junior Dominika Josova of Kosice, Slovakia, ranked previously as the top junior college player in the United States, made first […]
Nationally Fashionable
Two leading Web publications that help match students with colleges and universities named Brenau University’s fashion design and fashion merchandising programs among the top in the nation – listings that include some of the 900-pound gorillas in the industry like Parsons, Fashion Institute of Technology and Rhode Island School of Design. Fashion-Schools.org, the national online […]
Terminal Women
Two Georgia women claimed a place in the Brenau history books on May 4 as the first graduates to receive terminal degrees from the university. Cynthia Bertoia from Lawrenceville, Ga. and Lauren Holland from Vidalia, Ga. received diplomas for Brenau’s Master of Fine Arts in Interior Design. “This is a big, big deal for them […]
