Mercer graduate Mark Stevens, president, CEO and founder of Atlantic Southern Bank, was profiled in the Dec. 22 edition of The Macon Telegraph. Stevens started the successful banking company in 2000 and it now has 16 offices in Georgia and Florida.
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A story in the Dec. 19 edition of the Los Angeles Times focused on conservative evangelicals’ wariness of the coming Obama Administration and included analysis from a Mercer professor. Dr. David Gushee, Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, tells the nation’s fourth largest newspaper that the fears of many conservative evangelicals may not be warranted and comes from Barack Obama’s party affiliation, rather than his record.
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Mercer economics professor Dr. Angela K. Dills’ research into the effects of 8 a.m. classes on the grades of college students seems to bear out what students have been saying all along: early classes lead to lower grades. However, Dills’ research concluded that the effect was slight in a paper she co-wrote this month in the Economics of Education Review, that study earned coverage in The Chronicle of Higher Education on Dec. 16.
Dr. Dills co-wrote the paper with Rey Hernández-Julián, an assistant professor of economics at the Metropolitan State College of Denver.
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The election of the new chair of the Mercer University Board of Trustees, Judge W. Homer Drake Jr., was big news in his hometown of Newnan, where the Newnan Times-Herald featured the appointment prominently following the announcement.
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First Year Seminar Experiential students in professor Randall Harshbarger’s class ended their semester with a “Taste of Pleasant Hill” dinner. The event was the culmination of a number of service learning projects the students and Pleasant Hill community had worked on together. The Macon Telegraph covered the event in its Dec. 5 edition.
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