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Getting an Early Start / 4 Vol. 23 · No. 1

Middle Georgia State is a top choice for high school students starting college FALL 2017
early through the dual-enrollment program. And it cost them (and their parents)
almost nothing in tuition, fees, and books. MGA Today is produced by the
Office of Marketing and Communications
A Meaningful Journey / 10 and is circulated to friends, faculty, staff and
alumni of Middle Georgia State University.
Time abroad was time to serve for a pioneering group of Middle Georgia State
students on the University’s first Knights Impact international trip. PRESIDENT

Checking in on the Knights / 16 Christopher Blake, Ph.D.

Middle Georgia State’s athletics program marks its third year in the MGA FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and the Southern States
Athletics Conference. Officers

Master’s Degree in Nursing Spencer Strickland, Chairman
Produces First Graduates / 18 Thomas J. McMichael, Vice-Chair

Eleven RNs who recently completed the requirements for Middle Georgia State’s Heather McIntyre, Secretary
Master of Science in Nursing - Adult/Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Ronnie D. Rollins, Treasurer
program will participate in the fall 2017 graduation ceremony. Ken Fincher, Executive Director

Board of Regents Meets Trustees At-Large
at Middle Georgia State / 20
Lauralen E. Avery
The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents held its October 2017 Patrick M. Bartness
meeting at Middle Georgia State. Among other things, board trustees approved a Christopher R.L. Blake
new bachelor’s degree in Contemporary Musicianship for MGA and learned more
about the innovative work of School of IT students and faculty. Mark Byrd
Carolyn M. Crayton
Development & Alumni Affairs
Update / 22 Alan D. Curtis
Cynde M. Dickey
Alumni of Middle Georgia State’s Georgia Academy reunite, Dr. Ken Fincher joins H. Frank Erwin, Jr.
MGA as vice president of Institutional Advancement, and a successful Heart of
Georgia Air Show takes flight. Joe W. Fisher
Robert F. Hatcher, Jr.
On the Cover
Nylan A. Hinson
L-R are Desmond Talton, Kaitlyn Johnson, and Kristen Cohen, all seniors at Bibb Dr. David M. Kalish
County high schools who are dually enrolled at Middle Georgia State University.
Thanks to the dual-enrollment program, all three will have two semesters or more Steven L. Kruger
of college completed by the time they graduate from high school, with little Sylvia W. McGee
out-of-pocket costs to them and their parents. PHOTO BY MARYANN BATES. Charles E. Parker, Sr.
Michael J. Parkerson
Casey L. Paulk

Willie Paulk
Jane Perfect
John R. Phillips
Dr. Charlotte Pipkin
Bryan W. Scott
Nancy P. Stroud
R. Larry Sumner
Ernie H. Tripp, III
Robert J. Walker
Dontia White
Charles M. Williams, Sr.

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