Georgia Perimeter saluted its outstanding faculty and staff at the annual Celebration of Excellence awards ceremony. Among those honored was veteran English professor Dr. Rosemary Cox, who received the Cole Fellow award. Read More...
GPC honored its outstanding students April 19 with awards for academic performance and service to the college. “You are the reasons we are so proud to work at Georgia Perimeter,” said interim President Rob Watts. Read More...
Adhithya Rajasekaran, who barely spoke a word of English when he came to the United States less than three years ago, has won the prestigious Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship. Read More...
Would Ben Franklin use Twitter? Dr. Deborah Manson’s students think so. Using social media to teach literature is just one of the reasons Manson has won a national award for teaching excellence. Read More...
Three GPC students participating in “Connect to Success,” which sends the college's advanced ESL students to tutor new immigrant students at local schools, were once tutored by GPC students themselves. Read More...
Theme of a reality show? Two GPC students, ages 45 and 58, will share a dormitory room when they transfer to Alabama State University in the fall. They and another classmate, 42, won full scholarships to attend ASU. Read More...
Anthropology professor Robert Belcher collects African art, some of which will be on display at Georgia Perimeter's Newton Campus through July. His collection grew out of his own search for his identity. Read More...
The Georgia Perimeter College Alumni Association presented a record number of awards this year, including to several categories of outstanding alumni plus to outstanding faculty and staff members. Read More...
When Abraham Gutierrez walked across the stage at GPC’s commencement May 3, he literally left half of himself behind. He lost 150 pounds while attending GPC as a DeKalb Early College Academy student. Read More...
After Maria Rodriguez fled guerilla rebels who kidnapped her father and killed her mother, she thought she would return to her native Colombia. Instead, she became a U.S. citizen and GPC's top Dental Hygiene graduate. Read More...
Name: Susan Fitzgerald. Hometown: In eighth grade, we moved to a very remote jobsite in Indonesia. At the time I was horrified at the thought of leaving all my friends, but it was the most amazing experience of my life. Read More...
Students thinking fast: From left, Mike Keys, Graigory Gardner, Kenny Juhan and Mike Anderson compete in the ThinkFast game show during Spring Fling festivities at GPC's Newton Campus. Keys, the winner, received a $200 cash prize. Read More...
Two GPC women's tennis players are national champs. ... Community gardens at two campuses are being planted. Last year the gardens donated 800 pounds of fresh produce. ... Tuition will go up 2.5 percent in the fall, but it's still the lowest tuition in the state. Read More...
Shyam Sriram completed the 11-mile “Tough Mudder” obstacle race ... Thereas O'Shea is in a movie with top Hollywood stars ... professors publish and read their poetry ... faculty and staff present at conferences, accept appointments and awards. Read More...
From 1915 and until the 1960s, the land where GPC's Dunwoody Campus is located belonged to the Womack family. After selling to the college, Elmer Womack continued to live in the family home, still using a wood burning stove and kerosene lamp. Read More...