NEW YORK: Twenty high school juniors have been chosen by their counselors to participate in the Robins Regional Chamber of Commerce Youth Leadership Robins Region Program (LRRP). Selection is based on character, interest in the community and the desire to shape ideas and attitudes in others.
The board chose Harben, Hartley & Hawkins out of Gainesville for the job.The firm will replace Buddy Welch of Smith, Welch, and Webb & White, which was removed at the board’s study session last week. Two Mercer University faculty members were selected as Governor’s Teaching Fellows.
Karen Weller Swanson, associate professor of education and director of doctoral studies in curriculum and instruction in the Tift College of Education, and James Hunt, professor of law and business in the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics and the Walter F. George School of Law, have been involved in the program designed to encourage higher education faculty to develop important teaching skills through emerging technologies and instructional tools.
