The Engaged University:
Awards and Recognition

Mercer's Business School Receives $1M from BB&T Corp.—March 2, 2009
BB&T Corp. has pledged $1 million to Mercer University’s Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics to establish a BB&T Distinguished Professorship of Capitalism and the Center for Undergraduate Research in Public Policy and Capitalism and to continue funding the University’s Executive Forum Presented by BB&T.

Clinton Global Initiative University Highlights Mercer On Mission Project—February 16, 2009
The Clinton Global Initiative University – a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation – recognized Mercer University’s efforts to help amputees in Vietnam and other developing nations as “as an exemplary approach to addressing a specific global challenge” during the organization’s annual conference in Austin, Texas, last week. The University’s Mercer On Mission project was one of only four “commitments” by universities around the country to be recognized by President Bill Clinton during the conference’s opening plenary session.

Carnegie Foundation Selects Mercer for its National Community Engagement Designation—December 18, 2008
Mercer is the only college in Georgia, and one of just 119 in the United States, to be selected by the foundation for its 2008 Community Engagement Classification. Mercer joins 76 other institutions identified in the 2006 selection process, including Emory University and Spelman College, the only other Georgia institutions to achieve the classification to date.

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation awards Mercer a $250,000 planning grant to facilitate Macon Redevelopment Alliance—June 6, 2008
This grant will fund start-up costs for designing and implementing the alliance along with the creation of a master plan for the College Hill Corridor. Together, these initiatives will help engage residents in designing and implementing comprehensive improvements in the central city.

HUD publication honors Mercer's successful efforts to work with the community to revitalize the area around the Macon campus— Mary 25, 2007
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has featured Mercer University in its publication, out this month, Ideas That Work: Building Communities Through Homeownership, as one of 18 colleges and universities in the country that have had notable success in building homeownership through HUD programs.

Mercer's Baptist Collegiate Ministries won the "Courts Redford Award for Excellence in Student Missionary Deployment" for 2006—March 11, 2007
This award is presented annually to the leading colleges and universities who effectively mobilized their students to impact lostness in North America. Pictured from left to right is Aaron Kinard, Sarah Holik, and Amy Signaigo.

Mercer selected as one of 141 colleges and universities in the nation for the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll—March 9, 2007
The distinction recognizes Mercer students, faculty and staff for helping to build a culture of service and civic engagement in the nation. In Georgia, Mercer University and Oglethorpe University were the two schools recognized for distinguished general community service. Four other Georgia universities were recognized for distinguished hurricane relief service in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.