Duo Security Update – Duo Verified Push

Securing information and information systems, products or services remains a core responsibility of Georgia Highlands College and GHC has a legal and ethical responsibility to protect information in its care with effective and industry-standard cybersecurity safeguards. Therefore, we’ve upgraded Duo Security at GHC with Duo Verified Push to add an additional layer of protection for […]

FBI Warns of “deepfakes” Being Used In Sextortion Email Scams

The FBI issued a cybersecurity public service announcement concerning the growing use of digitally manipulated images (known colloquially as ‘deepfakes’) in sextortion scams. “Sextortion, which may violate several federal criminal statutes, involves coercing victims into providing sexually explicit photos or videos of themselves, then threatening to share them publicly or with the victim’s family and friends. […]

SEMESTER PLANNING & GOAL SETTING FOR ACADEMIC SUCCESS WORKSHOP

AcademicSuccessWorkshops2023 Our Academic Success Team is offering a Semester Planning & Goal Setting for Academic Success Workshop. Sign up through the Navigate campaign or sallen@highlands.edu! Summer 2023, we have the following dates/times: Summer Workshops June 6th from 2pm – 3pm via Zoom and @Cartersville site June 7th from 6pm – 7pm via Zoom June 9th from […]

The GHC Institutional Scholarship Application for Fall 2023 is now open through June 30!

Qualifications to apply: Must be accepted to GHC with a valid GHC student email 2324 FAFSA application on file with all Verifications and requirements complete or waived (the 2324 FAFSA is valid for Fall 23/Spring 24/Summer24-goes by 2021 taxes) GA Resident US Citizen or equivalent Cumulative GPA of 2.0 or above (cumulative means a GPA […]

MTG Zendikar Rising Draft

Floyd, Solarium – Monday, May 1st at 1:30pm to 3:30pm Magic the Gathering fans! Stop by to participate in a draft tournament featuring the Zendikar Rising booster set! All contestants will be able to keep the cards they pull. Food and drinks will be available, Firehouse sandwiches and chips. We’re excited to have any players, […]

Student Single Sign-On (access to D2L, email) unavailable tonight 11:00pm during maintenance window

Cartersville Peachnet Router upgrade tonight at 11:00pm There will be a planned network outage on the Cartersville Campus while the Peachnet router is replaced tonight at 11:00pm. The maintenance window is from 11:00pm – 7:00am, but we expect the equipment swap to take around an hour. Students will not be able to use SSO to […]

MTG Kaldheim Draft

Floyd, Solarium – Monday, April 24th at 1:30pm to 3:30pm Magic the Gathering fans! Stop by to participate in a draft tournament featuring the Kaldheim booster set! All contestants will be able to keep the cards they pull. Food and drinks will be available, Moe’s Southwest Grill fajita bar with ground beef and white chicken […]

Engineering Info Session

We are hosting an Engineering Information Session on Zoom next Wednesday 4/19 at 4-5pm. Please join us! Topics will include: -Careers in engineering -Overview of the degree pathway -Sequencing for math and science classes -Options for accelerated math -Regents Engineering Pathway -Related fields and careers Register for this event and the Zoom meeting information will […]