08 LC 95
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Senate
Resolution 928
By:
Senators Brown of the 26th, Meyer von Bremen of the 12th and Harp of the 29th
A
RESOLUTION
Recognizing
and congratulating Mercer University on the occasion of its 175th anniversary;
and for other purposes.
WHEREAS,
Mercer University is a faith based institution of higher learning that seeks to
achieve excellence and scholarly discipline in the fields of liberal and
professional knowledge; and
WHEREAS,
the institution is guided by the historic principles of religious and
intellectual freedom, while affirming religious and moral values that arise from
a Judeo-Christian understanding of the world; and
WHEREAS,
Mercer University was founded in 1833 in Penfield, Georgia, by Georgia Baptists
and was named for Jesse Mercer, a prominent Baptist leader who provided a
founding endowment and served as the first chairman of the school's board of
trustees; and
WHEREAS,
initially a boys' preparatory school named "Mercer Institute," the school at its
founding consisted of a red clay farm and two hewed log cabins, valued at
approximately $1,935, and had an enrollment of 39 students, and its tuition was
$35 for the year, room and board was $8 per month, and students were required to
bring their own bedding, candles, and furniture; and
WHEREAS,
today, Mercer is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate,
and professional education with an enrollment of approximately 7,300 students;
and
WHEREAS,
Mercer has 11 schools and colleges, including liberal arts, law, pharmacy,
medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing, and
continuing and professional studies; and
WHEREAS,
Mercer also has major campuses in Macon and Atlanta, four regional academic
centers across this state, a university press, two teaching hospitals,
educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and Piedmont
Healthcare, an engineering research center, a performing arts center, and a NCAA
Division I athletic program; and
WHEREAS,
for almost two decades,
U. S. News & World
Report has ranked Mercer among the leading
universities in the South, and
The Princeton
Review repeatedly ranks it in the top 10
percent of all colleges and universities in North America; and
WHEREAS,
Mercer has been named a "College with a Conscience" by
The Princeton
Review and Campus Compact and has been
named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for
distinguished community service.
NOW,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE that the members of this body recognize
Mercer University and congratulate it on the occasion of its 175th
anniversary.
BE
IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed
to transmit an appropriate copy of this resolution to the president of Mercer
University.