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Other Student Services

Counseling

Facilities Management

Health Insurance

Mail Services

Office of Student Diversity

Placement

Recreation

Student Services Committee

Student's Role in Institutional
Decision-Making

 

 

Student Services

Bookstore
Career Services
The Career Services Office, located in the Student Center, helps students identify career opportunities following graduation. (706) 721-3356.
Child Care Center
Computer Sales
Computer Use
Debit Card System
Environmental Health and Safety Division
Financial Aid
Food Services

Vending machines

MCG Student Center
To reserve Student Center meeting room dining space, call the Student Affairs Office, (706) 721-3356.

MCGHI Terrace Dining Room
The Terrace seats 270, with two private dining rooms, the Dogwood Room and the Magnolia Room, available by reservation. Each room seats approximately 32 persons and can be combined to accommodate 60-65. These rooms can be reserved by calling the Food and Nutrition Services Office, (706) 721-2586. The Terrace is located on the second floor of the hospital's Talmadge Wing and is  open from 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

McDonald's operates a full-service restaurant in the Children's Medical Center and is open daily from 6:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. In addition to the traditional McDonald's menu, the restaurant offers several popular items including soups, salads, baked potatoes, cold sandwiches and popcorn.

The Hospital Department of Food and Nutrition Services caters seated meals and coffee breaks. For more information, call (706) 721-2586.

Health Center Credit Union
Housing
Human Resources
Office of Special Academic Programs
Public Safety
Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D. Library
Student Health Service

Other student health services:

Counseling
Academic - Students seeking academic counseling should contact:

  • Allied Health: The department chairman in the program in which they are enrolled, or their assigned faculty advisor.
  • Dentistry: The faculty adviser assigned during the freshman year or the associate dean for academic affairs and advanced education or the associate dean for student admissions and alumni.
  • Graduate Studies: Department graduate program director, faculty adviser or associate dean.
  • Medicine: Faculty adviser, associate dean for curriculum, associate dean for student affairs or tutorial coordinator.
  • Nursing: The appropriate faculty member, department chairman, associate dean, as needed, in that order.

Personal
Students seeking personal counseling may contact:

Student Health Service

Associate Dean for Student Affairs in the School of Medicine, Carl Sanders Research and Education, Room CB 2340, 706-721-5115.

Associate Dean for Student Admissions and Alumni in the School of Dentistry, room 1106, (706) 721-2813.

Director of Housing, Student Center, room 204, (706) 721-3471.

Director of Student Affairs, Student Center, room 211, (706) 721-3356.

Facilities Management
The Facilities Management Division creates and maintains an environment conducive to patient care, student life, teaching and research at the Medical College of Georgia.

Quality landscape, environmental, maintenance and utility services assure a favorable environment for teaching, research and patient care.

Mail Services
Mail Services offices are in room 1003 of the Central Distribution Building (BL). Mail Services coordinates all incoming, intracampus and outgoing mail for MCG.

Official institutional information will be distributed to students via the GroupWise email system, announcements on the MCG home page and (infrequently) via hardcopy mailing to a physical mailbox.  Students are encouraged to check their GroupWise email daily for important announcements and other pertinent information.

Additionally, official information (e.g., MCG Catalog, MCG Student Handbook) is posted on the MCG Internet web site.  

No post office exists on campus; however, mail and other parcels may be weighed in Mail Services to ascertain the correct postage. Mail receptacles for stamped and intracampus mail are in the Auditoria Center. Stamps are sold in the Little Store of MCG Hospital.

For convenience, several U.S. mail receptacles for outgoing mail are strategically placed throughout the campus. Locations are: the Sydenstricker Wing of  the MCG Hospital; Warren Hites Drive across from the Public Safety Substation; front of Augusta Medical Park, across from MCG Hospital; and the Faculty Clinic Building on Harper Street.

Office of Student Diversity
The Office of Student Diversity coordinates MCG's campus wide Minority Academic Advisement Program (MAAP), and diversity education and awareness programming. It is also the primary office responsible for advisement of international students and scholars. The Office of Student Diversity is located in the MCG Student Center on the second floor, Room 2004 and the telephone number is (706) 721-2821.

Recreation
The Student Government Association, with administrative support from Student Affairs, sponsors various recreational programs for MCG students and faculty. For information regarding recreational activities, contact the Student Government Association, Student Center, room 218, (706) 721-3357.

Recreational facilities available for student use include:

Wellness Center

Off-Campus - Augusta-area recreational and cultural offerings include Thurmond Lake, the Augusta Symphony, ballet and opera companies and drama groups. Many cultural activities presented at Augusta College and Paine College are open to MCG students.

Sports - Student Government Association intramural competition sports are available to interested MCG students in softball, basketball, football and volleyball.

Student Services Committee
The president of MCG appoints a Student Services Committee each year consisting of faculty, staff and students. The committee advises various student services on campus. These include student financial aid, student health, graduation and student diversity. The director of student affairs serves as chairman.

Students' Role in Institutional Decision-Making
The university provides student input into the institution decision making process through the Faculty Organization Student Affairs Committee, one of the organization's four standing committees. This committee recommends policy to the president regarding student life. It contains student representation.

The various schools provide for student input into policy formation through student membership on selected committees.


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August 02, 2007