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Have you seen the holiday lights at Mercer Village

Have you seen the holiday lights at Mercer Village yet? Here’s a peek at the display, which can be viewed from 6-10 p.m. daily through mid-January.

Today and always, we're thankful for our Bear fami

Today and always, we're thankful for our Bear family. #HappyThanksgiving

Wishing our students a safe journey home and a hea

Wishing our students a safe journey home and a healthy, happy holiday season. @j8cqu3lin3 @amourlogan

It's not too late to "Bear Pink" with a 2020 Pink

It's not too late to "Bear Pink" with a 2020 Pink Promise United shirt! All proceeds go to Mercer's United Way campaign and support the local community. For more information or to purchase a shirt, send an email to crocker_jh@mercer.edu with the subject line "Pink Promise T-shirt."

Freshmen in Dr. Phil McCreanor’s engineering hon

These two buildings on the edge of Mercer's origin

These two buildings on the edge of Mercer's original campus in Penfield, Georgia, are reminders of a more bustling time. The first building was constructed after Mercer relocated to Macon and served as a general store and gas station. It's been standing in Penfield since at least the 1940s but has been closed for decades. For about 50 years, it was the only shop in town.

The second storefront was home to the Colclough and Sharps Store, where Mercer students used to gather and shop. It was located in an area known as Penfield Village, which included boarding houses that have long since burned. #MercerTraditons

It's beginning to look and feel like fall on our M

It's beginning to look and feel like fall on our Macon campus. #mercertraditions

Meet Jep Cephus, a maintenance staff member for Ph

Meet Jep Cephus, a maintenance staff member for Physical Plant on our Atlanta campus. #WorkerBears
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HOW LONG HE'S BEEN AT MERCER: Cephus has been a Mercer staff member for 40-plus years, but he first stepped onto the Atlanta campus as a student when it was known as Atlanta Baptist College before merging with Mercer. He came on scholarship as a basketball recruit for the Atlanta Golden Eagles. Cephus graduated with a degree in psychology in 1974 and started working at Mercer later that year. He was promoted from groundskeeper to maintenance to assistant director. He is semi-retired now and works on campus three days a week.
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WHAT HE LOVES MOST ABOUT HIS WORK: “Working in Physical Plant, we’ve always been a team organization. Once you have a good team, it makes coming to work much more pleasant. I work with great people," he said.
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Although the Atlanta campus has grown a lot since the 1970s, Cephus said he has always loved its rural look and setting and its family feel. It has been filled with kind, down-to-earth people and great leadership, including Dr. Jean Hendricks, the first dean of Mercer's College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta.

@mercer.baseball standout Kyle Lewis @klew_1 has b

@mercer.baseball standout Kyle Lewis @klew_1 has been named @mlb's American League 2020 Rookie of the Year! He is the first Bear to receive this honor. Read more about him and the beginnings of his pro career with the @mariners in our latest #MercerMade at den.mercer.edu. 📷 Photo credit: Seattle Mariners

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