Open to high school juniors selected as finalists of the Spencer B. King, Jr. Creative Writing Scholarship Competition, this special day will feature an opportunity to tour campus, learn more about Mercer and the creative writing program, and participate in a reading from the Robinson Prize winner.

Mercer's Saturday Visit features a student-led campus tour, current Mercer student Q&A, an opportunity to connect with admissions counselors, and more.

Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2022 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to renowned poet, professor and author Nikky Finney. The prize will be presented April 23 at 1 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room inside the University Center on the Macon campus. “Words come and go. But the word that remains the great shark in the Atlantic Ocean, that is my life, is the word ‘Southerner.’ This word that fits and…

Softball vs. ETSU - DH

Baseball vs. Wofford

Students will team up and compete in elementary school-style field games like Tug of War, Water balloon toss, sack races, and more!

I believe that identity is a fluid that flows between diversity and uniqueness. It changes and adapts depending on the events and context. For its unpredictable and changing nature, the “character piece” is one of the composers' favorite devices for finding, embracing, transforming, or hiding their identity through music. This program proposes some of these examples. It starts with a set of preludes by Louis Ballard, a 20th-century Quapaw-Cherokee composer. He embedded his Native idiom in the atonal Western language,…

Join MerServe for our last Kitty City Sunday of the year. Kitty City is a local rescue organization. Register on BearPulse. Follow us on Instagram @mercermerserve for updates.

Softball vs. ETSU

Baseball vs. Wofford