Miles returns to GC&SU to head

Georgia College & State University welcomes a familiar and friendly face back to the campus. Thomas D. Miles Sr. was hired as the Director of Campus Life and Student Activities, replacing Eddie Howard who left over the summer for a position at Augusta State University.

Miles began as the Program Coordinator in 1988 and continued working for GC&SU the next nine years as Director of Housing and Residence Life, then moving on as Associate Dean of Students at Albright College in Pennsylvania.

According to a press release posted on the GC&SU InfoPage, Miles will be “responsible for the supervision, management, and direction of the Department of Campus life and Activities and will provide supervision, evaluations, and training for Department of Campus Life and Activities professional, clerical and student staff. He will direct campus activities, intramurals, and Greek life, and will coordinate the Community Service Center.”

Returning to GC&SU was a simple task for Miles.

“Milledgeville is home. My church family is here and I have a lot of connections in the community,” Miles said. “I have never worked in another place like Georgia College. It is quite a unique environment to find on a college campus where faculty and staff and students generally get along and work cooperatively together achieving our goals.”

Miles also enjoys the family environment that this campus offers along with the willingness to try new things. Ronald Lunk, Assistant Director of Student Activities, works hand in hand with Miles.

“We’re happy to have Tom join us in the department and we look forward to his vision of how the department will move forward to better serve the students,” Lunk said.

Miles is currently working heavily on Alcohol Awareness week.

“I really think that is a vital program that I need to get a lot of people involved in,” Miles said.

Miles’ other main focus this semester is to get the new Student Activities Center in the old First United Methodist Church building up and going. There are plans for the building to be complete in January of 2005.

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