San Antonio's Baugh Named to Second Term on Mercer Trustees
MACON, GA (11/21/2012)(readMedia)-- Mercer University's Board of Trustees elected San Antonio's Barbara (Babs) Baugh to serve a five-year term on the Board on Nov. 9 during its annual meeting. This is Baugh's second term on the board. She previously served from 2006 to 2011.
Baugh is president of the Texas-based John and Eula Mae Baugh Foundation and the daughter of Sysco founders John and Eula Mae Baugh. She currently serves or has served on a number of boards, including the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Christian Ethics Today and Baptist Child and Family Services. Baugh is a former member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Coordinating Council and a life member of Mercer University President's Club.
About Mercer University
Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University enrolls more than 8,300 students in 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies – on campuses in Macon, Atlanta and Savannah – and four regional academic centers across the state. The Mercer Health Sciences Center launched July 1, 2012, and includes the University's medical, nursing and pharmacy schools and will add a fourth college – the College of Health Professions – on July 1, 2013. Mercer is affiliated with four teaching hospitals - Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah, the Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, and The Medical Center and St. Francis Hospital in Columbus. The University also has educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta. It operates an academic press and a performing arts center in Macon and an engineering research center in Warner Robins. Mercer is the only private university in Georgia to field an NCAA Division I athletic program. www.mercer.edu
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