06/07/2026
Yesterday I ran into Ken Vance.
Ken was the head of public safety at Georgia College and gave a speech at my freshman year orientation where he shared a story about having personally driven to Athens to pick up a student who had been over served, woke up in a different zip code, and needed a safe lift back to Milledgeville.
He was very gracious and I could see how touched he was to hear someone share that memory 21 years later.
It’s made me reflect on his speech that day in the fall of 2005, and about the message conveyed: “At Georgia College, we’re gonna care about you like your parents and family care about you.”
That’s always felt like the difference at Georgia College & State University. You’re never just a number.