b'HonorsAn Investigative Look into the Brutality of the Lynching of Mary TurnerCaleb C. RegisterSponsors: Dr. Michael Savoie, Dr. Melanie Byrd and Ms. Deborah Davis, Honors CollegeMary Turner, a Brooks County, Georgia woman, was brutally lynched in a lynching rampage that took the lives of at least eleven individuals in May 1918. This rampage began after Sidney Johnson murdered Hampton Smith. The brutality of the lynching of Turner was influenced by many factors including two major ones: her race and the location in which she lived. Racism was very much a part of everyday life in the Brooks County area in 1918. This racist sentiment held by many at the time included everyday people, newspaper editors, and high-ranking government officials. Also, the most lynchings in any Georgia county occurred in Brooks County where Turner lived. Furthermore, Georgia was defined as being the second most lynching prone state in the country. The brutality upon Turner when she was lynched can be studied by future generations. That way, tragic events like this one will never happen again.Experiential Learning: A Call for a Four-Year Integrated ProgramMelayna K. McKinney, Victoria N. Merritt and Jocelyn E. WoodSponsor: Dr. Michael Savoie, Honors CollegeValdosta State University and the Honors College are making a transition into implementing experiential learning into their core curriculum. While the Honors College had already installed experiential learning practices into their required curriculum, further research needed to be done on the implementation of experiential learning at Valdosta State. Over the course of the 2019 fall semester, we conducted research through education databases, the internet, and interviews with faculty of the Honors College. The culmination of our research concluded to a broad but defined plan, or solution, for the transition of Valdosta State and the Honors College over to an experiential learning focused style of education.50'