Reinhardt University

Reinhardt University is a comprehensive liberal arts university located in Waleska, Georgia, United States, with an off-campus center in Alpharetta. Select programs are also offered in Cartersville, Marietta, and Canton, and online. Reinhardt is affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

In 1883, former Confederate Army Captain and Atlanta lawyer Augustus M. Reinhardt and his brother-in-law, former Lieutenant-Colonel John J. A. Sharp, commenced plans to open a school in Waleska. Both Reinhardt and Sharp had grown up in the Waleska area, and after the American Civil War had ended and the hardships of Reconstruction begun, both men wanted to provide a school for the local citizens of impoverished Cherokee County.

The Student Activities Council (SAC) plans activities, such as dances, service projects, coffee houses and movie nights. Recognized student groups include those devoted to service, leadership, the arts and music, the outdoors, spiritual growth, and specific academic disciplines. Students also run a newspaper (The Reinhardt Hiltonian) and a television station (RUTV).

Examples of current recognized student groups include Tri Beta, Phi Alpha Theta, The Reinhardt Image of the Black Experience (TRIBE), and the Reinhardt Organization of Student Educators (ROSE). Reinhardt also offers Intramural Sports, which is offered to all students, faculty and staff and students. Sports include Bubble Soccer,fFlag football, uodgeball, and Ultimate frisbee.

In 1945, Reinhardt inaugurated a work program for students. This program would allow students to work part-time during the school year or full-time during the summer months to help offset tuition expenses.

Students performed many services under this program, such as housekeeping; ground and building maintenance; firing boilers (before electric heat); working in the cafeteria, library, college office or student center; or working on the school's dairy farm, which is no longer in existence.