ROME, Ga. -- Berry College will welcome its first Bachelor of Science in Nursing students this January.

The university announced Monday that it has hired three professors to kick off the program.

The nursing program will feature small interactive classes and hands-on demonstrations in a state-of-the-art clinical practice lab. It will also have an 18-month fast-track option, allowing students who enroll next semester to graduate in May 2015.

For more information, visit berry.edu/academics/nursing.

ATLANTA -- Georgia's Path2College 529 Plan is making it easier for families to pay for college by holding two scholarship giveaways.

The deadline to enter both contests is Thursday, Aug. 15.

Mitch Seabaugh, director of the Path2College 529 Plan, said the two sweepstakes are designed to encourage families to start saving for college while their children are still very young.

"If 10,000 more Georgia families start saving for college, that's 10,000 more children who will have a head start toward achieving their dream when they graduate from high school," he said in a statement.

Seabaugh added that the sweepstakes also benefit young students because they provide money for schools and libraries.

The first contest -- the 10,000 Reasons to Save Sweepstakes -- will gives $10,529 to two lucky winners: a current Path2College account holder and a non-account holder. The two winners' schools will each receive $10,529.