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Kennesaw State opens first permanent study-abroad site, in Italy
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/kennesaw-state-opens-first-permanent-study-abroad-/nmz8G/
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s Italia for Kennesaw State University. The four-year institution in Cobb County has opened its first permanent international education site in Montepulciano, Italy, allowing the university to conduct year-round academic programs there. Kennesaw State will occupy 4,000-square feet of the Antica Fortezza Poliziana, a 13th-century fortress. The building was renovated to accommodate six classrooms, an apartment for a director, meeting space and offices. The study-abroad program will offer courses in visual and culinary arts, history, literature, Italian language and political science.
www.rebusinessonline.com
Cousins Properties to Develop $200M World Headquarters for NCR Corp. in Atlanta’s Tech Square
Cousins Properties to Develop $200M World Headquarters for NCR Corp. in Atlanta’s Tech Square
BY JOHN NELSON IN TOP STORIES
ATLANTA — Cousins Properties Inc. (NYSE: CUZ) has signed a 15-year build-to-suit lease with tech firm NCR Corp. (NYSE: NCR) to develop NCR’s $200 million world headquarters in Midtown Atlanta. Formerly based in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth in Gwinnett County, NCR’s new headquarters will be located within Tech Square, a multi-block campus of office buildings and retailers located on Spring Street near Georgia Tech. …NCR is committed to the City of Atlanta, State of Georgia, and the University System of Georgia. NCR will be a top employer and part of the fabric of this community for a very long time.”
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Carter joint venture buys Midtown Atlanta office building
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/carter-joint-venture-buys-midtown-atlanta-office-b/nmz4T/
J. Scott Trubey
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An Atlanta real estate firm and its investment partner plan to overhaul an empty Midtown office tower to attract hot tech startups and other companies looking to plant roots near Georgia Tech and MARTA.
www.hstoday.us
US Chamber Kicks Off 2015 Cybersecurity Awareness Campaign
http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/news-shorts/single-article/us-chamber-kicks-off-2015-cybersecurity-awareness-campaign/ec735ef7b12c166f164f926bc3926e3e.html
By: Homeland Security Today Staff
A summit Wednesday in Atlanta, Georgia on cybersecurity awareness that brought together government, law enforcement and private sector participants to help businesses strengthen their cybersecurity efforts was spearheaded by the US Chamber of Commerce. American Express, AT&T and Firehost, along with the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, Georgia Institute of Technology and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) hosted the Cybersecurity Summit with the aim at helping small and mid-size business owners develop, evaluate and strengthen their individual cybersecurity programs.
www.stripes.com
See it now, use it later: Wearable technology
http://www.stripes.com/travel/see-it-now-use-it-later-wearable-technology-1.358346
By Patrick May
San Jose Mercury News
Wearable tech, that much-buzzed-about phenomenon coming soon to a body (very) near yours, has already arrived at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., with an exhibit called “On You: A Story of Wearable Computing.” To get an idea of what we might expect from wearables, we dropped by for a peek at the show, a jumble of headsets, wrist devices, wired footwear and bulky power converters, all laid out and labeled inside shiny new exhibit cases. And what better techie to walk us through it than co-curator Thad Starner. He’s an early pioneer in wearable technology and Georgia Tech faculty member who’s been wearing his own customized computer systems since 1993. In other words, in addition to being a manager on Google’s Project Glass, Starner literally walks the walk when it comes to wearable tech.
www.nbc26.tv
Georgia Regents University launches partnership with Richmond County Schools
http://nbc26.tv/2015/07/16/georgia-regents-university-launches-partnership-with-richmond-county-schools/
NBC 26 Staff
AUGUSTA, GA – Twenty-nine schools in Richmond County will have a new addition next to their school’s name. A sign was unveiled at Diamond Lakes Elementary Thursday morning symbolizing the growing partnership between Georgia Regent University’s College of Education and our local elementary, middle and high schools. The partnership is providing more GRU students who are training to become teachers in our classrooms.
www.macon.com
Middle Georgia State’s Sky Camp gives youths a chance to soar
http://www.macon.com/2015/07/16/3846163_skycamp-gives-youths-a-chance.html?rh=1
BY WAYNE CRENSHAW
EASTMAN — As Alex Justice hovered 600 feet over Dodge County, he summed up the experience with about the highest praise a 12-year-old can offer. “This is very cool,” he said Thursday through his headset in the Robinson R44 helicopter flown by Zac O’Bryan. He was among 45 youths participating in Sky Camp, the annual summer camp of Middle Georgia State University’s School of Aviation. …Alex, from Buford, was at the camp with his grandfather, Steve Justice, who is the director of the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Center of Innovation for Aerospace. He said the camp is a good way to introduce youths to aviation careers. “You’ve got to get kids interested in being in aviation and aerospace, and programs like this are a big part of that, just getting kids excited about aerospace and aviation,” he said.
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Family: Sprayberry High grad among Marines killed in Chattanooga
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/family-sprayberry-high-grad-among-marines-killed-i/nm2Qp/
David Markiewicz and Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One of the four Marines killed in Thursday’s shootings at a Navy Reserve Support Center in Chattanooga was a graduate of Sprayberry High School in northeast Cobb County. The Department of Defense has not yet officially released the names of the victims, but family spokesman Andy Kingery told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 21-year-old Skip Wells was among the dead. Wells, Kingery said, had gone to Georgia Southern University after graduating from Sprayberry in 2012, but felt “called” to join the Marines and serve.
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www.chronicle.com
Teenagers and Colleges Are of 2 Minds on the Best Recruitment Strategies
http://chronicle.com/article/TeenagersColleges-Are-of/231703/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Eric Hoover
Chicago
If you understand teenagers, then — wait, does anybody really understand teenagers? No, of course not. But colleges spend a lot of time and money recruiting them. That means embracing various communication strategies: the old-school, the high-tech, and the because-my-president-thinks-this-will-work. Yet what you think you know might not be right. Admissions officials and prospective students sometimes have very different ideas about recruitment. At the ACT’s annual Enrollment Planners Conference here on Thursday, admissions officers heard a fascinating discussion of where, based on the findings from recent surveys, their perspectives often differ.
www.blogs.wsj.com
The Fields That Students Flock to During Recessions
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/07/17/the-fields-that-students-flock-to-during-recessions/
By JOSH ZUMBRUN
Graduating into a recession stunts the careers of the young men and women entering the labor market. But it turns out a lot of students don’t sit back and passively accept this outcome: Many students who see a recession during their early college years switch to majors with better job prospects. According to new research from Benjamin Keys at the University of Chicago, Brian Cadena at the University of Colorado Boulder and Erica Blom at Edgeworth Economics, the shifts can be dramatic.
www.washingtonpost.com
Silicon Valley struggles to hack its diversity problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/silicon-valley-struggles-to-hack-its-diversity-problem/2015/07/16/0b0144be-2053-11e5-84d5-eb37ee8eaa61_story.html?tid=HP_more?tid=HP_more
By Cecilia Kang and Todd C. Frankel
Yahoo disclosed last week that African Americans made up just 2 percent of its workers, while Hispanics stood at 4 percent. Those revelations came days after Facebook reported that in 2014 it had employed just 81 blacks among its 5,500 U.S. workers. Silicon Valley has a diversity problem, a contentious issue that has come into sharper focus in recent months as tech firms have sheepishly released updates on their hiring of minorities. The companies have pledged to do better. Many point to the talent pipeline as one of the main culprits. They’d hire if they could, but not enough black and Hispanic students are pursuing computer science degrees, they say. But fresh data show that top schools are turning out black and Hispanic graduates with tech degrees at rates significantly higher than they are being hired by leading tech firms.
www.chronicle.com
Financial Literacy: Can It Be Taught? Should Colleges Even Try?
http://chronicle.com/article/Financial-Literacy-Can-It-Be/231691/
By Beckie Supiano
These days, it’s widely accepted that colleges have some responsibility for their students’ financial lives. College affordability and student-loan debt are now mainstream political issues, peppering the speeches of the president and presidential hopefuls alike. While the job market for new degree-holders has shown signs of improvement, the path from graduation to financial independence is, for many, uphill and uncertain. Students have a lot at stake — especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Many colleges have taken those concerns to heart.
www.diverseeducation.com
Experts: Get College Financial Aid Info Out Early
http://diverseeducation.com/article/76375/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=3372ec5b101c496d8ecdd9d5089b03d7&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=969b27d157914c939b526e2bbdd1e61e
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
More students from low-income families might enroll in college if they got information about student financial aid while they were still in middle school, a new report released Thursday contends. But the report—put out by the Urban Institute and titled “Delivering Early Information about College Financial Aid Exploring the Options for Middle School Students”—does not argue for providing that information in a school setting.
www.hechingerreport.org
The $150 million question—what does federal regulation really cost colleges?
The answer: No one knows the price of government red tape, including the government
The $150 million question—what does federal regulation really cost colleges?
by JON MARCUS
In the intensifying debate over whether to reduce federal government regulations on universities and colleges, one number has been at the forefront: $150 million. That’s what Vanderbilt University says a study found it spends each year complying with government red tape: 11 percent of the university’s entire budget. The figure was in a report drafted by the principal higher education lobbying organization, the American Council on Education, or ACE, at the request of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.