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Conyers student wins Path2College award
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2015/sep/24/conyers-student-wins-path2college-award/
By Alice Queen
A Conyers student has been awarded $1,529 for his college savings as part of the celebration of College Savings Month by Georgia’s Path2College 529 Plan. Ten-year-old Kendall Harris received the award in the Every Hero Has a Story Sweepstakes. In addition to the contribution to Kendall’s college savings plan, the Nancy Guinn Memorial Library will receive a $529 donation. This is the sixth year that the Path2College 529 Plan and the Georgia Public Library Service have partnered on the statewide initiative designed to encourage kids to read throughout the summer and remind their parents and grandparents about the importance of saving for college.

www.ajc.com
Report: grad gap remains between low-income, other college students
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/report-grad-gap-remains-between-low-income-other-c/nnm97/
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The gap between the college completion rate of low-income students who receive federal Pell grants and other college students on the same campus is less than perhaps previously thought, with some colleges even erasing the gap completely But the six-year graduation rate for Pell students nationally, 51 percent, still lagged 14 points behind the rate for non-Pell students, according to a report published Thursday by the Education Trust, an advocacy group for low-income and minority students. The report, “Pell Partnership: Ensuring a Shared Responsibility for Low-Income Student Success,” examines the graduation rate of Pell grant recipients at 1,149 four-year public and private colleges and universities. For-profit colleges were not included. The information was collected from participating colleges, U.S. News and World Report, federal education data and state higher education systems. …In Georgia, for example, Georgia State University, , where almost 51 percent of undergraduates are Pell recipients, showed no completion gap between Pell and non-Pell students, while schools such as Albany State and Georgia Regents University had gaps of more than 13 percent.

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UGA chief visits Albany
http://www.wfxg.com/story/30105653/uga-chief-visits-albany
By Dave Miller
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – University of Georgia President Jere W. Morehead is in Albany today, for an overview of the university’s role in economic development in Dougherty County, through the work of the UGA Small Business Development Center.

www.business2community.com
Colleges That Produce The Most Doctors
http://www.business2community.com/us-news/colleges-that-produce-the-most-doctors-01337210
Nick Selbe
In the coming months, pre-med undergraduates at colleges across the country will be preparing to apply for medical school. The top tier students will likely apply to some of the most prestigious medical schools, such as Harvard, Johns Hopkins or Michigan. #8. University of Georgia

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Here’s what graduates of Georgia colleges can expect to earn (SLIDESHOW)
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/09/24/here-s-what-graduates-of-georgia-colleges-can.html
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor and Social Engagement Manager, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Which Georgia university should you graduate from to get the highest average salary? If you said Georgia Tech, you might make a helluva engineer. Atlanta Business Chronicle prepared the above slideshow based on new U.S. Department of Education data. You can see how every Peach State institution of higher learning fares.

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Atlanta investigative reporting initiative wins national recognition
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/atlanta-investigative-reporting-initiative-wins-na/nnnMj/
The Online News Association, or ONA, awarded its Challenge Fund Grand Prize to the Georgia News Lab, an investigative reporting collaboration among Channel 2/AJC and Georgia’s leading universities. The News Lab edged out 23 other finalists for the award and was one of the nearly 200 programs that had applied to ONA two years ago for challenge grant funding. …“We’re so honored to be a part of this groundbreaking project,” said WSB-TV News Director Mike Dreaden. “The students we’ve worked with so far have been incredibly diligent in developing their skills and are clearly dedicated to becoming the next generation of top-notch investigative reporters.” In its first year, students at the News Lab reported on, wrote and produced several major stories for the AJC and WSB-TV. …The partners in the project are the University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, WSB-TV and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

www.onlineathens.com
UGA teaching assistant killed in West Broad wreck
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-09-24/uga-teaching-assistant-killed-west-broad-wreck
By WAYNE FOR
A teaching assistant in the University of Georgia’s English department was killed Wednesday when her motor scooter crashed head-on into a car on West Broad Street, according to an Athens-Clarke County Police Department report. Caroline Daniel Ramsey, 33, of Hendrick Avenue, died from injuries sustained in the 8 p.m. wreck near the Miller Street intersection across from Broadacres Apartments, police said.

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Will Congress Finally Pull the Plug on Perkins Loans?
http://chronicle.com/article/Will-Congress-Finally-Pull-the/233375/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Kelly Field
Washington
Democratic lawmakers are joining with House Republicans in a last-ditch effort to save the decades-old Federal Perkins Loan Program, which is set to expire next week. On Thursday a bipartisan group in the House of Representatives introduced a bill that would continue the program for one year. To pay for the extension, the measure would limit the number of years that current recipients may receive the loans.

www.insidehighered.com
Survey: More Parents Saving for College
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/25/survey-more-parents-saving-college?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=02e016a3a5-DNU20150925&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-02e016a3a5-197515277
A survey by Fidelity Investments on parents’ college-savings activities finds that parents are doing more than in recent years. Among the findings: Saving for college has reached an all-time high, with 69 percent of families currently saving (up from 64 percent in 2014). More parents than in the past are saving in strategic ways, by developing financial plans to help reach their goals (62 percent, up from 59 percent last year). Parents surveyed plan to take on a larger share of expected college costs (66 percent) compared to just a few years ago (57 percent in 2012).

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Are They Learning?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/25/new-effort-aims-standardize-faculty-driven-review-student-work?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=02e016a3a5-DNU20150925&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-02e016a3a5-197515277
By Doug Lederman
The debate over how much actual learning is taking place on college campuses is a historically heated one, as is the related discussion about how to measure that learning. At the risk of oversimplifying, opinions on the latter range between two extremes. On one end are those (typically policy makers, researchers and trustees) who believe faculty grading of academic work at individual campuses says little to nothing about whether students there are really learning. On the other are those (mostly on college faculties) who believe that attempts to standardize assessment of student learning (through a national exam, say) are seriously flawed because they are too distant from what happens in the classroom and define learning too narrowly, among other problems.

www.insidehighered.com
The ‘Invisible’ One in Four
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/25/1-4-transgender-students-say-they-have-been-sexually-assaulted-survey-finds?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=02e016a3a5-DNU20150925&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-02e016a3a5-197515277
By Jake New
One in four transgender students have experienced sexual assault since enrolling in college, according to a survey created by the Association of American Universities that provides one of the clearest looks yet at the prevalence of sexual violence among this especially vulnerable and often overlooked population of students.

www.diverseeducation.com
$5.3M in Grants Issued to Combat Native American Education ‘Crisis’
http://diverseeducation.com/article/78021/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=3998320c2c77441eb33110dcb3254bba&elqCampaignId=771&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=01ab2b4f876947068f455f3a9cd39372
by Catherine Morris
The Department of the Interior and the Department of Education announced that $5.3 million in grants will go to Native American tribal organizations to help improve college readiness among tribal youth. In a call with the press on Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that the state of Native American education is in “crisis.” He cited high dropout rates and low college completion as major reasons for concern, although he ameliorated that assessment by noting that Native American high school graduation rates increased more than any other demographic group in 2014.