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Military guide names GSU Business College a top school
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/71944/
Special to the Herald
Military Advanced Education & Transition has awarded the Georgia Southern University College of Business the designation of a Top School in its 2016 Guide to Colleges & Universities. The guide measures best practices in military and veteran education. …This year, institutions were evaluated on their military culture, financial aid, flexibility, general support, on-campus support and online support services. Each school’s performance rating by category is represented by an easy-to-recognize dashboard. This enables prospective students to quickly target schools that follow best practices in military education, and then put these in context with other academic or career considerations.
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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Racist microaggressions on campus: Small slights with a big impact
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2015/12/28/racist-microaggressions-on-campus-small-slights-with-a-big-impact/
My boss was at a seminar recently where he met a University of Maryland journalism major who talked about her experiences as an African-American student on campus. One incident stood out, and my editor shared it with me. It involved a crude remark by a white roommate. With the focus now on racism on campus, both subtle and overt, I asked newly minted University of Maryland graduate Taylor Johnson to expand on what happened in an essay for the blog. In the piece, Johnson uses a term that is being discussed a lot lately on America’s campuses: microaggressions. Microaggressions are comments, both intentional or unintentional, that casually degrade people.
www.diverseeducation.com
Tennessee to Launch Campaign to Get Adults Back in College
http://diverseeducation.com/article/79800/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=eacfa10fc6074560a7cdf509075d3afd&elqCampaignId=771&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=442242383d6a42dd833a453081a696fa
By Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee is preparing to launch a $1 million advertising campaign to encourage adults who dropped out of college to go back and get their degrees. The Tennessean reports ads on billboards, the television and the radio will begin in January to promote Tennessee’s Reconnect and Complete initiative. It seeks to reach 110,000 Tennesseans between the ages of 25 and 64 who dropped out of college after 2007 and were more than halfway to a degree when they left. Reconnect and Complete is part of Gov. Bill Haslam’s Drive to 55 campaign that aims to increase the percentage of Tennesseans with college degrees and certificates to 55 percent by the year 2025.