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www.gwinnettdailypost.com
Memorial set to remember South Gwinnett grads
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/cities/snellville/memorial-set-to-remember-south-gwinnett-grads/article_73010cff-ccf7-5772-a66b-eee87e54613c.html
By Keith Farner
A large crowd is expected to gather Saturday night at the South Gwinnett High School baseball field to honor and remember two Snellville women known for being free spirits and loving everyone. That’s how one aunt described her niece, Olivia Cox, 22, and friend Megan Smith, 23, two 2011 South Gwinnett graduates who were killed in a car crash in Athens last month. …Cox was a student at Georgia Gwinnett College, while Smith was a student at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Cox studied marketing and had a deep love for photography. She worked for the X Games in Colorado and enjoyed it so much, and combined with her love for nature, she returned to Georgia to pursue marketing. In an email last week to the GGC community, President Stas Preczewski said Cox was enrolled in the School of Business pursuing a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He said counselors were available, and, “our thoughts are with her family and friends during this difficult time, and also for her Grizzly family.”
www.bizjournals.com
Hebert to take reins at Georgia Southern
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/capitol_vision/2016/04/hebert-to-take-reins-at-georgia-southern.html
Dave Williams
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Southern University has a new president. The University System of Georgia Board of Trustees named Jaimie Hebert Wednesday to head the university in Statesboro starting July 1. Hebert comes to Georgia from Sam Houston State University in Texas, where he has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs. “Dr. Hebert’s experience and leadership qualities make him a natural fit for Georgia Southern University,” board Chairman Kessel Stelling Jr said. “We appreciate the hard work of the campus search committee, which included representation from alumni and the Statesboro community, for recommending such a qualified candidate.”
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www.statesman.com
New president named for Georgia Southern University
http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/texas/new-president-named-for-georgia-southern-universit/nqz6B/
www.wjbf.com
New president named for Georgia Southern University
http://wjbf.com/2016/04/07/new-president-named-for-georgia-southern-university/
www.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Georgia Tech’s Online Masters in Computer Science to enter India
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/education/georgia-techs-online-masters-in-computer-science-to-enter-india/articleshow/51714865.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
By Brinda Dasgupta, ET Bureau
BENGALURU:Bennett University will be the India associate for Georgia Tech’s Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS). Under this association, students undertaking online courses from Georgia Tech will receive on ground support with regards to the OMSCS course. …”Georgia Tech is one of the leaders in the online education sector and we are delighted to be associated with them for their OMSCS course. It has been our constant endeavour to bring the best to our stakeholders and we believe this association will help students get desired exposure in one of the best of online courses available,” said Yaj Medury, vice-chancellor, Bennett University.
www.hypepotamus.com
15 Universities Battled for the ACC InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech
http://www.hypepotamus.com/news/acc-inventure-prize/
BY RENAY SAN MIGUEL
Apparently, running into each other on football fields or driving the lane on basketball courts aren’t providing enough ways for Atlantic Coast Conference students to claim bragging rights over each other. Now there’s the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize, in which Georgia Tech takes its annual collegiate version of “Shark Tank” for student entrepreneurs conference-wide. The winning teams, who were competing for $30,000 in cash prizes, were announced Wednesday night at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center Theater, with a statewide PBS audience watching on live television. While Duke couldn’t join the University of North Carolina in the recent men’s NCAA basketball Final Four, its student innovator team did take the top $15,000 first-place ACC InVenture prize. The University of Virginia captured the 2nd place $10,000 award, and Georgia Tech’s team – having won the 7th InVenture Prize in March – added to its resume by taking the $5,000 People’s Choice award.
www.thebrunswicknews.com
College shows off its new residence hall
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/college-shows-off-its-new-residence-hall/article_4d6666ce-b322-5d9c-97a6-274a98a8ab5a.html
by Michael Hall
Megan Maloof doesn’t know yet if she will find herself living in the Lakeside Village or the soon-to-be-completed Mariners Village on campus at College of Coastal Georgia. As a head resident adviser for the upcoming fall 2016 semester, Maloof made a simple but decisive statement about her first look at Mariners Village on Thursday. “This is so cool,” Maloof said, wearing a hard hat and safety goggles as she stepped into what will be the main lobby when the $8.5 million is completed in July by Corvias Campus Living. Corvias was selected by The University System of Georgia for a public-private partnership to handle on-campus housing at nine colleges throughout the state. Maloof, along with several other students and a group of faculty and staff, got their first glimpse at what the second residence hall on the Brunswick campus will look like on Thursday.
www.washingtonpost.com
Stanford dean: School’s ultra-low admit rate not something to boast about
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/04/05/stanford-dean-schools-ultra-low-admit-rate-not-something-to-boast-about/
By Nick Anderson
Richard Shaw sees nothing to brag about in Stanford University’s microscopic admission rate. Dean of admission and financial aid at Stanford since September 2005, Shaw said he understands the public fascination with a measure of selectivity that now stands at 4.7 percent, lowest in the nation among prominent colleges and universities. That means the private university in Northern California turns down slightly more than 19 out of every 20 applicants. But Shaw didn’t advertise that fact on March 25 when he announced the entering fall class… 2016 College Admission Rates: The sortable table below includes selected top schools with data available:
Georgia Tech – 30,520 applications 2016, 25.3% admit rate 2016, 32.2% admit rate 2015
www.fortune.com
Colleges That Offer the Best—and Worst—Bang for the Buck
http://fortune.com/2016/04/07/colleges-best-worst-value-roi/
by Jill Hamburg Coplan
As college acceptances have rolled in, high school seniors and their parents are now wrestling with the tough decision of which school to attend. While they likely won’t rely only on future earning power as their sole criteria, the expectation certainly is that college is going to be worth the cost of tuition. It’s a given you’ll eventually earn back your tuition — and then some. But that’s just not the case, according to a new analysis from careers site PayScale. Some colleges are graduating students who barely recoup their outlay, or where ROI is negative after 20 years employment. In many cases, that means they will be saddled with heavy debt for decades; some Americans today are stuck paying off college loans into their retirement years , says the 2016 PayScale College ROI Report… Overall, public colleges and universities provide good ROI, thanks to their low tuition. (The average cost for tuition, room and board at U.S. public universities was $19,548 vs. $43,921 for private school, according to 2015-16 figures.) Ranking high were state universities in New York (SUNY- Maritime College), Colorado (the School of Mines), Georgia (Georgia Tech), California (UC Berkeley), and the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
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www.chronicle.com
Google’s ‘Education Evangelist’: Students Are Changing Faster Than Colleges
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Education/236008
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Google’s frontman on education is a guy named Jaime Casap. He grew up in Hell’s Kitchen. That’s before the hipsters took it over. He was raised on welfare. There was no guarantee he’d go to college. That background informs the advice he gives to young people today. “Really what I tell students is to be proud of who they are. Oftentimes, kids who are growing up in poverty hide their poverty or don’t talk about their poverty, don’t talk about the way they grew up. I encourage them to own it to be who they are.” Mr. Casap is one of the most visible people on the education innovation circuit. Not surprising. After all, he’s a top guy at one of the country’s most powerful tech companies. But more than that, Jaime Casap has become an important advocate for low-income and minority students. He even has the ear of the White House. Here is an edited transcript of Mr. Casap’s conversation with The Chronicle.
www.insidehighered.com
May the Best Idea Win
New book argues that students involved in campus protests over controversial speakers or ideas should instead support a marketplace of ideas in which all notions are heard and the best rise to the top.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/08/new-book-critiques-campus-censorship-movement-and-pushes-marketplace-ideas?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e246e7df36-DNU20160408&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e246e7df36-197515277
By Colleen Flaherty
There’s no shortage of criticism of what’s been described as the student censorship movement, which has included banning (or at least student demands to ban) controversial speakers, discussions and art from colleges and universities. The latest critique, Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge (Palgrave Macmillan) comes from Britain, which has seen its own set of parallel events on its campuses. But author Joanna Williams, a senior lecturer of higher education at the University of Kent and education editor at Spiked, rebukes students in Britain and the U.S. (and their professors, from whom she says they’ve learned bad habits) in equal measure.
www.chronicle.com
‘If America Wants to Kill Science, It’s on Its Way’
A. Hope Jahren on women, research, and life in the lab
http://chronicle.com/article/If-America-Wants-to-Kill/236011?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=00994d81c5c34a9791d4461fe15bf6a4&elq=76eee5f33b5c443cb2a45a34c4bb9321&elqaid=8594&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2874
By Paul Voosen
Like much of history, scientific memoir is the domain of victors, researchers at their denouement reflecting on their rise to eminence. These are not the voices from the trenches, of scientists working, as so many do daily, to take the next logical step, to make the next discovery. And with few exceptions — Jane Goodall, Rita Levi-Montalcini — these have not been the stories of women. So what does the real work of science in the academy look like, the 99.9 percent that does not make the history books? You’ll find no truer answer to that question than Lab Girl (Knopf), a new memoir by A. Hope Jahren, a geobiology professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa.