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MAJOR’ PINEWOOD ANNOUNCEMENT COMING JULY 1
http://fayette-news.com/major-pinewood-announcement-coming-july-1/
DANNY HARRISON
When Governor Nathan Deal’s office announced it was creating a Georgia Film Academy to prepare Georgians to work in the growing local film industry, it became a big deal to Fayetteville and Fayette County because it was also rumored that Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayetteville would host a GFA campus. Pinewood Atlanta Studios executives, including part-owner Dan Cathy of Chick-fil-A fame, cut the ribbon on a brand-new GFA sound stage in late April, and during his speech Cathy teased another “major” film industry development in the works, which he indicated would be at least as significant a development as having Georgia Film Academy locate in Fayetteville. Cathy said that big announcement would be made on the Pinewood Studios Atlanta campus on Friday, July 1. The teaser came during the second half of Cathy’s speech at the ribbon cutting ceremony. He had been telling the audience why he decided to partner with Pinewood Studios in England to bring their brand of film studio to Fayetteville.
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Check out these high school graduates who also earned a college degree
http://rollingout.com/2016/05/13/check-high-school-graduates-also-earned-college-degree/
By Munson Steed
On Friday, May 6, two Atlanta Public School high school seniors from Maynard Jackson High School received associates degrees from Atlanta Metropolitan State College about three weeks before the students graduate high school. One of the two students is Maynard Jackson High School valedictorian, Taylor Dalton who graduated with two associate degrees, one in pre- engineering and the other in Mathematics. Dalton will be entering Georgia Tech as a junior in August. Nuri Omolara received an associate degree in pre-engineering and will be attending North Carolina A&T University in August as a junior majoring in Engineering. The students, were able to earn both high school diplomas and college degrees at the same time due to their participation in the state‘s Move on When Ready, Dual Enrollment Program.
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GHC plans new $17.7 million building: Investment will help growing college deal with ever-increasing enrollment
Written by Donna Harris
Georgia Highlands College’s Cartersville campus is growing. Funding for a new $17.7 million academic building was approved in the fiscal year 2017 state budget signed by Gov. Nathan Deal May 2, and the new science, technology, engineering and mathematics-based facility will enable the college to better handle its ever-increasing enrollment. “The addition of this new academic building will include spaces for laboratories, classrooms, a lecture hall, study rooms and more,” GHC President Dr. Don Green said in a press release. “This increases GHC’s ability to directly impact and support the community workforce through STEM-based degrees, and it allows GHC to better serve as the University System of Georgia’s primary access institution in the region.” A surge in enrollment numbers since last summer has made the much-needed facility vital to the college’s ability to offer all the classes and programs its students need.
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New feature coming to CSU’s Coca-Cola Space Science Center
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article77715502.html
Shawn Cruzen, executive director of the Columbus State University Coca-Cola Space Science Center, talks about a new feature coming soon the center in this excerpt from the Sunday Interview.
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Report Outlines Strategies for Successful Community College Transfers
by Catherine Morris
More than 80 percent of students starting out in community college say they want a bachelors degree. Yet within six years of entering a community college, only 14 percent of community college students will earn one, prior studies show. “Transfer outcomes for students who start at community colleges are frankly deplorable,” Josh Wyner, vice president and executive director of the College Excellence Program at the Aspen Institute, said in a phone interview on Friday. The Transfer Playbook: Essential Practices for Two- and Four-Year Colleges, a report produced by the Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Teachers College, Columbia University takes a closer look at community college transfer outcomes. They found that when both two- and four-year schools take ownership of easing the transition between institutions for students, the results tend to be much better.
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44 Colleges Join U.S. Experiment on Dual Enrollment
The U.S. Education Department on Monday announced that it had chosen 44 colleges for an experiment in which they will be able to give Pell Grants to high school students participating in dual enrollment programs. The announcement carries out the department’s plan (another in a string of efforts to use its “experimental sites” authority) to allow as many as 10,000 high school students to use federal postsecondary student aid funds to take college-level courses, which is generally prohibited by federal law.
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Report on Shift in Learning Management System Market
The days of a college being stuck with its learning management system until it is forced to switch may be coming to an end, according to a new report by the ed-tech blog e-Literate. Thanks to advances in interoperability standards, which simplify the process of moving data from one system to another, more colleges are shopping around for new systems, according to the report.
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Due Process and Sex Assaults
Law professors issue joint letter saying Education Department guidance to colleges goes too far and poses risks to the rights of accused and of institutions.
By Jake New
Citing an erosion of free speech and due process on college campuses, a group of 21 law professors on Monday released an open letter alleging that the U.S. Department of Education has unlawfully expanded how colleges must define and respond to allegations of sexual assault and harassment. The same argument has been made frequently in recent months by Republican lawmakers who say that the department’s Office for Civil Rights illegally created new regulations through a series of documents instructing colleges how to handle cases of sexual misconduct. Monday’s letter comes at a time when the department is also facing two lawsuits making the same claim. And a third lawsuit is on the way. The legal argument is an important one, because many colleges revised procedures based on the Education Department guidance — sometimes saying that they had no choice but to do so.