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Top 10 Universities With The Best Out-Of-State Tuition Rates
By Emily Marks
Usually, students who decide to go out-of-state for their college education pay more than those who remain in-state. However, there are still universities that offer affordable rates for out-of-state students. …The top 3 universities with the cheapest out-of-state tuition rates are Alcorn State University ($6,552), Minot State University ($6,568) and Gordon State College ($6,761).
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Georgia Gwinnett College dedicates library in Dan Kaufman’s honor
By Keith Farner
LAWRENCEVILLE — In all the meetings Dan Kaufman had with state legislators and top education officials, there was one exchange he remembers from early in his tenure as president of Georgia Gwinnett College. “Look, we’re never going to get accredited until we have a library,” Kaufman recalled on Friday afternoon. “And in the college world, accreditation is a big deal for a lot of reasons. I don’t know if that was true or not, but that was my story.” Kaufman went on to explain how the University System of Georgia moved plans to build a library at GGC up the list of planned construction projects around the state. The USG went on the basis of need, and not ranking on a list. So in the fiscal 2008 budget, the $28.3 million project was among seven recommended to the Board of Regents who submitted it to Gov. Sonny Perdue. With his family looking on alongside campus and state education leaders, Kaufman said there is nothing he would treasure more than the honor he received on Friday afternoon. It was before a host of local and state dignitaries that the Daniel J. Kauman Library and Learning Center was dedicated in his honor. …Kaufman was named president of the then-unnamed college in 2005, and worked to open the institution a year later. In August of 2006, 118 students enrolled at GGC. Enrollment this year is about 13,000.
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Georgia Gwinnett College dedicates library in Dan Kaufman’s honor (slideshow)
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University leader learned from Zell
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/richard-hyatt/article102537432.html
BY RICHARD HYATT
Before folding his final hand and retiring from the University System of Georgia, Chancellor Hank Huckaby came to Columbus to accept an award that honors the leadership of retired banker Jim Blanchard. Huckaby has led the state’s colleges and universities since 2011. Before that he was a legislator, a campus administrator and the primary architect behind many state budgets. And it began in American Government 101. In 1960, he was a city boy, reared in Hapeville in the noisy flight pattern of the Atlanta airport. That fall, he found himself in an isolated junior college on the side of a hill in Young Harris, Ga. Government class could be a snoozer, and he was there because he had to be. Just before class the professor arrived — which would be his habit every morning. Zell Miller had the swagger of a Marine and wore a flattop to match. This was his second year of teaching at his alma mater. Huckaby learned about leadership that term, and a class that might have been dry and lifeless turned into a training ground for his future — all because of that cocky guy with the military haircut.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Gives Grants to 19 HBCUs
https://www.jbhe.com/2016/09/the-u-s-department-of-agriculture-gives-grants-to-19-hbcus/
USDA-LogoThe United States Department of Agriculture recently awarded $18.9 million in grants to 19 historically Black colleges and universities to build or improve agricultural and food science research facilities and equipment on their campuses. The largest grant in the amount of $1,510,894 is to Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Other HBCUs receiving more than $1 million are Fort Valley State University in Georgia,
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Myths about getting into University of Georgia: What matters. What doesn’t.
In writing about education policy for the AJC for 19 years, one question from readers has become more common: Why is it so hard to get into the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech? Two reasons: The HOPE Scholarship and the increasing cost of college. I saw the cost escalation this past week when I took my twins to tour northeastern schools, and admissions officers estimated the final price, including transportation home for breaks, would be $68,000 to $70,000 a year. As Tech and UGA became more competitive as a result of strong students remaining in Georgia because of HOPE, the colleges themselves and their national standings improved. In talking to parents, I find mythologies have developed around who gets into Tech and UGA. So, I sent both campuses some of the common assumptions to see how many were on the mark I shared Tech’s responses earlier this month. UGA’s responses today come from David Graves, senior associate director of admissions operations and evaluation. UGA’s early action deadline is Oct. 15 so share this blog with any high school seniors planning to apply to UGA. Graves does a great blog for UGA admissions that applicants ought to be reading regularly.
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Georgia Tech Outlines Steps It Will Take to Create a More Welcoming Campus for Black Students
Recently the Black Student Experience Task Force at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta presented its recommendations to university President G.P. Peterson on how to promote equity and inclusion on campus. Dr. Peterson has approved all the recommendations. As a result, the university has announced 11 steps it is taking over the next three years to improve the campus climate for Black students. John Stein, dean of students, stated that “while the task force was formed at the start of 2015 fall semester following allegations that several Black female students were racially harassed on two separate occasions on campus, the group’s charge was to examine the broader issues of climate and culture at Georgia Tech.”
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Albany State University Seeks Global Partnership in Belize
https://www.jbhe.com/2016/09/albany-state-university-seeks-global-partnership-in-belize/
Albany_State_University_Academic_SealAlbany State University, the historically Black educational institution in Georgia, is cooperating with officials representing higher educational interests in the Central American nation of Belize to expand educational opportunities for faculty and students in both countries. Representatives of Albany State’s Office of Global Programs recently met with officials from two-year and four-year colleges, and universities in Belize to discuss enhancement of faculty and student exchange programs, research collaborations. and joint grant projects. During the 2015-16 academic year, eight Albany State University students studied abroad in Belize.
www.daltondailycitizen.com
Student center renovation complete
It had been more than 40 years since the Pope Student Center had seen any major renovation. The student population at Dalton State College has grown more than 4,000 students since then, and so the space was underserving the campus, said Jodi Johnson, vice president of Enrollment and Student Services. In the last year, the student center has undergone a renovation to make the space more usable and more conducive to students’ needs. Wednesday there was a grand reopening and open house for faculty, staff and students.
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VSU, Oconee sign partnership
VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University signed articulation agreements with Oconee Fall Line Technical College, simplifying student transition between the two institutions of higher education. The Pathways Program agreement will allow Oconee Fall Line Technical College students with an associate of applied science in one or more of the approved articulated programs to maximize the transfer of credits in order to complete either a bachelor of science in organizational leadership, a bachelor of applied science in human capital performance, or a bachelor of science in office administration and technology in two years or less at Valdosta State University, said Dr. Joseph G. Weaver, director of VSU off-campus programs.
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UGA Students Clamor for In-House Experience
Kristen Rasmussen, Daily Report
Based in part on feedback from happy customers like Potente, UGA is expanding its corporate counsel externship for the semester beginning in January 2017. Under the new-look program, known as the Atlanta Semester in Practice Program, students will be able to intern four days a week during the school year, instead of just one or two, at various legal departments of metro companies. When they aren’t working, externs will take the accompanying required coursework at the Terry College of Business satellite building in Buckhead.
And if the early hype around the expanded program is any indication, it’s likely to be just as popular as UGA’s existing corporate counsel externship.
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University of Georgia Study Examines Blacks’ Reluctance to Seek Treatment for Depression
CampbellA new study led by Rosalyn Denise Campbell, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Georgia, finds that the stigma of mental illness in the African American community has a major dragging effect on the rate of Black Americans who seek treatment for depression. The study involves interviews with African Americans who suffer from depression. Dr. Campbell reports that “I can’t tell you how many times in these interviews people have said, ‘I don’t talk about this.’ Because African-Americans are already marginalized, there is no rush to adopt another marginalized, stigmatizing identity.” Dr. Campbell’s research suggests that Black Americans are often thwarted from seeking depression treatment before they even enter the system, due to fears of being stigmatized by their friends and family as “less than African-American.” And there is often a hesitancy to trust in treatment by the medical establishment.
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This college student has made $300,000 worth of frequent flyer miles for legally hacking United Airlines
Matt Weinberger
In early 2015, Georgia Tech student Ryan Pickren made headlines when he was arrested on charges of hacking into the calendar system of rival school University of Georgia ahead of a big football game … Since then, Pickren has turned his hacking progress into a lucrative side-career: He’s now the number 1 most successful contributor to United Airlines’ Bug Bounty Program, which rewards hackers with frequent flyer miles for finding security flaws in their website … For Pickren’s success on the right side of the law, he says he’s been rewarded with 15 million United frequent flyer miles. With each frequent flyer mile valued at $0.02, that’s $300,000 worth of rewards.And he’s still at Georgia Tech, majoring in computer engineering. Today, Pickren told us that he’s donated 5 million frequent flyer miles, the equivalent of $100,000, to his school. Those miles can be used by campus organizations, like Engineers without Borders, to do charity work. The donation was born out of his love for Georgia Tech, he says
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Georgia Grown Moment – A Growing Agritourism Industry
http://southeastagnet.com/2016/09/19/georgia-grown-moment-a-growing-agritourism-industry/
by Randall
The University of Georgia estimates the economic impact for agritourism is at $142 million for the state. And in this week’s Georgia Grown moment, we have Cynthia Norton discussing the progression and growth of the agritourism industry in Georgia.
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UGA relaunches economic research center
STAFF REPORTS
A research center for study of economic regulation was relaunched by University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The James C. Bonbright Center for the Study of Regulation is will address regulation across a wide range of market sectors. It will include funding support for faculty and graduate student research and travel, graduate assistantships, visiting lectures, undergraduate internships and other activities.
“Supported by an endowment of nearly $2 million, the new Bonbright Center will fund research across many topics to advance our understanding of the role that regulatory economics plays in shaping public policy, controlling prices and influencing markets,” said Terry College Dean Benjamin C. Ayers. The center is funded by gifts from James C. and Martha Bonbright. Chris Cornwell, professor and head of the economics department said he is thankful.
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Against Vanderbilt, Georgia Tech supported by 103-year-old Jackets fan
http://m.ajc.com/news/sports/college/against-vanderbilt-georgia-tech-supported-by-103-y/nsZkq/
A most esteemed patron graced Bobby Dodd Stadium Saturday. Alae Risse Leitch, a 103-year-old Atlantan who has supported Georgia Tech since the early 1920’s, attended the Yellow Jackets game against Vanderbilt in the company of her 89-year-old sister Jo Atchison. Along with her sister and their husbands, Leitch (her first name is pronounced Al-uh-reese) was a longtime season-ticket holder and a Grant Field fixture for decades, although her attendance has understandably slowed in recent years. She turns 104 on Oct. 1, making her one year older than Tech’s stadium. Prior to the game, the two sat together in the front row of a suite, sisters whose bond is clear without words. “It’s a great day,” Leitch said, dressed vibrantly in a gold and white jacket covering a Tech t-shirt, the jacket decorated with two bumblebee brooches … Leitch and Atchison were guests of Susan Johnson, wife of coach Paul Johnson, and sat in her suite. They are friends through Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Buckhead.
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Regents await ruling on whether fired UGA worker’s whistleblower suit can go forward
By LEE SHEARER
A whistleblower lawsuit against the Georgia Board of Regents will ultimately be decided by the state Supreme Court, predicted a lawyer for the regents in Clarke County Superior Court on Friday. And the court’s decision in favor of the regents will stem a flood of whistleblower lawsuits unleashed after the state Legislature passed a law allowing whistleblowers who proved their cases to collect compensatory damages in addition to damages they suffered through lost wages or lost employment when employers retaliated against them. But that law conflicts with part of the state constitution, and the Legislature doesn’t have the authority to go against the constitution, attorney Ed Tolley argued on behalf of the regents.
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Incident investigated on Georgia Southern campus
http://www.kfvs12.com/story/33125744/incident-investigated-on-georgia-southern-campus
By WTOC Staff
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Several law enforcement agencies were on the campus of Georgia Southern University overnight investigating an incident. The Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office, Statesboro Police Department, Georgia State Patrol and Georgia Southern Campus Police all responded around 1 a.m., but no information has been released about what exactly took place.
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2 suspects arrested, 1 on loose after armed robbery near Georgia Southern
By Dal Cannady, Reporter
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Tensions ran high in Statesboro through the night Sunday as people on or near Georgia Southern saw streets blocked off and police looking for suspects in an armed robbery. Three people were robbed at an apartment on Chandler Road. When police got there, they took off running but fired a shot at the officers. That brought more officers and shut down parts of Chandler, Lanier, as well as streets on the university campus. Search teams managed to find two suspects in a wooded area behind the apartments, but one remains on the loose. Students we talked to Monday say they feel safe on and near campus, but they wondered why they didn’t get a campus alert text Sunday night when they get them for so many other things. …”It makes me think about not walking around by myself that late at night, or at least telling somebody where I’m going so somebody knows what I’m doing,” said Graham Harris, GSU sophomore. “Maybe they could put up gates where you need a PIN because you don’t know who all’s coming through here at night.” “And it’s surprising that this event happened, and it’s one I did not get an Eagle Alert about,” said Courtney Weekley, GSU sophomore. “I mean, the campus is safe overall. It could be a lot worse. I’ve been at schools that are where the accidents happen on campus, the robberies happen on campus,” said Titus Harper, GSU senior. …Georgia Southern University released the following statement Monday:
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Shots fired at Statesboro police officers investigating armed robbery
The Statesboro Police Department is investigating an incident of armed robbery and aggravated assault against a law enforcement officer that occurred in Renaissance Apartments Sunday night. At approximately 11:00 p.m., the Statesboro Police Department received a call saying an armed robbery had just occurred at an apartment in the Renaissance Apartments on Chandler Road. Officers of the Statesboro Police Department and Georgia Southern University Police Department responded to the area and began an investigation. A description of the three suspects was given to responding officers, police spokesman Wendell Turner said. Two officers of the Georgia Southern University Police Department located the offenders in Chandler Heights Apartments and gave chase on foot. During the foot pursuit, one of the suspects fired a shot from a handgun at one of the officers. Neither of the officers sustained injuries from the gunshot. The gunshot damaged a vehicle that was parked and unoccupied, Tuner said. The suspects fled into the wooded area behind the apartment complexes. …After an extensive search of the area, two of the three suspects were taken into custody without incident, Turner said. …This case is still under investigation and no further information is being released at this time. The Statesboro Police Department would like to thank the Georgia Southern University Police Department, Georgia State Patrol, and Bulloch County Sheriff’s Office for their assistance.
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Colleges must do more to help grads find jobs. Here’s how.
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2016/09/19/8993/
Bob LaBombard is CEO of Minneapolis-based GradStaff. GradStaff helps recent college graduates discover how their transferable skills translate into the workforce and then matches them with entry-level jobs. In this piece, LaBombard addresses how both colleges and students go wrong in job searches. He stresses the role of personal networking in landing a job and says colleges and faculty often fail to make students aware of private sector jobs, steering them instead to graduate school.
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Department of Education Forgiving Loans of Some Former ITT Tech Students
The Department of Education said Monday that it would put a maximum of $500 million toward federal loan forgiveness for former ITT Technical Institute students. In the aftermath of ITT Tech’s closure on September 6, Education Secretary Ted Mitchell said that ED has received thousands of emails and calls from students seeking guidance on how to move forward with their education.
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Why College Rankings Are a Joke
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/why-college-rankings-are-a-joke.html?_r=0
Frank Bruni
Shortly before the newest U.S. News & World Report college rankings came out last week, I got a fresh glimpse of how ridiculous they can be — and of why panicked high school seniors and their status-conscious parents should not spend the next months obsessing over them. I was reporting a column on how few veterans are admitted to elite colleges and stumbled across a U.S. News sub-ranking of top schools for veterans. Its irrelevance floored me. It merely mirrored the general rankings — same institutions, same order — minus the minority of prominent schools that don’t participate in certain federal education benefits for veterans. It didn’t take into account whether there were many — or, for that matter, any — veterans on a given campus. It didn’t reflect what support for them did or didn’t exist.
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Colleges That Claim to Meet Full Financial Need
Of the 1,100 institutions that submitted financial aid data to U.S. News, 66 reported covering full need.
By Farran Powell
For most parents, paying for college isn’t easy; but some schools offer enough institutional dollars to students to offset expensive sticker prices. Many schools that report meeting the full financial need of students are private colleges and universities. For the 2015-2016 school year, only 66 colleges and universities out of 1,100 schools claimed to meet full financial need, according to data reported to U.S. News in an annual survey. The amount given in financial need is usually decided by the information that a family provides on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. On the FAFSA, families submit financial information such as income, tax data, assets and household size. From this information, a family’s estimated contribution is determined.