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See the Highest, Lowest Tuition in Each State
Discover which ranked public schools in each state charge residents the highest and lowest tuition and fees.
By Briana Boyington | Digital Producer
College is an expensive investment. Public schools, which are usually cheaper than private institutions, can be a great option for students who are looking for a quality school at an affordable price close to home. And while families shouldn’t make the college decision based solely on sticker price, factoring in price can help students save thousands now and avoid large sums of student debt. But the cost of attending public institutions as an in-state student varies across institutions and states. For example, the College of William and Mary in Virginia charged $18,687 in tuition and fees for the 2016-2017 school year, the highest in-state tuition out of the 516 ranked universities that reported these data to U.S. News in an annual survey. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Gordon State College in Georgia charged the least among ranked public colleges. In-state tuition and fees cost $2,632.
School name: Georgia Institute of Technology
2016-2017 in-state tuition and fees: $12,212
Rank and category: 34, National Universities
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Student held in Saudi Arabia after Trump’s travel ban returns to Georgia
Marlon A. Walker
One of two Yemen-born sisters unable to leave Saudi Arabia after President Donald Trump’s travel ban is back in the states, Georgia State University officials said Wednesday. Rakhaa Noaman, a sophomore at the school, returned to the country over the weekend.
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UNG club offers support to migrant students
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/121812/
By Hailey Van Parys
Daniela Dominguez Rodriguez found her second family. The University of North Georgia student recently moved from Mexico and decided on a whim to attend a Migrant Student Union meeting. It turned out to be a good decision, and now the group has become a close-knit, community-service driven club of about 40 members and seven board members that she can count on when times get tough. “It’s hard to be far away from home,” she said. …The club is designed to be an extension of the College Assistance Migrant Program, which supports first-year students with financial aid, as well as academic and social support, according to www.migrantstudents.org. …The Migrant Student Union’s primary goal is to prepare its members to be leaders in their community.
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Middle Georgia State University wins grant to reduce textbook costs for students
Yvonne Thomas, WMAZ
According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, college textbook prices increased by 82% from 2002 to 2012. Now hundreds of students at Middle Georgia State University could get a break on textbook costs for the next school year. Yvonne Thomas spoke to students and professors at MGA’s school of Education about the savings. … According to College Board trends, students at a four-year public school spent $1,250 on textbooks and supplies during the 2016 to 2017 school year. But Professor Loleta Sartis says MGA’s goal is to make learning affordable. “Not only do we give students the resources, but we insure that we remove barriers for student’s success by giving them affordable resources so that they can attain the information that they need,” said Sartis. MGA won a $25,000 grant from Affordable Learning Georgia to give more than 400 students more digital tools and cut down on textbook costs. …Professors say education majors at Middle Georgia State University will save more than $300 on textbooks for the school year due to the grant. The program starts in summer 2017.
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GEORGIA STATE RESEARCHER AWARDED NIH GRANT TO EXPLORE PAIN MANAGEMENT THERAPIES FOR ELDERLY
Dr. Anne Murphy, a biologist of Georgia State University, has received a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to investigate pain management therapies for people aged 65 or older. As associate professor and associate director of the Neuroscience Institute, Dr. Murphy studies the impact of sex and age on pain and opiate responsiveness as well as the impact of early-life experience on adult responses to pain and stress. …The award will allow the Murphy Lab in the Neuroscience Institute to perform studies and provide novel and critical data on the impact of age on opiate effectiveness, and will stimulate therapies for the management of pain in elderly people.
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Women’s initiative at UGA’s Terry College recognized as an innovator in business education
A women’s initiative for students in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business was commended as an “innovation that inspires” by AACSB International, the largest business education network and accrediting organization in the world. AACSB’s Innovations That Inspire showcased 35 ways that business schools globally are empowering future business leaders and challenging the status quo to address societal needs. The objective of the Terry College’s women’s initiative, established two years ago, is to support the recruitment, retention and advancement of students in the business school by providing a range of resources and experiences that inspire confidence and advance their academic and professional goals. AACSB International honored its second annual class of innovators at its 2017 Deans Conference on Feb. 6. A total of 315 submissions from 33 countries were under consideration.
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UGA Skidaway Institute research paper to be spotlighted
By Mike Sullivan
A research paper by University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography scientist Aron Stubbins has been selected by the Journal of Geophysical Research–-Biogeosciences to be featured as a Research Spotlight on the journal’s website and in the magazine Eos. Research Spotlights summarize the best accepted articles for the Earth and space science community. Stubbins’s paper, titled “Low photolability of yedoma permafrost dissolved organic carbon,” followed-up on earlier research into a massive store of carbon — relics of long-dead plants and other living things — preserved within ancient Arctic permafrost. That research showed the long-frozen permafrost is thawing, and the organic material it has preserved for tens of thousands of years is now entering the environment as dissolved organic matter in streams and rivers. Bacteria are converting the organic material into carbon dioxide, which is being released into the atmosphere. The current paper examines the effect of sunlight on the dissolved carbon compounds. The researchers discovered that sunlight changes the chemistry of the permafrost carbon, however, sunlight alone does not convert the permafrost carbon to carbon dioxide. The researchers concluded the decomposition of organic materials via bacteria is mostly likely the key process for converting permafrost carbon within rivers into carbon dioxide.
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CCGA enters partnership with Caribbean college
By LAUREN MCDONALD
College of Coastal Georgia recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Anguilla Community College, located in the Caribbean Islands, in a move that CCGA administrators hope will promote international education opportunities for its students, faculty and staff. The memorandum, signed Feb. 3, aims to promote cooperation in the exchange of students, faculty and staff for both schools. Tracy Pellett, provost and vice president of academic affairs at CCGA, and James Lynch, the interim director of international education and director of institutional effectiveness, visited Anguilla this month to meet with government and education officials and to sign the MoU.
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Georgia Filmmaking in the South: Top Film Executives Reveal Benefits at Sundance 2017
Monarch Private Capital opens the door for discussion on the Georgia Film Industry in Utah
When Governor Nathan Deal announced in August that his administration planned “constructing a strong, film-ready workforce that will continue to help the industry thrive,” it would cement the state’s position as a film and television production powerhouse. With an economic impact and direct spending tallied in the billions of dollars, companies that have helped skyrocket Georgia to the number three position for film production, continue to work behind the scenes educating professionals in the industry about the benefits of filming in the state. Monarch Private Capital, along with Autumn Bailey Productions, Liquid Soul Media, Paste Magazine and Atlanta Film Society hosted a reception and panel discussion during this year’s Sundance Film Festival. CHOOSE: Georgia- Filmmaking in the South, was moderated by Chrissie Merrill, Director of Film Finance for Monarch Private Capital and featured a diverse panel of industry insiders with ties to Georgia’s film industry.
Jeffrey Stepakoff, Executive Director of Georgia Film Academy – …The Pinewood Studio Group is one of the leading providers of studio and related services to the worldwide film and television industries with locations around the world including Georgia. Pinewood Atlanta is currently undergoing a major expansion that will make it the largest purpose-built studio complex in the U.S. outside of Hollywood, California.
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Will campus rape bill increase risks to student safety?
Maureen Downey The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Will a bill restricting the ability of Georgia’s public campuses to investigate sexual assaults cause fewer victims to come forward and raise the risk of more assaults? Those are some of the concerns about state Rep. Earl Ehrhart’s campus rape bill. House Bill 51 limits the ability of Georgia’s public colleges to investigate and punish those accused of rape on campus. Despite testimony by sexual assault victims that the legislation would endanger them and others, a House panel passed it unanimously last week.
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Georgia State University Student Shot At Off-Campus Apartment
http://coed.com/2017/02/08/georgia-state-university-student-shot-off-campus-apartment/
Toby Hasty
Police are currently investigating a shooting that took place at an apartment complex just off of Georgia State University’s campus. ONE 12 Courtland Apartments is located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, and the facility only houses students. The complex has 24-hour security, but it sure doesn’t seem like the security is good enough, as a Georgia State student was shot there on Tuesday. In a terrifying scene, a 20-year-old man was shot in the arm, and he went door-to-door screaming for help. Here’s WSB-TV with more information on the shooting. Investigators said the student who was shot is in good condition and did not live in the apartment building. Detectives said when the incident happened, the victim was inside a unit with eight other friends. But those people made a run for it.
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UGA student robbed and assaulted in apartment near downtown Athens
By Joe Johnson
A University of Georgia student Tuesday night reportedly was assaulted and robbed inside her apartment on the fringe of downtown Athens by a man who was running from the police. The student and a roommate were on a couch watching TV at Whistlebury Condominiums at about 10 p.m. when 22-year-old Randy Lee Daniel barged into the home and demanded a phone, according to an Athens-Clarke County police report obtained Wednesday by the Athens Banner-Herald. Claiming to have a gun, Daniel allegedly grabbed a phone from the hand of one of the residents, a 20-year-old UGA student who Daniel reportedly punched in the head and mouth in a struggle that ensued. When officers arrived on the scene, they saw the student who was robbed and assaulted was covered with mud from the altercation that took place outside the apartment’s back door. Police said the student had swelling over one of her eyes where Daniel punched her. While police were searching for the suspect, they received a call about a suspicious person on Foundry Street. It turned out to be Daniel who tried to run from officers but they chased after and used a Taser to subdue him.
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UGA students found in SUV with “large amount” of pot
http://onlineathens.com/blotter/2017-02-08/uga-students-found-suv-large-amount-pot
By Joe Johnson
Two University of Georgia students were arrested Friday afternoon after they were found in a parked SUV from which the odor of pot smoking could be detected, UGA police said. An officer was on patrol when he saw the SUV at the end of Hall Street, an area where he had previously made arrests for drug activity. When the driver noticed the officer, a panicked look came over her face, according to police. Based on her reaction and the location of her vehicle, the officer surmised “there to be criminal activity afoot,” police said. When 18-year-old Emma Catherine Hare rolled down the driver’s side window, the officer smelled the odor of burnt marijuana and proceeded to search the vehicle, finding a “large amount” of pot in the center console, more marijuana in a glass jar, a marijuana grinder, pipes and other paraphernalia, according to police. Hare and her passenger, Andrew Allen Taylor, also 18, were each charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug-related objects.
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Grad Schools Remain a Global Draw
Report from the Council of Graduate Schools shows international graduate student applications and enrollments continue to grow, but the rate is slower than in recent years.
By Emily Tate
More international students continue to apply to and enroll in U.S. graduate institutions, though not at the rapid pace seen in recent years, according to a report released Thursday by the Council of Graduate Schools. Application and enrollment rates did increase, but the rates of growth have slowed from last year — down to 1 percent (from 3 percent in 2015) for applications and remaining constant at 5 percent for enrollment. Although the 5 percent enrollment growth rate is the same as 2015, both are down from the two previous cycles, which saw rates of growth of 10 percent in 2013 and 8 percent in 2014.
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Big 12 Conference Withholds Funds From Baylor U. Over Title IX Scandal
by Alex Arriaga
The Big 12 Conference will withhold 25 percent of future revenue distributions from Baylor University “until the proper execution of controls” over its scandal-plagued athletics program “is independently verified.” “The proportional withholding of revenue distribution payments will be in effect until the board has determined that Baylor is in compliance with conference bylaws and regulations as well as all components of Title IX,” David L. Boren, president of the University of Oklahoma and chairman of the conference’s Board of Directors, announced on the Big 12 website after the board voted unanimously in favor of the withholding policy. …David E. Garland, Baylor’s interim president, said in a written statement that the university already had plans to hire an outside auditor to examine the results of the new practices, and welcomed the conference’s move.