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UGA Shines as a Fulbright ‘Top Producer’
TREVOR WILLIAMS
The University of Georgia was one of few universities in the country that excelled in both sending American students and hosting foreign scholars as part of the Fulbright program, a U.S. government scholarship fund focusing on cross-border studies. With six faculty members overall, UGA was the only institution in the state to send faculty abroad on Fulbright grants to teach or to research various topics. Nationally, the university ranked sixth on that front, tied with many other schools that hosted the same number. As for Fulbright students, Americans who go abroad, UGA had 13, edging out Emory University’s 11 for tops in Georgia and tied for 13th nationally with a few other institutions.
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University of North Georgia wins NCAA Award of Excellence
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The University of North Georgia won the 2017 NCAA Division II Award of Excellence, an annual accolade recognizing positive campus and community engagement events. UNG was selected as one of 25 national finalists for its Operation Nighthawks of Honor initiative, …The initiative enables each of the university’s sports teams to annually celebrate men and women of the military, paying specific tribute to service members who have a distinct connection to UNG.
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KSU’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Global Ed Program Wins Prestigious National Innovation Award
KSU’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Global Ed Program Wins Prestigious National Innovation Award
PHIL BOLTON
Originally conceived to broaden its study abroad and student exchange curriculum, Kennesaw State University’s “Around the World in 80 Days” was honored Feb. 28 in Washington by the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) with its 2017 Innovation Award. The Duke University-based association recognized the KSU program for “effectiveness” and for the connections it established among different academic disciplines. It also was honored for providing a model for administrative and management support for global learning. Eleven students traveled to four countries during last year’s fall semester beginning with introductory coursework followed by stays in Italy, Morocco, Australia and Cuba in four segments of 21 days. The program culminated with re-entry classes and final exams.
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ASU reaches out to non-traditional students
http://www.walb.com/story/34913450/asu-reaches-out-to-nontraditional-students
By Mike Fussell, Reporter
Albany State University is reaching out to increase enrollment of non-traditional students. The university held an open house to teach the community about resources for students, who may be older or transitioning from the military. Program leaders said they are trying to keep up with growing industry demands for college degrees. Stefane Raulerson, the Director of Military and Adult Education, said she’s available to walk students through the process of applying step-by-step.
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Georgia Southern student helps uncover Savannah’s Irish-American heritage
http://savannahnow.com/news/st-patricks-day/2017-03-15/georgia-southern-student-helps-uncover-savannah-s-irish-american
By Crissie Elrick Bath
When Sarah Ryniker discovered a stack of handwritten letters, dated 1850 and penned by the late Richard Joseph Nunn, she could barely contain her excitement. Sitting in the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin, she thumbed through the letters, many of which hadn’t been touched since they were originally opened, soaking up every word and learning how this man from the county of Wexford, Ireland, came to Savannah. In the letters, Ryniker found that Nunn, an Irish immigrant who is credited for major public sanitation reform in and beyond Savannah, wrote to the Wexford-based Graves Shipping Company claiming to have the skills of a doctor and asserting, if granted passage to Savannah, he would be able to provide care for passengers on the ship. In other letters, she found additional exchanges between the shipping company and Nunn, and learned that Nunn was only 18 at the time he came to Savannah. Ryniker knew how much of an impact Nunn made in Savannah as an Irish-American, but she was always curious as to how he made his way across the Atlantic. …Howard Keeley, Ph.D., director of the Center for Irish Research and Teaching at Georgia Southern, has helped mentor Ryniker throughout her research, which has been made possible through the Wexford-Savannah Axis Partnership. The partnership, now in its fourth year, is a joint program through CIRT and the University Honors Program in which undergraduate students research archives in Savannah and in Wexford County, Ireland. These discoveries about Nunn just skim the surface of Ryniker’s research throughout her time as a student at Georgia Southern. The soon-to-be Double Eagle will graduate in May with a master’s degree in social science, and she will leave quite an impact with the research she has completed, which she began as an undergraduate student. Ryniker was part of the first group of undergraduate students to travel to Wexford County, Ireland, with CIRT and the Honors Program to participate in primary-source research, such as sorting through untouched letters and other documents in archives.
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Georgia State CIBER Competition Plumbs Issues Surrounding Nestle China Venture
Georgia State CIBER Competition Plumbs Issues Surrounding Nestle China Venture
PHIL BOLTON
Whether the global giant Nestle should buy the remaining 20 percent of shares it didn’t own of a Chinese chicken bouillon manufacturing company was a question that made 10 college teams wrestle with a variety of international business issues in the 2017 Georgia State University-CIBER International Business Case Competition March 2-3. The winning team composed of students from Georgia State and Savannah State universities, and the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., and Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, N.C., concluded that the partnership should be maintained due to its past success in the Chinese market and as a means of remaining culturally relevant in China upon which they claimed the bouillon company’s success was based. …The other universities represented in the competition were Alabama A&M University in Normal, Ala., Albany State University in Albany, Ga., …The International Business Case Competition is funded by the U.S. Education Department with a goal of enhancing U.S. competitiveness in the global market. The competition not only allows students to work together in teams, but also prepares them to enter the global job market.
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Marietta’s Andrew Abernathy earns honors as University of North Georgia wins rifle championship in Charleston
http://www.mdjonline.com/news/education/marietta-s-andre-abernathy-earns-honors-as-university-of-north/article_09ac9fae-0905-11e7-94a9-5fc01487da25.html
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The University of North Georgia claimed the 2017 Southern Conference Rifle Championship on March 5 in Charleston, South Carolina, the first time a conference champion has been crowned since 1985. UNG turned in an aggregate team score of 4,564 — 51 points higher than second-place finisher Virginia Military Institute — after competitions in air rifle and smallbore at the Citadel’s Inouye Marksmanship Center. Andrew Abernathy of Marietta was among UNG Rifle Team members earning individual honors. Abernathy, a senior who placed second in the individual air rifle competition, was named to the All Conference Teams in both air rifle and smallbore — one of only two student-athletes at the meet to achieve that distinction.
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Top CCGA administrator accepts president position at Glenville State College
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By LAUREN MCDONALD
One of College of Coastal Georgia’s top administrators will be leaving at the end of this academic year to take over as president of Glenville State College. Coastal announced Wednesday that Tracy Pellett, provost and vice president for academic affairs, will begin at Glenville State on July 1. Pellett joined the CCGA administration in March of 2015, and he also previously served as the vice president for advancement during part of the 2015-2016 academic year. “Dr. Pellett has inspired much growth in a short amount of time and has lived up to his promise to set Coastal Georgia swiftly on a new path of educational innovation,” said CCGA President Greg Aloia. “His leadership and oversight will surely be missed on our campus but we have full confidence that he will continue to be a strong voice for the students at Glenville.” …Pellett will serve as the 24th president of Glenville State College, located in Glenville, W. Va.
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Trump Seeks Deep Cuts in Education and Science
Proposals would keep Pell level, but cut work-study and TRIO and eliminate SEOG. In science, president would make massive cuts to NIH and research at Energy Department. And budget formally seeks to kill NEH and AmeriCorps.
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By Scott Jaschik
The Trump administration today unveiled its “America First” budget — a plan that would make deep cuts to some student aid programs and science agencies on which colleges, their students and their researchers depend. In the U.S. Department of Education, the budget pledges level funding for Pell Grants, the primary federal program to support low-income students. Funding for historically black colleges and other minority-serving institutions would remain at current levels under the budget. The Trump administration has pledged to provide help for historically black colleges, and some leaders of HBCUs have been hoping for increases. But the budget plan says work-study would be cut “significantly.” Further, the administration is calling for the elimination of the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, which go to low-income college students. Eliminating the program will “reduce complexity,” the budget proposal says, and produce $732 million in savings. In addition, the administration wants to eliminate GEAR-UP and reduce funding for TRIO programs, which prepare disadvantaged students for college and help them succeed once enrolled. Some programs are slated for complete elimination, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Community and Public Service, which runs AmeriCorps.