USG eclips for April 14, 2017

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Kennesaw State executive MBA program ranked No. 1 in Ga., 9th in world
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/kennesaw-state-executive-mba-program-ranked-9th-world/6EZFqi0Km54HWApE2Y32FN/
Ben Brasch  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kennesaw State University is about its business.
The school’s Executive MBA program was listed as the top in Georgia and the ninth best in the world, according to a Wednesday KSU news release. This is the first year CEO Magazine has numerically ranked the programs, which cater to those working full-time who still want to earn a master of business administration. Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business and Mercer University-Atlanta’s Stetson School of Business and Economics both tied for 22 on the worldwide list. Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business came in at 37. According to GSU, the publication looks at faculty quality, international diversity, class size, accreditation, faculty-to-student ratio, cost, international exposure, work experience, professional development, gender parity and delivery methods. This is the third year the KSU Coles College of Business’ EMBA was recognized by the magazine.

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UGA law team wins national mock trial tournament
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-13/uga-law-team-wins-national-mock-trial-tournament?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=ac01246919-eGaMorning-4_14_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-ac01246919-86731974
By Heidi M. Murphy
The University of Georgia School of Law has won the sixth annual South Texas Mock Trial Challenge, an invitation-only national advocacy tournament. Third-year law students Jacob S. “Jake” Edwards and Christopher D. “Chris” Stokes argued the case. Second-year law students Oliver R. Ladd and Lauren E. Lutton served as witnesses. Third-year student Andrew Z.R. Smith was their student coach. Undefeated in the tournament, UGA also won an award for the top trial brief, and Stokes was named “Most Professional Advocate.”

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UGA Law School Teams Win Two National Negotiation Competitions
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The University of Georgia School of Law recently won top honors in two national negotiation competitions. Third-year student Benjamin M. “Ben” Hill and second-year student Steven D. Zavodnick Jr. were named national champions at the Transactional LawMeet in New York. A second law school team comprised of third-year students Molly H. Cash and Hannah R. Coleman also competed at the event. Both teams represented the buyer in a complex asset purchase transaction. The two teams earned their spots at the national competition after winning regional LawMeet rounds in Dallas and Denver, respectively. Law school graduates Robert C. Davis, Amanda R. Norcross and Rhys T. Wilson helped the teams prepare. Clinical Professor and Business Law and Ethics Program Director Carol Morgan serves as the adviser to the law school’s negotiation team.

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UGA STUDENTS THANK DONORS
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President Jere W. Morehead joined a record-breaking number of students at Thank a Donor Day on Thursday to show their appreciation for UGA donors. For the past six years, this campus-wide tradition has celebrated the impact of private donations. Participants wrote more than 750 personal notes of gratitude. For a third consecutive year, the University of Georgia has set a record in fundraising, bringing in $183.8 million in new gifts and commitments during fiscal year 2016. This year’s historic total represents a 28 percent increase over the previous year’s record of $144.2 million.

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Columbus State University hosts Tower Day
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/35147896/columbus-state-university-hosts-tower-day
By J.T. Fellows, Digital Content Producer
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Columbus State University hosted Tower Day on Thursday, an annual celebration of undergraduate research and creative endeavors. The event, open to all undergraduate students representing all disciplines, is part of Columbus State University’s Celebration of Academic Excellence. This year’s Tower Day included real world problem-solving student sessions and research presentations.

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CCGA students spend semester tutoring at Goodyear
http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/ccga-students-spend-semester-tutoring-at-goodyear/article_efee06ef-9266-550a-aa4a-fe9ee385dcfc.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
…Burton is among a group of CCGA middle-grade education majors who have spent the past 12 weeks tutoring fifth graders at Goodyear. Their professor, Ron Reigner, said they work individually with the students to improve their literacy skills. They help the fifth-graders with reading comprehension, vocabulary development and fluency. “The two things that are most improved in the group, semester after semester, is the fluency piece,” Reigner said. “The other thing is the affective dimensions of teaching, which is motivation, attitudes and self efficacy — how they feel about themselves as readers. Their confidence level goes up.” This is the third year of CCGA’s partnership with Goodyear for the tutoring program, Reigner said, and it has benefited both the college and the elementary students. The college students are all seniors who will be graduating next month and beginning careers as teachers. This experience provides them crucial training before running their own classrooms, Reigner said.

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Destination Dawgs: Education program for students with disabilities at UGA finds success in first semester
http://www.redandblack.com/athensnews/destination-dawgs-education-program-for-students-with-disabilities-at-uga/article_5ed654b8-1fce-11e7-969a-a73084e3c4d4.html?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=ac01246919-eGaMorning-4_14_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-ac01246919-86731974
Charlotte Norsworthy | News Editor
Justin Mejias and Britta Clark started their Monday on April 10 with yoga and a double chocolate chip frappuccino. “We have to go to Starbucks,” Mejias and Clark said in unison. Mejias and Clark are two of the first five students to be admitted to the inaugural Destination Dawgs program, a five-semester inclusive post-secondary program open to young adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities. The remaining three students include Chris Garrison, Jordan Huffman and Katie Merritt. Upon completion of the program, the students will graduate with a certificate from the UGA Center on Continuing Education in college and career readiness. However, until then, the students are taking classes, attending wellness seminars and learning about what it takes to be a bulldog with peer mentors.

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Georgia Tech students invent ‘CPR for dummies’ device
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/health/fox-medical-team/248189617-story
By: Beth Galvin
Standing on the field at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium in Midtown Atlanta, Ryan Williams and his friends can envision a very scary scenario. It’s game day, the stadium is packed, and right next to you, someone collapses. There’s no help in sight. What do you do? Williams, a fifth-year computer engineering student at Tech, knows the answer, because he trained in CPR as a lifeguard, back in home in Las Vegas. “So, I’ve actually performed CPR once, live,” Williams says. “And I’ve assisted in a couple of other emergency situations.” Williams says none of the individual steps involved in CPR is difficult. “But, putting them all together and remembering them, when someone’s life is on the line, that’s when it becomes really hard,” he says. “Even more, we would have lifeguards and all they do is train. And then they get to a situation, and someone is dying, and then, all of a sudden everything is gone. They forget everything they know.” That’s where a new device called “CPR +” comes in.

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Turner Field Protests Continue Over Redevelopment Plans
http://news.wabe.org/post/turner-field-protests-continue-over-redevelopment-plans
By MOLLY SAMUEL
The Atlanta Braves play their first regular season game in their new home at SunTrust Park on Friday. Meanwhile, a group of protesters has taken up residence in tents outside the Braves’ old home at Turner Field. They’re demanding a legal agreement from Georgia State University and the developer working on renovating the stadium and redeveloping its surroundings. That’s as other neighborhood organizations are sitting down at the table to work with the school and the developers on their plans. …The activists want Georgia State and the developer, a company called Carter, to sign a “community benefits agreement.” Georgia State President Mark Becker has said that’s not going to happen, partially because state law prohibits some of the terms, like cash payments. “However, we are working with representatives of the neighborhood associations for Grant Park, Mechanicsville, Peoplestown, and Summerhill,” he said in a video interview produced by the university.

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Opinion: Crime data show Georgia college students, faculty, and staff don’t need guns.
Opinion: Crime data show Georgia college students, faculty, and staff don’t need guns.
Will he or won’t he? That’s the question thousands of parents, Georgia college students and professors are wondering as Gov. Nathan Deal has 27 days left to veto the campus carry bill. House Bill 280 would allow anyone with a concealed weapons permit to carry firearms on public college and university campuses, with exceptions that include dormitories, fraternity and sorority houses, and buildings used for athletic events. On-campus child care centers would also be excluded, as would areas on some college campuses where high school students attend class. Unclear is where Georgia college students who live on campus would store guns since firearms are not allowed in dorms. …University of North Georgia professor Matthew Boedy, who has emerged the most research-driven voice against guns on campus, hopes to give the governor more reason to veto the bill with his latest investigation into whether campus carry has enhanced student safety elsewhere. By Matthew Boedy

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What Is the Future of College Marketing?
The “typical” American college student is changing. Is Big Data equipped to keep up?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/04/what-is-the-future-of-college-marketing/522813/
JEFFREY SELINGO
The world of college admissions is bound by traditions: the calendar of deadlines throughout the fall and spring, the college fairs and campus tours, and the academic measures used to admit students, such as high-school grades and SAT and ACT scores. If anything has changed, it is the increasing role of technology. It has allowed students to easily and quickly apply online to multiple colleges, as well as take virtual tours of campuses from the comfort of their living rooms. For colleges, technology has been a double-edged sword. While they reach more prospective students than ever before, the deluge of applications that have come as a result has taxed admissions offices and made it difficult to distinguish the serious from the casual applicants.