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4 Georgia Schools Ranked ‘Best Colleges For Your Money’
Fourteen universities in Georgia made Money magazine’s ranking of the best education values in the country.
https://patch.com/georgia/atlanta/10-georgia-schools-ranked-best-colleges-your-money?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=4c83269ad6-eGaMorning-7_12_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-4c83269ad6-71060860&mc_cid=4c83269ad6&mc_eid=ca4ca3e624
By Deb Belt
Buying a house and sending kids to college are two of the biggest spending decisions most Americans will ever make. Fortunately for Georgia families, 14 universities in the state are among the best college values in America, according to a new “Best Colleges for Your Money” ranking from Money magazine. The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is ranked No. 16, and the University of Georgia in Athens is ranked at No. 62 for best value in the country, according to the analysis of more than 700 of the nation’s best-performing colleges. A total of 711 schools nationwide made the list, including 14 from Georgia. …No. 588 Georgia College and State University; No. 634 Georgia State University; No. 667 Georgia Southern University
www.atlanta.curbed.com
Atlanta ranks third in nation for ‘green’ building standards
Ranking highlights effort by City of Atlanta to push environmentally conscious design
https://atlanta.curbed.com/2017/7/10/15944836/atlanta-green-building-standards-third-place
BY MICHAEL KAHN
Atlanta’s green tree canopy is famous, but there’s something else big and green about the city these days: our buildings. According to a new study, Atlanta is one of the most environmentally friendly cities in the country when it comes to our office buildings. In fact, out of the 30 largest office markets in the United States, Atlanta snagged the third highest spot on the list of eco-conscious office spaces… The Georgia Tech Living Building is planned to be the most environmentally friendly building in the Southeast.
www.statesboroherald.com
Georgia Southern wins $1.3 million grant to clinics
Will enable bringing nurse practitioners to clinics
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/80721/
From staff reports
A $1.3 million federal grant will allow Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing to put nurse practitioner students to work in paid trainee positions with five health care center organizations in southeastern Georgia. The Advanced Nursing Education Workforce, or ANEW, program is funded through the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ANEW supports efforts to prepare advanced-practice nursing students “to practice in rural and underserved settings through academic and clinical training,” states the program’s webpage. Specifically, this grant will pay registered nurses studying for advanced nurse-practitioner degrees at Georgia Southern to work with the five organizations, which are Federally Qualified Health Centers, during the students’ required clinical practicums.
www.news.wabe.org
Georgia Film Academy Helps Fill Industry’s Workforce Gap
http://news.wabe.org/post/georgia-film-academy-helps-fill-industry-s-workforce-gap
By MARTHA DALTON
Georgia has become a “hot spot” for film and TV production in recent years, largely due to generous state tax credits. But the state didn’t have enough workers to meet industry demands. So, in 2016, the state opened the Georgia Film Academy. The idea was to train enough crew to work on TV and movie sets. The GFA is a collaboration between Georgia’s university and technical college systems. It doesn’t award degrees. However, it offers college-level courses designed to train students in “below the line” trades, like props, painting and construction. …Some colleges teach GFA courses on campus. At others, students can take GFA classes at the school’s campus on the sprawling Pinewood Studios Atlanta lot in Fayetteville. …GFA executive director Jeff Stepakoff says those practicums take place in active production environments. “Halfway through an internship, someone will grab one of our students and say, ‘Hey, you’re really good,’” Stepakoff says. “’Let’s get you signed up, get you registered and get you actually coming to work here on Monday in my department.’ And then these former students virtually overnight disappear into the workforce.” That’s made it hard to track how many former students are now working in film and TV. Stepakoff estimates the number at 100. He’s proud of what the school has accomplished so far. About 1,000 students have taken a Georgia Film Academy class since it opened just over a year ago.
www.11alive.com
Georgia Tech student still recovering from June bike accident
http://www.11alive.com/news/local/georgia-tech-student-still-recovering-from-bike-accident/455847941
Adrianne Haney, WXIA
A Georgia Tech student remains hospitalized after he was injured in a June accident while riding his bike. On June 23, Max Germain, 22, was riding his bike near the intersection of Ferst Drive NW and Fowler Street NW when he was struck by a driver who was trying to make a left turn. Campus police responded to the scene around 11:30 that morning and cited Thomas Elliott, 66, with failure to yield and injuring a person.
www.ajc.com
Kennesaw State AD Vaughn Williams moving on to Boston College
http://www.ajc.com/sports/kennesaw-state-vaughn-williams-moving-boston-college/7ZIgWC5gVe0yos7vSvQqzN/
JuliaKate E. Culpepper The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
After six years as athletic director at Kennesaw State, Vaughn Williams is headed back to Boston College. Boston College athletic director Martin Jarmond announced that Williams accepted the role of senior associate athletic director for administration on Tuesday afternoon, approximately two weeks after his conversations with the Eagles began. …During his tenure at Kennesaw State, Williams played an essential role in the launch of the Owls’ Division I football program, the signing of a long-term apparel deal with Adidas and, most recently, striking a deal with the Atlanta Braves to host a football game in SunTrust Park in 2018. “Vaughn’s efforts on behalf of Kennesaw State University athletics have been nothing short of remarkable,” Kennesaw State President Sam Olens said in a statement. “He has been instrumental in taking the program to the next level, has been a tireless leader and booster for our coaches, our student-athletes and for the entire university. We wish him great success in his new role.”
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Should job market influence what colleges teach and how?
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/should-job-market-influence-what-colleges-teach-and-how/bJ4BQfvTQNaskriQMVUU8K/
Maureen Downey The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Should colleges warn theater or philosophy majors their field of study is unlikely to lead to a good-paying job? Should career prospects and earnings become part of discussions with students enrolling in universities and colleges, which have long resisted becoming job training programs? And should trends in the job market influence what and how colleges teach? A new study out of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce addresses the disconnect between what students study in college and what the job market wants in graduates.
www.nytimes.com
How We Are Ruining America
David Brooks
Over the past generation, members of the college-educated class have become amazingly good at making sure their children retain their privileged status. They have also become devastatingly good at making sure the children of other classes have limited chances to join their ranks. How they’ve managed to do the first task — giving their own children a leg up — is pretty obvious. It’s the pediacracy, stupid. Over the past few decades, upper-middle-class Americans have embraced behavior codes that put cultivating successful children at the center of life. As soon as they get money, they turn it into investments in their kids.
www.hechingerreport.org
Study: Potential earnings not a factor in high school students’ college choices
But researchers say wage prospects could have an impact if included with other information
Study: Potential earnings not a factor in high school students’ college choices
by ISAAC CAREY
Giving high school seniors information about their chances of finding well-paying jobs after graduating from college may have little impact on their choice of school or major, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Researchers gave students at participating high schools in Virginia access to a state-backed website called gradpathva.com, which analyzed the average wage earned by graduates and the average cost of enrollment, sorted by university and type of program.
www.washingtonpost.com
Overseas students would face close scrutiny under proposal floated at DHS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/overseas-students-would-face-close-scrutiny-under-proposal-floated-at-dhs/2017/07/10/393b5cc0-6282-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.31edf3f1e30a
By Maria Sacchetti and Devlin Barrett
Senior officials at the Department of Homeland Security are floating a proposal that would require foreign students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year, a controversial move that would create new costs and paperwork for thousands of visa holders from China, India and other nations, according to two federal officials with direct knowledge of the discussions. Officials caution that the plan is in the preliminary stages and would require regulatory changes that could take a minimum of 18 months. The plan may also require agreement from the State Department, which issues visas. The officials say the proposal seeks to enhance national security by more closely monitoring the students.
www.insidehighered.com
Money Matters
Students are more likely to graduate from colleges that cost more and spend more than others, study finds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/12/study-shows-students-more-likely-graduate-wealthier-institutions
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
Students are more likely to graduate from colleges that are more expensive and have larger budgets, a new study out of Oregon State University shows. Researchers examined the demographic and graduation data of more than 400 four-year colleges and universities from both the 2007-08 and 2014-15 academic years, relying on the federal Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The focus was on institutions that generally accepted a large majority of their applicants — 80 percent — known as broadly accessible institutions. These colleges tend to enroll a higher number of Latino students in particular, some of whom come from impoverished and inadequate educational backgrounds. Thus, it is unsurprising that their graduation rates would already be lower, the study states.
www.wsj.com
Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign
Company paid $5,000 to $400,000 for research supporting business practices that face regulatory scrutiny; a ‘wish list’ of topics.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/paying-professors-inside-googles-academic-influence-campaign-1499785286
By Brody Mullins and Jack Nicas
Google operates a little-known program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy, cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from Harvard University to the University of California, Berkeley. Over the past decade, Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance, paying stipends of $5,000 to $400,000, The Wall Street Journal found… Mr. Desai, now a law professor at Georgia Institute of Technology after leaving Google in 2012, said part of his job was to compile a list of “all the major policy academics in intellectual property so Google lobbyists could know who to follow and potentially target for papers.”
www.chronicle.com
What Victims’ Advocates and Due-Process Supporters Hope to Accomplish When They Meet DeVos
http://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Victims-Advocates-and/240606?cid=wsinglestory_6_1a
By Sarah Brown
Advocates on all sides of the debate over Title IX enforcement tend to agree on one thing: that the campus process for adjudicating sexual-violence cases should be fair to both parties. But they remain bitterly divided over the finer points of the way colleges should handle such cases, not to mention the federal guidance on how the gender-equity law applies to campus sexual assault. When advocates for victims and accused students meet separately with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday, those tensions will be front and center.