University System News:
www.ajc.com
Georgia officials considering changes to college sexual misconduct policy
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-officials-considering-changes-college-sexual-misconduct-policy/oZjpxFYOC1Sb3Xiz0TDd3M/
Eric Stirgus
University System of Georgia officials are looking into making changes to how it investigates sexual misconduct on its campuses and may approve new guidelines next month, officials told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Friday. The AJC obtained a draft policy that explains, for example, how the USG’s Director for Equity and Investigations would assign an investigator to review misconduct allegations. The system director would have the discretion to retain oversight or transfer oversight to the particular campus where the alleged misconduct took place.
www.myajc.com
Kennesaw State to adopt competitive admissions process for fall 2018
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/kennesaw-state-adopt-competitive-admissions-process-for-fall-2018/Usnge66X1Aw6hvRY0IM8HO/
By Lindsey Conway – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For high school seniors looking to attend Kennesaw State University in fall 2018, it’s going to be harder to get in. Meeting the minimum requirements will no longer guarantee a spot at the university. This is a change that comes with KSU’s new competitive admissions process for freshmen and transfer freshmen, announced this summer. In this new process, some anxious students will receive their college decision early, some a little later. Others will be denied, and, for the first time at KSU, a few might be placed on the dreaded wait list. Students applying to KSU for fall 2018 can choose to apply through a non-binding, early action application or through a regular decision application, a process used by most competitive universities in the state. KSU President Sam Olens said this decision was made with students in mind.
www.accesswdun.com
University of North Georgia to host ‘topping out’ ceremony for new Convocation Center
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/7/561643/university-of-north-georgia-to-host-topping-out-ceremony-for-new-convocation-center
By AccessWDUN staff
A “topping out” ceremony will be held Tuesday for the University of Georgia’s new Convocation Center. The final piece of steel for the 103,000-square-foot complex is about to be set at the maximum height of the facility. The new building will serve multiple uses, including academic courses, physical training activities, and university events such as commencement ceremonies, athletic events and meetings. The center also will house faculty offices, labs, classrooms and multiuse areas. It is being built in the southwest zone of the Dahlonega campus off Morrison Moore Parkway.
www.vietnamnews.vn
No odds too great for an ‘Unsung Hero’
http://vietnamnews.vn/sunday/features/380523/no-odds-too-great-for-an-unsung-hero.html#PUroEESZIRIXlBcz.97
A Vietnamese boy who could barely walk or speak because of cerebral palsy gets two degrees at a US university and looks forward to new challenges, Phan Dương and Lương Hương report. Graduation Day is special for all students, but the applause was particularly prolonged and resounding as Trần Mạnh Chánh Quân’s name was announced at the ceremony held at Georgia Gwinnett College in May this year. The special applause for Quân was not just that he was getting two degrees, one in IT and another in mathematics, but that the wheel-chair bound student was also suffered from cerebral palsy, a condition caused by brain damage that affects body movement, muscle control and co-ordination, reflex, posture and balance.
www.savannahnow.com
Georgia Tech-Savannah graduates its first Coding Boot Camp
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-07-21/georgia-tech-savannah-graduates-its-first-coding-boot-camp
By Katie Nussbaum
The internet is the best, and sometimes only, link to fundamental information and networks, but code is the power to unlock it all. As web design and development move to the forefront in today’s economy, Georgia Tech-Savannah this week graduated its first Coding Boot Camp. The intense six-month program teaches the fundamentals of coding and web development. “I have never seen code before, and I definitely feel like I got a lot out of this boot camp,” graduate Laurie Zipperer said. While other courses are a great way to get a feel for coding, the Georgia Tech program offers students more one-on-one time with instructors for mock interviews, career coaching, sample coding tests and career events; those experiences, Zipperer said, were crucial.
www.savannahnow.com
Owens: Local tourism education programs could keep talent here
http://savannahnow.com/2017-07-21/owens-local-tourism-education-programs-could-keep-talent-here
By MICHAEL OWENS
The Tourism Leadership Council supports the pursuit of education with annual scholarships to those who are studying hospitality and tourism. Last year, the TLC awarded a scholarship to Brandon Brooker,who was a senior at Groves High School. He had been working part-time at restaurants in town. He looked around and thought, this doesn’t have to be just a part-time job, and this can be a lucrative career. He was accepted to Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island, to pursue a bachelor’s degree in hotel management. When he applied for the scholarship, his goal was to be a general manager of a prestigious hotel. He was smart, capable, hard-working, determined, and had the grades to match. But another city tried to lure him away. So, what if we had a university in Savannah that could recruit, educate, and retain students like Brooker ? What if Georgia Southern brought its tourism program to the Armstrong campus? GSU has a tourism program currently in Statesboro, housed under the School of Human Ecology. But what if that program were to be revamped and offered as a business degree at the Armstrong campus? I spoke with Trip Addison, Georgia Southern University’s vice president of external relations, who brainstormed with me the possibility. He spoke of a scenario where the tourism and hospitality students were educated like those in the education program to have practicum courses that would give students real-world experience. Those real-world experiences are in Savannah, not in Statesboro. Addison added that 46 percent of Georgia Southern students are from metro Atlanta. Because the opportunities in Statesboro are limited, most of that educated talent goes back to Atlanta. But, imagine if we could recruit them to come find a career path in Savannah?
www.cnbc.com
Universities, hoping to sway millennials, are now opening innovation hubs for undergraduates
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/20/universities-hoping-to-sway-millennials-are-now-opening-innovation-hubs-for-undergraduates.html
A few years ago, Raghupathy Sivakumar, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, realized he had a problem. An undergraduate student had just won a prestigious business plan competition Sivakumar had helped organize, but the student had no idea how to advance his idea from concept to product, a major roadblock for most undergraduates. So, in 2014, Sivakumar was tapped to start CREATE-X, an umbrella of entrepreneurial support programs catered specifically to Georgia Tech undergraduates … Sivakumar’s experience is part of a trend in which schools are crafting entrepreneurial programs with an eye toward undergrads. As colleges look to keep pace with a competitive job market being shaped by automation and globalization, many are opening entrepreneur centers designed to entice millennials.
www.globalatlanta.com
French Investment Sustains Nearly 18,000 Georgia Jobs
Trevor Williams
French companies in Georgia employ nearly 18,000 people through their investments, according to data compiled in May and released recently by the French Embassy in Washington. The economic department at the embassy mixed U.S. government stats and corporate data into a state-by-state analysis of the French “economic footprint” in the U.S. The effort seems aimed at bringing home the vitality of the bilateral relationship for state and local leaders. Among the findings: French companies have a stock of $251 billion in the United States, supporting more than 590,600 jobs overall as America’s fifth largest foreign investor. The bilateral trade relationship totals more than $100 billion … That fact weighs heavily on programming for France-Atlanta, a two-week series of events launched at Georgia Tech eight years ago.
www.macon.com
Middle Georgia State inducts first members into IT honor society
http://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article162880568.html
By Andrea Honaker
The international honor society for information technology and information systems now has a chapter at Middle Georgia State University. The school inducted its first members into Alpha Iota Mu in May. The organization was started at Indiana State University in 1996. Georgia Southern University has the state’s only other chapter.
Higher Education News:
www.insidehighere.com
State Funding Cuts Matter
For every $1,000 cut from per-student state and local appropriations, the average student can be expected to pay $257 more per year in tuition and fees — and the rate is rising.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/24/new-study-attempts-show-how-much-state-funding-cuts-push-tuition
By Rick Seltzer
Have public funding cuts caused colleges and universities to raise tuition? It’s a deceptively simple question. And it’s caused two different camps to dig in, look at similar data and yell past each other with very different answers. On one side, typically inhabited by left-wing thinkers, is the camp that believes tuition has gone up over time because colleges have been starved by state and local funding cuts to higher education. On the other side, right-wing analysts often argue that the long-term decline in state funding — so-called state disinvestment — has little to no effect on tuition. Instead, they say, college tuition has gone up for other reasons, like meeting rising labor costs or feeding spending urges … New research in the journal Economics of Education Review finds the appropriation-cut-to-tuition pass-through rate has averaged 25.7 percent since 1987. In other words, for every $1,000 cut from per-student state and local appropriations, the average student can be expected to pay $257 more per year in tuition and fees.
www.diverseeducation.com
New York Gets 75,000 Applications for Free Tuition Program
http://diverseeducation.com/article/99322/?utm_campaign=DIV1707%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20JUL24&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Associated Press
BUFFALO, N.Y. — About 75,000 people who applied for New York’s first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. “It feels absolutely terrific,” Binghamton University student Natan Nassir, of Great Neck, said after learning Thursday that the state will pick up his tab for any tuition not covered by other financial aid. New York set aside $87 million for the Excelsior Scholarship program for the first year after projecting about 23,000 people would qualify. Although more than three times that number had applied before Friday’s application deadline, state officials stood by the initial estimate, saying many who applied would not qualify for or accept an award. “The fact that New York has received more than 75,000 applications demonstrates the critical need for the Excelsior Scholarship and the widespread enthusiasm of students across the state,” said Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who proposed the program. “We look forward to enabling more New Yorkers to attend our public colleges this fall without the crushing burden of student debt weighing them down.”
www.wsj.com
Second Coding Boot Camp Plans to Close as Industry Retrenches
Both schools had backers but struggled to sustain growth
https://www.wsj.com/articles/second-coding-boot-camp-plans-to-close-as-industry-retrenches-1500652219
By Melissa Korn
Two high-profile coding boot camps have announced plans to close in as many weeks, signaling a shakeout in the fast-growing market that aims to turn liberal-arts graduates and others into entry-level computer programmers. The Iron Yard, a coding boot camp backed by funding from the parent company of University of Phoenix, said Thursday it will shutter after teaching its current cohort of students. Kaplan Inc.-owned Dev Bootcamp said last week that it plans to shut down in December. For-profit education companies and investors poured funds into coding programs in recent years as they sought a foothold in the ballooning demand for a computer-savvy workforce. But the market may have grown too fast, some industry analysts say.