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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
College daze: Georgia Tech honors grad shares secrets to maintaining grades & sanity
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/17/college-daze-georgia-tech-honors-grad-shares-secrets-to-maintaining-grades-sanity/
William Konop began tutoring teens for the ACT and SAT while he was still an undergraduate at Georgia Tech. A recent graduate, Konop co-founded of the Seneca Education Group, a tutoring company based out of Alpharetta. A highly requested tutor who began writing math curriculum while still in college, Konop graduated Tech with highest honors in pure mathematics. He now applies statistics and data analysis and a cognitive psychology approach to test prep at his company. In this piece, he shares his approach to conquering exams in high-pressure learning environments like Georgia Tech.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
Committee hearing at AU discusses increasing healthcare role of advanced practice nurses
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-10-16/committee-hearing-au-discusses-increasing-healthcare-role-advanced-practice-nurses
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
With a lack of health care providers in Georgia, the state could increase access by turning out more advanced practice nurses and using them in more innovative ways, a Georgia Senate Study Committee heard Monday. But the state’s physician association is still strongly opposed to nurses doing more, a resistance that may finally be overcome in the next legislative session, a key state senator said. The Senate Study Committee on Barriers to Georgians’ Access to Adequate Healthcare held a session at Augusta University to hear about the role of advanced practice nurses in the state in meeting many of those gaps of care and where more could be done. The meeting was packed with students from the AU College of Nursing, many of whom may go on to get advanced degrees and board certifications that could allow them to provider greater levels of care.

www.onlineathens.com
Public health in Georgia focus of UGA conference
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-10-16/public-health-georgia-focus-uga-conference?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=fc7e8a8000-eGaMorning-10_17_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-fc7e8a8000-86731974&mc_cid=fc7e8a8000&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Alexia Ridley WUGA
Hundreds of attendees are expected to take part in the day-long conference on Tuesday at the University of Georgia aimed at bringing together public health representatives, researchers, and others from across the state to address complicated problems including opioid addiction, health equity, and rural health concerns. “So I think through this conference we’re hoping to create a forum and a group of people who will begin to say we can we tackle in Georgia” said Marsha Davis, associate dean for outreach in the College of Public Health. …Davis says the conference brings together those who are working to improve the public’s health to have a dialogue, learn from each other, and take those lessons back to their communities. “We are bringing in national leaders to provide a national perspective to those in Georgia so we can see what is happening in Washington, what is happening in different states, to see if we can replicate some of the best practices here in Georgia,” she said.

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‘Purposely hidden’: Cheerleaders to protest anthem in tunnel
http://www.mdjonline.com/news/national/purposely-hidden-cheerleaders-to-protest-anthem-in-tunnel/article_5902d44b-3e9f-5bd2-b99d-83aca07360ef.html
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Five cheerleaders at a college in Georgia are vowing to kneel in the stadium tunnel when the national anthem is played at Saturday’s homecoming game, moved off the field by their university after an earlier protest. The so-called Kennesaw Five will kneel outside the view of fans in the tunnel of the 8,300-seat Fifth Third Bank Stadium, cheerleader Shlondra Young said in an interview Monday. Young said she believes they are being “purposely hidden” from public view when the Kennesaw State Owls host Gardner-Webb University of North Carolina. “I feel as though it was an attempt to silence us,” she said. “But even though they are moving us, we will not be silenced.” …The decision to move the cheerleaders was made by the school’s athletic department, which meets after each game “to determine how best to enhance the game day atmosphere,” school spokeswoman Tammy DeMel said in a statement Monday to The Associated Press. It made no mention of the anthem protest. “Some of the other changes have included painting the KS logo at midfield for the first time, processes to help expedite fan entry, and more loud speakers by the student section,” the statement added.

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OWL PROTEST
Kennesaw State University students march in support of kneeling cheerleaders
http://www.mdjonline.com/news/kennesaw-state-university-students-march-in-support-of-kneeling-cheerleaders/article_28870b82-b2e0-11e7-96f8-63d83af8bba3.html
Shaddi Abusaid
KENNESAW — Led by Scrappy the Owl, a couple hundred Kennesaw State University students marched across campus Monday, carrying signs and voicing support for the five cheerleaders who took a knee during the national anthem ahead of the school’s Sept. 30 football game. Among those who marched in solidarity was Kennesaw resident Patricia Holt, a 2009 KSU graduate whose husband, Antoine, was killed by a bomb in Iraq in 2004 while serving in the Air Force. Holt said she doesn’t understand why critics insist protesters are disrespecting the flag and the troops by taking a knee during the anthem.

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KSU mascot ‘Scrappy’ takes a knee to support cheerleaders
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt–politics/ksu-mascot-scrappy-takes-knee-support-cheerleaders/sXEeK4gLMKyr8xokgqEBcI/
Meris Lutz  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kennesaw State University students and faculty marched through campus Monday chanting “Land of the free, but we can’t take a knee?” The demonstration in support of five cheerleaders who knelt during the national anthem at a Sept. 30 football game was unexpectedly joined by the school’s mascot, Scrappy the owl — otherwise known as junior Kenneth Sturkey.

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KSU students march in support of cheerleaders
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/ksu-students-march-support-cheerleaders/aSQ7TK7waihetpQ8JHIJYO/
By Meris Lutz – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Land of the free, but we can’t take a knee?” That was the rallying cry of a few hundred students at Kennesaw State University who marched through the campus Monday in support of five cheerleaders who ignited a firestorm when they took a knee during the national anthem at a Sept. 30 football game. The young women said the gesture was intended to draw attention to racism and injustice, in the vein of the National Football League protests that have provoked the anger of President Donald Trump. Monday’s demonstration was attended by students and faculty who object to the school’s handling of the incident. The cheerleaders have been prevented from taking the field during the anthem since their gesture. The school says changing when the cheerleaders enter the field was not related to the protest, but the change came after Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren told media that University President Sam Olens had promised him it would not happen again. The demonstration on campus was meant as a show of force. Organizer David Corinthian, a fifth-year civil engineering student, said the protesters want to meet with Olens, and he urged students to boycott on-campus businesses until the university took them seriously.

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Georgia Southern head coach Tyson Summers says he ‘micromanaged way too much’ in first season
http://savannahnow.com/local-colleges/news/sports/2017-10-16/georgia-southern-head-coach-tyson-summers-says-he-micromanaged
By Nathan Deen
STATESBORO – What exactly does Tyson Summers do as the head football coach at Georgia Southern University? What has he done differently this season, in which the Eagles are off to an 0-5 start, compared to his first season in which his team finished 5-7? “I’d like to think y’all have seen a lot of things in me that are different,” Summers said. “From where I was when I first got hired, just the idea of being a players coach, I certainly think I’m a lot more engaged and a lot more involved in their lives and their relationships and trying to build relationships with everything that I do.” Summers spoke to the media Monday about the specifics of his job description, which he said he has redefined since last season. The coach admitted last season he did too much micromanaging, and this season he has taken a step back to focus more on building trust and relationships with his players.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
Grammy-nominated Augusta singer to perform benefit concert to raise funds for visual disorder treatment
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-08-06/grammy-nominated-augusta-singer-perform-benefit-concert-raise-funds-visual-disorder
Staff Reports
Grammy-nominated artist and Augusta native Terri Gibbs will perform a benefit concert for Augusta University’s James and Jean Culver Vision Discovery Institute in October. The concert is scheduled 6 p.m. Oct. 28 at the Imperial Theatre. The event is hosted by the Lions Club of Augusta, and proceeds will benefit the Culver’s research into new treatments and therapies for patients suffering from visual disorders and blindness.

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UGA, Tech biz profs show how companies can find the right social purpose for their brands
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/10/17/uga-tech-biz-profs-show-how-companies-can-find-the.html?ana=e_me_set2&s=newsletter&ed=2017-10-17&u=xw%2BDRjRaikB6EdaliSJBWQ0ae2f198&t=1508246135&j=79006331
By David Allison  –  Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The owners of NFL teams who have recently used their brands to promote controversial social justice campaigns need to check out a new article in Harvard Business Review. The article, written by Omar Rodriguez-Vila of Georgia Tech and Sundar Bharadwaj of The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, shows companies how they can find the right social purpose for their brands while avoiding missteps that can have real consequences. “Countless well-intentioned social-purpose programs have consumed resources and management time only to end up in obscurity,” the two profs note in their article from the September-October issue of Harvard Business Review. “Sometimes they backfire because the brand messages designed to promote them anger or offend customers—or they simply go unnoticed because they fail to resonate.”

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UGA’s Boyd and Eiland Recognized with Governor’s Awards for the Arts and Humanities
http://athensceo.com/news/2017/10/ugas-boyd-and-eiland-recognized-governors-awards-arts-and-humanities/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=fc7e8a8000-eGaMorning-10_17_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-fc7e8a8000-86731974&mc_cid=fc7e8a8000&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
Staff Report From Athens CEO
Valerie Boyd, the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence and an associate professor of journalism, and William U. Eiland, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, each received a Governor’s Award for the Arts and Humanities from Gov. Nathan Deal and first lady Sandra Deal. The sixth annual awards were presented in a ceremony at the Georgia Capitol on Oct. 4. The awards are a partnership with the Georgia Council for the Arts and Georgia Humanities. “The first lady and I are longtime supporters of the arts, humanities and expressions of creativity,” Deal said. “These awards recognize outstanding individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to Georgia’s economic, civic and cultural vitality. Our state’s creative industries provide some 200,000 jobs for Georgians and generate $62.5 billion in economic impact. I congratulate the individuals and institutions being honored today and am grateful for their contributions to communities throughout Georgia.”

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An Era of Neglect
How public colleges were crowded out, beaten up, and failed to fight back
http://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Era-of-Neglect/145045?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=056a4761abec4421ac6756f5aef12717&elq=a600c56610e7401ea6fa73e9941a15f6&elqaid=16102&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6951
By Karin Fischer and Jack Stripling
It happened so slowly that no one really noticed at first. That’s the way erosion works. It is a gradual decay. But somewhere along the line, over the past three decades or so, the deterioration of support for public higher education became hard to miss. Appropriations tanked. Tuition soared. College leaders embraced gloomy rhetoric about broken partnerships with the very people who had built these institutions from the ground up. Now we have come to a precipice. College students and their families, who just a decade ago paid for about one-third of the cost of their education, are on track to pay for most of it. In nearly half of the states, they already do. Behind these changes is a fundamental shift. Public colleges, once viewed as worthy of collective investment for the greater good, are increasingly treated as vehicles delivering a personal benefit to students, who ought to foot the bill themselves.

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Governor Declares Emergency Tied to White Nationalist’s Planned Speech at U. of Florida
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/governor-declares-emergency-tied-to-white-nationalists-planned-speech-at-u-of-florida/120648?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=320658858bb741068ebe96b98e9dacf5&elq=a600c56610e7401ea6fa73e9941a15f6&elqaid=16102&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6951
by Chris Quintana
Gov. Rick Scott of Florida has declared a state of an emergency in connection with a planned appearance this week at the University of Florida by the white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, reports The Tampa Bay Times. “We live in a country where everyone has the right to voice their opinion; however, we have zero tolerance for violence, and public safety is always our No. 1 priority,” Governor Scott, a Republican, said in a written statement. …The purpose of the order, Mr. Scott said, was to make it easier to plan for and work with other law-enforcement agencies. …Mr. Spencer is scheduled to speak at the institution on Thursday…. In a news release the university said it was prepared to spend at least $500,000 on security.

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Meeting the Enemy
Colleges shouldn’t deem certain speech to be off-limits, writes Walter M. Kimbrough.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/10/17/why-certain-speech-shouldnt-be-limits-essay?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=00558d9cd0-DNU20171017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-00558d9cd0-197515277&mc_cid=00558d9cd0&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Walter M. Kimbrough
For the past year, colleges and universities have found themselves wrestling with a philosophical issue: speech. Leaders have had to decide who gets to speak, when, why and, more recently, at what cost. This issue has moved to the front pages recently as a new wave of controversial speakers have heightened the tensions built from a contentious presidential campaign. Speakers in most years who would not be controversial for events like commencement are causing high-profile protests on days that should be sacred celebrations. Presidents find themselves attempting to manage all their constituencies, plus a 24-7 news cycle where Twitter shares news before they even know what has happened. But in the midst of this current state of tension where the next controversial speaker might just show up on campus, maybe it is time for presidents and boards to stop, reflect and answer a couple of questions: Who are we and what do we believe? As someone who experienced an unwelcome visitor to campus, I had a chance to not only practice what I believe, but to reflect on why I believe it and who inspired my belief.