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Albany State University’s Effort to Boost Black Male College Enrollments
Albany State University’s Effort to Boost Black Male College Enrollments
The results are in for the first cohort of students who participated in a mentoring program operated by the Center for the African American Male at Albany State University in Georgia. Four years ago, 34 young men joined the program aimed at increasing the college enrollment rate of young Black males in the Dougherty County School System. The students participated in one-hour sessions each day at high school with students, staff, and faculty affiliated with the Center for the African American Male. The 34 students also participated in other activities geared toward preparing them for college and life. Of the original 34 young Black men in the program, 23 students enrolled in college this fall, including nine at Albany State University. Another six students in the group joined the military.
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Georgia Tech, Georgia State to play exhibition game for hurricane relief
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/10/19/georgia-tech-georgia-state-to-play-exhibition-game.html?ana=e_me_set4&s=newsletter&ed=2017-10-20&u=xw%2BDRjRaikB6EdaliSJBWQ0ae2f198&t=1508507958&j=79025261
By Phil W. Hudson – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta’s two biggest colleges are tipping off against each other in what’s been dubbed the “A-Town Showdown for Hurricane Relief,” to raise money to benefit the hurricane relief effort. Georgia Tech’s and Georgia State’s men’s basketball teams will play an exhibition game on Oct. 28, at McCamish Pavilion with tipoff slated for noon. The Yellow Jackets and Panthers will face off on the hardwood for the first time since December of 2008, doing so in an effort to aid the victims of the recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The NCAA has granted the teams a waiver to add the exhibition game, as they also did for Kansas-Missouri and Providence-Connecticut, among others, to raise funds to aid in relief efforts. This will be the first competition open to the public for both teams.
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UGA Professor Receives Council on Social Work Education’s Lifetime Achievement Award
http://athensceo.com/news/2017/10/uga-professor-receives-council-social-work-educations-lifetime-achievement-award/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=9c588dabfd-eGaMorning-10_20_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-9c588dabfd-86731974&mc_cid=9c588dabfd&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
Staff Report From Athens CEO
A University of Georgia professor known for combating injustice through her activism and scholarship has been selected for one of the social work profession’s highest honors. The Council on Social Work Education has chosen June Gary Hopps, the Thomas M. “Jim” Parham Professor of Family and Children Studies at the UGA School of Social Work, to receive its Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award. The award recognizes exemplary accomplishments in research, teaching pedagogy, curriculum development and organizational leadership over an entire career.
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Armstrong State students helping 3rd Infantry Division soldiers prevent exercise injuries
Program offers hands-on experience
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-10-19/armstrong-state-students-helping-3rd-infantry-division-soldiers-prevent-exercise
By Dash Coleman
An important part of training to be a physical therapist is getting hands-on experience. Students at Armstrong State University in Savannah are getting that experience with some intense subjects: soldiers of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division. Since January, students in Armstrong’s physical therapy doctoral program have been working with soldiers in the division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, trying to reduce the stress and overuse injuries that rigorous military training can sometimes produce.
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The Top 12 Schools For Computer Science In 2017
https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/10/18/the-top-12-schools-for-computer-science-in-2017/#6bea628052f0
Karsten Strauss , FORBES STAFF
Ever wonder which of the world’s colleges are best at teaching computer science? Thanks to a recent report from Times Higher Education (THE)—a UK-based publication focused on universities the world over—we may have an answer to that question, in an analysis based on performance in the categories of Citations (research influence), Industry Income (knowledge transfer), International Outlook (staff, students and research), Research (volume, income and reputation), and Teaching (the learning environment)… 8. Georgia Institute of Technology Citations: 93.3 Industry Income: 79.6 International Outlook: 62.7 Research: 99.0 Teaching: 84.1
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Cobb board OKs $65M bond deal for Georgia Tech to buy Lockheed land
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/cobb-board-oks-65m-bond-deal-for-georgia-tech-buy-lockheed-land/OcItz2EyikpDN0L8hLIz1K/
Ben Brasch The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cobb County’s development authority has approved a $65 million bond package for Georgia Tech so the school can create a new research campus in the county. Tech wants the bond to buy and renovate 32 acres of a Marietta facility owned by aerospace giant Lockheed Martin. The package of tax-exempt bonds set for public offering was approved at a Wednesday meeting, said Nelson Geter, the development authority’s executive director. He said the school has claimed it will bring in 500 jobs over the next decade with an average pay of $100,000 per year.
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Test results could pinpoint cause of Ga. Tech mass illness
http://www.cbs46.com/story/36632910/test-results-could-pinpoint-cause-of-ga-tech-mass-illness#ixzz4w3NWmiuU
By Adam Harding
We could learn on Thursday the source of a mysterious illness that’s made dozens of students sick at Georgia Tech. CBS46 first told you about the health concerns earlier this week, but now we’re getting a better idea of just how widespread this illness really was. The big mystery in all of this is what got so many students sick in such a short period of time? Thursday morning, the Health Department is breaking down for us just how many kids feel ill. This is what we know right now: 23 students sought some form of medical help on Monday, another 21 sought some form of medical help on Tuesday, and in the last week 65 students have sought some help with one being so sick health officials said the student had to seek care at Emory’s Midtown hospital. Health officials now tell us there appears to be a pattern of person-to-person transmission. Medical tests are due back Thursday, which could tell us what’s behind the initial illness or where students may have gotten it from.
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Olens installed as KSU president as protests continue
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/olens-installed-university-president-protests-continue/onvHYloCRmiNrpcsVePmsJ/
Eric Stirgus Meris Lutz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley stepped to the lectern Thursday to officially install Sam Olens as Kennesaw State University’s president. But the board he heads will soon look into the way KSU, under Olens, handled a protest by some cheerleaders that many feel has stifled the students’ rights to free speech. Olens spoke during the ceremony, but did not mention the recent events that brought KSU into a regional and national spotlight. He talked about his goals of helping students succeed, and he got choked up speaking about his parents. A day earlier, the Georgia Board of Regents announced it will conduct a special review of the university’s actions after five cheerleaders took a knee during the national anthem at KSU’s Sept. 30 game to protest police misconduct and racial injustice.
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On his big day, polarized politics chases down Sam Olens at KSU
http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/19/on-his-big-day-polarized-politics-chases-down-sam-olens-at-ksu/
By Jim Galloway
At Kennesaw State University today, Sam Olens will be formally invested as the institution’s fourth president in a well-robed ceremony. When Republican attorney general was named to the post one year ago, many saw a man happily escaping the black/white, my-way/highway excesses of GOP primaries. But there’s no getting away from polarized politics these days, and so Olens begins his formal tenure knowing that the Board of Regents is looking over his shoulder. From our AJC colleague Eric Stirgus:
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Plaudits and protests to support KSU cheerleaders at Olens ceremony
http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/plaudits-and-protests-support-ksu-cheerleaders-olens-ceremony/vKhB00XId5a6yEHLaSjHTJ/
By Eric Stirgus and Meris Lutz – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 4
Amid a national controversy and a pending review by the state Board of Regents, Sam Olens was officially installed Thursday as Kennesaw State University’s president, in a deflated celebration punctuated by student protests. Olens did not address campus tensions during his 10-minute speech to a half-empty auditorium in the school’s Convocation Center. Instead, he used his time at the lectern to pay homage to his deceased parents and expounded on his vision for KSU, the state’s third-largest university. “It is not enough simply to admit students to this university,” Olens said. “We must find ways to inspire them and to do everything in our power to ensure their success.” …About a handful of students knelt during the anthem at the investiture ceremony Thursday before filing out in silence. They were joined by several hundred demonstrators who occupied the campus green for the reception afterward, which Olens did not attend. Chanting protesters competed for attention with a marching band and a jazz troupe playing Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” as students and faculty milled about tents offering food and refreshments.
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AROUND TOWN: Karen Handel talks Iran, Puerto Rico, KSU cheerleaders
http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/around_town/around-town-karen-handel-talks-iran-puerto-rico-ksu-cheerleaders/article_0eb47d9a-b428-11e7-9628-17eb827e6b94.html
U.S. Rep. Karen Handel, R-Roswell, gave the Metro Marietta Kiwanis Club a legislative update during her visit with the club this week, touching on topics ranging from Iran, entitlements and Puerto Rico to Kennesaw State University’s kneeling cheerleaders and a proposed passenger rail line to Chattanooga. …As for the cheerleaders who took a knee during the anthem at KSU last month, Handel said, “If I were a parent I would want my son or daughter to be respectful of our flag and the veterans who literally have shed blood and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands have lost their lives to give us these freedoms, and while I have all the respect in the world for an individual who wants to protest, there are plenty of other ways to do it without disrespecting this nation, without disrespecting our flag and without disrespecting our veterans.”
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Heckling Is a Staple of Controversial Campus Speeches. Should Colleges Intervene?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Heckling-Is-a-Staple-of/241504?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5eefece2c4d740c58910d1ecfa3c4bc9&elq=1b28cc0ff2134f23a24ab2281a4f8039&elqaid=16167&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6987
By Liam Adams
Richard B. Spencer was met with chants of “Go home, Spencer,” “Black Lives Matter,” and others too profane to report here when he spoke on Thursday at the University of Florida. The persistent chants and other audience noise at times made it hard to hear the prominent white supremacist, though he was able to speak audibly during most of the event. The heckling echoed several recent instances in which protesters attempted to shout down speakers. For instance, last month a Black Lives Matter group at the College of William and Mary shouted down the executive director of Virginia’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter, claiming the ACLU had protected white supremacists by representing an individual who sued the City of Charlottesville, Va., for revoking his “Unite the Right” rally permit. As the frequency and intensity of heckling has seemed to increase, colleges are grappling with how to respond. The University of Wisconsin system has adopted a policy that mandates discipline for students who heckle speakers, while public colleges in North Carolina are now subject to a state law governing heckling.