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University system chancellor says goal is to increase number of people with college degree (with VIDEO)
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/news/local_news/university-system-chancellor-says-goal-is-to-increase-number-of/article_9426f20e-ef2e-57bd-9210-845a88a5f23b.html
By Charles Oliver
Just over a quarter of Georgians age 25 or older — 28.8 percent — have a bachelor’s degree, according to the Census Bureau. By comparison, 33.4 percent of all Americans 25 or older have a bachelor’s degree. Steve Wrigley, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, says university officials and the Board of Regents have set as one of their top goals increasing the number of Georgians with a college degree. “Educational attainment has an important impact on the individual as well as the state as a whole,” he said. Wrigley spoke Tuesday at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Dalton at the Dalton Golf and Country Club.
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UNG Cumming enrollment hits four figures
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/ung-cumming-enrollment-hits-four-figures/bo5wQkUVLkbFkA9YoC3cbP/
By Mark Woolsey – For the AJC
Five years after opening its doors, the University of North Georgia Cumming campus has reached a milestone: more than 1,000 undergraduates are enrolled there. And campus officials said total enrollment, including grad students, has topped 1,100. …The Cumming campus, one of five in the in the UNG system, debuted in 2012 with 200 people enrolled.
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North Georgia Cumming campus tops 1,000 students enrolled
http://www.northfulton.com/stories/north-georgia-cumming-campus-tops-1000-students-enrolled,121597
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Georgia Appeals Court rules against DACA recipients seeking in-state tuition
http://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/georgia-appeals-court-rules-against-daca-recipients-seeking-state-tuition/XEjG4sWyPbMLk1mbatoEYO/
Jeremy Redmon
Georgia’s Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s decision that said the state must permit residents who have been granted a special reprieve from deportation to pay in-state tuition at state colleges and universities. At issue is the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, or DACA, which grants two-year work permits and deportation deferrals to immigrants who were brought here as children. Last month, President Donald Trump announced his administration would phase out DACA, a decision that could affect 21,600 people in Georgia. Issued Tuesday, the state court’s 21-page decision says the DACA recipients who sued for in-state tuition in Georgia have “have failed to carry their burden of showing that the DACA policy had the force and effect of a federal law.”
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Clark Howell Hall renovation enhances UGA learning environment
Clark Howell Hall renovation enhances UGA learning environment
By Staff Reports
UGA President Jere W. Morehead, joined by fellow university leaders, dedicated the newly renovated Clark Howell Hall, which offers greater accessibility for the more than 27,500 people who benefit from the Career Center, the Disability Resource Center and University Testing Services each year. “The renovation of this facility will greatly enhance the world-class learning environment that we are establishing at the University of Georgia. I encourage our students to continue to utilize the outstanding services that will be located at Clark Howell Hall,” Morehead said during the Oct. 23 dedication ceremony. The 33,000-square-foot building, originally a residence hall, was constructed in 1937 and is named for Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Georgia political leader Clark Howell. Supported by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia and funded by Gov. Nathan Deal and the Georgia General Assembly, the renovations totaled $6 million-$5 million in state funds appropriated for the project as well as $1 million in institutional funds.
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Georgia Tech Names Engineering Biosystems Building for Krone Family
http://metroatlantaceo.com/news/2017/10/georgia-tech-names-engineering-biosystems-building-krone-family/
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
The Georgia Institute of Technology celebrated the naming of its engineered biosystems building for Helen and Roger Krone in a special ceremony during Homecoming festivities Octobrt 20, 2017, in Atlanta. The Krones contributed a lead gift in support of the building, which opened in 2015 as an interdisciplinary facility for researchers from biology, chemistry, and engineering working to elevate understanding of living systems and bring about new cures for diseases. The Roger A. and Helen B. Krone Engineered Biosystems Building also houses the Children’s Pediatric Technology Center, a research partnership with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University.
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A pressing need to learn about business
Reconstruction was the term given to the period following the Civil War during which the United States set conditions under which the rebellious Southern States would be allowed back into the Union. Coming out of Reconstruction, the City of Atlanta was experiencing growing pains but one of the more positive results of Atlanta’s emergence as an up and coming city was the founding of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Georgia Tech had been founded in 1885 as part of a plan to build a Southern industrial economy. At its inception, the only degree it offered was one in mechanical engineering but, in the decades to come, other engineering degrees were offered.
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Middle Georgia State University opens professional closet for students
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/middle-georgia-state-university-opens-professional-closet-for-students/485688480
Yvonne Thomas, WMAZ
Middle Georgia State University’s Career Service Center is adding some style to their career readiness program. They’ve created a way for students to buy affordable business attire on campus. Student shoppers told Yvonne Thomas it’s a new way to dress for success. …Middle Georgia State University opened a store on campus just for their students. It’s called the Professional Closet. “The school wanted to create a home for this type of thing, and the career center seemed to be the perfect match,” said Melinda Robins-Moffett, Director of Career Services. “We took an office and turned it into a space that feels more like a boutique to students.”
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Anthem-kneeling at KSU is only part of the tale
http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/24/anthem-kneeling-at-ksu-is-only-part-of-the-tale/
By Jim Galloway
Let me begin by saying there’s much more to the story than the brief outline that follows: A Republican county sheriff at a college football game spots a group of African-American cheerleaders kneeling during the national anthem. Theirs is a provocative form of protest against police violence, made irresistible by the fact that Donald Trump has condemned it. The sheriff pulls out his phone and dials up the university president. His friend, a state lawmaker who commands the purse strings for the entire university system, does the same. The next week, there are no cheerleaders on the field when the band strikes up Francis Scott Key’s tune. Via texts, the sheriff and the lawmaker high-five each other for pushing the university president’s buttons, for their own great display of patriotism, and for standing up to liberals “that hate the USA.” The university president denies a cause-and-effect link between the angry sheriff and a cheer-less football field, but concedes the situation could have been handled better. The Board of Regents initiates a “special review” of the situation. University faculty scorch the bark off their boss for bowing to “outsiders.” And suddenly, days after his heavily robed investiture as president of Kennesaw State University, friends of Sam Olens fear that his job could be in jeopardy. Given this Reader’s Digest account, you can be excused for blaming Colin Kaepernick or Donald Trump. Either way, you’d be pointing your finger in the wrong direction.
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Groups demand investigation into Kennesaw State response to cheerleaders’ protest
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/groups-demand-investigation-into-kennesaw-state-response-cheerleaders-protest/fKkIduOpC42sCAcbsNFYIK/
Eric Stirgus
A Washington, D.C.-based legal organization and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Cobb County chapter sent a letter to the state Board of Regents on Tuesday demanding an investigation into Kennesaw State University’s policy change that keeps some cheerleaders from protesting against police brutality during the national anthem on the football field. KSU announced it would no longer allow cheerleaders on the field during the anthem, a week after five cheerleaders knelt in silent protest at the Sept. 30 game. KSU has said the change is unrelated to the protests. The Board of Regents announced last week it’s conducting a review of KSU’s response to the cheerleaders’ decision to kneel.
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Civil rights group: Georgia school retaliated against cheerleaders
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-10-24/civil-rights-group-georgia-school-retaliated-against-cheerleaders
By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press
MARIETTA, Ga. | A national civil rights group says it has “grave concerns” about actions taken by a Georgia university after five black cheerleaders knelt during the national anthem at a football game. The Kennesaw State University cheerleaders were told they’d be kept off the field in a stadium tunnel at future pregame activities after protesting racial injustice during the anthem Sept. 30. Four of the cheerleaders then knelt in the tunnel behind the stands at the school’s homecoming game Saturday. In a Tuesday letter to the state’s board of regents, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law said that moving the cheerleaders off the field during the anthem is “an act of retaliation.”
www.onlineathens.com
UGA professor: Today’s students will live to see food shortages
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-10-24/uga-professor-today-s-students-will-live-see-food-shortages
By Lee Shearer
University of Georgia students will see food shortages in their lifetimes, UGA professor David Berle predicts. It’s impossible to tell how a future of food scarcity might play out, or how deep that scarcity could be, Berle said in a recent talk in the auditorium of UGA’s Odum School of Ecology. A 2011 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated world food production would have to increase by as much as 70 percent to feed the expected world population of about 9 billion in 2050, Berle said. Scientific and demographic studies have also predicted water shortages.
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Embracing the Hackathon in Higher Education
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/embracing-the-hackathon-in-higher-education_us_59ed4a72e4b02c6e3c609c46
David Altounian and Sarah Sharif
As the world economy becomes more information-driven and technology enabled, there is a growing need for engineering and software developer talent … Some universities already embrace the concept of hackathons as an additional opportunity to prepare students for the ever-evolving work environment but more universities need to support hackathons to prepare both technologists and liberal arts students for the workforce through a rich professional experience … Top ranking computer science and engineering programs in the United States run their own hackathons, partnering with either corporations or nonprofits to bring together students and external experts to develop practical solutions. Georgia Institute of Technology held their HackGT event with more than 1000 student developers in partnership with NCR Corporation in October.
www.savannahnowcom
Study examining plastic pollution in coastal Georgia waters
UGA Skidaway Institute in middle of two-year study to better understand its abundance
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-10-23/study-examining-plastic-pollution-coastal-georgia-waters
By Mary Landers
Scientists estimate Georgia’s coastal waters hold more than a trillion tiny particles and fibers made of plastic. These microplastics, smaller than a grain of rice, are most abundant in the waters around Savannah. “The numbers seem to correlate with population, which makes sense,” said UGA Skidaway Institute scientist Jay Brandes, who is leading a team that’s in the middle of a two-year study to better understand microplastics pollution in Georgia’s coastal waters. “We are getting these microplastics locally. They are not coming from offshore or moving up the coast.”
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Colleges Urged to Ramp Up to Fill Cybersecurity Workforce Void
http://diverseeducation.com/article/103778/?utm_campaign=DIV1710%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20OCT25&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — The United States will remain vulnerable to cyberattacks unless the nation’s education system is better aligned to produce greater numbers of cybersecurity professionals, a leading industry expert testified Tuesday at a Congressional hearing.“Simply put, cybersecurity professionals are not produced by the education system in the United States in the quantities or the correct soft skills that are needed,” said David Jarvis, chief information officer at the IBM Institute for Business Value. “The education system is not aligned to produce a workforce that can defend us from today’s cybersecurity threats,” Jarvis said. Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., noted that a recent study by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), found that more than 209,000 cybersecurity jobs in the U.S. are unfilled, and job postings in the field are up 74 percent over the past five years. And the demand for cybersecurity professionals is expected to grow to over 1.8 million by 2022, Guthrie said.
www.diverseeducation.com
Experts: Colleges Have Role in Battling Opioid Epidemic
http://diverseeducation.com/article/103785/?utm_campaign=DIV1710%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20OCT25&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Catherine Morris
Around 64,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone, a figure that rose more than 22 percent from the year prior. The number of deaths from synthetic opioids has seen a particularly troubling rise. In 2016, 20,000 people died from overdoses, up from 3,000 just three years before. Experts say combatting this public health crisis will take concerted initiatives at the federal level, through public and private partnerships, and in schools, colleges and communities across the nation. According to United States Surgeon General Jerome Adams, pastors, teachers and community leaders will have a crucial role to play. “This problem is so multifactorial that it is going to be difficult to have a single person at the point giving directives,” Adams said at the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. “It’s going to take a grassroots solution.”