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Computer Science Grads Can Earn More Than MBAs
Computer-related jobs that fetch more than $100,000 include data scientist and software architect.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/2018-03-20/computer-science-grads-can-earn-more-than-mbas
By Farran Powell , Reporter
When it came to choosing a graduate program, 36-year-old Babak Keyvani wanted a degree that would lead to a high salary and good career prospects. “I was thinking of obtaining an MBA after my bachelor’s, since I was working as a project manager at some point in my life. But I think I’ve always been more passionate about computers,” says Keyvani, who is pursuing an online master’s degree in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Georgia Tech student was offered a senior data analyst position at Charter Communications, a large telecommunications company owned by Time Warner Inc., before finishing his final semester.
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Gifts Roundup: Pritzker Heir Gives $10 Million to Improve Foster Care
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Gifts-Roundup-Pritzker-Heir/242856
By Maria Di Mento
A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle: Georgia Tech, Alice Clark gave $15 million through her A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation. The money will create and endow the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the College of Engineering. Her late husband, James Clark, was the head of Clark Construction Group and Clark Enterprises. He died in 2015. The family attracted attention last year when Alice Clark gave a $219.5 million grant through the foundation to the University of Maryland, her husband’s alma mater.
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Atlanta tech company gives $1M for STEM education at APS school
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/tech-company-gives-million-for-stem-education-atlanta-school/IOPf0ppEuS6nF9eHdqenlO/
Vanessa McCray The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An Atlanta-based technology company will donate $1 million to support science, technology, engineering and math education at Hollis Innovation Academy. NCR Corp. will give the money over the next five years, according to an announcement by the Westside Future Fund, an initiative that aims to generate investments in the Atlanta neighborhoods of Ashview Heights, Atlanta University Center, English Avenue and Vine City. The Westside Future Fund has pledged to raised $16.4 million to support education, healthcare, safety, and provide for “quality mixed-income” neighborhoods. The latest donation, to be celebrated during a Wednesday open house at Hollis, will fund the pre-kindergarten through eighth grade academy’s STEM curriculum through a partnership with Georgia Tech’s Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing and the Horizons program.
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GSU leading effort to get U.S. Civil Rights sites on the World Heritage list
GSU leading effort to get U.S. Civil Rights sites on the World Heritage list
By Maria Saporta
An exhaustive effort is underway to catapult the international recognition of the modern Civil Rights movement in the South. Thanks to a grant from the Alabama Department of Tourism, Georgia State University is shepherding the effort to get about a dozen Civil Rights landmarks to be nominated as World Heritage sites. “It will be a big deal when it happens,” said Anne Farrisee, project manager of GSU’s World Heritage Initiative. “When the nomination happens, it’s going to raise the awareness of not only these sites but of Civil Rights sites nationally.” Earlier this month, GSU received a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service to support the nomination of U.S. Civil Rights Sites to the World Heritage list.
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DICK YARBROUGH: Kennesaw State University’s discriminatory practices may be coming to an end
http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/dick-yarbrough-kennesaw-state-university-s-discriminatory-practices-may-be/article_26bedf78-2cac-11e8-809a-fb0c6ab95bc2.html
The Woman Who Shares My Name is a graduate of Kennesaw State. It wasn’t all that long ago that I would have included the adjective “proud” to that statement, but given the self-absorbed actions of a small number of students and compliant faculty at KSU, let’s hold that thought for the moment. …For far too long, KSU has been known more for its wacky behavior than as a place providing students with outstanding educational opportunities. Dr. Dan Papp, a good man who was more academician than administrator, let the inmates gain control of the asylum during his presidency, and to this point, it has been all inmates, all the time. That, perhaps, is about to change. Around Town reported Saturday that University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley has sent a strongly worded letter to Ken Harmon, Kennesaw State’s interim president and resident zookeeper to lead a “systematic, fundamental improvement of some very basic functions within student affairs, and I expect it to begin today.” …Chancellor Wrigley’s strong words and Rep. Ehrhart’s worn-thin patience tell me the days of blatant discriminatory actions by self-centered naifs at KSU may be coming to an end. That would be a good decision with good consequences.
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Can Michigan State Get Its Public-Relations Nightmare Under Control?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Can-Michigan-State-Get-Its/242867?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
By Sarah Brown
For Michigan State University, the revelation that Larry Nassar abused more than 250 girls and young women was harrowing. It was also a big public-relations problem. That problem was made worse, in the eyes of many, by the repeated attempts of Lou Anna K. Simon’s administration to deflect responsibility instead of empathizing with Nassar’s victims. Now, as the university’s interim president faces widespread criticism for his defiant comments to state lawmakers and reporters in recent days, many observers are wondering what’s amiss with Michigan State’s communications strategy — and what might be done about it, if the institution is to regain the public’s trust.