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KSU’s executive MBA ranked at No. 7 in world
http://www.mdjonline.com/cobb_business_journal/ksu-s-executive-mba-ranked-at-no-in-world/article_4c71ffda-38fe-11e8-8743-2f0a781bbb00.html
MDJ Staff
Kennesaw State University’s Executive MBA program again ranked as the best in Georgia and rose to No. 7 in the world in CEO Magazine’s 2018 Global Executive MBA Rankings, released last month. The Michael J. Coles College of Business’ Executive MBA was recognized by the magazine as a Global Tier One EMBA program for the fourth year in a row. In the numerical rating system CEO Magazine established last year, Kennesaw State’s EMBA ranked No. 1 in the state for the second straight year and climbed two spots from its No. 9 world ranking in 2017.
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College education department immerses students in local schools
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/college-education-department-immerses-students-in-local-schools/article_4394e033-ae51-5efa-859f-d83c8503dc5d.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The college classroom has its limitations. Carol Geiken and Amy Sneed, professors in the Department of Education and Teacher Preparation at College of Coastal Georgia, have partnered with two local elementary schools this semester to provide students with learning opportunities off the college campus. The college started a new kind of partnership with Oglethorpe Point Elementary School this year, through which a group of the college’s education majors are spending four days a week in classrooms. Two days are spent working in assigned classrooms, where they focus on different styles of co-teaching. The other two days are spent in other classrooms getting a variety of experiences. “If we’re going to really teach them how to teach, where are you going to learn it best? Out in the field,” said Geiken, a special education lecturer and field supervisor for CCGA. “So we’re moving more towards a clinical model.”
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Truck driver charged in death of UGA employee on bicycle
https://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/truck-driver-charged-death-uga-employee-bicycle/pLdiJuNj9r9WwPJlbUjtJN/
Steve Burns The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Charges have been filed in connection with the death of a University of Georgia employee who was hit while riding her bicycle, officials said. Richard Poulnott, 55, of Watkinsville, was charged with second-degree vehicular homicide, following too closely, driving too fast for conditions and having an expired driver’s license, the Georgia State Patrol said Tuesday. Karen Tinsley, 45, died April 3 after she was thrown from her bike in the crash.
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Albany State Gets NEH Grant for Museum, Heritage Studies Program
http://diverseeducation.com/article/113976/
by Sammy G. Allen
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Albany State University approximately $99,000 to assist with establishing an interdisciplinary museum and heritage studies minor. Dr. Charles Williams, ASU professor of visual arts in the College of Arts and Humanities, leads the project. He envisions the minor as a 15-credit-hour path that includes internships and one cross-disciplinary course such as business, education, history or computer science. He describes the program development as a group effort.
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UGA Tifton facility renovated, rededicated
Agricultural Research Buildingon UGA Tifton campus gets $5 million facelift
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/uga-tifton-facility-renovated-rededicated/article_8ac259d2-4c43-5709-9d41-d61efa637313.html
By Clint Thompson
Members of the University of Georgia Tifton campus community took part in a rededication of the newly renovated Agricultural Research Building this past week. The 80-year-old building was the second structure constructed on the UGA Tifton campus. The University of Georgia is committed to serving the needs of all Georgians by providing the state’s faculty, researchers and students with world-class facilities. Renovations to the building included the addition of high-efficiency LED lighting, extensive fiber-optic cable and wireless internet capabilities. The building retains many of its original features, including the windows. The interior window sash improves energy efficiency throughout the building. It acts like a storm window and creates an additional thermal barrier for air leaks and temperature conductivity through the old metal windows. Renovations to the building, which was formerly known as the Animal and Dairy Science Building, concluded in early March and were made possible by $5 million in state support. The building houses the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Department of Animal and Dairy Science and Department of Entomology.
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State grants could help college students with financial needs
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/state-grants-could-help-college-students-financial-needs/
Joshua Silavent
A new grant for college students that gives weight to “need” for financial assistance passed the Georgia General Assembly last month, something the numbers suggest could benefit enrollees at the University of North Georgia.
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Valdosta State students make mission trip to Jamaica
VSU officials say trip benefited people of Jamaica and students
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/valdosta-state-students-make-mission-trip-to-jamaica/article_b504333c-7839-5847-9e4b-e80f73bf7884.html
From Staff Reports
Valdosta State University students from The Wesley Foundation, a campus ministry, recently spent spring break working to improve the lives of those in need in Jamaica. The team of 16 students spent six days in Steer Town, Jamaica, painting houses, distributing food baskets, visiting with the sick and disabled, and digging a large sewage pit for a new community center that will offer medical care to the village. The students also played with local children, attended worship services at Steer Town United Methodist Church, and explored the local markets and landscapes.
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UGA undergraduates display their research in CURO Symposium
http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180409/uga-undergraduates-display-their-research-in-curo-symposium
By Lee Shearer
University of Georgia undergraduates showed off their research projects Monday in the university’s annual CURO Symposium at the Classic Center. Working under faculty mentors across many disciplines, hundreds of UGA students participate in the program each year, learning the methods of research in their particular fields, and using them to work on problems that often have real-world consequences. CURO — for “Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities” — began nearly 20 years ago as a program for a handful of students in the UGA Honors Program, recalled UGA President Jere Morehead, who was director of the Honors Program at the time. At first it was just a way of supporting Honors Program students, but now it’s grown into much more, he said — a national model for getting undergraduates involved in real university research.
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Savannah State University names interim police chief
http://www.savannahnow.com/news/20180409/savannah-state-university-names-interim-police-chief
Savannah State University has named Maj. Brian K. Lawton as the interim chief for the university’s police force.
SSU chief of police James Barnwell was placed on administrative leave with pay on March 23 while the institution conducts an internal investigation. Spokeswoman Loretta Heyward said Barnwell is still employed by the university, despite the hiring of Lawton. Lawton began his law enforcement career with the Georgia State University Police Department in 2000, where he has served on various assignments for the campus, according to a press release from SSU.
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Latina-owned company starts first-time fellowship at Georgia Tech
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/latina-owned-company-starts-first-time-fellowship-georgia-tech/jAz1YESGl2Du05XvQf2fBI/
Eric Stirgus
An Atlanta-owned business has become the first Latina-owned business to create a fellowship at Georgia Tech, according to officials involved in the partnership. Carlos Sanchez and Guiomar Obregon, president and CEO of the construction company Precision 2000, have agreed with Georgia Tech to create the Precision 2000 Inc. Fellowship Fund. It will benefit Colombian post-graduate students attending Tech’s School of Building Construction. The fellowship is $40,000.
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Honoring Rosa Parks at Geogia Tech: Sculpture unveiling slated
Honoring Rosa Parks at Geogia Tech: Sculpture unveiling slated
By David Pendered
A sculpture honoring Rosa Parks is to be dedicated Thursday afternoon on the campus of Georgia Tech. The sculptor is Martin Dawe, who crafted the sculpture of Martin Luther King, Jr. installed last year on the grounds of the state Capitol. The sculpture at Tech, Continuing the Conversation, is located in Harrison Square. The square honors the Tech president who guided the school through desegregation. Tech was the first major university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order, according to a story about the sculpture published by Georgia Tech. That was in 1961, during the tenure of Tech’s sixth president, Edwin D. Harrison, who served from 1957 to 1969. Harrison is quoted as saying: “It’s the right thing to do.” The story begins with the notion that Parks probably never stepped on Tech’s campus. But as the director of Tech’s Office of the Arts, Madison Cario, observed, the piece is an appropriate addition. “It allows the entire campus community to reflect on how the action of one person can have tremendous impact,” Cario said. “It illuminates history and welcomes us to become a part of it.”
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Technology and talent take center stage at 2018 Georgia Logistics Summit
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2018/04/09/technology-and-talent-take-center-stage-at-2018.html
By Matt Markham
The annual Georgia Logistics Summit provides a rare opportunity for representatives from every corner of the logistics industry to gather under one roof and discuss the latest trends that will impact the state’s shipping and transportation landscape … Unique among this year’s panels will be the “Smart State” breakout session, which will feature representatives from Georgia Tech, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Augusta University, AT&T and Applied Information Inc. These experts will explain how Georgia is making strides to take the foundation of a smart city and apply it statewide to become one of the first smart states in the country.
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Developing A Workforce In Georgia Means Supporting The Entire Family
http://www.gpb.org/blogs/georgia-at-work/2018/04/05/developing-workforce-georgia-means-supporting-the-entire-family
Parrish Walton
As Georgia winds up for the race to elect a new Governor, the State’s momentum in attracting and retaining employers will no doubt be an important talking point. A major component of that discussion will be providing a trained workforce to meet the demands brought by the surge of recent announcements. Intrinsically linked to this workforce discussion is the concept of economic mobility and opportunity for Georgians. Reliable transportation, affordable housing, and quality childcare are all potential barriers that can prevent someone from accessing such opportunities. These barriers shouldn’t come as a surprise to policy makers or for the administrators of Georgia’s workforce system, of which I am a part. Often the reason parents can’t participate in job training or can’t secure steady employment come down to these obstacles. That is why workforce development leaders are beginning to embrace a workforce system that looks past an individual’s needs and aims to support the entire family in taking part in economic mobility. These strategies are known as two-generational (2GEN) or multi-generational approaches to workforce development, and they are taking root in Georgia. Georgia is one of five states taking part in a learning community through a grant from the National Governor’s Association. This grant, known as the PACTT Network (Parents And Children Thriving Together), is helping align resources from across the state to support the entire family. Georgia’s grant is headed by the Department of Early Care and Learning, and includes the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Workforce Division, the Georgia Department of Labor, the Technical College System of Georgia, and the University System of Georgia. The focus is to help connect early childhood education with post-secondary and workforce resources.
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Advocates: School Gun Clubs Teach Discipline, Not Violence
https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2018/04/08/advocates-school-gun-clubs-teach-discipline_ap.html
By The Associated Press
Dahlonega, Ga.
Their classmates took to the streets to protest gun violence and to implore adults to restrict guns, seeming to forecast a generational shift in attitudes toward the Second Amendment. But at high school and college gun ranges around the country, these teens and young adults gather to practice shooting and talk about the positive influence firearms have had on their lives. What do they say they learn? Patience. Discipline. Responsibility. “I’ve never gone out onto a range and not learned something new,” said Lydia Odlin, a 21-year-old member of the Georgia Southern University rifle team. …The youths who are involved, coaches and parents say there’s an enormous difference between someone bent on violence and school gun clubs that focus on safety and teach skills that make navigating life’s hardships easier. …On a recent weekend, close to a dozen high school and college gun team members gathered at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega to work with JP O’Connor, a coach affiliated with USA Shooting, the Olympic organization. For the first hour he only talks—not about techniques or scores, but about mental strategy.
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Some Colleges Share Lists of Early-Decision Admits. Now the Justice Department Is Investigating.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Some-Colleges-Share-Lists-of/243067?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=a91d13cecca543bcaf03a5fc598ff98d&elq=03f4c78692684674939153efb4476bd3&elqaid=18508&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8319
By Eric Hoover
Don’t look now, but the federal government is scrutinizing another aspect of the admissions process. As Inside Higher Ed first reported on Friday, the Justice Department is investigating whether colleges violate antitrust laws by exchanging information about applicants admitted through early-decision policies. The behind-the-scenes practice, which some colleges have long engaged in, is meant to ensure the integrity of so-called binding early-decision programs, admissions officials say. Under those plans, students commit to enroll if accepted. At that point, they are supposed to withdraw all other applications to colleges. Some institutions see fit to help one another do some double-checking, and that’s apparently what caught the attention of the nation’s top law-enforcement agency. Late last week, the Justice Department sent letters to several colleges instructing them to preserve communications, including emails and other documents, pertaining to formal or informal agreements to share the identities of accepted early-decision applicants. Among the documents the government seeks are “records of actions taken or decisions made based in whole or part on information received from another college or university about the identities of accepted students.” Terry W. Hartle, senior vice president for government relations and public affairs at the American Council on Education, told Inside Higher Ed that he didn’t think admissions officials participated in the practices about which the Justice Department is apparently seeking evidence. “I can’t imagine,” he said, “circumstances under which a college or university would share with another college or university the names of students they have admitted.”
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Most College Presidents Worry That Speech Issues Could Trigger Violence
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Most-College-Presidents-Worry/243073?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=b0d0a331feb045f69ebd691d2d3e4804&elq=3f49f356e3284258a1acbc1c1d613d4f&elqaid=18534&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8329
By Andy Thomason
Seventy percent of college presidents are somewhat or very concerned about the prospect of violence on their campuses as a result of issues related to free speech and inclusion, a new survey has found. The American Council on Education questioned 471 college presidents of both public and private institutions for the study, which was released on Tuesday. The wide-ranging survey comes at a time when many college leaders have wrestled with how to handle invitations extended to controversial speakers — including white supremacists like Richard B. Spencer — to appear on their campuses. The survey found that the most common methods leaders use to “manage the tension between free speech and inclusion on campus” include public statements that lay out institutional values, community forums, and the monitoring of social media “for potential causes for concern.”