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New Kennesaw State leader hopes to keep student costs affordable
By Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kennesaw State University’s new president wants to figure out what classes best fit student needs, start a fundraising campaign and graduate more career-ready students to work in local businesses. She also said she’s open to meeting the cheerleaders who knelt during the national anthem at football games last year and some of the students who protested on campus in support of the cheerleaders and over other issues. Pamela Whitten, the former provost at the University of Georgia, discussed these and other matters during a 30-minute interview Tuesday with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Here are excerpts:
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USG releases plan for College 2025 Initiative
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The University System of Georgia recently released its recommendations for a system-wide improvement mission called the “College 2025 Initiative.” University system Chancellor Steve Wrigley launched the initiative in May 2017. A 22-member committee spent the past year working to create a report that included the final recommendations, released Aug. 14. The College 2025 Initiative aims to improve higher education in public colleges and universities in Georgia, including College of Coastal Georgia in Brunswick. The initiative intends to ensure that the state’s higher education institutions offer affordable costs and quality academics, while preparing graduates for the workforce and to be productive community members. The “College 2025 Initiative” creates a road map for Georgia’s public universities and colleges to meet these goals.
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The College of Family and Consumer Sciences at UGA to Rename Historic Building in Honor of Charles Schwab Foundation Support
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The College of Family and Consumer Sciences will rename one of its buildings the Charles Schwab Financial Planning Center in recognition of the Charles Schwab Foundation’s generous financial support. In partnership with Schwab Advisor Services, Charles Schwab Foundation has committed $575,000 on behalf of independent investment advisors toward a major interior renovation project within the college’s Financial Planning Research Center, or “House B,” that will provide world-class facilities for training the next generation of financial planning professionals. The building, which most recently housed offices for financial planning faculty and graduate students as well as a conference room, was constructed in 1939. The name change was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia at its meeting on May 15.
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Top U.S. Colleges With Branches Overseas
Quanzhi Guo, Contributor
More than 325,000 American college students studied abroad in 2015-2016, according to the Institute of International Education. With globalization and the growing importance of international experience, U.S. colleges and universities have been expanding their global networks through setting up branch campuses overseas… Georgia-Tech Lorraine — Metz, France : Home to a strong sponsored research program through the Unité Mixte Internationale (UMI), an international joint laboratory between Georgia Tech and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). It also offers some double degree programs with French universities. Not accredited by the U.S.
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EGSC Biology Program receives INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine’s 2018 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award
by KATELYN MOORE
East Georgia State College’s Department of Biology was recently named one of INSIGHT Into Diversity Magazine’s 2018 Inspiring Programs in STEM. INSIGHT Into Diversity is the largest and oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. This award honors colleges and universities that encourage and assist students from underrepresented groups to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). East Georgia State College will be featured, along with 77 other recipients, in the September 2018 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners were selected by INSIGHT Into Diversity based on efforts to inspire and encourage a new generation of young people to consider careers in STEM through mentoring, teaching, research and successful programs and initiatives.
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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Colleges must throw open the gates and welcome innovation
Costas Spirou is senior associate provost at Georgia College, the state’s public liberal arts university. He was a 2017-2018 American Council on Education Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. As Georgia colleges resume classes this month, Spirou cites the importance of rethinking current higher education practices by encouraging a more open culture that values partnerships and embraces innovation. By Costas Spirou. For many, higher education and innovation is an oxymoron given that colleges and universities have been historically slow at embracing change. A 2017 Gallup survey revealed that 56 percent of Americans have “some” or “very little” confidence in these academic institutions.
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EGSC breaks ground on Student Center Expansion Project
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2018/08/141742/
by KATELYN MOORE
On August 16, 2018, at 11 a.m., East Georgia State College held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jean A. Morgan Student Activities Center Expansion Project. “This campus is your campus, and it is always a great day when we can all come together as a community,” said Dr. Bob Boehmer, EGSC President, in his opening speech. “Today is just one day short of one year following the day when we all stood together to celebrate the expansion of our Academic Building. The Spring before that, we gathered in the lobby of Bobcat Villas to celebrate the opening of our newest residence hall. Today, our East Georgia State College family gathers once again to celebrate three more important leaps forward: the expansion of our JAM Center, the generous gift to our Foundation by the Gambrell family of 138 acres of land, and the 30th anniversary of the Georgia Youth Science and Technology Center.”
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Four of five KSU cheerleaders who knelt during anthem “disappointed” they weren’t picked for this year’s squad
By Eric Stirgus
Four of the five Kennesaw State University cheerleaders who knelt at football games last season to protest police brutality will not be on the squad this season, to their disappointment. The cheerleader protest caused an uproar at the university. KSU changed its rules after the first protest, keeping all cheerleaders in the tunnel during the anthem. …KSU officials said the number of people who tried out in May for one of the 52 spots on this year’s squad increased to 95 from the 61 who tried out last year. Seven cheerleaders who were on the squad last year didn’t make this year’s group, they said. “While they are disappointed, they’ve accepted it and went on with their academic lives,” Davante Lewis, the spokesman for the cheerleaders, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Pamela Whitten, hired in June as KSU’s president, said in an interview Tuesday she would be open to meeting with the cheerleaders and students involved in the protests.
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Study: Use of digital devices in class affects students’ long-term retention of information
AUTHOR Amelia Harper
A new study conducted by researchers at Rutgers University reveals that students who are distracted by texts, games, or videos while taking lecture notes on digital devices are far more likely to have their long-term memory affected and to perform more poorly on exams, even if short-term memory is not impacted, EdSurge reports. Exam performance was not only poorer for students using the devices, but also for other students in classes that permitted the devices because of the distraction factor, the study found. After conducting the study, Arnold Glass, the lead researcher, changed his own policy and no longer allows his students to take notes on digital devices.