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Georgia Tech Admissions Hits the Road
http://savannahceo.com/news/2018/08/georgia-tech-admissions-hits-road/
Students, parents and high school counselors across Georgia will soon get answers to their college admissions questions from three of the state’s leading universities. Georgia Tech’s admission staff is teaming up with their counterparts from Georgia State University and the University of Georgia for the Peach State Tour. This annual event puts Georgia Tech within 50 miles of every high school student in the state. The three colleges will hold free information sessions in 23 different cities and towns. Some sessions are just for students and their parents. Others are for high school counselors.
www.wsfa.com
ABAC wins national fundraising award
http://www.wsfa.com/story/38951338/abac-wins-national-fundraising-award
By John Barron, Reporter
TIFTON, GA (WALB) – For the first time in its school history, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is receiving the National Fundraising Award. Every year since 1959, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education has recognized 90 colleges and universities around the nation. ABAC was chosen based on the judges’ analysis of the three years of fundraising data submitted to the annual Voluntary Support of Education Survey. Chief Operating Officer of the ABAC Foundation Jodie Snow said this will show donors the opportunities that ABAC offers its students.
www.cobbcountycourier.com
KSU Ranked 17th Nationally In Degrees To African-American Students
https://cobbcountycourier.com/2018/08/ksu-ranked-17th/
POSTED BY: LARRY FELTON JOHNSON
Kennesaw State University announced in a news release today that it was ranked 17th nationally in bachelor’s degrees conferred to African-American students, making the top 100 list again of colleges and universities in the U.S. that confer the greatest number of bachelor’s degrees to minority students. The annual list, compiled by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education was published in that magazine’s Aug. 23 edition. Georgia State University, at number 3, had the best record of bachelor’s degree conferral to black students among Georgia colleges and universities. Georgia Southern University also made the list at number 20. Last year KSU was ranked number 24. In combined total ranking of minority degree conferral, which includes African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic, and Native-American students, KSU was in the 80th position.
www.wabe.org
Georgia Tech Teams With ‘Big Data’ Experts To Study Medical Imaging
https://www.wabe.org/georgia-tech-teams-with-big-data-experts-to-study-medical-imaging/
NAOMI THOMAS, GEORGIA HEALTH NEWS
“Big data’’ health care analytics are the focus of a new program at Georgia Tech. Last week, the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute announced a five-year, $3 million research partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology to establish the Health Economics and Analytics Lab (HEAL), with the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Tech. HEAL will apply big data analytics and artificial intelligence to large-scale medical claims databases — focusing on medical imaging — to better understand how health care delivery and payment models affect patients and providers.
www.ajc.com
Georgia Tech dragged its feet on investigation, tipster complained
By Eric Stirgus Ty Tagami, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech reacted so slowly to anonymous ethics complaints last spring that a tipster threatened to go to the news media, in a move that elevated the case to authorities above the university and led to the resignation of three employees, according to records obtained by Channel 2 Action News. “Since you have done nothing but tip off the fraudsters and cover your own corrupt doings, this is going to Richard Belcher, so he can do something about it,” the tipster complained on Tech’s ethics website on May 15. A copy of that complaint, and several others obtained by Channel 2’s Belcher, depict a lethargic university ethics enforcement system that left concerned employees feeling isolated.