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Search underway for new UGA provost and Academic Affairs VP
By Morgan Hydrick / WUGA
The search is officially underway for the University of Georgia’s new vice president for Academic Affairs and provost. Pamela Whitten had held this position since 2014 before leaving last month to become president of Kennesaw State University. UGA President Jere Morehead appointed a search committee for the position in early August. Search Committee Co-chairs Benjamin C. Ayers, dean of the Terry College of Business, and Denise A. Spangler, dean of the College of Education, announced in an email to UGA faculty and staff that they had asked Parker Executive Search to assist in the search. The committee is also taking nominations for the position from the UGA community.
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These are the 10 most affordable HBCUs in the U.S.
Study by Student Loan Hero details schools with the lowest tuition fees
https://theundefeated.com/features/these-are-the-10-most-affordable-hbcus-in-the-us/
By Maya A. Jones
Choosing a college based on what one can afford, instead of a college that one would love to attend, is the harsh reality for many students in America. In 2017, a report revealed that low-income students could not afford 95 percent of colleges because of soaring tuition costs and fees. Four years before that, with the price of education already skyrocketing, a change in policy created stricter guidelines for federal school loans, causing an uptick in loan denials and historically black college and university (HBCU) dropouts. Now, HBCUs are looking to do their part in helping students get into their respective colleges and stay there. A new study released by Student Loan Hero is offering a little hope to students troubled by tuition and extra fees. Of the top five private HBCUs with the lowest tuition costs, Simmons College of Kentucky, in Louisville, topped the list.
The top five most affordable public schools
Albany State University, Albany, Georgia
In-state tuition and fees: $5,675 … Out-of-state tuition and fees: $16,136
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How UNG plans to connect students with health care industry positions
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/how-ung-plans-connect-students-health-care-industry-positions/
Joshua Silavent
The health care industry is already one of the top employers in Hall County and the Northeast Georgia region, but the field is growing in a number of unique ways. The University of North Georgia is looking to capitalize on the expanding field by connecting prospective and current students with opportunities in the health care industry at the Regional Education and Economic Development Summit on Thursday, Sept. 6. The summit, hosted at UNG’s Convocation Center on the Dahlonega campus, will explore the confluence of education and economic development – how they “go hand in hand for a thriving economy,” said Kay Keller, director of economic development and community engagement at UNG. Keller said there are many occupations in health care that extend beyond the hospital or emergency room.
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New Terry College of Business program seeks to meet market demand
Peter Prybylski | Contributor
The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business brings a new graduate program to the university this semester in the master of science business analytics program. Officially announced in January following approval from the university and board of regents, the Terry MSBA program welcomes its inaugural cohort for the fall 2018 semester. MSBA students will take on a 33-hour course load with classes from several different Terry departments over two semesters. The program aims to equip students with the skills necessary to work in the field of business and data analytics, which involves the management of data regarding customers and other firms to allow businesses to make strategic decisions. …Students will study a variety of valuable programming languages and data analysis alongside marketing, economics and business strategy, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the coursework.
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EGSC breaks ground on JAM Expansion Project
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2018/08/egsc-breaks-ground-on-jam-expansion-project/
by HALEI LAMB
On August 16 at 11 a.m., East Georgia State College (EGSC) 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.” In attendance were Senators Jack Hill and Jesse Stone, Representative Butch Parrish, University System of Georgia Chancellor Dr. Steve Wrigley, former EGSC Presidents Dr. Willie Gunn and Dr. Foster Watkins, GYSTC Chair Tanya Blalock, Regent Allen Gudenrath, and representatives of the Emanuel County Board of Commissioners, Board of Education, and the Swainsboro City Council.
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New report: You can’t work your way through college anymore
A generation ago, you could pay for college with money earned through summer and part-time jobs. Now, that’s only possible if your part-time job is hedge fund manager. A new report released today by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce looks at the nearly 70 percent of students who work while enrolled in college. The report found low-income students tend to work more hours and pay a price for it with lower college graduation rates. Longer hours add up to lower grades and lower completion rates. Only 22 percent of low-income students working while enrolled complete a bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to 37 percent of higher-income working peers. Work has become a necessity for many students, given the cost of higher education in America. Between 2005-2006 and 2015–2016, prices for undergraduate tuition, fees, room, and board rose 34 percent for public colleges and 26 percent for private nonprofit campuses, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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‘These women are warriors’: Georgia Southern students who survived kidnapping, sexual assault praised
By Steve Burns – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three Georgia Southern University students who were kidnapped at knifepoint near the campus drew strong praise from local police for their “strength and bravery” in helping authorities find the man accused of sexually assaulting two of them. “These women are survivors, warriors,” Statesboro police said Monday in a Facebook post. “Their strength, intelligence and courage is what should be recognized and remembered in regards to this incident.” The ordeal began about 9 p.m. Sunday in the parking lot of the Food World grocery store, which is across from the Statesboro campus on Fair Road, officials said.
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Tweet leads to KSU student’s arrest for ‘playing footsies’ with women
Ben Brasch – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Kennesaw State University student was arrested after social media posts circulated of him rubbing a female student’s foot with his foot in a campus library.
The 23-year-old man later told investigators he had been “playing footsies” with between 10 and 20 women, according to police records, none of whom he knew. He faces two counts of misdemeanor simple battery. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution typically does not name those charged solely with misdemeanors.
The arrest came after a female student reported a man who “touched her on the foot inappropriately with his foot” in the Sturgis Library on Aug. 17, university spokeswoman Tammy Demel told The AJC on Tuesday. The female student posted a picture of the man’s face on Twitter at 11:50 p.m. She recounted how he sat right next to her; she said it was a near-empty library on a Friday night. She said he kept eyeing her feet, but she brushed it off. Then in the tweet thread, she included a video of what appears to be his bare foot inching closer to her foot. She said that he then put his foot on hers, and she left.
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Gates Foundation grant to help Atlanta students find best college fit
By Vanessa McCray – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta high school students will receive extra college admission support thanks to grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grants were announced Tuesday, with recipients including Atlanta Public Schools, Achieve Atlanta and the KIPP Foundation. High school counselors at KIPP Atlanta Collegiate will receive training to help students prepare for and enroll in college using a $499,000 grant received by the charter school network’s foundation. The KIPP Foundation will spend the money providing training and tools to counselors at 30 of its high schools in 22 cities.
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Big Companies Are Investing in Free College. Will Their Commitments Last?
By Goldie Blumenstyk August 28, 2018
| Big Companies Are Investing in Free College. Will Their Commitments Last?
www.chronicle.com Colleges would be wise to engage more vigorously with those corporations now, while the economy is strong and the employers could use their help. If they don’t, other companies will be more than willing to pick up the slack. |
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I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what’s on my mind this week: Students need new skills for our changing economy. Are companies starting to get it? Conventional wisdom says higher-education enrollments fall off in a strong economy, particularly among older students. When jobs are plentiful, the logic goes, many people would rather just get the job than go to school to skill up for a theoretical job. But when companies like Walmart, FedEx, and Disney offer free tuition to their lower-wage employees, as each has recently done, I begin to wonder: Is it time to rethink the conventional wisdom? Maybe at this stage of our economic development, the combination of employers’ and employees’ needs for a better-educated work force has started to change that dynamic and made education a higher priority even in an era of high employment. Or will those gestures of corporate largess — and perhaps self-interest — fade away once the next downturn hits? Can colleges count on companies as reliable pipelines?