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Timeline shortens for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College nursing graduates
ABAC students entering associate’s nursing program can complete requirements in four consecutive terms
From Staff Reports
Qualified nurses will be entering the workplace in record time, thanks to a change in scheduling classes at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. ABAC Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Jerry Baker said ABAC students who enter the associate’s degree nursing program at ABAC can now complete their degree requirements in four consecutive terms, resulting in a graduation date five months sooner. Previously, students did not take classes during the summer term. “By continuing the program during the summer session, the students who enter this fall should complete their degrees by December of 2019,” Baker said. “Under our previous schedule, those students would have graduated in May of 2020. Taking classes next summer picks up the pace a little bit.
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GHC admissions team offers Charger Tours to prospective students
BY DONNA HARRIS
Maggie Schuyler joined Georgia Highlands College as its new director of admissions just in time to help her admissions team launch its revamped campus tour program. All five GHC campuses across northwest Georgia will begin a new program called Charger Tours to allow prospective students to get a feel for what life at the college would be like and to discover what it has to offer. “One of the most common factors when deciding where a prospective student will attend college is the campus tour,” said Schuyler, who was the assistant director of admissions at Middle Georgia State University before coming to GHC. “It is an exciting part of the college search process. Students want to get a glimpse of the place where they may spend the next years of their life. It’s a big deal.” Senior Admissions Counselor Maggie Jackson said the admissions team “felt that a structured tour program would serve the community best.” “High school counselors, parents and students appreciate a convenient method to view dates and register,” she said. “It allows the admissions counselors to spend more quality time in the community, at high schools and meeting with students without eliminating any personability of a college tour.” Jackson said GHC’s “noteworthy growth” over the past few years created the need for a tour program.
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UGA-Tifton to commemorate 100 years with Centennial Celebration
By Clint Thompson
For 100 years, UGA-Tifton has been a part of the community. Now, the campus is ready to celebrate its centennial. On Tuesday, Aug. 21, the community is invited to a special kickoff event at the front of campus that will feature several speakers, including Joe West, assistant dean of the UGA Tifton campus, UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean Sam Pardue, Tifton Mayor Julie Smith and Tift County Commission Chair Grady Thompson, who will issue proclamations. The event will begin at 4 p.m. with a reception to follow. Country music artists Keith Anderson and special guest James Otto will perform live in concert on Saturday, Aug. 25, for the University of Georgia Tifton campus Centennial Celebration. The event will be held on the front circle of the UGA Tifton campus, located off Moore Highway. This is a free, family-friendly event that will begin at 6 p.m. and will also have food vendors.
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EGSC to hold groundbreaking ceremony
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2018/08/egsc-to-hold-groundbreaking-ceremony/
by KATELYN MOORE
On August 16, 2018, beginning at 11 a.m., East Georgia State College will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for the Jean A. Morgan Student Activities Center Expansion Project. Join the college as they take their next step in meeting the needs of students on campus. The expansion project will add approximately 15,000 square feet to the existing facility and will provide much-needed student activity space, including a large multi-purpose room, digital gaming, larger game room, offices and a meeting room for the Student Government Association, Student Publication offices, and Student Life administrative space. The stated cost limitation for construction is $3.8 million.
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Georgia State President Mark Becker: ‘More energy and lifeblood’ after Turner Field redevelopment (Video)
By Crystal Edmonson – Broadcast Editor
When Mark Becker became president of Georgia State in 2009, the downtown university was mostly a commuter school. There was no football team, and the campus was small. Fast forward to today, and Georgia State is Georgia’s largest public university thanks to the 2016 consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College. And it’s football team plays in a renovated stadium that was once home to the Atlanta Braves. During Sunday’s BIZ show, Becker said he was in Washington D.C. when the news broke that the Braves were moving to Cobb County, and that he received a call from then-Atlanta City Council President Caesar Mitchell. “He says, unless you’ve got a problem with it, I’m going ot tell everybody that Georgia State belongs at Turner Field….” Becker told Atlanta Business Chronicle Publisher David Rubinger. “I immediately said we’re interested. We’re very pleased with the stadium, it’s a great football stadium for Georgia State, but also the development that’s gonna take place around the stadium by Carter and others that will make investment in that area, is very exciting. There already is more energy and lifeblood in the area. We’re already seeing more students form those neighborhoods enrolling at Georgia State, we’re seeing more people that live in the neighborhood working at Georgia State, and we’ve seen crime in that police zone actually drop, I’m told, by nearly 30 percent. So we think we’ve had an initial positive impact.”
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to launch over 70 satellites at once
My god, it’s full of satellites. A SpaceX rocket will act like an Uber and ride share a whole lot of tech into orbit.
BY AMANDA KOOSER
An upcoming SpaceX Falcon 9 launch loaded with satellites is shaping up to be the high-tech spacefaring equivalent of a clown car. Spaceflight Industries, which offers mission management services and arranges payload ride shares to space, is coordinating the launch of over 70 satellites for a mission called SSO-A: SmallSat Express… The SSO-A satellites hail from 35 different educational, commercial and government organizations, including the Georgia Institute of Technology, Honeywell Aerospace, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and the Nevada Museum of Art.
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Georgia Tech grad to lead NASA’s testing of commercial crewed spacecraft
https://saportareport.com/georgia-tech-grad-to-lead-nasas-testing-of-commercial-crewed-spacecraft/
By David Pendered
A Georgia Tech grad was named to the nine-member team of astronauts who are to serve aboard the first commercial crew flight tests of a spacecraft designed to transport humans to the International Space Station and other low-orbit destinations. Georgia Tech grad Eric Boe (left) and fellow astronauts Nicole Mann and Craig Ferguson are to test fly the Boeing Co.’s Starliner spacecraft sometime in 2019. Credit: news.gatech.edu Tech grad Eric Boe and fellow astronauts Chris Ferguson and Nicole Mann are to crew the Boeing Co.’s Starliner capsule, to be propelled by an Atlas V rocket. The launch planned for sometime in 2019 is to be the vessel’s first manned flight and, once proven successful, the Starliner is to be taken by a different crew to an operational mission to the space station, according to a report by Georgia Tech. “I’m looking forward to the journey,” Boe said in the report Tech released following the Aug. 3 announcement of the nine-member team, in Houston at Johnson Space Center of the nine team members.
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Registration open for Google and Georgia Tech’s annual Gravity Games
ATLANTA-NEWS By Denver Ellison – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s time for Georgia students to shift their technical skills into gear. Registration is now open for the 5th annual Georgia Gravity Games, an event sponsored by Google and Georgia Tech. The event is open for students, teachers and individuals to register here. According to a release from Google, the games are “designed to encourage Georgia’s K-12 students to build gravity-powered, soap box derby-style cars, using STEM-related skills and concepts they learn inside the classroom.”
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BREAKING: Body found in Gwinnett lake is missing pharmacy intern
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-body-found-gwinnett-lake-missing-uga-grad/FkCPjEvuCbMTGhphCDeJ5M/
By Alexis Stevens
More than three weeks after a recent University of Georgia graduate was reported missing, the search has ended. A body found in a small Gwinnett County lake has been identified as Alvin Ahmed, police said Wednesday. Ahmed, 25, was last seen July 16 after leaving the Publix in Loganville, where he worked as a pharmacy intern. Two days later, a woman called police to report seeing something in Lake Carlton, a small lake about 2 miles from the Publix. Firefighters and police determined it was a body. Medical examiners determined that the body pulled from the lake died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head. But it took additional time to positively identify the body as Ahmed because dental records could not be located. Investigators used DNA testing to confirm it was Ahmed, police said.
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New space takes shape on campuses to encourage learning, collaboration
AUTHOR James Paterson
Colleges are increasingly developing classrooms that allow for collaboration and exploration by re-arranging existing space or building new facilities to provide these environments. At one, a full-time staff member helps instructors design them. A report from the Chronicle of Higher Education says such changes, which allow students to work in groups or engage in discussions, are increasingly popular on campuses. At St. Edward’s University, a 5,000-student Catholic university in Austin, Texas, a learning-spaces manager helps professors design the space and change their teaching practices to use it best.
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Three university presidents take on Greek organization misbehavior
AUTHOR James Paterson
Three presidents of universities where students died after fraternity parties are the catalyst for new efforts to make activity in Greek organizations safer, according to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Eric Barron of Pennsylvania State University, F. King Alexander of Louisiana State University and John Thrasher of Florida State University believe that displaying a unified front will make it easier to bring about change in a segment of campus life where controversial, offensive or tragic issues gain widespread media attention too often. They also have begun to develop a national scorecard that gathers data on Greek organization behavior to form a resource database where administrators can share strategies and information about the success of various approaches.