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Griffin Daily News
Gordon State hosts superintendents’ roundtable
From Staff Reports
Creating conversation centered on how higher education and area K-12 school systems can work together to bridge the gap between students leaving high school and entering college shaped Gordon State College’s The Power of WE: Superintendent’s Roundtable on Friday.
Albany Herald
Albany State University students participate in mock interviews with Google representative
Google interviews do not consist of typical behavioral questions
From staff reports
Kennady Wright, a senior Albany State University student from Chicago, said she feels prepared to interview at Google or any technology company of her choice. In September, she, along with other computer science and mathematics students, participated in mock interviews with a representative from the multinational tech giant. “I feel prepared because I know what questions may be asked in a tech interview and how to solve them. The ‘Googler’ taught us a four-step approach to help us learn how to tackle technical interview questions,” Wright said. Unlike usual job interviews, Google interviews do not consist of typical behavioral questions; they want to see candidates solve problems in real time.
The Times-Georgian
Carrollton’s first Pride Festival set for Friday
By Stephanie Allen
The University of West Georgia’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) will be hosting Carrollton’s first LGBTQ Pride Festival on Friday.
Savannah CEO
Staff Report From Savannah CEO
A team of undergraduate logistics students from the Parker College of Business won the Intermodal Association of North America’s (IANA) ninth Intermodal EXPO Academic Challenge in Long Beach, California. This win, the university’s first in this annual national competition, follows back-to-back wins at IANA-UNF competitions as Georgia Southern University students continue to outperform IANA scholar schools in the past few years. Three Parker College of Business student leaders with varied backgrounds and interests, John Eubanks and Parker Business Scholars David Vaughn and Santiago Suarez, outscored the competition with their response to a business case study that focused on analyzing volume trends from both the intermodal and over-the-road perspectives. Georgia Southern was one of seven IANA scholarship schools that competed.
Athens CEO
UGA Law School Named Best Return on Investment for the Second Year in a Row
Heidi Murphy
For the second year in a row, the University of Georgia School of Law has been named the best value in legal education in the country by National Jurist. These rankings are based on outcome-driven metrics such as bar passage and employment rates in addition to average indebtedness, tuition and cost of living.
This recognition speaks volumes to the School of Law’s relentless pursuit to be the nation’s very best return on investment in legal education, according to School of Law Dean Peter B. “Bo” Rutledge. “Over the past five years, buoyed by private donations and holding the line on tuition, the aggregate annual indebtedness of our students has been reduced by more than $5 million, and for the 2018-19 academic year almost 40% of our J.D. student body did not borrow funds to support their legal education,” he said.
KSU The Sentinel
Sturgis the Owl parts ways with KSU
Emily Rubin
Kennesaw State’s living mascot is no longer with the university following a decision between KSU and the owl’s owner earlier this year. “Sturgis the Owl is no longer with Kennesaw State,” Assistant Vice President of Communications Tammy Demel said. “The University and the owl’s owner were unable to reach an agreement during contract negotiations and came to the mutual decision to part ways.” Sturgis is a Great Horned Owl and was KSU’s first-ever live mascot. He has been with the university since his introduction at the second annual “Flight Night” in October 2013.
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KSU and Sturgis’ owner Daniel Walthers were unable to come to an agreement regarding a contract, and the decision to part ways was reached.
Marietta Daily Journal
OWL GONE: KSU’s owl mascot no longer affiliated with university
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Inside Higher Ed
DeVos on Congressional Fight Over HBCU Money
By Andrew Kreighbaum
The recent expiration of mandatory federal funding for historically black colleges won’t have any bearing on award funds for the next year, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told HBCU leaders in a letter sent Wednesday. More than $255 million in Title III, Part F, funds expired last month after Senator Lamar Alexander, the chairman of the Senate education committee, blocked a bill that would provide a short-term extension of the funds. Alexander proposed a long-term extension of the money for HBCUs in a broader package of higher ed legislation — an offer rejected by Senate Democrats, who have insisted on a comprehensive reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.
Inside Higher Ed
More high school students are getting a head start on college, but dual enrollment is costly for some colleges.
By Madeline St. Amour
Participation in dual enrollment programs has grown steadily since the early 2000s, with more high school students getting a head start on college — and not just wealthy ones. But while dual enrollment has broad support from students and policy makers, it can place a financial strain on colleges. “The research shows that students who participate in dual enrollment programs are more likely to graduate and go on to postsecondary education,” said Amy Williams, executive director of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP). The flip side is the financial burden often placed on already underresourced community colleges.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Graduate School Enrollment on the Rise
by Lois Elfman
Graduate school applications and first-time enrollment are on the rise with the largest increases in mathematics and computer sciences. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) released its annual report on graduate enrollment and degrees. CGS/GRE Graduate Enrollment & Degrees: 2008–18 shows overall graduate school applications from fall 2017 to fall 2018 increased by 2.2 percent and first-time graduate school enrollment increased by 2.1 percent across all institution types. The report examines master’s and doctoral programs across all fields of study and includes responses from 589 of the 775 institutions contacted (76 percent).
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Future of Campus Libraries? ‘Sticky Interdependence’
By Lindsay Ellis
Campus libraries are anticipating a new era — a codependent one. Librarians at universities in the Big Ten athletic conference wrote recently that they would work toward managing their separate collections “as if they were a single, shared” one. They said they must move away from a mind-set of independent libraries, motivated by self-interest, cooperating only sometimes. Emerging in its place is a vision of a more codependent system in which research libraries pledge to preserve individual collection areas, allowing other institutions to allocate spending elsewhere. In a large, fully networked library system, users could more regularly get materials from other campuses, similar to an interlibrary loan, as individual collections would be more specialized and distinct. It’s an idea, long building, that acknowledges that the competition to acquire, acquire, acquire must change.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Tech-Skills Boot Camps Are on the March
By Goldie Blumenstyk
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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 I’m thinking about this week.
Tech-skills boot camps are on the march.
General Assembly, a company that teaches tech skills, is teaming up with an online-program-management company called Noodle Partners to develop boot camps with college partners. Their first deal is with University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Partnerships between boot camps and colleges aren’t that novel anymore. So, even before this announcement became public, I’d been trying to figure out why it might matter to anyone other than the parties involved. …With enrollments in MBA and other master’s programs softening, colleges may well see adding the option of short-term boot-camp offerings as a smart hedge. If colleges do indeed continue to embrace this trend, they will be entering a sector where reliable data on student outcomes is still decidedly hard to come by — and hype often overtakes reality.