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November Is Georgia Apply To College Month
http://www.publicnow.com/view/BFFED8E66BCA27DA6F340C028AEAF5678AC49977
By going to college, you expand not only your mind but your range of opportunities. Studies show that along with a college degree, students gain advantages in terms of income, health and community involvement. With that in mind, an official proclamation signed by Governor Nathan Deal, with large support from government agencies and independent non-profits, declares November to be Georgia Apply to College Month.
How Do I Start?
Start your college research with GAfutures.org! This new online college planning and preparation resource, provided by the Georgia Student Finance Commission, replaced GAcollege411.
Go Back. Move Ahead., a special initiative resulting from the collaboration of several state agencies, is dedicated to helping non-traditional students obtain their college degrees
Check out Georgia ONmyLINE for an introduction to online learning in Georgia. Take their self-assessment to see if you’re ready to jump from the classroom to your home office, then find what schools in Georgia can provide the online degree or courses that you need.
Students Age 62 and Older
If you’re at least 62-years-old and you’re planning to go back to school, you might be able to attend a Georgia college or university for free! Find one of the University System of Georgia’s 29 schools near you and contact its Office of Admissions for more information.
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Albany city leaders partner with UGA for five year plan
By Melissa Hodges, Anchor
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Albany leaders are working with University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute to develop a five year strategic plan for the city. Top priorities identified are economic development, jobs, infrastructure and having fiscal responsibility. The city’s manager calls the plan a “road-map” for city leaders and employees.
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Georgia Research Alliance Receives National Award for Excellence in Technology-based Economic Development
PR Newswire
ATLANTA, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ – The Georgia Research Alliance has received national recognition for its venture development program which builds high-growth companies around research at Georgia’s universities.
Georgia Research Alliance.
The award was announced by the State Science Technology Institute (SSTI) at its annual meeting in Columbus Ohio this week. Chaired by former Governor Tom Ridge, SSTI is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving initiatives that support prosperity through science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. SSTI selected GRA along with three other state programs that have demonstrated innovative approaches to growing their economies and creating high-paying jobs. GRA was recognized for the GRA Venture Fund, LLC (GRAVF) which was created in 2009 to provide critical seed-stage capital to companies emerging from Georgia’s universities.
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State Bar pass rate drops again, but UGA Law still tops Georgia
By Lee Shearer
Pass rates on the state bar exam declined again for University of Georgia School of Law graduates this year, mirroring statewide and national trends in bar exam scores. But UGA still had the highest pass rate in the state, according to statistics released by the Supreme Court of Georgia Office of Bar Admissions. Some 87.5 percent of UGA’s first-time test takers passed the bar exam in July, compared to the state average of 75.3 percent.
www.globalatlanta.com
Nov. 4 Grant Request Deadline for UGA and University of Liverpool Collaborations
http://www.globalatlanta.com/nov-4-grant-request-deadline-uga-university-liverpool-collaborations/
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The University of Georgia and England’s University of Liverpool are offering seed grants of $9,000 each to encourage a wide variety of research collaborations such as novel developments of personalized cancer treatments and the development of textiles used for soldier combat uniforms. The grants, which are to over initial project costs, must be submitted by Nov. 4. A collaboration between researchers at the two universities in the 2014-15 grant cycle has resulted in a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Health. UGA’s Natarajan Kannan and University of Liverpool’s Patrick Eyers received the NIH funding for their project, “Evaluation of the Cancer-Mutated Human Kinome,” to provide cancer patients with personalized treatment strategies based on their individual genomic profile. Dr. Kannan, associate professor of biology in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and his UGA-based research team are mining data for cancer genomes to identify key mutations while Dr. Eyers and his research team in England are drug-testing cancer mutuals to see what treatment works best for each type of mutation.
Higher Education News:
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What 12 State Schools Are Cutting, or Creating
By SARAH BROWN
Higher education has been an easy target for budget cuts since the 2008 recession, forcing many public universities to lay off faculty and staff members, postpone investment in new facilities and raise tuition and fees (up an average 31 percent for in-state students). State support for public two- and four-year colleges — funding is nearly $10 billion below what it was just before the recession — has begun to recover, though officials at the nation’s flagship universities say that doing more with less is the new norm. Some are even finding fresh ways to ease the financial burden on students.
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Those Hidden College Fees
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/education/edlife/those-hidden-college-fees.html
By ROCHELLE SHARPE
The parade of fees on college campuses never seems to end. There are extra charges to start college, such as orientation fees and freshman fees, and extra charges to finish, such as senior fees and commencement fees. There are nickel-and-dime fees, like $8.50 at Indiana University to drop a class after two days, and large ones, like $3,049 to major in digital media and animation at Alfred State College, State University of New York. Then there are all the mandatory charges rolled into the published “tuition and fees,” including a slew of euphemistically named fees for costs that used to be covered by tuition, like the annual $814 “student success fee” at California Polytechnic State and the $3,324 “academic excellence fee” for entering students at the University of Oklahoma. Both go mainly toward faculty recruitment and salaries. Bursars are tacking more and more charges onto your bill, raising revenue for their underfunded colleges and causing all kinds of financial headaches for unsuspecting students.
www.chronicle.com
The Past and Future of Higher Education
The Chronicle’s 50th anniversary is an occasion to take stock of the world we cover. What ideas and arguments might shape the next 50 years?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-PastFuture-of-Higher/238302
This month marks the 50th anniversary of The Chronicle, a fitting occasion to step back and take stock of the world we cover. We wanted to know what keeps people in higher education up at night, to assess the major transformations that have taken place over the past 50 years, and to glimpse the ideas and arguments that might shape the next 50. Here, in a series of charts, we present the results of a survey sent to 1,000 Chronicle subscribers to solicit their views on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing the academic enterprise. Nearly 250 people responded. We promised anonymity in exchange for candor. And below, nearly 50 faculty members, presidents, administrators, and higher-education thinkers respond to a questionnaire about those issues: What has been the most significant change in the past 50 years? Who should pay for college? The biggest misconception the public has about higher education is… The biggest misconception that academics have is… Has the exchange of ideas become more or less free than it was 50 years ago? How can we avoid a two-tier system of higher education? What advice would you give a family member who wants to become an academic? Given absolute power, what is the one change you’d enact? What important phenomenon today will be forgotten by 2066? What makes you optimistic about the next 50 years?
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Harvard Suspends Men’s Soccer Team Over Sexually Explicit Rankings of Women Players
Division I men’s team to forfeit final two games of season, forgo postseason play
By Melissa Korn
Harvard University has suspended its Division I men’s soccer team for the rest of the season after the school’s lawyers found a “scouting report” assessing the physical appearance of women players in vulgar terms was a widespread practice among players, including among those on this fall’s roster. The men’s soccer team is currently ranked first in the Ivy League and will forfeit the final two games of the season and forgo any postseason play. The school’s student newspaper, the Harvard Crimson, reported last week that the men’s 2012 soccer team rated women’s soccer recruits with narrative descriptions, a number scale, nicknames and potential sexual positions. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust instructed the general counsel’s office to review the matter. “I was deeply distressed to learn that the appalling actions of the 2012 men’s soccer team were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few individuals,” Ms. Faust said in a prepared statement. She said she supports the athletic director’s decision to cancel the remainder of the season, and to engage the soccer team in “a systematic program of training.”