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Houston college students stranded by Harvey get help in Atlanta
http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/houston-college-students-stranded-harvey-get-help-atlanta/E76kON7vPpEnhE55BM8TSL/
By Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
More than a dozen Houston-area college students are learning a lesson in kindness from their counterparts in Atlanta after being stranded here since Sunday because of the remnants of Hurricane Harvey. The effort by Atlanta University Center students to assist 17 Texas Southern University students and some faculty members is one of several campaigns by college students across Georgia to help those impacted by the monster storm. The Texas Southern group was in Tallahassee, Fla., Saturday to watch its football team play Florida A & M University. While the team and others drove back to Houston, the group caught a flight to Atlanta, but all connecting flights to Houston were cancelled because of Harvey. Raphael Moffett, Texas Southern’s vice president of student services, a former Morehouse College administrator, contacted Kevin Booker, an associate dean at Morehouse, to explain their dilemma. Morehouse officials and student leaders began brainstorming ways to help. …Other Georgia colleges and universities are also trying to help. Georgia Southern is collecting items for the next month at several athletic events. Kennesaw State and the College of Coastal Georgia are organizing blood drives. Georgia Southwestern State University is collecting clothes to be sent to the University of Houston. A Clayton State faculty member is headed to the region to assist with American Red Cross relief efforts.
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Georgia Southwestern State, ABAC make top 10 Georgia colleges list
Schools.com ranks top on-campus and online colleges and universities
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/georgia-southwestern-state-abac-make-top-georgia-colleges-list/article_1a50cc53-7f32-5015-a5cb-ed9c810d0ab3.html#utm_source=albanyherald.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1504180830&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
From Staff Reports
Schools.com has published its list of the four-year colleges it ranks highest in Georgia. Two Southwest Georgia institutions are in the list. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton ranked No. 7, followed by Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus at No. 8. The top 10 list is for schools in Georgia where students can earn a campus-based or online bachelor’s degree. Schools.com gathered data from the National Center for Education Statistics and other U.S. Department of Education sources on more than 50 public and not-for-private schools in the state and analyzed it with their 13-point methodology. GSW had the smallest student population of any of the colleges and universities that made the top 10 for the state, with Schools.com officials noting the “intimate learning environment” at the Americus university. GSW President Neal Weaver said that educational setting at his university provides more focused attention for students.
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Georgia State University reports record enrollment
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-state-university-reports-record-enrollment/aWs4K2Rl9S39zBZvK9wu9M/
Eric Stirgus
Georgia State University officials said Wednesday its campuses are continuing to grow at record levels. Its Perimeter College campuses enrolled 7,245 new students, a 23 percent increase. This includes the largest dual-enrollment class in Perimeter’s history, with 1,640 students enrolled, the university said. More than 3,900 freshmen enrolled at the university’s Atlanta campus, a 5 percent increase in first-year students compared to the fall semester of 2016, GSU said.
Georgia Magazine
Georgia Film Academy provides training, inroads to the state’s booming film industry
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/gemc/georgia_201709/index.php#/24
By Laura Raines
We are pleased to share secured GFA coverage in the September issue of Georgia Magazine (Impressions: 1,620,000) highlighting the undeniable successes of the Georgia Film Academy. The robust feature includes background on how the GFA came to be, photos of the staff and students, and interview excerpts from Jeff Stepakoff, Aaron Levy, Josh Lee, Mary Ann Hughes from Disney, and recent GFA graduates Laura McCarter and Miles Grier. Mary Ann Hughes, vice president of film and television production planning with Walt Disney Studios. “Thanks to the Georgia Film Academy’s commitment to training students in below-the-line crafts, we can bring our productions to the state of Georgia with confidence.”
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Senate panel meets in Carrollton to begin study of Georgia IT corridors
http://www.times-georgian.com/news/local/senate-panel-meets-in-carrollton-to-begin-study-of-georgia/article_09cf82a8-8dfd-11e7-beac-2bd27ebe6333.html
Arthia Nixon/Times-Georgian
A Senate panel held its first Information Technology Corridors in Georgia Study Committee Wednesday in Carroll County, allowing IT professionals and politicians the opportunity to look at how the state is stacking up in the industry. Moderating the meeting was Sen. P.K. Martin who sponsored Senate Resolution 410, and created the Senate Information Technology Corridors in Georgia Study Committee. Martin serves as chair of the five member study committee which includes Sens. Brandon Beach, Harold Jones and Bruce Thompson. Also attending the meeting were Chancellor Steve Wrigley from the Board of Regents, Burt Brantley from the Department of Economic Development and Kevin Curtain from AT&T.
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UGA Research and Public Service Units Recognized in Economic Prosperity Competition
http://athensceo.com/news/2017/08/uga-research-and-public-service-units-recognized-economic-prosperity-competition/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=5d84883346-eGaMorning-8_31_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-5d84883346-86731974&mc_cid=5d84883346&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
Staff Report From Athens CEO
Three University of Georgia units have been named finalists in a competition recognizing innovative programs that develop economic prosperity locally and beyond. Innovation Gateway, Archway Partnership, and Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant were named finalists in the 2017 University Economic Development Association Awards of Excellence competition. UEDA represents higher education, private sector and community economic development stakeholders across North America. The competing organizations were judged by a panel of university and economic development professionals on alignment of their institution’s core mission activities with regional economic development goals in three categories: innovation, talent and place, as well as the intersections of these three categories. Criteria for judging included originality, scalability, sustainability, impact and the feasibility of other organizations replicating the initiatives in their communities.
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University of Georgia and AYTM Partner to Further Enhance the Master of Marketing Research Program
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/university-of-georgia-and-aytm-partner-to-further-enhance-the-master-of-marketing-research-program-300511263.html?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=5d84883346-eGaMorning-8_31_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-5d84883346-86731974&mc_cid=5d84883346&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Market research platform AYTM (Ask Your Target Market) is proud to announce that they are the newest advisory board member and partner of the globally-renowned Master of Marketing Research (MMR) program at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The partnership is focused on bringing AYTM’s world class research tools and access to over 25 million respondents to UGA MMR students. This is AYTM’s first major university partnership, which will educate and empower the next generation of market researchers. Lev Mazin, CEO at AYTM says “We’re honored to partner with the world’s first MMR program that continues to set the standard for market research education. We are committed to empowering the next generation of researchers with the wide array of the leading-edge research automation tools that they will use in the real world. In doing so we are able to support them as they complete research projects for their coursework and carry the skills and knowledge well beyond into their professional careers.”
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Colleges Confront the Perils of Frats
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Confront-the-Perils/241055?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=bd2eb5b322ed4243b279c2f0afdeb8a2&elq=2ae6a557630b441289fb218f0da56481&elqaid=15394&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6576
By Katherine Mangan
Puzzle night for new members was presented by Alpha Sigma Phi at the University of Arizona as a bonding experience, a wholesome alternative to the brutal ordeals that define this rite of passage for so many fraternity pledges. Arizona is widely seen as a leader in combating hazing. As part of a national consortium, the university worked with StopHazing for three years on prevention, adopting strategies like encouraging team building and challenging the power dynamics that can lead to abusive behavior. Out of those discussions, Alpha Sigma Phi proposed puzzle night. But the event, in March, took a dangerous turn when members pressured pledges to get drunk, blindfolded them, and marched them down a hallway, where one was reportedly shoved into a pillar and seriously injured. Members threatened retaliation for telling anyone what happened, pledges said, but word got out, the university investigated, and it revoked the chapter’s status as a recognized campus group for at least a year. Meanwhile, the chapter can continue to recruit new members and hold social events because it is still recognized by the national fraternity and has its own house. So how can colleges keep students safe? For all the efforts to rein in fraternities, problems associated with recruitment and initiation seem intractable nationally. At least one student dies from hazing every year, according to Hank Nuwer, a professor of journalism at Franklin College who has studied the issue. Hazing is by no means restricted to fraternities, but the combination of free-flowing alcohol, an unequal power dynamic between members and pledges, and decades of tradition can create breeding grounds for abuse.