Last week’s Courier Herald column: Most Georgia colleges have completed their spring commencement exercises, with high schools set to award diplomas to new graduates over the next couple of weeks. It’s a great time of year to both celebrate the achievements earned, while looking forward to new opportunities and challenges ahead. For those who have
I’m typing this before the announcement has appeared on the USG’s page, but since they’ve emailed it out university-wide, I feel safe in announcing that Former Secretary of State Cathy Cox has been named the finalist for President of Georgia College in Milledgeville. From the release: Board of Regents Chairman Sachin Shailendra and University System
From a University System of Georgia press release: Atlanta — June 23, 2021 The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) today named Teresa MacCartney as acting chancellor of the University System of Georgia, effective July 1, 2021. The decision comes as the Board conducts a national search to find USG’s 14th
This week’s Courier Herald column: Good news was delivered to my inbox this week, which will be appreciated by students and their parents across the state. For the third time in five years, the University System of Georgia will freeze tuition and fees for the upcoming school year. While holding the line on the cost
This week’s Courier Herald column: The mantra has been the same around my family’s tables as with many Georgia families for years. “If you don’t keep your grades up, you’re not going to get HOPE.” Next month, a niece and nephew join another niece and thousands of other Georgia students who have received help attending
This week’s Courier Herald column: There’s a lot of wisdom behind the old saying “he couldn’t see the forest for the trees.” Sometimes we get so focused on what is right in front of us that we can’t see the bigger picture, no matter how obvious it is. This phrase can also help us understand
From a press release: Atlanta, GA – On Friday, November 22, Governor Brian P. Kemp conducted swearing-in ceremonies for four (4) appointees to serve on various state entities. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Rachel Little currently serves as a senior paralegal for the Animal Health division of Boehringer Ingelheim, a global pharmaceutical
What a sad week for knowledge and learning in Georgia. We’ve managed to make regional and national news twice for actions surrounding our treatment of books in education settings, and neither has shone a positive light on us. First, the county where I went to high school and where my parents still live caught our
Recently, a professor at Emory Law School was accused of using the n-word during class while discussing a case. The school did not fire the professor, but they did order-in some Starbucks-type unconscious bias training. Pressure by students on this issue forced the school to deal with a deeper issue that using the n-word makes
23.5% of Truett – McConnell University graduates finish within six years.[i] The rest – don’t finish at all. Truett – McConnell has an excessively high transfer rate and an excessively low graduation rate for four-year bachelor’s degree. In 2013, the traditional graduation rate for the small christian college was only 13%. That means 87%
