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%
It’s already national news, so I’ll keep the intro short. UGA’s Dean of Journalism had the temerity to call Secretary of State a “nice guy” on Twitter. Some found this unacceptable, and the professor has apologized for the tweet. There’s so many directions to go with a “hot take” on this. There’s so little time…
For the second time in three years, the University System of Georgia is holding the line on tuition at state colleges and universities. It’s a remarkable change from prior years where all of higher education saw increases higher than the rate of inflation. (Note: this was not just in Georgia, not “because of Hope”, and
The union is coming! The union is coming! Sorry, I couldn’t resist, but in reality, I pushed three buttons there, all of which are wrong: Paul Revere never said the British were coming, we’re better off in the Union, and little-u unions aren’t scary. In regards to that last one, though, in my younger years,
Dr. Richard Watson, a Management Information Systems professor at UGA’s Terry College of Business, has gone viral by offering students a chance to “[indicate] what grade you think is appropriate” in his syllabi. The syllabi, obtained by campusreform.org and posted below, allows students to judge if assignments makes them “unduly stressed” and promises that no
In case you were working on an end-of-semester project, sleeping off a hangover, or just disconnected from all things public college in this state, tuition is going to go up 2 percent for the 2017-2018 academic year. That should work out to between $27 and $98 per semester for full-time, in-state undergraduates, depending on the
The Georgia Southern Shooting Sports Education Center was a much anticipated draw for the community by way of a collaborative effort of state and local agencies with the help of private donors, but after seventeen months in operation, the facility does not have much to show for the effort. And neither do the taxpayers. Based
Two weeks ago I wrote a column debunking the thought that we don’t have significant legalized wagering going on already in Georgia. We do, and it’s available at every corner store, fully backed by the Georgia constitution, and sanctioned and governed by the Georgia Lottery Corporation. We’re more than a little pregnant on the issue.
