A sign of the times, perhaps, but the demand for MBAs is rising. Georgia universities and colleges offering Master of Business Administration programs are seeing an increase in inquiries and, in many cases, an uptick in enrollment. Georgia State University’s…
Ciji Fox still isn’t entirely clear about why she uprooted herself from the small Iowa college she was attending back in 2006 to come to Clayton State Uni-versity (CSU) on the south side of Atlanta. “I think I decided to…
Anyone who honestly remembers early adolescence knows that the “Wonder Years” were not always so wonderful. The sporadic, out-of-sync growth spurts, the sudden appearance of facial hair and attitude, raging hormones, raging curiosity, raging independence – all in all, quite…
Charles Kemp grew up in rural southwest Georgia, on the frontier of primary healthcare, traveling from farm to farm with his father, a veterinarian based in Camilla. Kemp is 24, a third-year student in the Mercer University School of Medicine.…
Beverly Sparks grew up the daughter of a bug man in the heart of south Georgia’s agricultural swath. Her father, an entomologist for the United States Depart-ment of Agriculture (USDA) in Tifton, made a habit of taking his work home…
Information age: Central Georgia Technical College President Dr. Ronald Natale, left, and Jackie Turner, head of the school’s Computer Information Systems program
Dan Kaufman has a hard time sitting still. It takes just a few minutes during a conversation for him to stand and move to a wall map that’s a master plan of the campus he’s creating on a nearly 200-acre…
Robert Sumichrast is grounded in a reality where physics, philosophy and business converge. He’s an academic, a scientist interested in how things work in the world, and humanity’s place in it. And he thinks he can guide the Terry College…
Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School may be the best school you never heard of. The low-profile Augusta school posts the highest SAT average in Georgia year after year. Davidson students averaged 1,710 out of 2,400 this year, far above the…
In researching private schools five years ago, Tina Young found several she believed would challenge her two children in the classroom. But the Duluth mother wanted more. “I was looking for a spiritual school, one that taught family values,” she…
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