Education

Georgia Trend’s annual listing of the state’s colleges, universities and technical schools, with information on admissions, costs and courses of study.

Consider for a moment what it might be like to adopt 600 young people over an eight-year span. You have to have enough room to feed and house them. You have to be sure they have books and activities. You…

“If we go back 20 or 30 years ago, career prospects meant climbing the career ladder in one organization,” says Harley E. Ryan Jr., associate dean for curriculum and teaching at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia…

When companies are looking for a headquarters site, want to open a branch office or expand their operations, they need assurance that people – well-trained, professional people with skills that are pertinent to their business – are on hand as…

Re-shoring isn’t a word that has been bandied about much in the United States over the past 20 years. In fact, as manufacturers moved production overseas, the word heard most often was off-shoring. All that is changing, however, as labor…

Georgia’s engineering programs are adapting to the changing technological environment and producing more engineers than ever.

The United States, once a shining example of higher education attainment, now trails behind 15 other countries in the percentage of college graduates. And within that dismal figure, Georgia remains in the bottom five among the states. Increasing access to…

Valdosta State University President Dr. William McKinney cited Engaged Innovation as his inaugural theme when he was named president in 2012. It’s a theme that resonates to this day with a new strategic plan that includes engagement as one of…

Child’s play is actually hard work – and important work at that. Playing with blocks? Fun, sure, but also good for building crucial math skills. Playing dress-up and make-believe? A key part of early literacy. “What we know about young…