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Atlanta Region Is Top Producer of Black Engineers
 The Georgia Institute of Technology ranks No. 1 in the United States in undergraduate and doctoral degrees in engineering awarded to African American students, and No. 2 in engineering master's degrees, according to Diverse: Issues in Higher Education magazine. More >
Southern Polytechnic State University rates No. 1 nationally in the number of African American students earning bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering technology, according to the American Society for Engineering Education. More >
Taking Teachers to the Streets to Learn About Civil Rights
 Middle school teachers are visiting Atlanta landmarks to learn firsthand how to teach students about Georgia history. Georgia State University scholars – with help from Agnes Scott, Emory and Georgia Tech faculty – are leading workshops that take teachers where history happened to learn about Jim Crow, the 1906 Atlanta race riot and suburban segregation. At Piedont Park they saw where Booker T. Washington gave his "Atlanta Compromise" address. And at what is now Clark Atlanta and at the Capitol, teachers heard from Lonnie King and Gwen Middlebrooks, who were student protesters during the movement. More >
UGA, Tech Partner on Bioenergy Grant
The University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed with other researchers to win a $125 million Department of Energy grant to find new and better ways to make biofuels. Experts in biology, engineering and agricultural science will reengineer biological processes to convert plants such as poplar trees and switchgrass into ethanol or other biofuels that can substitute for gasoline.
Rollins Gift Boosts Atlanta's Public Health Profile
A $50 million gift will help Emory University build a public health complex designed for collaboration. The pledge to Emory's Rollins  School of Public Health from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation and Grace Crum Rollins will double the school's space and help draw star faculty and students to Atlanta, often called the world's public heath capital. State-of-the-art teaching and research space will enhance partnerships with organizations such as CDC, CARE, the Carter Center, the American Cancer Society, Morehouse School of Medicine, Clark Atlanta, Spelman, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State. More >
"Doing Church" in New Ways
New movements are shaking up church business as usual, with new kinds of worship and community. The latest issue of Columbia Theological Seminary's online journal, @ this point examines bold, diverse and nontraditional experiments in "doing church" – and the lessons they hold for more traditional churches.
Med School for Gainesville?
Brenau University has retained consultants for a feasibility study on whether the university should establish a medical school that would help address national and statewide shortages of physicians. Brenau's current professional health care education includes growing graduate and undergraduate programs in nursing, occupational therapy and clinical psychology. More >
Can Colleges Talk About Race?
 Spelman College President Beverly Daniel Tatum's book Can We Talk About Race? calls on schools, colleges and universities to work deliberately to engage students in dialogue – one that will to forge connections across a racial divide that is growing with the resegregation of schools. The book explores topics ranging from intimate cross-racial friendships to the need for African American students to see positive reflections of themselves in school. Tatum addressed related topics in an Atlanta Journal Constitution opinion piece this month, "Court ruling latest step toward resegregation."
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Photo credits: Beacon Press, Emory University, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, University of West Georgia.
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| Presidents of 19 member colleges and universities make up the ARCHE Board of Trustees. For 2007-08, the executive committee includes Lisa Rossbacher, Southern Polytechnic State, chair; Walter Broadnax, Clark Atlanta, vice chair; Behruz Sethna, West Georgia, treasurer; Wayne Clough, Georgia Tech, past chair; and members at large Larry Schall, Oglethorpe, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Spelman, and James Wagner, Emory. Know more > |
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