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It's a Sales Competition! It's a Career Fair!
 Last week, top marketing and sales students from more than 50 universities came to Kennesaw State University for the National Collegiate Sales Competition to test their skills in one-on-one sales call challenges. All 166 students interviewed for jobs among 50 corporate sponsors, and almost every student received a job offer or second interview. A student from University of Georgia won second runner up, a Kennesaw State student made it to the semifinals, and a Georgia State student made the quarterfinals.
Tax Help From Smart Students
 Twenty-five Brenau University business students are volunteering their time to help create a Center for Family Prosperity in Gainesville that will relieve working families from financial distress through tax return help. Brenau students will market the program and serve as volunteer tax preparers. More >
Other area colleges helping citizens prepare for the tax deadline:
> At Clayton State University , students in the accounting club provide free volunteer tax preparation assistance .
> Law students at Georgia State University 's Tax Clinic have helped thousands of low-income Georgians resolve IRS disputes since 1992.
> Agnes Scott College will provide free tax assistance for eligible employees.
Wanted: Well-Rounded Students Who Can Think
 In a recent article, Georgia Tech President G. Wayne Clough defined a role for universities and schools in the global economic competition of a rapidly changing world. "Universities are key if this country is to maintain its leadership as an innovator in the face of competition from emerging global powers such as China and India. Innovation is driven by scientific discovery and the invention of new technologies, as well as a broader skilled workforce that can make something, literally, of those discoveries and inventions," Clough wrote. In the elementary years, math and science should be "expanded with strong, hands-on programs that pique children's curiosity about how science and technology work." Read the article >
Dr. Clough Goes to Washington
Clough steps down as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology July 1 to head the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Since becoming Tech's 10th president in 1994, Clough led the university through unprecedented growth and expansion to national and international prominence. More >
Is Liberal Learning A Dangerous Thing?
 A liberal education requires that we do something with what we learn and focus not so much on making a living as making a life, said John W. Kuykendall, president emeritus of Davidson College, in remarks at Agnes Scott College . Liberal learning challenges you to think deeply about what you learn and "binds you in kinship and obligation to the world in the largest sense," he said. More from the speech >
Spelman Students Lend a Helping Hand
 Forsaking a spring break visit to the beach for the comforts of home, a group of Spelman College students headed to Senegal, West Africa, last week. They helped build a library and tutored students in the rural Ndoffane village for a 10,000 Girls initiative to help the community's girls become successful entrepreneurs and active citizens. More >
Shelter From the Stormy Blast
Friday's tornado was a reminder of the destruction storm, fire or flood can bring. Shelter From the Stormy Blast , a free online disaster preparedness guide for archives, libraries and museums, links stewards of Georgia's information and historic resources to local emergency and recovery services and products. Society of Georgia Archivists volunteers have updated the guide, originally published in 1998 by ARCHE, SGA, and SOLINET (Southeastern Library Network). Shelter From the Stormy Blast >
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Photo credits: Agnes Scott College, Georgia Department of Economic Development, Kennesaw State University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Spelman College, University of West Georgia
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Emory is partnering with Atlanta Public Schools and Nanjing University in China to establish the Confucius Institute in Atlanta. The Institute will offer Chinese language and culture classes for Atlanta business leaders, teachers and the public. It will also help Atlanta Public Schools develop K-12 Chinese instruction that can be replicated statewide. More >
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| Morehouse School of Medicine will increase class size by 35 percent over the next three years, moving from a class of 52 to 70 students by 2011 to help address the state's shortage of physicians. The new slots will be exclusively for Georgia residents. MSM's focus is training minority doctors to work in underserved populations. Know more > |
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