Georgia State University News

Education : Bachelor's degree from the Brenau Women's College in Gainesville; Master of Education degree from Georgia State University Elected office : Elected to the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners in November 2008.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials, speaking at an international-education conference here, did little on Thursday to clarify the confusion surrounding new requirements for the accreditation of university-run English-language programs.

The future PhDs were born on different continents, some 5,000 miles apart. Economics professors Zaier Aouani, of Tunisia, and Grace O, from South Korea, were even farther from home when they met at the University of Kansas.

Two Lander University faculty members have been selected to fill endowed professorships awarded by The Lander Foundation for 2012-2014. The two awards are given to tenured or tenure-track faculty members who represent Lander's commitment to teaching and learning, who have distinguished records of scholarly and creative activity, and service to the ... (more)

We will be carrying a live audio stream of the press conferences at the SEC meeting in Destin, Fla.

"What's Happenin' in SWAT ..." Did you know... SW ATL's Benjamin E. Mays High School Jazz Orchestra and Jean Childs Young Middle School Jazz Ensemble are the 1st and 4th place winners, respectively, of the Atlanta Jazz Festival 9th Annual Youth Jazz Band Competition.

I was first introduced to the idea of running for the school board when the parent of a tutoring student, then DeKalb County Commissioner Judy Yates, suggested it based on my enthusiasm for teaching.

GSU College of Education professors Amy Lederberg and Susan Easterbrooks will lead a $10 Million research project to improve reading in deaf and hard of hearing children.

A group of prestigious publishers brought a copyright infringement suit against Georgia State University, claiming that the University's "e-reserve policy" under which students had access to electronic version of course works, exceeded the bounds of fair use, alleging ninety nine separate instances of infringement.

Georgia State University will lead a $10 million federal research project aimed at improving reading skills in children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

We all know there's a latitude of factors that go into the decision making, including school systems, food and dining, access to public transportation, job stability.

Christopher D. Petty, 43, of Smyrna, GA, passed away Saturday, May 19 while competing in a triathlon on Jekyll Island .

The good news for job seekers in metro Atlanta and Georgia in the second half of 2012 and 2013: more positions will be added than lost over the next 36 months, economists say.

With the recent redistricting of the Georgia House of Representatives districts, many residents have raised questions about the boundary changes.

It was while I was driving from Florida, where I gave a presentation on education to citizens, that I heard from talk show hosts about the abuse by North Carolina High School social studies teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely towards a student who dared to challenge her diatribe about Mitt Romney's alleged "bullying" incident from 1965.

When we report on lightning fires, more often than not, our FOX 5 crews are covering fires in Gwinnett County.

How long he's kept it off: "I started in January 2011 and I continue to work out religiously.

Metro Atlanta is the No. 21 healthiest area in the United States, according to the American College of Sports Medicine's 2012 American Fitness Index .

An Atlanta federal judge has set the standard for when schools can give their students access to excerpts of copyrighted works without paying licensing fees - although her approach may be revisited in a potential appeal by publishers who had challenged practices at Georgia State University.

This policy brief summarizes the long-awaited opinion released May 11, 2012 in the Georgia State University e-reserves copyright infringement case, and provides analysis of what this means for higher ed.