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Read the April 2019 Provost’s Office Newsletter

Read the April 2019 Provost’s Office Newsletter

The April 2019 edition of “News from the Office of the Provost” is now available!

Read the April 2019 edition to learn more about activities and news from academic affairs at Georgia State University, including leadership transitions, efforts to increase diverse STEM faculty, faculty fellowship opportunities, graduate programs, and the latest from the Next Generation Program.

You can also watch first-place presentations from the Three-Minute Thesis contest, where graduate students were challenged to explain their research and scholarship to non-specialist audiences in a short amount of time, along with profiles of Second Century Initiative Graduate Fellows.

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Cities: International Scholars Provide Insight into Global Issues at New Urban Studies Conference

Cities: International Scholars Provide Insight into Global Issues at New Urban Studies Conference

Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute welcomed over 100 international presenters to its first Comparative Urbanism: Global Perspectives Conference in Atlanta on March 7 and 8.

“We brought together urban scholars from around the world to discuss different urban developments,” said Johannes Nijman, director of the in the Andrew Young of Policy Studies. “Our question was, ‘How are cities around the world becoming more alike and how are they on different paths?’”

To help answer this question, the two-day conference offered nearly 20 parallel sessions covering both theory and contemporary discourse in subjects ranging from urban resilience to urban land financing to immigrant entrepreneurship and climate change.

Participating scholars came from global institutions including University of Amsterdam, Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, University of Pompeu Fabra, HafenCity University, University of British Columbia, IIT Bombay, and Universidade de Brasilla, among others. The diverse set of panelists also included experts from well-known U.S. universities such as Cornell, UCLA, Berkeley, Clemson and the University of Illinois.

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Georgia State Selects Research Clusters In Fourth Round of the Next Generation Program

Georgia State Selects Research Clusters In Fourth Round of the Next Generation Program

Georgia State University has selected three new research clusters as part of the fourth round of its ambitious Next Generation Program, dedicated to boosting the university’s reputation for pioneering, interdisciplinary research and scholarship.

The Next Generation Program is the successor to the Second Century Initiative (2CI), which attracted high-caliber faculty who lead in their fields of expertise.

Since 2009, these initiatives have brought more than 100 faculty who helped to establish high-profile institutes and centers; 2CI and the Next Generation Program have also enhanced existing centers and institutes at the university that were established prior to the two initiatives.

Click the link to read more about the three new clusters.

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Achieving Goal 2: Graduate Programs Ranked Among Nation’s Best By U.S. News & World Report

Achieving Goal 2: Graduate Programs Ranked Among Nation’s Best By U.S. News & World Report

Many of Georgia State University’s graduate programs ranked highly in the 2020 U.S. News & World Report magazine survey of “Best Graduate Schools.”

The magazine annually ranks undergraduate and graduate programs across the U.S., using qualitative and quantitative measures. Rankings of colleges and schools use both measures. Those of individual disciplines are based peer assessments by academics.

Programs ranking highly include studies in in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions, the College of Education and Human Development, the College of Law, and the Robinson College of Business.

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Cities & Research: Economist Finds Property Values Rise In Historic Districts

Cities & Research: Economist Finds Property Values Rise In Historic Districts

Values for single-family residential properties in the National Register and local historic districts in Georgia rose 13-14 percent and 7 percent before they were designated historic properties, according to research by Georgia State University economist Carlianne Patrick.

Patrick decided to do the research when she found there was not a wide array of available research on property values of historic district designation. She is an assistant professor in Georgia State’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

“I felt that I could design a study to help fill this gap,” she said. “It seemed to me that the often passionate debates around historic district designations would benefit from causal evidence on some of the key issues, particularly causal evidence that differentiated between National Register and local historic districts.”

The research addresses a common belief that historic districts are associated with negative property values.

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Goal 2: Mellon Foundation Grant to Help CASA’s Humanities Inclusivity Program in Graduate Education

Goal 2: Mellon Foundation Grant to Help CASA’s Humanities Inclusivity Program in Graduate Education

The Center for Advancement of Students and Alumni into Graduate and Professional Programs (CASA) at Georgia State University has received a $1.25 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a program that supports the progress of students from traditionally underrepresented groups into Ph.D. programs in the humanities.

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Student Success: Georgia State Closes Achievement Gaps In Graduation, Retention Rates At Perimeter College

Student Success: Georgia State Closes Achievement Gaps In Graduation, Retention Rates At Perimeter College

The graduation rate at Georgia State University’s Perimeter College has more than doubled over the past three years and the rate of Perimeter students either successfully earning their associate degrees or transferring to bachelor’s degree programs is at a record 58 percent.

Perimeter College, which offers two-year associate degree programs, became part of Georgia State during consolidation with Georgia Perimeter College in 2016.

Since consolidation, Perimeter College’s three-year graduation rate has improved from 6.5 percent to 15 percent. The gap between the graduation rates of black and white students has been halved, and now white, Latino, and Pell Grant students all graduate at the same rate. The previous record for Perimeter students earning their associate degrees or transferring to bachelor’s degree programs was 51 percent.

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Cities: Georgia State Introduces Film, Entertainment Program For Local Youth

Cities: Georgia State Introduces Film, Entertainment Program For Local Youth

Georgia State University’s Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence has started a new program this year to prepare local youth for careers in the burgeoning film, media and entertainment industry in Georgia.

The Careers In New and Emerging Media Areas (CINEMA) Project recruits 18- to 24-year-olds who are not in school and not employed to come to Georgia State’s campus, take courses and gain the skills necessary to secure entry-level positions in information and communication technology that could lead to successful, long-term careers in the film and media industries.

“CINEMA’s mission of providing 20 opportunity youth with the resources, knowledge and support necessary to obtain entry-level jobs in Georgia’s entertainment industry is not only revolutionary, but critical in our endeavor to make the entertainment business a more diverse, inclusive and egalitarian space,” said Taharka Davis, CINEMA Project director.

The Crim Center is partnering with the Atlanta Film Society, Georgia State’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, and the university’s new Creative Media Industries Institute to offer classes, project-based learning experiences and paid internships for participants.

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State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

State Farm $55,000 Award Supports Digital Literacy At Georgia State

Georgia State University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) has received a $55,000 award from State Farm to expand programs and events to promote digital literacy.

The award will fund increased access to workshops and events held by two organizations sponsored by CETL, the Digital Learners to Leaders program and PantherHackers student organization. Both organizations encourage students to explore technology through project-based and experiential learning.

The Digital Learners to Leaders program is designed to inspire students, particularly those from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in the technology industry, to pursue their technology interest. Participants seeking two- and four- year degrees in varying fields of study learn from technology professionals across Atlanta’s education, business, government and non-profit communities at workshops held on topics such as ideation, computational thinking, project management, entrepreneurship and professional communication. The program engages students in developing solutions to problems using digitization and the Internet of Things (the expanding number of everyday objects that collect, share and act on data using Internet connectivity).