News from the University System of Georgia: region 3

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The University System of Georgia

Two USG Universities Rank Among Nation's Top 20 Public Institutions
Georgia is one of only three states with two institutions ranked among the top 20 public national universities in the United States in U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges 2002."
Georgia Tech is No. 10 on the coveted list, while the University of Georgia is No. 18.
Keeping Georgia company are Texas and Virginia, which each have two universities on the top-20 list, and California, which has six institutions posted.
The 2002 "Best Colleges" report and the magazine's 2003 edition "Best Graduate Schools," released in April 2002, also contain a variety of other rankings.
The reports rank Georgia Tech: First among the nation's graduate and undergraduate schools
of industrial and systems engineering; Second among undergraduate programs in aerospace engi-
neering; Third among undergraduate programs in civil engineering;
and Fourth among graduate engineering programs overall.
The reports rank UGA: Among the top three public law schools in the South and the
top six public and private law schools in the South; Third among graduate programs in public
management/administration and public finance; and Fourth among graduate programs in vocational/ technical
education.

Did You Know?
N The Board of Regents is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year. The original 11 regents developed a plan on Jan. 1-2, 1932, that for the first time centralized governance of the state's higher education institutions.
N The magazine Black Issues in Higher Education has ranked Georgia Tech as the nation's Number One producer of African-American engineers at the undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. levels. This is the first time that a majority institution has been named the top producer of minority undergraduate engineers. The magazine also ranked Southern Polytechnic State University Number Two in African-American women earning baccalaureate degrees in engineering-related technologies, Number Four in minority women earning the same degrees and Number Three in Hispanics earning master's degrees in engineering-related technologies,
N Southern Polytechnic has received a grant from the Goizuetta Foundation to establish the Goizuetta Foundation Scholars Fund for Hispanic and Latino students, offering more than $500,000 in need-based scholarship assistance and a state-of-the-art Spanish language learning lab. SPSU also recently established a minor in Spanish with courses that emphasize activities and vocabulary associated with technology and business.

The reports rank Georgia State University: First among the nation's public universities with part-time MBA pro-
grams and fifth overall; and Second among graduate business programs in insurance/risk manage-
ment.

CCSU Helps Bring Archives to Clayton
In March 2003, the State Archives will move from downtown Atlanta to a new building being built next to the campus of Clayton College and State University in Morrow.

Atlanta Metropolitan Ready to Help with Small Business Start-Ups
The Center for Entrepreneurship at Atlanta Metropolitan College offers guidance to individuals who are either planning or in the midst of launching their own businesses. The center's staff assists entrepreneurs in writing business plans and identifying funding, and provides access to libraries and the Internet.
The center, which opened in October 2001, operates in cooperation with partners such as the Smalll Business Development Center at Georgia State University, the Electronic Commerce Resource Center at Georgia Tech and the Service Core of Retired Executives (SCORE).
In addition, the Cobb Microenterprise Council at Kennesaw State University recently began working with the center to develop a model microenterprise program at Atlanta Metropolitan. Microenterprise programs help individuals on welfare to become self-sufficient by assisting them in launching and nurturing small businesses.

U.S. Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) has secured $30.5 million in funding for a companion project, the establishment of the Southeast Archives Center, in the same location. The new joint facility will be the first of its kind in the nation, providing researchers with high tech, state-of-the-art, "one-stop shopping."
Cleland said CCSU's information technology curriculum helped attract the archives project to Clayton County. "This specialty will allow the university to partner with the National Archives and Records Administration on technology projects to make the regionally created electronic records more accessible to the American public."

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West Georgia Honors-College Grad Has Bright Future as Top Scientist
Arecent graduate of the State University of West Georgia's Honors College, who is now working for a world-renowned scientist, has received one of the highest undergraduate accolades possible, the Marshall Scholarship.
The award, worth $50,000 over two years, will cover tuition, books, travel and living expenses as 20-year-old Yong Suh conducts research in neuropharmacology at the University of Oxford in England. Suh, a Spring 2001 graduate of West Georgia, currently is researching the genetics of Type II diabetes under Dr. Francis Collins, director of the Human Genome Project at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
Suh -- who came to West Georgia as a 16-yearold student in the Advanced Academy of Georgia, a residential program for highly gifted high-school students -- is the recipient of more than 20 merit scholarships, the National Merit Scholarship, the Goldwater Scholarship and the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Scholarship. After his return from England, he will use the MSTP Scholarship to attend the M.D./Ph.D. Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, where neuroscience will be his primary field of study.
Did You Know That Georgia Perimeter College:
N has established partnerships with DeKalb Medical Center, Northside Hospital, Gwinnett Medical Center and Grady Health System that have funded a faculty chair in nursing and resulted in more than $100,000 in scholarships and lab equipment for its nursing students?
N offers an on-site associate-degree program for Scientific Atlanta, featuring half-semester classes at times convenient to employees of the high-tech firm?
N offers a "2+2" business degree in partnership with Georgia State University at GSU's Alpharetta satellite center? GPC's Dunwoody campus provides the curriculum for the first two years of this cohort program, and then GSU's Robinson College of Business takes over for the second two years.

USG Resume Database Helping Employers to Recruit
FusionPoint Technology Solutions is one of the latest Georgia businesses to benefit from the University System of Georgia's online statewide database of college students and alumni who would love to be considered job candidates.
The consulting firm recently hired three Georgia Tech graduates located through GeorgiaHire.com, which provides cost-effective one-stop shopping for businesses in need of qualified job candidates. Students and alumni can post their resumes on the web site free of charge. It costs nothing for potential employers to search the database for job candidates and only a nominal fee to post job openings and company profiles.
Dr. Diane Fennig, director of GeorgiaHire.com, said that more than 141,700 students and alumni have posted their resumes for review since February 2000, and more than 11,500 employers have searched the database during that period.
Kennesaw State Puts the Family Back in Business
Kennesaw State University's Cox Family Enterprise Center has been providing guidance, support and other resources for large and small family-owned businesses throughout the state since the mid-1980s. Each year, the center gives these firms a rare opportunity to bask in the spotlight through its Georgia Family Business of the Year competition.
This year's winners are representative of the wide variety of firms that have been rewarded for knitting family values into the fabric of their operations:
Small-sized firms McStatts Printing of Cartersville has involved two generations of the McStatts family in the operation of print shops in Georgia and Texas.
Medium-sized firms The Brunswick News, now in its 100th year, is a newspaper run by four generations of the Leavy family, and has never had an unprofitable period.
Large-sized firms Hayes Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Chevrolet of Lawrenceville, Gainesville and Cornelia grew from an Atlanta gas station in the 1950s, nurtured by three generations of the Hayes family, whose members have used their success to support many community projects.