Thanks to an innovative student financial center, Georgia State is closing financial gaps that can mean the difference between graduation and dropping out of college. By Jeremy Craig, Georgia State University For Kennedy Oglesby, $2,300 could have stood in the way of graduating this fall. That amount of money might seem small compared to tuition […]
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Georgia State University Opens Groundbreaking New Legal Analytics Lab
By Charlotte S. Alexander, Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Director, Legal Analytics Lab If the job of a lawyer were reduced to its essential tasks, analyzing text and making predictions would be high on the list. For example, what proposed contract terms are problematic? How might a judge rule, given legal precedent and the […]
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Preparing Students to Solve Problems and Invent the Future with Resources for Making at EXLAB
By Lee Webster, Assistant Director of Learning Environments, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) As Steve Wozniak developed the Apple I computer, his enthusiasm for building a new kind of personal computer grew through participation in the Homebrew Computer Club. The Silicon Valley community of engineers, tinkerers and creators exchanged ideas about emerging […]
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Economic Forecast: Georgia’s Job Growth Expected to Moderate
By Rajeev Dhawan, Zwerner Chair of Economic Forecasting and director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business A strong dollar, trading partner growth woes and factors beyond American borders will continue to have a moderating impact on Georgia’s manufacturing and corporate sector gains. In the first half […]
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The Incalculable Value of a Public Research Institution
By James Weyhenmeyer The first day of a new school year is marked by excitement and expectation, and today thousands of new and returning students are buzzing through Georgia State University’s campuses from downtown Atlanta, to Decatur and Dunwoody. Yet Georgia State is not just a place where the next generation of nurses, teachers, artists […]
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It’s a Great Time to Go to the Right Law School
By Wendy Hensel Prominent voices question the value of a law degree and suggest the best and brightest should look elsewhere for satisfying careers. Students appear to be listening because law admissions have declined nationally. However, as is often the case, the truth differs from conventional wisdom. There has never been a better time to […]
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Georgia State College of Law’s Center for Access to Justice Introduces Public Interest, Pro Bono Student Programs
By Lauren Sudeall Lucas and Darcy Meals “Equal justice under law” is a bedrock of the American legal system, but the experiences of lower-income civil and criminal litigants are often fundamentally different from those with financial means. Among those differences is the ability to hire an attorney, often critical to navigating a complex legal system. […]
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What Should I Do With My Life? Finding Work Worth Doing
By Tom Conklin Hate your job? Betting friends that your job actually stops time? Maybe you are not working in your “calling.” Having a calling is the idea that we participate in the work that we were built for. Thinkers and theologians have suggested a calling is wherever we find our occupational self that serves […]
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A State of Good Repair: How Infrastructure Maintenance Reduces Inequality and Spurs Economic Growth
By John Gibson and Felix Rioja Policymakers on both sides of the political divide are considering expanding infrastructure-related spending. However, the exact dollar amount needed and where best to target these funds is still a subject of debate. While new projects clearly garner more attention from the press, maintenance in the form of fixing roads […]
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Preparing the Peach State’s Future: The Georgia Center for Education Policy
A new Georgia Center for Education Policy at Georgia State University will help state education and policy leaders harness the power of research to improve the lives of students, from classrooms to careers. Using a $3.9 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the center in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies […]
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Avoiding Toxic Corporate Cultures: Are CEOs helping or hurting their organizations?
By Chad Hartnell Leaders often trumpet organizational culture as a source of competitive advantage, but it can also be the source of an organization’s demise. Under the leadership of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen admitted to cheating U.S. emissions tests to grow its market share in vehicles with diesel engines, a scandal blamed […]
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Charter Schools: Changing Property Values in Georgia Communities
Georgia State University researchers are finding that charter schools are having an impact on property values around their communities, potentially providing increased tax revenues for local communities. Researchers dug through a vast amount of data from 2004 to 2013, covering 15 school districts and 52 start-up charter schools in Georgia. They evaluated how home sales […]
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WomenLead: How can we begin to level the playing field?
By Nancy Mansfield The statistics are well known: Women remain severely underrepresented in leadership positions, even though they now earn 60 percent of college and university degrees and are entering the professional workplace in greater numbers than ever. Somewhere along the way they get passed over, get stuck,or drop out. When they get to the […]
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“I Quit!” Predicting When and Why Employees Quit
By Ashley Goreczny, Sarang Sunder and V. Kumar Rather than working employees to the point of burn-out and seeing them leave, retaining employees can save companies millions of dollars, research shows. Quitting employees represent great costs to the firm, particularly in recruitment and training. Managers need to predict, “Which of my employees is likely to […]
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Creating a Digital University with Technology for Teaching and Learning
As we re-examine how we teach, Georgia State is using technology to enable new methods of instruction that can enhance learning moments in and out of class.
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Global Competency on the Business School Agenda
By S. Tamer Cavusgil Most of us have experienced a situation where, in a cross-cultural setting, we found the behavior of a foreign national hard to explain. We perceived this behavior to be odd, unusual, or perhaps improper. We may have felt anger or frustration, or at least felt uncomfortable and awkward. These feelings might […]
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Could Medicaid Expansion Be a Boost to Rural Georgia’s Ailing Economy?
By Carolyn Bourdeaux and Peter Bluestone With the election of Donald Trump as president, the plight of rural America has taken on increased prominence. A September 2016 report by the Center for State and Local Finance estimated that as of 2014 rural areas in Georgia had 58,000 fewer jobs than they had in 2007 (around […]
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Fast-Moving Change and the Scholar-Executive: The Executive Doctorate in Business
Change and adapting to change have become the norm in today’s business world. To be successful, executives need new learning and a more sophisticated understanding of the what’s, how’s and why’s than ever before.
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When Immigration and Refugee Issues Abound, Georgia State Tackles Them Here And Abroad
By Anthony Lemieux and Alexandra Pauley Few issues are as pressing and challenging as the complex interplay between forced migration, immigration and security. In the global city of Atlanta, we have a unique opportunity to study the causes, consequences and responses to significant and rapid increases in forced migration and immigration more broadly. For us, […]
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Diversity and Space to Innovate: Keys to Creating Georgia’s Next Generation of Entrepreneurs
Georgia State’s student diversity is a major untapped resource for generating new ways of thinking and innovation, but most of our students do not know the entrepreneur’s path to success.
