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UGA Included in Princeton Review’s ‘Colleges That Pay You Back’ List
February 12, 2016The University of Georgia has received recognition in The Princeton Review’s new book, “The Best Value Colleges: The 150 Best-Buy Schools and What It Takes to Get In.” The book, published on Jan. 28, includes 150 academic institutions—75 public and 75 private—based on surveys The Princeton Review, an education services…
Two Online Professors Selected as Service Learning Fellows
February 9, 2016This year, the University of Georgia's Office of Service-Learning has selected three faculty members from the College of Education to participate in its yearlong Service-Learning Fellows program, two of whom teach in online degree programs.
Student Profile: Alex Jones, Double Dawg
February 4, 2016Alex Jones is a student of the University of Georgia online Master of Internet Technology program, scheduled to graduate this spring, and he’s had a rather different experience than his other classmates. This is because he also works full-time within the UGA Terry College of Business Management Information Systems…
UGA Hosting International Good Manufacturing Practices Conference
February 2, 2016From March 7-10, the University of Georgia will be hosting the 40th Annual Good Manufacturing Practices Conference on its Athens, Georgia campus. This conference was established in conjunction with the US FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) to create an annual on-going dialogue between regulatory agencies and the pharmaceutical industry on important issues in drug compliance and quality.
UGA Remains on Kiplinger Best Value in Public Colleges List
January 26, 2016UGA continues to rank as one of the nation's top values in higher education, according to Kiplinger,which placed UGA 12th on its Personal Finance list of 100 best values among public colleges and universities for 2016.
Faculty and Student IT Guides from EITS
January 20, 2016You might be new at the University of Georgia, or you might be a veteran who just was never given this memo before. Enterprise Information Technology Services, known colloquially around campus as EITS, is the central IT department at the university. It manages some of the key technology systems and services on campus, such as UGAMail, Athena and eLearning Commons (eLC).
UGA’s Online Programs Ranked Among the Best In Nation by US News
January 12, 2016The University of Georgia has some of the best online degree programs in the nation, according to the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs Rankings. UGA is ranked No. 3 among all universities for best online graduate programs in education and No. 5 for best online bachelor's programs overall.
For Faculty: Utilizing Media in Your Courses
January 5, 2016The UGA Office of Online Learning has an Instructional Design team who provide advice for faculty members in conducting and designing their online courses. The following is a guest blog written by instructional designer Flint Buchanan and video producer Stephen Bridges.
MIT Program Capstone Project Helps Local Organizations with Technology Needs
December 29, 2015The UGA online Master of Internet Technology program has been fully online since 2014 and is gearing up to graduate its first fully online cohort this upcoming spring. The graduating students are leaving the University of…
Online BioPharma Professor Randall Tackett Weighs In On “Smart Pills”
December 22, 2015The CBS program “Limitless” is one of the hottest crime dramas on American television right now. Based on a movie of the same name, the series dramatizes what happens when the main character takes a pill that gives him access to every neuron in his brain. This allows him to…