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Georgia Bucks International Student Decline, but Spending Falls as Pandemic’s Toll Looms

Georgia bucked a rare national decline as its international student population grew 2.7 percent to 24,265 over the previous year, though their spending fell and early surveys suggested the pandemic will significantly dent next year’s totals. The U.S. hosted more than 1 million students for the fifth straight year, but the total dropped by 1.8[Read More…]

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UGA, Andrew Young Foundation Partner to Bolster Cote D’Ivoire University

November 18, 2020

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International Family Law 101: What Happens to the Kids in Cross-Border Splits? 

November 18, 2020

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November 17, 2020

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Working to Build a Dependable, Diverse Workforce? Try a Refugee

October 1, 2020

When Joyeuse Muhoza came to the U.S. as a refugee from the Congo, she was excited to be touching down in the land of opportunity just as she was reaching adulthood.  But reality quickly set in when she realized that her career journey would not take a straight line.   “I had a lot of passion. I […]

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Leader of Georgia’s Japan Office to Retire After 30 Years

October 30, 2020

It wasn’t long after studying American literature and English language in college that Yumiko Nakazono set about putting her cultural understanding into action. Herself a “southerner,” hailing from Georgia’s sister prefecture of Kagoshima on the southern tip of the island of Kyushu, Ms. Nakazono joined the state’s Tokyo office in 1989 after a stint in[Read More…]

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Canadian Cannabis Firm to Buy Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing for $300m

November 5, 2020

SweetWater Brewing Co. has built its brand around the outdoors, leisure and not-so-subtle references to cannabis culture, hosting the signature 420 music festival and offering its 420 brew, a recent “strain” of which mimics the smell of marijuana through the addition of hemp and terpenes. But an association once deftly implied via marketing has now[Read More…]

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Juice for Jobs: Atlanta Entrepreneur Expands Snack Business to Help Displaced Persons in Her Native Country of Georgia

November 2, 2020

Following the success of her organic rosehip juice business, NADI, Atlanta entrepreneur Nina Tickaradze is launching a second product that will provide further meaningful work for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in her home country of Georgia. NADI, which means “collective work effort” in Georgian, employs people displaced by conflict in the Republic of Georgia’s South[Read More…]

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Women From Georgia, Morocco to Feature in Virtual Student Exchange on Leadership

October 23, 2020

Editor’s note: This sponsored article is published in partnership with Kennesaw State University’s Division of Global Affairs.  University students in Morocco and Kennesaw engaged in an innovative virtual exchange program are seeking to interview Georgia businesswomen about the challenges women face in leadership positions in both of their countries. The online program is to be[Read More…]

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