The World Affairs Council of Atlanta is recruiting young Atlantans for a summer trip to Beijing to learn about the Chinese tax system. The annual study program is underwritten by the Confucius Institute at Georgia State University and comes at a time when taxes — in the form of tariffs — have been at the […]
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Attendees at Korean Chamber Dinner Asked to Bring Questions for Former Ambassador
The 2020 Census should settle the questions about how many Korean-Americans are living in the U.S. Southeast. For now, however, the estimates of the Korean Consulate General based in Atlanta are about as good as you can get and the consulate’s estimate for the seven states and the Virgin Islands, over which it has jurisdiction, […]
Islamic Leadership Institute Announces 2020 Class
A leadership institute geared toward Georgia’s Muslim professionals launched last year has named the members of its second class for 2020. The Islamic Speakers Bureau Leadership Institute has also continued its partnership with CIFAL Atlanta, the United Nations training agency housed at Kennesaw State University, on weekly courses that begin Jan. 11. The program is […]
Books 2019: Restoring Technology’s Ability to Serve Human Aims
Book: Team Human Author: Douglas Rushkoff Review by: Lee Foster, Executive Director, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University Although I have been working in the performing arts industry for more than 20 years, my recent stint in the academic world at Georgia Tech demanded a return to my roots. I asked myself […]
Books 2019: Lessons, but No Simple Answers, From History’s Great Leaders
Title: Leaders: Myth and Reality Author: General Stanley McChrystal Review by: Mark Becker, President, Georgia State University What drew me to this book is the subtitle, not the title. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is now a senior fellow at Yale University, and I have heard him speak, so I knew about his previous books and his […]
Georgia Southern Opens New Ireland Center With Presidential Meeting
It was meeting of presidents that seemed to make the biggest impression on the leader of Georgia Southern University. University President Kyle Marrero last week presided over the first meeting his office has held with a foreign head of state when he met with Irish President Michael D. Higgins in Wexford, Ireland. Mr. Higgins was among […]
Georgia Hosts More International Students Despite Weaker Picture Nationally
Georgia’s universities continued to attract more international students over the past year, posting solid gains despite a flat growth rate nationally. The state hosted 23,623 students from around the world in 2018-19, a 3.7 percent growth rate that was considerably slower than last year’s nearly 6 percent year-over-year growth. But Georgia looked stellar compared to […]
Berlin Wall Segments in Atlanta Provide Backdrops for 30th Anniversary Commemorations
Pieces of the 27-mile Berlin Wall are not the rarest of historical artifacts; it just takes a quick search on Ebay to find crumbled fragments of the physical barrier that separated free and communist sections of what’s now the German capital. But metro Atlanta is home to at least three complete concrete slabs weighing multiple tons each — […]
Indonesia Seeks Deep, Sustained Educational Exchange With Georgia, U.S.
After 9/11, the backlash was swift. Faced with tense security measures, visa denials and perceived xenophobia, many travelers and students from the Muslim world no longer felt welcome in the United States. Yet for most countries, the wound healed relatively quickly. Iran, not exactly an ally of the U.S., continued to send scholars to institutions […]
Atlanta Fed, IMF Partner to Decode China’s Economy Amid Uncertainty
In an era where economic policy on China can change with a tweet, a group of scholars at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta this week are taking a deeper look at what some call the world’s most consequential trading relationship. The Atlanta Fed in 2016 launched a collaborative research workshop with the International Monetary […]
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