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The governor’s budget sets aside funding for long-awaited needs-based aid in Georgia

Georgia is an outlier when it comes to the money available for college students without the money for an education or the grades and test scores for a merit-based scholarship. But that could be changing with the expansion of the University of Georgia Foundation’s DREAMS Scholarship program announced by Gov. Brian Kemp Thursday.

January 16, 2026
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  • Ross Williams and
  • Georgia Recorder

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  • Education

More students are going to college. Affordability and workforce training are factors

Overall enrollment is up slightly at colleges and universities, driven by gains at community colleges and public four-year programs.

January 15, 2026
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By:
  • Elissa Nadworny
A person holding a dropper and vial marked CBD oil.

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Nearly half of college students have tried CBD, says a study of University of Georgia students

A recent study from the University of Georgia asked 4,000 students about their use of CBD, a non-impairing compound found in cannabis.

December 30, 2025
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By:
  • Chase McGee
Teddie Ussery, left, is a Columbus State University Foundation Board of Trustees member and former chair. She retired from Synovus as a senior vice president and founded Family Office Matters. She poses in November 2025 with her sister Penny Elkins on the balcony of the Mercer University School of Medicine building in Columbus. Elkins will become president of Mercer on Jan. 1. Mark Rice mrice@ledger-enquirer.com

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  • Education

How this Columbus native became Mercer University’s first female president

Last month, when the Mercer University Board of Trustees unanimously voted to approve Penny Elkins as the 19th — and first female — president in the institution’s 192-year history, they did more than make history.

December 25, 2025
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By:
  • Mark Rice and
  • The Ledger Enquirer
A group of people watch a man wearing a prosthetic leg walk between elevated bars.

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A Georgia Tech student has been using a prosthetic leg for years. Now he's designing better ones

After losing his foot as a child, one Georgia Tech student decided to use his experience to design smarter prosthetics for others.

November 07, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Spelman College

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Georgia's Spelman College receives $38 million gift from MacKenzie Scott

Atlanta's Spelman College announced a $38 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, making it her second investment to the college in the past five years.

November 04, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff

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  • Education

Survey finds many college professors in Georgia would not recommend the state to a colleague

The American Association of University Professors Georgia chapter released a survey showing many professors in Georgia are unsatisfied with their jobs.

September 09, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Ford Hall at Berry College.

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Travel + Leisure mag names 2 Georgia schools among 'Most Beautiful College Campuses'

Travel + Leisure named Georgia colleges, Berry College in Rome and the University of Georgia in Athens, in its list of the "30 Most Beautiful College Campuses in the U.S."

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • GPB News Staff and
  • Ambria Burton
A tour guide walks with a group of people attending an Uncomfortable Oxford Tour, in Oxford, on Oct. 20, 2023.

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  • World

International students look to the U.K. instead of the U.S. amid Trump's visa plans

Planned U.S. visa restrictions are causing students around the world to consider going to the United Kingdom instead.

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Jean Paul Al Arab and his son, 6-month-old Mtanos, celebrate the elder Al Arab's graduation from the University at Buffalo.

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  • National

Why did university police chase a student and his baby across a graduation stage?

Jean Paul Al Arab and his 6-month-old led police on a brief foot chase during a University at Buffalo ceremony. The school said the grad violated rules about who can participate in the commencement.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Alana Wise
Berry College in Rome, Ga., held its spring commencement ceremony on May 10, 2025. (Berry College/ Facebook)

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Congrats Class of 2025! A look through Georgia's commencement ceremonies

It's graduation season! Georgia colleges and universities will hold commencement ceremonies to celebrate and honor the Class of 2025. 

May 19, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff
Some universities are using AI to help read student names at graduation ceremonies. Image by Midjourney AI

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Georgia colleges restrict use of AI for classwork. Some will use it to call names at graduation

Young adults across Georgia will soon be passing that major milestone: walking across the stage, taking their diplomas in hand and basking in the applause after their names are read.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Ross Williams
Berry College and Georgia Tech University students pictured for WNET’s Preserving Democracy social media campaign, in which GPB, as a partner, asked students what democracy meant to them. Ambria Burton & Allexa Ceballos/GPB News

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  • Elections

Preserving Democracy: GPB asks college students about voting plans and democracy

In partnership with WNET for the nonpartisan Preserving Democracy project's "Ready to Vote" social media campaign, Georgia Public Broadcasting interviewed students from Berry College in Rome, Ga., and Georgia Tech in Atlanta about their plans to vote and their thoughts on democracy ahead of the election.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
Official NCAA poster for Berry College as a host for the 2028 NCAA Tennis Championships. (Courtesy of Berry College)

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  • News

Berry College selected to host 2028 NCAA Tennis Championships

Berry College in Rome, Ga., was selected by the NCAA to host its Division III Men's and Women's Tennis Championship in 2028.

October 07, 2024
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Applicants to Georgia State University received a welcome email for the 2024-25 school year. However, the email was sent in error to 1,500 applicants by the school's admissions office. Here, the campus celebrates its fall commencement exercises on Dec. 17, 2014, in Atlanta.

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  • Education

1,500 college applicants thought they were accepted. They soon learned it was an error

Georgia State University says the students were not sent an official acceptance letter but "communication" from a department welcoming those who intend to major in a specific academic area.

May 16, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
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