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AU and USC Aiken launch new online learning programs

Some new students who arrive at Augusta University for the fall semester will be attending in a non-traditional manner. Augusta University Online is up and running, less than a year after AU President, Dr. Brooks Keel announced the project in his State of the University address. Keel also introduced Dr. Marc Austin, hired as Dean of Augusta University Online, who will helm the new offering. The goal was to have Augusta University Online ready for fall 2023. They reached that goal. “We managed to get it out of the gate,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre April 10, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Local job fair is a home run

A career and job fair at SRP Park sponsored by ADP is scheduled for Wednesday, April 12. More than 16 CSRA businesses will be set up from 6-8 pm. Candidates who bring a resume can get a discounted $5 ticket to the game. Businesses will be interviewing candidates for jobs and showcasing the career opportunities available. Among the sponsors and participating businesses are Augusta University, Cintas, EZGO, SRP, Bridgestone, and Jani King. The game will feature the GreenJackets vs the Down East Wood Ducks. It’s a night of baseball and

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Staff Report April 9, 2023 No Comments
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Help to keep mind, body, and career healthy

An Augusta University professor has published a book on finding work-life balance and avoiding burnout. Dr. William Hatcher, chair of the Department of Social Sciences in Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, has co-authored a book entitled Work-Life Balance in Higher Education. Though it started as a collection of essays that had been published in the Journal of Public Affairs Education, the publisher urged Hatcher to include additional information, appealing to a broader audience. “When people have more control, reasonable demands and support from their organizations, they tend

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Dana Lynn McIntyre April 3, 2023 No Comments
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Local university targets high paying jobs in new online degree program

The University of South Carolina Aiken will offer online bachelor’s degree programs in business administration with concentrations in finance and marketing for the summer 2023 semester. Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, some of the fastest-growing and highest-paying jobs are in the financial and marketing fields. The bachelor’s in business administration, with concentrations in finance and marketing, have been developed to reflect employer needs and prepares students for employment in a variety of career areas. “Our online bachelor’s in business administration program prepares students to meet the

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Staff Report March 28, 2023 No Comments
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Boost in manufacturing and nursing development programs to benefit CSRA

The U.S. Department of Labor has selected three colleges including Aiken Tech to form a consortium to develop a virtual Workforce Innovation Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Nursing — two sectors the agency identified as priority workforce needs. This comes with a large grant from the DOL to accomplish the task. Piedmont Technical College (PTC) and Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College (OCtech) are also included in a grant to address the needs of those two sectors. Combined, the three technical colleges are expected to have a big impact on the CSRA and

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Staff Report March 27, 2023 No Comments
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Technical college offers forklift training program to local inmates

A group of local inmates is now eligible for jobs in the logistics industry, thanks to a partnership between the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office and Augusta Technical College. The college recently offered a two-day continuing education forklift certification course to 12 men who were about to be released from jail in Augusta. The detention center paid for the program. The college’s President, Dr. Jermaine Whirl said they chose a program that could be taught at the jail. He said the inmates were very excited about completing that program, which combined

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Staff Report March 27, 2023 No Comments
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More large-scale development headed to North Augusta

A more than 1,700-acre development is reportedly coming to the North Augusta area. Information surfaced with a post on the Twitter feed of Eureka Earth, an Augusta-based company specializing in “shared robotics and autonomous systems.” Its social media and website feature aerial photos, primarily of the Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters tournament. The tweet included a name for the development, Cypress Shoals, and a link to the developer’s website. The website for Cypress Shoals said it will be a multi-generational, mixed-use development that will include residential lots, condominiums

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Dana Lynn McIntyre March 27, 2023 No Comments
Consumer Stories

Will Artificial Intelligence take your job?

In case you missed Richard Brashear’s column last week, here is the link. How GPT-4 can boost your business marketing. Read it and read it again. He has done several columns about AI capabilities and the impact on marketing your business, but this article sent me down a research rabbit hole. As Brashear has reported, AI has revolutionized the digital marketing industry. In simple terms GPT-4 is an artificial intelligence model that is used to generate text, most of which comes from absorbing the internet, all of it. “From a

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Mitzi Oxford March 26, 2023 No Comments
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Local company hosts book drive to benefit students

For many children, reading over the summer sounds like punishment, but one local business owner hopes to change that with help from the business community. Tim Cox, the owner of Leisure Time Pressure Wash & Restoration located on Columbia Road in Martinez, is hosting a book drive this month and next month with the goal of providing one book to every student at Warren Road Elementary School in Augusta, where his wife, Tiffany teaches. He said the school’s enrollment is about 600 students. “We figured we have to come up

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Josh Heath March 26, 2023 No Comments
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Local business owners honor father’s legacy by establishing entrepreneurial scholarship fund

Wilkes Goolsby is honoring his father’s legacy by helping local high school students achieve the dream of business ownership. Goolsby is co-owner of Goolsby’s, a popular family restaurant that specializes in Southern cuisine located at 4460 Washington Road, Suite 9 in Evans. Every year on March 24, the restaurant hosts Richard Goolsby Day, which honors his father, the restaurant’s founder who died in a car accident on Feb. 10, 2021. March 24 was his birthday. On Friday, Goolsby’s celebrated the second annual Richard Goolsby Day. All sales and donations collected

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Josh Heath March 26, 2023 No Comments
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