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Ready to join the workforce

A fresh group of more than 70 trained professionals marked their graduation on Thursday at the Snelling Center on Goodwill’s campus on Washington Road. The Augusta Career Education graduation was for individuals who have completed their studies in fields ranging from future business leaders to logistics professionals. “We’re here to celebrate students who have finished some of our short-term certificate programs,” explained Leah Pontani, Senior Vice President of Career Development. “So, we have a variety of students who have gone through Goodwill Career Education, short-term programs like EKG, phlebotomy, Certified

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Dana Lynn McIntyre May 8, 2025 No Comments
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$100k donation to benefit education and workforce development

Kia Georgia has announced a $100,000 donation to the Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) Foundation, reinforcing its commitment to advancing workforce development and technical education in Georgia. The contribution will benefit Augusta Technical College students, among others, across the state. The contribution was presented by Kia Georgia President and CEO, Stuart Countess, during TCSG’s annual Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) and Rick Perkins Awards banquet, which honors the state’s top technical college students and instructors. “We are proud to continue our partnership with the Technical College System of

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Staff Report May 6, 2025 No Comments
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2 Questions for the Dean: MBA

There’s a little-known intangible reason why you or your colleagues should consider joining the MBA program at Augusta University’s Hull College of Business. Here are two questions with the Dean, Mark Thompson. ABD: What’s unique about your MBA program in terms of attracting professionals in the CSRA? HULLL: One of the things that we really highlight is recruiting. We want to recruit a cohort of students into the MBA program. You come into a class and you have all of these other working professionals from a number of different industries

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Neil Gordon May 4, 2025 No Comments
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2 Questions for The Dean: How companies benefit from Hull interns?

Last week in our “2 Questions for The Dean” segment, we looked at how interns benefit Hull College of Business interns. This week, Dean Mark Thompson shares why CSRA companies should partner with Hull. ABD: How do Hull College students help some of the companies in the CSRA? HULL: Yeah, so we’re hearing a lot from our internship partners about the value they get from working with the students. One, getting to know our students, getting a trial run to see if this is somebody that we want to employ

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Neil Gordon April 27, 2025 No Comments
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2 Questions for The Dean: Student Internships

When your son or daughter gets ready for college, they’ll be faced with juggling classes and perhaps a job, and an internship. If you send them to the Hull College of Business, chances are all three will be taken care of. Here are two questions with the Dean! ABD: You have a very unique internship program, and talk a little bit about the value that it brings to the students that actually go to work while they study. HULL: It’s something that we did a couple of years ago, where

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Neil Gordon April 20, 2025 No Comments
Awards

ATC Alumnus to Honor the Best and Brightest

Born in Aiken, South Carolina, as the only son to a single mother of three children, Tim Behling developed an unwavering commitment to leadership and impacting the lives of others through positive engagement. His dream, from the age of 13, has always been to live a life that touched more lives than just his own. He will do that tomorrow, April 17, as the keynote speaker for the Aiken Technical College annual Awards Night Ceremony. Behling graduated in 2015 from ATC, so this marks his tenth anniversary of that event

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Mitzi Oxford April 15, 2025 No Comments
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Helms College Students Helped Augusta National During Tournament Week

Ever wonder who makes up part of Augusta National’s culinary team during the busiest week of the year? Students from Helms College on Washington Road made the short drive each day to prepare food for the tournament. Its Augusta campus is home to the School of Hospitality, which was recently ranked among the Top 10 Culinary Schools in America by Niche.com. The college’s “education with purpose” model places students inside operating hospitality businesses as part of their curriculum — including Helms-affiliated Edgar’s Hospitality Group (EHG) venues: Edgar’s Grille, Edgar’s Bakehouse,

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Staff Report April 13, 2025 No Comments
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2 Questions for the Dean: Day in the Life at Hull

There’s a certain amount of anxiety going to college as a freshman. If your son or daughter is in high school and ready to pick a school, consider sending them for a trial run at the Hull College of Business. ABD: So, how does a day in the life of a Hull College student work? HULL: It is an opportunity to recruit and bring high school students on the campus, but it’s also an opportunity for students to get a sense of what it’s like if they were a student

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Neil Gordon April 13, 2025 No Comments
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