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Commencement News

Posted by Admin On 11:11:00 AM 0 comments
During their graduating semester, students receive eight to ten emails from Special Events & Protocol to serve as reminders for important dates and deadlines. To help keep faculty and staff better informed, an email list has been created to provide copies of these student emails to interested parties.

To view latest email, click here: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8a69a1d57474db414771155c7&id=30409367cb

If you would like to be added to this email list, click here: http://gatech.us2.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=8a69a1d57474db414771155c7&id=44b10c8130


Participants should expect to receive 4-5 emails during the semester with links to each version sent to students.


Archival Access to the AJC

Posted by Admin On 4:14:00 PM 0 comments

The 2015 Beck Grant has provided the funding for access to the highly requested resources of the newly available archival subset of the Atlanta Constitution with full-text coverage from 1946 - 1984.  (These years were recently digitized and just became available for purchase in late 2015.) This adds to the previous access to the AJC from 1868-1945.

The resource may be accessed through the list of databases on the library website, and both provide browsing options as well as basic and advanced search capability. 



Article: How to Get a Job of the Future with a Liberal Arts Degree on Fast Company

In an economy that values STEM skills, is it possible to study philosophy and still get a job when you graduate?

To hear policymakers and higher-education wonks tell it, there’s now a chasm separating what high-tech industries need in order to stay competitive and the skills current students can offer once they’re old enough to work for them. It’s called the STEM gap, shorthand for all the science, technology, engineering, and mathematical knowledge that not enough of the next generation of American workers are picking up. And not only is it widening, it’s opening fissures in non-STEM fields as well, as technology transforms industries that didn't used to need data scientists or programmers but now do.


Read the entire article here.

Tech companies are hiring more liberal-arts majors than you think
Washington Post - August 26, 2015


Silicon Valley has a reputation for being filled with egghead coders who popped out of college as brilliant engineers (or who never finished college in the first place). Films like "The Social Network" have played a big role in popularizing this impression. Google, too, is notorious for putting job candidates through grueling programming tests. Against these geniuses, what hope would a humanities or social science major have of getting a job at one of these companies? Quite a lot, actually. In fact, liberal arts graduates joined the ranks of tech companies at a faster clip in the past few years than their engineering and computer-science counterparts, according an analysis by LinkedIn of its own users. And of the recent liberal arts grads the company examined, as many as 2 in 5 now work at an Internet or software company. That's a staggering number.


New IAC Website & Feature Story on HSOC

Posted by Admin On 8:49:00 AM 1 comments
Check out the awesome new Ivan Allen College website and the feature story on the school name change from HTS to HSOC.  You can read it at www.iac.gatech.edu/news-events/stories/440721.




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