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FULTON & MONTGOMERY COUNTIES Only 11 years after borrowing $11.3 million to double the size of student housing at Fultom-Montgomery Community College, the student housing arm of the college Friday petitioned state Supreme Court in Fulton County for permission to sell all three of its dormitory buildings to Amsterdam-based Dan Vann Properties for $1.1 million.
The sale of the three dorms represents a complete reversal of the strategy college officials had envisioned for its growth 11 years ago when it borrowed $11.3 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the purpose of purchasing and upgrading the 1980s-vintage Fulton Hall and Montgomery Hall for $4 million from the Massachusetts-based private company that owned them and building from scratch the $7.1 million, 144-bed, co-educational Raider Hall dorm opened in 2012.
This year, due to Covid, students are making changes in the way they think about their college applications, said Robert Franek, The Princeton Review s editor-in-chief. They are much more sensitive around cost and staying closer to home.
To that end, The Princeton Review ranked colleges by how much financial aid is awarded and how satisfied students are with their packages. After nearly 20 years, the college admissions company also changed its criteria to include more in-state public schools. The report is based on data from its surveys of administrators at 650 colleges in 2019 and 2020, as well as students attending the schools. Never cross an expensive school off your list based on sticker price alone, Franek said. Financial aid is available and can make many, many schools so affordable.
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Big Tech companies are likely to see more organized labor initiatives from blue- and white-collar employees, despite a recent failed effort to form a union at an Amazon.com Inc. warehouse in Alabama, labor experts say.
Historically, unionization has not been associated with Silicon Valley, where technology firms dangle fancy perks and high salaries to highly skilled employees who can easily hop to the next job. But an increasing focus on inequities among essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with a push by the Biden administration to reform labor law, could place more power in the hands of employees to organize, the experts say.
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The focus of this panel is to explore the multiple ways to bring together the affected communities, specifically through oral histories and visual exhibitions.
Panelists:
-Banu Pekol, Formerly Cultural Heritage Manager at the Association for the Protection for Cultural Heritage, Turkey; upcoming Berghof Foundation.
-Johann Peiris, Technical Expert at HistoricalDialogue.lk, Sri Lanka
-Kaltrina Krasniqi, Award winning Kosovo based film director and researcher and founding member of the Kosovo Oral History Initiative, Kosovo.
Moderator:
-Sarah C. Bishop, Associate Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York, Fulbright Scholar 2021 in El Salvador, a Member of the Board of Directors at Mixteca Organization and a former AHDA Fellow from 2018.