college
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Home & Garden
Creating Personal, Budget-Friendly Spaces
Collections, color and mementos make these college bedrooms feel personal, cozy and welcoming to the University of Georgia students who call them home. Budget is top of mind for students as they start to develop their own style, which ranges from grandmillennial to coastal grandma to whimsical. Take a look…
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Home and Garden Series
College Student Creates Safe Haven on a Budget
Hailey Moyer-Samarasinghe knows she is in a place where she can relax when she walks into her bedroom after a long day. “My favorite time to be in this room is at night because I get to put my ambient lights on, and it just feels very cozy,” she said.…
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Home and Garden Series
The Accidental Coastal Grandma: How Taylor Jochum Embraces Old-Soul Style
Taylor Jochum’s bedroom is a curated collection of “a bunch of bits and pieces” of her life and the lives of those around her. Her grandmother’s Blue Willow china — a cat and a letter holder — sit on the shelves, and her grandfather’s 1970s Polaroid camera has made a…
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Home & Garden
Pops of Color to Vintage Accents: Inside the Rooms of UGA Students
University of Georgia students bring character to their college bedrooms through artwork, accessories and other items that remind them of family, home, study abroad trips and summer travel. Finding their personal style — often on a budget — is part of the evolution from dorm room to apartments, townhomes and…
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Athens-Clarke County
Panhellenic Organizations Help to Combat Food Insecurity on Campus
Hundreds of cans and nonperishable food products line the shelves in a small room in the back corner of the Tate Student Center’s first floor. What people walking through the building might not realize is that inside that tiny room, workers are providing food to hungry University of Georgia students.…
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Diversity
The PWI Experience: Black Students Building Forms of Community at Georgia’s Flagship Institution
College dropouts have a grip on the U.S. economy, amounting to $6.2 billion in taxpayer money lost after students make the decision to call it quits. A substantial 30.6% of those dropouts are Black students, according to the Education Data Initiative and the American Institute for Research. That’s nearly double the…
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Education
Plan After Graduation? Jackson County Schools Prepare Students For Life After High School
The question that haunts seniors everywhere — what are your plans after you graduate? Many seniors in Jackson County said they feel more prepared to answer that question after numerous efforts and initiatives by the school system. With a graduation rate of 93.5%, the Jackson County School System has been…
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In-Depth
Global TikTok Frenzy Captures Unsuspecting UGA Students
When Joshua Pickens left for Costa Rica to study abroad in summer 2019, he had not yet heard of the app that would soon lead to his semi-celebrity status on his university campus. The laughter of other students on the trip from using TikTok, a popular short-form video sharing app,…
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In-Depth
GDP Boom in Jackson County Highlights Need for Skilled Workers
Jackson County proved itself to be no shrinking violet when it came to its market growth over the last decade. In 2018, the Bureau of Economic Analysis released the first comprehensive dataset on gross domestic product, or GDP, for every county in the United States from the years 2012-2015. Jackson…
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Education
More U.S. Students Choosing Free College Education Abroad
If financial burdens worry you when applying to college, you may consider attending a university on the other side of the world. Americans collectively owe more than $1.5 trillion in student debt. With the cost of attending college at an all-time high and steadily increasing, many young people are choosing…