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CSU Student Teachers Offer Extra Help to Two Schools

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Created on June 17, 2013

roger hatcher quoteCOLUMBUS, Ga. — When Fox and Mulberry Creek elementary schools asked for help, Columbus State University answered with an emphatic yes.

CSU mobilized its student teachers to those Muscogee and Harris county schools to help improve test scores, and the effort yielded positive results.

"We've seen a substantial gain in test scores," said Penny Thornton, Fox Elementary principal. "The actual scores will not come out until the start of the new school year, but we know that there has been a great deal of improvement with our students. CSU played a large part in that."

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CSU Tweaks Placement Process for Undergraduate Math Requirements

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Created on June 14, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ga. — Columbus State University has taken another step toward eliminating barriers encountered by students who have to show they are ready for college-level math courses.

Until a few years ago, CSU required all students to take a Math Placement Test. CSU then developed a formula to calculatemath readiness that uses students' high school GPA (in college prep classes) and their scores on the math portion of the SAT or ACT tests.

The university is fine-tuning the formula this year to allow some newly admitted students to bypass the need for the MathPlacement Test altogether. Some students may still have to take the COMPASS exam – short for Computer-Adaptive Placement Assessment and Support System, a widely used series of tests used to measure college readiness.

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CSU Welcomes Novices for World’s Largest Swimming Lesson

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Created on June 12, 2013
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COLUMBUS, Ga. — Columbus State University will once again welcome anyone interested in learning to swim, or improving their swimming skills, for the World's Largest Swimming Lesson on Tuesday, June 18 at CSU's Student Recreation Center.

CSU's Student Recreation Center is one of about 30 Georgia facilities — the only one at a university — approved to participate in the fourth annual global effort designed to build awareness about the importance of learning to swim as a drowning-prevention strategy.

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Columbus State Hosts Summer Transition Camp for Students with Disabilities

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Created on June 12, 2013

belay deviceCOLUMBUS, Ga. -- Columbus State University is hosting its first Summer Transition Camp 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 11-12 at CSU's Schuster Student Success Center.

Camp Belay is for students with disabilities who graduated from high school this year and some who will be high school seniors this fall. It's being held by CSU in collaboration with the Muscogee County School District, Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency and the Georgia High School/High Tech program.

The camp's name aims to emphasize the need for campers to rely on their resources. Belay is a technique used in sailing and mountain climbing to secure one rope to an anchor point or to another person. Campers, who signed up for this camp during the school year at their high schools, will be given small clips used in mountain climbing, to serve as a reminder of their need for each other and various resources when going to college.

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CSU Professor's Study: More Attractive Real Estate Agents Mean Higher Prices, Profits

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Created on June 03, 2013

realCOLUMBUS, Ga. — At least for real estate agents, it turns out that beauty is indeed more than skin deep.

A recent study of physical attractiveness and how it impacts real estate brokers' pay and productivity shows that the more attractive the real estate agent, the higher the listing price of the home for sale.

Those listings lead to higher sales prices, meaning that beauty enhances an agent's wage, said the report co-authored by Frank Mixon, professor of economics at Columbus State University's Turner College of Business.

He collaborated on the article, Broker beauty and boon: a study of physical attractiveness and its effect on real estate brokers' income and productivity, with Sean P. Salter, from the Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University and Ernest W. King from the College of Business at the University of Southern Mississippi. The article was published in the Applied Financial Economics journal last year and recently featured in the Wall Street Journal.

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