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Interim presidents named at 2 GA universities
ATLANTA — Interim presidents have been appointed at two Georgia universities. University officials say Charles Patterson has been named interim president at Georgia Southwestern State University, and Margaret Venable will become interim president of Dalton State College. Both schools’ presidents are retiring at the end of the year. University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby says the two interim leaders are skilled and experienced members of the university system.
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GA university system names interim presidents for 2 GA schools with retiring leaders
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Interim presidents named at 2 GA universities
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Venable named interim president of Dalton State College
Submitted by Dalton State College
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby has named Margaret Venable as interim president of Dalton State College. Venable currently serves as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Gordon State College, in Barnesville. She will assume presidential responsibilities at Dalton State on Jan. 1, 2015, after current president John Schwenn retires on Dec. 31, 2014. “Serving as provost and vice president of academic affairs at Gordon State College has prepared Dr. Venable to take on the leadership of Dalton State College during this time of transition,” said Huckaby. “Margaret’s skills and experience developed during her extensive service with the University System are a tremendous asset, and we are fortunate to be able to rely on her leadership.”
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Margaret Venable Named Interim President Of Dalton State College
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Charles Patterson named interim president of Georgia Southwestern State University
Charles Patterson is a vice president and dean at Georgia Southern University
Staff Reports
AMERICUS — Charles Patterson, vice president for research and economic development at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, has been named interim president of Georgia Southwestern State University. Patterson will take over the presidency of the Americus university on Jan. 1, the day after GSW President Kenneth Blanchard retires. “Charles has an established career as a higher education administrator,” said University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby, who made the appointment Friday. “His leadership responsibilities have continued to expand at Georgia Southern, and I am confident he will serve the Georgia Southwestern State University campus community well. We appreciate Charles serving as interim president and expect this experience will further develop him as a leader within the University System.”
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Georgia Southern VP named interim president of Georgia Southwestern State
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Charles Patterson named interim GSW president
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Georgia Southern professor facing complaint about religion in history classes
By AL HACKLE
Georgia Southern University officials are investigating a complaint that Dr. Tom McMullen crosses the line to preaching in his history classes. McMullen, a tenured associate professor in the History Department, has taught at Georgia Southern for almost 24 years. He teaches upper-level courses, including “The Scientific Revolution” and “Science and Religion,” as well as general history classes. In an Oct. 22 letter to GSU President Dr. Brooks Keel, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science noted that McMullen’s courses include some in the honors program. “However, it is our information that McMullen uses class time to proselytize students and advance his personal religion, Christianity,” the groups stated in the letter. …The advocacy groups stated that McMullen gives extra credit to students for writing about his personal religious beliefs.
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UGA moves to fire professor for dating student; professor appeals
By LEE SHEARER
A lecturer in the University of Georgia’s psychology department faces the loss of his job after UGA officials found him in violation, for the second time, of a school policy that prohibits professors from dating students under their supervision. But the professor, Rich Suplita, says UGA officials are over-reaching, especially in their second investigation.
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Gurley inspires House bill to fine brokers endangering player eligibility
By WALTER C. JONESMORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA | An Augusta-area state lawmaker is sponsoring House Bill 3 to impose what he calls a hefty fine on anyone jeopardizing the eligibility of a student athlete such as the sports-memorabilia broker who paid University of Georgia running back Todd Gurley for his autograph. The bill has the same number as Gurley’s jersey at the request of House Speaker David Ralston, according to the sponsor, Rep. Barry Fleming, R-Harlem. Fleming discussed his idea with the speaker, who thought it important enough to be pre-filed as the first House bill, but then figured the symbolism of matching the jersey was more appropriate. Pre-filing began this week in advance of the legislative session that starts Jan. 12.
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Georgia lawmakers want $25,000 fine, jail for Gurley-like transactions
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UGA council recommends paid parental leave
Janel Davis
An advisory council at the University of Georgia voted to recommend the school offer eight weeks of paid parental leave to employees and allow faculty to modify their duties for a semester after having a child. The paid leave would apply to women and men. The recommendation, made during a meeting Wednesday of the University Council — a group of faculty, staff and students — does not change UGA’s human resources policies. It is just a push for administrators to consider revising the school’s human resources policies.
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Paid parental leave too costly, state university leaders say
Janel Davis
A proposal seeking paid parental leave that advocates are pushing for at the University of Georgia is too expensive and won’t be implemented at the state’s public colleges, system administrators said this week. An advisory council of faculty, staff and students at UGA recommended earlier this week that the state’s flagship institution provide eight weeks of paid leave for employees — both men and women — after the birth or adoption of a baby. Leave policies for the state’s 31 public colleges and universities are set by the University System of Georgia.
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Top of the List: Area’s 25 Largest Colleges & Universities
Courtney O’Neal
Research Associate- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Nov. 21, 2014, edition features a list of the area’s 25 Largest Colleges & Universities. Ranked by fall 2014 undergraduate and graduate enrollment, Largest Colleges & Universities is topped by The University of Georgia with more than 35,000 enrolled. The Athens school offers undergraduate degrees in 140 major fields and 35 graduate degrees in more than 130 fields. UGA also offers five doctoral degrees in 96 fields of study. Established in 1785, The University of Georgia is also the oldest institution on the list.
Georgia State University places second on the list with 32,500 undergraduates and graduates enrolled across its three metro locations in Alpharetta, downtown Atlanta, and the Robinson College of Business in Buckhead. Kennesaw State University comes in third with 25,714 enrolled, while Georgia Institute of Technology (23,109 enrollees) and Georgia Perimeter College (21,300 enrollees) complete the top five spots. Three institutions on the list recently appointed new presidents: D. Glen Cannon was announced as president at Gwinnett Technical College (No. 13) in August, Steve G. Daniel was appointed at West Georgia Technical College (No. 16) in May, and Donald Green now heads Georgia Highlands College (No. 17).
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State seeks to tap hidden economic asset: veterans
By WALTER C. JONESMORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA | Every time the Pentagon threatens to close military bases, communities near them fret about the potential loss of jobs on the installations and at businesses that sell to members of the service. Almost no one mentions one of the biggest economic windfalls, the veterans. Of course, military retirees are attractive residents because of their steady pensions and ample medical care, but even they aren’t the hidden asset. It’s the working-age veterans who constitute a quality workforce, experts say. …One of the newest, most ambitious initiatives to help the state exploit that economic gem is the outreach programs of the University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia. To cater to them, fees are being waived, some schools are matching GI benefits, college credit is being awarded for military experience, and campuses are setting aside lounges and study halls just for veterans. The two agencies are jointly building a 50,000-square-foot facility near Robins Air Force Base in Warner Robins. At the same time, the University System is building a 21,000-square-foot Liberty Center for Armstrong State University in Hinesville near Fort Stewart.
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Polish educators visit KSU college
by MDJ Staff
A group of five Polish educators from the University of Rzeszow visited Kennesaw State University’s College of Continuing and Professional Education Nov. 8 to 16 to learn about best practices for teacher education. KSU’s connection with Poland began in 1996 with Barbara S. Calhoun, dean of the College.
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South Forsyth cityhood study to launch
Mark Woolsey
For the AJC
A group seeking to set up a “limited services” city in South Forsyth County has raised $26,000 for a study to determine its potential viability. The study to be done by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the University of Georgia is a necessary pre-requisite for any new city wishing to incorporate in Georgia. The goal is to see study results by early March and have a bill introduced in the 2015 state legislative session to set the stage for the creation of Sharon Springs, said Steve Benefield of the Sharon Springs Alliance.
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UGA making plans to boost research dollars
By LEE SHEARER
University of Georgia administrators hope to make it easier for faculty members to apply for and get research grants, pushing to boost the amount of research dollars flowing into UGA labs. The University of Georgia Research Foundation tallied $142.8 million in sponsored research in the 2014 fiscal year that ended June 30, down from about $149.1 million the year before, according to figures UGA Vice President for Research David Lee shared with the foundation’s board of trustees on Friday. The foundation administers research grants at the university, collecting a percentage of the money received to promote research at the university.
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http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/nov/23/app-used-in-managing-stink-bugs-in-cotton/
App used in managing stink bugs in cotton
App developed at University of Georgia
By Clint Thompson
TIFTON — A new app, developed for smartphones and tablets by researchers and extension personnel with University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, allows farmers and scouts to save time and money by finding and using the most effective treatments available for stink bugs. Cotton farmers and scouts began using the Georgia Cotton Insect Advisor app this summer. It gave them an advantage in managing the potentially economically devastating pest, said Michael Toews, a UGA research entomologist who helped to develop the app.
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http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27287/eu-studies-the-focus-of-a-georgia-tech-grant-for-a-jean-monnet-centre/
EU Studies the Focus of a Georgia Tech Grant for a ‘Jean Monnet Centre’
by Phil Bolton
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded by the European Commission a $125,000, three-year grant to further its studies of the roles of Europe and the U.S. and their relations in a changing world. The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence grant is one of only 14 awarded worldwide this year. Named after one of the founding fathers of European integration, the program aims to promote excellence in teaching and research in the field of European Union studies and to foster dialogue between the academic world and policy-makers. Alastair Young, the Jean Monnet chair at Georgia Tech’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and the center’s director, told Global Atlanta that the grant is to support research activities around three topics.
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Wearable Tech for People With Disabilities
By Anna Medaris Miller
Alanna Kaivalya, 33, calls herself “the bionic woman.” The PhD student and yoga teacher trainer in New York can answer a phone with her watch, mute a noisy subway ride through an app on her phone and stream music directly into her ears — no cord necessary… Other designers and scientists are developing wearables that can help people with even the most severe disabilities better navigate and communicate. At Georgia Institute of Technology, for example, Maysam Ghovanloo, an associate professor of electronic design and applications and bioengineering, is empowering people with high-level spinal cord injuries to control their computers, wheelchairs and phones — all with their tongues.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/11/google_glass_why_it_s_time_for_google_to_walk_away_from_its_much_hyped_moonshot.html
The Moonshot That Missed
Google Glass was a grand experiment, but it’s time for Google to move on. Here’s how.
By Will Oremus
Google Glass has always been a solution in search of a problem. Now, for Google, it has become a problem in its own right. The latest bad news for Google’s dreams of putting a computer on every face came on Friday, when Reuters reported that the company no longer plans to release its smart glasses to the public in 2014. At this point, it has no official timetable for a consumer launch… Rather, Glass’ problem is that the technology today simply doesn’t offer anything that average people really want, let alone need, in their everyday lives. At some point in the future, it might. But not anytime soon. That’s not surprising when you consider how “Project Glass” originated—not as an idea for a new consumer product, but as an extension of a professor’s academic research. Glass was in large part the brainchild of Georgia Tech’s Thad Starner, a wearable-computing pioneer who had been tinkering with augmented-reality prototypes for two decades—and proudly wearing them on his face.
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Tiny Needles Reshape Major Eye Disease Treatment
By HospiMedica International staff writers
Novel microneedles allow dramatic dose sparing when compared to subconjunctival and topical administration of drugs directly into the eye. Developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GATech; Atlanta, USA) and Emory University (Atlanta, GA, USA), the microneedles, which range in length from 400 to 700 micrometers, could provide a new way to deliver drugs to specific areas within the eye relevant to glaucoma and corneal neovascularization, two of the world’s leading eye diseases.
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Healthy gut microbiota can prevent metabolic syndrome, researchers say
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ATLANTA–Promoting healthy gut microbiota, the bacteria that live in the intestine, can help treat or prevent metabolic syndrome, a combination of risk factors that increases a person’s risk for heart disease, diabetes and stroke, according to researchers at Georgia State University and Cornell University. Their findings are published in the journal Gastroenterology. The study, a follow-up to the research team’s previous paper in Science, uses an improved technical approach, making the results more significant.
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Emory, Ga. Tech to build joint library service center
The Associated Press
Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology plan to break ground soon on a new joint library project. The schools say the library service center will house a shared collection, provide delivery service and free up space on the campuses of both. Most of the collections in the Georgia Tech library will move to the new facility, which will make space for a project that aims to reimagine the school’s library spaces for the 21st century.
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Georgia State to create media production center
STAFF WRITER
ATLANTA (AP) – Georgia State University plans to create a media production center in downtown Atlanta. The school says the media center will be located next to Woodruff Park and will house the university’s new Creative Media Industries Institute. The interdisciplinary institute was introduced this fall and is meant to build on the university’s programs in media production, research, design, the arts, music management and digital publishing. The school says it aims to prepare students for careers that transcend traditional degree programs. A $22.8 million gift from the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation will be used to help fund the renovation of a three-story building
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Support For UWG-Newnan
Local residents’ support of the University of West Georgia Newnan campus, currently under construction at the old hospital on Jackson Street, should bring a smile and sense of pride to everyone. The generosity of multiple donors for various endowments, scholarships and facility enhancements will make the Newnan campus a true gem within the state’s higher educational system. These gifts will indeed take the university to a level not in the original plan. The latest large gift comes from the Newnan Kiwanis Club, which has pledged $25,000 to be distributed over a five- or six-year period. In honor of the club’s donation, a classroom will be named in its honor.
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SaportaReport
Georgia State gets ‘transformational’ $22.8 million Woodruff Foundation gift
By Maria Saporta and Doug Sams
Georgia State University, receiving its largest gift ever, will enliven a “dead” space overlooking Woodruff Park to create a new interdisciplinary creative media institute to bolster Georgia’s growing movie and communications industry. The Robert W. Woodruff Foundation is giving the university $22.8 million to transform the three-story building that used to serve as the SunTrust bank lobby at the corner of Edgewood Avenue and Park Place into a media production center.
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http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-11-23/matter-record
A matter of record
Criticism of university’s president neither isolated nor minor
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
We at The Augusta Chronicle editorial page certainly are happy to play the lightning rod in the Ricardo Azziz affair – but let’s not lose sight of the storm itself, or how it began. With the president of Georgia Regents University a finalist for the top spot at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, a recent news story reported that University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby dismissed criticism of Azziz here as, basically, a vendetta by an unnamed Chronicle editor who’s been a “thorn in the side of the university.” In particular, Huckaby is said to have pointed to the brouhaha over Azziz’s unapproved $75,000 carport enhancement at his state-owned home. If faculty, students and residents in Las Vegas want to buy that canard – that Azziz’s considerable baggage is no more than a quarrel with a newspaper, or that it’s just over a carport – then they’re free to do so. It just wouldn’t be true.
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http://savannahnow.com/column/2014-11-22/michael-moore-whats-ahead-education-georgia
Michael Moore: What’s ahead for education in Georgia
Now that the midterm elections have come and gone and the dust is settling, what do the results mean for educators both nationally and at the state level? Reading the tea leaves, with both chambers of Congress in Republican hands, it looks doubtful that any reauthorization of the badly outdated, and too closely associated with the president, Elementary and Secondary Education Act will happen any time soon. I would also expect Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s Race to the Top spigot will close to a trickle. Duncan’s dangling carrot, called waivers from No Child Left Behind, won’t move any states forward. Districts are much more likely to take their marching orders from their own state leaders than from the Secretary of Education. Far more opponents to the Common Core were elected than proponents. Currently, 34 states remain committed to the Common Core.
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Federal immigration actions pose questions for colleges about undocumented students
By Nick Anderson
New federal measures to halt deportation of many illegal immigrants will spotlight a question of growing urgency for colleges: How should they handle applications from undocumented students for admissions and financial aid? The issue emerged in President Obama’s first term amid a national debate about the “Dream Act,” which in various versions sought to protect certain students who entered into the United States illegally as young children, grew up in the country and graduated from U.S. high schools.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/immigration-reform-2014-deportation-relief-will-also-lead-educational-opportunities-1727798
Immigration Reform 2014: Deportation Relief Will Also Lead To Educational Opportunities, Financial Aid, Depending On State
By Brianna Lee
Millions of undocumented immigrants will be able to apply for deportation relief and work authorization in just a matter of months under executive action announced by President Obama this week. In many cases, that relief will also come in the form of other benefits, like health care and educational opportunities — but the extent of those benefits will depend largely on the state in which they live. Precise details of the new program for undocumented parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are still unclear. But it will most likely be modeled after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which has garnered around nearly 600,000 beneficiaries since its launch two years ago and will be expanded to cover even more young immigrants under Obama’s executive action. On the whole, DACA recipients have been able to earn more money, drive, open bank accounts, build credit and go to college, but their experiences vary greatly by state. That will likely also be the case for the new group of protected immigrants.
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At Age 10, Excelencia Still Fighting for Latino Educational Growth
by Catherine Morris
WASHINGTON ― Leaders from Excelencia in Education and Congress, as well as the business and foundation world, discussed the crucial role that Hispanic and Latinos will play in shaping the nations’ future at a roundtable discussion Thursday. “Every 10 years we confront the fact that Latinos are the second-largest community in this country, that the population continues to increase, and that by 2060 Latinos are projected to represent 31 percent of the total U.S. population,” said Excelencia President Sarita E. Brown, whose organization is commemorating 10 years of work to improve Hispanic and Latino educational outcomes. …The good news is that overall, more Latinos are in the K-12 system and are going on to college.
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Advocates Want Public Benefits for Low-Income Students on Table
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON ― When it comes to advocating for greater reliance on public benefits for low-income individuals, the idea is already a tough political sell among anti-entitlement elected officials and segments of the electorate that view the benefits as handouts. But what if those public benefits were being extended to community college students as a way to boost their chances of earning a credential? That was the issue probed Thursday in a policy forum at the Center for Law and Social Policy, or CLASP. The forum highlighted findings from a project called Benefits Access for College Completion, or BACC.
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http://www.jbhe.com/2014/11/university-of-phoenix-signs-agreement-to-offer-online-courses-to-hbcu-students/
University of Phoenix Signs Agreement to Offer Online Courses to HBCU Students
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), an organization representing 47 publicly supported historically Black colleges and universities, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with the University of Phoenix, a leading online education provider. Under the agreement, students at TCMF members institutions will be able to supplement their on-campus course loads with course programs using the University of Phoenix online platform. HBCU institutions that participate in the new alliance will be able to help students satisfy course requirements by completing online offerings at the University of Phoenix as part of their semester-based tuition and fees.
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http://www.jbhe.com/2014/11/university-program-aims-to-increase-the-number-of-minority-graduate-students-in-neuroscience/
University Program Aims to Increase the Number of Minority Graduate Students in Neuroscience
The University of Alabama at Birmingham has established the Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program in an effort to increase the number of graduate students in the field. Prospective graduate students will need to apply and be accepted into the university’s, Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Behavioral Neuroscience, or Vision Science graduate programs. The Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program will provide support, direction, and mentoring for up to six students from underrepresented groups each year.
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Education Historian Ravitch Wants More Input From Teachers on Common Core
by Lucas L. Johnson II, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― One of the nation’s leading opponents of the education reform movement said Thursday that a public review process the governor has created for Tennessee’s Common Core standards can be effective if teachers’ ideas are taken seriously. Education historian Diane Ravitch, a research professor at New York University and former U.S. assistant education secretary, was in Nashville to speak at a conference of career and technical education professionals. Her visit comes during the same week Tennessee lawmakers filed measures to do away with the state’s Common Core standards.
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University of Virginia Suspends Fraternal Activities Amid Investigation
by Associated Press
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― The University of Virginia on Saturday suspended activities at all campus fraternal organizations amid an investigation into a published report in which a student described being sexually assaulted by seven men at a fraternity in 2012. President Teresa Sullivan said in a letter to the university community that the Board of Visitors is scheduled to meet Tuesday to discuss the allegations contained in a Rolling Stone article, along with the university’s policies and procedures concerning sexual assaults. Groups of students, faculty, alumni and others will be asked to hold similar discussions.
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New Jersey Looks at ‘Yes Means Yes’ College Policy
by Michael Catalini, Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. ― You think the attractive woman at the party who has been chatting you up all night is ready to take things to the next level. She seems to be throwing all the right signals. But if things turn sexual, are you sure that will hold up under legal scrutiny? That’s a question at the center of a national debate surrounding “yes means yes” ― more accurately called affirmative consent ― the policy that requires conscious, voluntary agreement between partners to have sex. A new proposal in New Jersey makes it the latest state moving to require college campuses to define when “yes means yes” in an effort to stem the tide of sexual assaults.
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Corinthian Colleges to Shed Most of Its Schools
by Associated Press
NEW YORK ― Corinthian Colleges will sell most of its campuses in the midst of several investigations and lawsuits by federal and state regulators. The sale of Everest and WyoTech campuses to the nonprofit company ECMC Group would allow more than 39,000 students to continue attending class, the company said Thursday. ECMC, which provides financial literacy programs, will spend $24 million for 68 schools in 17 states, 12 of which are to be closed when the current students graduate. Regulators have cracked down on for-profit colleges like Corinthian in recent years.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/11/20/fsu-gunman-remembered-as-hard-worker-kindest-sweetest-person-by-baffled-friends-acquaintances/
FSU gunman was in ‘state of crisis’ during shooting, investigators say
By Peter Holley and Sarah Larimer
Earlier this month, Myron May turned up at his old high school in tiny Wewahitchka, Fla. It was an unexpected visit, but a pleasant one, said Jay Bidwell, May’s former basketball and track-and-field coach. “We were happy to see each other, and I thought he was pretty excited to be here,” said Bidwell, who also serves as Wewahitchka High School’s principal. “He was in a good mood and everything.” On Thursday, Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo identified May, 31, as the gunman who opened fire at a library at Florida State University, a school at which he was an alumnus. Three students were wounded in the attack and May was killed in a shootout with police.