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CSU presidential search committee narrows field
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015/02/12/3563051_csu-presidential-search-committee.html?rh=1
BY MARK RICE
mrice@ledger-enquirer.com
The search for Columbus State University’s next president has been narrowed from more than 50 applicants to 11 candidates. The 17-member selection committee met in closed session for four hours Wednesday to whittle the field, CSU assistant vice president for university relations John Lester said Thursday. Committee chairman John Finley, associate professor of business administration and executive officer of CSU’s Faculty Senate, wasn’t reached for comment. The committee will interview the 11 candidates next week in Atlanta during closed sessions, Lester said, then choose approximately five candidates to bring to Columbus for campus visits and public presentations in early March.

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Georgia Tech, UGA make impressive showing on ACBJ’s top public universities list
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/02/12/georgia-tech-uga-make-impressive-showing-on-acbj-s.html
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Two Georgia universities made the top 20 in Amercian City Business Journal’s annual ranking of the top four-year public colleges. The Business Journals analyzed 484 four-year public colleges, using the latest data released by the National Center for Education Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. College rankings recently issued by four national publications — Forbes, Kiplinger’s, U.S. News and World Report and Washington Monthly — were also taken into account.
Here’s how Georgia’ public universities ranked:
13. Georgia Tech
16. The University of Georgia
141. Georgia Southern University
143. Georgia College and State University
169. Georgia State University
247. Kennesaw State University

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Colleges With The BEST Career Placement
The Princeton Review (5 SlideShares)

Find out which schools get you the best job post grad. Top 10 schools with career services and highest salaries post graduation. …#10. Georgia Institute of Technology

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GGC Day at the capitol launches 10th anniversary celebration
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2015/feb/12/ggc-day-at-the-capitol-launches-10th-anniversary/
By Keith Farner
Gov. Sonny Perdue called it a “model for our university system” and a celebration in August, 2006 featured a ribbon-cutting, speeches from dignitaries and 107 students. A fact Georgia Gwinnett College officials still boast was also repeated then: GGC is the state university system’s first new four-year college in 100 years. While the college experienced crowded classrooms in its early days, and in recent years a parking transition that irritated some students, it now counts about 10,800 students. Within two years, GGC plans to cap its enrollment at 13,000. The school is the ninth-largest and fastest-growing institution in the state.

www.globalatlanta.com
The U.N. Taps Georgia TechProf. To Launch Macau Program
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27436/the-un-taps-georgia-tech-prof-to-launch-macau-program/
by Phil Bolton
The Georgia Institute of Technology has granted Michael L. Best, who teaches in the university’s Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and College of Computing, a four-year leave of absence so he can assume the position of director of a newly formed United Nations institute in Macau, China. The United Nations Institute of Computing and Society is to train and develop computer and social scientists who will be responding to the needs of the developing world. During a telephone interview with Global Atlanta, Dr. Best acknowledged that he will be responsible for building the program essentially “from scratch.”

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MARTA eyes mixed-use project at Arts Center
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/02/13/marta-eyes-mixed-use-project-at-arts-center.html
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
MARTA hopes to see a high-rise residential tower, street-level retail and possibly a hotel developed at Midtown’s Arts Center station. The project, part of a sweeping plan MARTA launched in 2012 to spur development around several of its transit stations, could be the authority’s most ambitious yet. It will include the possibility of developing the air-rights atop Arts Center, a 6.2-acre station that sits along West Peachtree and 15th streets behind the Woodruff Arts Center. Last year, MARTA, for the first time in its more than 40-year history, began seeking developer interest in building atop the urban stations… The idea comes on the heels of recent relocation announcements by NCR Corp. and WorldPay Group that they will move from the Atlanta suburbs to Midtown, a signal that more companies are seeking to be closer to the talent of Georgia Tech and work within walking distance of the train stations, new high-rise apartments and amenities such as the Beltline.

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Report: Anthem data breach could reach $100 million
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2015/02/report-anthem-data-breach-could-reach-100-million.html
Carla Caldwell
Morning Edition Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
The financial cost of Anthem’s massive data breach could extend beyond $100 million, CNET is reporting. …Anthem’s cyber insurance policy covers losses of up to $100 million, according to CNET. When a company has up to 80 million current customers, former customers, employees and investors to notify, this amount may not be enough,” the tech website says.

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Chatterbox: Church donates more than $12K to schools
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26467083/article-Chatterbox–Church-donates-more–than-$12K-to-schools?sp-tk=F0D6AA5CE82E6AF2864EB785D9988DF33FAA776E392374F2D146C66A156A5586DBEC39DBFCB8CF8CC3D28F6405607B69E9FB6A47B2BBF152AED1D51E5EA5281DCBE7D2EE85AEF0A66F5294603DDF593F180557495E96D1F4CC91F349870C5B434D37AC31680B18A87BDF497CAAA45BC811B793C63771A80549D9B7DE4A657B924BA3C77F105827BB5982E226F80A6A0EC6594F60
by MDJ staff
New doctorate program approved
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia on Wednesday approved a new doctorate program in analytics and data science at Kennesaw State University. According to university spokesperson Robert Godlewski, the program is one of the first of its kind in the nation and will be launched in fall 2015.

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College’s Priceless Value
Higher Education, Liberal Arts and Shakespeare

Frank Bruni
What’s the most transformative educational experience you’ve had? I was asked this question recently, and for a few seconds it stumped me, mainly because I’ve never viewed learning as a collection of eureka moments. It’s a continuum, a lifelong awakening to the complexity of the world… Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin and a likely presidential candidate, signaled his membership in this crowd when he recently proposed a 13 percent cut in state support for the University of Wisconsin. According to several reports, he simultaneously toyed with changing the language of the university’s mission statement so that references to the “search for truth” and the struggle to “improve the human condition” would be replaced by an expressed concern for “the state’s work force needs.” I’m not sure where “Lear” fits into work force needs.

www.insidehighered.com
The Wrong Path to Higher Ed Equality
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/02/13/ratings-and-free-community-college-are-wrong-way-end-inequality-essay
By Tomiko Brown-Nagin
President Obama’s free community college proposal and college ratings initiatives promise to further the historic expansion of college access begun in 1965, when Congress created the Pell Grant Program, which pried open the doors of higher education to deserving but poor students. But the administration’s chosen means to the praiseworthy end of further expanding college access do not fundamentally challenge inequality in higher education; instead, they reinforce our two-tiered and unequal system. Federal policy instead should encourage academically qualified, lower-income students to matriculate to selective, four-year colleges. A monetary rewards system (a Race to the Top for higher education) or statutory mandates could advance that objective.

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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Girls graduate high school with more math than boys, but still like it less. Why?
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/02/12/girls-graduate-high-school-with-more-math-than-boys-but-still-like-it-less-why/
A new statistical brief released this morning by the National Center for Education Statistics at the Institute of Education Sciences, finds boys still like math and science more than girls — even at a time when higher percentages of female high school graduates took algebra II, precalculus, advanced biology, chemistry, and health science/technology courses. I find it puzzling that girls take and complete more courses than boys, but like them less. A new study offers one possible reason: Teachers assume boys are not only more interested in math, but are better at it and thus are more likely to encourage boys to pursue math.

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Bill Allowing Concealed Weapons at South Dakota Colleges Moves to House
http://diverseeducation.com/article/69777/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=a47539f69f8f4a4998a9e21817ecba5e&elqCampaignId=415
by James Nord, Associated Press
PIERRE, S.D. — Over the objections of some student representatives and South Dakota’s Board of Regents, a legislative panel approved Thursday and sent to the full state House a proposal to allow people 21 years or older to carry a concealed weapon on the six public university campuses. The House Local Government Committee voted 8-5 to approve the plan, which would only allow universities to prohibit weapons in dormitories or campus housing. The head of the Board of Regents, Jack Warner, unsuccessfully urged the committee to abandon the measure because he said shootings on campuses are rare and the proposal would make students feel less secure. State law requires a concealed pistol permit to carry a weapon or have it out of sight in a vehicle. But the Regents have a rule that guns are not allowed on public university campuses. Opponents said police and campus safety officials are there to keep students safe.

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Gov. Haslam’s Budget Would Extend Tennessee Promise
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/02/13/gov-haslams-budget-would-extend-tennessee-promise
Tennessee’s governor, Bill Haslam, this week unveiled several higher education proposals as part of his budget plan. He included $1.5 million for a pilot program to offer a version of the state’s free community college scholarship to adult students. Qualifying adults will be more than halfway to an associate degree in previously earned credits, said Mike Krause, the executive director of the Tennessee Promise program. Like traditional-aged students, they would get two years of free tuition at community colleges. Haslam, a Republican, called for another $1.5 million for adult students to receive similar scholarships to attend one of Tennessee’s 27 colleges of technology.

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Report: University of Texas President OK’d Applicants Over Objections
http://diverseeducation.com/article/69779/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=a47539f69f8f4a4998a9e21817ecba5e&elqCampaignId=415
by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — A “select handful” of University of Texas applicants are approved each year at the direction of the school president over the objections of the admissions office, a longtime practice that has grown in recent years, according to details of an investigation commissioned by the school’s Board of Regents and released Thursday. The investigation into influence peddling in admissions at the University of Texas System’s flagship campus found applicants approved by outgoing President Bill Powers typically were recommended by state lawmakers, university donors, alumni and at times by regents themselves. The report found “no evidence” applicants were admitted as a result of inappropriate promises or exchanges and said the practice doesn’t violate the law. …But the report criticized Powers and his staff as misleading earlier investigations by failing to disclose the existence of “watch lists” and high-level meetings concerning applicants. And it said the practice has caused “increasing tension” between the president and admissions staff.

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Closed Networks
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/13/study-suggests-insular-faculty-hiring-practices-elite-departments
By Colleen Flaherty
By now, the secret is out in some disciplines: if you want to land a tenure-line faculty job, you’d better attend a highly ranked graduate program — not necessarily because they’re better but because the market favors prestige. But a new study suggests that “social inequality” might be worse than previously thought, across a range of different disciplines. The study, published this week in Science Advances, is based on hand-curated data about placements of 19,000 tenure-line faculty members in history, business and computer science at 461 North American institutions with doctoral programs. Using a computer-aided, network-style analysis, the authors determined that just 25 percent of those institutions produced 71 to 86 percent of tenure-line professors, depending on discipline.

www.chronicle.com
Should Colleges Report Suicidal Students to Their Parents? A Bill in Virginia Would Require It
http://chronicle.com/article/Should-Colleges-Report/190017/
By Rebecca Koenig
Shortly after arriving at the University of Virginia, in the fall of 2013, Taylor Gestwick made an appointment at the counseling center. He had suffered from depression since ninth grade and had never previously sought help. He didn’t tell his parents about his therapy sessions, partly because he didn’t want them to view him differently… Such mandatory reporting to parents is on the legislative agenda this week in Virginia, where state senators passed a bill that would require public colleges to establish policies on parental notification if their children exhibit “suicidal tendencies” and pose a threat to themselves or others—unless a mental-health professional determines that reporting would cause harm. State delegates passed a separate bill that would require such information to be reported to a campus’s threat-assessment team.