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New technology helps prepare nursing students for future jobs
http://www.live5news.com/story/28122866/new-technology-helps-prepare-nursing-students-for-future-jobs
By LC Chandler
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – New technology is preparing nursing students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College for jobs in the evolving health care industry. Telehealth technology can be especially important in rural areas where people don’t have access to specialists. ABAC’s use of the technology is drawing attention across the state and country.
www.ajc.com
UGA: No meningitis threat after student dies from illness
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/uga-no-meningitis-threat-after-student-dies-from-i/nkCWQ/
Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Officials at the University of Georgia are alerting the public that there is no threat of meningitis on the Athens campus after a student died Monday morning. Channel 2 Action News reported that the student died from encephalitis about 7:30 a.m. at Athens Regional Medical Center. UGA and friends identified the student as Tanzila Alam, 18, a freshman biology major who moved to America from Bangladesh two years ago, Channel 2 reported. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution had been contacted Monday evening about the student’s illness possibly being bacterial meningitis, which is contagious.
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University of Georgia puts 865-acre farm up for sale
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/02/16/university-of-georgia-puts-865-acre-farm-up-for.html
David Allison
Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia plans to sell an 865-acre farm that it’s owned since the 1960s. Known as Wilkins Farm and located in Oglethorpe and Wilkes counties, the property has extensive frontage on U.S. Highway 78, according to a Feb. 11 offering document. UGA does not say why it is selling the property.
www.ajc.com
Columbus State University moving another college to downtown campus
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/columbus-state-university-moving-another-college-t/nkCLm/
Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Columbus State University is finalizing plans to move its College of Education and Health Professions to its downtown RiverPark campus. The move will expand the university’s downtown footprint, that already includes about a dozen buildings, with an additional 1,800 students, faculty and staff and its nursing school. The college will be housed at the site of the former Ledger-Enquirer newspaper building, which was purchased by the university’s foundation just before Christmas. That building will be demolished and replaced with a new building that Columbus State hopes to occupy by fall 2016.
Higher Education:
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Louisiana’s Governor Seeks Sharp Cuts at Already Cash-Strapped Colleges
http://chronicle.com/article/Louisianas-Governor-Seeks/190077/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Katherine Mangan
A Republican governor with his sights on the White House proposes slashing higher-education spending by $300-million, sending shock waves across Wisconsin campuses. Meanwhile, a strikingly similar scenario is playing out 1,000 miles to the south, where Louisiana educators are warning that a nearly $400-million proposed cut will lead to campus closures, widespread faculty layoffs, and larger classes. …And both are proposing similar, some would say crippling, cuts in higher education to help close the gap. The parallels are troubling, according to an official with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.
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Congressional Report — by Colleges — Claims They’re Over-Regulated
http://diverseeducation.com/article/69854/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5f37ae42c2ad455684ab93310ceed8c3&elqCampaignId=415
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
A congressional task force says colleges and universities are overburdened by federal regulation, including requirements that they disclose certain consumer information to students and families. The task force, appointed by a bipartisan group of senators, consists entirely of 16 present and past university and college chancellors and presidents and representatives of university associations, and the report was produced by the universities’ primary lobbying organization, the American Council on Education. It found that federal regulations on institutions that share $160 billion in federal money for financial aid are “unnecessarily voluminous and too often ambiguous” and that the cost of complying with them is “unreasonable.”
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Undocumented Students Check Stress at UC Davis Center’s Door
http://diverseeducation.com/article/69848/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5f37ae42c2ad455684ab93310ceed8c3&elqCampaignId=415
by Emily Wilson
…The center, officially called the AB540 and Undocumented Student Center, is unique in the UC system and even the country, in its specific mission to aid undocumented students. (AB540 refers to the California law that allows students to pay resident tuition if they have attended a California high school for at least three years, graduated and met other requirements.) Undocumented students face various obstacles to higher education. For example, they cannot receive federal financial aid and often cannot work due to their status. But the barriers go beyond the financial. Undocumented students can feel isolated and fearful of deportation. This center tries to address that. Along with offering academic, emotional and legal counseling, the center’s goal is to give students a sanctuary.
www.chronicle.com
Colleges Call in Legal Pros to Handle Sexual-Assault Cases
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Call-in-Legal-Pros-to/190029/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Robin Wilson
It’s a story like those many colleges are hearing. A young man and woman were hanging out in her room, talking, doing shots. She drank so much, she says, that she passed out—and woke up to discover she was bleeding. The man, she says, had sexually assaulted her. But he says she’d had just a few drinks and consented to sex. How does the college determine who is more credible? In this case, administrators hired Allyson Kurker, a lawyer who investigates reports of campus sexual assault by conducting extensive interviews and reviewing cellphone and swipe-card records, photos, and videos. Interviews with students led her to two other women who described similar but as yet unreported experiences with the same man. The college found him responsible in all three cases and expelled him.