USG Institutions:
www.grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com
Veterinary Medicine
Ranked in 2015
University of Georgia
Rank #10
Score 3.3
http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-health-schools/veterinarian-rankings?int=abc409
In addition to getting a broad education in animal science, veterinary medicine students can specialize in areas such as small animal surgery, environmental toxicology and aquatic medicine. These are the top veterinary medicine schools. Each school’s score reflects its average rating on a scale from 1 (marginal) to 5 (outstanding), based on a survey of academics at peer institutions.
www.bizjournals.comn
Kaiser Permanente considering Midtown for major expansion
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/03/13/kaiser-permanente-considering-midtown-for-major.html?page=all
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Health-care giant Kaiser Permanente is considering Midtown for a major expansion in Atlanta. The company recently entered advanced discussions with Pershing Point owner California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) to lease up to 150,000 square feet in the project… Over the past few months, Midtown has emerged as the city’s hot spot for corporate relocations, especially for technology companies wanting offices close to Georgia Tech. Worldpay recently moved its U.S. headquarters to Midtown’s Atlantic Station mixed-use project, and NCR Corp. announced it will build its new headquarters at Technology Square.
www.ajc.com
Suspect arrested in armed robbery inside Georgia Tech building
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/suspect-arrested-in-armed-robbery-inside-georgia-t/nkTYs/
Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech officials Thursday announced an arrest in the January armed robbery of a student inside a campus building. The suspect, Quevos Talley, was also charged in connection with the thefts of two laptops in December, according to Georgia Tech spokesman Matt Nagel. Nagel said Talley was arrested Monday by Georgia Tech police, with help from MARTA police, Atlanta police, the FBI’s Violent Crime Task Force and Crime Stoppers.
www.wsfa.com
VSU stepping up campus security
http://www.wsfa.com/story/28412279/vsu-stepping-up-campus-security
By Colter Anstaett
VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) – Valdosta State University had started stepping up campus security Thursday. In an open letter to students and faculty, VSU’s President, Dr. William McKinney, outlined new security measures the university had recently put in place. As of Thursday, a plain-clothes officer patrolled campus during each police shift. Campus police were increasing their contact with students and drivers on and off campus and someone had been specifically assigned to patrol around the library between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.
Higher Education News:
www.ajc.com
White House: Georgia leads nation in average federal student debt
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/white-house-georgias-state-most-average-student-de/nkTX7/
Adam Carlson
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nearly 1.5 million Georgians owe an average of slightly more than $30,000 in federal student debt — the highest of the nation’s 50 states and trailing only Washington, D.C., according to new data released by the White House. Those numbers come as the Obama administration this week unveiled its “Student Aid Bill of Rights,” which was the centerpiece topic during the president’s trip to Atlanta on Tuesday. Total student debt nationwide has more than doubled since the start of the Great Recession, according to the Wall Street Journal.
www.chronicle.com
What Happens When a College Tells Students What They’ll Pay for All 4 Years?
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Happens-When-a-College/228463/
By Beckie Supiano
As a new group of families laments each year, college is unlike any other purchase. One of its unusual — and frustrating — features is that students learn the bottom-line price of each institution mere weeks before they must decide where to enroll. Even then, they find out only what they’ll pay for their first year. That last part is no longer true for students accepted by the University of Dayton. Since 2013, Dayton has sent each admitted student who filed the federal financial-aid application a detailed breakdown of what he or she will spend on tuition after financial aid, along with estimates of room-and-board costs, which vary depending on students’ choices.
www.insidehighered.com
Wanting More Say
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/13/presidents-say-they-want-more-input-faculty-hiring-and-tenure-decisions
By Colleen Flaherty
Do most presidents really want a bigger role in faculty hiring and tenure decisions? Inside Higher Ed’s annual Survey of College and University Presidents suggests they do. And some of them are playing a larger role than faculty leaders might find reasonable. Ten percent of private college presidents, for example, say they’ve blocked the hire of scholars whose views they strongly disagreed with. While those findings didn’t shock shared governance experts, some were uncomfortable with presidential sentiments. According to the poll, some 55 percent of presidents say they should take a more active role in decisions about which faculty members to hire.
www.diverseeducation.com
HBCU Presidents Seek Next Chapters to Institutions’ Success Stories
http://diverseeducation.com/article/70569/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=4ef39ce293d04e808eb086aafb54e5c3&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=a5d2a7288efa47eaad303e032de1d134
by Catherine Morris
Are historically Black colleges and universities still a viable enterprise? Of course, and more than ever, HBCU presidents past and present said at a presidential panel at Bowie State University on Thursday afternoon. Such a question detracts from the real question, which is how to bring them along in the 21st century with the greatest amount of success.
www.insidehighered.com
Economic Angst, Rose-Colored Views on Race: A Survey of Presidents
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/economic-angst-rose-colored-views-race-survey-presidents
By Doug Lederman
Fewer than 4 in 10 college presidents express confidence in the financial sustainability of their institutions over the next decade. Less than a third agree that sexual assault is prevalent on American college campuses, and just 6 percent say it is prevalent at their own institution. And campus leaders really don’t like the Obama administration’s proposed system to rate the performance of colleges, with more than half giving it a D or F grade when asked to turn the tables and rate the concept. Those are among the findings of Inside Higher Ed’s fifth annual Survey of College and University Presidents, which is being released today in advance of this weekend’s annual meeting of the American Council on Education, higher education’s leading presidential association.