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In Wake of Anthem Breach, more Medical Identity Theft is being reported Annually
http://www.wsav.com/story/28242309/in-wake-of-anthem-breach-more-medical-identity-theft-is-being-reported-annually
By JoAnn Merrigan
Savannah – “When I got the email, I realized now we’re victims, too,” says Frank Katz. He’s an information technology professor Armstrong State University. I often interview him for cyber security issues. Well now Katz will be taking his own advice. He’s one of an estimated 3.7 million people in Georgia whose personal information may have been compromised by the recent breach at Athem. “it is a little bit worrisome, they did get names and social security numbers,” Katz says. He’s already signed up for free credit protection offered by Anthem and suggests other do the same. “My first thought – when got the email – is this is one more thing I’m going to have to do in order to make sure that I’m secure,” Katz says.
USG Institutions:
www.ledger-enquirer.com
Nontraditional candidate states case to be CSU president
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2015/03/02/3593264_nontraditional-candidate-states.html?rh=1
BY MARK RICE
Randy Hanna has come full circle — at least symbolically. He became a first-generation college student after growing up in Greensboro, Fla., a panhandle town of 700, where his father ran the state’s last water-powered grist mill. Now, he is among the five remaining candidates to become president of the university in a 200,000-person city, where the hotel in which he is staying is a former grist mill. “I consider myself very, very fortunate,” Hanna told about 30 folks Monday in the Columbus State University Riverside Theatre Complex. It was the second of two open forums for the public to hear him state his case and question him. A crowd of approximately 100 attended the first forum, in CSU’s Center for Commerce and Technology. …If he were selected, Hanna said, he would bring CSU experience not only in higher education but also business, finance, fundraising, economic development, legislative and government relations and community involvement. “Today’s president has to deal with all of those issues,” he said. “Today’s president does not spend all of his or her time on the campus.”
www.businessinsavannah.com
Herty Center selected to national research institute
Savannah facility part of group to work on composites
http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2015-03-02/herty-center-selected-national-research-institute
Mary Carr Mayle
Savannah’s Herty Advanced Materials Development Center, an applied research center of Georgia Southern University, has been named by the U.S. Department of Energy to be a founding member of the newly created Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. The institute will work to develop better composite materials and technologies for rapid deployment within the automotive, wind turbine and compressed gas storage industries. Partners in the new institute, created under the auspices of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, include the DOE and a consortium of 122 companies, nonprofits and universities that will invest more than $250 million to advance the development of low-cost, high-performance composites.
www.redandblack.com
Equal Opportunity Office holds dialogue on sexual consent
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/equal-opportunity-office-holds-dialogue-on-sexual-consent/article_b02f8c9a-c151-11e4-8775-b330a1fdd19d.html
Patrick Adcock
The Equal Opportunity Office hosted an open dialogue on sexual consent Monday night in the Zell B. Miller Learning Center. …To help students understand the ins and outs of obtaining and giving sexual consent, the EOO and University define the term as “clear words or actions that are knowingly, freely and actively given indicating permission to engage in mutually agreed upon sexual activity.”
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SREL researchers develop targeted approach to reduce rabies
http://www.healthcanal.com/infections/60798-srel-researchers-develop-targeted-approach-to-reduce-rabies.html
Researchers at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory are evaluating new methods to reduce the spread of rabies in wildlife populations. Their project examines aerial baiting, a technique that involves distributing vaccine-filled bait at select points throughout the wilderness so that free-ranging wildlife gain immunity to rabies simply by eating food. Used in the eastern United States, this strategy has been successful in reducing the westward expansion of rabies in raccoons-the primary carrier of the disease in North America-but current practices don’t do enough to eliminate the disease.
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Retired college presidents oppose renaming tech college system
Estimated $14 million for name change could better be used for students, they say
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/retired-college-presidents-oppose-renaming-tech-co/nkMTq/#9f93f922.3566685.735660
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A proposal to change the name of the state’s tech college network is unnecessary, puts a burden on individual schools and diverts money from educating students, a group of 20 former technical college system presidents say in a letter to Gov. Nathan Deal. “If a change of name would make a positive impact, would bring additional jobs to Georgia or in any way enhance Georgia’s economic health we would gladly support such a move,” the retired leaders said in a letter dated February 5, which was obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “However, we feel that there is no evidence whatsoever that this change would add any value to our system or our state.” House Bill 315, sponsored by Rep. Chad Nimmer, R-Blackshear, one of Deal’s floor leaders, is scheduled for a House vote on Tuesday. The bill would change the name of the network to the Georgia Career College System. Deal proposed the change last month, saying the new name would attract more students and better reflect the system’s actual work.
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Band-aid Solutions to College Deficits
http://diverseeducation.com/article/70255/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=f891a31b16d841f093f6ea2fba4af12d&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=f5eeb3eaf86b4e78ace5571dd91708b8
by Brian C. Mitchell
Now is the time of the year that most college and university boards of trustees meet to set in place what the comprehensive fee — tuition, fees, room and board — will be for next year. It’s a telling moment for higher education. The emerging trends, drawn from hundreds of institutional decisions, will provide a fascinating look into the minds of higher education leadership. As expected, every college and university finds a unique solution because their circumstances differ slightly from one another. While a few have endowment support to move beyond their reliance on tuition, most are heavily tuition dependent.
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CUNY Refunds Tuition to Some Immigrants
http://diverseeducation.com/article/70267/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=f891a31b16d841f093f6ea2fba4af12d&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=cd078a9021764d13a09534c8be563cca
by Claudia Torrens, Associated Press
NEW YORK — City University of New York is returning thousands of dollars to about 150 immigrant students who live illegally in the United States and overpaid for their tuition. A student group called CUNY Dreamers told school officials late last year that many such immigrant students in New York paid higher, out-of-state tuition even though they were eligible, by law, for in-state rates, a difference of about $4,000 per semester. A CUNY spokesman said administrators conducted a complete review of enrollments on CUNY’s 24 campuses and began the process of returning excess payments. New York is among 19 states that allow in-state tuition for immigrant students who live illegally in the country.
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Anti-Israel Divestment Push Gains Traction at U.S. Colleges
http://diverseeducation.com/article/70259/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=f891a31b16d841f093f6ea2fba4af12d&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=1414bc8bc8fd4aa4b6bef7c9f592dc21
by Rachel Zoll, Associated Press
…It was time for a ritual that has become increasingly commonplace on many American college campuses: a student government body, in this case at the University of California, Davis, would take up Israeli policy toward the Palestinians, and decide whether to demand their school divest from companies that work with the Jewish state. In the United States, Israel’s closest ally, the decade-old boycott-divestment-sanctions, or BDS, movement is making its strongest inroads by far on college campuses. No U.S. school has sold off stock and none is expected to do so anytime soon. Still, the current academic year is seeing an increasing number of divestment drives at colleges and universities, stretching from the University of California system to Northwestern University and beyond. Since January alone, student governments at four universities have taken divestment votes.