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Lobbyist retires, and an era goes with him
Tom Daniel, lobbyist for university system, endeared many with gracious charm and hand-written thank you notes.
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/lobbyist-retires-and-an-era-goes-with-him/nkPMj/#607ca1bf.3495402.735666
By James Salzer – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s not true that Tom Daniel has been lobbying on behalf of the state’s public colleges since shortly after Oglethorpe stepped onto Georgia soil, but it’s not far off if you listen to the Capitol crowd.
Daniel started his political career more than 40 years ago, before he’d graduated from UGA, volunteering for George Busbee’s gubernatorial election. He hasn’t missed a General Assembly session, save one, since then. His office a block from the Capitol is littered with countless mementos and photos. His desk is surrounded by mini-skyscrapers of paper, a shrine to what a state lobbyist’s workplace looked like before email, smart phones, iPads and instant messaging became the common tools of the influence trade. After 40 plus years, the bony, courtly Hogansville, Ga., native with a steel trap mind for detail who lives off of cheese and peanut butter crackers at times during General Assembly sessions is calling it quits.
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President Obama to speak at Georgia Tech on Tuesday
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/president-obama-to-speak-at-georgia-tech-on-tuesda/nkP4F/
Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
President Barack Obama’s visit to Atlanta next week will include a stop at Georgia Tech on Tuesday. The university posted ticket information on Friday about the president’s visit to McCamish Pavilion where he is scheduled to deliver remarks. Tickets look to be limited to the Tech community.
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Publishers’ Move Could Mean ‘Whole New Trial’ in GSU Copyright Case
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/65786-publishers-move-could-mean-whole-new-trial-in-gsu-copyright-case.html
By Andrew Albanese
Is the Georgia State University e-reserves case about to get a do-over? With the case now back at the district court, the three publisher plaintiffs in the closely-watched copyright case have filed a motion to reopen the trial record, and have asked that new evidence be used to determine whether some of the university’s online e-reserve course readings are infringing copyright. In a motion, docketed last week, the publishers propose that Judge Orinda Evans order GSU to turn over a list of online e-reserve readings from the “most recent academic terms,” from which the publishers would then identify readings they believe to be infringing, as they did for the initial trial in 2010. Both sides would then submit briefs.
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UGA revises freedom of speech policies, student group drops lawsuit
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/uga-revises-freedom-of-speech-policies-student-gro/nkP7s/
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A student group suing the University of Georgia has withdrawn its lawsuit after the university recently revised its freedom of expression policies. The Young Americans for Liberty, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, sued UGA last year accusing the university of hindering free speech by restricting demonstrations to just two areas, or less than one percent of its Athens campus. UGA officials disputed the claim, but did revise its policies, which were approved by university officials last month.
www.savannahnow.com
Bunny in the City: Savannah comes out to honor Armstrong
http://dining.savannahnow.com/accent/2015-03-07/bunny-city-savannah-comes-out-honor-armstrong
By Bunny Ware
Armstrong State University held its Annual Presidents Circle Luncheon at the Armstrong Center on Feb. 27. More than 100 local business leaders, philanthropists, alumni and scholarship recipients gathered to celebrate Armstrong’s students’ success, hear their stories and see the impact they will have on future generations.
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Clarke School District-UGA College of Education partnership wins award
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2015-03-06/clarke-school-district-uga-college-education-partnership-wins-award
By STAFF REPORTS
An ongoing cooperative project between the University of Georgia’s College of Education and the Clarke County School District was recognized on Friday as one of the top professional development programs in the country. The program received the National Association for Professional Development Schools’ Award for Exemplary Professional Development School Achievement at the group’s meeting in Atlanta.
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Albany Tech, FVSU Sign Articulation Agreement in Electronic Engineering Technology
http://middlegeorgiaceo.com/news/2015/03/albany-tech-fvsu-sign-articulation-agreement-electronic-engineering-technology/
Albany Technical College and Fort Valley State University will hold an articulation agreement signing ceremony on Monday, March 9, 2015, beginning at 10 a.m. in the Executive Board Room of Albany Tech’s Logistics Education Center at 1704 South Slappey Boulevard. The goal with the articulation agreement is to provide Associate of Applied Science graduates of Albany Tech’s Electronic Engineering Technology program with an opportunity to continue on with Fort Valley State University to earn their Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology.
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UGA fundraising setting a record pace
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-03-07/uga-fundraising-setting-record-pace
By LEE SHEARER
The University of Georgia seems on track to set a new annual fundraising record. “We have gone over the $100 million mark already, which is substantially ahead of last year,” President Jere Morehead recently told members of the UGA Staff Council. Four more months remain in the fiscal year that ends June 30, so UGA might exceed last year’s mark, he said.
www.insidehighered.com
Discourteous Dismissal
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/09/university-north-georgia-moves-fire-professor-who-allegedly-was-rude-guest-speaker
By Colleen Flaherty
Is the University of North Georgia moving to terminate a tenured professor of Spanish at its Dahlonega campus for being rude? Some North Georgia faculty members say that’s what’s happening to their colleague, Victoria McCard, and that her case demonstrates the university’s disregard for the tenets of tenure.
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Tenured Professor at U. of North Georgia Is Placed on Leave After Argument
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/tenured-professor-at-u-of-north-georgia-placed-on-leave-after-argument?cid=megamenu
by Andy Thomason
A tenured professor at the University of North Georgia has been placed on leave after an incident with a guest speaker earlier this year, The Gainesville Times reports. Vicki McCard, a professor of Spanish, reportedly got into an argument with the speaker that led to her being placed on leave. A panel of faculty members conducted an informal review and recommended that Ms. McCard be fired, said the university’s associate vice president for university relations, Kate Maine. Rather than request a formal hearing, Ms. McCard agreed to bring in an external mediator and postpone the hearing.
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Patch to deliver polio immunizations under development
http://suncoastnews.com/su/list/pasco-press/patch-to-deliver-polio-immunizations-under-development-20150306/
Suncoast News staff
Declining immunization rates have health care, government and education officials raising warning flags about the return of communicable diseases, such as the current measles outbreak in California and a number of other states, once thought to be conquered by vaccines. With doctors beginning to express concerns that forging immunizations, especially in children, are raising the threat of a return of a once-feared killer and crippler: polio. Against that background, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a biopharmaceutical company, are working on refinements to an alternative method of administering the polio vaccine that will be easier and less likely to encounter objections. With the help of $2.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mark Prausnitz, a Regents Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been developing a microneedle system to deliver the injectable form of the polio vaccine. Atlanta-based Micron Biomedical is developing a microneedle patch based on the patented work of Prausnitz.
www.albanyherald.com
Georgia Tech partnership official: Manufacturing changing, improving
Manufacturing jobs peaked, but productivity is rising
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2015/mar/05/georgia-tech-partnership-official-manufacturing/
By Jim West
Manufacturing matters because it strengthens the economy. That’s the message members of the Albany Rotary Club received on Thursday from Art Ford, regional manager of the Georgia Manufacturing Extension Partnership, an extension of Georgia Tech. Established in 1960, the mission of GaMEP is to help manufacturers grow and stay competitive by increasing top line growth while decreasing bottom line cost, Ford said. GaMEP receives both state and federal funding.
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Frats under fire: Oklahoma fraternity closed over racist chant caught on video
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/03/09/frats-under-fire-oklahoma-fraternity-closed-over-racist-chant-caught-on-video/
Colleges nationwide are reconsidering the role of frats on their campuses in view of hazing, pledge deaths and injuries, sexual assaults, alcohol infractions and other problems. Some schools have banned fraternities on campuses, including Williams College, Bowdoin College, Middlebury College, and Amherst College. In a piece a few months ago, Inside Higher Ed reported: “Wesleyan University announced that its fraternities would have to go coeducational amid a push from students and faculty members who say that fraternities encourage sexism and mistreatment of women. Clemson University suspended all fraternity activity following a member’s fatal plunge from a bridge. The Texas Tech University chapter of Phi Delta Theta was suspended after displaying a banner that read ‘No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal.’” …This chant by an Oklahoma fraternity caught on video and released this weekend will not help the cause of frats.
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Charges of Sexual-Assault ‘Cover-Ups’ Gain New Power on the Big Screen
http://chronicle.com/article/Charges-of-Sexual-Assault/228321/
By Sara Lipka
Two years of scrutiny have given college presidents many opportunities to offer the reassurance that they take sexual assault seriously. But they might think twice before phrasing it that way again. The Hunting Ground, a new documentary about campus sexual assault, excoriates colleges in a montage of clips of leaders claiming to take the issue “very seriously.” All evidence the film presents is to the contrary. It largely omits administrators’ perspectives, going “straight to the heart,” it advertises, “of a shocking epidemic of violence and institutional cover-ups sweeping college campuses across America.”