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Fort Valley State University president to step down June 30
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/fort-vally-state-university-president-to-step-down/nkkQP/
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fort Valley State University President Ivelaw Griffith plans to step down June 30, according to an announcement late Wednesday from the University System of Georgia. Griffith has been president of the historically black institution, about 100 miles south of Atlanta, since 2013. “Dr. Griffith has overseen key changes in Fort Valley’s administration and operations to better serve students,” University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby said in the resignation announcement, which highlighted some of Griffith’s achievements, including raising admission standards and signing agreements with nearby technical and military colleges to boost enrollment and completion levels. Fort Valley was one of 15 colleges Huckaby cited during a budget presentation earlier this year for having significant enrollment declines over the past few years.
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Fort Valley State president steps down
http://www.macon.com/2015/04/01/3672496/fort-valley-state-president-steps.html
BY JEREMY TIMMERMAN
Fort Valley State University President Ivelaw Griffith will step down from the job he has held for less than two years. A news release from the University System of Georgia did not give a reason for the move, which will take effect June 30. “Dr. Griffith has overseen key changes in Fort Valley’s administration and operations to better serve students,” University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby said in the release. “On behalf of the University System, I thank Dr. Griffith for his contributions, and we wish him and his family the very best in his future work.”
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Fort Valley State president to step down
http://www.macon.com/2015/04/02/3673370_fort-valley-state-president-to.html?rh=1
The Associated Press
FORT VALLEY, GA. — Officials say Fort Valley State University President Ivelaw Griffith is stepping down. The Telegraph reports (http://bit.ly/1BQBCAm) that an announcement from the University System of Georgia did not give a reason for the move, which will take effect June 30.
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FVSU President Ivelaw Griffith Announces Plans to Step Down
http://middlegeorgiaceo.com/features/2015/04/fvsu-president-ivelaw-griffith-announces-plans-step-down/
Staff Report From Middle Georgia CEO
Fort Valley State University President Ivelaw Griffith has announced he will step down as president effective June 30, 2015. Griffith was named president of Fort Valley State University in 2013. Under Griffith’s leadership, Fort Valley State University:
• Raised admissions standards to university level;
• Established the Honors Program and Undergraduate Research Program;
• Designed and implemented a new student recruiting plan and process; and,
• Signed key articulation agreements with institutions, including Central Georgia
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Georgia Southwestern among schools waiving certain out of state fees
http://www.myfoxal.com/story/28696229/georgia-southwestern-among-schools-waiving-certain-out-of-state-fees
By Wright Gazaway
AMERICUS, GA (WALB) – Students in Florida, South Carolina, and Alabama now have a cheaper option for education in Southwest Georgia. Georgia Southwestern is one of the schools approved to waive out of state fees for these students. In some cases, it could save almost $15,000 a year. The Board of Regents and Chancellor of the University System of Georgia approved the plan in last month’s meeting.
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Fort Valley Head Start approved for $5.6M grant
http://www.macon.com/2015/04/01/3672526/fort-valley-head-start-approved.html
BY JEREMY TIMMERMAN
Middle Georgia’s rural families will get more options for child care, thanks to a grant just made official. Fort Valley State University’s Head Start program, which partners with providers in Dooly, Crawford, Pulaski, Telfair, Peach and Macon counties, will receive $5.6 million to set up an Early Head Start program for younger children.
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UGA will sell its TV station for $2.5 million
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-04-02/uga-will-sell-its-tv-station-25-million
By LEE SHEARER
The University of Georgia will sell its television station WUGA-TV, Tom Jackson, UGA vice president for external affairs, confirmed Thursday morning. The university will get $2.5 million, the same price the UGA Research Foundation paid for it nearly seven years ago.
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Habitat home built outside UGA’s Russell Library to celebrate archives acquisition
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-04-01/habitat-home-built-outside-ugas-russell-library-celebrate-archives
By KELSEY COCHRAN
Board by board, Kim Arnold watched her new house rise from the ground. Soon, she’ll help take it down. There’s no problem with the house itself, nor even with the location, although the front lawn of the Richard B. Russell Special Collections Library on the University of Georgia campus might seem an idyllic place to situate a home. Volunteers built the home to add a symbolic dash of pageantry while celebrating the library’s acquisition of Habitat for Humanity International’s archives from the last 40 years.
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Thousands Fall Out of Income-Based Repayment Plans
http://chronicle.com/article/Thousands-Fall-Out-of/229031/?cid=at
By Kelly Field
Washington
Thousands of struggling borrowers are falling out of income-driven student-loan repayment plans because they’re not filing their annual income documentation on time, Education Department officials revealed on Wednesday. And many of those borrowers are falling behind on their loans as a result. Over the course of a yearlong period from 2013 to 2014, almost 700,000 borrowers who had enrolled in income-based plans — 57 percent of the total — failed to “certify” their income by the deadline. That lapse sent the borrowers into standard repayment, where their monthly loan bills were higher, sometimes significantly so.
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A Challenge for Universities: What to Disclose About Researchers’ Financial Backing
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Challenge-for-Universities-/229027/?cid=at
By Paul Basken
Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia has faced demands for his research records from the political left. Deborah L. Swackhamer of the University of Minnesota has gotten them from the political right. But Mr. Laycock, Ms. Swackhamer, and other faculty researchers who’ve been harassed for details of their finances and scientific activities have one thing in common: They’re not sure what policy makers should do about it. …Those researchers are far from alone. A series of recent demands for research records has drawn in professors nationwide, cutting across both academic disciplines and partisan alliances. Topics of contention include climate change, animal testing, fracking, genetically modified organisms, and more. And agreement on what should be done about those requests is hard to come by. …Others with a record of more aggressively challenging the fundamental science of climate change include David R. Legates, a professor of geography at the University of Delaware, and Judith A. Curry, a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Delaware’s president, Patrick T. Harker, declined to provide details of Mr. Legates’s external financial support, while Georgia Tech’s president, G.P. (Bud) Peterson, noted that Ms. Curry has her own outside company that provides companies with climate-related advice.