USG Institutions:
www.statesboroherald.com
Wanted: More dual-enrolled students
Ogeechee Tech, GSU, East Ga. working with area high schools
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/66936/
BY Al Hackle
Note: This story is the second of two parts.
Bulloch County’s three public high schools saw the number of their students dual-enrolled or joint-enrolled at a college or university rise from 201 in the last school year to 387 this year. That’s a 92.5 percent increase – almost double. Ogeechee Technical College is experiencing the largest gain in area high school students dual-enrolled in its courses, and East Georgia State College and Georgia Southern University also have efforts underway to increase dual enrollment.
www.savannahnow.com
Local, federal police turn to Armstrong State University for cyber forensics help
http://savannahnow.com/crime/2015-04-06/local-federal-police-turn-armstrong-state-university-cyber-forensics-help
By Dash Coleman
The list of active cases at the cyber forensics lab at Armstrong State University’s police department is more representative of surrounding Savannah than the sleepy campus. The board shows homicides, financial fraud, robberies and home invasions. That’s because other law enforcement agencies — from local police to the FBI — take advantage of something Armstrong’s officers have in abundance: time and cyber crime expertise. With seven officers trained as digital forensics investigators and a lab that operates 24/7, the southside Savannah college has become one of the most viable resources in Georgia for gleaning evidence from devices such as cellphones and tablet computers.
www.hhjonline.com
MGS Cyber Knights continue ‘hacker’ fighting success
http://hhjonline.com/mgs-cyber-knights-continue-hacker-fighting-success-p6316-117.htm
Special to the Journal
For the second consecutive year, Middle Georgia State’s Cyber Knights Competition Team is one of only eight teams to advance to the regional level in the annual Southeast Regional Cyber Defense Competition, to be held at Kennesaw State University. Making it that far into the competition is like a sports team making it to the playoffs. Twenty-four college and universities competed at the state level. Besides Middle Georgia State, the teams that advanced are College of Charleston, Georgia Regents University, Montreat College, Tennessee Technological University, University of Central Florida, University of North Carolina – Charlotte and University of South Florida. …The largest competition of its kind, the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, sponsored by Raytheon, Department of Homeland Security, Akamai and the National Security Agency, provides college students from across the country the opportunity to test their skills at protecting a network against cyber threats and highly skilled hackers from across the world.
www.northwestgeorgianews.com
GHC’s Brother 2 Brother awarded national chapter of the year
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/lifestyles/ghc-s-brother-brother-awarded-national-chapter-of-the-year/article_bc45f960-dc63-11e4-95cf-cbabe8f24576.html
Georgia Highlands College started its Brother 2 Brother chapter in fall 2009 on the Floyd campus with only 7 students. Today, the membership has grown to around 120 students on all five campuses. At the end of March, GHC’s B2B won the Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award for the third time in four years.
www.savannahnow.com
Savannah State to offer in-state tuition to Alabama, Florida, South Carolina
http://savannahnow.com/news/2015-04-06/savannah-state-offer-state-tuition-alabama-florida-south-carolina
By Savannah Morning News
Savannah State University (SSU) has been approved to offer in-state tuition rates to residents of border states. This includes residents of Florida, Alabama and South Carolina. The effort is part of the Complete College Georgia initiative. The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents (BOR) notes in its guidance document that “providing out-of-state tuition waivers for these select institutions expands the potential student body we can recruit for these institutions. … [and] allows us to take advantage of our existing USG infrastructure and capabilities to grow our enrollment.”
Higher Education News:
www.chronicle.com
Higher-Ed Wonks Are Going Ballistic Over an Op-Ed in ‘The New York Times’
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/higher-ed-wonks-are-going-ballistic-over-an-op-ed-in-the-new-york-times/96773?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
by Andy Thomason
Administrative bloat, not dwindling state funds, is the principal cause of skyrocketing tuition at public colleges across America. That’s the gist of an op-ed published Saturday in The New York Times by Paul F. Campos, a law professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, who briskly dismisses the common refrain that state legislatures’ protracted disinvestment in public university systems is at least a major component of rising costs.
www.insidehighered.com
Rebundling College
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/07/essay-calls-rebundling-college-and-its-functions
By Larry D. Large
Defenders of higher education are on the ramparts. Again. This time, the ivory tower is under assault from a pitchfork-carrying crowd marching under the banner of reducing the cost of baccalaureate degree programs via the use of new technologies, especially online learning. Predictions of the demise of the traditional baccalaureate program, especially at residential liberal arts colleges, have resonated through a spate of books and articles over the past few months. The planned closure of Sweet Briar College amplified the message that our institutions of higher learning are on the brink (and this at the height of the college acceptance/rejection season). But are things really so dire for traditional undergraduate education?
www.chronicle.com
A Simpler Path, Authors Say, Is Key to Community-College Completion
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Simpler-Path-Authors-Say/229133/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Katherine Mangan
Community colleges need to fundamentally overhaul the way they offer courses by giving students fewer choices, a more structured curriculum, and better guidance from registration through graduation, according to the authors of a book being released this week. Creating a simpler, streamlined pathway will be far more effective than the piecemeal approaches two-year colleges have used in trying to bolster sagging graduation rates, the book, Redesigning America’s Community Colleges (Harvard University Press), argues.
www.insidehighered.com
Texas Bill Would Kill In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/04/07/texas-bill-would-kill-state-tuition-undocumented-students
In 2001, Texas became the first state to pass a law granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented students. This week, lawmakers are considering a bill to repeal the law, The Houston Chronicle reported. While the fate of the effort is unclear, it has strong backing from the state’s Tea Party movement.