USG eclips September 4, 2015

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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Are we moving to a two-tier higher ed system? Four-year colleges and technical schools?
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/09/04/are-we-moving-to-a-two-tier-higher-ed-system-of-only-four-year-colleges-and-technical-schools/
Georgia Perimeter College posted a release on its website about tougher math requirements. A Georgia Perimeter professor urged me to share the information as it has implications for students. The professor contends the changes will make it harder for Georgia high school graduates to gain access to the state’s public higher education system. The professor’s concern: These actions move GPC further from the community college model and its emphasis on accessibility. And the professor’s question to me: Are we moving to a public system in Georgia where there are only two real higher ed options: four-year colleges and universities and technical colleges with nothing in between? Here is the GPC release so you can judge for yourself:

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Georgia Highlands to install new president during Inauguration Ceremony and Gala on Sept. 18
http://johndruckenmiller.com/blog/2015/07/31/georgia-highlands-to-install-new-president-during-inauguration-ceremony-and-gala-on-sept-18/
Media release: Georgia Highlands College will officially hold an Inauguration Installation Ceremony for its fourth president Donald J. Green, Ed.D., on September 18 at 10 a.m. on the Rome campus. The Highlands Inauguration Gala will also take place that night in his honor at 6:30 p.m. on the Cartersville campus. Chancellor of the University System of Georgia Hank Huckaby will officially install President Green as the fourth president of Georgia Highlands College during the investiture portion of the inauguration ceremony. President Green will have been at the college for a full year, having started on September 8, 2014. Retired Regent Willis Potts will be presiding over the ceremony, and Regent Neil Pruitt will bring greetings from the Board of Regents.

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Robinson College’s Bello Receives Global Marketing Award
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27781/robinson-colleges-bello-receives-global-marketing-award/
by Phil Bolton
The Chicago-based American Marketing Association has recognized Georgia State University’s Robinson College of Business professor Daniel C. Bello for “groundbreaking” work in the field of international distribution channels. Dr. Bello received the association’s “Significant Contributions to Global Marketing Award” on Aug. 15 at the annual American Marketing Association 2015 Educators’ Conference in Chicago. The award is given annually to a marketing educator for a lifetime of significant contribution to the field that has influenced the advancement of global marketing thought.

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Dual Enrollment, Educational Opportunities Up In Coweta
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20150904-Coweta-Educational-Opportunities-18-inches-w-mugs
by CLAY NEELY
The number of students participating in dual enrollment at the University of West Georgia Newnan campus has quadrupled since last year, according to Dr. Robert Heaberlin, senior director and chief administrative officer of off-campus programs for UWG Newnan. In fall 2014, the school reported 24 unduplicated students participating in dual enrollment. This year, approximately 110 are currently enrolled, with some students taking up to five classes at one time. Thanks to the recent passage of the Move On When Ready Program, high school freshmen and sophomores are now eligible for dual enrollment.

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2016 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 Public Universities
Interested in exploring the rankings of these schools and others? Visit usnews.com on Sept. 9.
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2015/09/03/2016-best-colleges-preview-top-10-public-universities
By U.S. News Staff
​Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then – if you’re lucky – choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you’ll call home for the next few years. To steer you in the right direction, U.S. News surveys colleges and universities each year and ranks nearly 1,400 of them in different categories according to our methodology. Here, we offer a sneak peek of the 2016 Best Colleges rankings. The Georgia Institute of Technology ranks among the top 10 public schools in the National Universities category for 2016.

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The top 25 US colleges to study business
http://m.stamfordadvocate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-top-25-US-colleges-to-study-business-6483034.php
Tanza Loudenback
We recently published a list of the best colleges in America. To create this list, we combined data from a reader survey, each school’s average SAT score from College Board, and the median starting salary from PayScale. You can read the full methodology here. College Board also kept track of the most popular majors at each college, and there we found which of our best colleges were the most popular places to study business. College Board lists business and marketing as one major, so these are the top colleges from our list of the best colleges where the most students study business and/or marketing. 4. Georgia Institute of Technology

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New ranking system uses social, research-based criteria
Washington Monthly publishes annual College Guide, ranking institutions providing the “best bang for the buck.”
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/new-ranking-criteria-966/
A new college ranking system from Washington Monthly magazine takes a different approach to ranking the nation’s colleges and universities while exploring with industry experts the ins and outs of American higher education. Washington Monthly’s college rankings rate institutions based on three criteria: social mobility, research and civic engagement. …In addition, the guide recognizes America’s most innovative college presidents, individuals who are redefining higher education at their institutions by implementing programs to promote affordability, diversity and service. The Top 10 include: Mark Becker-Georgia State University

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Middle Georgia State and Tubman partner on film center
http://www.13wmaz.com/story/life/2015/09/01/middle-georgia-state-and-tubman-partner–film-center/71543814/
Justin R McDuffie
The past is coming into view with a collaboration between Middle Georgia State University and the Tubman Museum, but so is the future. Their partnership will give students and visiting filmmakers a new resource to preserve history forever. Tuesday Middle Georgia State University, and the Tubman Museum unveiled a partnership that will bring new opportunities for students to create documentaries. “Students will be conducting interviews with people that are very important in the history of Macon which will allow them to preserve something that won’t be around much longer,” Ron Williams, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at Middle Georgia State University said. Next year, they will even be adding an artist in residence to help students learn their craft.

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Commentary: With football’s kickoff, Papp sees vision come to life
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26841121/article-Commentary–With-football-s-kickoff–Papp-sees-vision-come-to-life
by John Bednarowski
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Under the leadership of Dr. Dan Papp, Kennesaw State has grown to more than 30,000 students, has had a renaissance when it comes to campus infrastructure and seen substantial growth to its academic programs, to the point where there are now 11 doctoral programs. While all of that is a huge part of what makes up KSU, Papp knows the first line in his biography/epitaph will likely be “Brought football to Kennesaw State.” “That’s probably true,” said Papp, who became president of KSU in 2006. But despite all the academic success, he said there was one thing lacking on campus. “In today’s collegiate landscape, you are rarely regarded as a major university in the South without a football team.” As of Sept. 3, 2015, that is no longer an issue.

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State tech college system proposes $341 million budget for next year
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/state-tech-college-system-proposes-341-million-bud/nnXzq/
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Leaders of Georgia’s technical college system will recommend a $341.4 million spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year, a slight increase over the current budget. The fiscal 2017 recommendation, released Thursday during a monthly meeting of the system’s board, is about $1.4 million higher than the system’s current operating budget of about $339.9 million. The budget includes no tuition or fee increases for students, said Gretchen Corbin, commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia. Despite flush state coffers, Gov. Nathan Deal again directed state agencies to keep their fiscal 2017 budget requests the same as the current year unless there is a major need, because rising costs in Medicaid, education and state pensions will account for a large portion of the state budget.

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Schools Want the Sky to Be the Limit on Loans
University lobbyists are mobilizing to fight ceilings on borrowing
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/student-loans-schools-want-the-sky-to-be-the-limit
by Janet Lorin
For the past nine years, graduate students in the U.S. have had almost a blank check to take out as much as $80,000 a year in government-backed loans to pay for tuition and living expenses. Republican Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee thinks that’s too much. He’s introduced legislation, backed by his Democratic colleagues Michael Bennet of Colorado and Cory Booker of New Jersey, to limit borrowing to $30,000 a year, with a cap of $150,000. Programs with especially high costs could appeal to the U.S. Department of Education to let their students borrow up to $15,000 more each year.
Colleges, whose lobbyists and trade associations have succeeded in defeating just about every attempt to control rising tuition costs over the last decade, are trying to soften Alexander’s proposed law, which would also radically simplify the federal student aid application.

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In this tech age, who’s your target learner?
http://www.ecampusnews.com/top-news/target-learner-university-271/
By Pam Buffington
Making the case for learner-centric higher education by taking a look at elementary practices.
What will university learners require in 10 years? Who will these learners be? How will they learn and what will they demand? Universities must innovate and evolve now to be prepared for the future. But how will they position themselves to be the best fit for students whose learning habits have changed with greater access to technology? The traditional lecture class has existed for thousands of years and universities take great pride in classrooms that are steeped in history and tradition, where students can attend classes in the same room where their father, grandfather, or great grandfather physically sat before them to take lessons. Yet, during this time, the world has flown by and progressed in leaps and bounds—will this traditional experience be as satisfying for the learners of this coming generation?