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Campus committee begins search for 3-5 candidates for GSU president
Regents will name finalists, choose one
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/70388/
BY Al Hackle
The 18-member campus committee received its working orders Wednesday morning, not to name the next president of Georgia Southern University, but to identify three to five individuals – no more and no less – who would be acceptable in that post. “Your charge from me and the chair is to recommend, nominate, three to five candidates, unranked, any one of whom you would be happy to have as president of this institution,” Chancellor Hank Huckaby told the committee. “It’s not two. It’s not six. It’s three to five.” Huckaby, the University System of Georgia’s chief executive, spoke to the group in a sunny end room at the Nessmith Lane Conference Center on the GSU campus in Statesboro.
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Donald Green’s presidency of Georgia Highlands College becomes official
http://sixmilepostonline.com/?p=3465
BY LOGAN WILKINS AND ADRIEL BANUELOS
The presidential medallion was placed around Donald Green’s neck by University System of Georgia Chancellor Henry M. Huckaby on Sept. 18, making him the fourth president to serve GHC. A crowd of more than 400 students, alumni, faculty, staff, community members and state leaders, as well as members of Green’s family gathered at the Floyd campus gymnasium, decorated in blue and orange, to officially usher in a new era for GHC. A number of distinguished guest speakers accompanied Green on stage, including Willis Potts, former chair of USG Board of Regents and Neil L. Pruitt, Jr., current chair of the USG Board of Regents. Potts officiated the ceremony.
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CRAWFORD / This legislator’s gift will matter to Georgians
http://www.theblacksheartimes.com/articles/2015/09/29/opinion/doc560ae89e1fe6b782925117.txt
By Tom Crawford
If you tried to find a state legislator who opposed the HOPE scholarship, you couldn’t do it. The lottery-funded program that pays college tuition for Georgia students is one of the most popular laws ever enacted. Everybody loves HOPE and no one would think of eliminating it. Rep. Stacey Evans (D-Smyrna), like her colleagues at the Gold Dome, is a major supporter of HOPE, but she did an extraordinary thing this summer to demonstrate that support. She donated $500,000 to the University of Georgia to set up the Stacey Godfrey Evans Scholarship for law school students who are first-generation college graduates — the first member of their family to get a college degree.
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CCGA to host radiology open house
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-to-host-radiology-open-house/article_b5a5bd3b-95d2-5542-b168-f1ac89370bdf.html
By ANNA HALL
Ask John Eichinger about the future of medically based courses at College of Coastal Georgia and the answer is overwhelmingly optimistic. “New and exciting things are happening at (the college) and in the radiologic science program,” said Eichinger, assistant professor and director of the college’s radiology program. To help usher in radiology students, Eichinger and college administers are organizing an open house for Oct. 15 at the college. It will give prospective students the opportunity to learn more about the career Associate of Science degree in radiologic science offered by the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.
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UGA College of Public Health celebrates 10 years, hosts former US Secretary of Health and Human Services
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-college-of-public-health-celebrates-years-hosts-former-us/article_f106e51e-6616-11e5-80df-af9078c0d459.html
Pui Wong
To celebrate its 10-year anniversary, the College of Public Health will bring the former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Louis W. Sullivan, to the Health Sciences campus on Oct. 5. As the first public health college to be nationally accredited in the University System of Georgia, UGA’s College of Public Health has grown from 12 faculty members and about 80 students in 2005 to a college with four departments, two institutions and a global center as well as more than 200 staff members and 850 students in 10 years. Phillip Williams, dean of the College of Public Health, recounted the difficulties the college faced in its early phase.
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National report ranks Clayton State among universities with nontraditional student bodies
Officials: National report ranks university in top 50
http://www.news-daily.com/news/2015/sep/29/national-report-ranks-clatyon-state-among/
By Johnny Jackson
MORROW — Clayton State University ranks nationally among the top 50 universities enrolling students over age 25. A late August report by Best College Reviews ranked Clayton State No. 38 among schools that were graded on flexibility for students, the percentage of students over age 25, the college acceptance rate and the percentage of students enrolled in distance education.
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The 17 Colleges With The Highest Rated Professors
The website Rate My Professors used student review data to grade the schools.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colleges-best-professors-2015_5609d1cde4b0dd850308df35
Tyler Kingkade, Senior Education Reporter
The University of Mississippi has the best professors in the country, according to an analysis from Rate My Professors. Rate My Professors, a website where students can rate and review their college instructors, released its annual rankings of the best professors and schools this month. Rate My Professors combines the average rating for professors at the schools with an overall school rating, and they only use schools with at least 30 rated professors and 30 campus ratings. It is entirely determined on reviews from students. …THE 17 UNIVERSITIES WITH THE BEST FACULTY ACCORDING TO RATE MY PROFESSORS:
8. University of Georgia
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Jaguars to compete as ‘Augusta University’ for 2015-2016 seasons
http://nbc26.tv/2015/09/29/jaguars-to-compete-as-augusta-university-for-2015-2016-seasons/
By NBC 26 Staff
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Augusta University Director of Athletics Clint Bryant announced Tuesday that all thirteen of the university’s NCAA championship teams will compete as Augusta University for the 2015-2016 seasons. Two weeks ago, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents changed the name of the school from Georgia Regents University to Augusta University. …Since this change is solely a name change and not a consolidation of two universities, the Jags will be able to compete as the Augusta University Jaguars.
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Coweta Wrecks Entrap Motorists, Cause Woman’s Death
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20150930-County-Car-Crashes-One-Fatality
by CLAY NEELY
On Monday at 5:11 p.m., authorities with the Coweta County Fire Department responded to a motor vehicle accident on Lora Smith Rd. and East Hwy 34. Upon their arrival, members from the fire department found two women entrapped in the vehicle, according to Assistant Fire Chief Mitch Coggin. After firefighters performed an extensive extrication, both patients were removed – one was transported by ground to Atlanta Medical Center and the other was transported to Piedmont Newnan Hospital, according to Coggin. Friends identified the women in that car as Ireasha Turner and Jasmine Carter. The two were longtime friends who had attended Newnan High School together and graduated in 2012. Turner died as a result of injuries from the accident. according to friends. She graduated with high honors from NHS and was a student at the University of West Georgia.
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UGA student held in dorm rape
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/athens-man-charged-in-uga-dorm-rape/nnqJn/
Christopher Seward
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A University of Georgia student was being held without bond Monday in the county jail, charged with raping another student in a dorm room. Clarke County Sheriff’s Office records showed Bamidele O. Oluwadare remained jailed following a Sept. 21 arrest. “The suspect has been barred from campus, and at this time no information indicates any continued risk to the UGA community,” the university said in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Oluwadare, 19, is accused of raping a coed on Sept. 20 in her dorm room at McWhorter Hall, according to a University of Georgia Police Department report.
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Default Rates Drop
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/01/student-loan-defaults-drop-obama-admin-again-tweaks-rates?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ee00e91a1-DNU20151001&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ee00e91a1-197515277
By Michael Stratford
The share of federal student loan borrowers who default on their debt within three years of entering repayment dropped for the second year in a row, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday.
The national default rate on student loans made by the government fell to 11.8 percent from 13.7 percent last year, the department said. Obama administration officials credited their success in getting more borrowers to sign up for income-based repayment plans for some of the decline in defaults. This year’s data capture the number of borrowers whose loans first became due during the 2012 fiscal year and who then defaulted on their debt within three years. Nationwide, more than 610,000 borrowers defaulted during that period.
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Student Loan Default Rate Drops
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/30/student-loan-default-rate-drops?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ee00e91a1-DNU20151001&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ee00e91a1-197515277
The proportion of student loan borrowers who defaulted on their debt within three years fell to 11.8 percent for those entering repayment in 2012, down sharply from 13.7 percent the year before, the U.S. Education Department announced today. Department officials credited the Obama administration’s various efforts to protect borrowers, including its push to encourage borrowers to enter its income-based repayment program, for some of the decline in the default rate.
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Congress Lets Perkins Loan Program Lapse
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/01/congress-lets-perkins-loan-program-lapse?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ee00e91a1-DNU20151001&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ee00e91a1-197515277
The U.S. Senate failed to take action on a last-ditch effort to renew the federal Perkins Loan program, letting the program lapse. Both houses of Congress needed to pass legislation renewing the program by Sept. 30, the last day of the 2015 fiscal year, and the House of Representatives did so on Tuesday. …the Senate did not follow suit.