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Opinion: Georgia ‘replaced Jim Crow with Juan Crow.’ State Supreme Court hears case Friday.
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/10/12/opinion-georgia-has-replaced-jim-crow-with-juan-crow/
Georgia has limited the ability of children of undocumented immigrants to attend public colleges and universities. On Friday morning, proponents of greater access will make their case to the state Supreme Court. The court will hear oral arguments in Olvera et al. v. University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents et al.In the official summary, the high court outlines the case: College students who are not U.S. citizens are appealing a Georgia Court of Appeals decision that upheld the dismissal of their lawsuit by a Fulton County judge. The students are seeking a decision that they are entitled to in-state tuition at Georgia’s colleges and universities. (The summary gives an excellent overview of both sides.)
www.gainesvilletimes.com
Judges will consider whether to allow immigrants to pay in-state tuition
Students with DACA status can attend college but pay more than Georgia residents
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/112728/
By Joshua Silavent
The Georgia Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this week in a case over whether certain immigrants can receive in-state tuition at Georgia’s public colleges. Latino students at the University of North Georgia will watch the proceedings closely as they face the fallout of the court’s decision. Some Republican lawmakers have pressed the case that undocumented immigrant students would hurt the ability of U.S.-born residents to afford college.
www.savannahnow.com
Immigrants seeking in-state tuition want court to hear case
http://savannahnow.com/news/2015-10-11/immigrants-seeking-state-tuition-want-court-hear-case
By KATE BRUMBACK |The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A group of young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children is asking Georgia’s highest court to overturn the dismissal of a lawsuit they filed seeking access to in-state tuition at the state’s colleges and universities. The roughly three dozen young immigrants have been granted temporary permission to stay in the U.S. under an Obama administration policy introduced in 2012. Their lawsuit asks a judge to instruct the university system’s Board of Regents to allow them to qualify for in-state tuition. The Georgia university system requires any student seeking in-state status for tuition purposes to provide verification of “lawful presence” in the U.S. The Regents have said students with temporary permission to stay under the 2012 program — known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA — do not meet that requirement.
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Police officer who fell rappelling was mother of five, whitewater guide
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/local/article38803104.html
BY SARAH ROBINSON and TIM CHITWOOD
Friends and family are mourning a Columbus police officer and mother of five who fell to her death while rappelling in north Georgia. Suzanne Huffman, 40, was with a church group when she fell about 30 feet Saturday on Pigeon Mountain, said Columbus Police Chief Ricky Boren. She was the mother of five boys, a senior biology major at Columbus State University, a member of the local Fraternal Order of Police and a newly vetted whitewater guide on the Chattahoochee River.
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Best College Reviews Names the Top 50 Ethnically Diverse Schools In America
http://www.tulsacw.com/story/30238479/best-college-reviews-names-the-top-50-ethnically-diverse-schools-in-america
SOURCE Best College Reviews
WOODBURN, Ore. — Best College Reviews, a ranking service for American colleges and universities, has released a list of the top 50 Ethnically Diverse Schools. Statistics and definitions of race/ethnicity were gathered from the National Center for Education Statistics and Diverse Issues in Higher Education and school websites. The full list can be viewed here: http://www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/top-ethnically-diverse-colleges/ We live in a global world, which means a diverse one. Georgia State University
www.college.usatoday.com
The new wage you need to earn to put yourself through college
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/10/12/working-in-college/
By Schools.com
As recent as a generation ago, it was reasonable for many students to pay their way through college by working between attending classes. This may be a less realistic option for students today, though financial aid can often help cover some of the burden. Here’s a closer look at how it might play out today if you wanted to pay for college “the old-fashioned way” – with a full course load and full-time job. First, let’s suppose you could devote 100% of your earnings to tuition. We looked at average annual tuition numbers (not including room and board) and paired them with the hourly rate estimates from Mike Kantrowitz, senior vice president and publisher of Edvisors.com and a student loan expert, on the wages he thinks you’d need to earn to cover the cost public and private schools: Middle Georgia State College; Gordon State College
www.thewestgeorgian.com
Health Services offers healthcare to UWG graduates
http://thewestgeorgian.com/health-services-offers-healthcare-to-uwg-graduates/
By Precious Walker
Graduating from college can be an occasion in a young adults’ life when they begin to shoulder even more responsibilities. Between job searching and bill paying, health care usually goes unnoticed by college graduates. But as they began to make the transition to independent health consumers, the University of West Georgia (UWG) Department of Health Services offers health care options to alumni after graduation. “The Health Centers of the entire University System of Georgia were discussing students who do not have health insurance after graduation,” said Leslie Cottrell, director and physician at UWG health services. “Several of the flagship institutions were allowing graduating students to pay the health fee two subsequent semesters to maintain their healthcare. Business and finance were amenable to UWG having the same practice, so we have been serving students in the capacity since then.”
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ABAC awarded $2.1 million federal grant for College Assistance Migrant Program
http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/abac-awarded-million-federal-grant-for-college-assistance-migrant-program/article_90207a8c-70ff-11e5-a633-af06e346da08.html
Special to The Gazette
TIFTON – Thanks to a five-year federal grant worth $2.125 million, the College Assistance Migrant Program has returned to the campus of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College after a one-year absence.
“The successful grant application was a joint effort by the Office of Multicultural Education programs and ABAC’s Office of Sponsored Programs,” said Javier Gonzalez, director of multicultural education programs at ABAC. The College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP) assists migrant first-year college undergraduates. CAMP provides discretionary grants to Institutions of Higher Education (IHE), or other nonprofit organizations in cooperation with an IHE, to offer tutoring, counseling, health services, assistance with special admissions and some financial assistance to enable migrant youth to successfully complete their first year of post-secondary education. Students are also assisted with obtaining financial aid to help with the remainder of their undergraduate academic careers.
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Schools That Offer Low Costs For Low-Income Students and Have Graduates With High Median Earnings
http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/schools-that-offer-low-costs-for-low-income-studen_15225.aspx#.Vh0hz_lVhBe
By Andy Gotlieb
There’s no shortage of information about colleges, but two pieces of data that have always been difficult to find are the true price of attending and the salaries earned by graduates of the institution. Sure, you can always find the “sticker price,” but few people actually pay full price – and some schools are far more generous with financial aid, especially for low-income students. And the salaries graduates earned generally aren’t found on college websites or in their glossy promotional materials – often for good reason.
Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus, $74,000, $7,875
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MCG dean: Southwest Georgia campus a medical trailblazer that is building leaders
MCG campus based in Albany part of effort to address physician shortage in Georgia
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2015/oct/11/mcg-dean-southwest-georgia-campus-a-medical/
By Jennifer Parks
ALBANY — Last week, Dr. Peter Buckley, dean of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, stopped at the college’s Southwest Campus base in Albany to get a feel for the campus’ health. Based on an interview with The Albany Herald late Thursday afternoon, he is optimistic about the campus’ future. The medical school still maintains a presence in Augusta, the site of the main campus, and there are satellite campuses operating throughout Georgia. The first such campus was established in Southwest Georgia in 2005, with the primary base now in a former school facility located on North Jefferson Street, directly across from Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. Now, 40 percent of the training conducted by MCG is done outside of Augusta. Since the Southwest Campus was established, that has included training at campuses based in Athens, Savannah and Rome. “(The Southwest Campus) is a medical trailblazer,” Buckley said.
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UGA Law Receives Big Gifts for Scholarship and Professorship
http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202739456949/UGA-Law-Receives-Big-Gifts-for-Scholarship-and-Professorship?kw=UGA%20Law%20Receives%20Big%20Gifts%20for%20Scholarship%20and%20Professorship&cn=20151012&pt=Morning%20News&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Daily%20Report&slreturn=20150913112154
Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report
The University of Georgia School of Law has received two major gifts: $500,000 from an anonymous donor to establish a scholarship fund named for a longtime professor, R. Perry Sentell Jr., and $1 million from a faculty member of 30 years, Verner Chaffin, and his family to endow a professorship in his name. “I am grateful that two truly legendary Georgia Law professors will forever be linked to our law school in these ways,” said UGA Law’s dean, Peter “Bo” Rutledge, in a statement. Sentell and Chaffin, both retired, are UGA Law alumni as well.
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UGA Foundation invests big bucks in Student Managed Investment Fund
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/10/09/uga-foundation-invests-big-bucks-in-student.html
Phil W. Hudson
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia Foundation will invest $750,000 from its endowment in the Terry College of Business’ Student Managed Investment Fund as part of its long-term portfolio strategy. The new investment boosts SMIF’s capital from its Aug. 31 balance of about $354,000 to more than $1 million. According to the UGA foundation, the program allows a group of UGA students to manage a UGA Foundation-owned investment fund. And since its inception, the returns students have achieved compare favorably to major Wall Street averages.
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Georgia Perimeter College awarded $3 million grant, largest in its history
http://www.newtoncitizen.com/news/2015/oct/10/georgia-perimeter-college-awarded-3-million-grant/
From staff reports
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Georgia Perimeter College a $3 million grant — the largest single award in GPC history. The grant is part of the DOE’s Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) Program and will be used to increase the number of students who exit remedial math in two or fewer semesters through the use of academic success coaches.
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Brunswick Stewdio acting as artistic home for students at the College of Coastal Georgia
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/brunswick-stewdio-acting-as-artistic-home-for-students-at-the/article_51679006-b535-5771-8983-6b37f11aa7f8.html
By ANNA HALL The Brunswick News
Jerry Luke stood before a captive audience, explaining the methods of controlled madness he uses to create his layered, larger-scale artwork pieces that can be described as realism, surrealism and abstraction, all on one framed palette. Luke, who has taught classes in studio art at Waycross College, humanities at Savannah State University and is currently teaching art appreciation at South Georgia State College, stood in as a short-term professor Wednesday for art students from College of Coastal Georgia. The more than 20 students in the college’s art program are taking part in a new academic partnership between the college and the Brunswick Stewdio at 1407 Newcastle St.
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Just in case: Midstate colleges prepare for shooting incidents
http://www.macon.com/news/local/article38490810.html
BY BECKY PURSER
Separate shootings Friday that left two college students dead has renewed concerns over campus security across the nation and in Middle Georgia. The first, at Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus, resulted in one death and the hospitalization of three others. The second was at Texas Southern University outside a student housing complex. In that incident, one student was killed and another wounded. Friday’s shootings come just days after multiple people died at the hands of a gunman on a college campus last week. On Oct. 1, a gunman opened fire during a class at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people and severely injuring several others. With the reality of the times, Middle Georgia colleges and universities are taking measures to prepare for the possibility of similar events here. In Georgia, public institutions of higher learning such as Middle Georgia State University and Fort Valley State University are required by the University System of Georgia to develop a master emergency plan.
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Student arrested in alleged mass shooting threat at Emory
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/student-arrested-for-allegedly-threatening-a-mass-/nnzyS/
Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A student was arrested Sunday evening after a threat posted via social media of a mass shooting on Emory University’s Oxford campus in Newton County. Emory officials confirmed the arrest in a statement emailed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It read: “Emory University Police arrested an Oxford College student on Sunday, Oct. 11, and charged her with making terrorist threats against the university as a result of a social media message that she posted early this morning.”
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As Campus Gun Violence Increases, So Do Professors’ Fears
http://chronicle.com/article/As-Campus-Gun-Violence/233727?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=598bcc21340e458dab78cb42d6d61614&elqCampaignId=1593&elqaid=6541&elqat=1&elqTrackId=93dd5d81cd7b43b680789430a56339a8
By Beth McMurtrie
Many faculty members are thinking about such scenarios with increasing anxiety. They may crack a few jokes at a faculty meeting, or roll their eyes at the latest administration missive of how to stay safe in an “active shooter” scenario, but in the back of their minds there are questions. What would I do if someone walked into the classroom with a gun? Is that student who got angry about a bad grade potentially dangerous? Is my campus a safe place to work? On social media, their comments are a mix of worry and anger.
www.insidehighered.com
Florida successful in heading off campus shootings
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FL_CAMPUS_SHOOTINGS_FLORIDA_FLOL-?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-10-12-24-21
Joe Reedy
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — With recent shootings on college campuses in Oregon and Arizona, Tallahassee Community College president Jim Murdaugh has received plenty of questions from staff and students about Florida’s plans to deal with such incidents. The main thing he has stressed to them is that everything has been well planned. “I would say Florida has been progressive in these areas,” Murdaugh said. “We have had a heightened sense of awareness the past couple weeks but we have always been prevention-oriented.” Florida has had active shooter situations on campuses the past two years. There was one in January 2013 at the University of Central Florida and another one at Florida State last November. In both cases the gunman died. Also in both cases students lauded university and local law enforcement departments for their quick response, which prevented more injuries and a widespread loss of life. The State University System has also held two conferences the past couple years to address further issues.
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California Bill on Sex Assault Punishments Vetoed
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/12/california-bill-sex-assault-punishments-vetoed?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ffb2aefcef-DNU201510012&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ffb2aefcef-197515277
California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday vetoed legislation that would have required colleges and universities in the state to have minimum punishments for those found by the institutions to have engaged in rape or forcible sex acts. In those cases, suspension for two years would have been required. Proponents of the law pointed to cases where students found responsible for such acts received far lighter punishments.
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Florida colleges lure students with luxury dorms
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/state_news/florida-colleges-lure-students-with-luxury-dorms/article_0d4171e6-8da8-56e4-87f6-8899d885f7ab.html?_dc=844864753540.6053
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TAMPA, Fla. — Tanning beds, putting greens and lazy rivers. No, these aren’t luxury retirement homes.
They’re the upscale dorms that some Florida universities are using to lure students to campus. The University of South Florida is planning a $134 million mixed-use housing village with shops, private rooms, a gym, restaurant and pool. The University of North Florida’s Osprey Fountains dorms include a theme-park style lazy river and karaoke stage. The new Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland is in the process of building a second set of dorms where students have access to game rooms, an in-unit washer and drier, gyms, private bathrooms and modern kitchens.