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University System of Georgia audit finds ‘serious misconduct’ in Albany State University Financial Aid Office
One former student and 20-year ASU employee received $270,000 in financial aid since 1985
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2015/oct/20/university-system-of-georgia-audit-finds-serious/
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — The Albany Herald has obtained a copy of a University System of Georgia internal audit of Albany State University’s Financial Aid Office in which a review of the financial aid histories of five students who also were employees of the university shows that one former employee of the financial aid department received $270,000 in federal student financial aid since 1985. The ASU Office of Communications has confirmed that four financial aid office employees have been terminated, but would not release the names of the former employees.
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Savannah State Out-of-State Students now pay In-State Tuition
http://www.tigersroar.com/news/article_ba7e6736-7766-11e5-b27b-d3cd2c2b1c40.html
by Erica Relaford
Jesse Kelsey, a junior and section leader for the baritones is one of several out-of-state students who came to Savannah State University this fall, when the institution hired Marques Graham as the new band director. Similar to his colleagues, fellow band transfers and others, Kelsey is a 21-year-old transfer, out-of-state student from Miami who benefited from the new state policy that allows students from states bordering Georgia – Florida, South Carolina and Alabama – to pay $8K in in-state tuition rather than $14.6K for out-of-state tuition. Kelsey says the in-state tuition waiver for border students provided an answer to his financial worries. Compared to Edward Waters College, the private college he attended in Jacksonville, Fl., Savannah State’s tuition seemed to be cheaper. “The tuition there was about $18,000. [Here] I can’t complain, because I’m in the band and I get a band scholarship,” he said. Kelsey explains he uses the scholarship to pay for other university expenses outside of the tuition waiver. The University System of Georgia, revised the policy for border out-of-state students who live on-campus to pay full room and board, in September 2014. SSU officials say they were chosen by the Board of Regents as one of the ten institutions, because of their proximity to the borders.
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10 Professors Receive $25,000 Prestigious Award
http://www.educationdive.com/press-release/20151021-10-professors-receive-25000-prestigious-award/
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On Saturday, November 14, ten distinguished professors from around the U.S. will be honored with a $25,000 cash tribute from the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award Trust for motivating a former student to make a difference in his or her community. Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, J.D., University of Georgia; Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Ph.D.
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A piece of Atlanta’s history unveiled at Clayton State
http://www.news-daily.com/news/2015/oct/20/a-piece-of-atlanta8217s-history-unveiled-at/?community
From staff reports
MORROW — A 64-year-old piece of Atlanta’s art history has found a new home at Clayton State University. Organizers recently held an unveiling ceremony for a mural painted by acclaimed artist Athos Menaboni at James M. Baker University Center, where it will be displayed for the next two years. Antonin Aeck, a local architect who personally knew the artist growing up, said Clayton State is the perfect place for this mural. “To find a new life and a new home for Athos’ work is really a touching experience for me. I think it’s found a great home,” said Aeck.
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Albert Einstein statue to arrive on Georgia Tech campus
http://www.wdef.com/news/state/story/Albert-Einstein-statue-to-arrive-on-Georgia-Tech/pDJgr6xuDkajVUSq2JYAcQ.cspx
ATLANTA (AP) — A larger-than-life likeness of Albert Einstein is to make its debut this week at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/1OOXBlj) reports the 12-foot sculpture by Robert Berks will be installed Friday on the school’s Atlanta campus. It’s a smaller replica of Berks’ Einstein sculpture near the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Dressed casually and with a relaxed posture, the statue will sit on a bank of three curved white granite steps. Berks, who died in 2011, met Einstein in 1953, and the physicist agreed to sit for a portrait.
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Four More Companies Join Georgia Tech IoT Center
http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2015/10/four-more-companies-join-georgia-tech-iot-center
By Andy Szal, Digital Reporter
Four additional companies will join the ranks of founding members at a new Internet of Things research center hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Center for the Development and Application of Internet-of-Things Technologies on Tuesday announced new partnerships with tech giant IBM, Internet-connected products developer Flex, IT firm Wipro Ltd. and toolmaker Stanley Black & Decker. Founding members will monitor and help expand the IoT — which analysts expect to grow from nearly 2 billion devices to 9 billion by 2018 — in cooperation with Georgia Tech and research arm the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
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Many Colleges’ New Emergency Plan: Try to Account for Every Possibility
http://chronicle.com/article/Many-Colleges-New-Emergency/233841
By Mary Ellen McIntire
Whatever the hazard — whether a meningitis outbreak or hosting the U.S. Olympic trials in track and field — the University of Oregon intends to be ready. The university has drafted what is known as an “all hazards” emergency-operations plan — a comprehensive assessment of how it expects to respond to the various risks and disasters that could befall it. To carry out the plan, Oregon created an incident-management team of about 25 people, drawn from offices across the university, who are trained to standards established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. When a mass shooting shook the small campus of nearby Umpqua Community College this month, the university sent members of its team to offer assistance. Since a gunman killed 33 people at Virginia Tech, in 2007, campus security has taken on added urgency at many colleges and universities. Most have developed emergency-operations plans for threats specific to their institution, according to survey results released recently by Margolis Healy, a private firm that advises schools and colleges on safety and security. But just over half of the survey’s 513 respondents said their institution had conducted a comprehensive all-hazards vulnerability assessment to help shape that plan, as Oregon did.
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Chancellor: Alaska-Fairbanks ‘Failed’ in Sex Assault Cases
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/21/chancellor-alaska-fairbanks-failed-sex-assault-cases?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=74f5b7e3c6-DNU201510021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-74f5b7e3c6-197515277
The University of Alaska at Fairbanks “failed to follow [its] student discipline policies” in cases of campus sexual assault, the university’s interim chancellor wrote in an open letter Tuesday. “Like so many universities, our reported sexual assault statistics have been so low as to be implausible, especially when we know that sexual assault is so prevalent in Alaska,” Mike Powers, the university’s interim chancellor, wrote. “We investigated reports of rape, and often took informal action like removing the accused from dorms or campus. But, until recently, students were not being suspended or expelled for sexual assault, or for any major violation of our code of conduct. That is not acceptable and sends the wrong message to victims and perpetrators of this heinous violence.”