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Report: Tuition policy on immigrants costs Ga. $10 million a year
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/report-tuition-policy-on-immigrants-costs-ga-10-mi/nnqKQ/
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Barring some immigrant students from in-state tuition rates costs Georgia about $10 million in lost tax revenue each year, by decreasing access to higher education and better-paying jobs, according to a report out today from the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute. People with more education typically make more money and pay more in taxes, says the report from the left-leaning think tank that seeks to quantify the impact of Georgia’s higher education policies on certain immigrant students without legal status. Georgia’s public University System bars those immigrants from attending institutions that haven’t enrolled all of their academically eligible students for the past two years. Those schools include some of the state’s most selective: the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Georgia College and State universities. At the state’s remaining public colleges, those immigrant students are required to pay out-of-state tuition rates, which can be thousands of dollars more than in-state rates.
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College police departments following body-camera trend
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/college-police-departments-following-body-camera-t/nnqzT/
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Georgia Southern University rolled out body cameras for its 34 patrol officers earlier this month, it joined a growing number of colleges and universities across the country using them. “We recognized a couple of years ago the advantages of having video cameras for both the benefit of the community and law enforcement officers,” said Laura McCullough, Georgia Southern’s interim police chief. Several of Georgia’s public colleges use body cameras, including large schools like the University of Georgia, Kennesaw State and Georgia Southern, but also smaller schools such as Bainbridge State College and the College of Coastal Georgia, according to the state’s University System.
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Georgia Farm Bureau offers $65,000 in agriculture scholarships
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/catwalkchatt/news/education/georgia-farm-bureau-offers-in-agriculture-scholarships/article_7ad816ba-63be-11e5-99c4-0fc72031410a.html
Georgia Farm Bureau (GFB) is offering up to $65,000 in scholarships to Georgia students pursuing a degree related to agriculture, veterinary medicine, family and consumer sciences or a related field. According to Mike Bunn, Walker County GFB president, the bureau is expanding its scholarship program after establishing the GFB Foundation for Agriculture earlier this year. For more than 40 years the organization has annually awarded scholarships to high school seniors entering college with plans to pursue a degree in agriculture or family and consumer sciences. In 2016 GFB will award scholarships in the following four categories. Scholarship for agriculture – This scholarship is for high school students who plan to enter a college that is part of the University System of Georgia or Berry College during the 2016-2017 academic year to pursue an undergraduate degree in agricultural and environmental sciences, family and consumer sciences or a related agricultural field. The GFB Foundation will award five scholarships of $3,000 each and seven scholarships of $1,500 each.
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The President’s Last Mission
http://www.collegiannews.com/2015/09/the-presidents-last-mission/
January 6 was the beginning of the final year for Robb Watts’ as the final president of Georgia Perimeter College. The remainder of 2015 will be the most important four months of the President’s career as he helps GPC become a part of GSU. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) plans to review the proposal submitted by both schools on Sept. 15 in their December meeting. If the proposal is accepted then it will be moved to the Board of Regents for a second vote during their meeting in January 2016. If the proposal is approved again, then the schools will officially be consolidated and GPC will no longer exist as its own school. “Once the Board [of Regents] votes [in January], there will be one college, one president, one mascot, and one team. There will be one institution and my role will no longer exist. Dr. Mark Becker will be president of the consolidated university,” said Watts in a phone interview with the Collegian. The ending of Watts’ career at GPC has not discouraged him from completing his final mission. Watts’ first concern like everyone on the Consolidation Implementation Committee (CIC) is to find the best way to use the resources from both schools to provide a great learning environment for the students. The consolidation was determined to be the best option to achieve this goal.
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CSU’s Online Communication Degree Ranked No. 1 by Affordable Colleges Online
http://www.americantowns.com/ga/columbus/news/csursquos-online-communication-degree-ranked-no-1-by-affordable-colleges-online-24142413
COLUMBUS, Ga. — In a national survey of online communication programs, Columbus State University’s online communication degree program was ranked first by Affordable Colleges Online, a leading resource for affordable online education programs.
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10 Commuter Colleges That Give You a World-Class Education
http://time.com/money/4048777/best-commuter-colleges/?xid=homepage
Kim Clark
By letting you live at home, these top urban schools can cut the cost of your degree by as much as $40,000. Scholarships and financial aid can help bring down the high cost of college. For another way to save, how about living at home? The average public college charges $9,800 a year for room and board, the College Board reports; at private colleges, it’s $11,200 a year. At these 10 top urban campuses, total tuition and commuting costs come in at $100,000 or less for the typical time it takes to earn a degree. And since a high portion of students live off campus, you won’t feel like you’re missing out on dorm life. …Georgia State University
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Police academy at ABAC announces 281st session graduates
http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/police-academy-at-abac-announces-st-session-graduates/article_66995240-65f3-11e5-babc-f35005da9d8d.html
Special to The Gazette
TIFTON — Eleven individuals from the south Georgia area recently received certificates at graduation exercises for the 281st session of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC) Regional Police Academy at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
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College to honor its executive-in-residence
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/college-to-honor-its-executive-in-residence/article_8b0e8989-bd47-5366-b485-9aa9ce30e364.html
By SARAH LUNDGREN
Reg Murphy’s lengthy list of experiences certainly enhances the lives of students at College of Coastal Georgia, and now the college wants to do something for him. It wants to name a center after him. Reg Murphy, the school’s executive-in-residence — or sharer in chief, as he likes to put it — is an avid supporter of the college and student body. He is known for engaging students in conversations about life experiences, career interests and strategies and even extracurricular activities that can help prepare them for their future. Now his name will soon grace the Coastal Georgia Center for Economic Analysis and Student Research. It is being renamed the Reg Murphy Center for Economic and Policy Studies.
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GSU’s International Arbitration Center Launches Monday
http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202738266807/GSUs-International-Arbitration-Center-Launches-Monday?mcode=1202616187678&curindex=24
Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report
The Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation officially opens on Monday—further bolstering Atlanta’s bid to become a hub for international arbitration.
Housed in Georgia State University’s new $82.5 million law school building near Woodruff Park, the arbitration center is a partnership between GSU College of Law and Atlanta International Arbitration Society (AtlAS). GSU Law hired Shelby Grubbs, who’d been a partner at Miller & Martin, as the center’s director last year. Magaly Cobian became managing director this summer. If there is an arbitration clause in a cross-border business contract, it typically specifies a location for the arbitration, so the challenge for Grubbs, Cobian and AtlAS is to persuade in-house counsel to make Atlanta that location. The center is kicking off its grand opening with a week of events, starting with a reception Monday, Sept. 28, with the ICC Court of International Arbitration’s Young Arbitrators Forum.
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Leadership symposium at UNG draws international experts
http://www.noodls.com/viewNoodl/30046387/university-of-north-georgia/leadership-symposium-at-ung-draws-international-experts
Today at the University of North Georgia (UNG), leadership experts spoke to a virtual international audience of thousands about the critical role of ethics in their own fields and in general business during Honor2Lead: Military Values in Business. President Bonita C. Jacobs welcomed those attending in-person and via simulcast and said that, as the university’s president, she is ‘honored to lead,’ and that as a leadership institution in the University System of Georgia and as The Military College of Georgia, UNG is the ideal platform to bring together academia, military and business to talk about leadership.
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Georgia Tech student at center of international intrigue over whether NASA has found evidence of water on Mars
Editor’s note: NASA announced Monday that it confirms water flows on today’s Mars, and Lujendra Ojha was quoted at length in NASA’s statement.
The presence of a Georgia Tech student on a NASA panel on Monday is fueling international speculation that NASA may announce it has discovered evidence of water on Mars. That’s because Lujendra Ojha, a PhD candidate in planetary science at Tech, co-authored a report in the journal Science in 2011 that speculated there is liquid water on the surface of Mars during warmer seasons, according to a report in the Australian publication, Business Insider. A second Georgia Tech PhD candidate will be on the panel. Mary Beth Wilhelm is studying planetary science and astrobiology.
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Piedmont Newnan extends fitness benefits to UWG Newnan
http://thecitizen.com/health/piedmont-newnan-extends-fitness-benefits-uwg-newnan
The University of West Georgia and Piedmont Newnan Hospital are excited to announce that they have signed an agreement to extend membership to the Piedmont Newnan Fitness Center for the students, faculty, and staff of UWG Newnan free of charge. “This partnership with the downtown fitness center continues the wonderful relationship that has developed with Piedmont during the renovation of UWG Newnan,” said Dr. Scot Lingrell, vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at UWG. “It provides a vibrancy to campus life that could not be created without connection to such a facility.” This agreement highlights the emphasis UWG and Piedmont Newnan share on improving the health status of communities through the development of both the mind and the body.
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WSB to use drones for news, weather coverage
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/faa-grants-wsb-drone-exemption-news-weather-covera/nnmZF/
ATLANTA – Unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, are becoming an important part of newsgathering starting this week. Channel 2 Action News is the first local station to legally fly them. The FAA granted us a special exemption Tuesday. For more than a year, meteorologist Brad Nitz has led a team of engineers, producers and pilots on a mission to get WSB’s certification. It’s a big milestone for Channel 2 Action News. The project started over a year ago when Channel 2 Action News visited the Georgia Tech Research Institute and partnered with its engineers.
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Person injured in UGA lab explosion recovers
http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2015-09-26/person-injured-uga-lab-explosion-recovers
By HILARY BUTSCHEK
The man injured during an explosion in a lab at the University of Georgia campus this week has recovered. The explosion happened about 5 p.m. Wednesday at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center on Riverbend Road. One person, Fan Yi, 27, who police described as a visitor on campus, received injuries to his hand and face. Yi was taken to Athens Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and released later that day.
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Asians and Hispanics powering U.S. growth, says UGA study
http://business.blog.ajc.com/2015/09/25/asians-and-hispanics-powering-u-s-growth-says-uga-study/
Michael E. Kanell
Asians and Hispanics are the key engine of economic growth now, according to a University of Georgia study. Those two groups account for $2 trillion of the nation’s $13.5 trillion buying power this year, according to the report from the Selig Center for Economic Growth at UGA. Total buying power is up 213 percent in the past quarter-century and that growth is partly due to an increasingly diverse nation, wrote Jeff Humphreys, Selig Center’s director. Consumers account for more than two-thirds of the total economy and Hispanics and Asians provide economic fuel for the future, he said.
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Agency needs big boost in HOPE funding as more qualify for scholarship
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/agency-needs-big-boost-in-hope-funding-as-more-qua/nnpKS/
James Salzer, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
State officials are asking for about a $135 million boost for scholarship programs over the next year and a half with expectations of a huge class of students earning HOPE scholarships and other awards. The largest chunk of the extra money would go for lottery funded programs like HOPE scholarships at public colleges and universities. The Student Finance Commission is asking Gov. Nathan Deal to include about $90 million more for HOPE and the Zell Miller scholarship, which covers the full tuition for top students, in his mid-year and fiscal 2017 budgets. Many of the Zell Miller scholars attend the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, and the Board of Regents increased tuition at those schools 9 percent this year. That, in turn, increases the cost of each Zell Miller scholarship.
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Tom Crawford: Legislator passes on HOPE of education to others
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/24/article/112440/
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. State 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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ACCT Report Presents New View of Student Loan Debt
http://diverseeducation.com/article/78067/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=880b5cc6495f4d7cb248d234c5e516db&elqCampaignId=771&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=00ff1a09201947eb93c616dd41d1b4c9
by Catherine Morris
When we think about the type of person who is most likely to default on their student loan debt, the most likely suspects would be the ones who are more than $100,000 in debt. The stereotype would be the law school graduate with no job prospects, or the student who majored in the arts at an expensive private four-year college. A new report from the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) shows another face of loan default. The report, which took an in-depth look at the loan default rates of students attending Iowa’s 16 community colleges, revealed some surprising insights about why students default.