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Controversy builds over Georgia Southern student’s social media post
http://www.wtoc.com/story/30536861/controversy-builds-over-georgia-southern-students-social-media-post
By WTOC Staff
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – A walkout may happen Tuesday at 11:45 a.m. at Georgia Southern University. The NAACP sent out an advisory for black students to meet at the Student Union rotunda directly after the walkout. This all appears to have stemmed from a student’s Facebook post that some feel is threatening.
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Middle Georgia State University launches Center for Cybersecurity
http://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article45120258.html
STAFF REPORT
Middle Georgia State University is launching a new program within its School of Information Technology. The Center for Cybersecurity Education and Applied Research will educate students on information assurance, computer network security, digital forensics, cryptography, information security management and more, according to a news release from the university.
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MGSU police chief encourages students to take safety precautions on campus
http://www.wgxa.tv/news/local/MGSU-police-chief-encourages-students-to-take-safety-precautions-on-campus-350682491.html
By Angie Ragle
A University of Georgia student managed to escape a kidnapping last week after police say a 31-year-old man forced her to drive to an ATM to withdraw money. The suspect, Michael Ryan King, was arrested shortly after and charged with felony kidnapping, felony attempted robbery and misdemeanor sexual battery. Every 107 seconds, a person is sexually assaulted in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization survey. In the wake of the incident at UGA, Middle Georgia State University’s Police Chief Shawn Douglas urged students to be aware of their surroundings, especially while on campus at night. He said there are important tips students, both male and female, should follow to stay safe at school.
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Man accused of killing wife near Georgia Gwinnett College surrenders
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/man-accused-of-killing-wife-near-georgia-gwinnett-/npPfx/
Vanessa Soyer was killed Monday morning, shot multiple times inside her family’s Lawrenceville apartment while her young son fled to safety. Her husband — the alleged gunman — also fled, triggering a lockdown at nearby Georgia Gwinnett College. Less than 24 hours later, Lawrenceville police swarmed outside a local gas station, acting on a tip that Sheldon Soyer was inside. He was — and he surrendered peacefully. … Warrants were issued for Soyer shortly after police discovered his wife’s body Monday morning but, because he was not yet in custody, officials at Georgia Gwinnett College — located just across Ga. 316 from the apartment complex — decided to put the campus on lockdown. All of the college’s buildings were searched and cleared by about 2:45 p.m., but the campus was closed for the remainder of the day and students living on campus were urged to remain in their dorms throughout the night.
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College Completion Rates Decline More Rapidly
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/11/17/college-completion-rates-decline-more-rapidly?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=9802823de8-DNU20151117&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-9802823de8-197515277
Fewer students are earning a college credential within six years of first enrolling in college, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit clearinghouse is able to track 96 percent of students nationwide. It found an overall national completion rate of 52.9 percent for students who enrolled in the fall of 2009. That rate was down 2.1 percentage points from that of the previous year’s cohort of students, according to the clearinghouse, and the rate of decline is accelerating.
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Little for Students in ‘Historic’ Settlement of Education Management Case
http://chronicle.com/article/Little-for-Students-in/234229?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=e771694e082043dc8c0592a0519f09b3&elqCampaignId=1856&elqaid=6912&elqat=1&elqTrackId=6093b388a4464820ada79570d193ae32
By Goldie Blumenstyk
For all the claims that the $95.5-million settlement, announced on Monday, of a federal false-claims lawsuit against the Education Management Corporation was “historic,” “unprecedented,” and “a very clear warning to other career colleges out there,” the deal actually won’t do a whole lot for the thousands of students who may have been pressured to enroll by the company’s admissions recruiters over the past decade.
In fact, some of the biggest financial beneficiaries will be the lawyers for the four sets of whistle-blowers who brought the allegations of “boiler room”-style recruiting to light, beginning in 2007. The federal government joined the lawsuit in 2011. Assuming the company pays the full amount — it has a payment schedule that runs until 2022 — the lawyers will receive nearly $20 million of the total. EDMC, as the company is known, has denied the allegations against it and has admitted no wrongdoing as part of the settlement. But at a news conference on Monday at the Department of Justice, the U.S. attorney general, Loretta E. Lynch, said the company had broken the rules against paying incentives to its admissions representatives by “running a high-pressure recruitment mill.”