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Georgia Film Academy construction permits approved at Pinewood Atlanta Studios
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2015/11/30/georgia-film-academy-construction-permits-approved.html
Ellie Hensley
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University System of Georgia’s Georgia Film Academy is moving full speed ahead to build a shiny new soundstage at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayetteville, Ga. On Nov. 17, the Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission approved plans to build a 15,000-square-foot soundstage, according to thecitizen.com.
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GRU officially becomes Augusta University
http://nbc26.tv/2015/11/30/gru-officially-becomes-augusta-university/
By NBC 26 Staff
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tuesday marks a big change for Georgia Regents University, as it officially becomes Augusta University. They will not use the acronym of “AU”, however, because that’s already being used by several other universities.
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Advancing health: UGA to Break Ground on Center for Molecular Medicine
http://athensceo.com/news/2015/11/advancing-health-uga-break-ground-center-molecular-medicine/
Staff Report From Athens CEO
The University of Georgia is continuing its move into the human health arena—initiated by the opening of its Health Sciences Campus in Athens—through a new building that will soon house the Center for Molecular Medicine. The groundbreaking ceremony for the center will be held Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 2 p.m. at its future site on Riverbend Road, adjacent to the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center. The public is invited to attend. The ceremony will include remarks from University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby, UGA President Jere W. Morehead, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center Director Alan Darvill, Center for Molecular Medicine Director Stephen Dalton and student Miranda Hayworth.
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Finalists for campus dean of GRU/UGA Medical Partnership to visit Athens
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2015-11-30/finalists-campus-dean-gruuga-medical-partnership-visit-athens-augusta
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Two finalists for the position of campus dean of the Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership visit Athens and Augusta in December to meet with faculty, staff, students and community members. A 15-member committee chaired by Houston Davis, University System of Georgia executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer, conducted a national search to identify the finalists.
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Deadline passes for KSU officials to respond to student demands
http://www.walb.com/story/30636363/deadline-passes-for-ksu-officials-to-respond-to-student-demands
By Wesley Goheen, Digital Producer
KENNESAW, GA (CBS46) – The deadline has passed for officials at Kennesaw State University and students gave them a list of demands seeking change on the campus. Students at several Atlanta-area universities, collectively known as Atlanta Black Students United, protested in November, claiming they are living and studying in what they call a racist climate. Among the demands were to close a nearby store that sells KKK and Confederate memorabilia, increase full-time minority faculty and add more ethnic-based courses. Students at KSU tell CBS46 they are meeting with members of the school’s administration and were told by officials that they have been advised by the University System of Georgia to wait to give a response.
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Smoking remains prominent on campus, one year after tobacco ban in place
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/smoking-remains-prominent-on-campus-one-year-after-tobacco-ban/article_f25e0206-970a-11e5-b694-3b2e4ac65047.html
Pui Wong
A year after the University System of Georgia’s tobacco ban took effect, smokers remain a regular sight on the University of Georgia campus, raising the question of whether the policy has been effective after all. The Office of Student Conduct has received only one complaint so far, said Stan Jackson, director of Student Affairs Communications and Marketing Initiatives. The office subsequently reached out to the individual and reminded him about the policy, Jackson said. Students can report a smoking incident to the Office of Student Conduct, which will follow up with the complaint but will not implement any punishment. When asked what would happen in the case of a repeated violation, Jackson said he could not comment because there had only been one reported incident. “This particular policy is a Regents policy so the tobacco policy itself is not directly in the Code of Conduct, but we as a service to the community follow up on it,” Jackson said.
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Former Georgia head coach Mark Richt open to listen ‘to anybody who has interest in me’
Richt will coach Bulldogs in bowl game
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/36/article/113771/
By Charles Odum
Associated Press
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — Mark Richt remains interested in another coaching job and said Monday he will listen “to anybody who has interest in me” as he prepares for his final game as Georgia’s coach. Georgia announced Sunday Richt will not return as coach in 2016. Athletic director Greg McGarity and University of Georgia President Jere Morehead said Sunday Richt had been offered another position at the school that would include helping former players and fundraising for the university. There was some expectation Richt might say at Monday’s news conference he would accept the offer. Instead, he spoke with passion about the chance to coach again and to have more direct involvement in coaching quarterbacks and calling plays.
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Study: 40 Percent of Young Adults Receive Financial Help From Parents
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/01/study-40-percent-young-adults-receive-financial-help-parents?utm_source=Inside%20Higher%20Ed&utm_campaign=c5662ad611-DNU20151201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c5662ad611-197515277
Students who attend four-year institutions and are from high socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to rely on financial help from their parents than those who did not attend college or those from less affluent backgrounds, according to a new study published in the journal Social Currents. Using data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Student of Adolescent to Adult Health, Anna Manzoni, author of the study and an assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University, found that 41.4 percent of respondents between 25 and 32 were “stuck in a state of partial independence,” meaning adult children who no longer live with their parents but still receive financial support. At the same time, people who attended a four-year college — both from higher and lower socioeconomic backgrounds — who remained in a state of partial independence in their late 20s were more likely to eventually become and remain financially independent by their early 30s, Manzoni found.
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U of Chicago Will Resume Classes Today
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/01/u-chicago-will-resume-classes-today?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c5662ad611-DNU20151201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c5662ad611-197515277
The University of Chicago announced Monday afternoon that its main campus would be open today — after a day on which classes and most programs were called off due to an online threat. A student at the University of Illinois at Chicago was arrested in connection with the threat, The Chicago Tribune reported. The Tribune also reported that the threat was to kill 16 white male students or employees at the university in retaliation for the shooting death last year — by a Chicago police officer — of Laquan McDonald, 17. The police officer — now facing murder charges — shot McDonald 16 times.
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Student at Western Washington U. Is Arrested Over Yik Yak Threats
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/student-at-western-washington-u-is-arrested-over-yik-yak-threats/107060?elq=62c19b7028034d72bbaebb3a1ac7db2b&elqCampaignId=1951&elqaid=7054&elqat=1&elqTrackId=f0057d3e3e3644c6932709fb2bc81fc5
by Andrew Mytelka
Western Washington University police officers on Monday arrested a student whose Yik Yak posts last week were among those viewed as so threatening to black and other minority students that the university shut down last Tuesday and resumed classes only on Monday. According to a statement on the university’s website, the student, 19-year-old Tysen Campbell, faces a felony charge of malicious harassment. He has been suspended and barred from the campus for the duration of the legal proceedings and the university’s student-conduct process against him. The statement says that university investigators were able to identify Mr. Campbell as the source of threatening posts with the help of Yik Yak, the company that runs the anonymous social-media service. The police investigation continues.
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29 Scholarly Societies’ Statement on ‘Campus Carry’
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/12/01/29-scholarly-societies-statement-campus-carry?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c5662ad611-DNU20151201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c5662ad611-197515277
Twenty-nine scholarly societies on Monday issued a joint statement opposing the Texas “campus carry” law that will significantly expand the right to carry arms on public university campuses. “The undersigned learned societies are deeply concerned about the impact of Texas’s new campus carry law on freedom of expression in Texas universities,” the statement says.
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Transparency Scrutinized
Lawmakers in some states are seeking more openness and transparency from public university governing boards.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/12/01/lawmakers-question-public-boards-openness-and-transparency?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=c5662ad611-DNU20151201&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-c5662ad611-197515277
By Kellie Woodhouse
How transparent should a public university governing board be? Politicians in a number of states, who often say they’re responding to concerns from constituents, have been calling for appointed or elected governing boards of their public colleges, universities and systems to be more open, particularly when it comes to public meetings. “There seems to be little trust in the trustees today,” said Thomas Harnisch, director of state relations at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. “There are calls for governing board members to show their work and how they came up with the conclusion, instead of just showing up with their outcome.”