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Georgia’s list of highest-paid employees includes Adams, three making $1 million
Georgia’s list of highest-paid employees includes Adams, three making $1 million
James Salzer
Michael Adams hasn’t been president of the University of Georgia for 2 1/2 years, but he still showed up on a list of top 10 highest-paid university system employees in 2015. The list, compiled by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution using the state’s salary database, includes three Georgia college presidents who were paid more than $1 million in fiscal 2015, which ended June 30. The state’s salary site, Open Georgia, does not include all the outside money that employees receive – such as foundation money funding the big salaries of football coaches. Excluding coaches, the highest-paid staffers in the University System in fiscal 2015 were: Ricardo Azziz, then-president of Georgia Regents University, now Augusta University, at $1.14 million, Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson, $1.1 million, and Georgia State President Mark Becker, at $1.07 million. Adams was 10th on the university system list, earning $676,931 as president emeritus. The man who replaced him, Jere Morehead, came in 7th, at $745,994.

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Kelchner to represent GHC at Academic Day
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/kelchner-to-represent-ghc-at-academic-day/article_2ec6eba2-46f1-5d63-afed-b992816b80a8.html
It was Brittany Kelchner’s first semester at Georgia Highlands College when she found out she was pregnant. She’ll tell you that having a child while attending college was one of the hardest things she’s ever had to overcome. But she did it. Kelchner currently holds a perfect 4.0 GPA at GHC. She is an active volunteer of Green Highlands, and she aspires to one day open her own nature center to rescue and rehabilitate wildlife while teaching children about animals. One student is chosen from each college in the University System of Georgia each year to be a Board of Regents Academic Day Representative. Kelchner was chosen for GHC, due to her outstanding scholastic achievement, as well as holding the mandatory 4.0 GPA. …Kelchner is looking to continue her studies at the University of Georgia after she finishes her associate’s degree in biology at GHC. She stated that the afford-ability, small class sizes and phenomenal professors are what she will miss most about GHC when she continues on.

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Our View: Due process for all state students is sorely needed
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/opinion/our-view-due-process-for-all-state-students-is-sorely/article_a08c5e18-ca19-11e5-a378-738428e8374b.html
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, saying the body is guaranteed sovereign immunity, which protects state government and its agencies from lawsuits in certain instances, such as when plaintiffs are seeking a declaratory judgment or injunctive relief. …It is good to know the Board of Regents can get relief through judicial means even though some of the students at institutions that it governs cannot. Last August, a woman accused members of a Georgia Tech fraternity of shouting racial slurs from the windows of their campus house. The fraternity denied the claim, and, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, presented video evidence of the woman walking past the house unflinching, and noted that the windows from which the slurs were supposedly hurled have been sealed for years. A Tech administrator in charge of student discipline placed the fraternity on suspension, restricting all social activities. No appeal was allowed to the Tech president or to the Board of Regents. The fraternity members were not allowed the same access to the judicial process, or any process, as the Board of Regents had in their case dealing with in-state tuition. …The Board of Regents recently received a favorable ruling from the judicial process and the students under its governance should benefit from their own right to due process and not be subject to arbitrary decisions by college administrators without a chance for a redress of grievances.

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Head of The Class
Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges
Which colleges give best bang for your buck? Princeton Review says… (video)
http://www.today.com/video/which-colleges-give-best-bang-for-your-buck-princeton-review-says-614220355662
The University of Georgia is mentioned in a Tuesday morning segment of the Today Show about being included in The Princeton Review’s 2016 edition of “Colleges That Pay You Back” list. Best Internships, UGA

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VSU to award 10 social work students grants
http://www.live5news.com/story/31121765/vsu-to-award-10-social-work-students-grants
By Caitlyn Chastain
Valdosta State University partnered with the Georgia Division of Family and Children services in an effort to educate and obtain social workers. The university was one of just five selected to participate in the program. Through the initiative VSU will give 10 students getting their masters in social work grants to pay for their education. The students will also be guaranteed a job within 90 days of graduation.

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Major public universities ranked on shift toward out-of-state students
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/02/major-public-universities-ranked-on-shift-toward-out-of-state-students/
By Nick Anderson
A Washington Post analysis published last weekend showed how prominent public universities are recruiting more students from out-of-state than ever before in response to demographic trends and financial pressures… 54. Georgia Tech: 1,491 in-state out of 2,809 total, 53 percent. Down 5 points; 92. U. of Georgia: 4,591 in-state out of 5,261 total, 87 percent. Up 4 points.

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On Second Thought
Full Show – February 2, 2016: Sanders’ Rise | John Smoltz | Campus Cyber Crime Lab | Secrecy Law

Plus, the connectivity of modern society has left much of our digital data vulnerable to criminals. Recent large data breaches affecting consumers have prompted Middle Georgia State University to create program centered around digital security and cyber forensics. Host Celeste Headlee talks with the director of the program, Professor Johnathan Yerby and with Taryn Gabriel, one of the students enrolled in the program, about the importance of strengthening digital security and how the program is training the next wave of anti-hacking experts.

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Five Years of Assessing Risk at Georgia Tech
http://www.noodls.com/viewNoodl/31946195/georgiatech—georgia-institute-of-technology/five-years-of-assessing-risk-at-georgia-tech
This year, Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) will celebrate its fifth anniversary. The ERM program is a comprehensive and ongoing risk assessment by Georgia Tech’s senior leadership of the key operational, financial, compliance, and reputational risks that could significantly interfere with Georgia Tech’s ability to achieve its Strategic Plan goals and institutional initiatives. The senior leadership consists of a group of 15 vice presidents, vice provosts, and other senior leaders across campus who make up the Compliance & Risk Management Network. This group reviews the entire range of risks facing the Institute and scores them for likelihood (probability of the risk becoming reality), impact (effect the risk would have on the Institute), and velocity (estimated timing).

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UGA experts predict strong Georgia economy in 2016
Not much change predicted for Albany economy in 2016
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/uga-experts-predict-strong-georgia-economy-in/article_1c1a096d-c958-5bb6-9376-d19fc04b9b48.html
By Brad McEwen
ALBANY — Experts from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business predict a healthy state economy, and the potential for a strengthening local economy during the presentation of the annual Georgia Economic Outlook Tuesday at Hilton Garden Inn. Benjamin Ayers, dean of the Terry College of Business, and Beata Kochut, a research analyst for the Selig Center for Economic Growth at Terry College, addressed a room full of Albany area business and civic leaders, where they delivered the positive outlook. “What I’m going to talk about this afternoon is going to be positive for the state,” said Ayers. “2016 is going to be a good year for the state of Georgia. The good news is that Georgia’s economy will continue to expand and it will do so at a faster rate than the nation’s economy.”

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Gates Foundation Calls for More Granular Data on Student Outcomes

Gates Foundation Calls for More Granular Data on Student Outcomes

by Jamaal Abdul-Aliim
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amplified a longstanding plea in higher education Tuesday for better tracking of student success at America’s colleges and universities. “Unless we improve the data on individual and institutional performance, until we count everybody, include every institution, routinely gather data on outputs as well as inputs, we’re poking in the dark,” said Daniel Greenstein, director of Education, Postsecondary Success at the Seattle-based Gates Foundation. Greenstein made his remarks in a conference call to release a new report titled, “Answering The Call: Institutions and States Lead the Way Toward Better Measures of Postsecondary Performance.” The report contains a proposed “framework” to examine how institutions are performing in the areas of access, progression, completion, cost and post-college outcomes, and being able to assess how different groups — such as low-income students or students of color — are doing in those categories.

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Geography Matters
Most public college students enroll within 50 miles of home, so location is more influential than policy makers think, a new study finds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/02/03/when-students-enroll-college-geography-matters-more-policy-makers-think?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2a29ad0a73-DNU20160203&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2a29ad0a73-197515277
By Ellen Wexler
If only tuition were lower, and high school students were armed with better data. That’s the idea that has guided the policy discussion about college access and affordability: to make better enrollment decisions, the story goes, students need money and information. But that narrative misses an important point about how students make decisions: for many students, where they go to college depends largely on where they live, according to a study commissioned by the American Council on Education. The majority of incoming freshmen attending public four-year colleges and universities enroll within 50 miles of their home, the study found. And the farther students live from any particular college, the less likely they are to enroll.

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How to Make Public Engagement a Priority at Research Universities
Robert J. Jones, President, U. at Albany
http://chronicle.com/article/Video-How-to-Make-Public/235150?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=6b7b20f272d34f25af0df9b205058195&elqCampaignId=2355&elqaid=7753&elqat=1&elqTrackId=d41a281cd7d948ecb2835c898006d1a4
By Sara Hebel
Public universities should deepen their engagement with their communities and make those partnerships part of their core academic missions, says Robert J. Jones, president of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York system. Universities’ expertise should be used to solve society’s complex problems, he says, and public engagement needs to be integrated into both faculty-reward systems and students’ educational experiences. Mr. Jones spoke with The Chronicle about how college leaders can help overcome public mistrust of higher education by approaching community partners with more humility.