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www.albanyceo.com
Chancellor Hank Huckaby on System Consolidation & Using Resources More Effectively (video)
http://albanyceo.com/video/2016/03/hank-huckaby-consolidation-and-using-resources-more-effectively/
Chancellor of the University System of Georgia Hank Huckaby discusses the reasons behind consolidation in the University System and how now the system is becoming better positioned to educate Georgians more effectively.
www.politics.blog.ajc.com
It looks like ‘campus carry’ is coming to Georgia
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/03/01/it-looks-like-campus-carry-is-coming-to-georgia/
Jim Galloway
Gov. Nathan Deal has overcome his past opposition to allowing armed students and faculty on public university campuses. The governor now dismisses arguments that firearms and classrooms are a dangerous mix. From our AJC colleagues Laura Diaz and Aaron Gould Sheinin:
In an interview Monday, Deal said the same claims were made in 2014 when he signed legislation that vastly expanded where Georgians can legally carry firearms. “We heard all the hype that we’re now hearing about campus carry, all the predictions of tragedies. All the predictions that we were going to open our state up to a Wild West scenario,” the governor said. Those earlier fears don’t appear to have come true, Deal said. “So, therefore, to use those kind of arguments with the campus carry discussion, I think lacks validity,” he said. This is a shift from his 2014 re-election campaign, when he expressed opposition to campus-carry legislation.
USG Institutions:
www.statesboroherald.com
Kentucky law dean next GSU candidate
Forum Wednesday; third contender appearing Thursday
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/73135/
By AL HACKLE
Dr. David A. Brennen, dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law, is slated to arrive in Statesboro Tuesday as the second of five candidates for the job of Georgia Southern University president to be introduced to the campus and community. Brennen is scheduled to appear in an open forum from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Carol A. Carter Recital Hall, inside the Foy Building at 84 Georgia Ave. on campus. Dr. Timothy C. Caboni, vice chancellor for public affairs at the University of Kansas, spoke in a similar forum Monday. The identity of the third candidate of the five invited to campus by the Presidential Search and Screen Committee is slated to be revealed Tuesday. His or her visit will overlap with Brennen’s and will include a forum Thursday.
www.onlineathens.com
UGA to name leadership suite for Chick-fil-A’s S. Truett Cathy
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2016-02-29/uga-name-leadership-suite-chick-fil-s-truett-cathy
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The University of Georgia’s Institute for Leadership Advancement will soon be housed in the S. Truett Cathy Leadership Suite, in recognition of a $1.2 million pledge that Chick-fil-A employees, operators and vendors made to the Terry College of Business. The donation will go toward the endowment of the Institute for Leadership Advancement. The suite is scheduled to open in fall 2017 as part of the second phase of the Terry College’s Business Learning Community. The Institute for Leadership Advancement works to promote values-based, impact-driven leadership in students by developing effective communication, teamwork, innovation and adaptability in a changing environment.
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www.chronicle.com
College Board Bars Registrants Who Aren’t Taking New SAT for ‘Intended Purpose’
http://chronicle.com/article/College-Board-Bars-Registrants/235540?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=edb2615473344299861134541467cc2b&elq=551d1a978bc740cd8ec2cf7db718417f&elqaid=8076&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2567
By Eric Hoover
The College Board sent a surprising email on Monday. “Due to a new test security measure,” the message said, recipients couldn’t take the SAT this Saturday even though they had registered for it. Instead, they would have to wait until May. Many of those who received the email have two things in common: They aren’t teenagers — and they work for test-preparation companies. High-school students aren’t the only ones who take standardized tests on Saturday mornings. Professional tutors have long done so to glean insights into the examinations. Although testing agencies have more or less tolerated the practice for years, that could soon change. The College Board said its main concern was preventing fraud. Some testing experts said the organization wanted to limit scrutiny of much-anticipated changes in the SAT — or foil the test-prep field at a time when it’s providing test “practice” through a partnership with Khan Academy.
www.insidehighered.com
Study: Which Students Persist in MOOCs?
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/03/01/study-which-students-persist-moocs?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=9088e744a0-DNU20160301&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-9088e744a0-197515277
Learners who sign up for a massive open online course just days before it starts and complete a precourse survey are much more likely than their peers to finish the MOOC, according to a new paper published in the Journal of Higher Education. Researchers at Vanderbilt University examined the behavior of more than 2.1 million learners in 44 different MOOCs offered on Coursera, finding that precourse survey completers viewed 12 more lectures and were 12 percent more likely to earn a certificate of completion compared to those who skipped the survey.
www.insidehighered.com
Replacing ‘Tradition With Science’
With new manual of protocols, University of Texas System instructs its police officers to base sexual assault investigations in neuroscience.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/01/u-texas-announces-new-protocols-investigating-campus-sexual-assault?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=9088e744a0-DNU20160301&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-9088e744a0-197515277
By Jake New
Police officers at all 14 University of Texas campuses will soon be trained to follow new investigative protocols aimed at changing how campus law enforcement officers interview and support victims of sexual assault, the system announced today. A new 170-page manual, called “The Blueprint for Campus Police: Responding to Sexual Assault,” instructs the system’s 600 sworn police officers to replace “tradition with science” when investigating sexual violence. UT officials said they hope other colleges will also consider the manual’s guidance and that it helps campuses “lead the nation in a culture shift.”
www.chronicle.com
Retired HBCU Presidents Start Search Firm for Black-College Leaders
http://chronicle.com/article/Retired-HBCU-Presidents-Start/235539?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=5a4c667401bd4e6591b21e83ba15ef8e&elq=551d1a978bc740cd8ec2cf7db718417f&elqaid=8076&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2567
By Lee Gardner
How do you strengthen historically black colleges and universities? By strengthening the pipeline of administrators to run them. At least that’s the solution being taken up by a group of retired presidents of historically black institutions. On Tuesday four former presidents are to announce the founding of TM2 Executive Search, a firm dedicated to identifying and placing candidates for top administrative posts at HBCUs. TM2 , which is connected to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, will be the first executive-search firm focused exclusively on HBCUs, and it arrives at a critical time. Many historically black institutions struggle to maintain enrollment, and public HBCUs face dwindling state support. Such pressures compound the challenges for leaders, and have contributed to “fairly significant turnover of leadership in the black-college community,” according to John W. Garland, a former president of Central State University and executive chairman of TM2 . … TM2 also plans to work with boards of trustees to help them understand what they should be looking for in candidates, and to set realistic expectations for new leaders. That promises to be an important aspect of the firm’s services, given the number of bitter feuds between boards of trustees and new presidents at historically black institutions in recent years. If conflicts do arise within the first 12 months, “we can be a third party to mediate that discussion,” Mr. Garland says.