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No tuition increase for 2016-2017 academic year
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/daily/article_e348ee6a-1e5f-56f0-9466-5fd9779256a2.html
By: Brea Dupye The George-Anne contributor
The Board of Regents approved plans for no tuition increases on Wednesday, that allows all University System of Georgia (USG) students from the current 2015-2016 academic year, to pay the same tuition rate for the 2016-2017 academic year.
According to USG: There has also been an approval from the Board for a 20 percent decrease in the cost of eMajor credit hours for the upcoming academic year. The eMajor initiative gives students the opportunity to take on-line learning programs for completion of specific associate’s and bachelor’s degrees.
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Stuart Rayfield Named Interim President of Bainbridge State College
Stuart Rayfield Named Interim President of Bainbridge State College
By Powell Cobb
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby has named Dr. Stuart Rayfield interim president of Bainbridge State College in Georgia. Rayfield currently serves as the Frank D. Brown Distinguished Chair in Servant Leadership, associate professor and director of the Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State University in Georgia. She will assume her post at Bainbridge State on June 1, 2016, replacing Interim President Shawn McGee. “Stuart is well qualified to provide leadership at Bainbridge State,” said Huckaby. “Her experience in servant leadership and student affairs will be a great fit for the college and community.” McGee has served as interim president since Dec. 2015 when President Richard Carvajal was appointed interim president at Darton State College in Albany, Ga. McGee has been appointed vice president for fiscal affairs at Albany State University.
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Rayfield named interim president of Bainbridge State
http://www.wtoc.com/story/31772361/rayfield-named-interim-president-of-bainbridge-state
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Jaimie Hebert announced as next GS president
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_b0122cdb-7353-5d07-b61f-7a60f76e63d5.html
By Blakeley Bartee The George-Anne staff
This summer, Jaimie Hebert, current provost and vice president for academic affairs at Sam Houston State University (SHSU), will assume his role as the 13th Georgia Southern University president. After earning a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Hebert began his career in higher education as an assistant professor of mathematical science at Appalachian State University, according to his curriculum vita. Hebert introduced himself to GSU students and faculty at his March 10 open forum, where he mentioned his opposition to the campus carry bill and his support of study abroad programs. He also explained his position on supporting athletics. “I see value in athletics [at a university]… It matches with our societal expectations. Students expect [to have athletic events],” Hebert said at the forum. “You cannot afford the marketing exposure that athletics have brought to your institution… But [we have to ask] whether or not there’s a law of diminishing returns [in the advantages of expanding athletics].” At the forum, Hebert also addressed the need for diversity on college campuses, the underrepresentation of African-Americans at GSU, campus sustainability and the importance of investing in each student’s success. “Being a student-centered university means every faculty member feels a deep, core passion about the success of a student,” Hebert said. Hebert’s open forum, the fifth and final forum in the series of presidential candidate visits, left a positive impression for students and faculty. …Jean Bartels, current interim president at GS, is excited about Hebert and expects him to do a very good job.
www.nytimes.com
Greater Competition for College Places Means Higher Anxiety, Too
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
As the frenzied college application season draws to a close, and students across the country mull their choices, many colleges are trumpeting that it was the most selective year ever. But high school guidance counselors and admissions experts say the heightened competition has turned the process into a anxiety-ridden numbers game… Rick Clark, director of undergraduate admissions at Georgia Institute of Technology, said that the Black Alumni Organization had been intensely involved in recruitment, and that minority students had received calls and invitations to visit the campus, in an effort to entice them to apply and enroll.
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Breathalyzer Detects Cancer On Your Breath
http://gpbnews.org/post/breathalyzer-detects-cancer-your-breath
By CELESTE HEADLEE & TAYLOR GANTT
Georgia Tech Research Scientist Charlene Bayer is pioneering a new method for early cancer detection. No radiation, no fancy machines, just an inexpensive breathalyzer that can detect carcinogens caused by both lung and breast cancer. Bayer explains how to use the technology and how it can be applied on a larger scale.
www.federaltimes.com
Technology helps service dogs ‘talk’
http://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/management/sect508/2016/04/18/technology-helps-service-dogs-talk/83025742/
Suz Redfearn, Contributing Writer
Service dogs — dogs that have been individually trained to perform a specific task for individuals who have disabilities — are about to get a lot more high tech. Melody Moore Jackson, who heads the FIDO (Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations) project at Georgia Tech, has been working closely with Canine Companions for Independence, the country’s oldest supplier and trainer of service dogs, to come up with ways to use wearable technology to improve and expand what service dogs can do for their owners. Enabling a dog to better call for help is high on their list.
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Detecting Weapons-Grade Uranium with Nuclear Reaction Imaging
http://www.forensicmag.com/articles/2016/04/detecting-weapons-grade-uranium-nuclear-reaction-imaging
By Sean Allocca, Editor
Our nation’s shipping ports have long been an area of concern for Homeland Security agencies trying to make sure terrorists can’t smuggle potentially dangerous nuclear materials into the US. Now, researchers from Georgia Tech are developing a new way to scan large shipping containers using “mono-energetic gamma-ray imaging,” according to a release from the university. The technique can simultaneously measure the atomic number and material density of a sample, while confirming the presence of “special nuclear materials” like weapons-grade uranium and plutonium.
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Deferring a Year
A few dozen members of the coalition of leading colleges that plans to reform college admissions with a new application system this summer don’t plan to use it for the next year.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/20/few-dozen-members-new-admissions-coalition-dont-plan-use-its-application-next?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=f4741c5510-DNU20160420&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-f4741c5510-197515277
By Scott Jaschik
Eighty leading colleges announced in September that they were creating a new basic application, which they in turn would customize, moving them away from reliance on the Common Application. At the time, members of the Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success said the new application would be released this summer, and coalition leaders acknowledged the possibility that not all members of the coalition would use it the first year out. Now it turns out that a few dozen members of the coalition (which is now up to 93) don’t plan to use the application during the next admissions cycle. Coalition leaders say this isn’t a big deal, but some high school guidance counselors disagree — especially since the coalition will not say which colleges are opting out of the application.
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Brigham Young Student Who Sought Immunity for Assault Victims Files Title IX Complaint
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/brigham-young-u-student-who-sought-immunity-for-assault-victims-files-title-ix-complaint/110514
by Courtney Kueppers
The Brigham Young University student who started an online petition to demand that an immunity clause for victims of sexual assault be added to the Mormon institution’s strict honor code has now filed a federal Title IX complaint against the university, the Huffington Post reports. Madi Barney, a sophomore, filed the complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights on Monday. That was the same day the university released a statement saying, “We understand the concerns that have been expressed about the reporting of sexual assaults to our Title IX Office.” “We have decided to study these issues,” the statement reads, “including potential structural changes within the university, the process for determining whether and how information is used, and the relationship between the Title IX Office and the Honor Code Office.”
www.chronicle.com
East Carolina U. Police Officer Is Fired After Handcuffing Black Beating Victim
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/east-carolina-u-police-officer-is-fired-after-handcuffing-black-beating-victim/110544?elqTrackId=be139ac647954e0c9c52623b9ed59279&elq=f4c238268e9941f4a9e228716df6112f&elqaid=8744&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2954
by Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz
An East Carolina University police officer was fired on Tuesday after the university determined that he had violated the department’s policies while responding to a fight, East Carolina said in a news release. The officer, Ralph Whitehurst, responded to a fight on March 17 that began at a club in downtown Greenville when a man hit a woman in the face, The News and Observer reported. The woman and two other men, who are white, later assaulted the man, who is black, on the campus. After the man was beaten, Mr. Whitehurst put the “seriously injured” victim in handcuffs, according to the newspaper. …The East Carolina Police Department will also bring in an outside expert to train officers in fair and impartial policing, and will review officers’ behavior from surveillance video, the release said.
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The Pentagon Wants to Expand University Research Ties. Here’s What It’s Looking For.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Pentagon-Wants-to-Expand/236168?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=58b3b9ad5b804dffb47ff1f9df3b087e&elq=f4c238268e9941f4a9e228716df6112f&elqaid=8744&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2954
By Paul Basken
Even after the budget-sequestration vote of 2013 put a cap on government agencies’ spending, the Department of Defense was determined to maintain its support for basic research. Now that Congress has temporarily lifted the caps, the department is eager to expand research partnerships at American universities. Stephen P. Welby, after nearly three decades of technology-related experience in government and industry, has just taken the post of assistant secretary of defense for research and engineering. In that position, he is the chief adviser to the secretary of defense on all matters of science, technology, and research. Mr. Welby has an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, a master’s degree in business administration from Texas A&M University at Texarkana, and master’s degrees in computer science and applied mathematics from the Johns Hopkins University. In a recent interview at his office in the Pentagon, he described the department’s approach.