USG Institutions:
www.wtoc.com
Former Georgia Southern University President visits Statesboro
http://www.wtoc.com/story/31811118/former-georgia-southern-university-president-visits-statesboro
By Dal Cannady, Reporter
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Our region’s largest university didn’t happen by itself. One of the people who had a hand in Georgia Southern’s university status finally spilled some of the beans of how it came to be. Former President, Dr. Nick Henry, returned to campus and spoke to the Bulloch County Historical Society on Monday. He talked about some of the school’s goals when he arrived in the 1980’s, and clashes with the Board of Regents who resisted having a university in *South* Georgia. An agreement with Armstrong and Savannah State helped unify the region and get the name change July 1,1990. He says it also brought new fields of study and new doctorate degrees, and helped grow the region.

www.ajc.com
Civil rights attorney, federal judge Horace Ward dead at 88
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/georgia/civil-rights-attorney-federal-judge-horace-ward-de/nrBkP/
ATLANTA — A civil rights lawyer who became Georgia’s first black federal court judge has died. Retired U.S. District Judge Horace Ward died Saturday at age 88. …Ward challenged segregationist practices at the University of Georgia in the early 1950s. He had earned degrees from Morehouse College and Atlanta University, which later became Clark Atlanta. But his application to the University of Georgia law school was rejected in 1951, despite his qualifications. He launched a legal challenge against the university that helped pave the way for the civil rights movement. …He returned to Georgia in the late ’50s and helped in another desegregation push that led to UGA admitting two black students, Hamilton E. Holmes and Charlayne Hunter. …Ward delivered a lecture on race relations at UGA in 2003 and was given an honorary degree from the university in 2014.

www.gwinnettdailypost.com
Family praying for missing Georgia State student from Dacula
Mother says bank card used in Nashville
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/cities/dacula/family-praying-for-missing-georgia-state-student-from-dacula/article_1bee3c0f-f125-572f-8628-63b93ed938bf.html
By Curt Yeomans
A bank card belonging to missing Georgia State University student from Dacula was used to withdraw money from an ATM in Nashville sometime over the weekend, or Monday morning, according to the young woman’s mother. Jacqueline Vanloo-Al Kush said she has been monitoring the bank account belonging to her daughter, Monique Priester, since the student went missing Friday night. She checked the account early Monday morning, and again just before noon. It was on the second check that she discovered her daughter’s bank card had been used in Tennessee. “It’s listed as a pending charge, so I don’t know when it was made, but it showed up this morning,” Vanloo-Al Kush told the Daily Post. Priester’s mother said it’s not normal to go this long without hearing from her daughter, and the family is now seeking the public’s help in finding her. Calls to the young woman’s phone go straight to voicemail, her mother added. Vanloo-Al Kush said she contacted both Nashville and Gwinnett County police about the withdrawal in Nashville, but added there has been confusion about will look into it. She has filed missing persons reports with Gwinnett and Georgia State University police.

www.thegeorgeanne.com
Studying the Stereotype of Study Drugs
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/features/article_a6cb3a11-6dbf-5906-8328-b95fa7cb02ad.html
By Kat Shuman The George-Anne staff | 0 comments
Note to reader: The following story contains accounts from students who share their experience with illegal study drugs. *Their names are fictitious in order to protect to their identity.
As finals week approaches, the Henderson library will be full day and night as students work to finish term papers and cram for final exams. Parking will be impossible, study rooms will be full and many students, feeling overwhelmed with their workload, will turn to study drugs in attempts to maximize their study time. “Study drugs” such as dextroamphetamine-amphetamine (trade name Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin) and lisdexamfetamine (Vyvanse) are abused worldwide and especially so on college campuses during the months of December and May, when the majority of colleges end their semesters with finals week. Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse are completely legal with a prescription. However, when used by students without prescriptions, they become Class II drugs. *Michael’s Story: “I didn’t need to use in high school. I was probably a better student and studied more and not the night before the test.” Michael, a Georgia Southern student, recounts how his good study habits slipped away in college. …”I got lazy and started doing my homework later, and it all caught up to me eventually,” Michael said. He, like other students in college, uses study drugs. …Georgia Southern professor, Dr. John Weaver, researches the posthuman condition, drugs and education, and popular culture.

www.ajc.com
Kennesaw State staffer fired after money goes missing
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/kennesaw-state-staffer-fired-after-money-goes-miss/nrBp3/
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The director of Kennesaw State University’s department in charge of student groups, including fraternities and sororities, was arrested this month on charges of misusing student organization money. Officers arrested Jennifer Morales April 13 on a charge of theft by taking, which is a felony, according to records from the Cobb County Sheriff’s department. She posted bond, which was set at $30,000, the same day. Kennesaw State officials confirmed Morales’ arrest in a statement Monday after questions by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The university investigation began in March. Morales was fired March 30, according to the statement.

www.macon.com
Teaching program at Middle Georgia universities offers second career
http://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article73804932.html
BY JEREMY TIMMERMAN
A graduate program at some Middle Georgia universities offers a chance at a second career in education, and another college aims to provide the same in due time. The master of arts in teaching degree at Georgia College, offered at the university’s downtown Macon campus, is directed at those who have an undergraduate degree that isn’t in the education field. That’s because, unlike many other graduate teaching degrees, the MAT provides a teaching certificate along with the master’s degree. “Typically, my students are people who have been out of college for a little bit, tried other careers and weren’t satisfied,” said Betta Vice, Georgia College’s secondary education program coordinator. For those people, there are two main tracks to a teaching certificate: the MAT route or the Teacher Alternative Preparation Program. Vice said the MAT holds several advantages over the TAPP certification process.

Higher Education News:
www.chronicle.com
Common Application to Change Gender-Identity Options
[Updated (4/26/2016, 12:01 a.m.) with news of the Universal College Application.] http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/common-application-to-change-gender-identity-options/110674?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=8af6714ba70747e5b4acbffffa08947f&elq=8f60bad9dd904b92aba6e3fedc0a71ff&elqaid=8833&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2992
by Eric Hoover
Starting this summer, students who use the Common Application will be asked to state their “sex assigned at birth.” There also will be an optional free-response text field in which applicants may  describe their gender identity. Those changes, announced on Monday by the Common Application’s leadership, follow calls from students and advocates to change how the standardized application form asks about gender. Currently, applicants are required to choose “male” or “female.” The new prompts are meant to help students express themselves in a way they feel most comfortable with, said Aba Blankson, a spokeswoman for the Common Application: “The feedback from our members and advisory committees has been consistent that, yep, this is the time, this is the right way to go.”

www.chronicle.com
Teaching in the Time of Google
When the world’s collective knowledge is at our fingertips, what becomes of college?
http://chronicle.com/article/Teaching-in-the-Time-of-Google/236180?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=fc2fa465ae8e4c5ea87953df17378042&elq=0c8f407ca905464f818de3ab28441f1a&elqaid=8817&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2987
By Michael Patrick Lynch
magine a society where smartphones are miniaturized and hooked directly into a person’s brain. With a single mental command, those who have this technology — let’s call it neuromedia — can access information on any subject. Want to know the capital of Bulgaria or the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow? It’s right there. Users of neuromedia can take pictures with a literal blink of the eye, do complex calculations instantly, and find at once the contact information for anyone they’ve ever met. No need to remember the name of the person you were introduced to last night at the dinner party — a subcellular computing device does it for you. For the people of this society, it is as if the world is in their heads. It is a connected world, one where knowledge can be shared immediately with everyone in a very intimate way. From the inside, tapping into the collective wisdom of the ages is as simple as tapping into one’s own memory. Knowledge is not only easy; everyone knows so much more. So why should anyone go to college? This is no idle question. The migration of technology into our bodies — the cyborging of the human — is no longer just fantasy.

www.myajc.com
Making the Grade: College readiness workshop pays off for Cobb students
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/making-the-gradecollege-readiness-workshop-pays-of/nrB37/
By H.M. Cauley – For the AJC
This time last year, Pebblebrook High senior Jennifer Garcia had no idea what was involved in applying to college. But the Mableton student knew one thing: She wanted to go. “Then my friends told me about this after-school program that met every Tuesday and talked about how to prepare for college and what you need to do to apply,” she said. “I went in the fall and learned something I didn’t know on the very first day: I needed to take the SAT and the ACT. I signed up for them right away.” Garcia and about 50 of her peers unraveled some of the mysteries around higher education through the school’s “Keep Calm and Get into College” program. The concept launched two years ago when former student Virdinia Fuentes brought the idea to Pebblebrook’s counselors. “She saw a need for a college and career readiness, workshop-style program,” said counselor Julynn Williams-Handler. “She ran it on her lunch for other students with the counselors’ support.” After Fuentes graduated, the program morphed into an after-school workshop with the same goals of answering students’ queries on topics from admission forms to financial aid.

www.insidehighered.com
Appeals Court: No ‘Duty of Good Faith’ in Student-College Relationship
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/04/26/appeals-court-no-duty-good-faith-student-college-relationship?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=4320ffbbd9-DNU20160426&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-4320ffbbd9-197515277
A federal appeals court on Monday issued a straightforward ruling rejecting a former student’s lawsuit accusing Southern Methodist University of breaching its obligation to treat him fairly. While the appeals panel’s conclusion may be perfectly sound legal theory, its core finding — that “Texas law does not impose a duty of good faith and fair dealing in the student-university relationship” — probably wouldn’t be how most institutions would market themselves to students. The former student, Daniel Hux, was dropped from an advising position at SMU and ultimately removed from campus and kicked out of the university after a series of incidents involving allegations of sexual harassment and possession of a gun. He sued SMU, and the appeals court was asked to consider one of his claims, which was that the university breached its obligation under Texas law to behave in good faith and fair dealing.

www.chronicle.com
What Community Colleges Are Doing to Counteract Declining Enrollments
http://chronicle.com/article/What-Community-Colleges-Are/236249?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=d0afbfc5640c4b3cbf25a53c8624dcd0&elq=8f60bad9dd904b92aba6e3fedc0a71ff&elqaid=8833&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2992
By Katherine Mangan
Despite all of the national focus on community colleges, enrollment in two-year institutions has been steadily declining, dropping 16 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to EAB, a research and  technology group. Conventional wisdom would chalk that up to an improving economy, which has people heading to work instead of the classroom. But EAB says it’s also four-year colleges — not just jobs — that are luring students away. From 1980 to 2002, community colleges had 40 percent to 44 percent of the higher-education enrollment in the United States. Since then, their share has dropped to an all-time low of 37.9 percent as four-year colleges have stepped up their marketing and recruiting efforts.

www.diverseeducation.com
White House Adding $100M Program to Tuition-free Community College Push
http://diverseeducation.com/article/83666/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=7409f0c228044754aaca31962f974d94&elq=c8fd9f6834b74990aedcda8be4aff4fd&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=771
by Catherine Morris
The White House will roll out a $100 million program to strengthen tuition-free community college programs across the United States early this summer, White House officials said on Monday. Vice President Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, formally announced the grant program at the Community College of Philadelphia on Monday afternoon. The competitive grant program will offer $100 million to community colleges “to expand high quality education and training programs that give Americans the skills most in-demand from regional employers for middle- to high-skilled jobs,” according to a White House press release. The grant program is to be administered through the U.S. Department of Labor, and funded by H1-B visa application fees. The H1-B visa is a temporary work permit for foreign workers with specialized training.

www.diverseeducation.com
Business Leaders Advocate Continuing Education for Employees
http://diverseeducation.com/article/83660/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=0c7b1bb5c8be491eb5748d306c4e7803&elq=c8fd9f6834b74990aedcda8be4aff4fd&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=771
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — Business leaders from some of the most well-known brands in the nation gathered Monday to highlight initiatives designed to “upskill” their workforces and to call on other companies to similarly invest in further education for their employees. Providing educational opportunities for employees is not only a way to do right by workers, they said, but it’s also good for a company’s bottom line. “If you have well-educated and well-trained members, that equates to more engaged employment, which equates to greater levels of satisfaction, which equates to greater loyalty, which equates to greater growth of the business, which equates to greater profitability,” said Kimo Kippen, chief learning officer and global talent development leader and brand ambassador at Hilton Worldwide, a global hospitality company. Speaking at an event titled, “Win/Win Making the Business Case for Employee Talent Investment,” Kippen called the decision to invest in employee education a “no-brainer argument.” “At the same time, we need data to support that,” Kippen said. That’s where a new study released Monday by the Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit that focuses on increasing postsecondary attainment, came in.