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Will guns on campus scare off high school students?
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/will-guns-on-campus-scare-off-high-school-students/nqz9K/
Maureen Downey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Most of the debate around whether to allow guns on Georgia’s public colleges centers on the safety of college students, but there are concerns being raised about two other groups — infants and babies in campus child care centers and high school students taking college classes. Georgia has made a big push to get more high school students to participate in dual enrollment where they divide their time between high school and college classes. Georgia created the Move On When Ready program to boost the number of high school students amassing college credits. One of the biggest supporters of Move On When Ready is Gov. Nathan Deal, who is now deciding whether to veto House Bill 859, better known as campus carry. In a column today, a DeKalb parent beseeches Deal to veto the bill, contending few parents will allow their children to participate in Move On When Ready if Georgia allows guns on campus. Alan Miller’s child is scheduled to take classes in the fall at Georgia State University’s Dunwoody campus but he is worried about his son sitting next to armed classmates, which would be allowed under HB 859.

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High school parents don’t want their teens on armed campuses
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2016/04/07/dual-enrollment-may-decline-if-georgia-allows-guns-on-campus/
Alan Miller is the parent of a DeKalb County high school student who plans to attend college classes in the fall as part of Georgia’s Move On When Ready program. In this column, Miller says the possibility of guns on campus is making him rethink allowing his son to take college classes next year. The General Assembly passed House Bill 859, which legalizes guns in Georgia college classrooms. Gov. Nathan Deal has expressed reservations about the bill, citing two groups — dual enrolled high school students in college classes and babies and toddlers in campus child care centers.

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Hebert new GSU president, beginning July 1
Regents waited just one week to make hiring official
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/73793/
From staff reports
One week after naming him as the only finalist, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia went ahead Wednesday and hired Dr. Jaimie Hebert as president of Georgia Southern University. Hebert is slated to take the reins at Georgia Southern July 1, according to the Board of Regents’ emailed announcement. Georgia Southern, the 20,500-student Carnegie doctoral-research university in Statesboro, home of the Eagles of Sun Belt Conference sports, is similar in size to Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where Hebert has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs. Sam Houston also has between 20,000 and 21,000 students. “Georgia Southern is on an upward trajectory, and Dr. Hebert will contribute substantially to the institution’s momentum from day one,” said University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby. “This is an exciting time for Georgia Southern, which will continue to thrive and grow under Dr. Hebert’s leadership.”

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New president named for Georgia Southern University
http://www.newschannel10.com/story/31664112/new-president-named-for-georgia-southern-university

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Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle to speak at Clayton State University commencement
http://www.news-daily.com/news/lt-gov-casey-cagle-to-speak-at-clayton-state-university/article_d567f14a-642e-578b-8371-eb3e4f44c55f.html
By Johnny Jackson
MORROW — More than 500 students are expected to participate in Clayton State University’s spring graduation ceremonies May 7, and more than half of them will be the first in their family to graduate from college. The detail is a particular point of pride for the university known for its non-traditional student body of older, professional adults. Those graduating in May will hear from Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, who was tapped to deliver the 9 a.m. commencement speech to graduates from the College of Arts and Sciences. The lieutenant governor has been in the state office since 2006. He is credited with launching the Georgia College and Career Academy Network, a partnership between local community leaders, school systems and technical colleges. The network of 37 college and career academies aims to prepare students for a highly skilled, 21st-century economy upon graduation.

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Clayton State University campus expands by 13 acres
http://www.news-daily.com/news/clayton-state-university-campus-expands-by-acres/article_bce034e1-b0fe-5ff1-aa7e-96586ef52f1a.html
By Johnny Jackson
MORROW — Clayton State University’s campus is nearly 13 acres larger this spring with the addition of property college officials purchased in January. Spokeswoman Maritza Ferreira said the university paid $225,000 for the tract of land between its main campus and its east campus, formerly the Atlanta Bible College campus. …The 13-acre parcel is the former estate of Phyllis Trammell, and it will eventually provide public road access between the split campuses, said Ferreira, adding that its 7,012 students already have access to a walking path that connects the two sides. The newly acquired square of land includes a small reservoir — the sixth lake at Clayton State.

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CCGA team joins efforts of Coastal Georgia Honor Flight
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-team-joins-efforts-of-coastal-georgia-honor-flight/article_b147e234-554c-5afd-a9a2-fcf1a1186fd3.html
By ANNA HALL The Brunswick News
Now in its second year, the Coastal Georgia Honor Flight program is ready to reach new heights. As much was felt this week, when officials with College of Coastal Georgia announced that several of its students and a professor will serve as guardians for the flight.

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Georgia Law Launches Global Governance Summer School in Belgium
http://www.dailyreportonline.com/id=1202754292804/Georgia-Law-Launches-Global-Governance-Summer-School-in-Belgium?slreturn=20160307103413
Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report
The University of Georgia School of Law is partnering with the University of Leuven in Belgium for a new summer study abroad program focused on global governance. Georgia Law’s Dean Rusk International Law Center is offering a three-week, four-credit Global Governance Summer School with the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. The first session will be from July 10 to 30.

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Georgia Southern is expecting three baby hawks
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/daily/article_9108722d-b127-5a98-aca1-933c549ede8b.html
By Johnny Lu The George-Anne staff
Wild red-shouldered hawks in the Lamar Q. Ball Raptor Center at Georgia Southern University for Wildlife Education are soon expecting newborns, students are welcomed to witness the hatching of the baby hawks via live-stream surveillance on the university’s website. Though the red-shouldered hawks, formally known as Buteo lineatus, are not official, affiliated animals of the Wildlife Center themselves, they were however, taken in by GSU over the years for shelter. …Installed at the top of an 80-foot tree is a GSU HawkCam constantly monitoring the hawks’ conditions, which in addition will notify students with an approximate date and time to watch the streaming.

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This north Georgia city is first to allow all employees to carry guns
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/this-north-georgia-city-is-first-to-allow-all-empl/nqzzj/
By Ellen Eldridge – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Demorest City Council members approved the new rule Tuesday. The first place in Georgia to pass an ordinance allowing all city employees to legally carry guns to work is Demorest. The north Georgia city is located in Habersham County, about 75 miles north of Atlanta. The population was fewer than 1,500 people at the time of the 2000 census. City Council members approved the new rule Tuesday, according to Channel 2 Action News. Mayor Rick Austin came up with the policy change idea, believing if citizens are allowed to carry weapons into public places under the law, Demorest employees should be afforded the same right. “We are correcting what I view and many view as an inequality in the law,” Austin told Channel 2. “It allows equal protection for our employees to carry it they so choose.”

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Crisis Averted?
Low-income and nondependent students have been protected from state disinvestment in higher education during the last two decades because of increasing federal aid spending, a new study finds.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/07/federal-spending-protects-most-vulnerable-students-state-disinvestment-study-finds?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=108c21ddf7-DNU20160407&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-108c21ddf7-197515277
By Paul Fain
State disinvestment in public higher education might not be such a crisis after all, at least for the most vulnerable of students — those who are from low-income backgrounds and who largely lack family help to pay for tuition. The reason, according to a new study from New America, is that increases in federal aid spending from 1996 to 2012 fully offset declines in state and local government contributions for community college students and for independent students who attend four-year public institutions.

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Colleges, Universities Traveling Different Paths to Diversity
http://diverseeducation.com/article/83100/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=7f60f5455bed4c6aa595b0d2ddf65164&elq=2fced50d4de6436f827774a2ee4c5ec4&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=771
by Reginald Stuart
Diversity, once primarily measured by ethnicity and gender, is today taking on a richer meaning at institutions across the nation as even the word “diverse” is being redefined by the emerging generation of college students and graduates, not just administrators and gatekeepers. History is being erased and sanitized, as historic names with relations to negative chapters of the nation’s past are being removed from campus facilities and literature. Cafeteria menus and dormitory restroom uses are changing as are days of the year that honor historic milestones not noted in past decades. Today, more people are being recognized by more distinct differences, while at the same time being included in increasingly different ways.

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The 21st-Century Public Research University
A report offers suggestions for how public research universities can thrive at a time of declining state support and increasing accountability.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/07/lincoln-project-report-offers-suggestions-public-research-universities-financial?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=108c21ddf7-DNU20160407&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-108c21ddf7-197515277
By Ellen Wexler
Since the recession, public research universities have seen greater cuts than any other sector. Slowly, state support for higher education is inching back up. But what if it never returns to prerecession levels? That’s the question driving the Lincoln Project, which has been studying public research universities since 2013. The final report, released Thursday by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, offers wide-ranging suggestions for these universities’ financial futures. …The Lincoln Project’s first four reports examined the landscape public research universities exist in: why these universities matter, what their funding models look like, why state support is going down. Now, the final report offers advice for how research universities can thrive while embracing a new normal, such as how to find partners in the private and public sectors. As Coleman said, “This is supposed to be very realistic.”

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Student Protesters at Ohio State Begin Sit-In Over Range of Issues
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/student-protesters-at-ohio-state-begin-sit-in-over-range-of-issues/110135?elqTrackId=dbf844b92e0649008f2fb9cd338408b4&elq=a1fd3e8b7cfa442e825c6187ac2b8aa4&elqaid=8582&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=2862
by Andrew Mytelka
A group of students at Ohio State University began a sit-in on Wednesday in the campus building that houses the president’s office, in pursuit of goals that involve the university’s budget, its investments, and the food served on the campus. According to a report by WCMH, a television station in Columbus, the students, who represent several campus organizations, said they planned to stay overnight. Among the protesters’ demands are “complete, comprehensive, and detailed access to the Ohio State budget and investments immediately, as well as personnel to aid students in understanding this information.” The protesters also seek divestment of university holdings in some companies involved in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territories; Ohio State’s commitment not to outsource the operation of its energy systems; and a pledge to serve locally produced, sustainable food on the campus.