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Thanks for the memories, Dr. Papp
DEAR EDITOR:
Bob Hope once said, “Thanks for the memories.” Here is mine: In 2006, I had one major highlight of life — the great opportunity to serve as SGA President of Kennesaw State University, coinciding with Dr. Dan Papp’s first year. The first memory was Dr. Papp charging me to pick the band to play his inaugural reception for the students on the Campus Green with a shoestring budget. No pressure. Long story short, a little known local band, the Zac Brown Band played that day. A memory still shared among me and my friends. Memories. What we will remember is the humility, vision and leadership Dr. Papp shared with all. Not just as a mentor and friend to me, but to any student who called on him. Walking into the President’s Office and sitting down to talk as “Joe Student” happened often, as any student who ventured to the top floor can attest. A statement frequently uttered by friends and students: “I was surprised what a regular guy he is.” That was his servant leadership.
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Albany State and Darton leaders answer consolidation questions
http://www.walb.com/story/31999898/albany-state-and-darton-leaders-answer-consolidation-questions
By Shannon Wiggins, Reporter
The leaders of Albany State and Darton answer questions about consolidation and give a public update on the process.The school presidents stressed the benefits they say the merger will have. They say students who graduate next Spring will get to decide whether their diploma says Albany State University or Darton State College. They’re still studying how programs will be restructured and what degrees will be offered. They’re not sure what kind of transportation system may be set up between the two campuses, though if they start a bus system they say it will make stops downtown. Albany State President Art Dunning and Darton President Richard Carvajal say Tuesday’s town hall at Westover High School was productive and they’re glad people have questions.
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Westover High hosts update on ASU and Darton merger
http://www.wsfa.com/story/31990933/westover-high-hosts-update-on-asu-and-darton-merger
www.augustaceo.com
Don McLemore Talks About Enhancing Economic Development Activities Among Universities in Georgia
VP of Research Economic Development at Georgia Southern University, Don McLemore talks about the roles that universities play in economic development across the state of Georgia.
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College Choice Releases 2016 Ranking of the Best Master’s in Teaching Degrees
EUGENE, Ore./ — College Choice (http://www.collegechoice.net) has published its annual ranking of best master’s in teaching degrees. The ranking can be viewed athttp://www.collegechoice.net/rankings/best-masters-degrees-in-teaching-2016/. The College Choice 2016 Rankings of the Best Masters in Teaching Degrees takes into account several key factors to ensure that you get the best rate of return on your educational investment. These factors include academic ranking, acceptance rate, tuition per-year (based only on out-of-state tuition), and average graduate pay. “With our ranking of best master’s in teaching degrees, we have aimed to help students desiring to advance their career in teaching find a school that is not only a great fit, but is a solid return on investment,” said Christian Amondson, Managing Editor of College Choice.
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
www.douglascountysentinel.com
GHC Advancement team brings home 3 national collegiate advertising awards
Georgia Highlands College was named among the top in the nation in the 2015 Collegiate Advertising Awards program. The Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA) is an elite program recognizing higher education organizations for excellence in communications, marketing and advertising. The 2015 CAA program had more than 900 entries from across the United States representing a diverse field of educational facilities from small community colleges to very large schools and universities. … GHC took home the Silver Award (the top 12 percent in the nation) in the categories of Photo/Illustration Series and Invitations. …The Advancement team also earned the Bronze Award (top 16% in the nation) for its GHC Promotional Banners in the Poster/Display Series category. These retractable banners spotlight college academics, athletics, student life and more.
www.edprepmatters.net
Albany State University Helping Partner School Reduce Literacy Gaps
By Melvin Bogard
The clinical practice partnership between Georgia’s Albany State University (ASU) College of Education and nearby Live Oak Elementary is bringing mutual benefit to the elementary students and the ASU teacher candidates. The field-based preparation model they have cultivated around the school’s learning goals promotes growth for all involved. The hands-on assistance and dedication of the teacher candidates are helping to close literacy achievement gaps for Live Oak second-graders, for example, through the partners’ remedial reading practicum in the early childhood education program.
www.douglascountysentinel.com
GHC saving students money with free Open Educational Resources
Say so long to those expensive textbooks, says Georgia Highlands College. Almost half a million dollars’ worth of student savings was yielded for Fall 2015 with GHC’s recent introduction of Open Educational Resources (OER). GHC recently joined the University System of Georgia’s Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) initiative which promotes student success by providing alternatives to expensive textbooks. The new OERs don’t just provide free textbooks either. Students also get video resources, software, labs and an enhanced textbook experience with hyperlinks to many other resources.
www.emanuelcountylive.com
EGSC approved for new BSN program
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2016/05/egsc-approved-for-new-bsn-program/
by HALEI LAMB
On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted to approve a new Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) program at East Georgia State College. This program will serve as an RN-BSN Bridge program to create an educational pathway for associate degree nurses to earn an advanced credential. The program will appeal to working nurses and recent associate degree in nursing graduates and is a targeted baccalaureate-level degree program that fills an immediate need in the area.
www.world.einnews.com
Georgia State to Lead Training for Protecting Healthcare…
Georgia State University will train some of the nation’s leading infectious disease control researchers on healthcare-associated prevention strategies against Ebola and other threats at its School of Public Health laboratory in the Petit Science Center, May 23 – 27.
www.times-herald.com
Westmoreland’s papers going to UWG
http://times-herald.com/news/2016/05/westmorelands-papers-going-to-uwg
By WINSTON SKINNER
As U.S. Rep. Lynn Westmoreland brings his legislative career to a close, he is placing his archives at the University of West Georgia. Last week, Westmoreland formally designated UWG’s Ingram Library as the recipient “of my public service records,” he said in a press release. “I sincerely hope that all I have learned in my 24 years of public service may be of use to the university’s students and researchers.” Westmoreland, 66, has served in the U.S. House since 2005 and is not seeking re-election this year. He served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1999-2005. Westmoreland and his wife, Joan, live in Coweta County. West Georgia has a campus in Newnan, but the Ingram Library is the university’s main library and is on the main campus in Carrollton. …“We are thrilled Rep. Westmoreland has chosen our university to archive his congressional papers. These documents provide an official record of some key events in our nation’s recent history,” Dr. Kyle Marrero, UWG’s president said in a statement. “We look forward to hosting researchers for years to come as they visit our campus to study those moments and as we endeavor to preserve them,” Marrero said.
www.bizjournals.com
Terry College of Business remake entering final phase
Dave Williams
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia soon will tee up the final phase of a $140 million project that will give the Terry College of Business a new home on the historic campus in Athens. University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby has authorized UGA to hire a design team to complete the build-out of what is being called Terry’s Business Learning Community, a six-building complex that will grow the college from 158,000 square feet to more than 286,000.
www.globalnews.connect.com
POLLUTED DUST CAN IMPACT OCEAN LIFE THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, INVESTIGATE SAYS
http://globalnewsconnect.com/polluted-dust-can-impact-ocean-life-thousands-of-miles-away-study-says/
As climatologists closely guard a impact of tellurian activity on a world’s oceans, researchers during a Georgia Institute of Technology have found nonetheless another worrying trend impacting a health of a Pacific Ocean. A new displaying investigate conducted by researchers in Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences shows that for decades, atmosphere wickedness flapping from East Asia out over a world’s largest sea has kicked off a sequence greeting that contributed to oxygen levels descending in pleasant waters thousands of miles away.
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Overtime for Some
Obama administration releases final rules to require new payments for many employees. Regulations make clear that higher ed employees considered teachers will continue to be exempt. Postdoc pay could be key issue going forward.
ByScott Jaschik
The Obama administration Tuesday night released final rules — feared by many higher education administrators but eagerly awaited by some employees — that will require employers to make overtime payments to millions of workers who aren’t now eligible. The administration also reiterated many exemptions in established law for higher education employees (those who can be seen as teachers). And those exemptions may disappoint some adjuncts, postdocs, graduate student employees and many research assistants who had hoped the new rules would increase their paychecks. Many postdocs who do not have significant teaching duties would now, in theory, be eligible for overtime. But the Obama administration endorsed efforts to raise their pay to levels where they would not be eligible. The key part of the new regulations will increase from $23,660 to $47,476 the pay level below which salaried employees at virtually all companies and employers are presumed to be eligible for overtime. That increase is significant in that it includes many higher education employees who have not historically been eligible for overtime. Further, the new level will be adjusted upward every three years to reflect changes in the cost of living.
www.diverseeducation.com
Student Debt Causing a Lag in Life Moves
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Student debt is taking a staggering toll on new graduates to the point where many feel their lives are “hung up” and they can’t make major moves such as getting married, buying a house or pursuing more education, a new survey released Tuesday states. “Rather than opening up pathways to success, in some cases, these big education bills are having the reverse effect,” said Chris Duchesne, vice president at EdAssist, a company that helps businesses with their tuition assistance programs. The survey—titled “Student Loan Debt: Who’s Paying the Cost?”—revealed a number of troubling statistics about the practical ways that student loans are impacting college graduates in their everyday lives.
www.diverseeducation.com
MSIs: A Good Long-term Investment for Students
by Jamal Eric Watson
When it comes to national conversations about increasing access to college opportunities, minority serving institutions are often excluded from the public discussion, in part because there is so little research that focuses on their return on investment. That’s the finding from a new report titled “Investing in Student Success: The Return on Investment (ROI) of Minority Serving Institutions” released this month by the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania. The report builds on the scholarly work presented at a national convening focused on ROI that was held last fall by the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions and the Educational Testing Service.
www.chronicle.com
As Consent Rules Change, Big Questions Come to the Surface
By Katherine Mangan
Students aren’t the only people on campus who are struggling with how to determine when a sexual act crosses the line into assault. As hundreds of universities and a few states adopt “affirmative consent” policies requiring permission for each escalating act of intimacy, the often-blurry boundaries crossed behind closed doors are raising questions for campus administrators and lawyers. How widespread are incidents of campus sexual assault, and how can colleges reduce confusion over what constitutes consent? Is a “preponderance of the evidence” standard, which the Education Department wants colleges to use, necessary to ensure that perpetrators will be punished, or is that standard, lower than the one used in criminal cases, unfair to accused students? Does requiring verbal consent protect women, or does it underestimate their ability to rebuff unwanted advances?
www.chronicle.com
Demand Surges for Diversity Consultants
But what do colleges get from them?
By Peter Schmidt
To promote diversity, many colleges turn to an outsider — a consultant who offers to help them remedy inequities or reduce discrimination. …Although colleges have been using diversity consultants for decades, demand for such services has surged in the past year, as a wave of student protests over racial or gender discrimination has generated awareness of how unwelcoming many colleges remain for much of society. …Diversity consultants offer colleges not just specialized expertise, but also the voice of a detached third party whose recommendations are likely to be received with less skepticism than those of administrators on the defensive. “Everything is political — let’s be honest. Every decision you make impacts people,” says Archie W. Ervin, chief diversity officer at Georgia Institute of Technology and president of the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education, or Nadohe.
www.insidehighered.com
Toward Better National Data on Postsecondary Education
The Institute for Higher Education Policy is today releasing a series of papers that, taken together, are designed to point the way toward a more vibrant set of national data on student outcomes.