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With Marsh, Statesboro keeps voice on Regents
UGA Law alumna has close Georgia Southern ties
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/74934/
BY Al Hackle
Gov. Nathan Deal’s appointment Friday of lawyer Laura Taulbee Marsh to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia means that the 12th District seat on the board will continue to be held by a Statesboro resident. Marsh, a partner in the Taulbee, Rushing, Snipes, Marsh & Hodgin law firm, was selected to serve through 2019, filling the unexpired term of Lori Durden, who is also from Statesboro. Earlier this month, Durden resigned as a regent to become president of Ogeechee Technical College in the separate Technical College System of Georgia. As a regent, Marsh will serve on the board that makes policy and top hiring decisions for the state university system, whose 29 colleges and universities serve about 318,000 students. The regents also oversee the state’s public library system and archives.
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New laws on police, courts, health kick in July 1
http://floyd.allongeorgia.com/new-laws-on-police-courts-health-kick-in-july-1/
WEAPONS
Students older than 18 and employees can begin carrying electroshock weapons on public college campuses. Supporters pitched the change as a self-defense option, while Democrats warned that the weapons could be misused in a college environment. Technical College System of Georgia spokeswoman Alison Tyrer said every campus police chief has been informed of the change. University System of Georgia spokesman Charlie Sutlive said the system has “been working directly with our campus chiefs of police and safety departments.” A memo sent to all campuses recommends reviewing the change with all officers and other staff. Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a more prominent bill permitting people with state firearms licenses to carry handguns on campus. Supporters have vowed to resurrect the proposal in the next legislative session.
OPEN RECORDS
College athletic departments in Georgia will have 90 days — instead of three — to respond to almost all open-records requests. First-year University of Georgia football coach Kirby Smart told reporters at a spring news conference that while visiting the Capitol this session he was asked about the differences between UGA and other football programs. Smart previously worked at the University of Alabama, where state law allows a “reasonable time” for responses. Open records advocates blasted the changes, arguing that no other state has such an exemption for college sports. The bill maintains the existing three-day time frame for athletic departments to produce records related to salary information on “nonclerical staff.”
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www.savannahnow.com
Savannah State breaks new ground while honoring slave past
http://savannahnow.com/news/2016-06-24/savannah-state-breaks-new-ground-while-honoring-slave-past
Josh Galemore
Savannah State University officials celebrated the work and academic research to come as they broke ground on construction sites for two new science buildings Friday and took time to honor those who toiled there more than a century ago. The university received $20.5 million to build a 30,000-square-foot science and technology building beside the Kennedy Fine Arts Building near North Tompkins Road and a 17,000-square-foot marine sciences lab on the marsh at Livingston Avenue. However, historical documents indicated that the science and technology site was part of the Placentia Plantation’s slave burial grounds a century ago, and survey crews identified anomalies that could have been graves containing the remains of three to five people. Savannah State University officials successfully filed a petition in Chatham County Superior Court seeking permission to move forward with construction. …A committee of local historians and educators researched the campus history and determined that a burial ground exists on campus, just not at that site. The university will plant a memorial garden across from the science and technology building in their honor. …Both buildings will be completed in the summer of 2017. The marine sciences building will be used for teaching and researching dolphins, fish ecology, environmental toxicology and coastal biophysics. The science and technology building will contain classrooms and research labs for chemistry, forensic science as well as electronics and civil engineering technology.
www.douglascountysentinel.com
Grandmother an honor grad at age 73
http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/regional_news/grandmother-an-honor-grad-at-age/article_e4328f77-3ccb-567f-9a5d-ca3a889b536d.html
Donny Karr/Times-Georgian
Like many other young adults, Judy Jones planned to enroll in college courses after finishing her high school education. Although she wanted to further her education, Jones devoted her efforts instead to raising her two daughters during her early 20s. …Jones will graduate from the University of West Georgia on July 30 as one of the oldest students at the institution to ever earn a bachelor’s degree. She noted that her educational experience has given her newfound reason and purpose in life. …Jones is a native of North Carolina who moved to Carrollton in 1972. She is a member of three different national honors societies and is set to graduate with a 3.7 grade-point-average. …Her grandson has enrolled in UWG as a freshman for the upcoming fall semester. She hopes her accomplishment will inspire others to pursue their own passions.
www.georgiastatesignal.com
New academic appointments announced for Perimeter College
By: Mitzi Samano
The Georgia State University and Georgia Perimeter College consolidation has been on the minds of the Panther family, and there are some new alterations that will affect both faculty and students. Peter Lyons, vice provost and dean of Georgia State University’s Perimeter College, released on June 17 the names of faculty who have different academic appointment and assignments as a result of the merger.
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State Bar of Georgia awards UGA program
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2016-06-26/state-bar-georgia-awards-uga-program?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=60ebeada17-6_27_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-60ebeada17-86731974
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The 2016 group award recipient of the State Bar of Georgia Law School Excellence in Access to Justice Award is the Working in the Public Interest – UGA Law Student Access to Justice Project at the University of Georgia School of Law. Presented by the State Bar of Georgia Access to Justice Committee, the State Bar of Georgia Young Lawyers Division and the Pro Bono Resource Center, these awards recognize law students and law student-led activities for having excelled in participation and support of a civil pro bono or legal aid program or involvement in the development of a civil pro bono program to satisfy previously unmet civil legal needs or extended services to underserved segments of the population.
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UGA professor wins award from sports medicine association
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2016-06-26/uga-professor-wins-award-sports-medicine-association?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=60ebeada17-6_27_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-60ebeada17-86731974
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The American College of Sports Medicine named University of Georgia professor Rodney K. Dishman as a recipient of its 2016 Citation Award. Dishman was selected because of his significant contributions to sports medicine and the exercise sciences.
“Citation Award winners are selected for their leadership and contributions in the areas of research and scholarship, clinical care, administrative services or educational services,” said Liz Joy, president of ACSM. Dishman is a professor of exercise science and the director of the exercise psychology laboratory in UGA’s kinesiology department. He is also a member of the neuroscience division, Biomedical Health Sciences Institute and an adjunct professor in psychology at UGA.
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Middle Georgia State honored for charitable efforts
http://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article85741707.html
STAFF REPORTS
Middle Georgia State University earned the 2016 Commissioner’s Award in recognition of employee donations through the State Charitable Contributions Program. The Commissioner’s Award is runner-up to the Governor’s Cup, the highest award given. MGA was recognized in the 500-1,000 employee category as the runner-up for the highest contribution per employee population.
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Middle Georgia State to bring all history degree courses to Cochran
http://www.macon.com/news/local/education/article85736807.html
BY JEREMY TIMMERMAN
A Middle Georgia State University history degree will soon be available all in one place. Previously, history courses that were part of the core requirements were available in Cochran, the former site of Middle Georgia College, but upper-level classes were only available on other campuses like the one in Macon. Starting in spring 2017, all the courses will be available with on-site faculty in Cochran.
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ABAC math faculty teaching at Colquitt Regional Medical Center
http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/abac-math-faculty-teaching-at-colquitt-regional-medical-center/article_dd7e37a2-3980-11e6-9b8e-2f5e8e19ab65.html
Special to The Gazette
TIFTON- High school juniors and seniors in Moultrie may be taking the first step toward careers in the medical profession this summer in a class being offered at Colquitt Regional Medical Center by Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. ABAC Interim Mathematics Chair Melanie Partlow and Dr. Eunkyung You, associate professor of mathematics, began teaching a mathematics class on June 14 with the goal of enhancing math skills for rising juniors and seniors from Colquitt County High School who are interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields.
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Georgia Gwinnett College to create volunteerism program, welcome new provost
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/cities/lawrenceville/georgia-gwinnett-college-to-create-volunteerism-program-welcome-new-provost/article_ed9264b1-0d73-5979-b746-298a3076ce39.html
By Keith Farner
As Georgia Gwinnett College enters the next phase of its development, the school intends to be more active in the community as it reaches its target enrollment size. GGC President Stas Preczewski has said the school is in a period of transition as it expects about 12,100 students this fall and 13,000 by the following fall after the school recently celebrated being open for 10 years. In November, GGC counted 11,468 students, a 5.4 percent increase from the previous year. Preczewski said the school has taken from the city and county in the last 10 years, and now it’s time to give back.
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Lockheed to sell research buildings to Georgia Tech
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/lockheed-to-sell-research-buildings-to-georgia-tec/nrnqd/
J. Scott Trubey, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech has a contract in place to acquire 52 acres and four buildings on Lockheed Martin’s campus in Cobb County where the institute plans to expand some of its research capabilities. Tech and aerospace giant said Monday the deal will allow the research university to relieve some overcrowding issues. The Georgia Tech Research Institute already has research space in five buildings at the Marietta complex, the release said. Terms of the deal were not immediately known. A message left for a Tech spokesman was not immediately returned.
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Kennesaw State students learned they paid $2M for uneaten meals
http://www.foodservicedirector.com/industry-news-opinion/news/articles/kennesaw-state-students-learned-they-paid-2m-uneaten-meals
By Simedar Jackson
An audit into Kennesaw State University’s dining services revealed the university accrued roughly $2 million from off-campus students paying for meal plans as part of their semester fees, according to a report by Fox 5 Atlanta. Meal plans at the Kennesaw, Ga., university are automatically assessed to students whether they live on campus or not. The university does not refund unused meals, draining the pockets of commuter students each semester.
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Exclusive: Georgia Tech supervisor arrested for sex crimes
http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/166304105-story
By: Claire Simms
ATLANTA – A Georgia Tech supervisor is charged with sexual battery on a female subordinate inside a student dorm. Georgia Tech police arrested Ernest Guillermo Olivares, 52, on June 22. According to a police report, someone reported Olivares for sexual harrassment of a female employee on June 20. Olivares is Senior Director of Housing Facilities Management for Georgia Tech, which is the department responsible for cleaning and maintaining residence halls on campus.
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Report: Clean Energy Plan Will Cut Electric Bills
http://www.publicnewsservice.org/2016-06-27/energy-policy/report-clean-energy-plan-will-cut-electric-bills/a52633-1
Without changes in the way electricity is produced and how it is used, Floridians will likely see a nearly 17 percent increase in their electric bills over the next 15 years, according to a new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology. But the study also says that doesn’t have to happen. The report finds that implementing the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan could halt that increase, saving the average Florida household more than $2,600 over the same period. Marilyn Brown, a Georgia Tech professor and the study’s author, says the report clarifies a lot of misinformation. “A lot of analysts say that the Clean Power Plan is going to bankrupt the nation,” she relates. “But what we’re showing is in fact, if done wisely, we can save consumers money and also prevent fossil fuels from heating up the planet.” … Brown says the plan reduces the use of fossil fuels such as coal and gas to generate power, not only cutting costs, but significantly reducing greenhouse gases and slowing the rate of climate change. She adds that another major element of the plan – one that is often misunderstood – is implementing energy efficiency measures.
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Shrimpers, scientists seeking black gill clues off Georgia coast
http://savannahnow.com/news/2016-06-26/shrimpers-scientists-seeking-black-gill-clues-georgia-coast
By Mary Landers
Shrimp with a condition known as black gill have shown up in Georgia waters in June this year, earlier than ever previously recorded. “We’re seeing 40 percent of our white shrimp infected,” said Pat Geer, chief of fisheries at the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. “We have never seen that before. Ever. So why, why are we seeing it that much earlier?” Geer put that question to a gathering of researchers, shrimpers and fisheries managers from Georgia and South Carolina on Wednesday at the UGA Aquarium at Skidaway. Though unattractive, black gill shrimp are safe to eat. The discoloration is a result of a parasite that infects the gills. When it does, that tissue reacts by producing melanin, resulting in the tell-tale blackening. Researchers have determined the culprit is a ciliate, a single-celled organism with hair-like structures that propel it, but they haven’t been able to nail down which species it is. It’s possible it’s not been described before. …Researchers are coming to the conclusion that black gill depletes the shrimp population, at least temporarily. But shrimp populations also recover their numbers quickly; these tasty crustaceans are prolific and they reach adulthood quickly.
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Unintended Help for Male Professors
Colleges adopted policies to stop the tenure clock to help professors who are new parents, especially mothers. Study suggests fathers may be the real beneficiaries.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/27/stopping-tenure-clock-may-help-male-professors-more-female-study-finds
By Scott Jaschik
Stopping the tenure clock is among the policies many colleges have adopted to support faculty members who are new parents. While most colleges’ policies apply to all new parents, they are typically viewed as a way to especially help female faculty members, since women — across American society — have more child-care responsibilities than do men, not to mention the physical burdens of pregnancy and childbirth. A new study, however, suggests that the biggest beneficiaries of the policies are male faculty members, and that the odds of a female faculty member earning tenure could go down when institutions enact policies to stop the tenure clock.
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Race Still a Crucial Factor in College Admissions Process
http://diverseeducation.com/article/85110/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elqTrackId=c29b43a112ea48b3a1869c5b45b6836e&elq=9dda3ada96b64deeb66785ca1232aa3f&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=771
by Catherine Morris
Gaining admissions to the nation’s most elite colleges and universities is an ever-more competitive endeavor, with a tiny fraction of places available for the tens of thousands who apply. This spring, Harvard admitted 2,037 applicants from a pool of 39,041 to the class of 2020. At Stanford, 2,063 students were admitted from the applicant pool of 43,997. A new college admissions guidebook, Earning Admission: Real Strategies for Getting into Highly Selective Colleges, authored by admissions strategists Greg Kaplan and Linda Wang, looks at the challenges in the admissions process. A Mandarin version of the guidebook, published in June, looks at the admissions process from the Asian American perspective. Kaplan and Wang will publish a guidebook in Korean in August. The consideration of an applicant’s race still plays a part in the admissions process at many of the nation’s most selective colleges and universities, many of which want to build a racially and ethnically diverse class.