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UGA sets new fundraising record with total of $183.8 million
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2016-07-11/uga-sets-new-fundraising-record-total-1838-million
By LEE SHEARER
The University of Georgia has shattered its one-year fundraising record, thanks largely to $25 million that football boosters gave to help build a new indoor practice field. Overall, UGA announced a fundraising total of $183.8 million in gifts and pledges, breaking last year’s $144.2 million total – the previous record – by $39.6 million. The $30.2 million, 109,000-square-foot indoor football field is scheduled to be completed in January as this year’s football season ends.
www.savannahceo.com
John Grace Joins Georgia Film Academy at Savannah Technical College as Technical Film Instructor
Staff Report From Savannah CEO
Savannah Technical College has selected John Grace as its technical film instructor. In this role, Grace is responsible for oversight of all instruction, curriculum development, administrative and budgetary aspects for the College’s on-site film production assistant program with the Georgia Film Academy.
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Preserving Video History: WTOC’s archives moved to UGA
By Russ Riesinger, Anchor
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – Hundreds of video tapes, loaded with stories that have aired on WTOC over the years, are headed to the UGA libraries. The video tapes may not look like anything special – in fact, finding a machine that would even play them now days would be difficult – but film archivist Margaret Compton calls them a treasure trove of our area’s history. “For years news stations got rid of their tape libraries and film libraries. A lot of it ended up in landfills. So when stations have kept their material for so long, it is really important to keep it together and keep it in a place that is accessible to the public,” says Compton. WTOC’s collection— with stories and footage from southeast Georgia and the Lowcountry going back for decades—is now on its way to the University of Georgia libraries. …The video tapes will be digitized and preserved for future generations.
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Guyana asks US university to help detect deadly poultry disease
Posted by: Denis Chabrol
Guyana has dispatched poultry samples to the United States (US) to determine what type of disease is responsible for sudden poultry deaths in East Bank Berbice. According to Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA), Dr. Dwight Walrond, “samples which have been taken from the premises of one large scale farmer of broiler birds have already been prepared and are on their way to the University of Georgia because of the types of tests we want.” Dr. Walrond explained that, “We want to test for a wide array of diseases. Based on clinical signs there are two different manifestations taking place, that’s why we are using the University of Georgia to test for four to six diseases. The University of Georgia is a reference laboratory. Sending the samples to Georgia is the best course of action since it would give us a good idea of what’s happening on East bank Berbice,” Walrond said. The University of Georgia is one of the reference laboratories which is utilised for further testing of GLDA samples.
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Kirby Smart says Jonathan Ledbetter will face ‘discipline’ and be offered help
http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/college/kirby-smart-says-jonathan-ledbetter-will-face-disc/nrwjx/
Seth Emerson
HOOVER, Ala. — Georgia defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter will be receive unspecified “discipline” after his second alcohol-related arrest, as well as what the school is calling “an intensified education, counseling, and medical assistance program.” In a statement released on Monday morning, head coach Kirby Smart did not outline a specific suspension, but UGA policy mandates a two-game suspension for a DUI, which Ledbetter was arrested for on Sunday morning.
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Sex Assaults and Campus Size
New study finds higher rates of sexual victimization at larger, public institutions than small, private colleges.
By Jake New
Undergraduate women at larger, public universities are at greater risk of becoming victims of rape than those at smaller, private colleges, a new study suggests. The study, published in the journal Violence and Gender, examined data from the Online College Social Life Survey, which was conducted between 2005 to 2011 and contained responses from about 16,000 female students at 22 institutions. The study’s author, Stephen Cranney, then compared the rates of rape where victims are incapacitated by alcohol or drugs, forced rape, attempted forced rape and “unwanted sex due to verbal pressure” by type and size of institution, as well as how popular sororities and fraternities were on a given campus.
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In a Time of Tension, Universities Craft New Free-Speech Policies
By Arielle Martinez
If things had gone according to the administration’s plans, the 24-campus City University of New York would have a new free-speech policy by now. But that didn’t happen. CUNY’s Board of Trustees was to vote on a proposed policy at its June 27 meeting, but the decision has been postponed indefinitely. “It was clear from testimony at the public hearing on June 20, 2016, and other communications that there are questions and concerns about the proposed policy,” the online calendar for the meeting reads. “A proposed policy will be considered by the Board of Trustees at a later time, following additional consultation and discussion.” The policy would, among other things, regulate the use of university property and facilities for “expressive conduct” like demonstrations and leafleting. Supporters say the proposal would advance the university’s commitment to protecting free speech, but opponents say it contains restrictions that would inhibit demonstrations. College campuses were the sites of highly publicized protests against racism this past year, and one survey shows that freshmen in 2015 were more likely to join protests than freshmen in any of the previous five decades. This summer, new free-speech policies are growing out of the protests, and colleges must decide what the balance between free speech and public order will look like in the coming academic year.
www.insidehighered.com
New Rule Threatens HBCUs
A proposed new federal rule could have unintended negative ramifications for historically black colleges and universities, argues Julianne Malveaux.
By Julianne Malveaux
The U.S. Department of Education introduced a new rule on June 13 that could have an outsize negative impact on historically black colleges and universities. And no one noticed. As the former president of Bennett College — the nation’s oldest historically black college for women — I have been honored to play a role in increasing the immense opportunities HBCUs have provided to black students and other students of color over the past 150 years. …I have also witnessed the sharp increase of higher education costs, even as the importance of a good college degree continues to grow. Millennials will be burdened with more student loan debt than any other generation before them. According to The Wall Street Journal, cumulative outstanding student debt has surpassed an astounding $1 trillion. Yet with a decline in state and federal support — states are now spending, on average, 20 percent less per student than they did in 2008, according to one think tank — colleges and universities are more and more dependent on tuition for their financial stability. Although HBCUs provide excellent academic opportunities for their students, they do not have the monetary security other colleges and universities enjoy.