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Georgia State’s success with minority students will be subject of book
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia State University has been acclaimed for its work with minority, first-generation and low-income students. Now that work is expected to be the subject of a book completed in conjunction with the Kresge Foundation. A publisher approached Georgia State officials during the winter about completing the book, a university spokeswoman said. A spokeswoman for New York-based publisher The New Press confirmed it is working on a book about Georgia State, but said the project is not yet fully formed. Georgia State has been recognized nationally for its work to improve retention and graduation rates, prevent students from taking unnecessary classes, and ultimately lower college costs and student-loan debt.
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Georgia Tech researchers charged for defrauding school in six-year scheme
David Allison
Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Three high-level Georgia Tech researchers have been charged in what federal investigators say was a six-year scheme that defrauded the school. On June 28, federal investigators indicted James G. Maloney, a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, for using a Georgia Tech corporate purchasing card to pay personal expenses and for engaging in fraudulent consulting. Two days later, on June 30, federal investigators filed the same charges against James D. Fraley III, also a member of the research faculty at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. A third Georgia Tech researcher, James J. Acree, is identified in federal court documents relating to the cases, according to a review by Atlanta Business Chronicle of federal court records. The three researchers are experts in electromagnetic analysis and measurements and were assigned to Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Advanced Concepts Laboratory, where they worked on projects funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, various intelligence agencies and private industry. A Georgia Tech spokesman said the school does not have a response at this time.
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BIS in brief: New Georgia Southern president takes office
http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2016-07-01/bis-brief-new-georgia-southern-president-takes-office
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Jaimie Hebert officially took over on Friday as Georgia Southern University’s 13th president. “I am honored and proud to be the 13th president of Georgia Southern,” said Hebert. “As president, I will be working to ensure that our students and their professors are equipped to excel, and to continue the proud history of student success at Georgia Southern.” In his first hundred days as president, Hebert will gather information and ideas by asking students, alumni, faculty, staff and the community to complete a survey to share their thoughts on Georgia Southern, and identify what they feel should be his first priorities.
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UGA’s Jack Bauerle chosen as assistant coach at Olympics
http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2016-07-03/ugas-jack-bauerle-chosen-assistant-coach-olympics
By HILARY BUTSCHEK
Georgia head swimming and diving coach Jack Bauerle will be the assistant coach for the United States Olympic Team, his third time coaching in the games. Bauerle will coach the men Aug. 6-13 during the swimming portion of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, according to an announcement Sunday from the University of Georgia and USA Swimming. Previously, Bauerle was the women’s head coach in the 2008 games and a women’s assistant coach in the 2000 games. “Any time I get to represent the USA and UGA at the Olympics, it’s a real honor,” Bauerle said. “I am absolutely elated to be chosen. I’m very thankful and I’m excited. It will be a busy time for all of us, but we’re going to make a lot of special memories.”
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New law means you must be 21 or over to enter Georgia bars
Yvonne Zusel
Those under 21 are persona non grata at certain Georgia bars beginning today, July 1, 2016. The change is the result of a bill passed last year by the Senate and signed by Gov. Nathan Deal that bans anyone under the age of 21 from entering bars and requires all bar bouncers to be 21 or older. It also requires these bars and city or county governments to more quickly notify the Department of Revenue when the bar is cited for an alcohol violation. …House Bill 152 , otherwise known as “Michael’s Law,” was introduced in the wake of the death last year of 18-year-old Michael Gatto. Gatto was a student at Georgia Southern University when he was beaten and left unconscious outside Rude Rudy’s, a bar in Statesboro. A former bouncer at Rude Rudy’s was charged with aggravated assault in the beating. Rude Rudy’s later closed and its owner surrendered its liquor license.
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UGA Study-Abroad Students Arrive in Oxford at a Historic Moment in U.K.-EU Relations
Phil Bolton
The 96 undergraduate and six graduate students from the University of Georgia arriving on June 26 in Oxford, England, for their study-abroad experience three days following the dramatic “Brexit” vote, came at a time of extreme political and economic bewilderment throughout the United Kingdom and Europe more generally. While their predecessors may have looked forward to student life in one of Europe’s academic centers soaking up the many cultural and educational resources, the current batch’s attention is more likely to be on current affairs and the profound realignment of U.K.-European Union relations.
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AIESEC UGA Chapter Receives Campus International Student ‘Organization of the Year’ Award
Phil Bolton
The University of Georgia’s AIESEC chapter, which belongs to the world’s largest youth-led network, has won the International Student Life’s “Organization of the Year Award” for 2015-16. International Student Life is an umbrella organization for the 20 international student organizations on campus. The award was presented to AIESEC president Gil McBride during a ceremony held in Tate Grand Hall at the end of the university’s spring semester in May. The UGA chapter is a member of the AIESEC organization that includes chapters in 126 countries and territories. The global organization runs an exchange program through which students have the opportunity to participate in exchange programs enabling students to go abroad on international work and volunteer experiences.
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Georgia State Summit Helps Scholars Teach Global Business Better
http://www.globalatlanta.com/georgia-state-summit-helps-scholars-teach-global-business-better/
Trevor Williams
Scholars from 14 countries descended on Georgia State University’s Buckhead Center June 2-5 for an annual conclave on how to best teach international business. The conference was hosted by the Center for International Business Education and Research, a federally funded institute at the university which counts improving global business instruction at colleges among its varied goals. Keynote speaker Rahm Sitaraman, a retired Coca-Cola Co. executive, told attendees that companies are now striving for “survival advantage,” arguing that the old model of gaining “competitive advantage” is outmoded in an increasingly volatile and integrated global economy.
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UGA Skidaway Institute receives funding for regional glider network
By Mike Sullivan
UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Catherine Edwards assembles the tail cone assembly of a glider. Submitted photo.
University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Catherine Edwards is leading a team that has received a five-year, $750,000 grant from the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association, or SECOORA, to establish a regional glider network. Also known as autonomous underwater vehicles, the gliders are torpedo-shaped crafts that can be packed with sensors and sent on underwater missions to collect oceanographic data. Equipped with satellite phones, the gliders surface periodically to transmit their recorded data and to receive new instructions during missions that can last from weeks to months.The team will work collaboratively to operate regular glider missions on the continental shelf in an area from North Carolina to Florida known as the South Atlantic Bight. Regular coordinated experiments will involve simultaneous deployment of gliders at multiple locations off Florida, Georgia and North Carolina. Sensors on the gliders will allow the team to map temperature, salinity, density, dissolved oxygen and other scientific data over the entire South Atlantic Bight. The data will help scientists understand ocean processes and how the ocean physics may affect fisheries, for example, the location of fronts or areas of increased productivity where fish often congregate.
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Georgia teachers get muddy, drenched and familiar with fish on trip to Savannah
Annual Rivers to Reef program connects Georgia’s educators with its waterways to better instruct kids in science
By Dash Coleman
A team of grade-school science teachers from across Georgia watches as Skidaway Institute of Oceanography staff pull a net used for trawling plankton aboard the Research Vessel Savannah in Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary on June 17. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography biologist Marc Frischer, right, and Marietta science teacher Westby Slade look at a beaker full of plankton to decide which organism they will examine under a microscope abord the Research Vessel Savannah’s wet lab on June 17. The plankton came from a water sample collected at Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the Georgia Coast during the penultimate day of the 2016 Rivers to Reefs program, which puts grade-school science teachers up close and personal with the scientific process on a weeklong trip from Atlanta to the coast. …Grade-school science teachers from across Georgia separate healthy shrimp from ones suffering from black gill disease during an examination of sealife aboard the Research Vessel Savannah on June 17. The teachers are part of the Rivers to Reefs program, an annual event that aims to stoke kids’ interest in science by allowing their teachers to experience scientific discovery head-on. The weeklong trip began at the Georgia Aquarium and involved kayak trips through the mdidle of the state, a marsh crawl on Sapelo Island and a trip to Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary off the coast. When he asked if the crowd wanted him to put one of the tiny gelatinous creatures, a salp, under a microscope, Westby Slade of Marietta couldn’t hold in his excitement. …Slade was one of 15 grade-school teachers on the boat June 17 getting up close and personal with scientific research in Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary, a 22-square-mile protected area of the Atlantic Ocean. And they worked hard to be there, canoeing down a river and crawling through a marsh in a weeklong trek from Atlanta to the coast for the 2016 Rivers to Reefs program — an annual, state-funded trip that gives select educators from across Georgia hands-on experience with waterways to stoke their students’ interest in science. Put simply, the program operates on the premise that the best way to teach science is to do science.
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Biden and Obama rewrite the rulebook on college sexual assaults
By Juliet Eilperin
Last month, Vice President Biden penned a searing letter to the victim in a notorious Stanford University rape case. “I am filled with furious anger,” he wrote, “both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken.” Biden’s letter encapsulated the national outrage that erupted when the woman’s attacker was sentenced to just six months in county jail. It was also a sharp reminder that one of the Obama administration’s most ardent policy initiatives has been a concerted campaign to end the scourge of sexual assault on college campuses. According to White House officials, top members of the administration — including the president, the vice president, their wives and members of the Cabinet — will not visit institutions whose leaders they consider insufficiently serious about pursuing sexual-assault allegations and punishing perpetrators. Biden said in an interview that he would like the federal government to “take away their money” if a college or university fails to change its ways. As the administration nears its end, the urgency of some proposals has dissipated, but the focus on campus sexual misconduct has intensified: “Now’s the time to put the pedal to the metal,” Biden said.
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Bangladesh Attack Underscores that It’s No Summer of Freedom for U.S. College Students
by Emil Guillermo
2016? It’s been no freedom summer. If anything, it’s been more like a summer of terror. And we’re not talking sharks. From Orlando, to Turkey, to Bangladesh, the news of another violent outburst has marred the season those in higher ed usually associate with down time. Professors on holiday. Students on exciting internships. They all come back in the fall. No one is supposed to die at the hands of our modern-day nemesis, global terrorism. But as officials name the victims of the hostage situation in an upscale café in Dhaka, Bangladesh, three U.S. college students have been identified. Tarushi Jain, 19, was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. She was visiting her father, a businessman in the garment trade. Abinta Kabir, a sophomore at Emory University in Oxford, Georgia, was also killed, according to a report by NBC News. Kabir lived in Miami and was visiting family in Dhaka. Faraaz Hossain, from Dhakka, was also among the dead. Identified by Emory University as a second student, Hossain graduated from Emory and was enrolled in its business school. They were part of a new wave of Bangladeshis who are trying to make a difference for themselves, their families and the world.
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How to Make College Diversity Work Without Division
by Matthew Lynch
The purpose of diversity efforts on college campuses is to enhance the population ― but in drawing so much attention to people’s differences, are we actually deepening divides? That’s the exact argument made by Jonathan Haidt and Lee Jussim in a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled “Hard Truths About Race on Campus” that references recent pushes by universities to meet student diversity demands with initiatives such as adding chief diversity officers.