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Georgia Regents name interim chief to lead state’s university system
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state’s Board of Regents has named an interim leader to oversee Georgia’s public college and university system, following news that its chancellor will retire. Hank Huckaby announced Wednesday he will step down from the position he’s held for five years. When he leaves December 31, Huckaby will be 75. In his place, at least temporarily, will be Huckaby’s second-in-command, Steve Wrigley, who takes over as interim chancellor January 1. Wrigley is the system’s executive vice chancellor for administration. “It’s just time,” Huckaby said Wednesday.
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Georgia university system chancellor resigning at year’s end
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/state/georgia/article94787497.html
.BY KATHLEEN FOODY
Associated Press
The leader of Georgia’s university system announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of the year, closing a term of more than five years. Hank Huckaby said in a statement that the system has a bright future. Huckaby first announced his plans Wednesday morning at a Board of Regents meeting in Atlanta. …Steve Wrigley, the university system’s executive vice chancellor for administration, will become interim chancellor on Jan. 1. Wrigley has worked for the system since 2011 after holding a variety of positions in higher education and Georgia state government since 1988.
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Georgia University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby to retire Dec. 31
Steve Wrigley will begin serving as interim USG chancellor on New Year’s Day
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Chancellor to retire at end of year
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2016-08-10/chancellor-retire-end-year?v=1470849583
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Steve Wrigley Named Interim Chancellor Of The University System Of Georgia
The Board of Regents has named Dr. Steve Wrigley interim chancellor of the University System of Georgia (USG). Wrigley has served as executive vice chancellor of administration for the USG since June 2011. He will assume his new role on January 1, 2017, replacing Hank Huckaby who is retiring December 31. ‘Ensuring the best, proven and most qualified leader serves as chancellor of the University System is a critical responsibility of the Board of Regents, and we will have a smooth, seamless transition with Steve Wrigley serving as interim chancellor,’ said Chairman Kessel Stelling. ‘Steve has demonstrated proven, trusted leadership throughout his 18 years of service to the University System, clearly acting in the best interest of our institutions, students, faculty and staff. The Board has a full agenda ahead of us, and Hank, Steve and I will begin work immediately on the transition to keep our momentum.’ ‘I am honored and humbled to serve the University System of Georgia in this new role and appreciate the Board’s confidence in me,’ said Wrigley. ‘Each of our institutions plays a critical role in the University System, and I look forward to working with our faculty and staff in continuing to advance how we serve our students.’
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Wrigley to serve as interim Chancellor after Huckaby retirement
http://www.wgauradio.com/news/news/local/huckaby-retiring-chancellors-post/nsC8d/
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby will step down in December after five years leading the state’s system of public colleges and universities. Former UGA vice president Steve Wrigley will serve as an interim replacement. Huckaby announced his retirement Wednesday during the monthly meeting of the state’s Board of Regents, which governs the college system. “I have met with Board this morning and have told them it’s time for this guy to throw in the hand,” Huckaby said Wednesday morning fighting back tears. “My hope is that our legacy, the work we have done together not only on the Board of Regents but so many sitting around the room today, that we can proudly say that this is a better system than we accepted. I walk away from this job … knowing that one of the greatest assets that this state has to offer is its university system.”
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Georgia university system chancellor resigning at year’s end
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Georgia university system chancellor resigning at year’s end
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- System of Georgia’s Chancellor to Step Down
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University System Chancellor to retire
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Chancellor to retire at finish of the year
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Chancellor Hank Huckaby announces plans to step down
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Georgia university system chancellor resigning at year’s end
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University System of Georgia Chancellor announces retirement
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University System chancellor set to retire at year’s end
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Georgia’s New Sexual Misconduct Policy
Given the challenging maze when it comes to responding to sexual misconduct, it’s worth reviewing Georgia’s new policy, write Vernon Strickland and Phil Catanzano.
By Vernon Strickland and Phil Catanzano
The federal government, primarily the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, has provided guidance in recent years regarding how colleges and universities must respond to sexual misconduct if they hope to stay in compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. This guidance includes:
OCR’s 2011 Dear Colleague letter regarding sexual misconduct;
OCR’s 2014 questions and answers document regarding sexual misconduct;
OCR’s 2015 Dear Colleague letter regarding the role of Title IX coordinators;
The Violence Against Women Act amendments; and
The You’re Not Alone campaign led by the Obama administration and other resources from the White House.
As a result of such extensive guidance, the frequency of complaints filed on college campuses has increased significantly and the standard for investigating these complaints has also risen. Not surprisingly, many more people have been found responsible for acts of sexual misconduct on campuses in recent years, and the sanctions for the accused can be severe: the loss of leadership opportunities or the ability to participate in college activities, suspension and expulsion. Yet while the federal government’s guidance is extensive, it is hardly exhaustive. …For example, in Doe v. the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, an expelled student claimed that the Georgia Institute of Technology violated his federal due-process and equal-protection rights and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972; he also alleged state law claims of breach of contract. In another recent case, Doe v. Rector and Visitors of George Mason University, a student filed suit after an assistant dean reversed an administrative panel’s determination that he was not responsible for sexual assault and expelled him. The court determined that the assistant dean violated the student’s right to due process, as he held the student responsible for behavior for which he was not charged and met with several members of the disciplinary panel separately without notice to the student. In sum, the federal government and the courts have presented a challenging maze for institutions to navigate in responding to sexual misconduct on campuses in recent years. Adding to that challenge, the states are beginning to enter the fray by drafting their own legislation or governing policies. Some of the early versions of various state efforts are consistent with the federal guidance and recent court cases, and some are not. Georgia is one of the early states to implement a policy that went into effect on July 1, 2016, so their policy is worth review and consideration in the broader discussion about sexual misconduct at colleges and universities, the role of the federal and now state government, and how institutions respond to sexual misconduct both through their policies and in practice. As a result of the new sexual misconduct policy of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, all Georgia public colleges and universities must ensure that their sexual misconduct policies provide additional requirements for investigations and additional process for the students — particularly for the accused — involved in these cases.
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Report: Ga.’s HOPE Scholarship Could Run Out Of Money By 2028
http://news.wabe.org/post/report-ga-s-hope-scholarship-could-run-out-money-2028
By MARTHA DALTON
Georgia’s lottery-funded HOPE scholarship program has struggled to keep up with demand in recent years. Now, a new report says HOPE could run out of money by the time today’s pre-kindergarten students are in college. The study was issued by a group of private businesses, called The Committee to Preserve HOPE Scholarships. It says the program could run a deficit by the year 2028. The report’s author, Nancy Badertscher, says families shouldn’t panic that HOPE will disappear. “We decided, ‘What if you ran an analysis of the current trends in it? The growth in the different programs, the growth in the Lottery, the growth in tuition and stuff? What if you could give folks a heads up on the future?’” she says. When HOPE began in 1993, it covered full tuition at Georgia’s public colleges for students who had a B average in high school and maintained a B average in college. That became expensive, so HOPE was restructured in 2011 to stretch its dollars. Now, students with A averages get full tuition covered. Students with B averages get tuition assistance, but not a full ride. “We did think that post the 2011 changes, maybe the public wasn’t quite aware what the program had done,” Badertscher says. …The Georgia Student Finance Commission, which administers HOPE, issued the following statement about the report:
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Georgia Southern convenes for 2016-17 with new leader
Hebert touts university’s research prestige, economic impact approaching $1 billion
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/75690/
BY Al Hackle
Georgia Southern should trumpet its status as a Carnegie doctoral research university loudly and proudly, Dr. Jaimie Hebert said in welcoming faculty and staff for the 2016-17 academic year, his first as GS president. He also predicted that the university’s annual economic impact will soon hit $1 billion. The 825-seat Performing Arts Center filled to capacity so that dozens of people were left standing along the walls of the ground floor and balcony for Wednesday’s fall convocation. Hebert spent most of a 23-minute speech praising Georgia Southern for its values and accomplishments before talking in general terms about the future.
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Georgia State student’s essay wins her a scholarship
Ceilidh Cayenne, a rising senior at Georgia State University majoring in chemistry, is one of 32 winners of Regions Bank’s 2016 Regions Riding Forward Scholarship Essay Contest. The essay contest is part of Regions’ Black History Month celebration and is based on the submission of a competitive essay about an inspirational African-American. Cayenne was selected for her essay on Amandla Stenberg, who enabled Ceilidh to find her voice on issues that normally get overlooked such as cultural appropriation. Cayenne’s essay was selected from more than 9,500 submissions.
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Earlier FAFSA Popular, but Problematic, Too
The federal financial aid application now allows students to use existing federal tax data, designed to inform families earlier about their available aid. But student advocates say colleges may undercut progress by moving up their own deadlines for students.
By Andrew Kreighbaum
Advocates for students say a set of changes to the federal financial aid process for which they’ve long advocated will help many thousands of families who need federal aid to pay for college. But those changes — automatically populating the Free Application for Federal Student Aid with family income data already filed for tax purposes and releasing the application months earlier — are causing uncertainty for both colleges and the advising professionals who work with students. Those concerns have focused most prominently on whether colleges will move up their financial aid deadlines in order to get award notifications to students sooner, a Department of Education priority.
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How Technology Could Change Reporting of Campus Sexual Assault
By Emma Pettit
If you put 500 students in a room, there would be 200 different ways that they would feel most comfortable reporting sexual assault. Last summer Daren Mooko heard a Pomona College student present that idea as part of her senior thesis. It resonated with him. At the time, Pomona students had two choices: Meet with Mr. Mooko, who is an associate dean and the Title IX coordinator there, in person. Or submit an anonymous report online, which didn’t allow for much contact between his office and the student, he said. He wanted to cast a wider net. So Pomona signed up for a yearlong pilot program with Callisto, a college sexual-assault reporting website. The site prompts users with questions and allows them to fill out a detailed report of their assault, which is time-stamped. Then, they choose whether and when to pass along that information to their institution. Reporting mechanisms like Callisto might encourage more people to come forward, and could be another tool for campus Title IX coordinators. Students already have various reporting options, both in person and often online, as required by Title IX. But the new web platforms offer features — like independence from college campuses, and data-collection capabilities — that their supporters say allow more nuanced insights into the realities of campus sexual assault.
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U Texas to Punish Professors Who Bar Guns From Class
In legal papers filed this week, the University of Texas and the state attorney general said that professors in the university system who bar guns from classrooms face discipline, The Dallas Morning News reported. The legal papers respond to a lawsuit by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin that says the requirement that guns be allowed in classrooms is vague and inconsistent with the First and Second Amendments. The Morning News article said that the legal papers from the university and the state are “a clear message” to those professors and others to follow the campus carry law, which took effect this month.