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Tech, Emory move up in World University Rankings
Mark Meltzer
Executive Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech and Emory University each moved up eight spots in The Times Higher Education’s 13th annual World University Rankings, which were released today. Georgia Tech moved up from No. 41 to No. 33 in the rankings …The University of Georgia slipped in the rankings from the 251-300 bracket to the 301-350 bracket, while Georgia State University stayed in the 401-500 bracket. This is the first year that the Rankings data and methodology were subject to an independent audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
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Regional Colleges South Rankings
These colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than half their degrees in liberal arts disciplines.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/regional-colleges-south?_page=2
College of Coastal Georgia
#42 in Regional Colleges South (tie)
Founded in 1961, College of Coastal Georgia is a public institution. The school has 41.3 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students, and the student-faculty ratio at College of Coastal Georgia is 19:1.
Georgia Gwinnett College
#52 in Regional Colleges South (tie)
Founded in 2005, Georgia Gwinnett College is a public institution.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Rank Not Published
Founded in 1908, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College is a public institution.
East Georgia State College
Rank Not Published
$9,142 (out-of-state), $3,067 (in-state) Tuition and Fees 2,995 Undergraduate Enrollment
Gordon State College
Rank Not Published
Founded in 1852, Gordon State College is a public institution. The student-faculty ratio at Gordon State College is 21:1.
Middle Georgia State University
Rank Not Published
$10,919 (out-of-state), $3,890 (in-state) Tuition and Fees N/A Undergraduate Enrollment
Atlanta Metropolitan State College
Atlanta, GA
Unranked
$9,588 (out-of-state), $3,250 (in-state) Tuition and Fees N/A Undergraduate Enrollment
Dalton State College
Unranked
$12,302 (out-of-state), $4,052 (in-state) Tuition and Fees N/A Undergraduate Enrollment
Darton State College
Unranked
$9,470 (out-of-state), $3,395 (in-state) Tuition and Fees N/A Undergraduate Enrollment
South Georgia State College
Douglas, GA
Unranked
N/A Tuition and Fees N/A Undergraduate Enrollment
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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Georgia colleges ‘purge’ between 20,000 and 30,000 students a year over unpaid tuition
Hala Moddelmog is president of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Alicia Philipp is president of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. In this column, they tackle a topic we discussed recently on the blog — the dearth of need-based college aid in Georgia. The issue is being discussed this morning at a half-day forum at the Metro Atlanta Chamber offices in downtown Atlanta, which I plan to attend. Among the speakers at the “Forum on the Future: Georgia’s Workforce Pipeline, College Affordability and the Impact of Needs-Based Financial Aid” are Chancellor Hank Huckaby and Chuck Knapp, president emeritus, University of Georgia.
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ASU Presidential Investiture of Arthur N. Dunning set for Sept. 30
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ALBANY, Ga. – Arthur N. Dunning will be officially installed as the ninth president of Albany State University at the Presidential Investiture Ceremony scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30. The ASU Presidential Investiture Ceremony will be held at the Albany Municipal Auditorium, 200 N Jackson Street, Albany, GA 31701. The ceremony will include a formal procession and greetings from elected officials. Steeped in history and tradition, a presidential investiture symbolizes the embrace of a new era for the institution and acknowledges the authority of a new leader, as well as, the official rights and responsibilities of the office. Dunning was named president of Albany State University in November 2015 by University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby. For two years, he led Albany State as the interim president, focusing on strategic direction, economic development and developing collaborations that enhance educational opportunities for the residents of Southwest Georgia. A veteran administrator, scholar and lecturer, Dunning has a distinguished track record in higher education in Alabama and Georgia.
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Armstrong State University President Linda M. Bleicken Receives Beach Institute Education Award
Armstrong State University President Linda M. Bleicken was presented with the Beach Institute Education Award at the 19th Annual King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation Annual Awards Gala, held at Savannah State University on September 17. The annual event recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the fields of education, historic preservation, fine arts and public service in the Coastal Empire. Other 2016 honorees included Savannah State University President Cheryl D. Dozier …Armstrong has twice been named a top-performing school in the nation for underrepresented minority students and a leader in African-American student educational gains by The Educational Trust, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. that shapes and influences national and state policy. The Beach Institute began in 1867 as the first school in Savannah designated solely for the education of African-Americans. Today, it serves as an African American cultural center, with a full schedule of programs and exhibits. It is also home to the King-Tisdell Cottage Foundation, an institution founded in 1981 by civil rights leader, historian and preservationist W.W. Law, and is dedicated to the preservation of African American history and culture.
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Gov., officials discuss workforce
http://lagrangenews.com/news/17315/17315
Matthew Strother
WEST POINT — State government and business officials descended on the Kia Training Center in West Point on Wednesday for a discussion on investing in workforce development and education. …“One of the things that we said we should do, and we have done now, is let’s look at within our job market, let’s look at the jobs that are available and currently not being able to be filled,” Deal said. “That is particularly important if you have a high unemployment rate. Why do you have high unemployment if you have jobs that are out there, available, but you just don’t have enough people with the skills to take those jobs?” Deal said tooling education toward what state and local areas need for workforce helps ensure employing more people and having qualified employees for businesses. Deal said the state asked the technical colleges and higher education systems under the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to look at their degree programs and graduate placements, and help focus more on programs where more graduates were gaining employment in their field. “If you have a degree program where you’re producing great inhabitants of parents’ basements, but no jobs, you need to refocus how you use taxpayers’ money that is being devoted to degree programs that are not related to the job opportunities,” Deal said to laughter from attendees. “So (the college systems) have done that, and they are continuing to do that.”
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Georgia College professor’s discovery leads to new patent
Gil Pound
Breakthrough scientific research may not be the first thing that comes to mind when one hears about a liberal arts school in Milledgeville, but that did not stop Georgia College professor Dr. Kenneth McGill on his quest of getting his Conduit Bound Propagation Separation Model patented. His findings bring about big changes to a more than 100-year-old theory of sound formulated by John William Strutt, an English physicist also known as Lord Rayleigh. Approximately half of all interstate commerce travels through pipelines, according to a press release from Georgia College that followed McGill’s patent approval. Companies sending products such as gasoline, oil and water through pipelines need to know at what rate their precious commodities are flowing so every drop is accounted for. The current manner to measure the flow is by drilling a hole in the pipe and inserting a flow meter. McGill’s findings led him to create what he referred to as a passive acoustic flow meter.
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Norcross names new director of economic development
Karen Huppertz For the AJC
Norcross officials on Monday announced Chris Moder will join the city as director of economic development where he will focus on attracting new businesses and assist existing business expansions in an effort to create jobs, generate capital investment and grow and diversify the existing tax base. Most recently, Moder spent the past 10 years with the University of Georgia and the Board of Regents in economic development as well as corporate and foundation relations.
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Credit to Georgia Tech for going after the right choice in Stansbury
By Jeff Schultz
The search was fast. The search was quiet. The search was conducted with far more efficiency than many things at Georgia Tech have been in recent years. Todd Stansbury will be the new athletic director at Georgia Tech. He checks all the boxes. He played football at Georgia Tech for Bill Curry. He learned under the wise old athletic director, Homer Rice. He climbed the ladder in various athletic departments around the country, spending several years as an assistant as an assistant athletic director at Tech, then moving on to Houston, East Tennessee State and Oregon State. …How badly did Georgia Tech want to bring Todd Stansbury back home? He was only one year into a five-year contract at Oregon State that paid him $500,000 per year plus incentives. Logic says this had to have cost Tech something. Maybe seven figures. With nearly four full years (or $2 million in salary) still left on the contract, there’s an assumption that Stansbury (read: Georgia Tech) had to satisfy Oregon State to some degree with a buyout. So credit to Tech president Bud Peterson and members of the search committee for going to the wall to make this hire. Stansbury should be a significant improvement over his predecessor, Mike Bobinski, who left Georgia Tech for Purdue only six weeks ago.
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Senate Proposal: Enroll More Low-Income Students or Pay Fine
Two U.S. senators on Wednesday proposed legislation that would give selective colleges that enroll relatively few low-income students (the bottom 5 percent of all institutions) four years to boost their enrollment numbers from this group or face paying a fee to continue being eligible for federal financial aid. The bill also would use money from the fees to grant up to $8 million to colleges with mostly open admissions and low graduation rates (also bottom 5 percent) to improve their student outcomes. Colleges would need to opt in to be eligible for the completion money. If they failed to improve graduation rates, participating colleges could face a penalty and temporary loss of access to federal financial aid. Senator Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, and Senator Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican, proposed the legislation. They said the bill also would include competitive funding grants aimed at college completion, with priority going to minority-serving and historically black colleges. The proposal includes up to $200 million aimed at improving graduation rates, as well as nonfinancial rewards, such as bonus points in federal competitive grants or a reduced regulatory burden. A news release about the proposal included supportive comments from a broad group of higher education leaders, including presidents of the University of California System and Georgia State University.
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The State of Undergraduate Education
The Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education releases its first report, using data to lay out a broad picture of students at today’s two- and four-year colleges.
By Kasia Kovacs
More Americans are attending college than ever before — nearly 90 percent of millennials who graduate from high school attend college within eight years. But a far smaller proportion of Americans actually have a college degree: only 40 percent of students complete a bachelor’s degree in four years and 60 percent graduate in six years. At two-year colleges, 29 percent of students graduate in three years. Those are the findings of a report released Thursday morning by the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education, an initiative from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences begun last November. The commission was tasked with assessing the future undergraduate education by analyzing facts and data rather than relying on anecdotes, and it was funded with $2.2 million from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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Pressure to Build the Class: 2016 Survey of Admissions Directors
By Scott Jaschik
The pressure on college admissions offices to produce a new class is getting more intense, according to the 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of College and University Admissions Directors. And the percentage of colleges that met their goals by May 1, the traditional date by which colleges aim to have created their class, is down. The last year has seen many changes in college admissions — a new SAT, the launch of a new college application to rival the Common Application, a shift in the calendar of applying for financial aid and a proposal by Hillary Clinton to make public higher education free for most Americans. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling upheld the consideration of race and ethnicity by colleges in admissions decisions. And the Obama administration gave new momentum to a push to have colleges stop routinely asking about applicants’ criminal backgrounds. Meanwhile concern about the debt faced by students and defining the value of higher education continued to grow. On most of these issues, admissions directors appear divided — sometimes along public and private college lines.
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Bill in Congress Would Use Research Funds to Curb Sex Harassment in Academe
by Sarah Brown
Rep. Jackie Speier, a Democrat of California, plans to introduce a bill on Thursday that would target sexual harassment in academe through the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and dozens of other federal agencies that award lucrative research and development grants. The legislation states that, if a research professor is found responsible for violating a college’s sex-harassment policy, the college would be required to report the finding to all federal agencies that have awarded grants to that institution in the previous decade. And if an investigation into possible harassment by a research professor has not been completed in six months, the college would be required to notify the agencies of the continuing inquiry, without identifying the professor, and explain why the case remained open. Federal agencies would have to consider such reports from colleges when awarding competitive grants. The agencies would have to keep colleges’ reports on file for 10 years, though another finding of harassment by the same professor would restart the clock. The bill would apply to all professors who receive federal research or development money.