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Steve Wrigley named chancellor of University System of Georgia
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Dave Williams
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University System of Georgia is giving Steve Wrigley a promotion before he even starts his new job. The system’s Board of Regents voted Wednesday to remove the “interim” from Wrigley’s title and elevate him to permanent chancellor of the system. He will take over from retiring Chancellor Hank Huckaby on Jan. 1. Wrigley is an internal hire. He has served as executive vice chancellor of administration for the university system since June 2011. “As we began the transition, it became clear Steve is ready to lead the university system and has the full confidence of the board,” said Kessel Stelling, chairman of the Board of Regents. “Having a strong bench of talent with Steve already in place in the university system has made all the difference in helping this leadership transition be as smooth and seamless as possible.”
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University System of Georgia gets new Chancellor
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by FOX 31 Staff
The University System of Georgia announced Wednesday afternoon that they have selected their replacement for retiring chancellor Hank Huckaby. Dr. Steve Wrigley, the current interim chancellor, was named to the position. “With our leadership transition plans well under way, the Board has named Steve Wrigley chancellor of the University System of Georgia effective when we start the new year,” said Chairman Kessel Stelling, Jr. …Wrigley has served as executive vice chancellor of administration for the USG since June 2011. He will assume the role of chancellor on January 1, 2017. “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as chancellor of the University System of Georgia,” said Wrigley. “The faculty and staff bring our campuses to life every day to better serve our students and the State of Georgia, and I look forward to working with them to build on our momentum.”
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Georgia university system board names new chancellor
ATLANTA (AP) — Steve Wrigley, a top official within the University System of Georgia, will become its chancellor in 2017. Wrigley was scheduled to become interim chancellor on Jan. 1, but the system’s governing Board of Regents voted Wednesday to name Wrigley to the top job. Chancellor Hank Huckaby announced in August that he planned to retire at the end of the year.
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Sam Olens named Kennesaw State University president
Eric Stirgus The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state Board of Regents voted Wednesday to make Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens the next president of Kennesaw State University. The appointment comes four months after Dan Papp resigned in June after an audit concluded he he already had received more than $577,000 in retirement pay from the university’s foundation without notifying the state’s University System. Supporters say Olens’ deep Cobb County roots make him an ideal president for KSU. …More than two dozen KSU students and faculty came to Wednesday’s meeting to voice their displeasure with the vote. Several students interrupted the board at the beginning of the meeting and chanted “we must love each other and protect each other” before exiting the meeting.
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Olens appointed president of Kennesaw State
Ricky Leroux
The Georgia Board of Regents named Attorney General Sam Olens the next president of Kennesaw State University despite protests from students and faculty both before and during the Regents’ meeting on Wednesday. Olens, who served as chairman of the Cobb County commission before stepping down to run for AG in 2010, was not present at the Regents’ meeting Wednesday.
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Despite protests, AG Sam Olens named KSU president
Doug Richards, WXIA
ATLANTA — The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia named Attorney General Sam Olens president of Kennesaw State University on Wednesday. Protesters disrupted the start of the scheduled meeting of the state Board of Regents Wednesday morning. They rose from the audience and recited scripted lines describing their unhappiness with Georgia State University’s acquisition of the Turner Field property, and their unhappiness with the likely Olens appointment.
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Protesters disrupt start of Board of Regents meeting
Ricky Leroux
A group of protesters disrupted the start of the Georgia Board of Regents’ meeting Wednesday morning, leading Board Chair Kessel Stelling to call for a five-minute recess. The Board of Regents is expected to vote today on appointing Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens as president of Kennesaw State University, but exactly when the vote will take place is unknown. The protest, which seemed to be planned and organized, began with one person standing up and announcing opposition to Georgia State University’s pending purchase of Turner Field without a binding community benefit agreement. After the first speaker finished, another stood up and expressed a similar sentiment, followed by another. Another speaker stood and demanded a nationwide search for KSU’s president, a search Chancellor Hank Huckaby said in a letter to the KSU community he decided to forgo after speaking to Olens. “I’d like to ask all the speakers to respect the work of the board,” Stelling interjected between protestors to no avail. After the cascade of speakers standing and disrupting the meeting continued, Stelling had enough. “We’ll put the board in recess for five minutes,” Stelling said. “If the board will just go into recess for five minutes, we’ll just step down the hall.” …The protesters left the meeting room peacefully and on their own accord before the regents returned from recess.
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Margaret Venable To Be Inaugurated As Dalton State’s 5th President
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2016/10/11/333798/Margaret-Venable-To-Be-Inaugurated-As.aspx
The public is invited to attend a ceremony in the history of Dalton State College where Margaret Venable will officially be inaugurated as the fifth president of the College. During the ceremony on Friday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. at the Burran Bell Tower Quadrangle, Hank Huckaby, chancellor of the University System of Georgia, will place the presidential medallion around Dr. Venable’s neck officially investing the power of the presidency in her.
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Armstrong State University classes cancelled until Oct. 17
Classes at Armstrong State University’s main campus in Savannah and the Armstrong Liberty Center in Hinesville have been cancelled until Monday, Oct. 17, according to the university. All special events have been cancelled through Sunday evening.
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Students are dropped from their courses after bad financial aid management
http://georgiastatesignal.com/students-dropped-courses-bad-financial-aid-management/
By: Cemberli Grant
Some Georgia State students have reportedly been dropped from their classes because their financial aid information was not updated on time. Based on data from the University System of Georgia, between 20,000 and 30,000 students are dropped from rolls throughout all of Georgia’s public universities as a result of unpaid of tuition and fees every year. State officials and community organizers are considering ways to help these students remain enrolled and earn their degrees. Quin Parham, a Georgia State freshman said he experienced difficulties and said financial aid was only able to help him after his classes were already dropped.
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This engineering student is leading an effort to graduate 10,000 black engineers annually
Kathleen Wong’s avatar image By Kathleen Wong
Detroit native Matthew Nelson, 32, comes from a long line of autoworkers for Ford and Chrysler. His father was a millwright for 35 years. Before that, his grandfather was a machinist for 30 years, working around chemicals to provide a better life for his family. But it’s been awhile since auto manufacturing provided stable middle-class jobs in the Motor City. Because Nelson demonstrated an early aptitude for math and science in high school, he was ushered into studying engineering as a scholarship-funded undergraduate at the University of Michigan.
…Alexis Coates, a fifth-year senior at the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering, has heard that kind of discouragement before. “As a black woman pursuing an engineering degree, I’ve found myself having to prove myself to my peers before they trust that I’m fully competent in the work that I do,” said Coates, who earned her bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. “I’ve had people try to discourage me, alluding to my aspirations being a little too big, or try to shield me from an environment in which I’m not cut out to handle.” STEM summer camps do exist and try to get young folks interested in engineering, but Nelson said there’s a lack of effective coordination and structure among them to promote diversity. “Is this country really interested in solving the problem of the lack of diversity?” he said. “There’s no lack of resources around this problem.” There also aren’t enough established black engineers advocating for awareness in the space or acting as role models, said Gary May, dean of Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech has been a leader in producing minority engineers for the past decade or so, according to May. And it’s “not happening by accident, there’s a real intentional atmosphere here.” May said the school spends seven figures on programs and faculty specifically for increasing diversity. Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering has the Center for Engineering Education and Diversity, or CEED, which specifically works with engineering students of color.
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Georgia Tech moving forward with new cell manufacturing facility
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David Allison
Editor, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech is moving forward with construction of a new cell manufacturing facility at its Marcus Nanotechnology Building. Georgia Tech, in partnership with the Marcus Foundation, will upfit 2,930 square feet of cleanroom shell space in the Marcus Nanotechnology Building at 345 Ferst Drive for the newly established Marcus Center for Therapeutic Cell Characterization and Manufacturing. Tech also plans to extend the building common corridor by 2,000 square feet to provide access, egress, equipment moving paths, and educational viewing opportunities into the cleanroom space. The current cleanroom configuration consists of 10,000 square feet of inorganic cleanroom space, 5,000 square feet of organic cleanroom space, and 12,500 square feet of shell space.
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UGA parking ticket is ‘internet hoax,’ school says
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By JIM THOMPSON
A photograph of what appears to be a University of Georgia parking citation showing an unkind remark scribbled on the ticket is “an internet hoax,” a UGA spokeswoman said Tuesday. The photograph making the rounds of social media shows a handwritten note on notebook paper, apparently on the dashboard inside the vehicle, with the message, “Had to park here, very late for test. Please don’t ticket me.” Next to the note, apparently on the outside of the vehicle, is a slip of paper, purportedly from UGA’s Parking Services, with the words “Hope you failed” written on it. Don Walter, director of UGA Transportation and Parking Services, said Tuesday he had seen the photograph, and immediately referred further questions to the university’s Division of Marketing & Communications. Janis Gleason, the division’s executive director for strategic marketing, to whom inquiries about the photograph were directed, said the photograph appears to have been doctored from what the university believes was its original version. According to Gleason, University Parking Services took a photo of the vehicle only to show proof that it was not displaying a required parking permit “hang tag.”
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Georgia College professor, brother killed in car wreck
Raisa Habersham The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A college professor and her brother were killed in a crash late Monday after a head-on collision involving three cars. Allison Everett, 51, of Milledgeville, was in the front passenger seat when the Nissan Altima her husband was driving was hit head on along Lake Laurel Road in Baldwin County, the Macon Telegraph reported. Everett’s brother David Black, 54, was in the backseat during the crash. The car went off a shoulder and down an embankment, according to the newspaper. …Allison Everett was an exercise sciences lecturer at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. She was an adjunct professor at Georgia Military College for a dozen years, the newspaper reported.
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A Student Fee to Respond to Sexual Assault
In what’s believed to be a first, U of Maryland student government approves fee that would help fund university’s overworked Title IX office.
By Jake New
Students at the University of Maryland at College Park may soon pay an extra student fee to help cover the costs of the university’s struggling office that investigates sexual assault. The $34 fee, approved by the university’s student government last month and reported by BuzzFeed News Tuesday, was widely criticized, with advocates saying it is highly unusual for students to fund services to combat sexual assault and ensure that their university remains compliant with federal law. Student leaders said this week that they felt they were left with no choice after the university failed to properly fund the office.