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Georgia university system leader discusses meeting with DeVos
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-university-system-leader-discusses-meeting-with-devos/RE87V8mTrJs2O8urqTXC0N/
Eric Stirgus
University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley said Tuesday he talked about the importance of Pell Grants, the system’s efforts to consolidate colleges and other issues during last week’s meeting with U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. Wrigley discussed the meeting during his monthly presentation to the Georgia Board of Regents, describing it as “excellent.” The chancellor said they also talked about federal student aid and current discrimination guidelines. The Trump administration’s proposed budget would cut Pell Grant funding for college students by about $4 billion. “It was a great opportunity to tell our story,” Wrigley told the board.
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Georgia’s Next Stab at Efficiency
As consolidation efforts continue, the public university system sets its sights on assessing campus and systemwide administrative costs and performance.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/19/university-system-georgia-announces-new-administrative-review
By Rick Seltzer
After gaining recognition for repeatedly pulling off mergers between its colleges and universities in recent years, the University System of Georgia is turning its scrutiny toward the administrative setup at its campuses and system office.
System Chancellor Steve Wrigley announced a new comprehensive administrative review process Tuesday that will have the 28-institution, 321,551-student system searching for efficiencies and improved processes. The move marks a major initiative for a new chancellor who took over in January for the retiring Hank Huckaby, who drew widespread attention for consolidating 14 of Georgia’s colleges and universities into seven since 2011. Georgia is far from the only state to seek administrative efficiencies. But given how aggressive the system has been in consolidating campuses, its efforts are likely to be closely watched to see how the latest effort fits with its still-unfolding consolidations. The system is currently pursuing another pair of mergers approved at the beginning of this year that will fold four institutions into two. The administrative review does not mean that Georgia will avoid consolidations in the future, Wrigley said. Rather, it complements the system’s consolidation push.
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University System of Georgia names chief academic officer
Tristan Denley will assume the role on May 22
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ATLANTA — Tristan Denley, vice chancellor for academic affairs for the Tennessee Board of Regents, has been named chief academic officer and executive vice chancellor of academic affairs for the University System of Georgia. USG Chancellor Steve Wrigley said Tuesday that Denley’s appointment is effective May 22. “I am deeply honored to have been chosen to serve as the chief academic officer of the University System of Georgia,” Denley said. “Georgia has developed a reputation nationwide for innovation in higher education and I’m looking forward to furthering that work. I’m excited to work closely with the faculty, staff and campus leaders across the system to help Georgia students achieve their college dreams.” Denley will lead student affairs and the division of academic affairs that encompasses academic programs and policy, tenure and promotion, faculty development, intercollegiate athletics, distance education, academic and public libraries, teacher preparation, accreditation and other areas.
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University System of Georgia names chief academic officer
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USG names ASU Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs Tau Kadhi to review panel
Comprehensive Administrative Review panel will assess effectiveness of all 28 USG schools
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/usg-names-asu-provost-vice-president-for-academic-affairs-tau/article_a8ec21c5-f497-568b-8124-f0164dd91a41.html
By Terry Lewis
University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley announced Tuesday the launch of a systemwide Comprehensive Administrative Review, an initiative focused on improving administration by creating efficiencies, streamlining processes and finding ways to be more effective with USG resources. Tau Kadhi, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Albany State University, has been named to the 16-member panel. “We’re going to look at what we can do to become more efficient from an administrative perspective,” Kadhi said Tuesday after the panel was announced. “It’s easy when you review faculties and students because then you can just look at the numbers. What we plan on doing is looking at what it takes to run an effective administration and ask what do we have in place now and does it do what we want it to do to maximize taxpayer dollars?” The USG chancellor said it is time for the system to take a look in the mirror.
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Georgia public college students to pay higher tuition
http://www.myajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-public-college-students-pay-higher-tuition/5X8kr44LRtjUylTplRG53J/
By Eric Stirgus – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s 320,000 public college students must pay more to attend school this fall. The state’s Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 2 percent at 28 state colleges and universities including its flagship school, the University of Georgia, and its largest institutions such as Georgia State, Georgia Tech and Kennesaw State University. Eight schools received approval to increase their graduate school tuition, mostly by about 2 percent. The board voted last year to freeze tuition rates after state lawmakers questioned the years of tuition hikes in the University System of Georgia. USG Chancellor Steve Wrigley pointed out that the average tuition increase has been 2.2 percent over the past five years. Wrigley said in an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that some expenses increased, so “some slight increase in revenue is important.” “We still remain a good bargain,” Wrigley said. Wrigley also announced a plan Tuesday to review all non-faculty related administrative costs throughout the system, which officials hope will reduce student costs. The tuition increase will range from $27 to $98 a semester for full-time, in-state undergraduate students, USG officials said.
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Board votes to increase college tuition
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/board-votes-increase-college-tuition/3fo9IsIxszitYlPSTv1LNM/
Eric Stirgus
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The Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition next school year at about 30 public colleges and universities. The tuition increase is 2 percent and includes many of the state’s largest schools such as the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Kennesaw State University. Graduate school tuition was capped at 2.5 percent. The board also voted to increase fees at 12 schools and lower them at three. USG officials called the votes a “good news story.”
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Regents approve 2 percent tuition hike for Georgia public colleges and universities
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/04/18/regents-approve-2-percent-tuition-hike-for-georgia.html
Dave Williams
Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
After holding the line on tuition this school year, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 2 percent at all 28 of the system’s colleges and universities for the 2017-18 term. The increase will range from $27 to $98 per semester for full-time, in-state undergraduate students. Since there was no tuition hike this year, that 2 percent increase will mean the system has been able to limit tuition increases to an average of 2.2 percent annually during the last five years.
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Regents vote to raise state college tuition
http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/regents-vote-to-raise-state-college-tuition/article_850458c2-5377-5786-8221-3862b36cb63a.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 2 percent next year at its colleges and universities statewide, during a meeting held at College of Coastal Georgia. The increase applies to both in-state and out-of-state students. For in-state students, this means they will pay between $27 to $98 more per semester, and out-of-state students will pay between $103 to $300 more. The board also voted to increase base graduate school tuition by 2.5 percent.
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University system makes tuition and fee changes
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by FOX 31 Staff
The University System of Georgia has announced some changes that will hopefully leave a few extra dollars in students’ pockets depending on where they attend. USG officials say that tuition will only increase two percent this year, an average of $27 to $98 per semester for a full time student. However, the USG’s online offerings will drop from $169 to $159 per credit hour, with some colleges such as Kennesaw State and the University of North Georgia set to drop their tuition costs by an average of six percent.
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University System of Georgia makes tuition changes
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UGA, OTHER SCHOOLS TO SEE TUITION HIKE
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The University of Georgia and 27 other colleges and universities in the state University System will see another tuition increase this fall: the state Board of Regents says the 2 percent increase for the 2017-2018 academic year follows a zero percent increase for this current year. Out of the 16 states that make up the Southern Regional Education Board, the Regents say Georgia has now become the sixth lowest state in tuition and fees for four-year institution.
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KSU tuition to increase 2 percent next year
http://www.mdjonline.com/news/ksu-tuition-to-increase-percent-next-year/article_60a10dcc-24b7-11e7-9748-cb69b15328f0.html
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Kennesaw State University students will have to pay 2 percent more in tuition next school year, according to university officials. Full-time KSU students who are paying in-state tuition will have to pay $53 more dollars per semester — from $2,660 to $2,713 — according to university officials. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, the university’s governing body, voted to increase tuition at its 28 colleges and universities throughout the state on Tuesday. Tuition did not increase last school year, said KSU President Sam Olens. While students will pay more in tuition, KSU students will pay fewer mandatory fees. In 2012, students paid 67 fees; students will pay 12 fees this upcoming year.
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GGC students to see slight tuition increase
Mandatory commuter meal plans to be cut in 2019
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/ggc-students-to-see-slight-tuition-increase/article_29068894-5db1-5d27-a679-efdc68ddcc0e.html
By Keith Farner
Georgia Gwinnett College students can expect a slight increase in tuition for the upcoming school year based on new rates approved Tuesday by the University System of Georgia. The Lawrenceville school will be $1,960 per semester, up from $1,922 in fiscal 2017. The per credit hour rate, based on 15 credit hours is $130.67, up from $128.13. By the end of fiscal 2019, mandatory commuter meal plans will no longer be in use at GGC. The College of Coastal Georgia eliminated its plan last fall and Kennesaw State University will eliminate its plan effective this fall. The GGC meal plan per semester for fiscal 2018 is $250 for freshmen, $240 for full-time sophomores, $120 for part-time sophomores, $150 for full-time juniors and seniors and $75 for part-time juniors and seniors. GGC’s tuition was set by the Board of Regents for the 2017-18 academic year along with the other 27 colleges and universities. The tuition increase across the board will be kept to two percent. The increase is limited to $27 to $98 per semester for a full-time, in-state undergraduate student.
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Board of Regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition for most undergraduate students
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-04-18/board-regents-voted-tuesday-increase-tuition-most-undergraduate-students
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to increase tuition 2 percent for next school year for most undergraduate students. The increase works out to $27 to $98 per semester for full-time students paying in-state tuition, the system said in a news release. At Augusta University, this differs by campus. For those on the Health Sciences Campus, it means an $85 increase from $4,239 to $4,324. For those on the Summerville Campus, the rates will vary based on when they first enrolled because of consolidation and the transition of some of those programs to rates at a research university level.
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Regents vote to raise state college tuition
http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/regents-vote-to-raise-state-college-tuition/article_850458c2-5377-5786-8221-3862b36cb63a.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to raise tuition by 2 percent next year at its colleges and universities statewide, during a meeting held at College of Coastal Georgia. The increase applies to both in-state and out-of-state students. For in-state students, this means they will pay between $27 to $98 more per semester, and out-of-state students will pay between $103 to $300 more. The board also voted to increase base graduate school tuition by 2.5 percent.
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Georgia’s 28 public campuses will see 2 percent increase in tuition
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-public-campuses-will-see-percent-increase-tuition/4qPFloRRG36JBs5jj4T7qJ/
Maureen Downey – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Board of Regents today announced a 2 percent tuition increase at Georgia’s 28 public colleges and universities for full-time, in-state students. “With the generous support of the governor and legislature, we continue to focus on college affordability, while providing quality education,” said Chancellor Steve Wrigley. “Keeping tuition increases to a minimum allows the University System to provide a quality education balanced with the critical need to keep public higher education affordable.” The 2 percent increase for the 2017-2018 academic year follows a zero percent increase for this current year. Out of the 16 states that make up the Southern Regional Education Board, the Regents say Georgia has now become the sixth lowest state in tuition and fees for four-year institution.
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Board of Regents: Georgia’s 28 public campuses will raise tuition by 2 percent
Board of Regents: Georgia’s 28 public campuses will raise tuition by 2 percent
News on next year’s tuition from the Board of Regents:
Today, the Board of Regents set tuition for the University System of Georgia for the 2017-2018 academic year. All 28 of the USG’s colleges and universities will keep their tuition increase to two percent, which limits the increase across the University System to $27 to $98 per semester for a full-time, in-state undergraduate student. …Meanwhile, the board continues to ensure fees and fee increases are kept to a minimum and used for the benefit of students. The USG has worked with each of the institutions to reduce the number of fee increases, which must demonstrate a clear need. In recent years, the number of approved mandatory fee increases from USG institutions has continued to decrease year-over-year. For example, the number of fee increases dropped from 67 in Fiscal Year 2012 down to 12 for the upcoming year, Fiscal Year 2018. Additionally, the University System has taken steps to eliminate certain fees, such as the Board of Regents’ plan to phase out mandatory commuter meal plans.
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State Farm donates $20 million to aid college completion in DeKalb
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/state-farm-donates-million-aid-college-completion-dekalb/IqRYj9thwTMpbw7g7QQTCJ/
Maureen Downey The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia State University President Mark Becker and State Farm CEO Michael Tipsord announced a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership this morning. State Farm is donating $20 million to help local schools and nonprofits improve outcomes and boost completion rates among students at the GSU’s Decatur campus of Perimeter College. GSU will receive $14.5 million, while $5.5 million will go to non-profits and local schools to provide additional services to help students succeed. The pair explain the partnership’s purpose and goals in this joint column today in the AJC Get Schooled blog in which they write: “Despite the best efforts of America’s higher education community, the nation has been unable to markedly increase the number of college graduates, particularly among students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. It’s time for a new model.” With the State Farm donation, Georgia State is creating a program that will predict, address and resolve obstacles to college completion, sometimes even before the affected students know that the obstacles exist, the pair explain.
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State Farm gives $20 million to boost DeKalb education, college completion. Partners with Georgia State.
State Farm gives $20 million to boost DeKalb education, college completion. Partners with Georgia State.
Georgia State University President Mark Becker and State Farm CEO Michael Tipsord will announce a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership this morning. State Farm is donating $20 million to help GSU and the south DeKalb community improve education and college completion rates. GSU will receive $14.5 million, while $5.5 million will go to non-profits and local schools to provide additional services to help students succeed. The donation to GSU will focus on students at the university’s Decatur campus of Perimeter College. Many attendees there are low-income and first-generation college students. The pair explain the partnership’s purpose and goals in this joint column. By Mark Becker and Michael Tipsord
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Columbus State students help in substance abuse program
http://www.live5news.com/story/35180303/columbus-state-students-help-in-substance-abuse-program
By J.T. Fellows, Digital Content Producer
Columbus State University students are teaming up with Safehouse Ministries in hopes of opening an outpatient service program to combat substance abuse among other things. The senior students are a part of the servant leadership program where the funds were raised as part of a class project. So far, they have raised over $15,000. “As the Servant Leadership Program at Columbus State University we go through a long process with all our seniors to figure out what do we want our Senior Project to be, how do we want to do our senior project, and talking with United Way, talking with so many different organizations we decided to pick Safe House,” said Meagan Corcoran, CSU senior project organization leader.
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Metro Atlanta actors appear with Oprah Winfrey in ‘Henrietta Lacks’
http://www.ajc.com/entertainment/television/metro-atlanta-actors-appear-with-oprah-winfrey-henrietta-lacks/4pbfwV9LhMkpk2arnPvzYN/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=39078d347e-eGaMorning-4_19_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-39078d347e-86731974
Jennifer Brett The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The HBO adaptation of the nonfiction book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” brings a fascinating story to the screen and features some talented metro Atlantans. Oprah Winfrey executive-produces and stars in the movie, filmed largely in Atlanta and debuting at 8 p.m. Saturday. Working with Winfrey on such a momentous project was an honor for her young co-stars. “Working with Ms. Winfrey had to have been the most impactful thing in my life,” said Kyanna Simone Simpson of Decatur, who plays a younger version of Deborah Lacks, the woman Winfrey portrays. …It’s not hyperbole to say most everyone walking around today benefited in some way from Henrietta Lacks. Her cells were harvested for research in 1951 after she died of cervical cancer. Unlike any other cells doctors had previously encountered, the HeLa strain as it became known multiplied exponentially, eventually numbering in the billions. The line has become one of the most extensively used in medical research, and scientific breakthroughs using HeLa have led to vaccines, cancer treatment and other medical marvels. …“There’s not anybody in the world who hasn’t been affected by HeLa cells in some way,” said Simpson, who is credited in the movie as Kyanna Simone. “It means a lot to me to be able to make sure her story is known.” She is a second-year University of Georgia student who was busy with summer classes last year when she landed the role as young Deborah.
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Georgia Tech students combine tricycle, chainsaw to create ‘chainsaw trike’
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Getting to class on three wheels has never been more stylish thanks to a creative crew of university students and their innovative new mode of transportation; “the chainsaw trike.” A group of students from Georgia Tech University in Atlanta put their academic skills to the test recently to mash together a chainsaw motor and a children’s tricycle to produce a motorized version of the tiny three-wheeler. …The end result, after a number of adjustments to the frame and many hours with the welding torch, is a three-wheeled contraption that can actually pick up a pretty impressive rate of speed.
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University student faces charges for sharing bathroom photo
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/university-student-faces-charges-for-sharing-bathroom-photo/So4zodSsgq0lGjYhiAZmII/
Will Robinson
Dante Jamal Harris is in many ways a model student. He graduated from high school with a 3.9 G.P.A., earned a $70,000 scholarship to the University of North Georgia and made last year’s Dean’s List at UNG, all while training to become an officer in the Georgia Army National Guard through the university’s ROTC program. Now a junior at UNG, Harris could be expelled, lose his National Guard commission and serve up to six years in prison, because of an embarrassing photo he took and shared with others.
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SSU moving to Division II sports: Dr. Dozier makes the right call
http://savannahnow.com/opinion/editorial/2017-04-18/ssu-moving-division-ii-sports-dr-dozier-makes-right-call
Credit Savannah State University officials for pulling the plug on the institution’s bold idea for its sports programs to compete at the top level of collegiate sports. When SSU made the jump in 2002 from NCAA Division II to NCAA Division I, the plan called for the institution to reap big financial rewards which would in turn be reinvested in Savannah State and its student-athletes to make the entire university stronger and enhance its reputation. Unfortunately, that fantasy is just as far from becoming a reality today as it was 15 years ago. While SSU has picked up some huge, six-figure appearance checks when its football team went on the road and got crushed by Division I powerhouses like Oklahoma State University and Florida State University, being viewed as everyone’s Cupcake U. is a humbling experience that does nothing for morale or for college football itself. …When it’s fourth down and long, you punt. When your game plan isn’t working, you come up with a new one. To their credit, that’s what SSU officials are doing. Dr. Dozier announced that the school intends to reclassify all athletic programs to Division II, a much more manageable level than Division I. A Division II school that offers football had an average athletic budget of $5.3 million, in line with what SSU spends. Schools participating in the Football Championship Subdivision had average athletic budgets of about $10 million, far out of SSU’s league.
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Survey: College presidents pressured for ‘quick wins’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/19/survey-college-presidents-pressured-quick-wins/100616666/
Greg Toppo , USATODAY
That gleaming new athletic center at your kid’s college — or the hot new major in app development — could be the product of a curious phenomenon in American higher education: college and university presidents rushing to make their mark before they move on to the next gig. A new survey of college presidents finds that these once-steadfast, once-starchy leaders now spend less time at a given institution and are under growing pressure to look for “quick wins” while they have the chance. As a result, many presidents are looking for “the proverbial low-hanging fruit” on their campuses when they should be thinking about more fraught, complex issues that their schools will face in the future. “They’re not thinking about the long term,” said Jeff Selingo, a visiting scholar at Georgia Tech’s Center for 21st Century Universities and one of the authors of the report. A professor of practice at Arizona State University, he added, “In many ways, I think, they’re developing thinking from the corporate side.” They’re thinking, he said, about the “thing-du-jour” and the next quarter, not the next decade.
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The Pathway to a College Presidency Is Changing, and a New Report Outlines How
http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Pathway-to-a-College/239824?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=3d639df787504e3394d5e1fb2d98b83b&elq=9b041dbddbb34558a4f5877374330496&elqaid=13555&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5630
By Nell Gluckman
Baylor University’s newly named president, Linda A. Livingstone, has had a long career in higher education. But there’s one position that’s not on her résumé: provost. Increasingly, that’s not an unusual step to skip, according to a report, released on Wednesday, that analyzed 840 college presidents’ CVs. While serving as provost was once a clear steppingstone on the way to the president’s office, many deans are now moving straight into the top job, according to the report, which was issued by Deloitte’s Center for Higher Education Excellence and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Center for 21st Century Universities.
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Making a Modern President
Fewer provosts are becoming presidents and more deans are jumping straight to the presidency, according to new report that also includes an intriguing list of universities that are presidential talent factories.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/04/19/report-finds-unsettled-pathways-college-presidency?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=791360b573-DNU20170419&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-791360b573-197515277&mc_cid=791360b573&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
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Trump’s New Order on Visas Could Make American Colleges Less Appealing Overseas
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Trump-s-New-Order-on-Visas/239825?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=1a757646bc0f4f9bbeeb78197155bfbe&elq=00739ed7cf094c6dabeb19fceac70156&elqaid=13555&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5630
By Karin Fischer
Yet again a Trump-administration executive order has the potential to roil American campuses and their recruitment of international students.
President Trump on Tuesday signed a measure that would target fraud and abuse in overseas guest-worker programs and increase federal oversight of the H-1B visa program for highly skilled foreigners. Higher education ranks third behind technology-related occupations as the largest industry sponsor of recipients of H-1B visas. But colleges’ chief concern is not likely to be the visa holders — typically, professors, researchers, and postdocs — on their payrolls. Rather, the order could have an impact on American colleges’ recruitment of students from abroad. For many international students, the opportunity to stay in the United States, even temporarily, after graduation and gain work experience is almost as valuable as an American degree itself. Any policy that might erect hurdles on the pathway from college to work could depress international enrollments. Colleges already had been bracing for a potential “Trump effect” on foreign-student numbers next fall after the president signed a pair of earlier executive orders, since challenged in the courts, that would temporarily bar the issuance of U.S. visas to travelers, including students and scholars, from six Muslim-majority countries. A recent global survey of prospective students found that one in three potential applicants was less likely to want to study in the United States because of the political climate there.