University System News:
The Augusta Chronicle
Official groundbreaking ceremony held for the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-06-19/official-groundbreaking-ceremony-held-georgia-cyber-innovation-and-training-center
Tom Corwin
Two Augusta business leaders who pitched the idea of the Georgia Cyber Innovation and Training Center to Gov. Nathan Deal just last December will be honored with their names on the building, Deal revealed Monday at the official groundbreaking for the center.
Datanami.com
Eight Georgia Tech Schools Partner for Advanced Degree in Machine Learning
Eight Georgia Tech Schools Partner for Advanced Degree in Machine Learning
The Georgia Institute of Technology has been approved to offer a new advanced degree program for the emerging field of machine learning.
In a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved Georgia Tech’s request to establish a Doctor of Philosophy in Machine Learning.
Emanuelcountylive.com
EGSC psychology professors earn ALG Grant
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2017/06/egsc-psychology-professors-earn-alg-grant/
Katelyn Moore
East Georgia State College psychology professors Deborah Lee, M.S., and Tori Kearns, Ph.D., were recently awarded their second Affordable Learning Georgia Textbook Transformation Grant. The ALG grants are part of a University System of Georgia initiative aimed to lower the cost of college and contribute to retention and graduation.
Albanyceo.com
GSW Receives CASE Educational Fundraising Award
http://albanyceo.com/news/2017/06/gsw-receives-case-educational-fundraising-award/
Georgia Southwestern State University was recognized earlier this month by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education with a 2017 Educational Fundraising Award, which recognizes U.S. institutions for overall performance and improvement in educational fundraising programs. GSW was one of 89 colleges and universities selected from among 554 eligible institutions by CASE.
Kwotable.com
Shape-Shifting ‘4D’ Printed Objects Could Pave The Way For Outer Space Structures
http://kwotable.com/2017/06/17/shape-shifting-4d-printed-objects-could-pave-the-way-for-outer-space-structures/
Brian Heater
Eleven years ago, after Karen Handel had been elected as Georgia’s first Republican secretary of state since Reconstruction, Richard DeMillo, head of the Office of Policy Analysis and Research at Georgia Tech, got a call about an important project. The state’s election system, updated with new machines, needed a hard look. “They said: Take a look at our processes, take a look at our technology, and give us your opinion,” DeMillo said. “I assigned some people from our Information Security Center to work on it.” In May 2008, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Office of Policy Analysis and Research released its report, “A Security Study of the Processes and Procedures Surrounding Electronic Voting in Georgia.” A number of potential problems came up, from the transportation of election machines by prison laborers to password protection of machines and poll-watcher training.
Higher Education News:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Georgia’s Mergers Offer Lessons, and Cautions, to Other States
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Georgia-s-Mergers-Offer/240390?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=7f3c8effb7334f62af1962838bf4b52c&elq=602154cff012487bb4afd15af5a05198&elqaid=14447&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6069 Lee Gardner
As states ponder what to do with struggling public universities, their attention turns to Georgia: The Peach State has merged 14 of its colleges into seven new institutions since 2011, and more consolidations are underway. With Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Oregon, and other states pondering mergers as a solution to sinking enrollments and tight budgets, college leaders across the country have been contacting their counterparts in Georgia for advice
Inside Higher Ed
The Slowly Diversifying Presidency
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/20/college-presidents-diversifying-slowly-and-growing-older-study-finds?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=32bb0538f9-DNU20170620&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-32bb0538f9-197515277&mc_cid=32bb0538f9&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
Rick Seltzer
The traditional model for a college president has remarkable staying power.
Despite years of talk about increasing diversity, chatter about interest in hiring from outside academe and buzz about a coming wave of retirements, college and university presidents in 2016 looked much like they did five years before. They still tended to be aging white men. And they kept getting older
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