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Ga. Nursing School Boosts Training Locations Because of Lack of Physicians
http://www.hhnmag.com/articles/8450-nursings-dirty-little-secret-ga-nursing-school-boosts-training-locations-because-of-lack-of-physicians
H&HN Staff
Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing is ramping up efforts to replace demand for physician care with nurse practitioners. The Statesboro, Ga.,-based school received a $1.3 million grant for a federal Advanced Nursing Education Workforce project that will try to create academic-practice partnerships, according to the school. The partnerships will prepare nurse practitioners for service in rural and underserved communities in Southeast Georgia by increasing the number of training locations by using Federally Qualifed Health Centers as training location points.

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Athens students get head start with UGA intern program
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-07-10/athens-students-get-head-start-uga-intern-program?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=278a20555d-eGaMorning-7_11_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-278a20555d-86731974&mc_cid=278a20555d&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Lee Shearer
While many students use summer vacation as an opportunity to earn some extra cash with part-time jobs, or just lounge about until the next school year starts, a handful of Clarke County high school students used this summer to get a head start on careers in science and agriculture. The seven students — one from Clarke Central High School, six from Cedar Shoals — are among 59 statewide participating in the University of Georgia’s “Young Scholars” program. Sponsored by UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the program brings in bright Georgia students from throughout the state for a six-week paid internship on UGA campuses in Athens, Tifton and Griffin, where the program began 27 years ago. The program is run by the college’s Office of Diversity, which tries to recruit students from under-represented groups, but the program is open to any qualified student, said Victoria David, director of the college’s Office of Diversity. …One aim is to show students interested in science that they can pursue scientific interests in the field of agriculture.

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Concealed handguns allowed at local public colleges
http://www.covnews.com/section/12/article/203946/
Duane M. Ford
As of July 1 weapons carry license holders may carry concealed handguns in certain places on public college campuses. License holders are responsible for knowing their campus’ policies and for finding out exactly where on campus they can and cannot carry a concealed handgun. They then need to plan ahead so as not to carry a weapon into a prohibited area and otherwise comply with the law. License holders who violate the law are guilty of a misdemeanor. Those who are not license holders and who violate the law are guilty of a felony. Two public colleges have campuses in Newton County, Georgia State University (GSU) and Georgia Piedmont Technical College (GPTC). Each has established similar, but slightly different, guidelines for the implementation of HB 280.

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Deep Partisan Divide on Higher Education
In dramatic shift, more than half of Republicans now say colleges have a negative impact on the U.S., with wealthier, older and more educated Republicans being least positive.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/11/dramatic-shift-most-republicans-now-say-colleges-have-negative-impact?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2a59d973a3-DNU20170711&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2a59d973a3-197515277&mc_cid=2a59d973a3&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Paul Fain
Republicans have soured on higher education, with more than half now saying that colleges have a negative impact on the United States. An annual survey by the Pew Research Center on Americans’ views of national institutions, released this week, found a dramatic attitude shift on higher education among Republicans and people who lean Republican, with the change occurring across most demographic and ideological groups. Two years ago, 54 percent of Republicans said colleges had a positive impact on the country’s direction, with 37 percent rating higher education negatively. That ratio shifted to 43 percent positive and 45 percent negative last year. The latest version of the survey, conducted last month among 2,504 adults, for the first time found a majority (58 percent) of Republicans saying colleges have a negative effect, compared to 36 percent saying they have a positive effect. A gradual increase in the number of Democrats and Democratic leaners who view higher education positively helped counterbalance the increasingly negative take by Republicans. In the latest version of the survey, 72 percent of Democrats viewed colleges positively (up from 65 percent in 2010) compared to a negative response from 19 percent this year.

www.chronicle.com
How Colleges Give Students a Flawed Sense of Living Costs
http://www.chronicle.com/interactives/cost-of-living?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=d65d2a4176344771a51c5f6475aab694&elq=e8a47982c385433ba5c0c9f49abdc288&elqaid=14651&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6194
By Ben Myers
How much will it really cost to go to college? Institutions can provide students and parents with a pretty clear picture of what they’ll pay in tuition and fees, and they can give students living on campus the exact price of room and board. But those are pieces of a bigger puzzle. Other expenses — those associated with housing, food, health care, and transportation, for example — can be much harder to calculate. Still, colleges are required to at least try. According to a federal mandate, they must tally those costs of living as part of an overall “cost of attendance” figure. The problem is that their estimates can be wildly off base, leaving students with an inaccurate picture of the real price tag for their college aspirations. As a result, many students might find their budgets tighter than they expected, or take out more in loans than they need.

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Call for More Transparency on College and Careers
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/07/11/call-more-transparency-college-and-careers?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2a59d973a3-DNU20170711&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2a59d973a3-197515277&mc_cid=2a59d973a3&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Paul Fain
The number and variety of postsecondary credentials, providers and occupations are multiplying rapidly, finds a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, but a lack of good information about college and careers “drives the higher education market toward mediocrity.” The stakes are high for students to make the right decisions, the center said. Yet many college graduates are showing buyer’s remorse, with more than half saying they would choose a different major, go to a different college or pursue a different credential if given the chance.

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How Will the Feds Protect Student-Loan Borrowers in the Future? 2 Visions Are Aired
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Will-the-Feds-Protect/240588?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=2bc70f63f82e4b4ea6dd197c94d61f4e&elq=e8a47982c385433ba5c0c9f49abdc288&elqaid=14651&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6194
By Adam Harris
WASHINGTON
The Education Department announced in June that it would delay and renegotiate a pair of Obama-era regulations aimed at reining in abuses by colleges. And Monday marked the tipoff of that process. Advocates for students and college groups came here, to the department’s headquarters, on Monday to voice their concerns or support for the decision. Some chided Betsy DeVos, the education secretary, for rolling back the gainful-employment and borrower defense-to-repayment rules; others praised the actions, arguing that renegotiation would help make the process fairer for institutions. And all of those who spoke shared their thoughts of what the consumer rules should be. Through nearly seven hours of comments, the recommendations tended to fall into one of two categories: Carry out the rules as written, or renegotiate the rules to ensure “equity” across all sectors.

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Proposal Would Require International Students to Reapply for Permission to Stay
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/07/11/proposal-would-require-international-students-reapply-permission-stay?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2a59d973a3-DNU20170711&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2a59d973a3-197515277&mc_cid=2a59d973a3&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Elizabeth Redden
The Department of Homeland Security is discussing a proposal to require international students to reapply for permission to stay in the United States every year, a proposal that, if enacted, would create new costs and paperwork burdens and could dissuade international students from coming to the U.S., The Washington Post reported. The Washington Post article quotes two anonymous senior officials with knowledge of the proposal, which is being put forward on national security grounds. It notes that the plan is preliminary, would require regulatory changes that would take at least 18 months to put in place and could require the agreement of the Department of State, which issues visas abroad, whereas the Department of Homeland Security monitors students once they’re in the U.S. The Post says that some senior officials are concerned that student visas, which allow students to transfer from one program to another and to switch degree levels, are too open-ended, and are also considering changes that would require students to reapply for permission to be in the United States after a specific end date associated with their program.