University System News:
www.walb.com
UGA Tifton renovations help attract more students
http://www.walb.com/story/35820588/uga-tifton-renovations-help-attract-more-students?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=a0ea57d9d3-eGaMorning-7_6_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-a0ea57d9d3-86731974&mc_cid=a0ea57d9d3&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Re-Essa Buckels, Reporter
Educators at the UGA Tifton campus said recent renovations will make the school more attractive to students, and increase enrollment. The University of Georgia has spent $5 million to preserve one of its oldest buildings, the Animal and Dairy Science building. For the past six months, construction crews have revamped the decades-old building that’s been vacant for 12 years. Animal and Dairy Science faculty and other departments will move into the space once its completed. It will have much-needed lab space for undergrad and graduate students.
www.ajc.com
Guns on campus: Will college students seek conceal carry permits now?
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/guns-campus-will-college-students-seek-conceal-carry-permits-now/R4hjKARZYMtQjw5J0FPabP/
Nathan Harris The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Georgia’s campus carry law was being debated in the Legislature this spring, some opponents suggested that allowing guns on college campuses may drive students who otherwise would not carry to get a carry permit. How true is that now that the law went into effect Saturday? Will students rush to courthouses until everyone is packing, or will the percentage of those carrying on campus merely reflect the current percentage off-campus? First off, just how many people are carrying? Using the most accurate data available, from a 2011 Government Accountability Office report due to Georgia’s exemption of carry permit numbers from open records, roughly nine percent of all those in Georgia that are old enough to carry do. Assuming that percentage holds true for the estimated 53.5 percent of Georgia students 21 years or older, there’s roughly 25,500 college students in Georgia that carry. But will that number increase now that guns are legal?
www.news.wabe.org
Ga. Tech, Piedmont Scientists Develop 3-D-Printed Heart Valves
http://news.wabe.org/post/ga-tech-piedmont-scientists-develop-3-d-printed-heart-valves
By TASNIM SHAMMA
Heart valves are the tubes that carry blood through your heart. As we age, sometimes they get clogged and need to be replaced. To help cardiologists pick the right size of prosthetic valves, researchers at Georgia Tech teamed up with scientists at the Piedmont Heart Institute to develop 3-D-printed heart valves. At Georgia Tech’s Manufacturing Institute, industrial and systems engineering professor Chuck Zhang showed off a large, black machine that looks almost like an oversized office scanner.
www.savannahnow.com
Former football assistants file lawsuits against Georgia Southern
http://savannahnow.com/news/sports/local-colleges/2017-07-05/former-football-assistants-file-lawsuits-against-georgia
By Nathan Deen nathan.deen@savannahnow.com
Former Georgia Southern co-offensive coordinators David Dean and Rance Gillespie have filed individual lawsuits against the Georgia Southern University Athletic Foundation, head football coach Tyson Summers and multiple administrators, including athletics director Tom Kleinlein, according to a USA Today story Wednesday night. Dean and Gillespie allege that Georgia Southern breached their football contracts when they were fired in December after just one season with the school in which the Eagles struggled offensively.
Higher Education News:
www.chronicle.com
Silence From the Secretary, Despite Major Rules Changes
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Silence-From-the-Secretary/240542?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=acbb5474023b421c9bd602a33b8425e6&elq=1995b7b5682c4e9996c4fea800a21e8b&elqaid=14608&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6173
By Adam Harris
It has been a month since Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has spoken publicly about higher education. During a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on June 6, Ms. DeVos spoke in support of the Trump administration’s budget. Senators from both sides of the aisle criticized the proposal, which calls for steep cuts to a range of education programs, as “difficult” to defend. Still, Ms. DeVos fielded questions from the lawmakers for more than two hours. “To have no real access to the people who are making those decisions is a big problem.” Since the hearing, the Education Department has announced major changes. On June 14, Ms. DeVos announced the delay and renegotiation of two key Obama-era consumer regulations aimed at reining in abuses by for-profit colleges. And later in the month, speaking at a closed meeting of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, the secretary suggested that higher education’s foundational law should be scrapped.
www.insidehighered.com
How Higher Ed Would Feel Medicaid Cuts
Medicaid cuts in proposed Senate GOP health-care legislation would mean bigger tabs for teaching hospitals and less state support for public universities.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/06/senate-health-care-bill-bad-news-teaching-hospitals-and-universities-groups-say?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3fb47e1314-DNU20170706&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3fb47e1314-197515277&mc_cid=3fb47e1314&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
When states began opting in to Medicaid expansion after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, among the beneficiaries were the teaching hospitals that train doctors and nurses and serve a disproportionate share of low-income patients.
But if the U.S. Senate’s proposal to replace the ACA goes through, higher education groups say, those teaching institutions could take a large hit to their bottom lines because of serious Medicaid cuts. In addition, the pressures those reductions would put on state budgets likely will lead to less support of public higher education, the groups warned.
www.insidehighered.com
Dude, Women Know Stuff
New paper explains effort to fight gender bias in political science, and, perhaps, in other disciplines as well.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/07/06/new-paper-editorial-board-womenalsoknow-explains-initiative?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3fb47e1314-DNU20170706&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3fb47e1314-197515277&mc_cid=3fb47e1314&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Colleen Flaherty
“We are political scientists. We are women. We know stuff. And we are deeply concerned about the implicit bias in our profession that minimizes and marginalizes the voices of women.” So begins a new paper from the female political scientists behind the discipline’s Women Also Know Stuff movement. Its seeks increased representation of women and their research in disciplinary discussions, decisions and events.