University System News:
www.bizjournals.com
Q&A with Georgia State University’s Mark Becker, 2017 Most Admired CEO
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/08/28/q-a-with-georgia-state-universitys-mark-becker.html
Atlanta Business Chronicle in July named our list of Atlanta’s Most Admired CEOs of 2017. They were honored on Aug. 24 at a sold-out awards event at The Foundry at Puritan Mill. Here’s a Q&A with one of the honorees, Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University: Q: What are the keys to CEOs building a high level of trust in their organizations?
www.nytimes.com
Stadium Formerly Known as Turner Field Begins a New Chapter
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/08/28/us/ap-fbc-georgia-state-stadium.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRES
ATLANTA — Call it the chameleon of stadiums. From Olympic track and field to major league baseball to, now, college football, this place has undergone plenty of changes since it broke ground less than a quarter-century ago.
Welcome to Georgia State Stadium.
“It feels like a football stadium” said Panthers cornerback Chandon Sullivan, looking ahead to the next life for this ever-changing structure in the shadow of the downtown Atlanta skyline. “If I wasn’t from Georgia, I would have no idea this was a former baseball stadium. They’ve done an amazing job with it.” Still, this new moniker will take some getting used to. For most folks, the first name that rolls off the lips is Turner Field. Or perhaps they remember that one glorious summer when it was known as Centennial Olympic Stadium. “When you realize the iconic nature of this stadium, the history that’s in this stadium … it’s a fascinating opportunity for us,” said Georgia State athletic director Charlie Cobb, “It’s transformational. It gives us a chance to take a football program that we’re still trying to grow, we’re still trying to develop, and we’ve got as nice of a facility as anybody.”
www.accesswdun.com
UNG ranks fourth in top 10 best four year college in Georgia in study
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/8/575334/ung-ranks-fourth-in-top-10-best-four-year-college-in-georgia-in-study
By Alyson Shields Reporter
The University of North Georgia was named the fourth Best four-year college in Georgia recently by Schools.com. Schools.com said in their report the university posted the number six average net price among traditional and online colleges in the state and ranked number seven nationwide for tuition and fees. UNG offers 74 on-campus and online degree programs, the survey indicated it was one of three schools on the list to offer a full range of “Georgia’s hottest undergraduate majors, which includes nursing, psychology, biology and criminal justice.”
www.statesboroherald.com
Businesses go to campus
Boro Browse offers a sampling of what’s available in town
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/81408/
BY Al Hackle
Dozens of Statesboro businesses came to the Georgia Southern University campus Tuesday of last week to introduce themselves to students. The university’s Office of Student Activities hosts a Boro Browse twice each year, in the fall and spring. Ordinarily, exhibitors set up tables and festival tents outside, in the area around the Rotunda near the Russell Union Student Center. Last week, organizers moved the fall 2017 event indoors because of a forecast rain probability. But 96 exhibitors, including nonprofit organizations and government agencies as well as businesses, still turned out. Their tables filled the Russell Union Ballroom and an adjoining section of the student center’s lobby. …At Boro Browse, some organizations also reached out to students as potential employees. The city of Statesboro was represented by its human resources director, two police sergeants and the new Keep Statesboro-Bulloch Beautiful environmental program coordinator.
www.ajc.com
Georgia Tech suspends ATΩ fraternity for dangerous behavior
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-tech-suspends-at-fraternity-for-dangerous-behavior/X5Si2C3ZEuUEf4UvUVbE3L/
Eric Stirgus The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech has suspended the Beta Iota chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity for at least three academic semesters, according to a letter released Monday. The fraternity conducted “[b]ehavior that endangers any person(s), including self,” according to the three-page letter the Midtown Atlanta university sent late Friday. The behavior wasn’t specified in the letter and a Georgia Tech spokeswoman couldn’t comment Monday on the specifics behind the suspension. Emails and telephone calls to chapter leaders were unanswered Monday. The fraternity has five business days to file a formal appeal of the suspension. Appeals can go as far as the Georgia Board of Regents. This suspension would prevent the chapter from hosting parties and events, participating in intramural sports, community service and philanthropic events. There would be two performance reviews in 2019 and 2020.
www.thegeorgeanne.com
Incidents of unwelcome contact on GS transit buses
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_5c84e3cd-a7e2-5e6e-9f5e-5a0095319931.html
By Blakeley Bartee The George-Anne staff
There are two recent incidents of sexual battery on Gold Route buses on the Crime & Fire Log from GS Public Safety. One was reported on Aug. 17 around 5 p.m., and the next was reported on Aug. 18 at approximately 10:30 a.m. Jan Bond, associate vice president of marketing and communications, released this timely warning at 12:11 p.m. on Aug. 28: “Georgia Southern University Public Safety is investigating reported incidents of unwelcome physical contact with females by an unknown male on the Georgia Southern Transit Buses. “Anyone with information on these incidents is asked to contact the Georgia Southern Police at 912-478- 5234, via the LifeSafe App or the on-line on the anonymous tip line, Eagle Eye Witness, at http://bf.georgiasouthern.edu/publicsafety/prevention/eyewitness/.
Higher Education News:
www.insidehighered.com
Report: 15+ Hours of Work Per Week Can Hold Students Back
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/29/report-15-hours-work-week-can-hold-students-back?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e8317ab6e1-DNU20170829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e8317ab6e1-197515277&mc_cid=e8317ab6e1&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
A report from the ACT Center for Equity in Learning finds that working more than 15 hours per week can be detrimental to the academic success of college students. That conclusion came from a study of first-time freshman tracked over six years in the National Center for Education Statistics’ most recently completed survey of college students’ educational and early career experiences. The students who work more than 15 hours per week also tend to be from underserved backgrounds, the report says, and consequently are less academically prepared than their peers. So, obstacles posed by busy work schedules can further set back students already behind.
www.insidehighered.com
Report: Boosting Quality More Effective Than Tuition Cuts
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/29/report-boosting-quality-more-effective-tuition-cuts?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e8317ab6e1-DNU20170829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e8317ab6e1-197515277&mc_cid=e8317ab6e1&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
A newly released paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that spending on improved educational quality is more effective for degree attainment than using the same funds to cut the cost of tuition. The paper, by Harvard education professor David Deming and University of California-Berkeley economist Christopher Walters, seeks to determine what is the most effective use of public subsidies to help more students graduate college.
www.chronicle.com
Colleges Are Trying a Broad Approach to Autistic Students. What Will That Cost?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Are-Trying-a-Broad/241027?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e5ac962dc94c43f1a887d669211ca3de&elq=0a81d7dfa7ae4fa6bf944b2f51e1a1f9&elqaid=15349&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6548
By Paul Basken
As more and more colleges and universities see surging enrollment of students all along the autism spectrum, they’re trying to figure out ways to identify those students, educate them, keep them on campus, place them in jobs — and then pay for it all.And that need for attention extends well beyond those with autism or even formal diagnoses.
www.insidehighered.com
Why Female Students Leave STEM
Paper finds that bad grades on their own aren’t enough to prompt a change of major, and neither is the environment, but problems arise when those factors compound one other.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/29/study-says-multiple-factors-work-together-drive-women-away-stem?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=e8317ab6e1-DNU20170829&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-e8317ab6e1-197515277&mc_cid=e8317ab6e1&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Nick Roll
Given the complex social, political and economic factors that go into wage gaps and career disparities between men and women, perhaps it makes sense that the disparities in some STEM majors require multifaceted answers as well.In a new working paper, Georgetown University researchers explored what drives women who entered a STEM major to switch to something else. Their findings, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, show that the answer is a complex combination of factors, including the environment, perception of the major and grades. It also showed that previous theories don’t always hold up.