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U.S. News and World Report names GGC as South’s most diverse regional college
School also moves up list of top public colleges
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/u-s-news-and-world-report-names-ggc-as-south/article_01460bba-e9b0-5b18-b70f-7cd326e015c9.html
By Curt Yeomans
Georgia Gwinnett College’s status as one of the top public colleges in the Southeast is on the rise while it remains the most ethnically diverse college in the region in new rankings released this week. U.S. News and World Report ranked the Lawrenceville-based school as the ninth-best public college in the Southeast, which is up one spot from last year’s ranking. The magazine also ranked GGC as the most ethnically diverse regional college in the South for the fourth year in a row. “I would like to thank Gwinnett County elected officials, donors and volunteers for being a part of our progression and for making our improvement an obtainable reality,” GGC President Staś Preczewski said in a statement. …Georgia Gwinnett College is categorized as a regional college.
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Ga. Tech student shot by officer, killed on campus
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/tech-student-shot-officer-killed-campus/cU4dldHd4sCKYS5tjmGIaN/
By Ellen Eldridge and Stephanie Lamm – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An engineering student from Gwinnett County was fatally shot by a police officer on Georgia Tech’s campus Saturday night. The GBI is investigating the incident in which the student, who has been identified by Georgia Tech spokesman Lance Wallace as 21-year-old Scout Schultz of Lilburn, was allegedly barefoot and carrying a knife. At least two students shared cellphone video showing the tense interaction between Schultz and Georgia Tech police officers, Channel 2 Action News reported. Schultz yells at police to shoot and officers respond, “Drop the knife! Drop the knife!” more than a dozen times. “Nobody wants to hurt you,” an officer can be heard saying. “Drop the knife.”
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Georgia Tech student with knife killed by campus police
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-09-17/georgia-tech-student-knife-killed-campus-police
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Georgia Tech student with knife killed by campus police
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/9/583936
www.insidehighered.com
Georgia Tech Police Officer Shoots, Kills Student
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/09/18/georgia-tech-police-officer-shoots-kills-student?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2cf1854c4f-DNU20170918&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2cf1854c4f-197515277&mc_cid=2cf1854c4f&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
www.ajc.com
Shooting of Georgia Tech student stirs old debate, with new questions
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/shooting-georgia-tech-student-stirs-old-debate-with-new-questions/L4ATXB1Ln4leXZdxL7ooqI/
By Christian Boone , Ariel Hart and Ellen Eldridge – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The fatal shooting of a Georgia Tech student on campus late Saturday night has a prompted a state investigation and spurred a national conversation surrounding issues including use of force, mental health and gender identity. Scout Schultz, from Lilburn, was shot once in the heart after a confrontation with four Georgia Tech police officers. The 21-year-old engineering student was brandishing a pocket knife that police said Schultz refused to drop. It was the first officer-involved shooting on Tech’s campus in at least 20 years, if ever, a spokesman for the university said. Questions about what led to the incident and how it was handled outnumber answers at this point.
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Family of Georgia Tech shooting victim demanding answers
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/gbi-georgia-tech-student-killed-by-police-had-knife/610552468
by: Steve Gehlbach, Matt Johnson, Nefertiti Jaquez
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the case of an officer-involved shooting that happened on the campus of Georgia Tech. According to the GBI, the Georgia Tech Police Department responded to a 911 call about a person with a knife and gun in the area of Eighth Street on the campus at about 11 p.m. Saturday. Officers arrived and found Scott Schultz, 21, armed with a knife outside a Georgia Tech dormitory. Schultz was not cooperative and would not comply with officers’ commands to drop the knife, the GBI said. They said Schultz approached the officers, despite continuous commands. The GBI said that is when one of the officers shot Schultz.
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AJC Exclusive: Mom of Georgia Tech student shot by police speaks out
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/ajc-exclusive-mom-georgia-tech-student-shot-police-speaks-out/o2CRkPrqeUp0eV78knyI7M/
Christian Boone
When Lynne Schultz first heard that her oldest child, Scout, had been shot and killed by a Georgia Tech police officer late Saturday night, she assumed it occurred at a protest rally. Scout, she says, was politically active in progressive causes. Scout, a brilliant student despite numerous medical issues, suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago, Lynne Schultz said. …Why didn’t they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?” Lynne Schultz told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday. That’s among the questions the GBI will be asking as the state agency investigates the shooting.
www.nytimes.com
Lawyer: Georgia Tech Police Overreacted by Killing Student
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/09/17/us/ap-us-georgia-tech-student-killed.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — A Georgia Tech police officer overreacted by firing a gunshot that killed a student who investigators say was armed with a knife and ignored commands to drop it, a lawyer for the family said. Campus police killed Scout Schultz, 21, who they say was advancing on officers with a knife. Schultz refused to put down the knife and kept moving toward officers late Saturday outside a dormitory, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. “Officers provided multiple verbal commands and attempted to speak with Shultz who was not cooperative and would not comply with the officers’ commands,” the agency said in a statement. “Shultz continued to advance on the officers with the knife.” Attorney Chris Stewart told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he thinks Schultz was having a mental breakdown and didn’t know what to do. Stewart and the student’s family plan a news conference Monday morning. WSB-TV reported that the item involved, still on the ground when its news crew arrived, appeared to be a “metal, flip-open, multi-tool knife.”
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A Georgia Tech student dies in tragic confrontation with campus police
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2017/09/17/a-georgia-tech-student-dies-in-tragic-confrontation-with-campus-police/
With a child now at Georgia Tech, I’ve been following the shooting death late Saturday night of senior computer engineering student Scout Schultz by campus police. The deadly incident occurred behind my son’s dorm on the west campus. My husband and I had driven past the site only a few hours earlier after a quick visit. This morning we learned from our son that a fourth-year student was fatally shot by campus police, and that other students had witnessed it. Students were reporting Scout Schultz had a knife, and the police had instructed Scout to drop it a dozen or so times before the shot was fired. Videos recorded by Tech students captured the exchanges between the police and Scout as well as the shooting. …The videos generated comments across various social media channels today, many from Tech students or alums. Some wondered why officers couldn’t shoot the student in the leg or arm rather than in the midsection as seems to have occurred. A former firearms instructor posted, “You shoot to stop the threat, and that’s done by shooting center mass. Whether that ends up disabling the threat or killing is beside the point. Never is the intent to kill.” The discussions also include questions like this one in a Tech forum on Reddit: “Why can’t a bunch of police take someone like this down non lethally? Did they tase?” It’s not only Tech students raising that issue. So is the student’s family.
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4 students robbed near Georgia Tech in 2 weeks
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/4-students-robbed-near-georgia-tech-in-2-weeks/610505436
by: Matt Johnson
Georgia Tech students are on alert after the second reported armed robbery near campus in the past two weeks. Police say two armed robbers ambushed two students walking home on Richards Street around 1 a.m. Thursday. Last week, a pair of armed robbers targeted two other Georgia Tech students and a Georgia State student on Mecaslin Street … Emma Browning said she uses the school-approved LiveSafe app, which lets friends electronically follow each other home.“If your friends are watching, then they can call somebody or check in to make sure you’re OK,” she said.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
AU Medical Center patients data possibly compromised by attack on faculty email accounts
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-09-15/au-medical-center-patients-data-possibly-compromised-attack-faculty-email-accounts
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
Nearly five months after it happened, AU Medical Center announced that some patients may have had their personal information compromised by an attack on faculty email accounts, the hospital announced today. The attack known as phishing, where users unknowingly open up legitimate-seeming but phony emails or links that allow a third party to gain access to their email accounts and personal information, apparently happened to two faculty accounts on April 20-21, according to the hospital and Chief Integrity Officer Jim Rush. An investigation concluded on July 18 that a third-party had unlawfully gained access to the accounts and potentially the information. The hospital then had 60 days to report the attack, which was by Friday, and needed that time to look into everyone who may have been affected and set up ways to monitor the accounts and information, Rush said. Letters have gone out to those who might have been affected and provide information on how they can monitor their personal information to see if it is being improperly used. Rush emphasized that there is no evidence that patients’ information was accessed and misused.
www.onlineathens.com
UGA dedicates second phase of new business school complex
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-09-15/uga-dedicates-second-phase-new-business-school-complex
By Lee Shearer
Hundreds of people crowded into a University of Georgia courtyard Friday morning as UGA’s Terry College of Business staged a ceremonial ribbon-cutting for the second of three phases in its “Business Learning Community.” Then, much of the crowd migrated to the other side of the building to watch UGA President Jere Morehead, Gov. Nathan Deal and others in another ceremony — throwing shovelfuls of dirt in a symbolic groundbreaking for the third and final phase of the complex — before breaking off to tour the three new buildings in the complex near the intersection of Baxter and Lumpkin streets.
www.albanyherald.com
Albany State University quietly opens new fine arts center
23-year effort to replace Holley Hall is finally realized at ASU
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/local/albany-state-university-quietly-opens-new-fine-arts-center/article_480abbe9-3fba-5fe9-8de8-6ee04427e45d.html#utm_source=albanyherald.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1505736027&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
By Terry Lewis
One of Albany’s crown jewels quietly opened several weeks ago and, unless you are a student or a member of Albany State University’s Department of Arts and Humanities, you never knew that the university’s new $22 million Fine Arts Center was open for business. Classes are being conducted in the facility, and administrators and faculty are ensconced in their news offices. Fine Arts Chairwoman Marcia Hood gave The Herald an exclusive walk-through of the center’s first floor on Friday. The building, which replaces Holley Hall, is impressive. So why did the university keep the “soft opening” under wraps? “I think the administration wants to make a big splash with the official opening,” Hood said. “Nothing has been finalized yet as far as a date goes, but I know homecoming weekend has been discussed. But nothing is official yet.” Albany State will hold homecoming festivities the week of Oct. 8-14, with the homecoming football game against Morehouse College a highlight. That would likely be the time to cut the ribbon and show off the new facility to returning alumni and the community.
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On Campus Jobs
By Alex Cescutti
The University of West Georgia provides students with several job opportunities on campus that work best with their class schedule so they are able to manage both work and school. These part time jobs/internships allow students to work up to 20 hours a week with an average pay of $8 an hour depending on the job position. Most of these on campus jobs require assistance in Human Resources, Financial Aid, the Bursar’s office, and Information Technology Services. Other jobs may include working for the Dine West program such as Chick-fil-A located in the UCC on campus. The main concern students seem to have about working while off at school is time management. “It’s hard to maintain a job off campus due to my class schedule,” said Amanda Basak. “This job is convenient for me because the university automatically works with my class schedule. They are obligated to work with me.” Basak is an operation assistant at the Coliseum and has worked in this department for the past year. Others students may want a job that pertains to their major and prefer to look into other credible sources.
www.thewestgeorgian.com
New Project Offers Veterans Credit For Prior Learning
By Odera Ezenna
The University of West Georgia’s Center for Adult Learners and Veterans (CALV), has launched a new project to get veterans credit for prior learning based on their Military Joint Services Transcript (JST). The JST provides documented evidence, to colleges and universities, of the professional military education, training and occupation experiences of service members and veterans. It was created by the American Council on Education (ACE) and is accepted by more than 2,300 universities and colleges. ACE put together a panel of faculty members from different colleges and universities around the U.S. to investigate various military pieces of training and determine which ones could be equivalent to college credit. From there, they send out their recommendations to schools. CALV’s new project aims to use these suggestions to help veterans get more credit for the things they already know and avoid repeating courses, thereby speeding up their graduation track.
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ASU Police Department applies for national accreditation
http://www.walb.com/story/36378475/asu-police-department-applies-for-national-accreditation
By Catherine Patterson, Anchor
The Albany State University Police Department is currently applying for national accreditation. Chief John Fields said he’s hired an accreditation manager to help with the process. The department has applied to the CALEA accreditation program. The purpose is to improve public safety services by maintaining certain standards and a sense of professionalism.
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Support for State Free Tuition Programs Grows
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/09/18/support-state-free-tuition-programs-grows?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2cf1854c4f-DNU20170918&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2cf1854c4f-197515277&mc_cid=2cf1854c4f&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Ashley A. Smith
A new poll from the Campaign for Free College Tuition shows support continues to increase for free college tuition programs that benefit academically qualified students.
Support for tuition-free state programs increased to 47 percent — up 12 percent since CFCT started national polling in 2016. The poll also revealed that 78 percent of the public approve of the idea of free college tuition.
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Grade Point Perspective
Colleges must not turn back the clock on efforts to combat sexual assault
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/09/18/colleges-must-not-turn-back-the-clock-on-efforts-to-combat-sexual-assault/?utm_term=.f181773cc735
By Michael S. Roth
When I was a student in the 1970s and 1980s, it was not uncommon for male professors to use their classroom authority to initiate sexual relations with their students. Of course, teachers didn’t see it quite that way, thinking their evident charms just encouraged their young charges to act on their desires. But once activists and authorities put these abusive relationships in the spotlight, it became clear that the sexual attention from those with power to grade them could be an important restriction on students’ educational opportunities. Sexual pressure from those in official positions on campus was often a type of harassment, and in its most blatant forms a civil rights issue … At my university, we regularly review procedures to ensure that adjudication is supportive of those who come forward with reports of being attacked, and that the process is fair in assigning any responsibility to a particular individual. We will pay close attention to the reports filed with the Department of Education in the coming weeks, and we hope to learn from them. It is clear that universities must continue to protect the presumption of innocence and due process for anyone facing serious allegations, even as they protect the rights and well-being of those who have been assaulted. Of course, easier said than done.
www.insidehighered.com
White House to Name Head of HBCU Initiative
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/09/18/white-house-name-head-hbcu-initiative?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2cf1854c4f-DNU20170918&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2cf1854c4f-197515277&mc_cid=2cf1854c4f&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
The Trump administration is expected to name Johnathan Holifield, an author and consultant, the executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. After saying earlier this month that it would delay its annual HBCU Week Conference, the administration plans to hold meetings with key leaders and students from historically black colleges this week. Although the White House would not confirm the appointment ahead of an official announcement, the United Negro College Fund released a statement Sunday saying it had learned Holifield would be named executive director. Michael L. Lomax, UNCF’s president and CEO, said the group looked forward to hearing how Holifield would advance the interests of historically black institutions and ensure more African Americans get the opportunity to attend and graduate college.