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Campus carry attracts opinions, but no problems as school opens
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/campus-carry-attracts-opinions-but-problems-school-opens/k8bJecouDoY8Pc4DygVJOJ/
Eric Stirgus  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There is some consensus among supporters and critics about one aspect of Georgia’s new campus carry law. Both sides say the provision that allows licensed weapon owners to carry guns at tailgating, but not inside athletic venues, needs changes. Those who oppose the law want want guns forbidden at tailgating. The pro-carry fans want the law to provide for a safer place to store guns on campus other than a glove compartment. “I think mixing guns with alcohol is not a good thing, especially with students tailgating,” said Emma Moore, 22, a first-year University of Georgia graduate student from Gwinnett County, tailgating with friends on campus Saturday afternoon. Dallin Larsen, a third-year UGA doctoral student, who is a licensed weapon holder said the rules are too cumbersome. Parking lots can be a long walk from tailgating areas. And the law didn’t make allowances for storing guns on campus. Cars, he said, are the only places where a gun could be stored before entering the stadium. So his plan is to tailgate at a friend’s house off-campus. “A lot of people will decide to not carry to avoid the inconvenience of having to find a proper and secure place to store their firearm before going into the stadium,” said Larsen, 30.

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$1.3 million grant to help nurse practitioner students find job placement
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_0912c63b-7c75-5a3a-9d01-82ea1bbe126c.html
By Brett Daniel The George-Anne Staff
Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing recently received a $1.3 million federal grant that will go toward helping nurse practitioner (NP) students find clinical placement and ultimately permanent employment. The grant will create partnerships between the School of Nursing and five Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in medically underserved communities throughout southeast Georgia. The centers are located in Savannah, Swainsboro, Augusta and Baxley, all of which are currently facing shortages of primary care providers (PCPs). With the money from the grant, the GS School of Nursing has created an Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program, through which NP students can train at the FQHCs, and upon graduation, return to the facilities as certified health care providers if they so choose. The grant’s end goal is to help NP graduates find a place to work, said Marian Tabi, professor and principal investigator of the grant.

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Film industry programs, work keep grads in Savannah
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-09-01/film-industry-programs-work-keep-grads-savannah
By Eva Fedderly
Thanks to state tax incentives for Hollywood filmmakers, the film industry is burgeoning in Savannah, and local students are discovering they don’t need to move to Los Angeles or New York City to find work and shape their careers. “I always thought I’d have to move out of Savannah in order to work in the film industry, but I saw that things were starting taking off,” said Kareem McMichael, a graduate of Savannah State University. “Now I have friends in the business who’ve moved to Hollywood, but moved back to Savannah because they realized they can achieve their goals here.”

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A breath of new life, fresh air at CCGA
http://thebrunswicknews.com/opinion/editorial_columns/a-breath-of-new-life-fresh-air-at-ccga/article_d80e4a5b-325c-5327-8a6d-1521996495f1.html
Reg Murphy
Tired of talking about Donald Trump’s misadventures and horrified beyond words by the troubles caused by Hurricane Harvey? Come along with me. One day this week the local rains took a break and the clouds gave a little relief from the searing August heat and humidity. A pretty young girl (freshman, probably) walking along the pedestrian mall at College of Coastal Georgia flashed a smile and called out, “Hi.” Unusual, that greeting. Most young people  at the college are either too timid or too intimidated to make eye contact or to speak. Soon enough, they will break through that reserve and become much more communicative. Their professors worry about too many of them seeming uninvolved, attributing a lot of it to circumstances where they have grown up — too frequently a lack of worldly ambition and upwardly striving acquaintances. Nevertheless, there is a new air of enthusiasm at the intersection of Altama Avenue and Fourth Street. Most of that relates to the new interim president of CCGA, Meg Amstutz. “A breath of fresh air,” a dean told me. “New enthusiasm,” said a veteran faculty member. Interim or not, she faces a significant challenge: building an administrative team after many of the key officials left in an unhappy period of turmoil in the college’s history. It’s contagious, this new enthusiasm. You see it in the bustle of the bookstore, some enrollment growth and that eternal problem with colleges: where to find a parking space?

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SGSC LEADS IN ENROLLMENT PERCENTAGE GROWTH
http://douglasnow.com/index.php/education/item/4564-sgsc-leads-in-enrollment-percentage-growth
South Georgia State College (SGSC) President Dr. Ingrid Thompson-Sellers recently announced that SGSC led University System of Georgia (USG) institutions with the largest percentage growth in enrollment for the summer 2017 semester. According to a USG report released earlier this month, SGSC’s summer enrollment was 12.8 percent higher than 2016’s summer enrollment numbers. SGSC was followed by the College of Coastal Georgia, Georgia Tech, the University of North Georgia and Georgia Southwestern State University to round out the top five institutions that experienced the largest percentage growth. “Our positive growth is the result of a successful marketing effort we launched earlier this year, which included traditional marketing efforts, conversations with community partners and families and an enhanced enrollment experience for students through improved processing,” said Thompson-Sellers. Thompson-Sellers said the new marketing approach requires SGSC to make sound decisions based on data-driven evidence. She said the college has realized an increase in new student applications for the fall 2017 semester as well as an increase in students who demonstrate the need for financial assistance.

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UGA’s Dr. Christopher Whalen Honored with Beckman Award for Teaching Excellence
http://athensceo.com/news/2017/09/ugas-dr-christopher-whalen-honored-beckman-award-teaching-excellence/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=6bc489a54a-eGaMorning-9_5_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-6bc489a54a-86731974&mc_cid=6bc489a54a&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
Staff Report From Athens CEO
For the second time in three years, a University of Georgia professor has been honored with the Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for teaching excellence. Dr. Christopher Whalen in the College of Public Health was one of eight professors nationwide selected for the honor. The award is given to faculty members who inspire their former students to “make a significant contribution to society,” typically in the form of an organization that substantially benefits their communities. “I commend Dr. Whalen for this achievement and for the lasting impact he has made on global health through his outstanding teaching and mentoring,” said UGA President Jere W. Morehead. Whalen is the Ernest Corn Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and director of UGA’s Global Health Institute. As a physician-epidemiologist, he is one of the leading international researchers studying HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis transmission in Africa. Joining the faculty at the College of Public Health in 2008, Whalen brought with him a program he established at Case Western Reserve University to train Ugandan health professionals in the scientific disciplines necessary to address the infectious disease crisis in their home country and throughout Africa. His program continues to thrive at UGA, supported by a $1.9 million grant from the Fogarty Training Center at the National Institutes of Health.

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Cooperative extension, civic leader Tal Duvall dies
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-09-01/cooperative-extension-civic-leader-tal-duvall-dies
Talmadge “Tal” Clifton DuVall, civic leader, businessman and military veteran who served more than 30 years in the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, died Aug. 21 after a brief illness. He was 84.

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National Football Foundation to honor Peterson
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/3/article/81489/
AP is coming home. The greatest running back to ever set foot in Paulson Stadium will return to his old nest for the Eagles’ home opener as Adrian Peterson Georgia Southern University and The National Football Foundation (NFF) & College Hall of Fame will jointly honor him with an NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salute, presented by Fidelity Investments. The Salute will take place on Saturday, Sept. 9, during the Eagles’ game against New Hampshire. …”What an amazing honor to be recognized for such a prestigious award,” Peterson said. “I am grateful for the chance to represent my hometown of Alachua, Florida, and my parents, Porter and Reatha Peterson, who set me up for success from the very start. Thank you, Georgia Southern University, for the opportunity to further my education and receive a college degree while playing the game of football. Lastly, sincere thanks to the committee for considering me worthy and allowing me to join such an elite class of men.” Peterson will be recognized on the field at the end of the first quarter as a representative of the Hall will present Peterson with his plaque in front oh his home fans. Georgia Southern will be wearing special helmets for Military Appreciation Day, but will honor Peterson by having every player don the No. “3” on both sides of their helmet as opposed to their jersey number like usual. Peterson’s No. 3 jersey is retired at Georgia Southern and he still stands as the NCAA’s Division I all-time leading rusher with 6,559 yards in regular-season contests. He is already a member of GS’s Athletics Hall of Fame and was a four-time All-American for the Eagles.

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The Trump administration is rescinding DACA
http://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/the-trump-administration-rescinding-daca/I1meTBA8qhyzWev15Lg1bI/
Jeremy Redmon
The Obama administration program that is shielding nearly 800,000 young immigrants from deportation in Georgia and across the nation and allowing them to work legally in America will be canceled in six months, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday. By not immediately scrapping the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the Trump administration is giving Congress time to come up with “legislative solutions” for Dreamers, the nickname given to immigrants who were brought here as children without authorization. The Trump administration reached its decision after attorneys general from 10 states – including three of Georgia’s neighbors, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee – threatened to sue in federal court to stop DACA unless the president took action to phase it out by Tuesday. The government added that it would not revoke DACA benefits for those who have them now.  But any new DACA applications filed after Tuesday will be rejected.

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International Enrollments: From Flat to Way Down
Amid concerns about visas and the political environment, some institutions are maintaining or even increasing their enrollment numbers, but many report drops, some by as much as 30 to 50 percent for new students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/05/some-universities-are-reporting-declines-international-enrollments-ranging-modest?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ba820df5e-DNU20170905&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ba820df5e-197515277&mc_cid=6ba820df5e&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Elizabeth Redden
After years in which American universities enjoyed steady growth in numbers of foreign students, many institutions expect international enrollments to be flat or down — in some cases significantly — this fall. In interviews with officials at about two dozen universities, no consistent, unifying trends emerge, but some are reporting a slowdown in the flow of students from China and declines in graduate students from India, two countries that together account for nearly half of all international students in the U.S. Universities also continue to feel the effects of the declines in enrollments of Saudi Arabian students that began in 2016, after the Saudi government tightened up some of the terms of its massive scholarship program. At many colleges, declines in international enrollment not only detract from the educational experience, they also impact the bottom line. At many colleges, most or all international students pay full price for tuition — and, at public colleges, they typically pay higher out-of-state tuition rates — so even modest declines may still translate to significant financial impacts for colleges.

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Education Dept. Ends Partnership With CFPB
The agency this week quietly ended a collaboration with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to share information about student loan complaints.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/05/education-dept-rebukes-cfpb-overreach-kills-information-sharing-agreement?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ba820df5e-DNU20170905&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ba820df5e-197515277&mc_cid=6ba820df5e&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By  Andrew Kreighbaum
When Education Secretary Betsy DeVos touted her commitment to oversight of higher education this week, the fact that her department was cutting back involvement with one of the most active federal regulators went unmentioned. In a letter rebuking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for overreaching and expanding its jurisdiction, the department said it would end two agreements between the agencies to share information for oversight of private actors involved in federal aid programs — chief among them student loan servicers, the private entities that manage and collect payments on federal student loans. CFPB had failed, the letter said, to turn over complaints from student borrowers to the department within 10 days as specified in their deal and had intervened in those cases itself.”Our goals are to ease the burden for borrowers and to enhance the efficiencies of our servicers — not to complicate the federal student loan process with potentially inaccurate and inconsistent directives,” wrote Kathleen Smith, acting assistant secretary for postsecondary education. “The department entered into the [memorandums of understanding] in reliance on the CFPB’s commitment to helping each agency fulfill its respective duties. Instead, the CFPB is using the department’s data to expand its jurisdiction into areas that Congress never envisioned.”

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White House Delays HBCU Conference
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/09/05/white-house-delays-hbcu-conference?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ba820df5e-DNU20170905&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ba820df5e-197515277&mc_cid=6ba820df5e&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
The White House said Friday it would delay an annual conference for historically black colleges and universities that had been scheduled for mid-September.
Congressional Democrats and multiple organizations representing HBCUs have called in recent weeks for the event to be delayed until after the White House names the executive director of its HBCU Initiative. They also called for more action related to Trump’s March executive order on historically black colleges, such as “developing a meaningful plan of action with concrete commitments to invest in and advance HBCUs,” as the United Negro College Fund said in its letter to the administration.
While the conference is postponed, the White House said it would instead meet with a small number of HBCU leaders and students on strategic issues.

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Fairness Questioned
New report from FIRE says many colleges’ disciplinary systems deny students due process.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/05/new-report-ranks-colleges-due-process-protections?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=6ba820df5e-DNU20170905&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-6ba820df5e-197515277&mc_cid=6ba820df5e&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
Few of the nation’s most prestigious institutions have created policies that ensure fair disciplinary procedures for students — especially around sexual misconduct — according to one prominent watchdog group for free speech and civil rights in academe. The new report from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, assesses and assigns letter grades to the policies of 53 colleges and universities, a list pulled from U.S. News & World Report rankings. These grades from FIRE come at a time when campus adjudication processes are under scrutiny, particularly when they concern sexual assault. Betsy DeVos, President Trump’s education secretary (and a FIRE donor), has publicly mulled changes to federal guidelines the Obama administration established directing how colleges should judge sexual assaults. FIRE’s new ratings are intended to serve as much as a tool for influencing colleges as for informing the public.

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Congressman Plans Bill to Push Colleges to Deal with Hate Crimes
http://diverseeducation.com/article/101010/?utm_campaign=DIV1709%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20SEP1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — In an effort to clamp down on hate crimes on campus, a U.S. Congressman announced plans Thursday to introduce a bill that would deny federal financial aid to colleges and universities that don’t develop adequate plans to respond to hate crimes. Institutions of higher education would also be required to educate students about what makes hate crimes unique from constitutionally protected speech.