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Town Hall meetings requested before Georgia Southern enfolds Armstrong
Final consolidation vote by Regents may happen in December
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/82821/
By Al Hackle
Georgia Southern donor and alumnus Burney Marsh asked the University System of Georgia Board of Regents to hold town hall meetings presenting the final plan for Armstrong State University’s consolidation into Georgia Southern before a final vote. Marsh, who is also a part-time instructor in the Georgia Southern’s writing and linguistics department, has received a reply from a regents’ staff member, but not a promise of town hall meetings. Meanwhile, the time remaining before that vote appears to be winding down. The prospectus developed by the Consolidation Implementation Committee of the two universities was submitted Sept. 1 to the regional accrediting organization, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, or SACS, and is slated to be considered by SACS’ Commission on Colleges when it meets Dec. 2-5. A January 2018 confirming vote of the Board of Regents was predicted when the board set the consolidation process in motion last January, but the regents could meet by conference call during December if SACS first approves, a university system spokesman said this week.
www.mdjonline.com
TRISTAN DENLEY: Merits of Complete College Georgia
http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/tristan-denley-merits-of-complete-college-georgia/article_b6e51bfa-d1a6-11e7-b75d-5ff011711170.html
The Complete College Georgia initiative since its inception in 2011 has stayed true to its name, challenging Georgia’s public universities and colleges to develop student-focused strategies that expand the number of graduates annually earning degrees. It is, in a nutshell, a concentrated effort to enable more of the state’s citizens to be successful learners. The work so far has produced the intended results. A record 64,937 students graduated from a University System of Georgia institution this year, the sixth consecutive annual increase and up 18 percent from 2011. While the number of enrolled students, too, reached a record-high this year, the growth in successful graduates from the university system has far outpaced the increase in student population. Better yet, all students have benefited from this Complete College Georgia work. Since 2011, the number of minority student graduates has increased more than 40 percent, again far outpacing the underlying increases in enrollment.
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40 under 40 Awards: University System of Georgia’s John Fuchko III
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/11/10/40-under-40-awards-university-system-of-georgias.html?ana=e_mc_prem&s=newsletter&ed=2017-11-27&u=xw%2BDRjRaikB6EdaliSJBWQ0ae2f198&t=1511791500&j=79239711
By Tonya Layman – Contributing Writer
John Fuchko III, 39
University System of Georgia
John Fuchko III was raised in a household where emphasis was put on public service. A lieutenant colonel in the Georgia Army National Guard and battalion commander for the 221st Expeditionary Military Intelligence Battalion, Fuchko also serves as University System of Georgia (USG) vice chancellor for Organizational Effectiveness. There he oversees USG’s institutional consolidation efforts, enterprise risk management, compliance and ethics, athletics oversight and management review, among other activities.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
AU sets record in freshmen enrollment
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-11-25/au-sets-record-freshmen-enrollment
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
Ashlee Cooper, 18, is a former high school basketball player, but the triple-double at Augusta University that she contributed to has nothing to do with the game. Cooper, a beginning freshman from Dalton, Ga., helped the university achieve double-digit growth this fall in three key enrollment areas and is part of a historic number of freshmen from outside the Augusta area, a university official said. AU saw a 12.8 percent increase in new freshman applications over the previous year, a 10 percent increase in acceptances and, most importantly, an 11.3 percent increase in new freshman enrollment, with a class of 875 students. Cooper is among 436 in that class, almost half, who are from outside Augusta. “That is our highest out of area population in institutional history,” said David Barron, associate vice president for enrollment services.
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University of North Georgia junior helps rescue man from French river
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/11/608565/university-of-north-georgia-junior-helps-rescue-man-from-french-river
By AccessWDUN staff
Kele Howerton would not describe herself as a hero, but others would. The 19-year-old University of North Georgia student helped rescue an unidentified man from drowning in the Rhine River near Strasbourg, France, while on her study abroad program in July. Howerton, a junior majoring in information systems, is being recognized for her heroic efforts by the UNG Public Safety department.
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Proposed tax bill might hurt UGA grad students, athletics
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-11-24/proposed-tax-bill-might-hurt-uga-grad-students-athletics
By Lee Shearer
Cash-strapped University of Georgia graduate students and the school’s athletics department might face a hard hit from tax reform legislation working its way through Congress. Under a proposed reform agenda passed by the House of Representatives last week, graduate students would have to count tuition waivers as taxable income, which they don’t now. Graduate students who are working as research or teaching assistants often get tuition waivers as part of the aid package a college offers. That could add up to thousands of dollars in taxes owed, UGA graduate student Johnita Daniel told the UGA University Council executive committee recently as committee members discussed whether the council should go on record as opposing some of the sweeping changes called for in the bill.
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Gwinnett resident, Georgia Tech grad wins award for sustainability leadership
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/gwinnett-resident-georgia-tech-grad-wins-award-for-sustainability-leadership/article_56f948ff-38e3-57bd-a77a-65c2cf0c5da2.html
From Staff Reports
A Buford resident and recent Georgia Tech graduate was recently honoredfor her work developing a natural herbicide to manage weeds in a safe and sustainable way. Grace Brosofsky, who founded the Engineers for a Sustainable World Natural Herbicides Project at Georgia Tech, received the Student Sustainability Leadership Award for outstanding achievement and progress to sustainability from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. Brosofsky’s award, one of 10 selected from 230 entries, was announced at the opening ceremonies of AASHE’s annual Conference & Expo in San Antonio, Texas, on Oct. 23. According to an AASHE news release, entries were judged on overall impact, innovation, stakeholder involvement, clarity and other criteria.
www.thebrunswicknews.com
CCGA ranked among best institutions for veterans
http://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-ranked-among-best-institutions-for-veterans/article_e941532c-27a3-595f-aab8-3fbf5a2cfd38.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
College of Coastal Georgia was recently recognized as one of the country’s best institutions for veterans. “Military Times” placed CCGA on its list of “Best for Vets” colleges for the third consecutive year. CCGA ranked No. 5 in Georgia and No. 70 in the nation.
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UNG: Olmsted grant doubles, funding more overseas trips for cadets
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/11/609441/ung-olmsted-grant-doubles-funding-more-overseas-trips-for-cadets
By AccessWDUN staff
For many college students, their first experience traveling out of the country is through a study abroad trip. For University of North Georgia cadets, a $20,000 grant from the Olmsted Foundation will help fund overseas cultural immersion trips, such as conference participation. Opportunities for UNG cadets funded by the grant include events such as foreign defense academies’ international weeks, the annual International Military Academic Forum in Europe or the Model UN Conference. “The Olmsted Scholarship has given me the opportunity to go to Brno, Czech Republic and attend a Defense Economics Course and experience European culture,” said Cadet Capt. Jackson Howard, a junior from Jefferson, majoring in kinesiology with a teacher certification emphasis. “I was able to learn more about the military in other countries and see what they do that is different from the U.S. military.”
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UGA engineering facilities slated for $11 million in renovations
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-11-24/uga-engineering-facilities-slated-11-million-renovations#
By Lee Shearer
The University of Georgia will spend more than $11 million to upgrade facilities for its growing College of Engineering. According to documents filed with the state Board of Regents, about a fourth of the space in the Driftmier Engineering Center will be renovated as the first phase in a makeover of the 81,600-square-foot building that houses the engineering school. The university also plans to convert about 21,500 square feet of its Boyd Graduate Studies Research Center into research, office and support space for the engineering college’s graduate programs in electrical and computer engineering. The estimated cost for the Boyd renovation is $5.75 million, and the Driftmier renovation will cost about $5.5 million, according to the documents.
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UGA scientist named AAAS Fellow
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-11-23/uga-scientist-named-aaas-fellow?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=0893ed6cb0-eGaMorning-11_27_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-0893ed6cb0-86731974&mc_cid=0893ed6cb0&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Allyson Mann
University of Georgia crop and soil sciences professor Wayne Allen Parrott has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed by his peers for “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.” …“Selection as an AAAS Fellow is a major milestone in a scientist’s career, and thus the University of Georgia is enormously pleased that three of our faculty have been selected for this honor,” said David Lee, UGA vice president for research. “This peer recognition is important to our faculty, and it also brings added distinction to the university.”
www.chronicle.augusta.com
Drug that could help in fighting particular form of leukemia involved in AU clinical trial
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-11-26/drug-could-help-fighting-particular-form-leukemia-involved-au-clinical-trial
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
Even though she is sitting up in a hospital bed awaiting chemotherapy, Coline Corbitt, 58, looks good and she insists she feels well. “Everybody knows she has leukemia except her,” joked her husband, Bruce. She is also getting the benefit of taking part in a clinical trial at Augusta University for a drug that could her help in fighting off her particular form of leukemia. High levels of an enzyme known to thwart the immune system, a discovery made in Augusta nearly two decades ago, are enough to put a patient at high risk of dying from an aggressive leukemia, researchers at AU have found. The results could not only lead to a test to help identify those patients at diagnosis but also to a treatment that Corbitt is already receiving.
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United Negro College Fund Analysis Show the Economic Impact of the Nation’s HBCUs
United Negro College Fund Analysis Show the Economic Impact of the Nation’s HBCUs
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) released a new report on the economic impact historically Black colleges and universities have on the nation’s economy. The study prepared by the University of Georgia’s Selig Center for Economic Growth, found that the nation’s HBCUs contribute nearly $15 billion to the nation’s economy.
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STEM Students Shortchanged in Entrepreneurship Classes
A study argues the old teaching methods just aren’t working. Here’s a better way.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stem-students-shortchanged-in-entrepreneurship-classes-1511751600
By Alina Dizik
Colleges may need to rethink the way they teach tech students about entrepreneurship. In a recent study, researchers looked at business students and science, technology, engineering and math students about to enter entrepreneurship courses. Both groups started off with equal entrepreneurial knowledge, and STEM students even had a slight edge in terms of how many hours of entrepreneurship education they were able to take. Yet after taking those entrepreneurship courses, STEM students had only slightly higher intentions of launching startups than before. Business-school students demonstrated a greater increase in intention after taking courses.