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Georgia Board of Regents member to resign at end of year
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-board-regents-member-resign-end-year/EmC5Lm3uvvPEiSPu4t9UWI/
Eric Stirgus
Larry Walker has been a municipal court judge, a state lawmaker, a state transportation board member and, most recently, a member of the Georgia Board of Regents. Walker, 75, is looking to add another title to his long resume: retired. Walker said in a telephone interview Wednesday he will resign at the end of the year from the Board of Regents, which oversees the University System of Georgia’s 28 public colleges and universities.
www.rollingout.com
Atlanta Metropolitan State College leads in enrolling first-generation students
Atlanta Metropolitan State College leads in enrolling first-generation students
By Yvette Caslin
According to Atlanta Metropolitan State College President Gary A. McGaha, they have “a rich history that is tied to the City of Atlanta for which it is appropriately named.” Having full accreditations by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), they are an “institutional leader when it comes to impact and opportunity for community residents. As such, 94 percent of the students who attend AMSC are Georgia residents and 65 percent of the individuals in this group are first-generation college students. The college has a campaign called Connecting the College to the Community that is designed to enhance educational attainment for community residents. AMSC is also very proud of our increasing number of comprehensive collaborative relationships with school systems and community partners throughout Metropolitan Atlanta,” he said.
www.thebrunswicknews.com
CCGA seniors take part in signing the sails tradition
http://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-seniors-take-part-in-signing-the-sails-tradition/article_5089475b-40ad-5adf-b6e0-194326427393.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
Evidence of College of Coastal Georgia’s significant growth over the last several years can be found hanging daily in the Campus Center building. Since 2014, CCGA seniors have signed a picture of the college’s symbolic white sails, before they walked across the graduation stage to receive their diploma. The picture is then matted, framed, and hung up for others to admire. Through the years, since the tradition began, the number of signatures on the sails has nearly doubled. …“It’s kind of cool, if you look … how sparse the first one was and now they’re much fuller,” said Brian Weese, coordinator of career services at CCGA, who had this year’s sails out on Wednesday for students who’ll graduate in December to sign. The sails will have more than 400 signatures this year, he said.
www.walb.com
ASU students teaching in DCSS schools
http://www.walb.com/story/36956517/asu-students-teaching-in-dcss-schools
By Amanda Hoskins, Reporter
Officials at Albany State University have been working to get their students more involved in the South Georgia community. On Wednesday, education students spent time at one Dougherty County Elementary School. “I just love the kids and I love their energy and there’s always something that you can learn from them,” said Alyssa Carter, a senior education student at ASU. Carter is learning from elementary students in Live Oak Elementary School about how she could become a successful educator. At the same time, students at Live Oak Elementary learned from her, and some 40 other aspiring teachers. Wednesday was a trial run for a program ASU is hoping to launch with the school system.
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ASU Police give students holiday crime warnings
http://www.walb.com/story/36937248/asu-police-give-students-holiday-crime-warnings
By Jim Wallace, Anchor
Albany State University Police are urging their students to remember crooks are looking for easy targets during the holidays. ASU Police Chief John Fields sent out reminders to students to be aware both on campus and off. He said a student walking with headphones and texting looks like an easy target to a snatch thief. Police also reminded students to take valuables out of their cars when they park them and lock their doors.
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UGA picks two counties for cybersecurity initiative
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/11/29/uga-picks-two-counties-for-cybersecurity.html
By Dave Williams – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia will be working with two Georgia counties in a new pilot project aimed at helping local businesses and community agencies protect themselves against cyber attacks. Faculty from UGA’s Institute for Cybersecurity and Privacy and other university departments will meet with business and civic leaders from Hart and Griffin/Spalding counties to look for ways to promote data security. “With nationally recognized faculty and an extensive statewide network, UGA is uniquely positioned to help individuals, businesses and local governments identify ways to safeguard their critical data and infrastructure,” UGA President Jere Morehead said. UGA and Georgia Tech are the only two universities in the state to be designated national centers for cyber defense research by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency.
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Memorial set for Cobb brothers killed on holiday drive back to college
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/memorial-set-for-cobb-brothers-killed-holiday-drive-back-college/AOfVbIZo0RAQvXYFaYk1XL/
Ben Brasch Ty Tagami The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A memorial service has been scheduled to honor the Cobb County brothers who died driving on I-16 heading back to school at Georgia Southern University after Thanksgiving. The service for Deacon Harris, 20, and 18-year-old Garrett Harris — both Navy JROTC members at Allatoona High — will be Saturday at 4 p.m. at Cauble Park on Lake Acworth, according to a spokesman for the family.
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Chris Spielman lawsuit expands to 89 colleges including Georgia Tech, UGA
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/11/29/chris-spielman-lawsuit-expands-to-89-colleges.html
By Laura Newpoff – Reporter, Columbus Business First
The Chris Spielman vs. Ohio State University lawsuit just got a whole lot bigger. In July, the former Buckeyes linebacker sued the school and its sports marketing agency, IMG, on behalf of past and current OSU football players, accusing them of profiting from “commercial exploitation of their images.” On Tuesday, an amended complaint was filed that expands the class action lawsuit beyond Ohio State and now involves all 89 schools that have contracts with IMG. That includes the Georgia Institute Of Technology and University of Georgia. The original lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Columbus and named as “co-conspirators” Nike USA Inc., which makes licensed OSU apparel, and American Honda Motor Company Inc., which sponsored a series of banners with former star players’ names and photos hanging in Ohio Stadium. You can read more about the school’s relationship with IMG here. Ohio State has the third-largest college marketing deal in the country, and is one of three schools to get more than $10 million a year in exchange for advertising rights. Spielman’s long-time agent Bret Adams told me the amended complaint was necessary because Ohio State is attempting to move the case to the Ohio Court of Claims so it could argue immunity based on being a state government university.
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House Republicans Eye Sweeping Changes in Higher Education Act
https://www.chronicle.com/article/House-Republicans-Eye-Sweeping/241908?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=e7a90126d023405d8fc18c43746efe52&elq=3edf5e53519a4c379982e68b29aa8ecf&elqaid=16887&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7318
By Adam Harris
Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are expected to release a bill this week that would reauthorize the federal law governing higher education, the Higher Education Act of 1965, and it includes several significant changes, according to The Wall Street Journal, which reviewed a summary of the proposal. Among the changes in the overhaul package from the U.S. House’s education committee, led by Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, are a plan to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, the Fafsa, and cap the amount that students may borrow. And it would end a loan-forgiveness program for public servants who have made payments on their loans for 10 years. The bill would repeal the gainful-employment regulation, a thorn in the side of for-profit colleges, which is slated to undergo negotiated rule-making next week and be rewritten. The House Republicans’ bill also would expand job-training and apprenticeship opportunities, which have been championed by the Trump administration and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The bill would also maintain the ban on a unit-record system, which would foster the tracking of students’ attainments and has seen a groundswell of bipartisan support. And while funding levels for historically black colleges and minority-serving institutions would remain flat with 2017 appropriations levels, the bill would tie Title III and Title V federal funds to institutions’ ability to graduate or transfer 25 percent of their students.
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‘Apple-esque’: New Student-Aid Mobile App Earns Oohs and Ahhs
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Apple-esque-New/241910?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=729aabc245c44fe4a11af729da02e522&elq=3edf5e53519a4c379982e68b29aa8ecf&elqaid=16887&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=7318
By Andy Thomason
The U.S. Education Department demonstrated its recently announced student-aid mobile app on Wednesday morning, and attendees at the demo were bowled over — though some expressed reservations about whether it was feasible. The new app, which Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced on Tuesday, would come with a host of features that impressed advocates for simplifying the financial-aid process. Among those features: the ability to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or Fafsa, on a phone; the ability to manage a borrower’s federal student loans in the app; and the ability for students to check their credit score.