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UGA enrollment up sharply to new record
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-11-07/uga-enrollment-sharply-new-record
By Lee Shearer
University of Georgia enrollment shot up by nearly 3 percent from last year — setting another enrollment record. The university’s official fall 2017 enrollment is 37,606 students, according to statistics released by the University System of Georgia. UGA added 1,032 new students this year, more than enough to fill a big new student housing development that opened downtown. …UGA has now grown its enrollment by about 9 percent in the past four years, adding 3,070 students. Long-term demographic changes also continued at UGA, according to enrollment statistics released by the university system. The University System of Georgia is the state’s 28 public colleges and universities, including UGA.

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Clayton State sees growth in fall 2017 enrollment
http://www.news-daily.com/news/clayton-state-sees-growth-in-fall-enrollment/article_d68d8860-f6ae-56f6-95a4-cd6b4db89a19.html
From Staff Reports
MORROW — Official fall 2017 enrollment numbers released by the University System of Georgia show Clayton State University grew to 7,003 students. This is a slight increase from 2016 from 6,996 students, according to CSU officials in a press release. Overall, the state college and university system increased by 1.1 percent, reaching a record level enrollment for the system. Clayton State University admitted 560 incoming, first-time freshman, up from 531 in 2016. The number of students who transferred to Clayton State also increased to 802, more than the 732 who enrolled the previous year. As part of Clayton State’s five-year strategic plan, enrollment management and admissions has worked to increase enrollment, retention and graduation rates. So far, the plan has generated positive results as overall undergraduate enrollment increased by 7.2 percent.

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Special Report: The New ASU battles enrollment, other issues
http://www.wtol.com/story/36759568/special-report-how-do-fewer-asu-students-impact-the-community
By Mike Fussell, Reporter
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – “It’s a four part process that basically details my call to action for Albany State,” Jaylon O’Neal, a student at ASU, explained, as he pointed out notes on a pad of paper.  O’Neal has what he calls an ‘Untouchable Plan.’ “The institution and the community have a very bitter disunion with each other,” O’Neal said. The Albany State student is hoping to fix that. He’s proposing more campus interaction with community groups, like the Good Life Drum Circle, among other suggestions to preserve the university’s history.  Administrators said they hear student’s concerns.  “They have answers,” Marion Fedrick, ASU Interim Executive Vice President, said. “They have questions, but they have answers with those questions. So, we’re going to be listening to them a lot.” But that resource, the student body, is growing smaller as each semester passes.

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UGA event mixed science with football to entertain, inspire
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-11-06/uga-event-mixed-science-football-entertain-inspire
By Lee Shearer
Science met football fans Thursday, with better than expected results. Reni Kaul wondered if anyone would show up at Saturday’s “STEMzone 2017,” an array of booths and exhibits showcasing some of the research going on at the University of Georgia. “We were planning for maybe 100,” she said. Kaul had also worried she’d only get a handful of student groups to set up displays or activities. In the end, more than a dozen groups showed up at the event set up on the Miller Learning Center lawn on the University of Georgia campus before Saturday’s football game in nearby Sanford Stadium. Hundreds of people showed up for Kaul’s event, many of them children.

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Middle Georgia State University works to make Macon campus safer
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/local/middle-georgia-state-university-works-to-make-macon-campus-safer/489291486
Mary Grace Shaw, WMAZ
Middle Georgia State University is trying to make its Macon campus safer for students to get around. On Tuesday, Bibb commissioners could enter into an agreement with the school to use SPLOST funds to make pedestrian safety improvements. Charles Lentz is a student at Middle Georgia State University and he says sometimes getting to class can be a struggle. “The speed limit is 35 mph, but they don’t really pay attention to it most of the time, so there are times when you’ll be halfway through the road and somebody comes flying up,” said Lentz. Lentz lives in the university apartments across the street, but he says even though he lives right next to campus, it is not always easy to get there. …He says he has almost been hit by a car several times because cars come flying down Ivey Drive — the road that separates the apartments and the campus. “Very rarely do we have no traffic on the road. There’s usually always somebody coming through,” said Lentz. That is why he says he was happy the school is trying to do something about it.

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CCGA board of trustees member resigns following national anthem protest
http://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-board-of-trustees-member-resigns-following-national-anthem-protest/article_27daffa2-ea7c-5282-b3b4-c835ba5b38b1.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The College of Coastal Georgia Foundation’s Board of Trustees lost a member this weekend in response to men’s and women’s basketball players’ and some coach’s decision to kneel during the national anthem before a game last week. Luis Haza announced in an email sent just after midnight Monday to Meg Amstutz, interim president at CCGA, and Kevin Salaway, vice president of advancement at CCGA, that he was resigning from the college foundation’s board of trustees.

Higher Education News:
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The Disappearing American Grad Student

By NICK WINGFIELD
There are two very different pictures of the students roaming the hallways and labs at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. At the undergraduate level, 80 percent are United States residents. At the graduate level, the number is reversed: About 80 percent hail from India, China, Korea, Turkey and other foreign countries. For graduate students far from home, the swirl of cultures is both reassuring and invigorating. “You’re comfortable everyone is going through the same struggles and journeys as you are,” said Vibhati Joshi of Mumbai, India, who’s in her final semester for a master’s degree in financial engineering. “It’s pretty exciting.”

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How a Clash Over ‘Safety’ Pitted a College President Against His Police Chief
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-a-Clash-Over-Safety-/241658?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
By Steve Kolowich
Campus police officers are supposed to make students feel safe. Last spring, amid protests, students at Evergreen State College began to see the the police as a threat. And George S. Bridges, the president, seemed to sympathize with them. The clashes at Evergreen State, which made national news, marked the convergence of many current themes in higher education — particularly relating to how colleges struggle to make students of color feel welcome and supported. Does emotional safety matter as much as physical safety? Who gets to decide which is more important? When might the priorities of law enforcement be out of step with the values of a liberal-arts college? During the spring, a rift began to open between Mr. Bridges and Stacy Brown, the campus police chief. Here’s a set of documents and video clips that show how tension built between the two officials as the campus fell deeper into disarray.