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Libby Morris tapped as UGA’s interim provost
http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180622/libby-morris-tapped-as-ugas-interim-provost
By Staff Reports
University of Georgia President Jere Morehead recently named Libby Morris as interim senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. Morris starts in her new role on July 16. A seasoned administrator and prolific scholar, Morris directs UGA’s Institute of Higher Education and holds the Zell Miller Distinguished Professorship of Higher Education. “I want to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. Morris for her willingness to serve once again in this critical role,” said Morehead. “The University of Georgia is on a remarkable trajectory to new heights of excellence, and Dr. Morris will help ensure our great momentum continues and our major initiatives move forward during the national search for a permanent provost.”
www.gainesvilletimes.com
Georgia Tech’s ties to Hall County go beyond enrolling students
University president speaks to Gainesville crowd
https://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/georgia-techs-ties-hall-county-go-beyond-enrolling-students/
Bud Peterson came to Gainesville last week to shake some hands, talk up Georgia Tech and do a little fundraising. But the university president’s visit to Gainesville — the last stop on a summer tour of Georgia cities — was motivated by a more basic reason. In 10 years of doing the tours, Peterson said he noticed “there are a lot of people around the state that really don’t know that much about Georgia Tech. We are a public institution, supported by the state … and we need to represent the whole state.” He met with about 80 alumni and others Thursday, June 21, at Scott’s Downtown restaurant in Gainesville, giving updates on key programs and initiatives — especially those with local impact.
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Savannah becomes official state stop for logistics technology corridor
Savannah’s designation as a logistics technology innovation corridor became official Friday with a gathering for local and state officials at city hall. The Georgia legislature approved the designation this year with the recommendation of a state Senate study committee report completed in late December 2017 that looked at incentives for technology growth and for locations for corridors … Advantages for the area include the Georgia Ports Authority, Georgia Tech, Gulfstream and the quality of life, officials said … Task force members include Russ Clark with Georgia Tech … Emily Butler with Georgia Tech … and Theresa Atkins with Georgia Tech.
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Delta First to Participate in Georgia Tech Sustainability Program
The Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business has announced that Delta Air Lines will be the first participant in the center’s Corporate Sustainability Program (CSP) Executive Council. Through the CSP, the center seeks to collaborate with leading companies that share a vision for developing sustainability leaders and shaping a new economy that offers a more sustainable future for all. The center, with a growing reputation as a regional center of expertise since its inception in 2014, launched the CSP to deepen ties between Georgia Tech and select corporations that demonstrate a commitment to environmental and social sustainability.
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Georgia Tech creating haven for health tech entrepreneurs
https://www.georgiahealthnews.com/2018/06/georgia-tech-creating-haven-health-entrepreneurs/
Andy Miller
Georgia Tech’s startup incubator is targeting health technology entrepreneurs, thanks to a contribution from a Blue Cross-owned health IT company. Atlanta-based NASCO, which is owned by several Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, is donating funding for Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) for its HealthTech initiative. That program, which will formally launch next month, is helping build companies working on the issues of population health, caregiver support, billing fraud, precision medicine, genomics, medical devices, diagnostics, data analytics, and process improvements in drug research.
www.13wmaz.com
Fort Valley State University earns accreditation
An outside agency has lifted an accreditation warning from Fort Valley State University.
Fort Valley State University doesn’t have to worry about losing its accreditation. Last year, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges found problems with the school’s programs, financial stability, and facilities, among other things. It placed the school under a warning, but they lifted it last week.
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Dr. Johnny Evans on Opportunities for ABAC and Tifton to Benefit Rural Georgia
Dean of Arts and Sciences at ABAC Dr. Johnny Evans talks about working with local communities to meet education and healthcare needs of rural Georgia.
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UNG Gainesville: Eastern box turtle inspires students, faculty
By AccessWDUN Staff
Armed with her antenna and receiver, Dr. Jennifer Mook intently listened for a beeping sound to increase in volume as she trekked through Tumbling Creek Woods on the north side of University of North Georgia’s Gainesville Campus searching for an eastern box turtle. This is a normal occurrence for Mook, associate professor of biology at UNG. But this summer, she had an unexpected trio join her on an excursion. Heather Foster, limited term faculty of visual arts at UNG, and students Kati Hornick and Aida Alarcon wanted to see the box turtle in its natural habitat for inspiration. The trio was creating paintings and ceramic sculptures to adorn the Science, Engineering and Technology building on UNG’s Gainesville Campus. The biology-influenced art is one of ten faculty Undergraduate Summer Engagement projects. In its eighth year, FUSE pairs faculty and students together in full-time research projects for seven weeks.
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Beth Farokhi, prominent Georgia educator and Democrat, dies at 70
By Jeremy Redmon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Beth Farokhi, a prominent educator with deep roots in Georgia and a former Georgia state school superintendent candidate who was active in the Democratic Party, died at her home in Kennesaw on Friday from ovarian cancer. She was 70. An eighth-generation Georgian, Farokhi worked for 24 years at Georgia State University, where she coordinated curriculum development in the College of Education. …While at GSU, she established a women’s leadership program, founded and published an international gender equity newsletter and held leadership roles with the American Association of University Women.
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Opinion: Higher Education in America Finds Itself on a Slippery Slope
Our great research universities risk getting left behind
http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/opinion-higher-education-america-finds-slippery-slope
Norman Augustine
A decade ago I chaired a committee that was established on a bipartisan basis by members of the House and Senate to assess America’s future economic competitiveness. The committee’s 20 members included CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, former presidential appointees, presidents of major public and private universities and three Nobel laureates. Upon completion of our work, two of our members joined the then-president’s Cabinet, one as secretary of Energy and the other as secretary of Defense. The document we produced, which became known as the “Gathering Storm Report,” concluded that the top two priorities for America to remain competitive in the global marketplace were to strengthen education and to double our investment in basic research.
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The State Department wants to limit Chinese student visas. Its plan goes too far.
By Andrew Hamiton
To protect U.S. technological discoveries, the State Department is beginning a new practice this month: giving consular officers increased discretion to restrict visas for Chinese graduate students in certain important high-tech fields to one year. Concerns about the theft of scientific advancements made in U.S. labs — often paid for by American taxpayers — are not fantastical conspiracy theories. And I would know. Five years ago , here at New York University, we discovered three researchers whose nonclassified research on magnetic resonance imaging was being handed over to entities in China. We alerted the authorities, resulting in arrests by the U.S. attorney’s office.
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Costs of starting and not finishing college are high
By Christopher Quinn
It pays, literally, to finish what you start when it comes to education. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, who have 1,800 economists, policy experts and others at their disposal to study, monitor and describe U.S. economic health, say that a post-high-school degree — any degree from an associate to a Ph.D. — is the key to boosting earning. And the higher the degree, the higher the paycheck. The facts are there to be measured, even for those who believe the cost of an education exceeds the long-term payback. But for some Georgians, the initial cost can be an insurmountable obstacle.