University System News:
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
College presidential openings aplenty in Georgia
By Eric Stirgus
Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson’s announcement Monday that he plans to retire this year gives potential job seekers another option for anyone, who’s qualified of course, interested in leading a college in Georgia. Here’s a breakdown of some of the current and impending openings: …Georgia Gwinnett College – Stanley “Stas” Preczewski announced in September he plans to retire at the end of the academic year. …Georgia Southern University – Jaimie Hebert’s last day on the job as president was June 30. …Savannah State University – Cheryl Dozier, who has president since 2011, announced last week she’s retiring at the end of June.
Statesboro Herald
GS president hiring possible this week
Official pronouncements don’t say how many applied
AL HACKLE
The campus-based search committee sent a short list of applicants deemed qualified to be Georgia Southern University’s next president to the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia before the end of 2018.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech in search of new leader
By Eric Stirgus
Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson has a long to-do list before he retires this year, such as restoring confidence that Tech has strong ethics regulations in place after a recent scandal involving some former top officials; filling several vacancies on his leadership team, and improving student mental health and counseling services after two recent apparent suicides. Peterson announced his departure plans Monday, the first day of the new semester, after 10 years for which he leaves a record of some successes but recent criticism about his leadership and questions about Georgia Tech’s future. In recent months, Peterson fired several top officials, accepted the resignation of others and reorganized his leadership team after state and internal audit reports found several problems such as an administrator who was paid to serve on the board of a German-based company that Tech was paying for services and another official who had a school vendor pay for a football suite he used largely for friends and family. In a telephone interview Monday with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Peterson said he was not under pressure from state officials, trustees or donors to leave. Peterson said he wanted to resolve some of the ongoing problems. He wants to hire a chief financial officer, vice president of compliance, ethics and legal affairs and a communications director before he leaves.
See also:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Georgia Tech President to Retire After Controversy Over Administrators’ Ethical Lapses
The Washington Times
Georgia Tech president says he plans to retire this summer
WSB-TV
Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson announces his retirement
WABE
Georgia Tech President Announces Retirement
The News Tribune
Georgia Tech president says he plans to retire this summer
Albany Herald
Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson announces retirement
Peterson has served 10 years as the school’s president
Gwinnett Daily Post
Georgia Tech president Bud Peterson announces retirement plans
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia films shut out of Golden Globes winner’s circle
By Eric Mandel – Digital Producer , Atlanta Business Chronicle
Although Georgia is the backdrop for more films than most anywhere else in the world, the Peach State was left out of the winner’s circle during Sunday’s Golden Globes awards. Celebrated Georgia-filmed TV shows “Stranger Things” and “The Walking Dead” released new seasons in 2018, and Pinewood Studios Atlanta’s credits included work with Marvel Studios blockbusters “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” However, Pinewood Studios in London performed foley and sound mixing for award-winning “Roma,” a movie distributed by Netflix Inc. …Though movies and TV shows filmed in the Peach State were left out of the winner’s circle, actors with ties to the city saw a little love. …Business of Film 2018
Jeffrey Stepakoff, executive director, The Georgia Film Academy. View Slideshow
Gwinnett Daily Post
As Gwinnett’s bicentennial fades into sunset, Lawrenceville’s looms on horizon
City turns 200 in 2021
By Curt Yeomans
A bicentennial is something that comes after a two hundred year wait, but while Gwinnett County just celebrated one, Lawrenceville residents only have to wait three years to do it all over again. After a year of frequent talk about Gwinnett County’s 200th birthday culminated in a birthday party on Dec. 15, the city’s residents might think all of the bicentennial talk is over with. They would be wrong to do so. One bicentennial in Gwinnett has come and gone, but another one is on the horizon in the county seat. That’s because Lawrenceville — whose position as the county seat helps sets it apart from other Gwinnett cities — will celebrate its own bicentennial on Dec. 15, 2021. …Lawrenceville Female Seminary to Georgia Gwinnett College The city has also had a long history with education, dating back to the 1830s. …Lawrenceville later became a college town in 2006, when Georgia Gwinnett College opened on Collins Hill Road. The four-year college quickly grew and now has an enrollment of more than 12,000 students. It also offers 17 majors with more than 45 academic concentration areas. The city is currently developing a “college corridor” to connect Georgia Gwinnett’s campus to downtown Lawrenceville.
Tifton Gazette
Abraham Baldwin Ag College prepares for spring semester
Preparations are underway at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College for the largest spring semester enrollment in the history of ABAC. Director of Enrollment Management Donna Webb said 3,754 students are currently registered for the spring term which begins on Jan. 8. “This number is quite fluid since we still have an orientation, and classes haven’t even started yet,” Webb said. ABAC’s previous high enrollment during the spring semester was in the spring of 2009 when 3,234 students enrolled. ABAC enrolled 3,085 students in the spring of 2018. “I think it’s great,” ABAC president David Bridges said. “With our multiple instructional sites, we cover up South Georgia and Southwest Georgia. The merchants should be happy because these students will spend money on everything from pizza to gasoline.”
Cision
OnlineCollegePlan.com Ranks Online Pre Med Schools
For those of us who are out of loop, it may come as news that there is no set major for pre med. Instead, the students who aspire to go to medical school must pick an undergraduate major that will help them to prepare for their exams and fulfill all of the prerequisites for medical school. Typically, the majors that are most appealing are the natural sciences. This includes chemistry, physics, and biology. Of course, majors in mathematics or engineering could meet their needs providing that they fill in those science blanks with some electives. OnlineCollegePlan.com recently ranked the best colleges where students can complete a pre med appropriate major online in an article titled The Top 20 Best Pre Med Colleges. You can read it here: …In order to be featured here, schools must have had a program that was at least partially online, be properly accredited, and operate as a nonprofit institution. Afterwards, the schools were scored according to their freshman retention and graduation rates. …18. University of West Georgia
PennWatch
Top 50 Best Value Undergraduate Business Schools
Value Colleges (www.valuecolleges.com), an independent online guide to the best values in undergraduate and graduate education, is pleased to share their Top 50 Best Value Undergraduate Business Schools. Value Colleges ranking of the Top 50 Best Value Undergraduate Business Schools works to guide students to the business bachelor’s programs that provide the best overall return on investment. Value Colleges used three data points to determine the ranking:
publisher and student reviews
annual total costs (IPEDs data)
early career salaries (payscale.com data)
The full list, in alphabetical order, can be found below.
Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business …University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
The Red & Black
UGA financial degree ranked in the top 20 nationwide
Alex Soderstrom | News Editor
The University of Georgia’s bachelor’s degree in finance is ranked No. 20 in the nation for 2019, according to a recent ranking by Bachelor’s Degree Center. The list ranks the top 25 bachelor’s in finance programs in the United States, including both public and private universities. According to the website, the rankings are based on U.S. News & World Report rankings, Niche review scores, graduation rates and graduate employment rates for each program. UGA has the fourth-highest ranked program in the southeast
The Washington Post
Early college admissions by the numbers
Survey finds fall applications to prestigious schools growing.
By Nick Anderson
For many colleges, early applications are becoming the new normal … There are basically two types of early applications. One, known as “early action,” allows those admitted to continue applying and shopping until May .. The other, known as “early decision,” requires admitted students to enroll unless the college does not offer adequate financial aid. Applicants, parents and counselors must sign an early decision agreement that spells out the binding commitment. Some schools use two rounds of early decision in addition to a regular round … Below are charts with preliminary early application data for the Class of 2023 at selected schools on U.S. News & World Report lists of top national universities and liberal arts colleges. These totals reflect only first-round data — for applications due in October or November — even though several schools offer further chances for early admission in the winter … Georgia Tech (35 – U.S. News Rank) 20,288 (fall early application total) +12% (application total change)
WGAURadio
By: Alan Flurry, UGA
The National Institutes of Health has awarded University of Georgia researchers $1.956 million for a high-resolution mass spectrometer that will enhance capabilities for scientists in many fields across campus. The award by the NIH High End Instrumentation program, which provides grants in the range of $600,000 to $2 million for a variety of expensive instrumentation, including MRI imagers, electron microscopes, DNA sequencers, and mass spectrometers, was one of 30 awards made in the program, and one of only six mass spectrometer requests funded in the 2018 cycle. The grant funded a 12 Tesla Bruker Solarix FTMS, a high-resolution mass spectrometer capable of measuring molecular weights with precision accuracy that can be applied to molecules ranging in size from small metabolic products to intact proteins and protein complexes. It can also provide molecular structure through a multidimensional analysis method known as tandem mass spectrometry. The instrument will be used to support research in metabolomics and glycomics, the analysis of genetic, physiologic and pathologic aspects of sugar molecules involved in all biological process from modulating cell function to determining cancer development.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three UGA players named to freshman All-America team
Georgia had more players on the FWAA Freshman All-America team than any other school in the country.
Patch
Brian Kemp To Be Sworn-in As New Governor At Georgia Tech
After winning the nation’s most watched governor’s race, Brian Kemp will be inaugurated next Monday on the campus of Georgia Tech.
By Tim Darnell, Patch Staff
After winning the nation’s most watched governor’s race last November, Brian Kemp will be inaugurated as Georgia’s new governor in one week, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. Kemp, an avid University of Georgia fan, is holding his swearing-in ceremony on the campus of Georgia Tech in Midtown, at the McCamish Pavilion. He will make his inaugural address at 2 pm in Georgia Tech’s basketball arena … Kemp’s inauguration is the same day as the opening of the 2019 Georgia General Assembly. For the first time in more than eight years, the state has a new governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state and other top elected and appointed leaders. Even though Democrats gained 13 legislative seats in the 2018 elections, mainly due to GOP retirements, Republicans still hold large majorities in both the House and Senate. The GOP also controls every statewide elected office.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
Overhauling Rules for Higher Ed
The Education Department’s proposals for upcoming negotiated rule-making process would narrow the responsibilities of accreditors and modify federal definitions for credit hour and distance education.
Andrew Kreighbaum and Paul Fain
In a package of highly detailed proposals set to be released today, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos delivers on a promise to limit the authority and scope of higher education accreditors, the organizations that serve as gatekeepers for federal student aid. The Trump administration wants to clarify that the Education Department — and not accreditors — is responsible for enforcing federal student aid rules, and would give the agencies more latitude to approve and encourage innovative programs, particularly ones featuring online or competency-based education. The proposals, which Inside Higher Ed obtained (see box) and which are set to be released today, would lower the bar new accrediting agencies would have to clear for federal approval and give colleges more latitude to make changes without their accreditor’s permission. However, the department also wants to restrict the scope of regional accreditors and to blur the distinction between those organizations and national accrediting bodies, which historically have tended to attract fewer selective or established colleges. And it would add new requirements that accreditors seek input from employers on their standards.
Inside Higher Ed
Sandler, ‘Godmother of Title IX,’ Dies at 90
By Scott Jaschik
Bernice Sandler, who held positions in government and in academic associations in which she advocated for gender equity in education, died last week at the age of 90. Sandler was widely called the “godmother of Title IX” for her work on the landmark legislation.