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Regents eye $54.4 million budget increase
http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2015-09-14/regents-eye-544-million-budget-increase
By LEE SHEARER
The state Board of Regents might ask state lawmakers to increase funding for the University System of Georgia by around 3 percent. The board, the governor-appointed body that sets policy for the state’s 30 public colleges and universities, plans to consider that budget request during its regular meeting today in Atlanta. According to a proposed maintenance and operations budget request prepared by University System of Georgia planners, the Regents should ask for about $2.1 billion in state funding for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

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Regents make it Augusta University
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2015-09-15/regents-make-it-augusta-university?v=1442314987
By Walter Jones and Tom Corwin
Staff Writers
ATLANTA – It took three years but one of the most popular choices for a consolidated school now graces Augusta’s hometown college. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents voted this morning to rename the school from Georgia Regents University to Augusta University, changing a name that angered residents and alumni alike, replacing it with one of the top choices from a $45,500 survey the school paid for prior to the original vote in 2012. The vote was unanimous with no discussion, The name change is effective immediately.

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So long, Georgia Regents. Hello, Augusta University
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/so-long-georgia-regents-hello-augusta-university/nnfgk/
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Regents University is no more. The state Board of Regent voted unanimously Tuesday to change the name of the research institution to Augusta University. The name change is effective immediately. The GRU name has long been a point of contention in the Augusta community since the Regents consolidated Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences universities and name the new institution Georgia Regents in 2012.

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Georgia Southern University Presidential Search Committee Named
http://wjbf.com/2015/09/14/georgia-southern-university-presidential-search-committee-named/
WJBF Staff
ATLANTA, Ga.- Board of Regents Chairman Neil Pruitt has announced the formation of the two committees required by regents’ policy to conduct a national search for the next president of Georgia Southern University. In July, former Georgia Southern President Brooks Keel was appointed president of Georgia Regents University. “I want to thank our Georgia Southern University stakeholders for their commitment to the institution, the University System and the State of Georgia by serving on the presidential search committee,” said Pruitt. “Led by Regent Lori Durden, who lives in Statesboro, there is comprehensive representation of faculty, staff, alumni, students, the foundation, the Statesboro community and the Board of Regents, and their roles in this search are critical to the future of Georgia Southern University.” The Special Regents’ Search Committee will be chaired by Regent Lori Durden and include Regents Ben Tarbutton III, Kessel Stelling, Scott Smith, Don Waters, Larry Walker and Neil Pruitt.

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Georgia Southern gets many voices in search for new president
GSU-educated regent leads one committee; other almost all local
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/70068/
By Al Hackle
To search for the next president of Georgia Southern University, the state Board of Regents has created two committees, one made up of seven of its members and the other of 17 representatives of the university and the Statesboro area plus the director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget. The search is starting about three months after Dr. Brooks Keel, Georgia Southern’s president for more than five years, left in early July to become president of Georgia Regents University in Augusta. The larger, campus-based committee is slated to meet Sept. 30 to be assigned its responsibilities. Georgia Southern and Statesboro are prominently represented even on the seven-member Special Regents’ Search Committee. Board of Regents Chairman Neil Pruitt chose 12th District Regent Lori Durden, a Statesboro resident with two degrees from Georgia Southern, to chair the committee.

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Which Georgia college gives the best return on investment?
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/education/low-cost-georgia-university-leads-high-incomes-rep/nnd7q/
Lauren Colley, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Institute of Technology offers a notable bang for your buck, according to College Scorecard. The White House recently unveiled the website that, unlike traditional sources such as U.S. News & World Report, doesn’t rank schools. College Scorecard instead provides “the clearest, most accessible, and most reliable national data on college cost, graduation, debt, and post-college earnings.” Based on the database, and with median earnings of $74,000 in 10 years after entering the university, Georgia Tech is in the top 10 percent of:
• four-year schools with low costs that lead to high incomes
• four-year schools with high graduation rates and low costs and
• four-year colleges with high graduation leading to high incomes.
Georgia Highlands College was also highlighted as a two-year college where students earn high salaries after graduation.

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Keel’s Crystal Ball: GRU President Discusses The University’s Future
http://wjbf.com/2015/09/14/keels-crystal-ball-gru-president-discusses-the-universitys-future/
By Marlena C. Wilson
Dr. Keel gave his take on the future of the university’s name. The name Georgia Regents University Augusta did not come without controversy. Many Augusta residents, students, and alumni were against the university’s new name. Some were upset that Augusta was not included in the name while others simply did not like the name Georgia Regents University. We asked Dr. Keel about the possibility of the name changing once more.

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Now simpler to go to college while in high school
Students, parents learn how to ‘Move On When Ready’
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/70058/
By Al Hackle
Schools and colleges in Bulloch County are taking steps to inform parents of two new Georgia laws that give high school students more opportunities than ever before to complete as much as two years of college – free of tuition and most fees – while in high school. About 50 students and 100 parents attended the first of two countywide information meetings. It was held after school hours Sept. 3. The second session is scheduled for 10 a.m. until noon Thursday, also in the Statesboro High School Auditorium. …The Move On When Ready Act of 2015, passed as Senate Bill 132, consolidates Georgia’s previous dual enrollment programs. These included Accel, which paid high school students’ tuition for approved college and university academic courses, and the dual enrollment HOPE Grant, often used at technical colleges. The new MOWR Act also replaces an older law of the same name that allowed 11th- and 12th-graders to apply credits from certain college courses to high school graduation requirements.

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UGA Listed as Top Contributor to Teach for America
http://athensceo.com/news/2015/09/uga-listed-top-contributor-teach-america/
Staff Report From Athens CEO
Thirty University of Georgia graduates have committed to teach in high-needs schools across the nation through the competitive Teach for America program. They will join 4,100 other recruits this year, tying UGA as the No. 14 contributor to Teach for America among large universities. Teach for America, part of the AmeriCorps national services network, recruits and develops college graduates and professionals who make a two-year commitment to teach in high-needs rural and urban schools across the country. Only 15 percent of this year’s 44,000 applicants, with an average GPA of 3.4, were admitted to the program.

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White House unveils college scorecard, changes to FAFSA
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/white-house-unveils-college-scorecard-changes-to-f/nnfCh/
Janel Davis, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Obama administration unveiled tools over the weekend designed to help college students make better choices when applying to college, and allowing them to apply for financial aid earlier. The new College Scorecard allows parents and students to compare colleges in an online database featuring information on colleges’ annual costs, graduation rates and salaries after graduation. The scorecard replaces President Barack Obama’s original idea to rank the country’s colleges and universities, which was scuttled after pushback from presidents at many of those schools. The College Scorecard includes no rankings or grades for schools, but does provide information, such as salaries after graduation, that had not been readily available before. Based on the scorecard database, Georgia Tech and Georgia Highlands College were among schools where students earn high salaries after graduation.

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GSU starting telemedicine nurse program
http://www.wjcl.com/news/local-news/gsu-starting-telemedicine-nurse-program/64591430/story
By Carlie McGuire
STATESBORO, Ga, (WJCL) — Georgia Southern University Associate Professor Dr. Melissa Garno says Georgia ranks 45th in the country for access to mental health care. “There’s a critical shortage of mental health providers,” she said. But thanks to a federal grant recently awarded to the university, a new nursing track at GSU could change that.

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Skidaway Institute Scientist at North Pole
http://www.wtvm.com/story/30030004/skidaway-institute-scientist-at-north-pole
By WTOC Staff
VANNAH, GA (WTOC) – University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography researcher Chris Marsay is literally standing on top of the world. Marsay arrived at the North Pole earlier this month for the U.S. GEOTRACES Arctic Expedition, on board a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.

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Arrest Made in CSU Student’s Death
http://www.wtvm.com/story/30030190/arrest-made-in-csu-students-death
By Semone Doughton
A man remains in jail tonight, accused of killing a 19 year-old woman in East Alabama late Sunday. Columbus State University Freshman Mariah Farrow was gunned downed at 16th Street and 10th Court just before midnight.
Phenix City Police arrested Farrow’s ex-boyfriend 18-year old Demetrius Dorsey in connection with the crime. He was charged with murder and taken to the Russell County Jail.

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Georgia legislators question lottery payouts to HOPE
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By WALTER C. JONES MORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA | Legislators seeking more revenue for the HOPE Scholarship probed Lottery Corporation executives Monday about cutting costs or reducing prizes. During a joint meeting of the temporary committees created by the House and Senate to study the issue, lawmakers are looking for ways to address the shrinking share of tuition that the scholarships cover. One avenue is to increase the available money from the existing sources, and another would be to find new sources by legalizing casinos and betting on horse races. The scholarships are funded by profits generated by the Georgia Lottery Corporation, owned by the state. While the annual payments to the scholarship fund have usually increased every year since the program’s creation in 1993, tuition costs have risen faster.

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Training That Delivers
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/15/national-workforce-and-technology-program-earns-bipartisan-support?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cf63226ff-DNU20150915&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cf63226ff-197515277
By Ashley A. Smith
In a political climate where every single issue or policy seems to have a dividing line between Democrats and Republicans, the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program has been able to exist above the fray. For more than 20 years, the ATE program has been a source for developing new technologies and training future technicians in science, manufacturing, technology and engineering fields at community colleges across the country.

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Next Steps on FAFSA
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/09/15/excitement-and-concern-about-prior-prior-year-fafsa-changes?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cf63226ff-DNU20150915&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cf63226ff-197515277
By Josh Logue
Plenty of questions remain unanswered after the White House announced Sunday a rejiggering of when and how students apply for federal financial aid. Starting in 2016 for the 2017-18 academic year, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid will be available earlier, in October rather than January, and applicants will be able to use income information from two-year-old completed tax returns rather than sometimes incomplete information from the previous year. In less than 24 hours, dozens of universities — including the University of California system, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Loyola University Maryland — committed to realigning their own institutional financial aid applications to use the “prior-prior year” data. And more university commitments are on the way, said the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), an organization that has pushed for this change for years.

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‘How Much Will I Make After Graduating?’ College Scorecard Offers Only Clues
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Much-Will-I-Make-After/233111/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Kelly Field
Washington
When President Obama announced the release of a new federal College Scorecard in his weekly address on Saturday, he said the website would give Americans “access to reliable data on every institution of higher education.” “You’ll be able to see how much each school’s graduates earn, how much debt they graduate with, and what percentage of a school’s students can pay back their loans,” he said. But prospective students who turn to the revamped tool to estimate their future earnings probably won’t get a realistic sense of what they can expect to make after graduating. And if they’re checking out state websites with wage data as well, they’re likely to end up more confused than enlightened.

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Clinton Vows to Fight Campus Sex Assault
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/09/15/clinton-vows-fight-campus-sex-assault?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7cf63226ff-DNU20150915&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7cf63226ff-197515277
Hillary Clinton took her presidential campaign back to Iowa Monday, where in a speech at the University of Northern Iowa she vowed to push colleges to strengthen efforts to fight sexual assault, The Des Moines Register reported. She said that one-time programs for freshmen aren’t enough, and that education efforts need to be continuous.