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‘Better Together’: Hull College’s new theme will resonate far
http://chronicle.augusta.com/business/2017-10-14/better-together-hull-college-s-new-theme-will-resonate-far
By Richard M. Franza Ph.D. Guest Columnist
At Augusta University’s Hull College of Business, we are fortunate to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the gold standard of accreditation for business school accreditation worldwide. Every five years, a team of three deans from AACSB-accredited schools arrive on campus for a Continuous Improvement Review visit to ensure that we continue to meet the standards for accreditation and provide our students an excellent business education. Our next visit is rapidly approaching at the end of February 2018. In anticipation of that visit, we drafted our CIR report and invited the team’s chairman — Dr. Henry Venta of Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas — to our campus to meet with our administration and faculty for feedback. Overall, Dr. Venta’s visit went well, but he suggested we do a better job of “telling our story” in the report. After much consideration, our assistant dean, Melissa Furman, came up with a great theme that not only fits Hull College, Augusta University and our region in many ways, but also provides a sentiment that can be beneficial locally, regionally, and nationally: “Better Together.” First and foremost, for Hull College, “Better Together” best describes our post-consolidation situation as a part of Augusta University. Unfortunately, things did not start out the way. The combination of two very different institutions with two very different cultures resulted in some fits and starts in its initial incarnation as Georgia Regents University. However, since the name change to Augusta University and under the leadership of President Brooks Keel, AU clearly is becoming a “better together” institution.
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College of Business Reaches Milestone Anniversaries
By Odera Ezenna in Living West
The University of West Georgia’s Richards College of Business (RCOB) celebrates two significant anniversaries this year; 50 years as a college and 20 years of honoring the name of Roy Richards Sr. Fifty years ago saw the official creation of the school of business, then known as the Division of Business and Economic Studies. The school reconstructed and renamed its programs, and was officially named a college in 1996. “In the College of Business, people come and stay because it has an extremely collegial atmosphere,” said William C. Schaniel, a professor of economics that has been with UWG since 1980. “If you look at it, faculty come and very rarely leave, and that is a sign of the strength of any department or college.” …Twenty years ago, the College of Business was officially renamed to the Richards College of Business. In 1997, Roy Richards, Jr. presented a $1.5 million gift to the university in the form of an endowment in honor of his late father Roy Richards, Sr., founder of Southwire Company, the largest cable manufacturer in the nation. Although the name of the college is changed, it remains dedicated to providing students with an education that is rich in experiences and engagement opportunities.
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GHC named most-affordable four-year college in state
http://www.daily-tribune.com/newsx/item/9086-ghc-named-most-affordable-four-year-college-in-state
Written by Donna Harris Published in News
Georgia Highlands College’s reputation for offering students an affordable, quality education continues to spread. The five-campus college has been named the most-affordable four-year college in Georgia by Scholarship Owl, a website that matches up students with scholarships, and was referenced in an article by Ebony magazine that highlights the research gathered by the website. “Getting a quality education doesn’t have to require a lot of spending,” the website said. “In fact, some of the most-affordable colleges provide the best curriculum.”
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Georgia Southern University School of Nursing Receives $1.6 Million Grant for Behavioral Health Workforce Education
http://dailynurse.com/georgia-southern-university-school-nursing-receives-1-6-million-grant-behavioral-health-workforce-education/
by Christina Morgan
The Georgia Southern University (GSU) School of Nursing recently received a $1.6 million grant to help better prepare students to work in the psychiatric/mental health care field through the new Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (BHWET) Program. The BHWET Program supports students in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) specialty track of the BSN-DNP program, and aims to develop and expand the behavioral health workforce, increasing the number of providers prepared to deliver team-based psychiatric and mental health services to rural and medically underserved populations in South Georgia.
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BiS: Starland bookstore, SSU student selected, new Brasseler site, assistance deadline
http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-10-15/bis-starland-bookstore-ssu-student-selected-new-brasseler-site-assistance-deadline
Savannah State student to attend innovation summit
Gabriel Jean-Louis, a third-year computer science technology major from Hiram Ga., will represent Savannah State University at the annual HBCU Innovation Summit, hosted by UNCF, in the San Francisco Bay area and Silicon Valley…During this summit, students and faculty members representing more than 30 historically black colleges and universities will visit tech corporations. Jean-Louis is interested in software development and wants to create a new operating system that allows for more user-directed customization.
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Margaret Venable: Dalton State’s role in workforce development
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/opinion/columns/margaret-venable-dalton-state-s-role-in-workforce-development/article_bd555569-c35e-57ea-80fe-3dba3f8f2564.html
Workforce development is the hot phrase in higher education today and for good reason. In recent years, the world has been turned upside down in so many ways. The economies of our region, state, and country were impacted greatly in the most recent recession. Companies that have remained in operation have had to reinvent themselves to be competitive in this environment. Employees have had to re-train and reconsider their career options as job opportunities and the required job skills shift. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Dalton State College yielded our technical college programs to our sister institution, Georgia Northwestern Technical College. Although I cannot take credit for this decision, I admire the wisdom and courage for this change. We are still recovering from the decline in enrollment, but this change ensures that the workforce needs of this community and region are better served, and it allows Dalton State to focus on what we do best: providing baccalaureate degree programs to students and preparing students for transfer to institutions that offer degree programs we do not offer, such as engineering and graduate programs. Since this change, the relationship between Dalton State and Georgia Northwestern has blossomed, and we are becoming strong partners in public post-secondary education for Northwest Georgia.
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Kennesaw State president Sam Olens answers questions about cheerleader protest
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/kennesaw-state-president-sam-olens-answers-questions-about-cheerleader-protest/5aOtwGcD865pKP4C24u75L/
Eric Stirgus
The recent decision by five Kennesaw State University cheerleaders to take a knee during the national anthem at a football game to protest police misconduct has put the university, and president Sam Olens, in the middle of the ongoing dispute about the appropriateness of such actions. Olens assured Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren the kneeling would “not happen again,” according to one news report. Before the next game, KSU’s athletics department decided that cheerleaders would no longer be on the field during the anthem. The cheerleaders knelt in the stadium tunnel during the anthem the following game. Olens initially agreed to an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Wednesday to discuss how he tries to balance the viewpoints of students, faculty and community leaders on controversial issues. His office cancelled the interview, citing scheduling conflicts. Olens answered some written questions on Friday. Here are five questions and his responses.
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College Cheerleaders to Protest Anthem in Stadium Tunnel
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/10/16/us/ap-us-georgia-cheerleaders-anthem.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSOCT. 16, 2017, 12:36 P.M. E.D.T.
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KENNESAW, Ga. — A group of cheerleaders from a college in Georgia say they’ll take a knee in the stadium tunnel when the national anthem is played at Saturday’s homecoming game since their university moved them off the field after an earlier demonstration. Kennesaw State University cheerleader Shlondra Young tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the so-called Kennesaw Five will kneel until the U.S. flag “represents what it should.”
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KSU cheerleaders’ Facebook page briefly shut over anthem protest
http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt–politics/ksu-cheerleaders-facebook-page-briefly-shut-over-anthem-protest/1Yidb8tCH8BVIIItc9ohKJ/
Meris Lutz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The official Facebook page for the Kennesaw State University cheerleaders was restored Friday afternoon after the squad’s coach briefly deactivated it. A spokesperson for the university said the coach was deleting all posts pertaining to the controversy over some of the young women taking a knee during the national anthem, and ultimately deactivated the account for a few hours. “The account has been reactivated and the coach has been instructed not to take any action without first consulting with the Athletic Department leadership,” the spokesperson said in an email.
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Former ASU provost’s personnel file reveals complaints
Tau Kadhi expected to return to classroom for spring 2018 semester
http://www.albanyherald.com/former-asu-provost-s-personnel-file-reveals-complaints/article_5ac98add-9b68-5277-b65e-ce192fca62ff.html
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — Last week’s sudden demotion of Albany State University Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Tau Kadhi which saw him returned to a classroom position, came as a surprise to most associated with the university. But a look at Kadhi’s personnel file provides hints as to possible reasons for his demotion. The Herald obtained a copy of that file late Friday evening. Hired in September of last year, Kadhi had four complaints in his file, two from named staff members and two from unnamed sources, the first coming in April. Much of the criticism of the former provost revolved around interim Dean of the Darton College of Health Professions Kerri Johnson.
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Former ASU provost’s personnel file reveals complaints of sexism, racism
http://www.walb.com/clip/13814591/former-asu-provosts-personnel-file-reveals-complaints-of-sexism-racism
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CARLTON FLETCHER: ASU administrator’s file rocks university
Apparent racist comments part of ousted provost Kadhi’s personnel file
http://www.albanyherald.com/opinion/carlton-fletcher-asu-administrator-s-file-rocks-university/article_bb45521e-8f79-5a40-89b7-fb8fce5b2571.html#utm_source=albanyherald.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1508068828&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
The game and parade are over; everyone’s hugged it out a final time with old classmates, who came back one more time to see the old school. Homecoming 2017 at Albany State University is in the books, and by most accounts the week of events saw its own measure of success. But as the cars bearing alumni and supporters head to points north, south, east and west, back to home and the realities that are now part of their world, a question remains behind. What will the old alma mater look like when we come back next year? …Was it true, many asked themselves, that Darton College — the former “white college” in town — was now part of the ASU campus? That students were being shuttled — by city buses no less — back and forth across the campuses for classes? Some cheered the progress, proud that their old school was now the only game in town, that Albany State had survived decades of racism at the hands of local residents to emerge whole. Others denounced the Board of Regents move, calling the consolidation of ASU and Darton a “ploy to take away our heritage.” Many long-time ASU supporters and alumni who’ve fancied themselves leaders in the local community have taken the latter tack, criticizing Albany State President Art Dunning for, quite simply, doing what he was hired to do. Dunning, a well-respected leader in the state’s university system with decades of experience in the classroom and at the administrative level, was tasked with what many saw as an impossible job: mixing the oil-and-water combination of a historically black college with an institution whose history is almost polar opposite. …Now, Herald Education Reporter Terry Lewis has uncovered a ticking bomb that’s buried in the employee file of recently demoted Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Tau Kadhi. ASU students, who are identified in the file as African-American students, expressed concern that Kadhi, the No. 2 man in the ASU administrative hierarchy, expressed racist comments about inclusion of a white student on an Albany State billboard.
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Q&A with Bonita Jacobs, president, University of North Georgia, 2017 Women Who Mean Business Awards honoree
https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/10/13/q-a-with-bonita-jacobs-president-university-of.html
Atlanta Business Chronicle has named 21 honorees to be celebrated at its annual Women Who Mean Business Awards. (Check out a list here.) The celebration is an evening awards event on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Fairmont, 1429 Fairmont Ave. NW, Atlanta, Ga. (learn more about the event here.) Here’s a Q&A with one of the honorees, Bonita Jacobs, president, University of North Georgia: You’ve been named one of Atlanta’s Women Who Mean Business 2017. Please share your thoughts about what other women leaders can do to earn this kind of acclaim from their peers.
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Braille versions of textbooks help blind college students succeed
Braille versions of textbooks help blind college students succeed
By Tasnim Shamma
… For blind students, some classes can feel out of reach because textbooks and exams may not be readily available for those courses in a braille format. But now a major braille publisher in Atlanta is working to make higher-level classes more accessible to college students. The AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center at Georgia Tech was founded in 2006. Its braille production center is one of the only places in the U.S. that caters to blind and visually impaired college students … Many schools send requests for braille transcription to the AMAC Accessibility Solutions and Research Center at Georgia Tech, which has a printing press. Guy Toles, AMAC’s braille services manager, said his department processes about 400 orders per year, including requests for science, technology, engineering and math courses.
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Students, alumni can connect with ABAC at Sunbelt Expo
http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/students-alumni-can-connect-with-abac-at-sunbelt-expo/article_e59573de-b1ce-11e7-9e39-8f171b29a799.html
TIFTON — It has been 53 years since faculty and students at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College sponsored an event called Dealer Days on the ABAC campus in 1964. No one could have guessed then that the small farm equipment show would grow into the mammoth extravaganza called the Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition. ABAC is now an annual exhibitor at the Expo, which moved to Spence Field near Moultrie in 1978. At the ABAC building at this year’s Expo on Oct. 17-19, visitors will get to look at different segments of ABAC life. ABAC students, faculty, staff, and administrators will be there to greet visitors at the exhibit, and interactive games will allow guests to learn more about the college. Landmarks at the building include the Golden Stallion mascot statue and the famous ABAC pulling tractors. ABAC alumni can discover their role with the Alumni Association and its many activities, including Homecoming 2018.
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KSU professor resigns after found passed out, ‘intoxicated’ on campus
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/kennesaw-state-cops-found-professor-passed-out-drunk-student-center/pEHxg52c6XlFZmSJ5HpnEI/
By Ben Brasch – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Kennesaw State University professor says there’s a reason he was found by police passed out, seemingly drunk, inside the school’s student center with a half-empty beer and assorted pills in his truck. Brent Christopher Allsup, of Acworth, was arrested Oct. 5 on three felony drug charges and an open-container misdemeanor count. Allsup blames it on forgetfulness and an accidental medication mix-up of taking both Hydrocodone and Xanax. Tiffany Capuano, a KSU spokeswoman, said Friday that Allsup was working part-time as a professor in the business college’s school of accounting. She said Friday that Allsup has resigned due to the investigation. …Allsup said Thursday, a week after his arrest, that he plans on resigning until the investigation is over so another professor can teach his class. “There’s no point in me taking away from the student experience because I have an ongoing investigation,” he said.
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Changes by AU Medical Center helping decrease injury from breathing tubes
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/2017-10-14/changes-au-medical-center-helping-decrease-injury-breathing-tubes
By Tom Corwin Staff Writer
Simple but effective changes to how breathing tubes are inserted and maintained in the throats of very sick patients is helping AU Medical Center avoid a common and costly complication, doctors said. Dr. Daniel Carroll and Dr. Christopher Leto, residents in the Department of Otolaryngology, took on the task of eliminating pressure injuries from tracheotomy tubes. Those tubes are often inserted in patients who are on a ventilator for a week or more to try and prevent injury from another breathing tube that crosses their vocal cords and can cause scarring. But those trach tubes, as they are called, can also cause injury themselves to the tissue in the neck over time.
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Opinion: Data show campus carry is unwise and unnecessary
http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/14/opinion-data-show-campus-carry-is-unwise-and-unnecessary/
University of North Georgia professor Matthew Boedy continues to examine the impact of campus carry on Georgia’s public campuses. Like many faculty members, Boedy opposes guns in his classroom and has become one of the state’s most ardent and active researchers on the question. Georgia joined a handful of states permitting guns in its institutions of higher education when Gov. Nathan Deal signed the campus carry bill in May. The governor signed the bill despite widespread opposition by students and parents. In fact, while campus carry was being debated this year in the Legislature, Deal received 14,873 calls, emails and letters opposed to it. During that period, his office reported only 145 calls, emails and letters in favor of campus carry.
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Colleges Offer Help to Puerto Rican Students
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/16/colleges-offer-help-puerto-rican-students?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=0348b5695b-DNU20171016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-0348b5695b-197515277&mc_cid=0348b5695b&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Scott Jaschik
A number of colleges in the mainland United States are offering assistance to students in Puerto Rico, many of whom have had their homes and campuses devastated by hurricanes. Tulane University is offering a tuition-free semester, provided students pay their regular tuition to their home institution in Puerto Rico (mirroring the way many colleges assisted New Orleans institutions after Hurricane Katrina).
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Presidents and Provosts Gather to Consider Free Speech Issues
Participants agree that campuses must be places for all views to be expressed. But some academic leaders also see this as time to change the narrative on higher education and to challenge the idea of students as “snowflakes.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/16/college-presidents-and-provosts-gather-consider-issues-free-speech
By Scott Jaschik
If college leaders had any hope that speaker disruptions and free speech disputes would be last semester’s news, they have seen otherwise in the early weeks of this academic year. Just last week, students shouted down talks at Columbia University and the University of Michigan. Those doing the shouting down were generally students of the left. Meanwhile, supporters of President Trump shut down a talk at Whittier College by California’s Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, shouting “America First” and “build that wall” to prevent him from talking.
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California May Fund First Year of Community College
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/10/16/california-may-fund-first-year-community-college?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=0348b5695b-DNU20171016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-0348b5695b-197515277&mc_cid=0348b5695b&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Nick Roll
A measure that would cover the first year of community college for California students was signed into law Friday, the Los Angeles Times reported. Whether the colleges are funded for that first year, however, is dependent on securing money in the state budget for next year.
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Will Fury Over Harvey Weinstein Allegations Change Academe’s Handling of Harassment?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Will-Fury-Over-Harvey/241453?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=7eecb82f42b04ecbb174480890902ea2&elq=d1fceea641f64a2d85e01f0b852fe49f&elqaid=16080&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6939
By Katherine Mangan
For decades he reportedly used his position of power over young women who were eager to enter his profession, preying on them as his colleagues pretended not to notice. The women stayed silent, fearing they wouldn’t be believed or would jeopardize their fledgling careers. As the sordid saga of the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has played out in the national news media, it has evoked parallels with the sexual harassment that critics contend is pervasive in academe, particularly in male-dominated academic departments. The power dynamic between graduate student and adviser is similar to that of hopeful actor and film producer. So, too, is the tendency of others in the profession to dismiss abusive behavior as mere womanizing or flirting, and to look the other way when lines are crossed.
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Tell Us: What Will It Take to Change the Climate on Harassment?
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Tell-Us-What-Will-It-Take-to/241431?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=4a4aa04df8f64c0e8ebe5490b100ff1b&elq=d1fceea641f64a2d85e01f0b852fe49f&elqaid=16080&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6939
By Nick DeSantis
This week, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was fired amid a rush of sexual-harassment allegations that were reported by The New York Times and the New Yorker. The explosive accusations, which Mr. Weinstein denies, involve complaints that took place over decades. They’ve raised questions about who knew of Mr. Weinstein’s alleged conduct, and when. The case carries significance for colleges, and for academic disciplines that have been beset by harassment scandals of their own. Certain fields, such as astronomy and philosophy, are dominated by men and have reputations for fostering climates that are hostile to women. We’d like to hear from you. What will it take for higher education to eliminate harassment and improve the climate?