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Officials, alumni react to Fedrick announcement
Board of Regents officially appoints Fedrick ASU president
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — The University System of Georgia Board of Regents’ decision Tuesday to name Marion Fedrick the permanent president at Albany State University has been generally well-received by the community. Reaction from the community includes: Chris Cohilas, Dougherty County Commission Chairman …Ken Dyer, ASU Class of ‘93, Dougherty School Superintendent …Freddie Powell Sims, State Senator …C.W. Grant, former Dean of Students at ASU …Darrel Ealum, State Representative …James Bush, ASU Class of ‘92, School Board Member …Renaldo Blocker, ASU Class of ‘03
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Board of Regents names next ASU president
http://www.walb.com/story/38878946/board-of-regents-names-next-asu-president
By Christopher Wood, Digital Content Producer CONNECT
By Grason Passmore, Reporter
The University System of Georgia has named Marion Fedrick as the next president of Albany State University. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Board of Regents meeting in Atlanta. Chancellor Steve Wrigley recommended Fedrick be named the next full-time president. …Fedrick was named interim president in January, replacing President Art Dunning, who retired at the end of January 2018. This round of applause comes seconds after the Board of Regents for the University Systems of Georgia announced they are naming Marion Fedrick as Albany State University’s President. “I am excited to be at Albany State and I look forward to the future,” said Fedrick.
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New President named for Albany State University
https://wfxl.com/news/local/new-president-named-for-albany-state-university
by FOX 31 Staff
Albany State University Interim President Marion Fedrick will now serve as president for the university. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents made the decision Tuesday morning. “In my visits to Albany, I am encouraged by what I see, what I hear and what I experience,” University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley said. “In meetings with faculty, staff and students, it is clear Marion’s leadership has caught their attention and made them excited for the future both for themselves and their institution. Her leadership and commitment have made a difference for this institution, and I congratulate her.”
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Deadline today for Ga Tech president to report on staff ethics failings
By Eric Stirgus
Georgia Tech president George “Bud” Peterson has a deadline of Wednesday to present a report to the state’s Board of Regents about how the university will prevent ethical abuses like the ones that ended with him firing an executive vice president and also to the resignation of three highly paid staffers. Two separate reports released last month by Tech’s internal auditor and an University System of Georgia administrator found the Tech officials: exploited relationships with vendors by getting a school vendor to pay for a football suite for them; expensed after-hours dining and drinking; played golf with vendors during work hours; received pay from a company for serving on its board at the same time the company was hired by Georgia Tech for projects.
Peterson has instituted some changes since the reports, such as its ethics and audit officers will report directly to him. …The report was requested by University System chancellor Steve Wrigley, who, officials said, is scheduled to be visiting campuses Wednesday.
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Board of Regents short-lists contractors for Georgia State Convocation Center, Science Park
By Dave Williams – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
A long list of companies were short-listed Tuesday as candidates to design and manage two major buildings planned at Georgia State University and other construction projects on college campuses around the state. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents ranked CBRE/Heery Inc. of Atlanta its top choice to design a $61 million Convocation Center, a 200,000 square-foot building with a seating capacity of 8,000 to be located at Fulton Street and Capitol Avenue near Georgia State Stadium. Three other design firms – Lord Aeck & Sargent Inc., Praxis3 LLC and Collins Cooper Carusi Architects Inc. – also made the short list to design the center. All are located in Atlanta. The regents also ranked Gleeds USA Inc. of Atlanta their top choice as program manager for the project, followed on the short list by BDR Partners, Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc. and Hoar Program Management. All four companies are from Atlanta. Three of those four program management firms also made the short list to manage the $66 million third phase of a science park at Georgia State, although they were ranked in different order. The board listed Jones Lang LaSalle as its top choice, with Collins Project Management second and Gleeds USA third.
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Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation – Announcement
https://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2018-08-15/54783-center-for-rural-prosperity/
House Speaker David Ralston and the leadership of the House Rural Development Council (RDC) yesterday announced the creation of the Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation. The RDC is co-chaired by State Representatives Terry England (R-Auburn) and Jay Powell (R-Camilla). State Representative Sam Watson (R-Moultrie) serves as vice chair of the council. “The Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC) was created by the General Assembly and Governor Deal as the state’s central resource for research and training on economic development and opportunity in rural Georgia,” said Speaker Ralston. “I am proud that the recommendations of the House Rural Development Council are being put into action. I want to thank our partners at ABAC and the University System of Georgia (USG) for their work in getting this center up and running.” “ABAC is a natural home for the center with its geographic location, talent and resources,” said Rep. Powell. “They have the ability to work with other USG institutions as well as all state agencies to move all of rural Georgia forward.”
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ABAC Begins Fall Term Classes with Highest Enrollment Ever
http://tiftonceo.com/news/2018/08/abac-begins-fall-term-classes-highest-enrollment-ever/
Staff Report From Tifton CEO
With instructional sites spread far and wide across South Georgia, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College begins the 2018 fall semester on Wednesday with the highest enrollment in its 110-year history. ABAC President David Bridges expects over 4,100 students to be enrolled when the final numbers are compiled. If history holds true, those students will be from 24 countries, 18 states, and 155 of Georgia’s 159 counties. “We have come a long way since 27 students walked up the front steps of Tift Hall in 1908 to attend classes at the Second District Agricultural and Mechanical School,” Bridges, who begins his 13th fall semester as the ABAC President, said. “As an ABAC alumnus, I am proud to have been a part of that journey, both as a student and now as an administrator. “It has been quite a ride. From adding four-year degrees 10 years ago to the merger with Bainbridge today, ABAC has transformed itself into a one-of-kind baccalaureate-degree granting institution that has a worldwide reputation for excellence.”
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UGA incoming freshmen (again) hit top marks for test scores
By Eric Mandel – Digital Producer , Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia’s Class of 2022 is entering school with top marks. The University said Tuesday that the approximately 5,750 first-year students in the Class of 2022 have an average weighted high school GPA of 4.04, which is a record at UGA, and an average ACT score of 30, which ties last year’s record. SAT scores also reached a new level, with an average of 1365 for the incoming Class, compared to 1344 last year. UGA said the average weighted GPA of incoming students four years ago was 3.9, and the average ACT score was 29.
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UGA freshmen set new academic record
The incoming 2022 class are starting their college years with top marks.
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Center for Engineering and Research expected to open for fall 2020 semester
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_4a2bec88-8cdc-5408-955e-7b92bebabdfc.html
Emma Smith, The George-Anne Staff
The Division of Facilities Services at Georgia Southern University is working to create the Center for Engineering and Research. The department is working with Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to complete the project. Construction is expected to begin Jan. 2, 2019 and be complete by July of 2020. …The building will hold classes and labs for the manufacturing engineering and mechanical engineering programs.
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Columbus State to offer Nexus degree in film production
http://www.wbrc.com/story/38883514/columbus-state-to-offer-nexus-degree-in-film-production
By Charnae Ware, Digital Content Producer CONNECT
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Columbus State University was approved by the Board of Regents today to offer the first ever nexus degree in film production. With courses to be offered as early as Spring 2019, 60-credit-hour degree emphasizes hands-on learning to prepare students for Georgia’s high-demand film industry. “This new degree is a validation of our premier role in preparing and credentialing workers for Georgia’s fastest growing industry,” said CSU President Chris Markwood. In cooperation with the Columbus Film Office and the Georgia Film Academy, students will be placed in experimental learning opportunities on movie productions in Georgia, and when possible, in the city of Columbus. Additionally, students may be placed on production sets and productions secured by the Columbus Film Office and Georgia Film Academy.
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EGSC Biology to host Adopt-a-Stream Chemical Training
http://emanuelcountylive.com/2018/08/egsc-biology-to-host-adopt-a-stream-chemical-training/
by KATELYN MOORE
East Georgia State College’s Biology Department has worked in collaboration with the Altamaha Riverkeeper since 2015. Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Biology program at EGSC work with the Altamaha Riverkeeper as part of an internship program. The fifth intern from EGSC, Blaine Bellflower, is a senior in the BS Biology program and will graduate in December of 2018. EGSC students like Bellflower have worked in partnership with the Altamaha Riverkeeper since the partnership was formed to monitor three sites on the Ohoopee River near Reidsville.
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Congo native visits UGA through Mandella Fellowship
Young African scholar will take part in banana study at UGA-Tifton
By Clint Thompson
TIFTON — Auxence Muhigwa Akonkwa, a Fellow from the Democratic Republic of Congo in central Africa, will visit the University of Georgia Tifton campus through the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders program. While at UGA-Tifton, Akonkwa will participate in UGA Professor Greg Fonsah’s banana research; study the complete fresh-food market value chain, including fruits, vegetables and soybeans; attend research and UGA Cooperative Extension field days and lectures; collect production, marketing and postharvest data, and learn to develop business plans and economic analyses. Akonkwa will also audit Fonsah’s “Agricultural Selling” class and give a presentation on his experience in Georgia to faculty and students at the end of the fellowship.
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New dawg sits on UGA’s Tifton campus
by Alexandria Ikomoni
On Tuesday, the University of Georgia Tifton campus just unleashed a new dog on campus. A new red and white bulldog statue sits at the front of campus. …The bulldog’s name is TUGA.
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How to prevent cybersecurity breaches on campus
https://www.educationdive.com/news/how-to-prevent-cybersecurity-breaches-on-campus/530009/
AUTHOR Roger Riddell
As cybersecurity grows in importance for higher education and K-12, navigating the scope and expense of tools like penetration tests and vulnerability scans to get the most out of funding can be complicated, according to EdTech. In a penetration test, cybersecurity professionals attempt to infiltrate a network in order to identify weaknesses that could be utilized in a real attack, while vulnerability scanning utilizes automated cybersecurity tools to probe a network on a weekly basis for vulnerabilities that need to be addressed. In many cases, a combination of the two approaches is likely to be used, with regular vulnerability scans supported by occasional penetration tests, as the latter is a manual process that requires more time due to the level of precision and ingenuity involved.
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America’s Education ‘Deserts’ Show Limits of Relaxing Regulations on Colleges
The market for higher education is strongly local, with sparse options for many potential students, so merely giving them more information may not work.
By Matthew Chingos
The Trump administration is moving to replace punishment of underperforming colleges with “market-based accountability” in which students will get more information about their range of enrollment choices. This is part of a group of regulatory changes aimed at promoting innovation in higher education. But the market for higher education is different from traditional markets in ways that mean merely providing more information, while helpful, is not enough. For one thing, the market for higher education is strongly local; most students choose a college less than 15 miles from home.
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Researchers, Posing as Students, Quizzed Campus Officials About Sexual Assault. How Did They Do?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Posing-as/244270?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
By Sarah Brown
Just how much do Title IX administrators and campus-security officers know about handling sexual assault and debunking rape myths? A fair amount, according to a new University of New Hampshire study, but not as much as they should in some cases. The study involved a mystery-shopper approach, in which female faculty members and graduate students called up hundreds of Title IX and campus-safety offices. Introducing themselves as students doing a class project on campus rape, they quizzed administrators about Title IX’s requirements. They asked about how to report a sexual assault, how investigations work, and who is a “mandatory reporter” of sexual misconduct.