USG Institutions: www.wtvm.com Governor to sign new budget in Albany http://www.wtvm.com/story/29013598/governor-to-sign-new-budget-in-albany By Dave Miller ATLANTA, GA (WALB) – Governor Nathan Deal will hold bill signing ceremonies for House Bill 76, the Fiscal Year 2016 state budget, throughout the state on Monday May 11. One of the stops on his barnstorming tour will be at Albany […]

University System News: www.chronicle.augusta.com Ga. colleges push cheaper textbooks http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2015-05-04/ga-colleges-push-cheaper-textbooks By Walter C. Jones Morris News Service ATLANTA – The Board of Regents may be boosting tuition by 9 percent this year at the state’s major universities while the overall economy’s inflation rate is essentially zero, but the University System of Georgia is trying to […]

University System News: Coastal Georgia to break ground Monday for new 216-bed student housing building Corvias Campus Housing will build facility as part of 65-year partnership with University System of Georgia http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2015-04-29/story/coastal-georgia-break-ground-monday-new-216-bed-student-housing By Terry Dickson BRUNSWICK | College of Coastal Georgia will break ground Monday on its second student housing unit and its first under […]

USG Institutions: www.onlineathens.com A ‘most successful year,’ says UGA president http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2015-04-28/most-successful-year-says-uga-president By LEE SHEARER The University of Georgia is winding up “a most successful year,” according to the university’s president, Jere Morehead, and he’s been ticking off the reasons why at recent public meetings. The university’s fundraisers are on track to set a new record […]

USG Institutions: www.albanyherald.com University of Alabama honors Albany State President Art Dunning, who helped break color barrier on football team Art Dunning and four other walk-ons became the first black players for the Crimson Tide in spring 1967 http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2015/apr/25/university-of-alabama-honors-albany-state/ By Terry Lewis ALBANY — In the early spring of 1967, segregation at the University of […]

USG Institutions: www.chronicle.augusta.com Governance, spending questioned at GRU http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2015-04-23/governance-spending-questioned-gru By Tom Corwin Staff Writer While it helped solve problems working together years ago, Georgia Regents University and its health systems and faculty practices should re-evaluate whether that integrated governance is still working for them and whether the financial needs of some are being met, according […]

USG Institutions: www.foxnews.com 5 nursing students killed in Georgia interstate wreck http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/04/23/5-nursing-students-killed-in-georgia-interstate-wreck/ Five nursing students died Wednesday in a chain-reaction crash that began when a tractor-trailer failed to slow down and smashed into stop-and-go traffic, Georgia authorities said. The tractor-trailer plowed into an SUV and then rolled over a small passenger car that burst into […]

University System News: www.artsatl.com Third Rail Studios in Doraville is latest addition to Georgia’s burgeoning film industry http://www.artsatl.com/2015/04/third-rail-studios/ By JEFF STAFFORD What if Georgia replaced California as a filmmaking destination? It’s not so farfetched when you realize that the state is already ranked as one of the top three locations for movie and television productions, […]

USG Institutions: www.gainesvilletimes.com University of North Georgia expanding to Blue Ridge http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/109227/ Times staff reports The University of North Georgia plans to open an instructional site in Blue Ridge this fall. A vote by the University System of Georgia Board of Regents at its April 14 meeting approved a $943,000 operating budget in fiscal year […]

University System News: www.gainesvilletimes.com Tuition increases to affect Northeast Georgia students http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/109126/ By Kristen Oliver Despite the average Georgia college graduate’s $24,517 in student-loan debt, tuition at state colleges and universities is going up in the fall. While the majority of tuition increases at state schools will only be 2.5 percent, students enrolled at Northeast […]