The Board of Regents approved two graduate engineering programs and a new professorship for the Jewish Studies program in a vote Tuesday. Regents spokesman John Millsaps said the members passed the agenda items concerning the University with little discussion. The newly accepted programs, a master’s and Ph.D. in engineering, will begin enrolling students next fall. The [...]

After President Barack Obama addressed a University of Michigan crowd on Jan. 27 about rising college tuition costs, students and administration in Athens have something to say. Obama’s speech in Ann Arbor, Mich. called on colleges to maintain affordable tuition while asking states to invest more in higher education. “We’re telling the states, if you can find [...]

The Board of Regents will vote Tuesday on two new graduate engineering programs to begin at the University in fall 2012. The new programs, a master’s and Ph.D. in engineering, will not have designated specializations but will lend themselves to a more “comprehensive engineering education,” according to the proposal in the Regents’ agenda. If passed, [...]

Gov. Nathan Deal announced today a new need-based scholarship called REACH — Realizing Educational Achievement Can Happen — part of Deal’s Complete College Georgia initiative. “The REACH Scholarship continues our state’s ongoing commitment to providing access to higher education for all Georgians, regardless of their income,” Deal said in a press release from the Georgia [...]

The College of Pharmacy may be experiencing “ethical” problems including “cheating in the classroom to sharing of controlled substances to illegal drug use among [the] student body,” according to an email from Alan Wolfgang, associate dean of student affairs. In the LISTSERV email dated Nov. 23, 2011, the afternoon before Thanksgiving Day, Wolfgang wrote he was [...]

Ten years ago, the HOPE Scholarship began with an income cap — and it may soon have another one. Three new bills proposed by the Georgia State Senate Democrats last week would overhaul HOPE and the Zell Miller Scholarship. If the bills are passed, HOPE will convert to a need-based program, and the GPA requirements [...]

An Arabic professor at the University resigned at the start of the semester after issues of alleged religious discrimination, confusion about employment agreements and requests to change students’ grades, according to the professor and documents obtained by The Red & Black. “Since summer 2010, I started to feel that if I could leave this place [...]

The University received a “red light” rating this year from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) — the lowest rating possible. A school receives a rating based on the extent to which their written policies prohibit speech that would otherwise be protected by the First Amendment. “UGA received a ‘red light’ rating mainly [...]

Since University researchers narrowed the scope of cancer treatment, they have wanted to move forward. After success in a mouse model, the research has taken a more focused direction on whether the same results can be executed in humans. And Geert-Jan Boons of the Boons Group at the University’s Complex Carbohydrate Research Center said the outcome is [...]

The number of reported academic dishonesty cases reached an all-time high in fall 2011. A total of 224 students were reported for possible incidents of academic dishonesty last semester — 52 more than in fall 2010 and the highest since the policy was created 12 years ago. Debbie Bell, coordinator of academic honesty, said she [...]