Ivan Allen will step in as interim president of Central Georgia Techical College until a permanent replacement is named . . .
A report from the Institute for Research on Higher Education says Georgia’s policies make it more difficult for blacks, Latinos and low-income students to get a college education . . .
Litigation is being prepared in anticipation of Gov. Nathan Deal signing into law the requirement that welfare applicants undergo a drug screening test . . .
Hundreds of students are dropping out of many of Georgia’s public colleges because of continuing increases in tuition and fees, chancellor says . . .
The Board of Regents votes to terminate associate degree programs for degrees that are already being offered by the Technical College System . . .
The board of the Technical College System signs off on a college completion plan already adopted by the University System that will attempt to improve Georgia’s college graduation rate . . .
The governor has created a commission that will recommend changes in Georgia’s funding formulas for higher education to increase the percentage of students who get degrees . . .
The University System chancellor and the Board of Regents are taking up the explosive issue of merging some of the state’s public colleges and universities . . .
Technical college students who earn an associate’s degree will now be able to transfer their course credits towards a degree at Mercer University . . .
Georgia will try to boost a college graduation rate that now sees fewer than half the students at University System institutions get a degree . . .
