Georgia colleges to furlough employees 6 days
The Georgia Board of Regents approved the mandatory unpaid leave for about 40,000 employees Wednesday as a way to save the University System of Georgia about $42 million.
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the furloughs are among a series of cuts facing the system’s 35 colleges as Georgia suffers through the current economic crisis. University officials said the cuts will result in larger classes and fewer course offerings and could make it difficult for students to graduate on time.
B. Joseph White, the president of the University of Illinois, said Wednesday that the university has eliminated the “Category I” tracking system that gave preferential treatment to politically connected applicants, and prohibited university lobbyists from becoming involved in admissions.
The News-Gazette reported that White promised to execute all of the admissions changes recommended last week by the state commission chaired by former judge and Congressman Abner Mikva within the next eight weeks, “in time for the upcoming 2009-2010 admissions season.”
Georgia Tech professor faces 15 counts of sexual exploitation
Faiz Al-Khayyal , a Georgia Tech associate professor, was arrested and booked into the Fulton County jail Wednesday night after being charged with 15 counts of sexual exploitation of children, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
