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SYSTEM SUPPLEMENT CHANGES TO SERVE READERS BETTER

This issue of the System Supplement has a very different look as well as approach. It is a look that is not just cosmetic, but incorporates technology in new ways to serve you better.
Last year the Supplement was changed from a printed publication that was mailed, to an online version. But that online version was still a traditionally designed publication, posted as an Adobe PDF.

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The issue you see on your screen is the next generation: a fully online version created solely using web technology. This use of technology represents a significant enhancement of this publication.

The new, online format provides us the ability to expand our coverage as well as update coverage quickly. Therefore, each month the current "issue" may change several times, as new articles are posted. In this way we can keep you better informed and informed more frequently.
Another change in format relates to how articles are presented. Now readers will see a short summary of each article. If a particular article interests you, click on the "read more" at the end and it will take you to the full article.

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Finally, the new format allows us to provide direct links to other articles and information relevant to the story, giving you more in-depth coverage.

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The new look is the work of a number of people in the System Office, including John Vanchella, Ray Lee and the University System Office

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The System Supplement is a continually evolving publication and evolving in ways to serve our readers better. We welcome your feedback and suggestions on this new format. Send your comments to medpub@usg.edu with subject heading "System Supplement."
Thanks for reading!
Sonja Roberts, editor John Millsaps, associate vice chancellor
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CHAIRMAN WILLIS POTTS ADDRESSES THE BOARD OF REGENTS

On August 10, Regent Willis Potts addressed the full board for the first time in his new position as Board Chair for FY11. His remarks are below:
I welcome everyone to our first Board meeting of the new fiscal year. At the outset, let me formally and publically state what I have said to my fellow regents informally: I appreciate the support and confidence of the board in selecting me to serve as your chair for the coming year. I pledge that I will do my absolute best to validate your confidence. And I will be very ably assisted at the board level, by Regent Felton Jenkins as the vice-chair and by each of you who have so graciously assented to serve as committee chairs.

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We all know that we have a number of very significant challenges and opportunities ahead, and it will take the ongoing attention and participation of all. I'm going to doff my engineer's hat for the next few minutes in order to outline our agenda over the next year in the most concise and succinct manner possible.

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I will start with a quick summation of the structure and process we have developed for our work and our meetings over the coming year. Then I will move into our key areas of focus, which will be: *Our students and how we enable them to be successful,

*Our research and economic development efforts,

*Our relationship with our educational partners, and

*Our strategic plan.

We will organize our meetings this year towards achieving a few specific

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goals: *To provide greater opportunities for your exposure to and participation in issues before the board;
*To increase the transparency of our actions and inclusiveness of the board in the process;
*To use your time effectively and efficiently; and
*To have at least one substantive discussion topic at each meeting.
To help us achieve these goals, we will have eight operational committees in FY11: *Student Success, chaired by Regent Larry Ellis;
*Research and Economic Development, chaired by Regent Jim Bishop;
*Academic Affairs, chaired by Regent Dink NeSmith;
*Organization and Law, chaired by Regent Larry Walker;
*Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance, chaired by Regent Kessel Stelling;
*Real Estate and Facilities, chaired by Regent Jim Jolly;
*Finance and Business Operations, chaired by Regent Ben Tarbutton; and
*Health Professions and Education, chaired by Regent Ken Bernard.
The special committees on Residency Verification, also chaired by Regent Jolly and Personnel and Benefits, chaired by Regent Wanda Yancey Rodwell, will continue on an ad hoc, time-limited basis, until their charge is completed.
The key point I would make about our process and structure for the year is that topics of interest/importance to all Regents, or that would be educational for all, will be conducted in committees of the whole.
Moving on to key areas of focus first and foremost is what we as a System are about: our students. And for the year ahead, I want to continue our long-standing emphasis on improving student success. That is the primary rationale for the creation of the new Student Success Committee. We must recognize that student access is important, but that we are defined by STUDENT SUCCESS.
As you have heard me say, I consider it unethical and immoral to take students' money and then not do our utmost to provide academic quality and academic support. We need a paradigm shift from how students experience us to how we experience them. And that means a renewed sense of how this University System serves our students each as a unique individual.
Let me just highlight a few points regarding student success.
The Retention, Progression and Graduation Committee this past year has been a very positive development for the University System.

Through this committee's work, we understand the challenges associated with retaining and graduating students. We will have a full report from the committee in October, but please know that we have made progress and our campuses all now have three-year plans to improve retention and graduation.
One thing I have learned in our study of retention and graduation is that the key is engagement -- tethering students to the campus and faculty. There are hundreds of ways to do this, manifested differently on different campuses, but it is the key to boosting our graduation rates.
Just to give you an example, engagement can mean everything from a coach keeping track of how all his or her athletes are doing, mid-term, to a professor asking for undergraduates to assist her in a lab. The nature of engagement isn't as important as putting the labor in to make it happen. I admit that back in March when I discussed graduation and retention I just may have sounded a bit harsh. Let me publically thank the presidents for their dedication to this effort it is having a positive effect!
One thing I did not mention, in March, however, was the role of students themselves in student success. We need our student leaders to step up and help presidents boost student engagement on our campuses. I say this because I know students are up to taking responsibility for their own education and success. Also during the year, we shall learn about accreditation from Southern Association of Colleges and Schools representatives and how this supports our focus on student success in terms of academic excellence.
In addition to the issues we must address by the very nature of who we are, I want to bring emphasis and Regent education to key parts of our vision and mission that we do not normally spend much time addressing research and economic development.
This is a great system and we have tremendous assets and investments in terms of basic and applied research as well as economic development. We all know our research stars Tech, UGA, the Medical College and Georgia State. But there is research occurring throughout this System. And there is the exciting potential for more and new research perhaps in places we have never considered or provided either resources or motivation to pursue.
Since the mid-1990's the Board of Regents has placed an emphasis on employing the power of the System to help the state's economic development efforts. The successful ICAPP program is the most visible product of this emphasis. And at the institutional level, the Archway program at UGA is another, more recent example.
Unfortunately, budget reductions have served to shrink our effort at the System level. But I believe that in these current economic times, now more than ever we need System-level efforts to spur growth. And that is why I have established our new Research and Economic Development Committee. I want us to explore how we can step up our efforts in these two critical areas of our overall mission.

Over the past several years, we have been engaged in an ongoing conversation with the Technical College System on a number of issues. If our focus is on students, then I believe we must continue our dialogue with the best interests of students in mind. This is another area of focus during my term as chair, with the goal of creating a more transparent and closer working relationship with the Technical College System.
We welcome the dialogue and we look forward to how our two systems, together, can increase opportunities for students and success for them as well.
As I thought about these remarks, I reviewed the Strategic Plan this Board adopted in 2007.
This has been a very good blueprint for us one that as Chancellor Davis has noted, has been even more important in these very turbulent economic times. But the times "they are a' changing" and so we must be flexible in our plans.
With all that has happened, is happening, and will be happening, some of our assumptions are now out of date. Therefore, this year we will review the Strategic Plan.
And I looked at our vision statement. Our vision statement is very easy and plain to read and understand. In the midst of all that we are currently addressing budgets, admission, growth, success and access I want us to do our best to keep our focus on this vision statement.
Let me just read that statement: "The University System of Georgia will create a more educated Georgia, well prepared for a global, technological society, by providing first-rate undergraduate and graduate education, leading-edge research, and committed public service." A copy of the full vision and mission statement has been placed in your board book.
This is a good way to continually remind ourselves of our purpose and our focus: on teaching, research and service.
Now, I'm putting my engineer's hat back on and saying some Geeky stuff. You'd be disappointed if I didn't!
Several years ago, I had a fascinating conversation with Andy Dolich, who at the time was President of Business Operations for the NBA Memphis Grizzlies. I'm not sure how the conversation evolved, but we wound up talking about the need for "Scopes" in making an organization successful. Here are SEVEN: *MICROSCOPE to look at the little things to make visible the fascinating details of those worlds within worlds all around us.
*TELESCOPE to look at those remote objects we can only dream about.
*STETHSCOPE to check on the heart of the organization.
*PROTOSCOPE to venture to those places where you don't want to go, but you must.

*GYROSCOPE to keep everybody centered on the target, even during rough times.
*PERISCOPE to stealthily figure out what the rest of the world is doing so we can capitalize on it.
*HOROSCOPE a mix of science and sorcery to conjure up our plans for the future.
It is my hope that during this challenging academic year, we can use our own metaphorical "SCOPES" to focus our energy where it is needed.
Again, thank you for your attention and for all that you will undertake on behalf of our students over the coming year.
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REGENTS APPROVE $2.1 BILLION FISCAL-YEAR 2012 BUDGET REQUEST

A $2.1 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 budget request approved at its August meeting by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) includes new dollars to meet year over year student enrollment growth of 18,914 students.

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"This budget request mirrors the times," said USG Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. "We are focusing our efforts and our budget request on our core mission of teaching, research and service and the need to serve the continued and significant increase in enrollment at our 35 degreegranting institutions."

The biggest driver of the regents' request is a 7.8 percent increase from FY09 to FY10 in the number of credit hours students took during the year. This increase generated $145 million of the FY12 budget request. Almost 45 percent of this increase occurred at the System's 16 two-year and state colleges, with the 15 four-year universities accounting for 35 percent of the credit hour increase and the four research universities 20 percent.

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"Individuals are continuing to turn to higher education to prepare them for an increasingly competitive workplace," said Vice Chancellor for Fiscal Affairs Usha Ramachandran. "And our enrollment trends indicate that many of these students are enrolling at our access colleges and fouryear universities, where we can serve them with greater efficiency."

Additional new dollars in the regents' requested budget include, in addition to the $145 million for student growth: * $8.7 million to maintain and operate new facilities in the system; * $18 million for health benefits premium increases; and

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* $4.9 million for health insurance for new retirees.
The regents continue to place a strategic priority on the expansion of medical education, with a FY12 budget request of $1.7 million to accommodate the second class of students at the Medical College of Georgia/University of Georgia partnership campus in Athens and to create a clinical campus in Rome. The inaugural class of 40 students at the MCG Athens campus started classes in August 2010.
The regents also approved a FY12 capital budget request of $432.3 million, which includes $1 million in equipment for one new facility, $190 million in new construction, renovation or infrastructure needs for 16 projects, $9 million in design funds for 4 projects, $215.1 million for major repair and renovation funds at all 35 campuses as well as construction to two additional projects, and $17.2 million for Georgia Public Library Service projects.
Following instructions from the Office of Planning and Budget (OPB) to all state agencies, the Board also approved reduction plans of 4, 6 and 8 percent ($77, $115 and $154 million respectively) for the current fiscal year (FY11). Any reduction plans adopted this fiscal year carry forward into FY12. The board also approved, as instructed, a 10 percent reduction plan for FY12, which, if enacted, would bring the USG's reductions over the combined FY11 and FY12 budgets to a total of $192 million.
"Clearly we continue to be affected by the economic recession and the corresponding decline in state tax revenues," said Ramachandran. "The instructions from the Governor's office for additional reduction plans in the current fiscal year and continuing into FY12 dramatize the magnitude of the state's revenue challenges."
Ramachandran noted in her board presentation that if the System were to receive the full $2.1 billion requested and then had to implement the full 10 percent reduction in FY12, it would result in a total state appropriation below that of FY07. "But in FY07 we enrolled 259,945 students, while in FY12 we project to enroll 321,000 students 61,000 more than in FY07."
Currently, the System already is operating under a 4 percent reduction plan ($77 million) as the state withholds that percentage from all state agencies monthly allotments.
To reach the reduction targets, the USG will employ a range of institutional and system-level actions, Ramachandran said. At the institutional level, these actions include structural changes in operations, workforce reductions, hiring freezes, a decline in maintenance and a reduction in library subscriptions, books and hours. At higher reduction levels, courses and programs will be affected.
At the 10 percent level, Ramachandran said a combination of some of the following actions will be considered: an analysis of enrollment capacity at selected institutions, restrictions on learning support for students, and a review of all institutional fees. In addition, she said, there would be additional reductions at the institutional level.

The board also has approved new employee health plans to further reduce costs. These include the self-funding of the System's HMO and high deductible plans, a tobacco surcharge, a new, alternative and less expensive PPO network, a requirement for all retirees at age 65 to pay the full premium costs if they do not select Medicare as the primary health care provider, and continued financial incentives for employees to switch to the high deductible plan. Together, these changes could save the System up to $30 million annually in health care costs.
Today's actions on the FY12 operating and capital budget requests now go to OPB for incorporation into the overall state budget recommendations the Governor will present to the General Assembly in January 2011. Any action regarding reductions at the 4, 6, 8 and 10 percent levels will depend upon the final decisions by the Governor and General Assembly.
The FY12 capital budget request can be viewed at: http://www.usg.edu/ref/capital/budget/fy2012_capital_budget_recommend.pdf
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HEALTH PLAN BENEFIT PROPOSALS

The USG employee health-plan recommendations approved by the Board of Regents at its August meeting focus on providing affordable, quality health care coverage for USG employees. The board also approved changes in all health benefit premiums for the upcoming calendar year.
"These changes will help us to control costs for both employees and the System while remaining competitive in the current market environment," said Tom Scheer, Associate Vice Chancellor for Life & Health Benefits.

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Key changes approved by the board include new alternative networks, a tobacco use surcharge, new wellness provisions and the seeding of the health savings account for a second year.

The USG's combined health plans represent a large investment for the system. Enrollment in the System's current health plans stands at 36,000 active employees, 12,000 retirees and 46,000 dependents. Currently, the USG and its employees spend approximately $437 million annually on health care premiums and benefits.

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Changes in rates for the upcoming year vary from an increase $43 for a family on the PPO plan to an increase of about $7 for a family on the High Deductible plan. For an individual on the PPO plan, the increase will be approximately $15 and about $3 for an individual on the High Deductible plan.

Here are the other key changes to the USG's health plans approved by the regents.

Implement a voluntary alternative network for both the PPO and High Deductible PPO This is a more restrictive network than the

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current PPO and High Deductible plans offer. While the new alternative network offers fewer providers, the advantage is that it provides greater discounts for USG employees and dependents enrolled in the plans.
Establish a "Tobacco Use" surcharge of $50 per month This surcharge will be waived if an employee quits smoking. Cessation programs will be offered to help employees. Scheer said the intent of the tobacco use surcharge is to promote healthy lifestyle choices and reduce medical claim trends.
Implement wellness provisions for current plans Such plans, noted Scheer, offer a low-to-no-cost alternative to improve overall employee health that will have far-ranging financial implications for both the System and employees. Elements of these wellness provisions include a smoking cessation program, the expansion of communication and education efforts on wellness and prevention, and discounted weight management programs. In addition, the System will provide incentives for generic and continued prescription regimens.
Continue seeding the health savings account For the upcoming year, the health savings account will be seeded at one-half of the 2010 levels for existing participants and for new enrollees.
Self-fund Blue Cross/Blue Shield high deductible plans and HMO and Kaiser HMO.
Changes in retiree plans After January 1, 2011, all retirees and spouses will pay the full cost of insurance (both employer and employee costs) for not enrolling in Medicare Part B when they become eligible. Current retirees over 65 are grandfathered at a $100 per month surcharge.
The regents also approved minor changes to the prescription plan, including adding $5 to brand name prescription co-pays, establishing a co-pay holiday for switch to generic from brand name prescriptions, and limiting specialty drugs to a specialty pharmacy.
The recommendations presented to the regents and approved by them were developed over the past eight months under the direction of the board's Personnel and Benefits committee, chaired by Regent Wanda Yancey Rodwell and including regents Frederick E. Cooper, Larry R. Ellis, James R. Jolly and Kessel D. Stelling, Jr.
The System's Human Resources department provided Staff support. A number of meetings were held, including a presentation to the committee by a number of USG presidents.
In addition, the committee's work was informed by results of a 2009-2010 survey, conducted by outside actuary and consultant Mercer, that indicate the USG's plan design is competitive with other large higher education institutions and state agencies in terms of co-pays, deductibles, and plan offerings, noted Scheer.
Additionally the survey indicated that the System's cost sharing structure is less competitive for USG faculty and staff. Employees are currently

paying a greater percentage and dollar amount for their health benefits via their employee paycheck contributions than employees of other large higher education institutions and state agencies.
Open enrollment is scheduled for October 25 November 19, 2010.
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Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, left to right, shakes hands and greets MCG/UGA Medical Partnership students Ashley Austin, Hammad Aslam, and Lance McLeroy before the ribbon cutting at the the MCG/UGA Medical Partnership Dedication on Monday, August 9, 2010. photo by Andrew Davis Tucker

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FIRST DAY OF CLASSES OF THE MCG/UGA PARTNERSHIP MARKED BY DEDICATION OF BUILDING
Monday, August 9, marked the first day of classes for the inaugural class
of the Medical College of Georgia on the campus of the University of
Georgia. The first day of classes was celebrated with a dedication of the
Interim MGC/UGA Partnership Building.

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Governor Sonny Perdue was the keynote speaker at the event. "This was a pretty clear decision for me when you look at the per capita number of doctors (in Georgia)," said Governor Sonny Perdue. "The fact is that we were importing medical talent not only from around the nation, but from around the world, to serve our citizens in Georgia. And while we love that people like to come to our state, we felt like we needed to grow more of our own."
On February 13, 2008, the Board of Regents approved a resolution that commits the System to a 60 percent expansion of physician education through the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) School of Medicine. The board's action follows an earlier acceptance of a report calling for medical education expansion in Georgia.

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Through the resolution, the Board of Regents charged the System chancellor and the presidents of both the MCG and the UGA to develop detailed implementations strategies relating to a proposal to boost MCG's physician enrollment statewide to 1,200 students by 2020, from 745 students currently.

There are 40 MCG students in the inaugural class at UGA. They will study basic science and clinical skills like the students on the MCG campus in Augusta.

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Chancellor Erroll Davis praised the Governor and the general assembly for their efforts in making the day possible. "It's important to note that they did this in the midst of this economic downturn," Davis said. "Their commitment expanding medical education and providing more doctors for the people of the state has not wavered."
The newly dedicated facility will be the home of the program until the 2012 opening of a 58-acre campus currently occupied by the Navy Supply Corps School. The new UGA Health Sciences Campus will house the UGA College of Public Health and other health-related programs.
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GEORGIA PERIMETER COLLEGE AND GAINESVILLE STATE COLLEGE CHOSEN FOR NATIONAL PROJECT
In early August, Georgia Perimeter (GPC) and Gainesville State College
(GSC) announced that they have been chosen, as two of twelve schools,
by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) for a
new initiative funded by the MetLife Foundation.

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The initiative, "Developing a Community College Student Roadmap: From Entrance to Engagement in Education Achievement and Success", is a part of the MetLife Foundation's commitment to improving the success of community college students.
"We at GSC are very excited to be selected and to participate in this national project," remarked GSC President Martha T. Nesbitt. "We are already focused on student success, and this initiative will enhance our emphasis for the current academic year, `Student Engagement,' as well as assist us in the future as we continue to develop a model for community colleges around the country." Part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, AAC&U's new "Roadmap Project" will assist community colleges in creating robust and proactive programs of academic support tied to expected learning outcomes that engage students at entrance and teach them, from the outset, how to become active partners in their own quest for educational success.

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The project seeks to "connect the dots" among the varied student support programs on community college campuses and create roadmaps for success applicable at multiple institutions. These roadmaps will be anchored in a set of expected learning outcomes essential for all

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students to succeed in life beyond college.
"This program will help Georgia Perimeter College in its goal to increase retention and graduation among our students," said GPC President Dr. Anthony S. Tricoli. "Student success is at the heart of what we do and we want to use every available resource to ensure the best educational outcome."
According to AAC&U, each Roadmap institution will work to ensure that its student success programs are integrated with, and reinforced by, its own educational culture. Institutions will develop and coordinate practices and policies that support engaged learning, provide meaningful assessment data about student learning outcomes, and help build a community of support for high achievement.
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GEORGIA TECH DEVELOPS AN IMPROVED VACCINE DELIVERY SYSTEM

A new vaccine-delivery patch based on hundreds of microscopic needles that dissolve into the skin could allow persons without medical training to painlessly administer vaccines while providing improved immunization against diseases such as influenza.

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Patches containing micron-scale needles that carry vaccine with them as they dissolve into the skin could simplify immunization programs by eliminating the use of hypodermic needles and their "sharps" disposal and re-use concerns. Applied easily to the skin, the microneedle patches could allow self-administration of vaccine during pandemics and simplify large-scale immunization programs in developing nations.

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Details of the dissolving microneedle patches and immunization benefits observed in experimental mice were reported July 18th in the advance online publication of the journal Nature Medicine. Conducted by researchers from Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology, the study is believed to be the first to evaluate the immunization benefits of dissolving microneedles. The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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"In this study, we have shown that a dissolving microneedle patch can vaccinate against influenza at least as well, and probably better than, a traditional hypodermic needle," said Mark Prausnitz, a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

Just 650 microns in length and assembled into an array of 100 needles for the mouse study, the dissolving microneedles penetrate the outer layers of skin. Beyond their other advantages, the dissolving

microneedles appear to provide improved immunity to influenza when compared to vaccination with hypodermic needles.
To read more about the microneedle vaccine patch, please visit http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=60096.
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