USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/adams-reflects-on-his-tenure-discusses-ugas-future/nT6LP/
Adams reflects on his tenure, discusses UGA’s future needs
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Michael Adams thinks the University of Georgia “feels more academic” after his 16 years as president, but he noted more work remains. Adams, who is stepping down in June, highlighted his achievements Thursday during his final State of the University speech. He showed less restraint than in the past and shared personal opinions on where the university and the state should put their focus.
www.redandblack.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-01-24/control-athletics-adams-says-final-state-university-speech
Control athletics, Adams says in final State of University speech
By LEE SHEARER
University of Georgia president Michael Adams warned against letting football become too powerful and called for the creation of two new academic divisions in his final State of the University speech on Thursday.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/what-would-mikey-do-president-adams-gives-opinions-on-the/article_d9e0f01e-6696-11e2-8efd-0019bb30f31a.html
‘What would Mikey do’: President Adams gives opinions on the future
by MEGAN ERNST
University of Georgia President Michael Adams gave his final State of the School Address Thursday – marked, for the first time, by his personal opinion and teary eyes. He thanked many of the people present – staff members, vice presidents, chancellors and past presidents. He highlighted the 2012 academic year, as the University Council bylaws require him to do in this yearly address, as well as reflected on his tenure at UGA.
www.marketplace.org
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/mlks-old-neighborhood-seeks-economic-comeback
MLK’s old neighborhood seeks economic comeback
by Jim Burress
The “Sweet Auburn” neighborhood, as it’s known, continues a decades-long struggle for survival. …“Four thousand students right now live in this area,” says Mark Becker, president of Georgia State University. Once a commuter campus, the school is becoming more residential. Georgia State recently opened a dorm for 2,000 students on Auburn Avenue, bringing new life to the northern part of Sweet Auburn.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-01-24/mcg-hospital-childrens-get-new-names?v=1359079731
MCG Hospital, Children’s get new names
System’s boards report revenue drop
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
Medical College of Georgia Hospital would become Georgia Regents Medical Center, and its Children’s Medical Center would become Children’s Hospital of Georgia, under a resolution approved Thursday by the health system’s boards.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-01-25/skidaway-scientists-start-study-carbon-cycle-marsh#.UQLq0I6TpGN
Skidaway scientists start study of carbon cycle in marsh
By Mary Landers
At Skidaway Institute, researchers are investigating whether the salt marshes that line the Georgia coast capture more carbon than they release. It’s far from a settled issue. “There isn’t a lot of consensus out there,” said Jay Brandes, a chemical oceanographer who is the study’s principal investigator. “Some people say it’s a consumer. Some people say it’s a producer.”
RESEARCH:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/01/25/georgia-tech-to-work-on-comfort-of.html
Georgia Tech to work on comfort of prosthetics
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech researchers are part of a team that will develop an advanced prosthetic socket system that could offer better comfort, functionality and mobility for military-veteran amputees.
www.npr.org
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/01/24/170102604/female-smokers-face-greater-risk-than-previously-thought
Female Smokers Face Greater Risk Than Previously Thought
by RICHARD KNOX
Studies in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine show that the risk for women has been under-appreciated for decades. New data also quantify the surprising payoffs of smoking cessation — especially under the age of 40. …Dr. Michael Eriksen of Georgia State University, a longtime researcher on smoking and health, says looking at it this way might motivate more people to quit because they can relate it to their own lives.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/01/25/gov-deal-steering-hopeto-workforce-gaps.html?page=all
Gov. Deal steering HOPE to workforce gaps
Dave Williams
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Gov. Nathan Deal is asking Georgia lawmakers to help offset the worst impacts of cuts to the HOPE Scholarship program while at the same time filling some glaring workforce needs.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/01/25/governor-proposes-jump-in-research.html?page=all
Governor proposes jump in research funding
Maria Saporta
Contributing Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
At the exact same time that the board of the Georgia Research Alliance was meeting on Jan. 17, Gov. Nathan Deal was releasing his proposed state budget. “What we are hoping for is some stability with the governor’s budget,” Mike Cassidy, GRA’s president, told members of the board, which includes top CEOs in Georgia and the presidents of the state’s six research universities.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/01/25/plan-ed-dollars-to-vc-fund.html
Plan: ED dollars to VC fund
Urvaksh Karkaria and Dave Williams, Staff Writers
The Peach State has a venture capital problem — venture dollars invested in Georgia companies last year were the lowest since 1996. To address that, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle is backing a plan to plow economic development dollars into high-growth Georgia companies.
www.georgia.org
http://georgia.org/About/Pages/VideoLibrary.aspx?vid=-RbKXyRcTKs
GM Innovation Center
General Motors will open an IT Innovation Center in Roswell creating 1,000 high-tech jobs and investing $26 million.
www.rockdalecitizen.com
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2013/jan/24/baxter-earns-deal-of-year-award-from-top-economic/
Baxter earns ‘Deal of Year’ award from top economic development magazine
By Barbara Knowles
COVINGTON — Business Facilities magazine has announced that Baxter International’s decision to make a $1.3 investment at Newton County’s Stanton Springs has earned them the magazine’s Gold Award as the 2012 Economic Development Deal of the Year.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/01/25/is-computer-delivered-education-equivalent-to-one-with-a-flesh-and-blood-teacher-and-hands-on-experiences/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Is computer-delivered education equivalent to one with a flesh-and-blood teacher and hands-on experiences?
Shannon Howrey is assistant professor of literacy education at Georgia Gwinnett College and parent of three school-aged children. In her second op-ed for the Get Schooled blog, she writes about the spread of MOOCs, massive open online courses delivered over the Internet to anyone who enrolls without charge.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/01/25/learners-largely-left-out-digital-bill-rights-essay
Where Are the Learners?
By Anya Kamenetz
A bunch of educators, several of whom I know and respect quite a bit, got together last month to write a “bill of rights” for online learners. Viewable and editable here. They included the rights to access, privacy, openness, to create public knowledge, to “pedagogical transparency” (to understand the ways you are being taught and the value of any credentials offered), “financial transparency” (Where is my tuition money going? How will this “free course” be paid for?), to have great teachers, and to become teachers.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/qa-randy-best-mooc2degree
Q&A with Randy Best on MOOC2Degree
By Joshua Kim
Academic Partnerships this week announced MOOC2Degree, a new program designed to put a sustainable revenue model behind massively open online courses. The program, which so far has 8 schools signed up for the first round of courses, underwrites the development of MOOC courses and then takes an (undisclosed) revenue share for students who enroll in the teaching institution upon completion of the free online course.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/here-a-mooc-there-a-mooc-but-will-it-work-for-freshman-composition/41883
Here a MOOC, There a MOOC: But Will It Work for Freshman Composition?
By Karen Head
The following is a guest post by Karen Head, an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and director of the institute’s Communication Center. She joins us today and in the coming months to report on her group’s efforts to develop and offer a MOOC (massive open online course) in freshman composition.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/broadband-broadband-broadband
Broadband, Broadband, Broadband
By Tracy Mitrano
Susan Crawford’s New York Times op-ed “How to Get America Online” states the case and makes a clear and convincing argument that the United States, beyond a shadow of doubt, must revisit, revise and advance its broadband policy.
www.automationworld.com
http://www.automationworld.com/atlanta-positions-itself-manufacturing-center
Atlanta Positions Itself as Manufacturing Center
Amid a burst of manufacturing growth in the Southeast, Atlanta stands poised to become a principal manufacturing hub in the U.S. industrial resurgence.
By Dave Greenfield
Right off the bat let me disclose that I live in the Atlanta metro area and am a Georgia native. So my take on the news about Atlanta making strong moves to be a manufacturing center will be biased. But, as John Adams said, “facts are stubborn things” and the trend toward Atlanta’s growing role in the future of U.S. manufacturing is hard to ignore, regardless of one’s bias.
Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/25/study-casts-doubt-idea-spending-more-student-leads-better-educational-outcomes
Not Getting What You Paid For
By Scott Jaschik
ATLANTA — Everyone knows there’s a reason the most expensive colleges in the country — generally private residential institutions — charge so much. The money they spend on hiring the best faculty members (full-timers of course) and on keeping student-faculty ratios low results in a higher-quality education. Right?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/25/public-universities-use-moocs-steer-students-traditional-credit-pathways
Mainstreaming MOOCs
By Kevin Kiley
As the old saying goes, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” This week, public universities announced two different initiatives designed to use free, online, open-enrollment courses to drive students to more traditional credit pathways. The move attempts to position free, online courses as a complement to the traditional model of higher education, rather than a disruptive innovation that could undermine it.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/01/25/possible-gates-consensus-financial-aid
A Possible Gates Consensus on Financial Aid?
A report from a panel of higher education experts, including college presidents and foundation leaders, has called for changes to simplify federal financial aid in a white paper released Thursday. The white paper, “The American Dream 2.0,” published by HCM Strategists, a public policy consulting group, is part of a larger effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to recommend changes to financial aid to boost completion rates.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/01/25/report-calls-block-granting-pell
Report Calls for Block-Granting Pell
A white paper from the Committee for Economic Development, another entry in an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to redesign federal financial aid to focus on completion, calls for a radical change to student aid: turning the Pell Grant and other need-based aid into block grants for states. The paper, “A New Partnership: The Road to Reshaping Federal & State Financial Aid,” calls for requiring states to match 20 percent of federal funds with need-based aid of their own.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/50905/
Report Discusses Top Trends in Student Enrollment
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Constrained family finances, more students from more diverse backgrounds and online social networks are making it easier for “Generation C” — the “C” stands for “connected” — to investigate an institution’s reputation. Those are among the top factors that will influence enrollment in independent colleges in 2013, a recent study has found.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Immigrant-Rights-Group-Unveils/136839/
Immigrant-Rights Group Unveils a ‘Fair Common Application’
By Libby Sander
Activists in a student-led immigrant-rights group have unveiled a spinoff Web site modeled on the Common Application that aims to pressure the widely used admissions portal to include “undocumented American” in its demographic questions and “undocumented status” in its nondiscrimination clause.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/01/25/to-mba-or-not-to-mba-is-a-valid-question.html?page=all
To MBA or not to MBA is a valid question
Nicole Bradford, Contributing Writer
MBA: It’s a three-letter combination universally understood by professionals in any industry. “It’s what I refer to as a branded degree. You don’t have to explain to people what an MBA is,” said Gina L. Miller, associate dean in charge of graduate programs at Mercer University’s Atlanta campus.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323301104578255992379228564.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1
College Degree, No Class Time Required
University of Wisconsin to Offer a Bachelor’s to Students Who Take Online Competency Tests About What They Know
By CAROLINE PORTER
David Lando plans to start working toward a diploma from the University of Wisconsin this fall, but he doesn’t intend to set foot on campus or even take a single online course offered by the school’s well-regarded faculty. Instead, he will sit through hours of testing at his home computer in Milwaukee under a new program that promises to award a bachelor’s degree based on knowledge—not just class time or credits.