USG NEWS:
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/47828/preview/
Gun debate lands at GSU
Forum features campus Democrats, Republicans
By Jeff Harrison
A national debate centered on gun control spilled over Monday to the campus of Georgia Southern University, where student leaders hosted a forum to discuss the issue.
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/feb/11/college-facing-budget-cuts/
Georgia Gwinnett College facing budget cuts, furloughs
By Camie Young
LAWRENCEVILLE — A state budget proposal could lead to swift cuts at Georgia Gwinnett College, including up to eight furlough days in the coming months. Leaders are lobbying legislators to restore the $2.7 million in the college’s special initiative funding cut in the governor’s proposal of the supplemental 2013 budget, which runs through this summer.
GOOD NEWS:
www.philanthropy.com
http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/calif-firm-donates-90-million-in-software-to-georgia-tech/62571
Calif. Firm Donates $90-Million in Software to Georgia Tech
The Georgia Institute of Technology announced last week that it has received a $90-million gift from Santa Clara, Calif.-based software firm Agilent Technologies Inc., news Web site GlobalAtlanta reports.
RESEARCH:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-02-11/new-clinical-trial-targets-pancreatic-cancer?v=1360613563
New clinical trial targets pancreatic cancer
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
What started as a little blood in her urine turned up an often deadly and difficult to treat cancer for Christine Tilton of Aiken. But a new and unique clinical trial at Georgia Regents University Cancer Center is targeting the way her pancreatic cancer eludes the immune system and giving her hope for better survival.
www.wugatv.org
http://www.wugatv.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49251:uga-scientist-studies-obesity&catid=91:local-state-news&Itemid=141
UGA Scientist Studies Obesity
ATHENS – A new study from a University of Georgia researcher finds strong links between lack of education and childhood obesity. Professor Colleen O’Brien Cherry works at the the Center for Global Health.
www.businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-11/investors-turn-atlantas-foreclosed-homes-into-rentals
Investors Turn Atlanta’s Foreclosed Homes Into Rentals
By Karen Weise
After millions of Americans lost their homes to foreclosure, bargain-hunting investors have stepped in to buy them up. …A new study by Dan Immergluck, a professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, is one of the first on-the ground reports about the effect investors are having in rental markets.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-11/sec-schools-dive-academics-renewable-energy-conference
SEC schools dive into academics with renewable energy conference
By LEE SHEARER
ATLANTA — The Southeastern Conference is best known for its high-powered football teams, but now the athletic conference is spending some of its money on academics. About 400 researchers, students and administrators have gathered at Atlanta’s Hyatt Regency to present academic papers and talk about renewable energy at the first “SEC Symposium.”
www.globalatlanta.com
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/26084/immigration-reform-advocate-upbeat-about-new-policies/
Immigration Reform Advocate Upbeat About New Policies
By Phil Bolton
The Kiwanis Club of Atlanta’s weekly luncheon meeting Feb. 5 featured an address by Jerry Gonzalez, executive director of the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO), revealing how the momentum has changed in the immigration debate. During his remarks that focused primarily on the losses Georgia’s economy has experienced due to the state’s anti-immigrant laws, he urged the attendees to encourage efforts to support immigration reform… With the mission of providing quantifiable information about the contribution of illegal immigrants to Georgia’s economy, the nonprofit organization has attracted a board of directors composed of senior representatives of a wide range of state associations representing the restaurant, home building, poultry, agricultural including fruit and vegetable grower sectors. It also is joined by an advisory council composed of academics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia, and an economist from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/11/what-obama-should-say-about-education-in-state-of-union/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet
by Valerie Strauss
What Obama should say about education in State of Union
Bill Moyers asked experts in different policy areas to write what they would like to hear President Obama say in Tuesday’s State of the Union address (which you can read all about on his website here.) One of those experts is education historian Diane Ravitch, who wrote the following about what she would like to hear from Obama in his speech:
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/sounding-board/ethics-admissions-part-i-graduate-and-professional-school
The Ethics of Admissions, Part I: Graduate and Professional School
By Jane Robbins
I’ve been wanting to write a series of posts on the ethics of admissions and its connection to operating models since I began this blog a few months ago. While there is lots of talk about one or the other, they are rarely brought together in the sense of recognizing how embedded the ethical choices of institutions—and their consequences—are in the construction of their program and college business models.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/lessons-u-ps-innovators-accelerator-online-course
Lessons from U of P’s Innovator’s Accelerator Online Course
By Joshua Kim
Are we paying close enough attention to the lessons we can learn from our colleagues in for-profit higher education? Will the for-profits invest the resources and maintain the long-term focus necessary to develop educational platforms and post-secondary services that elevate them into the elite tier of higher education?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/no-child-left-standing
No Child Left Standing
By John Warner
This past weekend the Facebook feeds of some of my friends with school-aged children lit up with a guest post on Valerie Strauss’ Washington Post education blog, “The Answer Sheet,” from a retired school teacher, Kenneth Bernstein, titled “A Warning to College Profs from a High School Teacher.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/alma-mater/gun-control-what-makes-common-sense
Gun Control: What Makes Common Sense?
By Richard Wilson
In the aftermath of the December 2012 shooting tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, I joined with a group of more than 350 university presidents and chief executive officers to sign a letter urging our elected representatives in Washington to take action against what is becoming an increasingly disturbing incidence of gun violence at educational institutions.
Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/obama-visit-puts-georgia-pre-k-in-spotlight/nWMPr/
Obama visit puts Georgia pre-K in spotlight
By Nancy Badertscher and Greg Bluestein
Georgia’s pre-kindergarten program will get a turn in the national spotlight this week when President Barack Obama uses Decatur as a backdrop to promote an education initiative to give low-income preschoolers an earlier start on their schooling.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/12/report-calls-doubling-pell
Report Calls for Doubling Pell
The latest in a series of papers on redesigning the federal financial aid system calls for doubling the Pell Grant, reconfiguring how the government accounts for student loan default risks and requiring risk-sharing at colleges that receive the majority of revenue from federal funds.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Make-Colleges-More-Accountable/137257/
With Financial Aid, Colleges Should Be Accountable to Taxpayers and Students, Paper Argues
By Beckie Supiano
The gap in college attainment between children of high- and low-income families casts a shadow over both our national economy and the American dream. Improving the financial-aid system won’t close that gap, but could certainly narrow it. Those are the premises of a white paper released on Tuesday by the Institute for College Access & Success.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/12/study-aid-alters-parental-contributions-students
Study: Aid Alters Parental Contributions for Students
Government-provided tuition subsidies “crowd out” parental contributions to their children’s college educations, although the effect is much more pronounced for students from wealthier families than for those from lower-income backgrounds, a study published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research asserts.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51243/
The Rising Cost of Tuition Surpasses the Rate of Inflation
by Jasmine Evans
Panic around the rising cost of college is not a new phenomenon. An article in a December 1968 issue of The New York Times reported on the growing economic problems of that decade. Reporter Thomas Mullaney wrote, “The public is being hit increasingly in the pocketbook by a wide array of price increases for goods and services ranging from cars to clothing to consulting fees. The head of one New York family cited some of them when he complained recently: ‘In a two-week period, I had notices that tuition for my three children at private schools is rising between 15 percent and 30 percent.’” Sound familiar?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/cantor-support-bill-graduates-salaries-rare-example-policy-bipartisanship
Transparency Consensus
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — A proposal to require states to collect and disseminate data on college graduates’ salaries seems to be attracting the rarest of accolades in Congress: bipartisan approval. For colleges, concerned about growing federal regulation, it’s cause for concern.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/12/technical-college-puts-job-readiness-and-attendance-scores-transcripts
Transcript for Work
By Paul Fain
The rap on college transcripts is that they don’t tell employers much, thanks to grade inflation and the failure of conventional grades to predict performance on the job. So to try to give their students’ transcripts more heft, a two-year college in Missouri now includes not only their grades, but a job readiness score and their attendance rate as well.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578298162378392502.html
Push to Gauge Bang for Buck from College Gains Steam
By RUTH SIMON And MICHAEL CORKERY
U.S. and state officials are intensifying efforts to hold colleges accountable for what happens after graduation, a sign of frustration with sky-high tuition costs and student-loan debt.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Ask-Education-Dept/137225/
Colleges Ask Government to Clarify Rules for Credit Based on Competency
By Kelly Field
Forty years after Regents College became the first in the nation to award degrees based on proof of prior learning, competency-based education, as its model became known, may finally be on the verge of federal approval.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323511804578298502974030538.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Penn State Nears Abuse Settlements
By KRIS MAHER
Some two dozen men who alleged they were abused by former Pennsylvania State University football coach Jerry Sandusky moved closer to settling personal-injury claims with the school.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/amidst-a-revolution-publishers-must-know-their-end-users-speaker-says/42249
Amidst a ‘Revolution,’ Publishers Are Told, Know Your ‘End Users’
By Jennifer Howard
Washington — Scholarly publishers that want to flourish in the 21st century can’t just keep producing content and selling it to customers. They have to understand how those “end users” work and come up with solutions to help them do their work better.