A story in the AJC reports that the BOR is planning to develop a set of guidelines that institutions must meet before being allow to establish or expand their athletics programs. It may impact GHC.
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BC now officially ‘Bainbridge State College’
By DALE FULLER
BSC Excecutive Director of Institutional Advancement
Bainbridge College (BC) is no more. During their Feb. 13 meeting, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia approved a request to officially change the name of the institution to Bainbridge State College (BSC). This approval came on the heels of approval from the Regents to grant BC the new status of a four-year college, thus the name change to reflect the new “state college” status.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/sports/ksu-football-plan-sound-regents-vote-next/nWNQS/
KSU football plan approved, hopes to field team in 2015
By Doug Roberson
Kennesaw State has its football program.
The Board of Regents approved the university’s financial plan to support football and other Title IX initiatives on Wednesday, fulfilling a dream that began in 2008. KSU hopes to play as possibly as early as 2014, but more than likely will start in 2015.
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Kennesaw State gets green light for football
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www.savannahnow.com
Kennesaw State’s financial plan to support DI football is approved
http://savannahnow.com/sports/2013-02-13/kennesaw-states-financial-plan-support-di-football-approved#.UR0J2o6TpGM
www.onlineathens.com
Ga. Board of Regents approves KSU football plan
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-02-13/ga-board-regents-approves-ksu-football-plan
www.wsav.com
Ga. Board of Regents approves KSU football plan
http://www.wsav.com/story/21186672/ga-board-of-regents-approves-ksu-football-plan
www.13wmaz.com
Kennesaw State University to Add Football
http://www.13wmaz.com/sports/article/217240/45/Kennesaw-State-University-to-Add-Football
www.11alive.com
University System regents approve football for Kennesaw State
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/277437/40/University-System-regents-approve-football-for-Kennesaw-State
www.insidehighered.com
Kennesaw State Will Add Football
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/14/kennesaw-state-will-add-football
www.sbnation.com
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/2/13/3984066/kennesaw-state-football-2015
Kennesaw State finally adding actual football team: 2015 the target
By Jason Kirk
A process more than eight years in the works has resulted in another process that will be years in the works, but it’s a football program.
Kennesaw State, the state of Georgia’s third-largest university, has revealed its long-delayed football program will actually produce a FCS team that will actually take the field, ideally in 2015. Its regents approved a plan Wednesday to hike student fees in support of the new program, plus multiple Title IX additions.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/regents-tackle-new-policy-on-college-sports/nWNc7/
Regents tackle new policy on college sports
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia public colleges that want to establish, add or expand athletic programs would first need approval from the State Board of Regents, under a policy change discussed Wednesday.
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/feb/13/leaders-converge-on-capitol-for-gwinnett-day-event/
Leaders converge on Capitol for Gwinnett Day event
By Camie Young
ATLANTA — Georgia Gwinnett College President Dan Kaufman reached for the governor’s hand Wednesday to thank him for coming to a reception honoring Gwinnett County at the Capitol. But he couldn’t help but bend his ear for a moment about the college’s funding crisis, which could lead to up to eight furlough days if a $2.7 million special funding cut stands in the state budget.
www.accessnorthga.com
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=258266
Events at UNG in Dahlonega, Gainesville aimed at helping with college costs
By Staff
DAHLONEGA – The University of North Georgia (UNG) will be holding free events to help parents and students fill out the forms required to apply for federal financial aid on Feb. 24 on the Dahlonega campus and March 1 on the Gainesville campus.
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UNG receives nearly $2 million in grants to expand foreign lanuage programs
By Bryan Pirkle Staff
DAHLONEGA – The Department of Defense has awarded grants totaling almost $2 million to the University of North Georgia to support and expand its foreign language programs.
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/feb/13/gru-asu-to-explore-partnership-for-health/
GRU, ASU to explore partnership for health education
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY, Ga. — Georgia Regents University and Albany State University are exploring plans to establish a health professions program in Albany. The GRU College of Allied Health Sciences and the College of Sciences & Health Professions at ASU will collaborate with a goal of producing more diverse physician assistants to serve Georgia residents.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2013-02-13/st-marys-closer-creating-residency-program-medical-students-athens
St. Mary’s closer to creating residency program for medical students in Athens
By APRIL BURKHART
Students studying internal medicine in Athens eventually can complete their residency training as well in the area. St. Mary’s Health Care System announced Wednesday it took the first steps to becoming an education hospital for medical interns. In partnership with Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, the hospital formally filed with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to become an internal medicine residency program’s sponsoring institution.
RESEARCH:
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-02-14/regulators-seek-input-ogeechee-river-fish-kill-penalty#.UR0BhI6TpGN
Regulators seek input on Ogeechee River fish kill penalty
By Mary Landers
When state regulators recently announced a public hearing to get input on their plans to punish Ogeechee River polluter King America Finishing, it was good news to the Ogeechee Riverkeeper, though a long time coming. …The Riverkeeper filed written comments on the consent order in November, blasting it for being so vague it was impossible to evaluate. More than three-quarters of the money will be spent on studies at Georgia Southern University, for which almost no details are provided.
www.upi.com
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/02/13/Fish-janitors-said-vital-to-coral-reefs/UPI-50911360799261/#ixzz2Ks9l64lY
Fish ‘janitors’ said vital to coral reefs
ATLANTA, Feb. 13 (UPI) — Herbivorous marine fish can be picky eaters, U.S. scientists say, which could spell trouble for endangered reef systems that depend on the fish as “cleaners.” Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology say studies in the Fiji Islands showed just four species of fish were primarily responsible for removing common and potentially harmful seaweeds from reefs, and each type of seaweed is eaten by a different fish species.
www.foodengineeringmag.com
http://www.foodengineeringmag.com/articles/90278-agroterrorism-defense-are-you-prepared
Agroterrorism defense: Are you prepared?
Researchers are studying ways to reduce risk in the food supply chain.
By Shane O’Halloran
When we think of terrorist targets, skyscrapers and monuments probably come to mind before the national food supply. But researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) warn that the food supply is vulnerable and have urged the government and industry stakeholders to develop a plan to protect against biological, chemical, physical or radioactive contamination of the food supply.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.bryancountynews.net
http://www.bryancountynews.net/section/4/article/25392/
State may lower gpa level for HOPE
Special to the News
Gov. Nathan Deal announced last week a proposal that will lower to its original level the grade-point average requirement for the HOPE grant, which goes to students in the technical college system.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/2013/02/13/atlanta-for-tech-startups/1911353/
Talking Tech | Atlanta is ‘Hotlanta’ for tech start-ups
ATLANTA — You can buy a small home in the suburbs here for as little as $100,000. Food and transportation can be more affordable than in its Northern big-city counterparts. Yet Atlanta is the USA’s ninth largest city, with a metro population of nearly 6 million. …Local university Georgia Tech has 40 companies working at its Advanced Technology Development Center, which it calls the largest and oldest campus-based tech incubator in the nation. It, too, has a waiting list of 21 companies wanting to participate. Firms get to stay at the ATDC for up to three years. Georgia Tech has no investment in the companies. Its intent, instead, is to help create jobs by helping small businesses get off the ground, says Stephen Fleming, a Georgia Tech vice-president.
www.entrepreneur.com
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225212#
College Startup Re-Imagines Bike Sharing
BY MARTY JEROME
From D.C. to Minneapolis to Montreal, there are at least 15 self-service municipal bike-sharing operations in North America. Anyone can use them to rent a bike from a kiosk and drop it off at another one. …”It’s just that it’s such a new concept in the United States, and one that’s very expensive to start up.” The high cost of entry struck Kyle Azevedo and three classmates at Atlanta’s Georgia Tech University as an opportunity.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Obama cites Georgia as proof that pre-k works. Calls for College Scorecard and redesigned high schools. Real goals or rhetoric?
In his fifth State of the Union address, a buoyed President Obama called for making “high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on – by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime.”
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51305/
Diverse Conversations: Supporting Underserved Populations in Higher Education
by Matthew Lynch
The field of higher education has changed completely in the past couple of decades. Unlike before, when only a few talented and intelligent students went on to get a college education, now it has become a necessity, as the jobs available in the new economy require more than just a high school diploma.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/14/course-course-approval-moocs-may-not-be-wise-essay
The Right Path to MOOC Credit?
By Pamela Tate
With great interest, I read the recent news announcing that the American Council on Education (ACE) had evaluated five Coursera MOOCs and recommended them for credit. But I had hoped for something different.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/university-diaries/mooc-whipped
MOOC-WHIPPED
By UD
For the last two days UD has been in Washington DC, at a high-level gathering of federal government, Gates Foundation, and university people, all of whom convened to talk about how to use online technology to improve education for American students, from elementary to graduate school.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/14/ncaa-academic-reform-has-hurt-higher-eds-integrity-essay
NCAA Reform Gone Wrong
By Gerald Gurney and Richard M. Southall
A decade has passed since the National Collegiate Athletic Association rolled out its academic reform package. In that time, there is strong evidence that the reforms designed to open access to higher education to more athletes and punishing coaches and institutions failing at academics came at the expense of the integrity of the academy.
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/georgia-schools-shut-out-race-top-funds/nWNkZ/
Georgia schools shut out of Race to the Top funds
By Scott MacFarlane
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Georgia school districts are failing a test in Washington, D.C. The federal government has handed out $400 million to U.S. school districts but an investigation by Channel 2’s Scott MacFarlane found the 25 Georgia school districts that applied failed to get even a penny.
www.americustimesrecorder.com
http://americustimesrecorder.com/local/x503849590/SGTC-Phi-Beta-Lambda-celebrates-American-Enterprise-Day
SGTC Phi Beta Lambda celebrates American Enterprise Day
The Americus Times-Recorder
AMERICUS — Americus Mayor Barry Blount and South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) President Sparky Reeves joined members of the South Georgia Technical College Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) organization for a celebration of American Enterprise Day in the Betty Deriso Pope Teleconference Room of the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the SGTC Americus campus recently.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/14/white-houses-new-scorecard-oversimplifies-institutions-liberal-arts-advocates-say
‘A Blunt Instrument’
By Kevin Kiley
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama announced a new College Scorecard that would help prospective college students “compare schools based on a simple criteria — where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.”
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With New ‘Scorecard,’ Obama Seeks to Give Students a Tool for Comparing Colleges
http://chronicle.com/article/New-Scorecard-Seeks-to/137303/
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Obama Administration Launches College Scorecard
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51293/
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Obama administration releases interactive College Scorecard
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/13/obama-administration-releases-interactive-college-scorecard/
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/14/did-state-union-create-opening-competency-based-programs-and-other-innovations
A New Accreditation System?
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — In President Obama’s few sentences about higher education in the State of the Union address Tuesday night, there might have been a presidential precedent set: the first allusion to postsecondary accreditation in the landmark annual address to Congress.
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www.chronicle.com
Obama’s Accreditation Proposals Surprise Higher-Education Leaders
http://chronicle.com/article/Obamas-Accreditation/137311/
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Should-All-Students-Be-Able-to/137277/
Should All Students Be Able to Borrow? Maybe Not, Says One Group
By Beckie Supiano
When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation asked 16 organizations to “reimagine” the financial-aid system, one grant recipient saw an opportunity. The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators wanted to be bold, to raise controversial questions.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Aid-System-Could-Better-Serve/137299/
Aid System Could Better Serve Latino Students, Says Report Calling for Reforms
By Kelly Field
The federal student-aid system does not serve Latino and other “post-traditional” students as well as it could, and should be redesigned to better reach those growing demographic groups, according to a new report by Excelencia in Education, an advocacy group focused on Latino-student success.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/14/report-calls-refinancing-student-loans
Report Calls for Refinancing Student Loans
Saying that student borrowers have been left out of the “refinancing boom” that has resulted from low interest rates, Campus Progress, a branch of the Center for American Progress called for a federal program allowing refinancing for student loans — including private student loans — at a lower rate.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51301/
Ways to Increase Black Male Success in College Continue To Baffle Educators
by Paul Ruffins
“Explaining the barriers preventing more Black men from succeeding in higher education raises the most controversial and politicized issues of race, gender and class,” says Dr. Juan Battle, a psychology professor at CUNY. He is one of many studying the “Aspiration-Attainment Gap,” where as many Black elementary school students as White aspire to go to college, but far fewer, particularly males, ever obtain a degree.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/14/aaup-seeks-better-policies-preventing-sexual-assaults
Protecting Women on Campus
By Colleen Flaherty
With sexual assaults reported on campus nationwide, the American Association of University Professors today released its first report on the topic. It calls for clearer policies about what constitutes assault; coherent reporting procedures drafted in tandem with local law enforcement; more effective prevention campaigns targeted at both male and female students; and greater faculty awareness that they may find themselves on the “front lines” of the problem.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/14/study-helicopter-parents-cause-mental-health-problems-children
Study: Helicopter Parents Cause Mental Health Problems for Children
New research published in Springer’s Journal of Child and Family Studies suggests helicopter parents may be doing harm to their children’s mental health, Reuters reported.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/02/emory-working-on-epileptic-seizure.html
Emory working on epileptic seizure research
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
A new type of prophylactic treatment for brain injury following prolonged epileptic seizures has been developed by Emory University School of Medicine researchers.
www.gainesville.com
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130213/ARTICLES/130219802/-1/news?Title=UF-may-take-the-lead-in-state-s-online-degree-project
UF may take the lead in state’s online degree project
By Joey Flechas
Staff writer
State higher education leaders want to coordinate the university system’s online education efforts, and the University of Florida might be leading the charge. The Board of Governors’ strategic planning committee met at UF on Wednesday to develop a plan to propose to the full board next week. Officials would like to present a framework to the Legislature before the start of the session on March 5 with hopes of seeking funding.