USG NEWS:
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http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/21729575/article-Search-for-UWG-president-down-to-5?instance=west_ga_news
Search for UWG president down to 5
by Staff Reports
A Georgia Southern University official is among the five candidates to succeed Dr. Beheruz Sethna as president at the University of West Georgia. Four other candidates include officials from Clayton State University in Morrow, the University of West Florida, Emporia State in Kansas, and the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas.
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/21222850/uwg-presidential-candidates-set-to-tour-campus
UWG presidential candidates set to tour campus
CARROLLTON, Ga. (AP) – Five potential University of West Georgia presidents are set to tour the campus and meet students and faculty. University officials say a presidential search committee has scheduled visits between Feb. 18 and March 1. Students and staff have been invited to interview each candidate during open meetings.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-president-michael-adams-honored-by-ga-general-assembly/article_56155cd2-7791-11e2-a99a-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA President Michael Adams honored by Ga. General Assembly
Staff Reports
University of Georgia President Michael Adams was thanked for his 16 years of service to the state of Georgia Thursday at the Georgia General Assembly meeting.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-17/ugas-adams-will-get-new-office-special-collections-library
UGA’s Adams will get new office in special collections library
By LEE SHEARER
Michael Adams will get a new office in the University of Georgia’s Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries Building when he steps down as UGA president, university officials recently confirmed. Workers will convert a small classroom on the Hull Street building’s third floor for Adams, who won’t be UGA president after June 30, but will still remain on the UGA faculty.
RESEARCH:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/gov-deal-proposes-increase-in-state-research-budget/article_25150c6c-77dd-11e2-8462-001a4bcf6878.html
Gov. Deal proposes increase in state research budget
BRAD MANNION
For the 2014 fiscal year, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal plans to devote $18.35 million from the state budget for the Georgia Research Alliance, an amount significantly higher than the 2013 budget of $13.85 million and $7.4 million in 2012.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/ccp/women-studying-engineering-overcome-traditional-barriers
Women studying engineering break barriers
By Sean McMinn
It used to be awkward for Laura Ashley Harris to walk into her college classes. Her male classmates would shoot her looks with a clear message: “Why are you here?” Now, they know she belongs. “It can be uncomfortable if you don’t know the people,” Harris said of studying engineering as a woman. “But where I’m at now, I’m with people I know. And they know I can hold my own.”… Christine Valle, a mechanical engineering professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, leads her university’s Women in Engineering program.
www.ebnonline.com
http://www.ebnonline.com/author.asp?section_id=2981&doc_id=258993
Crowdfunding Components & Risk Assessment
Brian Fuller, Editor in Chief
As the semiconductor industry has consolidated in the past 10 years, entrepreneurs have been forced to think differently about how to fund a great new idea. Venture capitalists, as we know, have cooled on the industry’s ROI, to say the least! But, not surprisingly, at that end of the design and supply chain, novel approaches have filled the VC gap because great ideas abhor a vacuum… Now comes a Harvard-trained biochemist and part-time R&B singer, Elliott Small, who has licensed Georgia Tech patents to try his hand at a smarter, faster lithium-ion battery-charging system.
www.timesdispatch.com
http://www.timesdispatch.com/special-section/black-history/recovery-slow-for-minority-firms/article_97f5b666-a18f-5940-adbb-44bfa0091be7.html
Recovery slow for minority firms
Recession presented challenges, but business is turning
BY RANDY HALLMAN Richmond Times-Dispatch
Freda Lipscomb Thornton kept her customers’ budgets in mind. Gerald Burr Jr. read the economy’s signals better than some economists did. Thornton and Burr are local black business owners whose companies have survived the country’s deep recession and are in position to take advantage of the recovery… Construction accounts for 14.1 percent of Latino-owned businesses nationally, he said, citing a Georgia Tech study.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.upstart.bizjournals.com
http://upstart.bizjournals.com/companies/startups/2013/02/14/atlanta-hot-on-startups.html
Hotlanta’s startup scene is So So Def
by Laura Baverman , Contributing Writer
Upstart of the Day: Atlanta has always been a good city for business. But it’s never really been seen as a hub of innovation. That could well be about to change as the city is about to embark on a concerted effort to lure entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and upstart thinkers.
When Scott Henderson toured Tech Square at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and then learned that a few Atlanta startups had the same hometown giants Delta Air Lines and Home Depot, he saw the makings of a Boston Innovation District—in the middle South’s biggest metropolis.
www.finance.yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-startup-imagines-bike-sharing-170000757.html
College Startup Re-Imagines Bike Sharing
By Marty Jerome | Entrepreneur
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 a great idea, to be sure. But are these services profitable? “Probably not,” says Robbie Webber, senior associate at State Smart Transportation Initiative in Madison, Wis. Could they be? “Absolutely,” she says. “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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http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21738500/article-Bipartisanship-—-And-Georgia’s-tech-students-are-the-winners?instance=lead_story_left_column
Bipartisanship — And Georgia’s tech students are the winners
Bipartisan agreement is a rare thing in U.S. and Georgia politics these days, so it was a welcome development last week when Republican Gov. Nathan Deal announced that he would back a proposal by Democratic state Rep. Stacey Evans of Smyrna to lower the grade-point-average requirement for the HOPE Grant scholarships for students in Georgia’s technical colleges.
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/02/07/what-college-students-want-to-tell-their-high-school-teachers-be-tougher-on-us-force-us-to-be-responsible/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
What college students want to tell their high school teachers: Be tougher on us. Force us to be responsible.
This is one for the bulletin board in the teacher’s lounge — what college students want their high school teachers to know. I think folks may be surprised that the main suggestion is “hold us more responsible for our learning.”
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/02/18/judge-rules-that-students-lawsuit-over-c-plus-doesnt-make-grade-should-courts-ever-get-involved-in-grade-disputes/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Judge rules that student’s lawsuit over C plus doesn’t make grade. Should courts ever get involved in grade disputes?
The Pennsylvania woman who sued her graduate school professors over a C plus lost in court last week. Northampton County Judge Emil Giordano ruled that Megan Thode failed to prove that her grade in a Lehigh University fieldwork course was the result of any sort of discrimination.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/feb/17/emory-university-president-sparks-three-fifths-fur/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Emory U. president sparks three-fifths of a furor
By Jim Galloway
You know you’ve screwed up when your treatise on what you meant to say is several times longer than your original statement. Very recently, Emory University President James Wagner, in his column in the winter edition of Emory Magazine, decided to riff on a September event in which a team of Georgia politicians declaimed on Washington dysfunction.
Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/18/emory-president-sets-uproar-statements-three-fifths-compromise-and-then-apologizes
Compromised Position
By Scott Jaschik
Emory University President James Wagner has infuriated many on his campus and scholars elsewhere by using the president’s letter in the new issue of Emory Magazine to say that the “three-fifths compromise” of the U.S. Constitution was a model for how people who disagree can work together for “a common goal.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/18/are-u-texas-regents-again-gunning-bill-powers
Are U. of Texas Regents Again Gunning for Bill Powers?
Last year — with strong support from students, professors and alumni — William Powers Jr. held on to his job as president of the University of Texas at Austin, fending off a bid to oust him by some members of the University of Texas Board of Regents who are close to Governor Rick Perry.
www.nytimes.com
Colleges Become Major Front in Fight Over Carrying Guns
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA and SUSAN SAULNY
BOULDER, Colo. — Public colleges and universities have become a major front in the nation’s debate over guns as gun-rights advocates press to expand the right to carry concealed weapons, a campaign that gained steam after the 2007 shooting rampage at Virginia Tech, which left 33 people dead. And though guns remain banned from most state colleges, pro-gun forces, in a series of high-decibel legal and political battles, have made inroads on the issue in a handful of states, most recently Colorado.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Gun-Research-Enters-a-New-Era/137345/
New Studies Will Focus on Reducing Guns’ Toll, Not on Banning Them
…In particular, President Obama ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to resume studies of gun-related violence, and asked Congress to approve $10-million for such work. …”No one is talking about banning guns,” said Frederick P. Rivara, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, and one of several authors of a 1993 study that led Congress to ban gun-related research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We’re just trying to figure out what works to decrease the toll from guns.”
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Group-Seeks-to-Develop-a-More/137373/
Group Seeks to Develop a More Useful Gauge of Campus Safety
By Ann Schnoebelen
To develop a new tool to measure and report on campus safety, several experts met in Orlando, Fla., over the weekend, ahead of a national conference this week on higher-education law run by Stetson University.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2013/02/obama-to-deliver-morehouse.html
Obama to deliver Morehouse commencement; school gets $3M gift
Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor
President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at Atlanta’s Morehouse College on May 19, reports Politico.com. …In separate Morehouse news announced on Saturday, the foundation named for the late singer Ray Charles says it will give a $3 million gift to the school, reports The Associated Press.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/18/new-data-global-competition-phd-talent
New Data on Global Competition for Ph.D. Talent
A new paper based on survey data from scientists in 16 countries compares the relative strengths of the United States and other countries in attracting top Ph.D. talent. For obtaining a Ph.D. and selecting a postdoc, American universities continue to be highly regarded and benefit from the prestige of their academic programs and a perception that an American Ph.D. will help the careers of non-American scientist, the study found.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/18/college-seeks-fire-professor-pressuring-students-back-obama
Crossing a Line
ByScott Jaschik
Brevard Community College announced on Friday that it would seek to fire a faculty member who it found to have inappropriately pressured students in classes last year to back the re-election of President Obama.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/18/virginia-bill-would-allow-student-groups-bar-members-who-dont-agree-various-ideas
Wielding the Club
By Zack Budryk
Should it be possible for campus Democrats to sign up for a campus Republican club just to disrupt its activities? Would Democrats really do so? Or would Jewish students try to take over the Roman Catholic organization? A bill passed this month in Virginia’s Senate would seek to prevent such actions — by letting student organizations at public colleges restrict their membership to students who agree with their stated agenda.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Calls-for-Spending-on/137343/
Obama Says Colleges Should Keep Costs Low and Hints at ‘Alternative’ Accreditation
By Kelly Field
Washington
For the second year in a row, President Obama used his State of the Union address to take colleges to task over rising tuition, warning that “taxpayers can’t keep subsidizing higher and higher and higher costs for higher education.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/18/tuition-undergrads-again-under-consideration-cooper-union
Tuition for Undergrads Again Under Consideration at Cooper Union
The Cooper Union, which has traditionally awarded full scholarships to all students but which last year started charging tuition to graduate students, is again considering tuition for undergraduates, The New York Times reported.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Gates-Foundation-Offers-Ways/137347/
Gates Foundation Offers Ways to Simplify Student Aid
By Kelly Field
As the last of 16 reports on remaking the federal student-financial-aid system trickle out, consensus appears to be building around a few key ideas. The reports, commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, generally agree that students need a simpler process of applying for aid, as well as clearer information on college costs and outcomes.
www.nytimes.com
In China, Families Bet It All on College for Their Children
By KEITH BRADSHER
HANJING, China — Wu Yiebing has been going down coal shafts practically every workday of his life, wrestling an electric drill for $500 a month in the choking dust of claustrophobic tunnels, with one goal in mind: paying for his daughter’s education.
www.nytimes.com
Europeans Take a More Cautious Approach Toward Online Courses
By D. D. GUTTENPLAN
LONDON — What if they held a MOOC and nobody came? Ever since the German computer scientist Sebastian Thrun sent out an e-mail in 2011 announcing that his “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” course at Stanford University in California would be available free online, the education world has been both enthralled and terrified by the advent of massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professor-leaves-a-mooc-in-mid-course-in-dispute-over-teaching/42381
Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching
By Steve Kolowich
Students regularly drop out of massive open online courses before they come to term. For a professor to drop out is less common.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/SpringSummer-Are-the-New/137359/
For Some at U. of Florida, Spring and Summer Are the New Academic Year
By Eric Hoover
When Natalia Tamayo learned last winter that she had been accepted to the University of Florida, she sat in her car and cried. She could not enroll for almost a year, the university had informed her, and she could never attend a fall course on the campus.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/18/accreditation-crisis-updates-california-community-colleges
Accreditation Crisis Updates for California Community Colleges
Two California community colleges received good news from their accreditor this week, with an easing of possible sanctions from the Accrediting Commission of Community and Junior Colleges, which is part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.