USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/senate-panel-approves-193-billion-budget/nWSWN/
Senate panel approves $19.3 billion budget
By James Salzer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A key Senate committee backed a $19.3 billion midyear spending plan Tuesday that would restore more than $2.7 million Gov. Nathan Deal has proposed cutting from Georgia Gwinnett College’s funding.
The full Senate will vote this week on the budget, which would trim $26 million overall but put more money into k-12 schools.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/new-life-for-big-development-at-clayton-state/nWTGC/
New life for big development at Clayton State
Leaders say University Station will spur area economy, some residents have doubts
By Tammy Joyner and J. Scott Trubey
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sweeping plans for a gateway to Clayton State University that were scuttled by a harsh recession are being reborn on a smaller scale that development officials say will still give Clayton County a much-needed economic jolt.
www.pressdisplay.com
http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
Medical center seeks $10M for improvements
Planned wing would enhance digestive health services.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Tom Corwin Augusta Chronicle
It took her five months just to get a visa and a grueling 24-hour trip from Cairo to Augusta, but Amany Mahmoud was happy to be getting tested at Georgia Regents Medical Center. …The health system is pursuing plans for a $10 million Digestive Health Center on the mostly vacant second floor of the old College of Dental Medicine building nearby. The system has secured a certificate of need from the state but must get approval from the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents. The center would be part of a $50 million retrofit to the more than 40year-old building, which would house administrative functions on both the clinical and university sides, said Phil Howard, the vice president for facilities service.
www.flagpole.com
UGA Is Getting a New Vet School and Business College
Athens Rising
By Stella Smith
…Last November, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for the new Veterinary Medical Learning Center at the corner of College Station and Barnett Shoals roads. The site is currently being prepped, and construction should begin in late February or early March. …Also coming up is a new four-building complex for the Terry College of Business.
GOOD NEWS:
www.tiftongazette.com
http://tiftongazette.com/local/x1633487308/ABAC-celebrates-105th-birthday-today
ABAC celebrates 105th birthday today
Special to The Gazette
TIFTON — On Feb. 20, 1908, a total of 27 students walked up the front steps of Tift Hall to attend classes at the Second District Agricultural and Mechanical School. That school eventually became Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (ABAC). Today, ABAC turns 105 years old.
USG VALUE:
www.gainesvilletimes.com
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/79950/
Gainesville poultry industry would benefit from national immigration reform
By Sarah Mueller
Immigrant workers are important to Gainesville’s poultry industry, said Mike Giles, president of the Georgia Poultry Federation, at an immigration meeting Tuesday in Duluth. …Poultry is the largest sector of agriculture and agribusiness in the state, Giles said. He cited University of Georgia statistics, saying the industry has an annual impact of more than $20 billion on the state’s economy and accounts for about 100,000 direct and indirect jobs.
www.marketplace.org
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/community-banks-fail-over-technicality-study
Community banks fail over technicality: Study
by Jim Burress
Since the banking crisis hit hard in 2008, Georgia has seen more than 80 banks go under. That’s more than any other state. Most have been small, community banks whose assets were tied to the housing market. But did those banks have to fail? A new report from the University of West Georgia says in many cases, the answer is no.
RESEARCH:
www.theatlanticwire.com
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/02/spear-phishing-security-advice/62304/
How to Avoid Getting Spear-Phished by China’s Hackers Who Cracked Apple
REBECCA GREENFIELD
The tidal wave of Chinese hack attacks on the U.S. in recent weeks, from The New York Times and the Defense Department to Facebook and now even Apple, have one increasingly common and sophisticated type of malware trick in common: “spear-phishing.” The tech giants seem to be the victim of a site called iPhonedevSdk, while WikiLeaks and a new cyber-espionage report appear to connect hacked Cabinet-level emails with a Chinese army-linked group known as “Comment Crew.”… Step 6: Be Paranoid: This one comes from security researchers at Georgia Tech: “It’s very difficult to put technical controls into place to prevent humans from making a mistake. To keep these attacks out, email users have to do the right thing every single time,” writes malware expert Andrew Howard. “Users are the front line defense. We need every user to have a little paranoia about email.”
www.kpbs.org
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/feb/19/artificial-blood-platelets-could-save-lives-troops/
Artificial Blood Platelets Could Save Lives Of Troops Injured In Combat
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
By Beth Ford Roth
Scientists are working on developing artificial blood platelets that could better help troops injured in combat survive their wounds, according to news out of the Georgia Institute of Technology. A group of researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University, both in Atlanta, have a project in the works that could one day give service members with traumatic injuries the ability to treat their own wounds:
www.healthcareglobal.com
http://www.healthcareglobal.com/healthcare_technology/ophthalmology-startup-uses-microinjections-in-retinal-drug-delivery
Startup Uses Microinjections In Retinal Drug Delivery
A one-year-old startup company using drug delivery to improve ophthalmic drugs is raising fresh capital to support trials of its microinjection platform
Abigail Phillips
Clearside Biomedical has raised $7.9 million and could continue to raise up to $8.5 million, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing made last week. The company is hoping to stave off retinal blindness in some patients by using a microneedle to administer drugs to the back of the eye between the choroid and sclera. The company says this is where many sight-threatening diseases manifest themselves including wet and dry forms of age-related macular degeneration, uveitis and retinal and choroidal inflammation… Clearside was established in January 2012 with a $4 million investment and technology licensed from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University School of Medicine.
www.therapeuticsdaily.com
http://www.therapeuticsdaily.com/news/article.cfm?contentValue=879099&contentType=newsarchive&channelID=29
Galectin Therapeutics Announces Discovery Program for New Anti-Galectin Drugs in Collaboration with the University of Georgia
NORCROSS, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Feb 19, 2013 – Galectin Therapeutics (NASDAQ: GALT), the leading developer of therapeutics that target galectin proteins to treat fibrosis and cancer, announced today the establishment of a collaborative drug discovery program with Dr. Geert-Jan Boons’ laboratory located in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center at the University of Georgia.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/bill-would-lower-hope-grant-gpa-rule/nWSWx/
Bill would lower HOPE Grant GPA rule
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As expected, a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed a bill that would allow more technical college students to qualify for the HOPE Grant.
www.timesenterprise.com
http://timesenterprise.com/x1633487231/No-bumper-crop
No bumper crop
Clint Thompson
CNHI
THOMASVILLE — First-year agricultural education teachers are earning an annual salary of $45,000. So why is there a shortage of agricultural education teachers around the state?
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-18/georgia-must-open-doors-meet-education-goals-speaker-says
Georgia must open doors to meet education goals, speaker says
By LEE SHEARER
Georgia needs to develop a sense of urgency if the state really wants to reach Gov. Nathan Deal’s goal of raising by 250,000 the number of its citizens graduating from college or technical training by the year 2020, a speaker said Monday at the University of Georgia.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/opinion/20130220Editorial-Wed-MOS
Too many adults in our state lack a college degree
EDITORIAL
Our state has far too few adults with a two-year or four-year college degree, and Gov. Nathan Deal has set a goal of raising the number of Georgians graduating from college or technical school by 250,000 by 2020.
This week at a Complete College Georgia Summit at the University of Georgia, speakers outlined startling numbers showing why our state needs to meet or exceed Deal’s goal.
www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21738500/article-Bipartisanship-—-And-Georgia’s-tech-students-are-the-winners?instance=secondary_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. The change would require students to maintain a 2.0 GPA in order to be eligible for the grants. State legislators had raised the threshold to 3.0 from 2.0 back in 2011 due to concerns that the lottery-funded grant program was going broke. Evans brought forward her proposal after hearing complaints that many students were dropping out, or not enrolling at all, due to the higher standard.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/19/report-u-s-should-focus-on-equity-in-education/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss
Report: U.S. should focus on equity in education
When Barack Obama was elected president four years ago, many people in the education world had hoped he would pick as his education secretary Linda Darling-Hammond, a Stanford University professor who was the head of his first education transition team and who is an expert on educational equity. Pushed by pro-school choice forces to pass over her, Obama selected Arne Duncan, who has presided over a school reform agenda with standardized test-based accountability as its focus. …Today a report on equity in education was released by a congressionally-mandated commission (with Darling-Hammond as a member) that documents how the country has ignored the issue of equity for decades.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/ranking-colleges-by-desirability/33873?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Ranking Colleges by ‘Desirability’
By Eric Hoover
This weary planet might not need yet another set of college rankings, but new models keep popping up. The latest is a rating of colleges based on their “desirability,” as determined by the choices applicants make.
www.bucks.blogs.nytimes.com
Readers Weigh In on Working Your Way Through College
By RON LIEBER
My article in the Sunday Business section two weekends ago, about the challenge of working your way through college these days without taking on any student loan debt or receiving any help from your parents, served as a Rorschach test of sorts for readers.
www.economix.blogs.nytimes.com
College Premium: Better Pay, Better Prospects
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
I’ve written before about the growing wage premium for college degrees: how the wage gap between workers with a bachelor’s degree and workers with no more than a high school diploma has been growing over the years. But that statistic captures only part of the income premium that people with a bachelor’s degree enjoy as a result of completing college. (See referenced article: It Takes a B.A. To Find a Job as a File Clerk under Education News)
Education News
www.nytimes.com
It Takes a B.A. to Find a Job as a File Clerk
By CATHERINE RAMPELL
ATLANTA —The college degree is becoming the new high school diploma: the new minimum requirement, albeit an expensive one, for getting even the lowest-level job. Consider the 45-person law firm of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh here in Atlanta, a place that has seen tremendous growth in the college-educated population. Like other employers across the country, the firm hires only people with a bachelor’s degree, even for jobs that do not require college-level skills.
www.jacksonville.com
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2013-02-19/story/brunswick-senator-wants-georgia-freed-national-education-standards
Brunswick senator wants Georgia freed from national education standards
By Walter C. Jones
ATLANTA | A Senate bill introduced Tuesday would break Georgia’s ties to an agreement to abide by national standards for schools. Education groups oppose it.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Tax-Based-Aid-Should-Be/137405/
Tax-Based Aid Should Be Redirected to Low-Income Students, Report Says
By Allie Bidwell
Many groups participating in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project have looked to the Pell Grant program and student-loan debt for ways to improve the federal financial-aid system. But a new paper released on Wednesday says policy makers have overlooked two important areas: tax-based student aid and performance measures used in student-aid policies.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51375/
Teacher Prep Review Debate Brews Before Findings Even Complete
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — Of all the efforts to show which teacher preparation programs are the most effective and which ones are the least, the one that could potentially have the biggest influence on the public is the Teacher Prep Review being produced by the National Council on Teacher Quality.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51418/
Panel Outlines Strategies to Promote Educational Equity
by Charles Dervarics
A blue-ribbon federal advisory panel outlined an ambitious plan Tuesday to combat achievement gaps, focusing on improved teacher preparation and a stronger education and support services pipeline to help meet the needs of high-poverty students.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/20/prevalence-dual-credit-k-12
Prevalence of Dual Credit in K-12
New data from the U.S. Department of Education show that students at 82 percent of high schools in the United States are enrolled in dual credit courses.
www.latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-gpa-contagious-social-networks-20130213,0,973728.story
GPA can be contagious among high school students, study finds
By Karen Kaplan
Researchers have some new advice for high school students who want to improve their grades: Become friends with academically oriented classmates. It may sound obvious, but researchers went to considerable effort to prove it.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51389/
UNCF’s Latest Challenge is Engaging Youth
by Preston Clark
Across the nation, local United Negro College Fund chapters simultaneously honored Dr. King’s legacy and President Obama’s inauguration last month, using both as an occasion to discuss the organization’s role in the preservation of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities — and Black education overall.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/for-profit-admissions-officers-file-eeoc-complaints/
For-Profit Admissions Officers File EEOC Complaints
Source: DiverseEducation.com
As the number of minority students who enroll at for-profit colleges continues to soar, institutions across the country and the agencies that accredit them face intense scrutiny over the tactics and strategies that admission officers use to attract these students.
www.insideighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/florida-international-university-attempts-infuse-global-learning-across-curriculum
The ‘I’ in FIU
By Elizabeth Redden
Florida International University may have “international” as its middle name, but only recently has it moved to make global learning a centerpiece of its undergraduate curriculum.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51436/
Texas Senate May Wade Into UT Dispute
by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate announced Tuesday that it will hold hearings into the behavior of the University of Texas’ regents and whether they are meddling too much into President Bill Powers’ private life and management of the school.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/community-college-learns-boosting-retention-comes-cost
Biting the Bullet on Completion
By Paul Fain
Research has identified several ways for colleges that enroll lesser-prepared students to improve their graduation rates. But college leaders are often wary of those solutions, because they can take a whack at the bottom line and challenge a tradition of open doors.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/study-says-academic-productivity-not-race-determines-nih-research-funding
Race or Productivity?
By Carl Straumsheim
A new study shows no correlation between race and research funding from the National Institutes of Health, challenging previous findings that the agency’s review processes favor white applicants.
www.abcnews.go.com
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/stanford-university-college-raise-1b-18543249
Stanford University Is 1st College to Raise $1B
By TERENCE CHEA Associated Press
Stanford University has set a new record for college fundraising, becoming the first school to collect more than $1 billion in a single year, according to a report released Wednesday.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/20/survey-shows-slight-increase-contributions-colleges
Giving to Colleges Up 2.3%
By Zack Budryk
Charitable giving to colleges and universities increased 2.3 percent in 2012, according to a report issued today by the Council for Aid to Education. Indexed for inflation, this represents only a 0.2 percent increase.
www.chronicle.com
Gifts to U.S. Colleges Rose 2.3% in 2012, Narrowly Outpacing Inflation
By Don Troop
America’s colleges and universities took in $31-billion in donations in the 2012 fiscal year, a 2.3-percent increase over 2011’s total of $30.3-billion, according to a report released on Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Sortable-Table-Money-Raised/137399/
Money Raised by Colleges, 2011-12
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/education/colo-house-voting-on-gun-control-measures/nWRr4/
Colo. House passes gun-control measures
By IVAN MORENO
The Associated Press
DENVER — Limits on the size of ammunition magazines and universal background checks passed the Colorado House on Monday, during a second day of emotional debates that has drawn attention from the White House as lawmakers try to address recent mass shootings. The bills were among four that the Democratic-controlled House passed amid strong resistance from Republicans, who were joined by a few Democrats to make some of the votes close.