There’s quite a bit of doom and gloom in these clips. You might be interested to the read the NY Times story that suggests that Georgia would be the third hardest hit state if the sequester happens. DD
USG NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/feb/25/ggc-food-court-fails-food-inspection/
GGC food court fails health inspection
By Frank Reddy
LAWRENCEVILLE — A food court at Georgia Gwinnett College failed its inspection last week after the health department found several violations. …The establishment scored a 64 out of 100, resulting in a “U,” or unsatisfactory report.
Related articles:
www.onlineathens.com
Georgia Gwinnett College food court fails review
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2013-02-26/georgia-gwinnett-college-food-court-fails-review
www.wsbtv.com
GGC food court receives unsatisfactory health inspection
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/ggc-food-court-receives-unsatisfactory-health-insp/nWZTP/
www.wsav.com
Georgia Gwinnett College food court fails review
http://www.wsav.com/story/21350083/georgia-gwinnett-college-food-court-fails-review
www.fortmilltimes.com
Georgia Gwinnett College food court fails review
http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/02/26/2519353/georgia-gwinnett-college-food.html
RESEARCH:
www.newscientist.com
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23211-happy-snappy-tweets-gain-the-most-twitter-followers.html
Happy, snappy tweets gain the most Twitter followers
by Paul Marks
Want to be popular on Twitter? There are plenty of people who claim they can help, but their tips rarely work and many of them are scammers. Now scientists have joined in, boiling down half a million tweets to a few simple rules for gaining a following. C.J. Hutto (@cjhutto on Twitter) and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta examined the content and retweeting fate of tweets sent by 500 non-celebrities over a 15-month period.
www.staugustine.com
http://staugustine.com/news/florida-news/2013-02-25/veterans-affairs-helping-fund-44-million-project#.USzW2o6ToVt
Veterans Affairs helping fund $4.4 million project
TALLAHASSEE (AP) — Rudy Salas never could have played golf with his old prosthetic leg. …Thanks to a new contract with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Florida State University is participating in a new project aimed at addressing shortcomings of prosthetic socket systems — the part where an amputee’s limb connects to the prosthetic. The two-year, $4.4 million project is being conducted by a research team that includes FSU’s High-Performance Materials Institute, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Prosthetic and Orthotic Associates, Quantum Motion Medical and St. Petersburg College.
www.extremetech.com
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/149172-samsung-funds-graphene-antenna-project-for-wireless-ultra-fast-intra-chip-links
Samsung funds graphene antenna project for wireless, ultra-fast intra-chip links
By John Hewitt
At MWC 2013 in Barcelona, Samsung has announced that it will be funding new research into graphene-based antennae for intra-chip communication in the terahertz band. As part of their Global Outreach Program, Samsung will be giving $120,000 to a multidisciplinary team comprised of researchers from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya-Barcelona Tech and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The primary focus of the grant is to develop the coding and modulation schemes necessary for wireless, internal communication at hundreds of gigabytes per second among the thousands of sub-processors of a multi-core chip — an impossible feat with current technology.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/students-lawmakers-plan-rally-against-guns-campus/nWZdW/
Students, lawmakers plan rally against guns on campus
ATLANTA — Students from area colleges are planning to join lawmakers and activists for a gun violence rally at the state Capitol. “When it comes to your front door, you have to act,” Morehouse student Ronnie Mosley told Channel 2’s Amy Napier Viteri. He and other students said they planned to speak out against legislation they said would put them at risk.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/25/you-cant-have-that-data-19-months-of-stonewalling-by-ed-bureaucrats/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss
‘You can’t have that data’: 19 months of stonewalling by ed bureaucrats
In state after state, critics of education reform try to get data from state education departments to see for themselves how well things are really going and they get stonewalled. Here’s the story of one such data-retrieving effort, by Aaron Pallas, professor of sociology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/cost-disease-cruise-industry-and-higher-ed
The Cost Disease, the Cruise Industry, and Higher Ed
By Joshua Kim
If you take a cruise the main thing you will notice is the sheer number of people that the ship employs. …Higher ed, like cruising, is a labor intensive business. However, unlike the cruise industry, our labor is extremely costly. All the people cruise lines hire do not add up to a particularly burdensome expense.
www.takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com
The Sequester, State by State
By JULIET LAPIDOS
The hatchet job on the federal budget commonly known as the sequester will hurt all 50 states both directly and indirectly, but it won’t hurt them equally. The Pew Center on the States has assembled a pain gauge, ranking the states according to various “indicators of vulnerabilities to the cuts.” One indicator is federal grants subject to the sequester as a percentage of state revenue. By that metric, South Dakota will fare the worst, at 10.3 percent versus a national average of 6.6 percent. Then Illinois, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee. (For those who keep track of this sort of thing, that’s four red states and one blue state in the top five.)
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51538/
One in Four Students Would Delay or Drop Out of School if Federal Financial Aid Were Cut
by Rachel Ny, Nerd Wallet
As yet another budget deadline looms in Congress, the impact of a sequester and automatic budget cuts on individual students has gone largely undiscussed.
www.nytimes.com
We Paid for the Research, So Let’s See It
The Obama administration is right to direct federal agencies to make public, without charge, all scientific papers reporting on research financed by the government. In a memorandum issued on Friday, John Holdren, the president’s science adviser, directed federal agencies with more than $100 million in annual research and development expenditures to develop plans for making the published results of almost all the research freely available to everyone within one year of publication.
www.rollcall.com
http://www.rollcall.com/news/mcpherson_maintaining_americas_role_as_the_worlds_innovation_leader-222619-1.html?ET=rollcall:e15221:74618a:&st=email&pos=eam
McPherson: Maintaining America’s Role as the World’s Innovation Leader
By Peter McPherson
You may not realize it, but your day-to-day life is full of technology born out of federally funded research that was often conducted at universities across the country. Basic research has been the wellspring for innovation and applied research, producing much of our modern society, including the Internet, GPS and large-scale integrated circuits.
www.nytimes.com
Secrets to Success in Online College Learning
To the Editor:
A few counterpoints must be made in response to your Feb. 19 editorial “The Trouble With Online College.” First, not all online learning can be characterized as failing its students. The online learning company Udacity, for instance, is running a pilot program for remedial students at San Jose State University, and so far only 20 percent of them have dropped the class, much below the rate of 50 percent for similar online offerings.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323549204578318493526904164.html?KEYWORDS=%22Higher+Education%22
East Meets West in Class
Pericles Lewis is founding president and professor of humanities at Yale-NUS College, a joint venture between Yale University and National University of Singapore, to open in August.
ON INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Universities are often places where a lot of innovation takes place on the part of the faculty and in the research labs and so on. But they’re basically very conservative institutions.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/campus-networks-are-pinched-as-demand-rises-and-budgets-shrink/42611
Campus Networks Feel the Pinch as Demand Rises and Budgets Shrink
By Jake New
The sharp increase in the number of Internet-connected devices that students are bringing to campuses has left many universities struggling to find ways to provide the necessary bandwidth to meet the demand, according to a survey of campus technology officials released this week.
Education News
wwww.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51548/
Report: High School Dropouts Cost Economy Billions
by PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — High school dropouts are costing some $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue every year, education advocates said in a report released Monday. If states were to increase their graduation rates, state and federal lawmakers could be plugging their budgets with workers’ taxes instead of furloughing teachers, closing drivers-license offices and cutting unemployment benefits.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/26/uncertain-economy-takes-toll-college-savings-survey-finds
Uncertain Economy Takes Toll on College Savings, Survey Finds
Despite headlines about the rising price of a college degree, fewer families are saving money for college and fewer have a plan to pay than in the past, according to a survey released today by Sallie Mae.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/26/new-report-undocumented-students-jesuit-campuses
Documenting the Undocumented
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — Roman Catholic colleges have emerged as a leading voice for undocumented students in recent years, admitting students brought to the U.S. by their parents illegally as children, helping them pay for their education and publicly advocating for changes to U.S. immigration law to give them permanent legal residency.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Helping-Immigrant-Students/137563/
In Helping Immigrant Students, Jesuit Colleges Hope to Lead the Way
By Libby Sander
Washington
More than a century ago, as the nation’s cities swelled with immigrants, colleges and universities run by Jesuit priests offered the new arrivals a place to learn. Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Scranton—all soon had Jesuit colleges, many of which forged ties with immigrant communities.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/26/university-phoenix-faces-possible-probation-accreditor
Possible Probation for Phoenix
By Paul Fain
The University of Phoenix’s accreditation woes are more serious than the for-profit giant had been told to expect, with a site team from its regional accreditor recommending last week that the university be placed on probation because of concerns about a lack of autonomy from its holding company, the Apollo Group.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/26/seeking-proof-liberal-arts-colleges-produce-executives
Seeking Proof Liberal Arts Colleges Produce Executives?
It’s fashionable among some governors and pundits to suggest that the only way for students to get ahead economically these days is to embrace the most utilitarian of majors. So the results of an analysis by Bloomberg Businessweek may be of interest.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/26/new-state-state-completion-data
New State-by-State Completion Data
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center today released a state-by-state rundown of graduation data, which is based on a broad sample representing about 97 percent of students who attend public and private nonprofit institutions.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/26/arkansas-legislators-pass-campus-gun-option-bill
Arkansas Legislators Pass Campus Gun Option Bill
Arkansas legislators gave final approval Monday to a bill, expected to be signed into law by the governor, that gives public colleges and universities the option of allowing faculty and staff members to carry concealed weapons on campus, the Associated Press reported.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/U-of-Colorado-Is-in-Search-of/137567/
U. of Colorado Is in Search of a Scholar of Conservative Thought
By Sydni Dunn
The University of Colorado at Boulder is adding a conservative-in-residence to its liberal-leaning faculty in an attempt to broaden intellectual diversity on the state’s flagship campus.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/26/college-confession-and-makeout-pages-raise-privacy-anonymity-issues
From Behind the Screen
By Zack Budryk
“i got laid in my hometown because i wore my brothers princeton sweatshirt and she thought i was a neurologist. just wanted to say thanks.” “I’m in love with my girlfriend but I cheated on her to even the playing field in case she ever cheats on me.” “To the guy, with the mohawk/fohawk in Intro to Eng, you’re cute. i want you, im afraid to talk to you.” These are — verbatim — just a few of the secrets disclosed on the increasingly popular “Confessions” Facebook pages springing up on various college and university campuses.
www.upi.com
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/02/25/MIT-waited-to-warn-of-campus-shooter/UPI-71551361820168/#ixzz2M0LDbay6
MIT waited to warn of campus shooter
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 25 (UPI) — Officials at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wouldn’t say why they waited 84 minutes to notify faculty and students of a possible gunman on campus.
www.bostonglobe.com
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/02/26/fbi-secret-service-join-investigation-into-tip-gunman-mit/aCDWuH1eczJY4JZxDglUYK/story.html
FBI, Secret Service join probe of MIT tip of gunman
By Todd Feathers | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
The FBI and Secret Service confirmed Monday that they have joined the Cambridge and MIT police departments to help investigate an unfounded tip that a gunman was roaming a Massachusetts Institute of Technology building Saturday morning. Steven Ricciardi, director of the Secret Service’s Boston field office, said the agency’s electronic crimes task force is involved because the incident “does have a component to it that’s associated to the Internet.”
Other News:
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/02/25/2370811/georgia-legislature-befuddled.html#storylink=rss%23wgt=rss
Georgia Legislature befuddled by possibility of sequestration
By MAGGIE LEE
ATLANTA — If Congress doesn’t take action on its budget by Friday, the picture of what federal cuts will do to Georgia will start to slowly become clear. “The unknown is driving us crazy,” said House Majority Leader Larry O’Neal, R-Bonaire. Some 37,000 Department of Defense civilian employees in Georgia would face furlough days, reducing gross pay by about $190 million this year, according to a White House report issued over the weekend. Air Force operations in the state would be cut by $5 million. The package of federal budget cuts known as sequestration would cost schools nearly $50 million statewide.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/02/25/heres-the-white-house-list-of-georgia.html
Here’s the White House list of Georgia sequester cuts
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
The White House on Sunday released a list of what would be cut in Georgia if mandatory spending cuts go into effect March 1. The numbers were part of a state-by-state report released Sunday by the White House to put pressure on Congress to reverse $85 billion in cuts that would begin March 1 and run through the end of September, part of a plan to reduce the budget by $1.2 trillion over the next decade.