USG VALUE:
www.atlantadailyworld.com
http://atlantadailyworld.com/201301313531/Education/georgia-tech-named-top-value-for-engineering-students
Georgia Tech Named Top Value for Engineering Students
BY SPECIAL TO THE DAILY WORLD
A recent analysis of the top 10 universities with the highest reported salaries upon graduation found that Georgia Tech students make an average of $60,000 upon graduation, and its tuition is much more affordable compared to private universities.
www.atlantaintownpaper.com
http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2013/02/arbor-day-proposes-a-greener-future/
Arbor Day proposes a greener future
Submitted by collin
Arbor Day is set aside for schools, civic clubs, and communities to reflect on the importance of trees in their communities. . . . Under a contract with Georgia Tech, satellite imagery of the entire city will be analyzed to quantify a reliable baseline measurement of the tree canopy in every area of Atlanta. Results of the analyses are expected in early summer.
www.atlantaintownpaper.com
http://www.atlantaintownpaper.com/2013/02/perspectives-in-architecture-celebrating-design-excellence/
Perspectives in Architecture: Celebrating Design Excellence
Submitted by collin
.. . This fall, firms located in the state of Georgia submitted more than 90 entries to the Georgia chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the AIA Georgia 2012 Design Awards. . . . At a December
ceremony on the Atlanta campus of SCAD, the jurors issued design awards to twelve projects, including these five projects in the city of Atlanta and their architects: . . . Georgia Tech Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Lab (CNES) by HDR Architecture illustrates the leadership role of architects with energy conservation by designing attractive “net-zero” buildings that result in zero net energy consumption and zero carbon emissions annually.
GOOD NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/01/gsu-to-offer-health-informatics-degree.html
GSU to offer health informatics degree
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia State University will offer a new to undergraduate degree in Health Informatics …Health informatics is the marriage of health care and information sciences. The field provides technologically advanced ways of collecting, storing, and analyzing data for the improvement of delivery and management of health care.
RESEARCH:
www.voanews.com
http://www.voanews.com/content/scientists-say-they-have-discovered-key-to-cancers-spread/1594748.html
Researchers Discover Key to Cancer’s Spread
Jessica Berman
…Liu and co-researcher Jenny Yang, a Georgia State biochemist, have discovered they can stop cancers from spreading by disrupting the interaction of two proteins within cells.
www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/01/31/sacrificial-skulls-in-rural-mexico-puzzle-experts
Sacrificial skull mound in Mexico puzzles experts
By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press
…Georgia State University archaeologist Christopher Morehart, who found the skulls last year in Xaltocan, a farming village just north of Mexico City, said that between 150 and 200 adult skulls or their equivalent in bone parts have been excavated so far from fields that stand on a former lake bed.
www.newswatch.nationalgeorgraphic.com
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/31/bacteria-surviving-at-high-altitudes-could-play-a-role-in-global-climate/
Bacteria Surviving at High Altitudes Could Play a Role in Global Climate
Posted by Tim Profeta
A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that even as high as 30,000 feet in the sky, fungi and bacteria are present in the air. These living microorganisms could very well affect global climate. “The million-dollar question in the field [right now] is how much living things can impact clouds, the hydrological cycle and the climate overall,” said Anthanasios Nenes, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and study co-author.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/02/01/drone-industry-taking-off-in-georgia.html?page=all
Drone industry taking off in Georgia
Amy Wenk
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Unmanned aircraft, commonly called drones or “flying robots,” are fueling Georgia’s already powerful aerospace industry. . . . Georgia is positioning itself to be at the forefront of the technology. . . . Some
of the nation’s leading research and development on drones is taking place at Georgia Tech. Middle Georgia State College is paving the way for developing the workforce.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/02/01/tenet-to-invest-23m-in-3-urgent-care.html?page=all
Tenet to invest $2.3M in 3 urgent care centers
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Emory/Georgia Tech Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center has awarded 11 seed grants, totaling $630,000, for new research in regenerative medicine. . . . “We looked for projects along the innovation spectrum, including early-stage projects for which the potential payoffs justified taking the risk and projects supported by preliminary data that were at an advanced preclinical or early clinical stage,” said Robert Guldberg, Regenerative Engineering and Medicine Center co-director. The collaborative regenerative medicine initiative at Georgia Tech and Emory University began in 1998 with the establishment of the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC)
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.wabe.org
http://wabe.org/post/gsu-study-says-georgia-losing-high-paying-jobs-talk-study-editor-carolyn-bourdeaux
GSU Study Says Georgia Losing High-Paying Jobs: A Talk with Study Editor Carolyn Bourdeaux
By DENIS O’HAYER
A new report from the Fiscal Research Center at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies shows the state lost tens of thousands of “prime” or “premium” jobs in the decade from 2000-2009.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.rn-t.com
http://www.rn-t.com/view/full_story/21584127/article-GUEST-COLUMN–TCSG–Not-your-dad’s-old-trade-school?instance=lead_story_left_column
GUEST COLUMN: TCSG: Not your dad’s old trade school
by Ron Jackson, Guest Columnist
The extent that a business effectively utilizes new technology is a measure of the company’s profitability. The critical issue for many companies today is filling their new jobs with talented people who can think critically and have real-world expertise in the latest technology. Technical knowledge is essential for today’s workplace, and the Technical College System of Georgia is a vital source for the sort of high-tech training that employers need.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/01/dont-panic-amid-predictions-higher-eds-demise-essay
The End of the University?
By Louis Betty
At 30 years old, I definitely consider myself part of the Facebook generation. Zuckerberg’s brainchild hit the ‘net when I was a senior in college, and by then I was already well acquainted with e-mail, chat rooms, text-messaging, and all the multifarious precursors to today’s social media. I text, I post, I chat, I even snapchat: in these respects, I’m an utterly unremarkable member of my society. …To believe certain commentators, however, this embodied notion of learning is on its way out in American higher education. Writing for The American Interest’s January/February 2013 edition, the recent Yale graduate Nathan Harden offers the following ominous prognostications about the future of university instruction in our digital age:
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/interview-sean-devine-coursesmart-analytics
An Interview with Sean Devine on CourseSmart Analytics
By Joshua Kim
CourseSmart is the world’s largest platform for eTextbooks and digital course materials. CourseSmart has over 40,000 titles from more than 50 publishers and over 3.5 million student and faculty users.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Student-Engagement-in-the/136897/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Student Engagement in the Online Classroom
By Errol Craig Sull
Online teaching has many components, and all must come together smoothly for a productive, energetic, and enthusiastic class to result. If there is one factor more critical than others, though, it is student engagement, for without it, the entire course can be flat.
www.nytimes.com
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
My Valuable, Cheap College Degree
By ARTHUR C. BROOKS
MUCH is being written about the preposterously high cost of college. The median inflation-adjusted household income fell by 7 percent between 2006 and 2011, while the average real tuition at public four-year colleges increased over that period by over 18 percent. Meanwhile, the average tuition for just one year at a four-year private university in 2011 was almost $33,000, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/01/31/too-many-college-grads-no-jobs-are-too-few-your-say/1881803/
Too many college grads or too few jobs? Your Say
Almost half of Americans with college degrees are overqualified for their jobs, a Center for College Affordability and Productivity study finds. Comments from Facebook: There is no such thing as being overqualified. You may have more education than the job requires, but it doesn’t mean you are incapable of doing it. Skills are skills. The problem is too many degrees chasing too few jobs.
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timhall/college-technology_b_2593572.html
An Individualized Higher Education Experience
Tim HallPresident, Austin Peay State University
I’m not very impressed by uses of technology that make higher education less personal for our students. The more we treat a student as just a number, the farther away we are from the idea of university posited by John Henry Newman: “An Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.” But where technology can help us create a more individualized higher education experience, I can get excited.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/opinion-washingtons-immigration-solutions-must-address-shorage-of-computer-developers-engineers/2013/01/30/5c94a05a-6b1f-11e2-af53-7b2b2a7510a8_blog.html
Opinion: Washington’s immigration solutions must address shortage of computer developers, engineers
By Shane Snow
This month marks the 70th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest innovators in American history. His patents and inventions laid the groundwork for the wireless communications systems that connect us today, the electric current powering the computer on which you’re likely reading this story, and the transistor that makes computing possible in the first place.
www.nytimes.com
OP-ED COLUMNIST
It’s P.Q. and C.Q. as Much as I.Q.
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
President Obama’s first term was absorbed by dealing with the Great Recession. I hope that in his second term he’ll be able to devote more attention to the Great Inflection.
Education News
www.romenews-tribune.com
http://www.romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/21575269/article-Current-version-of-GED-test-to-expire-at-end-of-2013—students-to-finish-and-pass?instance=secondary_stories_left_column
Current version of GED test to expire at end of 2013 – students to finish and pass
by Georgia Northwestern Technical College reports
GED testing centers in Northwest Georgia encourage adults to finish and pass before test deadlines Officials in the Adult Education program at Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC) are advising the public that the current version of the GED test will expire at the end of 2013. The current version, known as the 2002 Series GED test, will be replaced with the new 2014 GED test on January 2, 2014.
www.unionrecorder.com
http://unionrecorder.com/local/x2056600092/GC-symposium-to-focus-discussions-on-21st-century-literacy
GC symposium to focus discussions on 21st century literacy
Vaishali Patel
The Union-Recorder
MILLEDGEVILLE — Keynote speakers from the community and across the nation will share and discuss the implications of literacy from a local, national and global perspective with the public during the sixth annual Georgia College Global Citizenship Symposium, titled “Literacy, Learning, Leading: Education for a 21st Century World.”
www.valdostadailytimes.com
http://valdostadailytimes.com/local/x1633468436/Wiregrass-to-train-a-new-kind-of-teacher
Wiregrass to train a new kind of teacher
Brittany D. McClure
The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — South Georgia education representatives met Wednesday at Wiregrass Georgia Technical College to announce the launch of a new program called Georgia Teacher Academy for Preparation and Pedagogy.
www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/20881180/albany-tech-to-offer-two-year-nursing-degree
Albany Tech to offer two-year nursing degree
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Albany Technical College will launch a new Associate of Science in Nursing Program with an LPN-RN Bridge, which will begin this fall term. Albany Tech has been given provisional approval by the Georgia Board of Nurses to accept students into its new Associate of Science Nursing program for the fall semester 2013. The program is designed to meet the needs of the community by complimenting Albany Tech’s existing nursing program.
Related article:
www.mysouthwestga.com
Albany Tech kicks off new nursing program
http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/story.aspx?list=196423&id=854736#.UQvpDY6TpGN
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/31/business-leaders-urge-congress-to-rewrite-no-child-left-behind/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
Business leaders urge Congress to rewrite No Child Left Behind
Posted by Valerie Strauss
A group of chief executive officers at leading U.S. companies is urging Congress to rewrite No Child Left Behind as part of its recommendations for policies that promote business growth in 2013.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/race-to-the-top-dc-maryland-and-georgia-way-back-in-the-field/2013/01/31/ee513a7e-6bee-11e2-ada0-5ca5fa7ebe79_story.html
Race to the Top: D.C., Maryland and Georgia way back in the field
By Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown
In the second year of Race to the Top, the Obama administration’s signature effort to improve public schools, nine of 12 jurisdictions that received $4 billion in federal grants made good progress. But three — the District, Maryland and Georgia — have stumbled, federal officials said. “We have a lot of good news in this report and also some challenges,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters Thursday.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/01/us-reminds-colleges-pending-rules-state-approval
U.S. Reminds Colleges of Pending Rules on State Approval
Most of the attention related to the controversial “state authorization” regulations that the U.S. Education Department sought to implement in 2010 revolved around their potential application to distance education programs — which a federal court invalidated in July 2011, and the agency said a year later it would not enforce. But lest college leaders (or state officials) think they were off the hook for the rest of the new requirements related to seeking state approval, the Education Department sent a little reminder to the contrary last week.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51056/
APLU Leads Discussion Around a Redesigned Federal Aid Policy
by Cherise Lesesne
In order to avoid the congressional battle over financial aid programs, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) developed a “student risk index” that re-evaluates the federal approach toward student aid. The APLU sparked discussion on policy recommendations in an essay released on Wednesday.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51072/
Debt Concerns Change Way Students Earn Degrees
by MAGEN KRITSCH, Daily Journal
…Finding a way to pay for college without crushing student debt is changing the way students think about how they earn their degrees, school guidance counselors told the Daily Journal ( http://bit.ly/VKD84P).
www.forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakroll/2013/01/31/bill-gates-says-there-is-something-perverse-in-college-ratings/
Bill Gates Says There Is Something Perverse In College Ratings
Luisa Kroll, Forbes Staff
There is a perverse metric rating system for U.S. colleges, says Bill Gates, the world’s most generous and influential philanthropist. The problem is that it gives credit to schools that attract the best students rather than schools that take poorly prepared students and help them get ready for the next stage.
www.jbhe.com
Number of Black Applicants to the University of California Is On the Rise
Number of Black Applicants to the University of California Is On the Rise
The University of California system reports that nearly 100,000 students applied to its undergraduate campuses this year. …There were 5,951 Black applicants to undergraduate programs at the University of California.
www.jbhe.com
Mississippi Valley State University to Offer In-State Tuition Rates to All Students
Mississippi Valley State University to Offer In-State Tuition Rates to All Students
Historically Black Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena has announced that it will offer in-state tuition rates to all out-of-state students.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/01/floridas-top-court-backs-legislatures-authority-set-tuition
Florida’s Top Court Backs Legislature’s Authority to Set Tuition
Florida’s Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the state Constitution gives legislators ultimate authority to set tuition, presumably ending a six-year legal fight over whether that authority lay instead with the state’s higher education governing board.
Related article:
www.tampabay.com
Court affirms authority of legislature to set tuition rates, rejects Graham’s challenge
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/court-affirms-authority-legislature-set-tuition-rates-rejects-grahams-challenge
www.articles.orlandosentinel.com
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-01-29/features/os-will-weatherford-higher-education-panel-20130129_1_state-universities-tom-auxter-higher-education
Speaker Will Weatherford: State’s research universities should charge higher tuition
New speaker of Florida House outlines higher education reforms during panel discussion in Orlando
By Denise-Marie Ordway, Orlando Sentinel
Florida’s new speaker of the house, Will Weatherford, said Tuesday that he supports allowing public research universities such as the University of Central Florida and the University of Florida to charge higher tuition than other state universities.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/ConnMass-Governors/136945/
Conn. and Mass. Governors Propose Big Spending Increases for Higher Education
By Eric Kelderman
The governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts are each calling for major increases in higher-education spending. But they are taking very different approaches toward what to spend the money on and how to pay for it.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/endowments-averaged-small-loss-2012-fiscal-year
Flat-Out Disappointment
By Kevin Kiley
The writing has been on the wall for a while, and it hasn’t looked good. First, a handful of the country’s wealthiest universities announced in October that their endowments saw tepid returns for the fiscal year that ended June 30, with Harvard University’s fund, the country’s largest educational endowment, posting a decline.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-a-Volatile-Economy/136941/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In a Volatile Economy, Colleges’ Endowment Returns Fall Flat
By Don Troop
The value of college endowments fell back to earth in 2012, just a year after soaring an average of 19.2 percent, according to a new survey released on Friday.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/effects-sequestration-are-already-felt-colleges-and-universities
The Return of the Sequester
By Libby A. Nelson
For federally funded higher education programs, it’s been an uncertain couple of years. Colleges have navigated and lobbied their way through a near-government shutdown, the debt ceiling crisis of August 2011, the almost-doubling of the student loan interest rate and the year-end deal to avert tax hikes. For the past 14 months, there has been one reliable source of uncertainty: sequestration, the deep, mandatory spending cuts originally set to take effect Jan. 2.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/library-supporters-worry-us-may-back-publishers-copyright-case
Unwelcome Intervention?
By Scott Jaschik
Why would the U.S. Justice Department want to get involved in the appeal by publishers of a landmark ruling by a federal judge on the issue of e-reserves in college and university libraries?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/cfpb-opens-wide-ranging-inquiry-campus-debit-cards
Questions on Debit Cards
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Thursday that it was beginning an inquiry into the arrangements between colleges, banks and debit card companies. The announcement is the latest indication that federal agencies and Congress are taking an increased interest in how debit cards are used to access federal financial aid.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/01/connecticut-and-texas-aim-grow-stem-enrollment-take-different-approaches
Finding More STEM Students
By Alexandra Tilsley
That the country needs more science, technology, engineering, and math graduates is a common refrain, but there has been little consensus about how to achieve this goal, and recent announcements from two public universities showcase very different strategies.
www.kvue.com
http://www.kvue.com/news/Dell-Announces-60-million-dollar-gift-to-Univerisity-of-Texas-189110901.html
Dell Family Foundation announces $60 million gift to UT, health care
by HEATHER KOVAR / KVUE News
ROUND ROCK, Texas — A $60 million gift from The Michael & Susan Dell Family Foundation to the University of Texas has the medical community excited about the future of health care in the region.
www.bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Patent Producers Clustered in Only a Few Cities
By STEVE LOHR
Patents, for all their flaws, are a widely used proxy for innovation. And a new study from the Brookings Institution shows just how clustered patent-related innovation is in America. That cities are hot beds of creativity of all kinds well known.