USG NEWS:
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/02/04/2342268/ga-board-of-regents-to-discuss.html
Ga. Board of Regents to discuss UGA presidency
he Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia Board of Regents Spokesman John Millsaps says the board is scheduled to discuss picking a president for the University of Georiga. Millsaps says officials will conduct a teleconference Monday at 2 p.m. from the Board of Regents offices in Atlanta.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-01/regents-meet-monday-uga-presidency
Regents to meet Monday on UGA presidency
The state Board of Regents might confirm Jere Morehead as the next UGA president as early as Monday. The Regents, who set policy for the state’s public colleges and universities as well as hiring presidents, will meet by teleconference Monday afternoon with one item on the agenda — the University of Georgia presidency — the board announced Friday.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Transitions-Provost-to-Step/136975/
Transitions: People in Academe
JOB MOVES
Jere W. Morehead, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Georgia and a former assistant U.S. attorney, has been named the sole finalist to be president of the University of Georgia.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/finalist-to-be-next-uga-president-is-quiet-but-no-/nWD2R/
Finalist to be next UGA president is quiet, but no pushover
By Laura Diamond and Katie Leslie
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The sole finalist to serve as the University of Georgia’s next president doesn’t bring with him the demonstrative personality of the man who currently leads the state’s flagship institution.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-02-01/uga-official-likely-become-first-black-southern-miss-president
UGA official likely to become first black Southern Miss. president
By ASSOCIATED PRESSupdated Friday, February 1, 2013 – 9:45pm
JACKSON, Miss. — University of Georgia official Rodney Bennett is likely to become the first black person to lead a historically white public university in Mississippi. A selection committee named Bennett as the preferred candidate of a field of three to become the next president of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. Bennett is vice president for student affairs at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Related article:
www.usatoday.com
Southern Miss nears selection of first black president
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/01/southern-miss-first-black-president/1885245/
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20130203uwg-reax-MOS
UWG: New campus downtown is creating excitement
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Plans are moving forward for the new Newnan campus of the University of West Georgia, and a lot of people are excited about that project – state leaders and university administrators, as well as Newnan officials.
The campus will be moving from its current location at the Shenandoah Industrial Park to the historic Newnan Hospital campus on Jackson Street.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-01/work-beginning-three-big-uga-construction-projects
Work beginning on three big UGA construction projects
By LEE SHEARER
Construction on three big University of Georgia projects should start this year and one might conclude. But after those multi-million dollar projects wrap up, UGA building might reach its lowest ebb in two decades.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-02-02/uga-climate-scientist-wants-more-african-americans-science-fields
UGA climate scientist wants more African Americans in science fields
By LEE SHEARER
Editors note: In recognition of Black History Month, this is the first in a series of profiles on prominent African Americans living in the Athens area.
While growing up in Canton, Ga., University of Georgia climate scientist Marshall Shepherd knew he wanted to grew to become an entomologist. …Shepherd, now 43, left NASA in 2006 to come to UGA’s Geography Department, where he’s now head of UGA’s Atmospheric Sciences Program, but just one of several researchers carving out national reputations for themselves.
GOOD NEWS:
www.midtown.patch.com
http://midtown.patch.com/articles/georgia-tech-students-honored-in-the-georgia-general-assembly
Georgia Tech Students Honored in the Georgia General Assembly
Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 was Georgia Tech Student Day at the Capitol, where nearly 100 students, faculty, staff and guests traveled to learn how the state government works and interact with state leaders.
Student leaders were honored in the state House and Senate Chambers on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013 during Georgia Tech Student Day at the Capitol.
RESEARCH:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/02/uga-working-on-prostate-cancer-drug.html
UGA working on prostate cancer drug
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Prostate cancer cells need certain enzymes to grow tumors, and an often overlooked enzyme—Pak1—is key for their growth, according to research from the University of Georgia.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-researchers-rouse-work-on-sleeping-sickness-treatment/article_bb16fe6c-6c8b-11e2-bec6-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA researchers rouse work on sleeping sickness treatment
by JEANETTE KAZMIERCZAK
Uncontrollable sleepiness, drowsiness during the day, headaches, sweating — those might sound like side effects of class in Athens during the summer, but they’re really only a few of the symptoms of sleeping sickness. …There have been no widely successful treatments discovered, and the last major innovations in treatment were in the 1940s, but two University of Georgia researchers may have found a receptor in an organelle of the trypanosome parasites that could be a target for drug treatments.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/02/01/ksu-georgia-manufacturing-rises-in.html
KSU: Georgia manufacturing rises in January
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Peach State’s manufacturing sector grew for the first time in months in January due to sharp increases for new orders and production, according to the Econometric Center at Kennesaw State University’s Michael J. Coles College of Business.
www.therepublic.com
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/14e6bb4de05640f49340cf9c9536922e/GA–POW-Camp
Georgia POW camp site has escaped much change since Civil War
By TERRY DICKSON The Florida Times-Union
…But local and state officials think there’s evidence in the ground and they want an archaeological study done to find it. The county owns 2.7 acres of the site and two separate owners the rest. …Beginning about five years ago, the Georgia Southern University archaeology department began an archaeological dig at Magnolia Springs based on old drawings and watercolors of the camp, Brown said. …Who knows what they would find at the Blackshear site, but Lowmon said some people have been known to look.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-02-03/savannah-georgia-southern-work-unearth-piece-history#.UQ_rcI6TpGM
Savannah, Georgia Southern to work to unearth a piece of history
By Corey Dickstein
Crouched inside a square, 3-foot-deep excavation hole, Blake Ayala carefully scraped a sample of red-brown dirt into a small baggie. Nearly a dozen high school and college students looked on that Saturday afternoon as the 23-year-old Georgia Southern University graduate student listed measurements, noting the changing colors of the decades-old dirt layers in the arched vault along Factors’ Walk just east of City Hall. Through a partnership between the university and the city of Savannah, Ayala is leading the archaeological survey of the four-vault structure beneath Bay Street, known as the Cluskey Embarkment Stores.
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/20954989/archaeologists-hope-to-unearth-mystery-of-vaults
Archaeologists hope to unearth mystery of vaults
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Archaeologists are trying to unearth clues about five large vaults beneath a Savannah street. Past uses for the large vaults under Bay Street, known as Cluskey Embarkment Stores, remain a mystery. The Savannah Morning News reports (http://bit.ly/11ASXAw) that scientists are taking soil samples through a partnership between Georgia Southern University and the city of Savannah.
www.photonics.com
http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=52979
Grad Student to Build Camera for Space Mission
GLENDALE, Ariz., Feb. 1, 2013 — An infrared and visible light camera system developed by a third-year graduate student at Arizona State University will launch on a space satellite to guide its trajectory and take images of a solar sail as it opens. …The Prox-1 mission is designed by Georgia Institute of Technology students under the guidance of professor David Spencer, within Georgia Tech’s Center for Space Systems. It will demonstrate automated trajectory control in low-Earth orbit relative to a deployed subsatellite, or cubesat.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.daily-tribune.com
http://www.daily-tribune.com/view/full_story/21598828/article-Loudermilk-introduces-new-weapons-carry-bill?instance=homesecondleft
Loudermilk introduces new weapons carry bill
by Jason Lowrey
Sen. Barry Loudermilk, R-Cassville, introduced a bill Jan. 30 that would allow 18- to 21-year-olds to apply for a Georgia weapons carry license so long as they have had military training. The current law only allows those older than 21 to apply for a license.
www.georgiatrend.com
http://www.georgiatrend.com/February-2013/The-Essential-Economy/
THE ESSENTIAL ECONOMY
A Georgia-based group is redefining the immigration labor issue.
Jerry Grillo
…Simona’s work, tedious as it may seem, is a critical component on the universal job ladder – the low rung, a small but foundational element in the overall American economic machine. She and her husband (he installs kitchen tile), and about one quarter of the Georgia workforce – nearly one million workers – are the focus of new research by The Essential Economy Council (TEEC), a nonprofit organization aiming to reframe the state and national immigration policy debate by broadening the focus.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/businesses-like-congress-look-to-boost-visas-for-s/nWD2x/
Businesses, like Congress, look to boost visas for skilled foreigners
By Dan Chapman
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
As Washington embarks on a tumultuous debate over immigration reform, one of the more popular visas — with major importance to Atlanta companies — is likely to avoid the red-hot rhetoric that typically singes foreign worker programs.
Editorials/Colums/Opinions
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/02/02/the-inconvenient-truth-of-education-reform/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet
The inconvenient truth of education ‘reform’
Posted by Valerie Strauss
Several important things happened in the education world in the last week. Here’s an analysis of why what happened matters, by Jeff Bryant, a marketing and communications consultant for nonprofits. He is a marketing and creative strategist with nearly 30 years of experience – the past 20 on his own – as a freelance writer, consultant, and search engine marketing provider. He’s written extensively about public education policy.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-End-Is-Not-Nigh-for/136957/
The End Is Not Nigh for Colleges
By Robert J. Sternberg
The sky is not falling on higher education. Doomsayers believe that purveyors of massive open online courses, or for-profit companies, or shadowy entrepreneurs will make higher education so cheap that any number of existing colleges and universities soon may find themselves out of business.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/02/04/college-leaders-need-reframe-discussion-value-essay
Time to Play Offense
By David Maxwell
As the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) holds its annual meeting this week, the presidents will spend a lot of time discussing how they and their institutions can more effectively communicate institutional value, and counter the volatile — and negative — public discourse involving issues of cost, student debt, learning outcomes, and placement rates for our graduates.
www.blogs.wsj.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/01/30/universities-are-at-the-center-of-startup-communities/?KEYWORDS=%22Higher+Education%22
Colleges Are Vital for Startup Communities
GUEST MENTOR Katie Palencsar, CEO of Unbound Concepts, Inc. Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area: Many people believe that successful startups will succeed in The Valley or New York City at some stage of their company — whether driven by capital, customer growth, or the entrepreneur’s dream: The acquisition. But what about the other ecosystems that make our economy tick each and every day? Where do they fit into the startup landscape?
Education News
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/02/06/20commoncore_ep.h32.html?tkn=TMRFpVfdQVFypLG5OXq75%2Fs2ujAo%2FBAvw4aU&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Pressure Mounts in Some States Against Common Core
Opponents of common core redouble legislative efforts
By Andrew Ujifusa
Opponents of the Common Core State Standards are ramping up legislative pressure and public relations efforts aimed at getting states to scale back—or even abandon—the high-profile initiative, even as implementation proceeds and tests aligned with the standards loom.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/02/01/gates-foundation-backed-nonprofit-eyes.html?page=all
Gates Foundation-backed nonprofit eyes ATL HQ
Douglas Sams and Maria Saporta, Staff Writer and Contributing Writer
A new nonprofit organization backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that aims to transform American education is considering Atlanta for its headquarters. The nonprofit, supported by the world’s largest philanthropic organization, would make Atlanta the center of a cohesive effort to accelerate student achievement in the United States by boosting personalized learning in schools.
www.nytimes.com
Study Confirms College Endowment Drop
By TAMAR LEWIN
On average, investment returns on college and university endowments declined by 0.3 percent in the last fiscal year, a sharp drop from the average return of 19.2 percent in fiscal 2011, according to a study by the Commonfund Institute and the National Association of College and University Business Officers, known as Nacubo.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/04/coursera-forced-call-mooc-amid-complaints-about-course
MOOC Mess
By Scott Jaschik
Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype. But MOOC advocates might have preferred the collapse of a course other than the one that was suspended this weekend, one week into instruction: “Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/04/desire2learn-experiences-major-service-stoppage
Bad Week on Desire2Learn
By Scott Jaschik
Many colleges in the United States and elsewhere lost service for the learning management systems of Desire2Learn last week — some for three days. In many cases, instructors and students lacked access to assignments, material turned in, and basic records about courses.
Related article:
www.chronicle.com
Several Campuses Are Disrupted by Outage in Course-Management Systems
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/several-campuses-disrupted-by-outage-in-course-management-systems/42119
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/04/moodys-higher-ed-downgrades-vastly-exceeded-upgrades-2012
Moody’s: Higher Ed Downgrades Vastly Exceeded Upgrades in 2012
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded 34 higher education institutions in 2012 while upgrading only 3, the ratings agency reported Friday, an indicator of ongoing financial challenges facing colleges and universities.
www.m.apnews.com
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268743/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=HxwdLpZ8
Texas fight highlights higher ed culture clash
JUSTIN POPE
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – If colleges were automobiles, the University of Texas at Austin would be a Cadillac: a famous brand, a powerful engine of research and teaching, handsome in appearance. Even the price is comparable: Like one of the luxury car’s models, in-state tuition for a four-year degree runs about $40,000.
Related article:
www.huffingtonpost.com
University Of Texas, Rick Perry Clash Over Future Of Public Higher Education
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/03/university-of-texas-rick-perry_n_2608892.html?utm_hp_ref=college
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/04/u-texas-regents-will-review-policies-employee-student-relationships
U. of Texas Regents Will Review Policies on Employee-Student Relationships
The University of Texas Board of Regents announced Sunday that it would conduct a review of policies about inappropriate relationships between employees and students, USA Today reported.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Immigration-Reform-Plans-Offer/136959/
Immigration-Reform Plans Offer a Path for Students
By Kelly Field
President Obama and a bipartisan group of senators announced separate but similar immigration-reform plans last week that would ease the path to citizenship for students who are in the United States illegally, and would make it easier for some foreign graduates of American universities to remain in the country to work.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/For-Making-the-Most-of/136985/
For Making the Most of College, It’s Still Location, Location, Location
By Scott Carlson
In late december, a set of articles and essays in The New York Times focused on the public library as a place, and on the changing meaning of that place with the rise of electronic books and the demise of brick-and-mortar bookstores like Borders.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/For-Parents-Straight-Answers/136955/
Straight Answers on Paying for College: Still Too Little, Too Late
By Beckie Supiano
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Families flummoxed about what college will cost them have more information at their disposal than ever before. The Internet offers tuition data, advice on saving and borrowing, and explanations of financial aid. New online calculators let families estimate their bottom-line price at any college. But not all the information out there is easy to make sense of, and some of it’s no good.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/04/new-homeland-security-program-campus-resilience
New Homeland Security Program for Campus Resilience
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday announced a new pilot program in which the agency will work with six colleges and universities to assess and improve their campus emergency and resilience plans.