the AJC reports that one of the bills before the legislature says that institutions must accept the revised HOPE as full tuition payment. Now good news for our already spare budget.
USGNEWS:
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Engineer-Brought-a-Passion-for/137645/
Engineer Brought a Passion for Teaching to the Presidency of a Georgia University
Beheruz N. Sethna, 64, will retire this spring as president of the University of West Georgia, a position he has held since 1994. He is believed to be the first president of Indian origin at an American university. Here’s his story, as told to Ben Wieder.
WHAT I LEARNED
I had no grand dream of America, I simply came here because the Ph.D. programs in business were rather modest at that time in India. …After I spent 16 years in New York, studying at Columbia University and teaching at Clarkson University, I moved to Texas, where I experienced more culture shock. I applied for a dean’s position at Lamar University but didn’t get invited for an interview. When the provost saw the set of résumés and asked why I wasn’t on the list, members of the search committee sheepishly said, “He’s got a funny-sounding name, so he probably can’t speak English.” The provost suggested they call me to find out, he told me after I got the job.
GOOD NEWS:
www.dallas-hiram.patch.com
http://dallas-hiram.patch.com/articles/ghc-celebrates-scholarship-recipients-donors
GHC Celebrates Scholarship Recipients, Donors
The Georgia Highlands College foundation made 89 awards totaling $77,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year.
Georgia Highlands College hosted its annual spring reception on Feb. 28 at Heritage Hall, the downtown campus, to honor both scholarship recipients and donors. The college foundation made 89 awards totaling $77,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year. There are two newly established scholarships that were awarded this year: the Gatekey Scholarship, established by the Cartersville-Bartow Community Foundation and funded by grants from the Shaw Family Foundation and the Cartersville Schools Foundation for students from that area; and the GHC and Career Academy Dual Enrollment Scholarship, funded by the college and the Floyd County College and Career Academy for students who are pursuing careers in education.
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/education/20130302-SouthwireUWGSustainableBusinessProgram-MOS
Southwire, West Georgia announce sustainable business honors program
FROM SPECIAL REPORTS
…To help train those future leaders, Southwire Company and the Carrollton-based University of West Georgia’s Richards College of Business have unveiled the Southwire Sustainable Business Honors Program. Funded by a $1.1 million gift from Southwire, the program will allow students to complete undergraduate business studies and earn MBA degrees in four years. The gift is the largest in the history of the Richards College of Business.
Related article:
www.13wmaz.com
University of West Georgia, Company Launch Business Honor Program
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/georgia/article/220108/52/University-of-West-Georgia-Company-Launch-Business-Honor-Program-
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-03-02/uga-school-law-wins-national-championship
UGA School of Law wins national championship
The University of Georgia School of Law won the top trophy at the 23rd Annual National First Amendment Moot Court Competition that took place in February at Vanderbilt Law School.
USG VALUE:
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/21447619/georgia-southern-hosts-national-youth-at-risk-conference
Georgia Southern hosts National Youth-At-Risk Conference
By Brian Bailey
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) -More than a thousand educators, social workers and community leaders from across the United States will arrive in Savannah for the 24th annual National Youth-At-Risk Conference at the Hyatt Regency. Georgia Southern University’s College of Education and the Division of Continuing Education will host the event as it has done since 1989 to help professionals deal with troubled children.
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/21444744/scouts-dig-into-savannahs-history-as-part-of-project
Scouts dig into Savannah’s history as part of project
By Brian Bailey
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) -…Students from local elementary, middle and high schools all participated in a “Scout Work Day” at the Cluskey Embankment Stores on Drayton Street Saturday as part of an archaeology project. The Georgia Southern archaeology team assisted the students in the excavation. This project began in November 2012 when archeologists from Georgia Southern University wanted to explore the brick vaults at the Cluskey Embankment Stores.
www.onlineathens.com
UGA to host international symposium on One Health
published Saturday, March 2, 2013
The University of Georgia Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute and Faculty of Infectious Diseases, along with the University of Liverpool, will host the first international One Health Symposium March 21-23 at the UGA Center for Continuing Education. The event will bring together researchers, human and animal health care practitioners, clinicians and experts in microbiology, infectious diseases, disease ecology, human and veterinary medicine, environmental health, public health, health policy and wildlife to discuss disease diagnosis and health practice.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/48322/preview/
Albanian students learning at GSU
Group tours Georgia during visit
A two-week trip some 9,000 miles from home — that requires more time in a classroom than it allows outdoors — would not pique the interest of too many students.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Georgia-State-U-Scholar-Leads/137639/
Georgia State U. Scholar Leads Strengthened Oral-History Group
By Peter Monaghan
Clifford M. Kuhn became the Oral History Association’s first full-time executive director on January 1, at a time when the discipline of oral history is burgeoning because of digital advances, but also when it faces ethical and legal challenges. Mr. Kuhn, who is 60, is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University. He will continue to teach part time while leading the group, which since 1966 has supported the gathering and preservation of historical information via recorded interviews.
RESEARCH:
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/03/01/sequestration-hurts-ga-universities
Sequestration Hurts GA Universities
By Ellen Reinhardt
ATLANTA — Sequestration cuts could hit Georgia’s research universities hard. School officials believe current projects may be safe, but it will be much harder to get future federal research grants. Georgia Regents University has 54 million dollars in research funded by the National Institute of Health. Georgia Tech received a total of 484 million in federal research funding. While the University of Georgia receives about 140 million a year in federal research funds.
Www.georgiatrend.com
http://www.georgiatrend.com/March-2013/Economic-Development-March-2013/
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: MARCH 2013
Christy Simo
…Growing Tall: A new study by Georgia Tech and the Georgia Forestry Commission reports that economic activity generated by the forestry industry topped $25 billion in 2011 and provided 118,459 jobs.
www.businessinsider.com
http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-twitter-growth-tips-2013-3#ixzz2MZWKp7tU
CHART OF THE DAY: How To Make Your Twitter Followers Grow
Owen Thomas
A new study from researchers at Georgia Tech (PDF) that we found via Poynter shows what really matters in getting your Twitter followers to grow. The No. 1 factor is network overlap—when you see that your friends follow an account, you’re far more likely to follow it, too.
Related article:
www.psychologytoday.com
Love Twitter? 10 Ways To Gain More Followers
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/webs-influence/201303/love-twitter-10-ways-gain-more-followers
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/more-changes-proposed-keep-hope-alive/nWdrK/
More changes proposed to keep HOPE alive
By Laura Raines
For EDU Atlanta
Since its inception in 1993, the HOPE scholarship program has awarded more than $6.4 billion to 1.5 million students attending Georgia colleges, universities and technical colleges. The popular scholarship program, which has undergone many tweaks through the years, saw significant changes in 2011, when HB 326 toughened the academic requirements and lowered the tuition benefits. During the 2013 Georgia legislative session, state lawmakers have again proposed changes to HOPE, which always raises concerns among Georgia citizens who have seen it open doors to college degrees and job skills training.
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/mar/02/state-promoting-college-tuition-savings-program/
State promoting college tuition savings program
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY, Ga. — Georgia families now have even more reason to think about college savings this year — in fact, 10,000 reasons. The Path2College 529 Plan recently launched its 10,000 Reasons to Save Sweepstakes, which will award one family who is already saving with Path2College and one non-account holder with $10,529 each for his or her college savings.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2013/03/financial-aid-process-to-get-more.html
Financial aid process to get more complicated for Ga. Students
Carla Caldwell, Morning Call Editor
Beginning this summer, students who plan to attend college in Georgia and seek state financial assistance must complete a federal application. The process, according to officials, can be more complicated than the current method to obtain aid, reports the Macon Telegraph.
Related article:
www.macon.com
Financial aid process changing for Ga. college students
Federal forms now used to qualify for state monies
http://www.macon.com/2013/03/03/2379821/financial-aid-process-changing.html
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/03/01/inbloom-may-spark-edtech-boom.html
InBloom may spark ‘edtech’ boom
Maria Saporta and Douglas Sams, Contributing Writer and Staff Writer
Atlanta is poised to become a hub for educational technology, says the CEO of a new nonprofit backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Atlanta Business Chronicle reported Feb. 5 that inBloom Inc. has chosen Atlanta for its headquarters. The nonprofit, which will provide technology services to schools as they race to meet new academic requirements, could help make Atlanta a center for a cohesive effort to accelerate student achievement in the United States by boosting personalized learning in schools… InBloom saw several Atlanta strengths. Georgia Tech had shown a “keen interest” in how technology was changing American education. Atlanta is a city of entrepreneurs.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/city-ink/2013-03-02/azziz-commission-should-get-ethics-lesson
Azziz, Augusta Commission need ethics lesson
By Sylvia Cooper
Columnist
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something comes along to prove you wrong. Who could have imagined Georgia Regents Uni¬versity would remove Augusta State University logos from photographs of ASU championship teams’ jerseys and hats in a recruitment brochure, especially after GRU President Ricardo Azziz promised the word “Augusta” would be used in all advertising?
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51666/
Time for Minority-Serving Institutions to Think Globally
by Dr. Marybeth Gasman
Recently, new census data confirmed that most children younger than age 1 in the United States are members of racial minorities. For those of us in the field of education, these demographic shifts will have unprecedented effects, particularly for the future directions of minority-serving institutions (MSIs), institutions that enroll significant percentages of minority students.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/As-Colleges-Evolve-So-Must/137635/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
As Colleges Evolve, So Must Their Presidents
By Jeffrey Selingo
Soon after he started as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 2008, H. Holden Thorp stopped by The Chronicle to meet with several editors and reporters. It was the first time I had met him, and his youth took me by surprise. Thorp was 43 at the time, and I asked him whether his age was an advantage or a detriment. He thought it was an advantage because he could imagine leading the Chapel Hill campus for 20-plus years, an eternity in a job where the average college president serves just seven years.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Fixing-Financial-Aid/137593/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Fixing Financial Aid
For 40 years, federal money has sustained higher education while enabling its worst tendencies
By Kevin Carey
In 1972, Clark Kerr was, once again, helping shape the future of American higher education. He was 61 years old, and his greatest works lay behind him. The California Master Plan for Higher Education, which he helped broker in 1960, would become the model for organizing public colleges and universities.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Real-Digital-Change-Agent/137589/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
The Real Digital Change Agent
By Jason Mittell
Over the past few years, many of the most prominent American universities, including Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and Duke, have joined to embrace a game-changing approach in opening up their previously closed academic resources. Leveraging the revolutionary potential of digital technology to provide access to the world’s best faculty members, this new method of dissemination takes what were once exclusive, limited-access, high-priced resources and puts them online for anyone to learn from, freely. …Despite its somewhat goofy acronym, this new model has been embraced, sometimes in the face of faculty objections, because of its democratizing, globalizing potential, as well as its effectiveness in improving an institution’s reputation for innovation and excellence… As Georgia Tech’s Ian Bogost recently pointed out, MOOCs are a gamble suited to the elite institutions that can afford the risk, not to the public universities already stuck in a spiral of inadequate budgets and underprepared students.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Pursuit-of-the-Impossible/137585/
In Pursuit of the Impossible Equation
Imagine that a typical 9-by-9 Sudoku puzzle (in which the numbers 1 through 9 must appear exactly once in each row, column, and square) has been transformed into a 25-by-25 grid. The number of possibilities increases drastically, but while difficult, the puzzle remains solvable. Now imagine that the game has become a 1,000-by-1,000 behemoth. The chances of finding a solution plummet—in fact, this game can prove too complex for our fastest computers and most-advanced algorithms. It is this realm of complexity that Lance Fortnow explores in The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible, out this month from Princeton University Press. Fortnow, a professor and chair of the School of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology, centers his discussion of very, very difficult mathematical problems on the elusive, unsolved theorem “P versus NP.”
Education News
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-03-02/emory-gets-record-number-applicants
Emory gets record number of applicants
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Emory’s main undergraduate division says it’s received a record number of applications for fall 2013 admittance. The Emory College of Arts and Sciences says it received 17,652, up from the previous high last year of 17,493. The target enrollment for the class is 1,350.
www.forsythnews.com
http://www.forsythnews.com/section/3/article/17014/
Changes to GED test approaching
Educators: There’s urgency to finish test this year
By Crystal Ledford
Anyone interested in obtaining their General Educational Development, or GED, should do so before the end of the year, say local adult education instructors. Elaine Glenn, lead instructor with the GED program at Lanier Technical College’s Forsyth campus, said national changes to the GED testing program will begin at the start of 2014.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51654/#
New Teacher Assessment Tool Making Headway in Education Programs
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
ORLANDO, Fla. — When Evelyn Perry — an administrator within the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University — first learned about a relatively new teacher assessment tool known as edTPA, her first reaction was, “This is a lot of work.” But after learning more about the assessment and how it helps prepare aspiring teachers for the demands of the classroom, Perry concluded that incorporating the edTPA into the university’s teacher preparation program was also “worthwhile work.”
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51662/
Financial Aid Officers Scrambling to Deal With 33,000 Students Losing Campus Jobs
by Tina A. Brown
They held out hope that Friday’s cuts in the federally funded work-study program would never be enacted. Now that it has come to pass, financial aid officers at colleges and universities across the country are bracing for the fallout when some 33,000 students lose their campus jobs.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Bandwith-Divide/137633/
‘Bandwidth Divide’ Could Bar Some People From Online Learning
By Jeffrey R. Young
Think the digital divide is behind us now that personal computers are ubiquitous? Consider the recent failure of an e-textbook effort in a wealthy school district outside of Washington, D.C. …As more colleges rush to offer free online courses in the name of providing educational access to all, it’s worth asking who might be left out for lack of high-speed Internet access to watch video lectures.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/04/colleges-try-beat-textbook-costs-book-reserves#ixzz2MZbRQdrW
Rights Reserved
By Zack Budryk
Any university or college student knows how badly textbook prices can sting, but for most, it’s simply the nature of higher education that they’ll have to obtain the text if they want to take the class. Sales of used books and book-rental services like Chegg have tried to address the problem, but the end result still requires a financial commitment on top of tuition.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/04/study-looks-words-titles-history-dissertations#ixzz2MZba6Y8C
Evolving History Dissertations
By Scott Jaschik
The first paragraph of a brief study on the titles of history dissertations notes that the titles are “the most visible part — and some would say, the most read” part of the works. But the study, released Friday by the American Historical Association, suggests that the titles also reflect changes in the research priorities of these entering the history discipline.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Getting-Down-to-the-Reality-of/137637/
Getting to the Bottom of the $10,000 Bachelor’s Degree
By Eric Kelderman
It’s one of those YouTube clips that probably would have evaporated if it had featured anyone other than Bill Gates. In August 2010, Mr. Gates, founder of Microsoft, speaking informally at a technology conference, said technological innovations should be able to lower the cost of college to $2,000 a year. Mr. Gates’s comments reportedly caught the attention of Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican of Texas, who came up with his own back-of-the-envelope estimate of how much college should cost: Multiplying $2,000 times four and adding $2,000 for the cost of books or other learning materials, the governor decided that a bachelor’s degree should cost $10,000.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Employment-Mismatch/137625/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en#id=overview
A College Degree Sorts Job Applicants, but Employers Wish It Meant More
By Karin Fischer
Employers value a four-year college degree, many of them more than ever. Yet half of those surveyed recently by The Chronicle and American Public Media’s Marketplace said they had trouble finding recent graduates qualified to fill positions at their company or organization.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51658/
APSCU Report Highlights Best Practices for Serving Veterans
by Maria Eugenia Miranda
The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities released a report this week, Best Practices for Military and Veteran Students, highlighting guidelines for serving military and veteran students to ensure their success.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/04/ace-doubles-down-prior-learning-assessment#ixzz2MZadfRXJ
Change From Within
By Paul Fain
WASHINGTON – If higher education has a group of quintessential insiders, it’s probably the American Council on Education. Yet from a perch atop the higher education lobby’s headquarters here, the membership association of 1,800 college presidents is backing high-profile “disruptions” to the industry it represents.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/At-U-of-Virginia-Old/137671/
At U. of Virginia, Old Tensions Seem to Persist
UVa’s president, Teresa Sullivan, accused board leaders of ‘micromanagement’ in a recent e-mail. Now she says too much is being made of such clashes.
By Jack Stripling
Washington
Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, said on Sunday that “overly much is being made” of her relationship with Helen E. Dragas, the board leader who orchestrated Ms. Sullivan’s firing last summer.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/04/plan-increase-faculty-workload-ohio-resurfaces-budget-bill#ixzz2MZbGzni2
Hours in the Classroom
By Carl Straumsheim
Ohio Governor John Kasich, a Republican, has proposed in his budget bill that boards of public colleges and universities be given the ability to unilaterally increase the workloads of faculty members.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/04/international-educators-consider-challenges-integrating-students-abroad#ixzz2MZb8fAdy
Strangers in a Strange Land
By Elizabeth Redden
In interviews with 40 international students at four research universities, Chris R. Glass was struck by the relative absence of Americans from his subjects’ stories.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Energy-Makeovers-for-Labs/137643/
Lab Renovations Yield Big Energy Savings
By Allie Bidwell
At research universities across the country, laboratories are often the largest source of energy costs and are where many institutions turn to reduce their carbon footprints. But tight budgets and the high cost of construction often cause colleges to look to remodeling their labs rather than building new ones to meet certain sustainability standards.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/51672/
Purdue University Freezes Tuition for 2 Years
by Associated Press
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is freezing its tuition costs for the next two years in response to the nation’s lingering weak economy.
www.orlandosentinel.com
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/state/fl-big-issues-legislative-session-20130303,0,6906598.story
Lawmakers facing big-ticket decisions in 2013 session
By Aaron Deslatte and Kathleen Haughney, Tallahassee Bureau
TALLAHASSEE—From health care and insurance to teacher raises and election reform, the 60-day session starting Tuesday could be a political do-over for a Florida Legislature looking to rewrite some of its controversial recent history. For Gov. Rick Scott, it’s a chance to push his proposed $1.2 billion increase in education funding, including a $2,500 raise for every public school teacher, that’s part of a record $74.2 billion budget proposal. Just two years ago, Scott controlled a budget that cut $1.3 billion from spending for public schools.