USG NEWS:
www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/22050890/article-Marrero-named-new-UWG-president?instance=TG_home_story
Marrero named new UWG president
by Colton Campbell/Times-Georgian
The new president of the University of West Georgia will be traveling almost 300 miles to the northeast this summer to “Go West.” Dr. Kyle Marrero, currently serving as vice president of university advancement at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Fla., was named as the seventh president of the university Friday morning.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-03-22/new-president-named-university-west-georgia
New president named for University of West Georgia
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CARROLLTON — A University of West Florida administrator has been chosen to serve as president at the University of West Georgia. University System of Georgia officials Friday announced Kyle Marrero, vice president for university advancement, will assume his new role in July.

Related article:
www.therepublic.com
Ga. Board of Regents names new president for University of West Georgia
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/7bc93dda36f2458ba57a43fd489c645b/GA–West-Georgia-President

www.gwinnett.patch.com
http://gwinnett.patch.com/articles/preczewski-named-georgia-gwinnett-colleges-interim-president
Preczewski Named Georgia Gwinnett College’s Interim President
Dr. Stanley “Stas” Preczewski will fill in after Dr. Daniel Kaufman’s tenure as president of the Lawrenceville, Ga. college ends in June.
On Friday, University System of Georgia (USG) Chancellor Hank Huckaby announced Dr. Stanley “Stas” Preczewski will temporarily take on the role of president of Georgia Gwinnett College.

Related articles:
www.bizjournals.com
Preczewski named interim president at Georgia Gwinnett College
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/03/22/preczewski-named-interim-president-at.html

www.accessnorthga.com
Interim president chosen for Georgia Gwinnett College
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=259697

www.lilburn.patch.com
Preczewski Appointed Interim President of Georgia Gwinnett College
Stanley “Stas” Preczewski will fill in after Daniel Kaufman’s tenure as president of the college ends in June.
http://lilburn.patch.com/articles/preczewski-appointed-interim-president-of-georgia-gwinnett-college

www.13wmaz.com
Interim President Chosen for Georgia Gwinnett College
http://www.13wmaz.com/news/georgia/article/224532/52/Interim-President-Chosen-for-Georgia-Gwinnett-College

www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20130324VISIONCollegeCampus_UWG_NewnanHospital-MOS
Landing UWG Newnan campus at old hospital mammonth task
Yank out about a quarter of the names in the Newnan phone book and you’d be close to the number who’ve been involved in developing a downtown university campus. The number of agreements, sign-offs, funding options, meetings and “what-ifs” is, according to city officials, at times overwhelming. Yet the $15 million project to renovate the old Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street into a new campus for the University of West Georgia’s existing Newnan campus continues. This is in the midst of a transfer of leadership for UWG.

www.times-heral.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20130324VISIONNewnanOverall-MOS
Newnan looking ahead to multi-million building projects
Newnan city officials and staff probably would prefer not to see another year like 2012.
That’s not a negative, but rather several major projects, far-reaching financial negotiations and tax votes, and even voting changes added up to a massive workload. …The other major project, and the costliest, is a $15 million renovation of the old Newnan Hospital on Jackson Street at the north end of downtown into a new campus for the University of West Georgia.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/general-assembly/2013-03-22/georgia-senate-adds-money-satellite-campuses
Georgia Senate adds money for satellite campuses
By WALTER C. JONESMORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA – Supporters of higher education in southeast Georgia had much to cheer in the version of next year’s budget that the state Senate unanimously passed on Friday. …Picking up funds are planned satellite campuses in Hinesville for Armstrong Atlantic State University and in Camden County for Altamaha Technical College. A satellite campus in Glynn County for Altamaha Tech retained funding in the Senate version that the state House and governor had included in theirs. Coastal College of Georgia got back some money appropriated in a previous budget year that been directed to another project when the Coastal project wasn’t ready in time.

USG VALUE:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-03-22/ideas-rain-tedxuga-launch-friday
Ideas rain at TEDxUGA launch Friday
By LEE SHEARER
Ideas fell like rain Friday afternoon at TEDxUGA, when more than a dozen people stood up to share their ideas about making the world a better place. …The five-hour event in the University of Georgia’s Russell Building drew a crowd of nearly 200 people to hear innovators like UGA engineering graduate student Erico Mattos, who is exploring how farming in the sea might help feed the world’s growing billions, and Sarah Petruziello, a UGA-trained artist whose uses self-portraits to help her understand her own experiences and emotions.

Related article:
www.redandblack.com
TEDxUGA features big-thinking Bulldogs past, present
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/tedxuga-features-big-thinking-bulldogs-past-present/article_6c453954-9402-11e2-bd56-001a4bcf6878.html

www.blog.archpaper.com
http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/archives/57641
PENDING SALE OF PHILADELPHIA’S ROUNDHOUSE POLICE HEADQUARTERS SPURS CAMPAIGN FOR LANDMARK STATUS
NICOLE ANDERSON
It has been a rough few months for modernist civic buildings. First, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks denied Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital landmark status, and then came the demolition of Richard Neutra’s Gettysburg Cyclorama, and now the future of The Roundhouse, Philadelphia’s Police Headquarters, hangs in the balance. Last week, during his budget address, Mayor Nutter brought to light the city’s plan to renovate the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Building at 4601 Market Street and turn it into the new police headquarters (to be shared with the City Morgue and the Health Center)… Right now, graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Historic Preservation Graduate Program have teamed up with Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture to come up with different reuse strategies for the Roundhouse. Two graduate students at UPenn, Kimber VanSant and Allee Berger, have launched a campaign, Save the Roundhouse, on Facebook.

RESEARCH:
www.examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/article/robots-are-coming-to-an-industry-near-you-says-kiplinger-s
Robots are coming to an industry near you, says Kiplinger’s
The robots are coming. A recent piece on Kiplinger.com details that robots are indeed coming over the next ten years, and they want your job. The number and variety of robots in the workplace will soar, taking over many jobs that are too dirty, too dull or too dangerous for people to do. Already, millions of robots are deployed around the world… Researchers at Georgia Tech are developing a robotic process that can debone a chicken using 3-D vision and a feedback system to sense the junction of the bird’s ligament and bone.

www.vision-systems.com
http://www.vision-systems.com/articles/2013/03/georgia-tech-student-develops-novel-toaster.html
Georgia tech student develops novel toaster
— Dave Wilson, Senior Editor, Vision Systems Design
Georgia Tech (Atlanta, GA, USA) student Basheer Tome, an industrial design major from Conyers, Georgia, has developed a new toaster that toasts bread perfectly. The majority of toasters measure toast based on time, but often the time it takes to toast a slice of bread can vary. Hence many users often hover anxiously over their toasters to ensure that their toast isn’t being burnt. Basheer Tome’s new “Hue” toaster, on the other hand, detects the color of the toast using an array of color sensors connected to an arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform which processes the data collected from them.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/deal-horse-trades-bond-money-to-move-his-budget/nW2KC/
Deal horse-trades bond money to move his budget
By James Salzer
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
When Gov. Nathan Deal offered his 2014 budget to the Legislature, he let lawmakers know that he would leave $100 million in bond money on the table for them to divide among their districts. The move has variously been described as shrewd, smart and blunt – a maneuver through which Deal smoothed the way for his own priorities by giving legislators a chance to sprinkle in some of theirs.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/senate-passes-bill-to-change-hope-grant/nW2TZ/
Senate passes bill to change HOPE Grant
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The state Senate unanimously passed a bill Friday that would allow more technical college students to receive the HOPE Grant. Students will be eligible if they maintain a 2.0 grade-point average under House Bill 372. That’s down from the current 3.0 rule, but a return to the requirement that had existed for years before lawmakers overhauled the lottery-funded scholarship in 2011.

www.bizjournals.com
HOPE grants GPA rollback clears Georgia Senate
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/03/22/hope-grants-gpa-rollback-clears.html

www.savnnahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-03-25/week-ahead-last-two-days-will-be-hectic-legislators#.UVBw4XCTpGN
Week Ahead: Last two days will be hectic for legislators
By WALTER C. JONES
ATLANTA — Lawmakers have just three days left to complete their work for the 2013 legislative session, and they’ll likely be busy. Last week, the House and Senate put in some long days amending bills in committee and on the floor. Now, they’ll spend today, Tuesday and Thursday deciding if the membership of both chambers can agree on the amendments.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2013-03-22/georgia-lawmakers-face-deadline-compromise-budget-lobbying-and-guns
Georgia lawmakers face deadline for compromise on budget, lobbying and guns
By Bill Barrow
Associated Press
ATLANTA — The clock is running out on the Georgia legislative session, with representatives and senators yet to agree on a state budget, changes to gun regulations and an overhaul of lobbying rules. The nastiest fight revolves around lobbyists and how much they can spend trying to influence state government. Georgia has no cap on what lobbyists can spend, as long as they publicly disclose their activity.

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/03/24/2409354/legislature-renews-push-into-venture.html#storylink=cpy
Legislature renews push into venture capital realm
By MAGGIE LEE
ATLANTA — From his office sandwiched between the Ocmulgee River and Interstate 75, Robert Betzel is watching a bill in the state Legislature that he thinks will show the nation that Georgia — including Macon — is ready for the next blockbuster tech company. “These start-ups, like WebMD in Atlanta, that’s what we want in Macon,” Betzel said. …The association is among the advocates of Georgia putting some of its own money into start-ups through venture capital. Venture capital funds are organized something like mutual funds, said Blake Patton, interim general manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center, a start-up accelerator based on the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/mar/23/zeroing-ethics-reform-legislature/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Zeroing in on ethics reform in the Legislature
Nothing stands between the Legislature and a very real attempt to alter the financial and personal relationships between state lawmakers and the lobbyists who schmooze them.
But “nothing” means something here.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/03/25/essay-challenges-liberal-arts-management
Liberal Arts Management
By Michael Bugeja
How is it possible for instructors in the liberal arts to teach most of the undergraduate classes in the typical institution and still feel like second-class citizens? Maybe that’s the source of the problem — teaching general education to all those majors in other colleges of a comprehensive university.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/internationalization-taxonomy-engagement-and-institutional-logic
Internationalization: A Taxonomy of Engagement and Institutional Logic
By Kris Olds
…Today’s entry should be situated in the context of other informative attempts to develop an understanding of the modes and logics of internationalization — see, in particular, Gabriel Hawawini’s 2011 working paper ‘The Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions: A Critical Review and a Radical Proposal,’ NAFSA’s work on ‘comprehensive internationalization,’ and the Cornell-specific (but very useful) ‘Report from the Task Force on Internationalization’ (Oct 2012).

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/mtops-micro-targeted-online-programs-anti-mooc
MTOPs: Micro-Targeted Online Programs – (The Anti-MOOC?)
By Joshua Kim
Why should MOOCs get all the ink? Let’s coin a term, a phrase, a meme. Will the MTOP – the Micro-Targeted Online Program – go viral? (Calling Thomas Friedman). An MTOP shares the following 7 characteristics:

www.chornicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/I-Dont-Want-to-Be-Moocd/138013/
Don’t Want to Be Mooc’d
By Albert J. Sumell
CD’s replaced cassettes, and they in turn have been replaced by MP3’s. GPS’s replaced printed maps, and they are now being replaced by cellphones, which also happened to have replaced pay phones and many other products. There are lots of examples, but the outcome is the same: New products replace older products, and those older products become obsolete. The new products are better or cheaper or more appealing to consumers. It is not just how capitalism works; it is also why it works.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/world-view/transnational-education-what-impact-local-institutions
Transnational Education: What impact on local institutions?
By Goolam Mohamedbhai
At the recently held Going Global 2013 conference organized by the British Council in Dubai, transnational education (TNE) featured prominently in the various sessions. We heard about the impulse for universities in the developed world to set up branch campuses in other countries; about the rationales for countries to attract international branch campuses with a view to creating a knowledge hub; about the challenges faced by the branch campuses and about the experiences of students attending them. Little, however, was said about the impact of TNE on local higher education institutions, especially public ones.

Education News
www.chornicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Cuts-May-Force-Long-Awaited/138123/
Cuts May Mean Long-Awaited Efficiencies at NIH
By Paul Basken
So far, the National Institutes of Health is hunkering down. Staggered by a looming 5-percent cut after years of flat budgets, higher education’s top provider of basic research money insists there’s no place it can reasonably scale back. “It’s not the case that there’s fat left in the program,” declared NIH Director Francis S. Collins, just before the sequestration budget cuts took effect this month.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/25/senate-vote-prompts-discussion-among-political-scientists-about-their-political
Can Poli Sci Do Politics?
By Scott Jaschik
“Many political scientists are bad at politics, dislike it, or both,” wrote one political scientist in a comment to a blog post about the Senate vote to bar the National Science Foundation from funding most political science research. The scholar recalled that the last time there was a move in Congress to impose such a ban, “I was in grad school, and the department chair sent out a call for ideas.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/25/survey-finds-base-salary-professionals-higher-ed-2-percent
Professional Salaries Up 2%
By Scott Jaschik
The mean base salary for professionals in higher education in 2012-13 is 2 percent higher than it was the year before, according to data released today by the College and University Association for Human Resources.

Related article:
www.chronicle.com
Average Pay Increases for Academic Professionals Trailed Inflation This Year
http://chronicle.com/article/Average-Pay-Increases-for/138125/

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/03/25/effort-ends-set-standards-profit-colleges-wisconsin
Effort Ends to Set Standards for For-Profit Colleges in Wisconsin
An effort in Wisconsin to create standards for for-profit colleges has collapsed, The Wisconsin State Journal reported. The state panel had been considering rules that would have required for-profit colleges to show that 60 percent of students who started programs finished them and found jobs.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Coalition-Steps-Up-to-Advocate/138139/
‘Yes We Must’ Coalition Steps Up to Advocate for Needy Students—and Their Colleges
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Alarmed that the college-completion agenda and other national policy and financing debates overlook the special challenges of needy students and the institutions they attend, a coalition of colleges called Yes We Must is revving up to ensure that its concerns are not ignored.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Unintended-Consequences-of/138103/
The Unintended Consequences of Ending Merit Aid
By Beckie Supiano
This winter, when a group of private-college presidents decried the escalating use of merit aid and pledged to focus their support on needy students, their message was welcomed by many. Merit aid is wasteful, some educators and experts say, maybe even immoral when most colleges can’t meet students’ financial need.

www.ctpost.com
http://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Study-Where-have-all-the-students-gone-4379424.php
Study: Where have all the students gone?
Linda Conner Lambeck
With graduate enrollment on a long, steady decline and undergraduate enrollment poised to move in the same direction, the board that oversees 17 state colleges and universities is embarking on a $1.2 million study that it hopes can help it reverse the trend. Maguire Associates, a Concord, Mass., company, was hired last fall by the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education to help the system not only attract students, but make sure they stay through graduation.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-One-University-Became-a/138105/
Why One University Chose to Become a Hispanic-Serving Institution
By Ann Schnoebelen
As many tuition-driven colleges face the challenge of lagging enrollment, Notre Dame de Namur University, in Belmont, Calif., has pursued a promising strategy. The Roman Catholic university decided to become a Hispanic-serving institution, a designation its president says has contributed to an all-time high enrollment, of 2,001 this year, and record retention rates.