USG NEWS:
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/21915373/reception-planned-to-honor-uga-president-adams
Reception planned to honor UGA President Adams
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) – The University of Georgia plans a special reception later this month honoring outgoing President Michael Adams. The reception will be held April 24 starting at 4 p.m. in the Tate Student Center Grand Hall. University officials say the event is open to the public and will include remarks from student, faculty and staff members. Adams is set to retire June 30 after 16 years as president.
USG VALUE:
www.newtoncitizen.com
http://www.newtoncitizen.com/news/2012/mar/10/newton-career-academy-to-expand-dual-enrollment/
Newton career academy to expand dual enrollment courses
By Michelle Floyd
COVINGTON — Students enrolled in the Newton College & Career Academy will have more options for dual enrollment programs next school year. Two local colleges, Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia Piedmont Technical College, will expand dual enrollment course offerings next school year after the school building opens. The programs give high school students opportunities to take college-level courses as juniors and seniors.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-05/animals-rule-day-uga-campus
Animals rule for a day on the UGA campus
By LEE SHEARER
From Aedes aegypti to zebras and teddy bears, just about every kind of animal imaginable seemed on display at the south end of the University of Georgia on Friday, to the great delight of hundreds of schoolchildren touring the campus. Over in front of the Miller Plant Sciences building, students in UGA’s entomology department had trotted out mosquitoes, hissing cockroaches, scorpions, a black widow spider, an impressively creepy assortment of tarantulas and other six- and eight-legged creatures for their annual Insect Zoo Open house. …The open house is a way the college presents itself to the community, but it’s also meant to start children thinking about veterinary medicine as a possible career.
www.jacksonville.com
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2013-04-08/story/college-coastal-georgia-hosting-free-international-film-festival
College of Coastal Georgia hosting free international film festival
Week’s activities capped with Friday afternoon international festival
By Terry Dickson
BRUNSWICK, GA. | College of Coastal Georgia will show four foreign films this week for its 2nd annual international film series and festival. All four films will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Stembler Theatre in the Campus Center.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.rn-t.com
http://www.rn-t.com/view/full_story/22187623/article-Deal-signs-veterans-licensure-bill-into-law?instance=lead_story_left_column
Deal signs veterans licensure bill into law
by Gov. Nathan Deal
Gov. Nathan Deal today signed into law House Bill 188, the Veterans Licensure Bill, during an award ceremony at the Clay National Guard Center in Cobb County. In an effort to facilitate the transition back to the civilian workforce, the legislation will help to expedite the licensure process for select in-demand occupations for Georgia’s returning veterans.
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/04/08/local-reviews-mixed-on-state-ethics-reform
Local Reviews Mixed on State Ethics Reform
By Claire Simms
ATLANTA — About 250 cities across Georgia already have their own ethics policies, according to the Georgia Municipal Association. However, when a pair of ethics bills becomes law, every elected city official in Georgia will have to adhere to at least the same standards as those at the state level.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/georgia-to-receive-172-million-for-school-improvem/nXGWK/
Georgia to get $17.2M for school improvement
BY WAYNE WASHINGTON – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Georgia will get $17.2 million in federal grant money to turn around some of its persistently low-performing schools, the U.S. Department of Education announced Monday. To get the money headed for Georgia, schools that have not previously received School Improvement Grant funds must compete. They have to identify problems, and set goals and say how they’ll use the money to reach them.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.ajc.com
http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2013/04/08/us-doe-awards-georgia-17-2-million-for-low-performing-schools/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
US DOE awards Georgia $17.2 million for low performing schools
From US Department of Education:
Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced that Georgia will receive $17.2 million to turn around its persistently lowest achieving schools through the Education Department’s School Improvement Grant program. Georgia is one of 13 states that will receive SIG funding.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/apr/06/why-campus-carry-could-become-law-georgia-next-yea/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Why campus carry could become law in Georgia next year
If you are a mom or dad with a firm Republican voting history and the thought of concealed weaponry on the same university campus with your offspring gives you the heebie-jeebies, then you have perhaps eight months to make your case. Maybe less. If by Thanksgiving you can’t convince the occupants of the state Capitol that you are a force to be reckoned with, resign yourself to the fact that 21-year-old sweetums might soon be hitting you up for a fashionable Glock and matching holster to go with that tuition and three-a-day meal plan.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/04/09/2430171/yarbrough-outstanding-equestrian.html
YARBROUGH: Outstanding equestrian team is UGA’s best-kept secret
By Dick Yarbrough – Special to The Telegraph
They are the best University of Georgia athletic team you have likely never heard of. They have won five national titles and go into next week’s national championships one of the favorites to win it all again. Their home record is 44-1. They are a model for what all intercollegiate athletics should be, but, alas, are not. They bring great credit to their university but have had a hard time getting the recognition due them from the media and from those who claim to bleed red-and-black.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/views/our-take-strengthen-caps/article_03d512ca-a066-11e2-b951-001a4bcf6878.html
Our Take: Strengthen CAPS
by BENJAMIN WOLK
A Red & Black article scheduled for publication today reports that the number of people who receive treatment from Counseling and Psychiatry Services (CAPS) at the UGA Health Center has increased by 30 percent in the past year.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/stratedgy/record-highs-record-lows-part-ii
Record Highs, Record Lows: Part II
By Dayna Catropa
An important trend is worth mentioning as part of the context to last week’s post. One of the factors contributing to the record high number of applications and record low acceptance rates is that more prospective students are applying to more schools.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/09/essay-online-learning-strategies-black-colleges
Don’t Follow the Crowd
By Roy L. Beasley
Historically black colleges need a digital learning strategy, but they should resist the temptation to focus on MOOCs or other approaches that weren’t designed for the students they serve, writes Roy L. Beasley.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/paucity-policy
The Paucity of Policy
By Tracy Mitrano
U.S. political culture suffers from a paucity of policy qua policy thinking. In this sense, I refer to “Big ‘P’ ” policy, as in national policy. Whether about medical care, gun control or international relations, this paucity exists, and technology and education are no exceptions. The effect is pernicious. In technology, it lends itself to such issues as “crisis in cyber-security,” “the growing digital divides” or the “dangerous diminution of privacy.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/sounding-board/ethics-grading-iii-revisiting-question-who-what-does-grading
Ethics of Grading III: Revisiting the Question of Who (What?) Does Grading
By Jane Robbins
The question of whether computers should grade work is a question of professional ethics. Those who teach should be clear about what makes them professionals: their ability to judge.
Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/09/report-calls-separating-pell-grants-adult-and-younger-students
Two Pell Grants?
By Libby A. Nelson
A new report on rethinking financial aid calls for splitting the main federal need-based-aid program in two, with one grant for adult students and another for traditional-age students.
So far, 2013 has been awash in proposals to reshape federal financial aid. Last week saw the release of the final reports in the Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project, a $3.3-million effort from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in its first major foray into financial aid policy. With the Higher Education Act, the main law governing the federal government’s investment in higher education, scheduled to expire at the end of the year, the policy proposals are likely to keep coming.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323820304578411071860598516.html?mod=WSJ_hps_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsThird
Panel Calls for Overhauling Student Grants
By JOSH MITCHELL
A blue-ribbon panel is calling for an overhaul of the federal Pell-grant program for low-income college students, reflecting concerns that not enough of the award recipients end up graduating. The report—set to be released Tuesday by a panel of educators convened by the College Board, a trade group of universities and colleges—adds to the debate about federal student-aid programs, which have grown rapidly under President Barack Obama.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52458/#
National Urban League Calls Attention to Financial Aid Issues From African-American Perspective
by Ronald Roach
Tapped by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to contribute to the Reimagining Aid Delivery & Design (RADD) project, the National Urban League (NUL) has released “Education Transforms Lives: Postsecondary Affordability Survey and Focus Groups,” a survey paper that largely discusses the views of African-Americans on financial aid and college access. The paper is intended to bring the views of African-Americans to the Gates Foundation-sponsored effort to shape reform of the U.S. college financial aid system, according to NUL officials.
www.news.ufl.edu
http://news.ufl.edu/2013/04/08/higher-ed-survey/
Higher education is worth the cost, Floridians say
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Most Floridians feel that a college education is a good investment — and one that will continue to pay off in the future, according to new survey results from the University of Florida’s Center for Public Issues Education. The center, based in UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, found that while more than half of the survey respondents said college is too expensive and 20 percent expect costs to increase, 77 percent of respondents with a college degree said higher education is a good investment and 85 percent believe a degree will continue to pay off financially.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/09/colorado-bill-allow-community-colleges-offer-4-year-degrees-fails
Colorado Bill to Allow Community Colleges to Offer 4-Year Degrees Fails
A committee of Colorado’s House of Representatives killed legislation Monday that would have allowed the state’s community colleges to offer four-year degrees, citing concerns about whether the state could afford to create new degree programs, the Associated Press reported.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/09/study-abroad-call-greater-intentionality-and-ambition
Seeking Rigor in Study Abroad
By Elizabeth Redden
CHICAGO — At last week’s Forum on Education Abroad conference, a prevailing theme was the need for universities to be more intentional – and ambitious – in crafting learning outcomes for their overseas programs. “Our aspirations are weighed down by deeply rooted consumer values, tacit agreements, let’s call them, which are abundantly visible throughout the wider American educational system, but which arguably do not serve desirable learning outcomes in study abroad,” Lilli Engle, the director of the American University Center of Provence, said in her keynote speech.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/09/new-book-explores-professors-politics-and-debates-about-those-politics
Self-Fulfilling Professorial Politics
By Scott Jaschik
Conspiracy theories abound when it comes to professors and politics. To hear some conservatives tell it, a liberal-dominated professoriate attempts to brainwash students and to keep out of the faculty club any who challenge leftist orthodoxy. Ph.D. programs in the humanities teach some sort of secret handshake that lets those with politically correct views land the best jobs. To hear some liberals talk about it, there is no such thing as a liberal professoriate. Rather, a well-financed group of conservatives and their foundations use the politics issue to trash higher education. If there aren’t more conservative professors around, it’s because those on the right prefer the world of money to the world of ideas, and flock to Wall Street.
www.stltoday.com
http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/u-s-workers-squeezed-as-companies-push-for-efficiency/article_20373ce8-94bd-58b5-b7ca-567642944a40.html
U.S. workers squeezed as companies push for efficiency
By ALANA SEMUELS Los Angeles Times
WESTFIELD, Mass. • The relentless drive for efficiency at U.S. companies has created a new harshness in the workplace. In their zeal to make sure that not a minute of time is wasted, companies are imposing rigorous performance quotas, forcing many people to put in extra hours, paid or not. Video cameras and software keep tabs on worker performance, tracking their computer keystrokes and the time spent on each customer service call. “Wages are stagnant, jobs are less secure, work is more intense — it’s a much tougher world,” said Paul Osterman, co-director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research. “Employers have become much more aggressive about restructuring work in ways that push for higher levels of productivity.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/09/thatcher-impact-higher-education
The Thatcher Impact on Higher Education
The obituaries of Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday, noted that the late British prime minister had enormous influence on her country — with many divided about whether that influence was for the good. An article in Times Higher Education quoted supporters of Thatcher saying that she had promoted accountability and efficiency in ways that have had a positive impact.