GOOD NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/apr/10/ggc-signs-first-agreement-with-foreign-university/
GGC signs first agreement with foreign university
By Frank Reddy
LAWRENCEVILLE — Officials with Georgia Gwinnett College announced this week that the institutions has signed its first memorandum of cooperation with a foreign university, opening doors to international academic exchange. A delegation from Thai Nguyen University of Technology of Thai Nguyen City, Vietnam, visited campus during its annual International Week observance. TheTNUTdelegation participated in a signing ceremony that made its relationship with Georgia Gwinnett official.
www.stateboro.wtoc.com
http://statesboro.wtoc.com/news/news/125031-gsu-online-programs-earn-national-recognition
GSU online programs earn national recognition
Submitted by WTOC Web Staff
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC)- U.S. News and World Report named the Georgia Southern University’s online programs one of the best in the nation. GSU’s online system gives students flexible and quality online options to further education, according to U.S. News and World Report.
www.jbhe.com
http://www.jbhe.com/2013/04/joyce-e-king-to-lead-the-american-educational-research-association/
Joyce E. King to Lead the American Educational Research Association
Joyce E. King, professor in the College of Education at Georgia State University in Atlanta, has been chosen as president-elect of the American Educational Research Association. She will serve for one year as president-elect beginning on May 1 and then become president of the association at the conclusion of the group’s 2014 annual meeting.
USG NEWS:
www.athens.patch.com
http://athens.patch.com/articles/georgia-archives-gets-300k-more-and-a-move-to-the-university-system
Georgia Archives Gets $300K More and a Move to the University System
From the Society of Georgia Archivists:
The Georgia Archives will find itself on more stable ground in the coming year, thanks to several key victories in the recently closed legislative session. Both houses of the Georgia General Assembly unanimously voted to transfer authority for the Archives from the Secretary of State’s Office to the Board of Regents of the University System. With its dedication to scholarship, research, and public service, the University System is well-positioned to offer a nurturing home for the Archives.
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/21938535/ssu-renames-dorm
SSU Renames Dorm
By Shameca Kelley
SAVANNAH, GA –
Savannah State University has been on an upbeat note this week. More signs of celebrations Wednesday leading up to the inauguration of President Dr. Cheryl Dozier. Wednesday crews spent part of the day preparing for a huge event on Thursday. The Georgia Board of Regents approved renaming Tiger Pointe Resident Hall in honor of the university’s founding president, Richard R. Wright, Senior.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/administration/uga-files-motion-to-revoke-art-professor-s-tenure/article_cda60f50-a214-11e2-9e36-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA files motion to revoke art professor’s tenure
by NICHOLAS WATSON
The University of Georgia filed three charges for revocation of tenure against a UGA art professor, as shown through an open records request received by The Red & Black. James Barsness, a professor of art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art, received notice of these charges on Feb. 2 in a letter from Senior Assistant Attorney General Rebecca S. Mick. One charge accused Barsness of a “public sexual encounter with a student” during a study abroad program in Costa Rica.
USG VALUE:
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/49282/
Relay for Life set for GSU campus
University to host first collegiate event Friday
BY Jeff Harrison
Students at Georgia Southern University are giving an annual fundraiser a second date in Bulloch County. This year, for the first time, the university will host a Relay for Life event separate from the community-sponsored affair held yearly at the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fairgrounds.
www.midtown.patch.com
http://midtown.patch.com/articles/former-u-s-secs-of-defense-coming-to-ga-tech-next-week
Former U.S. Secs. of Defense Coming to Ga Tech Next Week
Donald Rumsfeld, William Cohen, and Richard Cheney among those expected to appear at the Tuesday, April 23 event at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center.
By Patch Staff
On Tuesday, April 23, the Georgia Tech and surrounding community is invited to participate in a unique and candid conversation among those who have been central to shaping the United States military strategy over the past 40 years. The event, sponsored by the Southern Center for International Studies, is an in-depth, two-hour discussion with five former U.S. Secretaries of Defense entitled “Bipartisan Advice to the New Administration.”
RESEARCH:
www.abc15.com
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/making-sense-of-overwhelming-scents
Making sense of overwhelming scents
By: Lee Bowman, Scripps Howard News Service
When it comes to fragrances, what’s aromatically awesome to one person is absolutely awful to someone else. Scents can make many of us sick. …One analysis published by researchers at the University of West Georgia in 2009, based on surveys of more than 2,100 people between 2002 and 2006, found that 30 percent of respondents thought that scented products worn by others were irritating and 19 percent experienced adverse health effects from the exposure.
www.midtown.patch.com
http://midtown.patch.com/articles/razurblade-labs-to-open-hub-in-midtown
Razurblade Labs to Open Hub in Midtown
Company comes amid much tech-related growth in Midtown.
By Patch Staff
Razurblade Labs, a non-profit open device lab, said Monday it plans to open in Midtown by July 30, 2013. Open device labs are hubs for web and app developers which allow them to share in a community pool of devices donated by corporations and individuals. The need for ODLs has grown as consumer demand for mobile and web-based apps has risen sharply. Midtown as a choice for Razurblade underscores the tech-related activity and business development that has occurred there. It also is home to Georgia Tech and its students, many of whom are centered around computer science, information technology and digital design majors — disciplines that work well with the needs of ODLs and start-up companies.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/state-tax-revenues-inch-upward-for-march/nXHqw/
State tax revenues inch upward for March
By News Staff
Georgia’s net tax collections are continuing a pace of slow growth. Gov. Nathan Deal said Wednesday the state’s net tax collections for March totaled $1.17 billion, an increase of nearly $12.7 million from the same time last year. With three quarters of this fiscal year completed, net revenue collections were up about 5 percent from the same point last year.
Related article:
www.jacksonville.com
Georgia revenue increases for 11th straight quarter, governor says
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2013-04-10/story/georgia-revenue-increases-11th-straight-quarter-governor-says
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/national-govt-politics/taking-georgia-cue-obama-seeks-pre-k-expansion/nXJPc/
Taking Georgia cue, Obama seeks pre-k expansion
By Nancy Badertscher and Daniel Malloy
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia and other states could get billions of dollars over the next decade to expand pre-kindergarten programs to 4-year-olds from moderate-income families under President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal.
The president’s plan, which was released Wednesday, calls for nearly doubling the federal tobacco tax to support a $75 billion investment in pre-kindergarten and other education initiatives for children as young as infants.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2013-04-10/essig-cuts-education-funding-shortchange-economic-development
Essig: Cuts in education funding shortchange economic development
The state budget for next year promises once again to shortchange public education at every level in northeast Georgia, threatening the future of the region’s children and its economy.
Georgia lawmakers reduced support for the Clarke County School District for the next school year by $8 million, bringing to more than $51 million the amount the district has lost since 2003. Those numbers translate into painful results for Clarke County students.
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-thielen/the-9-best-computer-scien_b_3034171.html
The 9 Best Computer Science Schools in the World
David Thielen
Founder, Windward Studios
What’s key to selecting the best school for you? A strong sense of community, building friendships, working together, these are central to enjoying your time at college. The Windward Code War is a very good measure of the depth of community within a school. And not just community, but also the love of programming for the pure joy of programming to be found in these schools… What’s really interesting about the list is that five of the nine are on many of the top 10 C.S. schools lists (Mudd, Maryland, Georgia Tech, Purdue, & Penn). My guess is that students visiting Colleges do see that these schools have students that have created a community and love programming.
www.blogs.scientificamerican.com
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2013/04/10/my-computer-charged-because-i-wrote-this-blog/
My computer recharged because I wrote this blog…
By Robynne Boyd
…well, not exactly. But, it could happen soon thanks to a nanogenerator created by Dr. Zhong Lin Wang and his team at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04/11/what-teachers-need-and-reformers-ignore-time-to-collaborate/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet
By Valerie Strauss
What teachers need and reformers ignore: time to collaborate
One of the primary things that teachers value but that school reformers have given short shrift is time to collaborate. Here, Stanford University Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert on teaching and teacher education, writes about why this is so important to the profession. Darling-Hammond directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. A former president of the American Educational Research Association, Darling-Hammond focuses her research, teaching, and policy work on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52546/
Online and Traditional Education Through the Eyes of an Undergrad
by David Coronado
Perspective of a student who started at a community college, is about to graduate from an online program, and is also an intern at a brick-and-mortar, small, traditional university.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/11/essay-importance-transparency-cutting-college-costs
Transparency Can Cut Costs
By Michael Bugeja
Higher education believes in sustainability to such extent that at Midwestern universities, like my own, we advocate for ingredients on food labels. The biggest issue in sustainability, however, is not a green environment as much as the greenbacks it takes to earn a college degree.
www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/opinion/from-poverty-to-a-top-tier-college.html?_r=0
From Poverty to a Top-Tier College
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Because educational opportunity has much to do with upward mobility, it is distressing that low-income students who qualify for top-tier colleges rarely end up there. Flummoxed by the admissions process and scared off by what they think will be unmanageable costs, many of these students settle for lesser colleges with lower graduation rates, less financial aid (which means more debt) and less marketable degrees.
www.jbhe.com
http://www.jbhe.com/2013/04/many-high-achieving-minority-students-dont-apply-to-top-rates-colleges/
Many High-Achieving Minority Students Don’t Apply to Top-Rated Colleges
Caroline Hoxby, the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University recently completed a study on the college application behavior of high-achieving, low-income students. She found that many of the nation’s most talented minority students simply do not apply to our nation’s leading colleges and universities.
Education News
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/apr/10/gwinnett-tech-students-get-more-than-322000-in/
Gwinnett Tech students get more than $322,000 in scholarships
Staff Report
LAWRENCEVILLE — The Gwinnett Tech Foundation awarded more than 260 scholarships for academic excellence and achievement to Gwinnett Tech students this year, totaling just over $322,000. College leaders united student scholarship winners and their scholarship donors and investors at the 2013 Scholarships and Awards Breakfast last week.
www.northfulton.com
http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-TOP-STORIES-c-2013-04-10-198256.114126-sub24323.114126-Alpharetta-University-Chamber-seeks-4year-school.html
Alpharetta University? Chamber seeks 4-year school
N.F. leaders trying to make it happen
by Hatcher Hurd
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – The Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce and the city of Alpharetta have set up a recruitment team to lure a four-year private institution to come to Alpharetta, preferably at the site of the old Milton High School campus on Milton Avenue.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/11/obamas-budget-proposal-would-change-student-loan-interest-rates-boost-science
Back to Market-Based Rates
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — In his annual budget request on Wednesday, President Obama proposed a major change to student loan interest rates that would save students money in the short term but eventually make loans more costly for borrowers.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/President-Would-Increase-Pell/138473/
Obama’s Budget Would Increase Pell Grants and Add Incentives on Some Student-Aid Money
By Kelly Field
Washington
In his long-awaited budget for the 2014 fiscal year, released on Wednesday, President Obama asks Congress to increase the maximum Pell Grant by $140, to $5,785, and spend $8-billion on job-training programs at community colleges. The spending plan, which comes roughly three weeks after the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed budgets outlining their own priorities, repeats the president’s call to expand and remake the Perkins Loan program, an idea he first offered in 2009.
Related article:
www.diverseeducation.com
Obama Administration’s 2014 Education Budget Proposal Boosts Pell Grant, Seeks Interest Rate Changes
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52539/#
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/11/pell-spending-continues-decline
Pell Spending Continues to Decline
Federal spending on the Pell Grant Program declined slightly during the first half of the 2012-13 award year compared to the same period during the previous two years, according to new data released by the American Association of Community Colleges. Almost all of the spending decrease is for Pell recipients who attended community colleges and for-profit institutions.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/International-Education/138467/
International-Education Programs Face Challenges in President’s Budget
By Ian Wilhelm
Washington
Under President Obama’s budget for the 2014 fiscal year, announced on Wednesday, international-education programs would face a gloomy outlook.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Budget-Seeks-to-Slowly/138469/
Obama Budget Seeks to Slowly Rebuild Spending on Scientific Research
By Paul Basken
Washington
The Obama administration on Wednesday proposed a budget for the 2014 fiscal year that suggests slowly rebuilding federal support for science, with an emphasis on favored fields that include clean energy and biotechnology.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/ArtsHumanities-Endowments/138471/
Arts and Humanities Endowments Would Edge Up Under Obama’s Budget
By Allie Bidwell
Washington
Federal funds for the National Endowments for the Arts and for the Humanities would remain stable under President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Renews-Effort-to-Limit/138475/
Obama Renews Effort to Limit Charitable Deduction
By Doug Donovan and Suzanne Perry
Washington
President Obama’s budget for the 2014 fiscal year, released on Wednesday, is likely to infuriate many college fund-raising offices and other charitable organizations with its renewed call to limit the value of deductions for charitable contributions.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/11/call-improve-federal-stem-education-efforts
Call to Improve Federal STEM Education Efforts
Federal programs to promote science and technology education need better coordination and better analysis of their effectiveness, says a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. There are 209 programs in all, the GAO found, and the number of programs within an individual federal agency range from 3 to 46.
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/04/09/28science_ep.h32.html?tkn=MNRFfFHQkhlEGl9Nb7fCNjDPZXx34QVP%2FORf&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Common Science Standards Make Formal Debut
By Erik W. Robelen
The final set of standards aimed at reshaping the focus and delivery of science instruction in U.S. schools was publicly unveiled Tuesday, setting the stage for states—many of which helped craft the standards—to take the next step and consider adopting them as their own. More than three years in the making, the Next Generation Science Standards are designed to provide a greater emphasis on depth over breadth in studying the subject. They seek not only to provide students with a foundation of essential knowledge, but also to lead young people to apply their learning through scientific inquiry and the engineering-design process to deepen understanding.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Report-Examines-the-Global/138439/
More Countries Are Asking Whether They Produce Too Many Ph.D.’s, Says New Report
By Geoff Maslen
This is an article from University World News, an online publication that covers global higher education. It is presented here under an agreement with The Chronicle.
As more and more universities around the world graduate ever-increasing numbers of students with Ph.D.’s, governments are beginning to ask if it is time to slow the production line. A new study notes that China is the world leader in producing Ph.D.’s, having outnumbered the United States on a per year basis for the first time in 2008.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Arab-Universities-Grapple-With/138437/
Arab Universities Grapple With U.S. Accreditation’s Focus on Academic Freedom
By Sarah Lynch
This is an article from Al Fanar, an online publication that covers higher education in the Arab world. It is presented here under an agreement with The Chronicle.
Accreditation by U.S. agencies is a prize that many universities in the Arab world have sought in recent years, a prize that allows them to sell students from the region on getting an education at U.S. standards closer to home and at a lower cost. But could that prize have a price—the risk of losing accreditation if autocratic Arab regimes tighten up, academic freedom slips, and accreditation gets pulled?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/11/florida-legislation-would-require-colleges-grant-credit-some-unaccredited-courses
Taking on Accreditors and Faculty
By Ry Rivard
Florida lawmakers advanced a bill this week intended to upend the American college accreditation system. The measure would allow Florida officials to accredit individual courses on their own — including classes offered by unaccredited for-profit providers.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/11/nj-community-college-gets-serious-about-credit-veterans
Credit for Service
By Paul Fain
Thousands of veterans of the U.S. military receive credit recommendations for the training and experience they acquire in the service. But colleges often do not accept those credit recommendations, sometimes only granting three to six credits for physical education courses for a transcript of 20 or more credits, according to veterans and college officials.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/11/nebraska-universitys-three-strikes-attendance-policy-promising-start
Striking Out of Class
By Carl Straumsheim
If this is supposed to be the era of coddled students, somebody forget to tell Midland University. Midway through its second semester following an extremely tough attendance policy, administrators and faculty members say demanding more from their students — and supporting those who fall behind — is generating more classroom engagement and producing better-prepared graduates. Midland, a private liberal arts institution in Fremont, Neb., now uses a “three strikes” policy that follows in the same vein as its athletic and legal counterparts.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/11/san-jose-state-expands-edx-partnership
San Jose State Expands edX Partnership
San Jose State University last fall began offering its students an online engineering course from edX, a provider of massive open online courses. The course was designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and hosted on the edX platform, but taught by faculty from San Jose State.
Related article:
www.online.wsj.com
Online Education Lifts Pass Rates at University
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323741004578414861572832182.html?mod=googlenews_wsj