BOARD MEETING ACTIONS:
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Regents increase tuition
BY LAURA DIAMOND – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Georgia college students will pay $32 to $270 more a semester next year, depending on the college, under action the State Board of Regents took Tuesday. Once again Georgia Tech students are hit the hardest. Their fall 2013 tuition will increase by 7 percent. University of Georgia students will pay 5 percent more. Those at Georgia State and Georgia Regents universities will see tuition costs increase by 3.5 percent.
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http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/regents-to-discuss-tuition/nXND6/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajcpremium
Regents increase tuition
BY LAURA DIAMOND – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
SAVANNAH — Georgia’s college students will pay more next year to earn a degree, with those at the prestigious research institutions facing the largest hikes.
Tuition at 27 of the 31 colleges in the University System of Georgia will increase by 2.5 percent under action the State Board of Regents took Tuesday. That is the same increase most students faced last year and one of the smallest in nearly a decade. But in-state undergraduate tuition bills will be much different for students at the remaining four schools:
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http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/education/regents-again-raise-ga-tuition-25-to-7-percent/nXNc9/
Ga. college students to pay higher tuition
By RUSS BYNUM
The Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Public colleges and universities in Georgia will charge students $32 to $270 more in tuition per semester starting next fall under a budget plan approved Tuesday by the state Board of Regents. College students and their parents have seen the cost of their educations go up every year for more than a decade. The tuition hikes approved by the regents for Georgia’s 31 public schools were held at the same rate as the increases adopted a year ago, which were the lowest since 2002.
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Regents Again Hike Tuition, Fees
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/04/16/regents-again-hike-tuition-fees#
www.accessnorthga.com
Regents again raise Ga. tuition 2.5 to 7 percent
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=260545
www.businessweek.com
Ga. college students to pay higher tuition
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-04-16/ga-dot-college-students-to-pay-higher-tuition
www.savannahnow.com
Regents approve tuition hike for Georgia colleges, universities
http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2013-04-16/regents-approve-tuition-hike-georgia-colleges-universities#.UW2vs3CTpGM
www.chronicle.augusta.com
Tuition going up in Georgia
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-04-16/tuition-going-georgia
www.onlineathens.com
Georgia college students to pay higher tuition
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2013-04-16/regents-again-raise-georgia-tuition-25-7-percent
www.coosavalleynews.com
Georgia Regents Votes to Raise College Tuition
http://www.coosavalleynews.com/np102205.htm
www.11alive.com
Tuition increase held consecutive for most University System campuses
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/288640/40/Tuition-increase-held-consecutive-for-most-University-System-campuses
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-tution-to-increase-percent-in-pending-regents-vote/article_57515a76-a6ce-11e2-83c2-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA tuition to increase 5 percent in 2014
Erica Techo
Tuition for in-state students at 27 University System of Georgia colleges and universities is set to increase at 2.5 percent. University of Georgia students, however, will see an increase of 5 percent, according to a University System of Georgia news release. This means students will face between a tuition increase anywhere between $32 and $270 a semester.
www.mdjonline.com
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/22270537/article-Regents-OK-2-5–hike-for-KSU–SPSU?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
Regents OK 2.5% hike for KSU, SPSU
by Jon Gillooly
MARIETTA — Tuition is rising 2.5 percent this fall for students at Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University. The University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents, which governs the two Cobb County universities, approved the increase, the same percentage level that was approved last year, during its Tuesday meeting. For Kennesaw State University, the in-state per semester tuition rate is $2,426 and will rise this fall to $2,487. The out-of-state per tuition rate is $8,564 and will rise to $8,778.
www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/22269403/article-UWG-in-state-undergrads-to-pay–61-more-per-semester?instance=TG_home_story_offset
UWG in-state undergrads to pay $61 more per semester
by From Staff and Wire Reports
University of West Georgia in-state students will pay an increase of $61 per semester beginning next fall under a budget plan approved Tuesday by the state Board of Regents. The 2.5 percent tuition hike will be in effect for in-state, undergraduate students at 27 of the 31 University System of Georgia college and universities.
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www.douglascountysentinel.com
UWG in-state undergrads to pay $61 more per semester
http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/view/full_story/22269403/article-UWG-in-state-undergrads-to-pay–61-more-per-semester?instance=west_ga_news
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-04-16/new-computer-degree-could-open-doors-fort-gordon
New computer degree could open doors for Fort Gordon
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
A potential new computer degree program at Georgia Regents University could better prepare graduates for issues like cybersecurity and open a door for a degree for personnel training at Fort Gordon. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents will be asked this week to approve a new Bachelor of Science in Applied Information Systems & Technologies at GRU. The university already has two other computer degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems.
GOOD NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-16/turner-entertainment-president-makes-gift-uga
Turner Entertainment president makes gift to UGA
Turner Entertainment President Steve Koonin and his wife have pledged $250,000 to help students of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The gift establishes the Koonin Scholars Fund with five students set to receive $1,000 stipends for the 2013-14 school year.
www.newswise.com
http://www.newswise.com/articles/earliest-maps-of-georgia-included-in-stunning-collection-donated-to-columbus-state-university
Earliest Maps of Georgia Included in Stunning Collection Donated to Columbus State University
Source Newsroom: Columbus State University
Newswise — COLUMBUS, Ga. — A leading Columbus State University supporter, J. Kyle Spencer, has donated to CSU Archives one of the most comprehensive collections of the early maps of Georgia.
“These maps represent the emergence of the people of Georgia as a state,” said Mark Flynn, CSU’s dean of libraries, which houses the Archives. “It’s all about our history and shows how land transformation relates to our history.”
USG NEWS:
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http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=260543
UNG professor publishes book honoring Disney legend
By Staff
DAHLONEGA – Dr. Brad Strickland has co-written and had published “Wishing on a Star: The Life of Eddie Carroll,” an actor best known as the voice of Walt Disney character and spokesman Jiminy Cricket. Strickland, a professor of English at the University of North Georgia (UNG), began working with Carroll’s wife, Carolyn Carroll, after the actor passed away in 2010. Together they researched his life and career, and interviewed numerous friends of Carroll, including Jamie Farr, who played Klinger in M*A*S*H, and Bill Farmer, the voice of Disney’s Goofy.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/ap/georgia/ex-uga-coach-jim-donnan-charged-in-ponzi-scheme/nXNgX/
Ex-UGA coach Jim Donnan charged in Ponzi scheme
By KATE BRUMBACK
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Former University of Georgia football coach Jim Donnan and a business partner face charges that they operated a Ponzi scheme, according to federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The grand jury last week returned the 85-count indictment against Donnan and Gregory L. Crabtree of Proctorville, Ohio. The charges include conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud, among others.
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Former UGA football coach Donnan pleads not guilty in alleged Ponzi scheme
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-16/former-uga-football-coach-donnan-pleads-not-guilty-alleged-ponzi-scheme
www.accessnorthga.com
Ex-UGA coach Jim Donnan charged in Ponzi scheme
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=260549
www.ledger-enquirer.com
Ex-UGA coach Jim Donnan charged in Ponzi scheme
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/04/16/2466650/ex-uga-coach-jim-donnan-charged.html
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/49414/
Police: Man threatens others at pharmacy, university
BY Holli Deal Bragg
Register man remains in jail without bond after being arrested on terroristic threats charges at a Statesboro pharmacy as well as Georgia Southern University. …Turner added that Statesboro and Georgia Southern University police are working closely on an incident in which Curlin reportedly made similar threats directed at the university.
RESEARCH:
www.uwire.com
Scientist sees stress, substance abuse similarities
The connection between stress and substance abuse is obvious, but whether it is that stress leads to substance abuse or substance abuse leads to stress has yet to be determined. …Obasi will be working with two other researchers at the University of Georgia, one at Emory University and a small handful of graduate students. Despite this, it remains primarily a Houston-based project, and its research will draw from members of the community.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opinion/create-a-commercial-space-industry/nXMgw/
Create a commercial space industry
BY BOB SCARINGE
Aerospace transport companies like Space X are drastically reducing the cost to launch payloads into low earth orbit. XCOR Aerospace Inc. is drastically reducing the cost per tourist of a sub-orbital flight, and Bigelow Aerospace is launching inflatable space habitats intended for tourism, with one of the first to be installed on the International Space Station. You may be surprised to know that all of these companies are interested in locating and launching from Spaceport Georgia in Camden County. . . . Georgia Tech produces more aerospace engineers than any other program in the country, providing a future Georgia space industry employer the luxury of a robust pipeline of engineers. Blue-collar skills in the Georgia aeronautics industry have crossover application in the space industry.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/04/biota-pharmaceuticals-relos-hq-to.html?page=all
Biota Pharmaceuticals relos HQ to Atlanta
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
A Northeast biopharmaceutical company is relocating its headquarters to Alpharetta as part of a consolidation and corporate restructuring. Rockville, Md.-based Biota Pharmaceuticals, Inc. [NASDAQ: BOTA] focuses on the development of anti-infective products to prevent and treat potentially life-threatening viral and bacterial infectious diseases, such as respiratory syncytial virus disease and Hepatitis C virus infections. Biota also has an advanced program for the treatment of human rhinovirus infection. . . . Atlanta was a natural location to relocate Biota, because both Plumb and Pattie are based here. The region also has strong biotech infrastructure thanks to Emory University, Georgia Tech and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/apr/16/georgia-improves-in-obesity-rankings/
Georgia improves in obesity rankings
By Keith Farner
The state of Georgia received encouraging news this week in the ongoing battle against childhood obesity. A new report by the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health ranks Georgia 17th nationally, up from having the second-most obese child population in the nation six years ago. The data was gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/04/13/2461499/more-for-less.html
More for less?
Budget cuts a setback for Columbus area students and an obstacle to governor’s ambitious education agenda
By ALAN ESSIG — Georgia Budget & Policy Institute
The state budget for next year promises once again to shortchange public education at every level in West Georgia, threatening the future of the region’s children and its economy. …Schools in the university system, such as Columbus State University, also feel the pinch. The university system’s statewide budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 is almost $400 million less than in 2009. Yet 31,000 more students enrolled in state universities during that time. That’s equivalent to adding another University of Georgia to our higher education system — with less money to pay for it.
www.forest-blade.com
http://www.forest-blade.com/opinion/editorials/article_dfa20858-a6c9-11e2-add0-001a4bcf887a.html
Random thoughts on random subjects
By Dick Yarbrough
It turns out you can go home again. I recently established a chair in crisis communications leadership at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communications at my beloved University of Georgia. UGA President-elect Dr. Jere Morehead, along with Dink NeSmith, chairman of the Board of Regents, came for the ceremony and both made my family and me feel warmly welcomed on campus. That is something we haven’t felt at my alma mater for a long time.
www.valdostadailytimes.com
http://valdostadailytimes.com/opinion/x2094914451/VSU-brings-culture-to-community
VSU brings culture to community
The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — Valdosta State continues to bring an array of educational, artistic, and cultural events to our community, providing opportunities that enrich the quality of life for citizens and students alike. …As the university’s academic year winds to a close, take advantage of these opportunities and be thankful for the culture and diversity VSU brings to our community.
www.atlantadailyworld.com
http://atlantadailyworld.com/201304155323/Original/on-education-georgia-lawmakers-make-few-major-changes/Print
ON EDUCATION, GEORGIA LAWMAKERS MAKE FEW MAJOR CHANGES
By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY, Associated Press
State lawmakers made few major changes to education policy during this year’s legislative session. Bills to empower parents and teachers to convert failing public schools into charter schools stalled in committee. So did a measure to change state curriculum standards. Instead, lawmakers lowered the grade-point average requirements so more people would qualify for the popular HOPE grant program for technical college students. …Separately, the governor is expected to sign legislation restoring a lower GPA requirement for students seeking HOPE grants to attend the state’s technical colleges. …A bill that would have allowed students with a license to carry a gun to take their firearms onto parts of public colleges and universities also failed to come up for a final vote.
www.thecitizen.com
http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/kim-learnard/04-16-2013/busting-myths-about-cca
Busting myths about CCA
Submitted by Kim Learnard
The concept of a public school system partnering with local industries is still new to many of us. The very idea of changing the 100-year-old institution of public education is sure to evolve slowly. But the Fayette community continues our learning process to better understand what a college and career academy (CCA) could provide Fayette students and the community. Presenting … “myth-busters.” Let’s clear up some of the misunderstandings about a CCA.
www.insidehigherec.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/what-if-colleges-used-social-media-well
What If Colleges Used Social Media Well?
By Matt Reed
A savvy professor caught me in the hallway to discuss a presentation we had both seen on social media and its potential for local businesses. She had a great question that really threw me: what if colleges actually used social media well? I like the question a lot. It requires some definition, but that’s fine.
www.insidehigherec.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/hack-higher-education/dont-go-back-school-or-do
Don’t Go Back to School… or Do
By Audrey Watters
As the chorus crescendoes: “Don’t go back to school,” I’m fairly happy to sing along. I mean, I didn’t finish high school in the US (was sent to school in the UK instead), dropped out of college (then got pregnant), finished my Bachelors with my baby (then toddler) in my arms, went to grad school (LOL), and proceeded to drop out of a PhD program, two chapters into my dissertation. I owe a fair amount of money in student loans, and now I’m a freelance writer.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-mooc-provider-says-it-fosters-peer-interaction/43381
New MOOC Provider Says It Fosters Peer Interaction
By Jake New
The field of massive-open-online-course providers is becoming crowded. That’s even more so at Stanford University, where Udacity and Coursera, two of the largest providers, got their start. Now there’s a new platform to add to the list. NovoEd, which officially opened on Monday, will begin offering seven courses to the public next week, as well as 10 private courses for Stanford students. . . . Some MOOCs have struggled to foster teamwork because of their size. In February a course at the Georgia Institute of Technology was suspended due to technical difficulties after the instructor attempted to use Google Docs to help the course’s 40,000 enrolled students to organize themselves into groups.
www.businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-16/dont-hate-stanford-because-its-rich
Don’t Hate Stanford Because It’s Rich
By Ashlee Vance
Over the past year, the New Yorker has turned ragging on Stanford University into its favorite hobby, outside of publishing cartoons. Ken Auletta questioned the school’s zeal for business development in a feature entitled “Get Rich U.” last year. More recently, Nicholas Thompson, a Stanford grad no less, took aim at the university in a pair of blog posts—“The End of Stanford” and “The Trouble With Stanford.” All the stories ask if Stanford’s computer science-driven, start-up championing culture has gone too far, whether students, professors, the school’s leaders and trustees are chasing technology billions at the expense of developing well-rounded kids—or worse, at the expense of their ethics.
Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/17/2-hearings-congress-takes-first-steps-toward-rewriting-higher-education-act
And So It Begins
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — There was no opening bell or official declaration to mark the occasion, but on Tuesday, Congress nevertheless began to take its first steps toward the next renewal of the massive law governing federal financial aid programs.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/state-news-next-story-the-buzz-burton-not-worried-about-maldonado-bid-for-governor-lifetime-limit-on-community-college-units-rejected-by-california-legislature/
Lifetime limit on community college units rejected by California Legislature
Source: The Tribune, San Luis Obispo
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to make California’s community college system more efficient and increase access for students hit a road block last week as lawmakers rejected his proposal to set a lifetime limit on the number of units students can take at reduced in-state rates. Budget panels in both houses of the Legislature rejected a provision in Brown’s budget proposal that would limit community college students to 90 units, or force them to pay more than four times the current $46-per-unit price.
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/04/16/29lawsuit.h32.html?tkn=UMPFGDcaE1zq%2FdRs4eOyDBFRRZBNPPBnrsY4&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Florida Unions Sue Over Test-Score-Based Evaluations
By Stephen Sawchuk
The National Education Association, on behalf of three affiliates of its Florida chapter and seven teachers, sued the state education department this morning, contending that the formula used to assess some teachers in the Sunshine State violates their constitutional rights. The groups seek an injunction against a recent state law that outlines teacher-evaluation procedures, and against three districts’ specific implementation policies.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/15/online-college-courses-/2083979/
Proposal would expand online courses across state lines
Mary Beth Marklein, USA TODAY
Potential students would have an expanded array of options.
Students who want to take online college classes could have access to an expanded array of options under a proposal designed to make it easier for universities to offer online courses across state lines. Representatives from 47 states are scheduled to meet in Indianapolis this week to discuss a plan to simplify a maze of state regulations that were established decades ago when most students took all of their courses at one brick-and-mortar campus.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/17/after-boston-bombings-colleges-revisit-security-major-events
When (and How) to Tighten Up
By Allie Grasgreen
In the weeks and months following Monday’s shocking bombing at the Boston Marathon, in which three people were killed — including one graduate student at Boston University — and 170 wounded, colleges across the country will revisit their security measures to make sure they’re doing everything possible to ensure safety at their major sporting and other events. And they should, said James Forest, an associate professor and director of the security studies graduate degree program at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. But they should also recognize that when it comes to terrorism, there’s only so much security measures can do.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Boston-Blasts-Prompt-Colleges/138561/
Blasts at Boston Marathon Prompt Colleges Across the U.S. to Consider Increased Security
By Brad Wolverton
Owen Yardley was sitting in a room full of security officials on Monday when he and a colleague received nearly simultaneous alerts on their cellphones notifying them of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Mr. Yardley, chief of police at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, was attending a seminar for threat-assessment leaders, where the bomb blasts became an immediate topic of conversation. Since then, as updates trickled out of Boston—including news late Tuesday that one of those killed in the explosions was a Boston University student—Chief Yardley and colleagues around the country have discussed plans to step up security at commencements and other large-scale events they help oversee.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/17/competency-based-education-heats-new-entrants
Big Disruption, Big Questions
By Paul Fain
These are heady times for competency-based education, which raises fundamental questions about the structure and purpose of higher education. Several colleges are taking the competency-based approach to its potential end game, by offering “direct assessment” academic programs that are untethered from both course material and the credit hour.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/17/profit-university-pays-settle-suit-aid-fraud
For-Profit University Pays to Settle Suit on Aid Fraud
United States University, a for-profit institution has agreed to pay $686,720 to the government to settle a civil suit filed over the filing of fraudulent financial aid applications, KPBS reported Federal officials said that the case was notable because they had brought criminal and civil cases against the institution.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/17/rebalancing-plan-just-raise-top-administrators
Is ‘Rebalancing’ Plan Just a Raise for Top Administrators?
Officials of the Los Angeles Community College District are calling it a “rebalancing” plan, but student leaders and others aren’t going along. The Los Angeles Times reported that the plan involves cutting the $1,500 monthly car allowance top administrators receive to $500, and then using the extra $1,000 a month to give raises to those administrators.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Immigration-Bill-Would-Ease/138557/
Immigration Bill Would Ease Path to Citizenship and to Jobs for Immigrant Students
By Kelly Field
Washington
A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators unveiled the outlines of a comprehensive immigration-reform bill on Tuesday that would speed 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.nytimes.com
Migrant Bill Seems to Fit Tech Sector Wish List
By SOMINI SENGUPTA
SAN FRANCISCO — This could be Silicon Valley’s biggest win yet in Washington. The proposed overhaul of immigration law contains much of what the technology industry wished for: An easier green card route for foreigners educated at American universities in math and science; a new visa category for entrepreneurs; and more guest workers to be deployed on short-term projects.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/17/event-canceled-digital-public-library-launch-go
Event Canceled, But Digital Public Library Launch to Go On
The Digital Public Library of America, an online repository of the nation’s historical and cultural riches, will launch as scheduled tomorrow, though its formal opening event has been canceled by Monday’s attacks in Boston, the project’s director announced