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http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/83024/
New university welcomes first president
By Savannah King
Bonita Jacobs, president of the University of North Georgia, said the gold on the university’s historic steeple never shone as brilliantly as it did Friday afternoon. Several hundred members of the UNG community, Gov. Nathan Deal, former Gov. Zell Miller, state and military officials and academic leaders gathered together on the Gen. William J. “Lipp” Livsey Drill Field of the university’s Dahlonega campus to celebrate the inauguration of its first president. Jacobs first came to the campus in 2011 when it was still North Georgia College & State University.

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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-27/uga-top-prof-pay-lags-sec-state-universities-peers
UGA top prof pay lags SEC, state universities, peers
By LEE SHEARER
The University of Georgia has improved its academic reputation in recent years, though that might seem unlikely considering what experienced professors earn at UGA. Full professors’ average pay at UGA ranks below all but a couple of schools in the Southeastern Conference, below other Georgia research universities and below the U.S. average for professors at doctorate-granting public universities.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-04-27/garage-addition-home-georgia-regents-president-ricardo-azziz-planned?v=1367112542
Garage addition at home of Georgia Regents President Ricardo Azziz planned without state approval
By Steve Crawford
Staff Writer
Georgia Regents University has awarded a contract to build a $75,500 addition to the president’s garage without seeking the required approval for construction from the Board of Regents, officials said. The school sought bids in February for the project, a three-car carport to be added to the side of the two-car garage at the Augusta home of GRU President Ricardo Azziz, according to documents obtained by The Augusta Chronicle. The contract was awarded to the low bid – $75,500 – submitted by Veracity Construction of Thomson, GRU spokeswoman Christen Carter said. …All this occurred before anyone sought necessary approval of the project from the University System of Georgia Board of Regents.

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$70,000 upgrades request for Azziz home
http://www.wrdw.com/news/politics/headlines/70000-upgrades-request-for-Azziz-home-205163681.html

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/campus/necessary-college-entry-essays-may-decrease-applicants/article_1ae501d6-aec2-11e2-8322-001a4bcf6878.html
Necessary college entry essays may decrease applicants
Matthew Simmons
Boston College began requiring applicants to complete a 400-word essay with their applications this year — and received 26 percent fewer applications, according to an article in the New York Times. This type of application was new to Boston College, but the essay portion of freshman admission applications has been commonplace at the University of Georgia for the last decade. John Albright, the interim associate director of admissions for processing at UGA, said that the implementation of essays to applications resulted in a slight decrease in student applications at UGA, but the application process isn’t likely to change.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-04-28/newly-filed-court-documents-shed-light-uga-computer-hack-attack
Newly filed court documents shed light on UGA computer hack attack
By JOE JOHNSON
University of Georgia officials thought they may have been under attack from multiple hackers when the identities of thousands of employees and students went missing last fall. But it turned out to be the work of a single person, a former UGA student, who used a proxy server that disguised the Internet Protocol address of his computer. According to documents recently filed in Clarke County Superior Court, 26-year-old Charles Stapler Stell used a London-based website, Hidemyass.com, when breaking into UGA’s Identity Management System.

GOOD NEWS:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-04-27/mcg-foundation-gets-66-million-gift-dr-j-harold-harrison?v=1367112533
MCG Foundation gets $66 million gift from Dr. J. Harold Harrison
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
After giving $10 million last year to help fund a building that bears his name, the late Dr. J. Harold Harrison and his family topped that by giving $66 million, what is believed to be the largest gift ever to a public university in Georgia, to fund scholarships and faculty at his beloved Medical College of Georgia. The Medical College of Georgia Foundation board voted unanimously Saturday to create the J. Harold Harrison, M.D. Fellows Fund to facilitate the gift from his estate and his private foundation.

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MCG Foundation receives largest donation ever of $66 million
http://www.wrdw.com/news/health/headlines/MCG-Foundation-receives-largest-donation-ever-of-66-million-205026971.html

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/uga-to-increase-economic-development-focus/nXbPG/
UGA to increase economic development focus
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The University of Georgia will open an office in Atlanta as part of President-elect Jere Morehead’s plan to place more emphasis on economic development. The Atlanta office will allow UGA to have a stronger link with businesses and the Georgia Department of Economic Development, said Morehead, the current provost who becomes president July 1. The new office also will provide communities and development authorities with more access to the university’s research and other services, officials said.

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http://athens.patch.com/articles/uga-s-terry-college-breaks-ground-on-new-business-complex
UGA’s Terry College Breaks Ground on New Business Complex
“I love Terry but I love my wife more,” said Dean Sumichrast, explaining why he is heading to Virginia Tech, where his wife is from.
By Rebecca McCarthy
University of Georgia students Jamie Chandler and Olivia Mah are both 4th year accounting majors from the North Atlanta suburbs. One is going to work for a campus ministry when she graduates while the other is interning with Turner Broadcasting. Their career choices may diverge but the two friends agree on one important thing: they’ve gotten a great education in the Terry College of Business. And they will be supporting it, financially, as soon as they can. “Terry is awesome,” said Mah. “If you want a job and you’re in the Terry College, you’ll find one you like.” The two, both of whom are Terry Ambassadors, attended the Friday groundbreaking on the $22.5 million Correll Hall, which will house graduate education, MBA offices and offices for the Dean and administrators. Also in the complex, which sits near the new Special Collections Library, will be the Business Learning Community, which will be spread across five acres.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/campus/spia-doctoral-students-win-at-national-policy-challenge/article_35267f7c-aebb-11e2-a980-001a4bcf6878.html
SPIA doctoral students win $5,000 at national policy challenge
by CHRISTIAN WHITMIRE
A team of doctoral students from the School of Public and International Affairs made it to the semifinals of the National Invitational Public Policy Challenge at the University of Pennsylvania by creating Piecing Assistance Together for Charitable Helpers. The site is a “social networking site for nonprofits” that would allow nonprofits, donors and volunteers to find information about similar organizations.

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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-04-27/new-program-uga-aid-breast-cancer-research
New program at UGA to aid in breast cancer research
A new program is being launched at the University of Georgia with the intent to raise funds to combat breast cancer. Young Women Walking, or YW2, affiliated with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, is targeting women ages 16 to 23 to walk as part of the 3-Day Walk in October.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-helps-digitize-history-for-americans/article_762d333c-b080-11e2-b7f7-0019bb30f31a.html
UGA helps digitize history for Americans
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The University of Georgia took part in the launch of a prototype of the Digital Public Library of America on April 18. The DPLA is an expansive online digital library that brings together the archives of different libraries and institutions for the American public to access.

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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-26/volunteers-haul-out-tires-dolls-more-athens-river-clean
Volunteers haul out tires, dolls, more in Athens river clean-up
By LEE SHEARER
The Middle Oconee River contains 44 fewer automobile tires than it did a day ago after a Friday cleanup of a 2.8 mile stretch of the river that winds through downtown Athens.
About 40 UGA students and community volunteers set out in UGA Outdoor Recreation canoes and kayaks lent by Big Dog’s on the River. They started at Big Dog’s headquarters on Atlanta Highway and wound up on Macon Highway.

RESEARCH:
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http://www.redandblack.com/sports/study-suggests-athletes-are-exploited-academically/article_c0a2f346-b04b-11e2-bd18-001a4bcf6878.html
Study suggests athletes are exploited academically
TANYA SICHYNSKY
Billy Hawkins thinks that college athletes in revenue-generating sports are exploited in more ways than one. Hawkins, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Georgia, said that student-athletes are not academically compensated for the athletic services they provide their universities. He says this is an issue experienced primarily by African-American athletes attending predominantly white institutions.

www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/science/researchers-put-sense-of-touch-in-reach-for-robots.html?_r=1&
Researchers Put Sense of Touch in Reach for Robots
By JOHN MARKOFF
Finding and recognizing objects by touch in your pocket, in the dark or among items on a cluttered table top are distinctly human skills — ones that have been far beyond the ability of even the most dexterous robotic arms. Rodney Brooks, a well-known roboticist, likes to demonstrate the difficulty of the challenge for modern robots by reaching into his pocket to find a particular coin. Now a group of roboticists in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, led by one of Dr. Brooks’s former students, has developed a robot arm that moves and finds objects by touch.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/227/article/83082/
Our Views: Celebrating Georgia’s new signature reforms
Laws on boat safety, tech school grants, justice changes needed
Times Editorial Board
Gov. Nathan Deal’s signing pen had a busy week, and as a result, some important new laws are on Georgia’s books. We mentioned these earlier as the state legislature wrapped up its session, earning lawmakers a thumbs up for a productive 40 days as a result. Though the ethics rules passed were a disappointment, albeit a starting point, laws signed by the governor this week are welcome reforms and should have a broad impact in Northeast Georgia and statewide.

www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/04/28/2480521/karl-douglass-win-win-for-georgia.html
Karl Douglass: Win-win for Georgia
It is getting tougher and tougher for students to afford an education beyond high school. Costs have risen to a point that many parents cannot pay tuition for their children. Student loans are less attractive these days because borrowers are saddled with so much debt at graduation. Affordable access to education is essential to the pursuit of the American Dream. Everyone agrees that we cannot let quality education become a luxury available only to the privileged few.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/apr/26/college-likely-home-again/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Off to college, but likely home again
Across Georgia and the nation, high school seniors must declare by Wednesday where they plan to attend college in the fall. It’s often a bittersweet deadline for parents who, while relieved their child has finally decided between Tech and UGA or Auburn and Clemson, must accept the reality that their babies have grown up and are moving away. They needn’t fret. Chances are their babies will come home. And stay.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04/28/obamas-big-second-term-education-problem/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss
Obama’s big second-term education problem
President Obama has a big problem in his second term in terms of education policy: his first term. Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, pushed hard in their first term to have a major impact on changing public schools with a larger-than-ever federal role in school policy issues that affected every single classroom in the country. And they did, with rare bipartisan support.

www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/opinion/blow-the-morose-middle-class.html
The Morose Middle Class
By CHARLES M. BLOW
The Middle Class is in a funk, its view of the future growing dim as fear rolls in like a storm. An Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll released Thursday found that while most Americans (56 percent) hold out hope that they‘ll be in a higher class at some point, even more Americans (59 percent) are worried about falling out of their current class over the next few years. In fact, more than eight in 10 Americans believe that more people have fallen out of the middle class than moved into it in the past few years. The poll paints a picture of a group that is scared to death about its station in life.

www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/us/26iht-letter26.html
Optimism Dims for U.S. Middle Class
By CHRYSTIA FREELAND | REUTERS
NEW YORK — It’s evening in America. That is the worrying news from the latest Heartland Monitor Poll, conducted quarterly and sponsored by the insurer Allstate and National Journal. The researchers made a striking finding: The U.S. middle class, long the world’s embodiment of optimism and upward mobility, today is telling a very different story. The chief preoccupation of middle-class Americans is not the dream of getting ahead, it is the fear of falling behind. …The saddest paradox revealed in the poll is that ordinary Americans agree with the elites about what it takes to get ahead, or at least to stay afloat, in the 21st-century United States. Half of the respondents said that college was the best way to earn and maintain membership in the middle class. But almost half — 49 percent — thought that only the upper class could afford to pay for their children’s higher education.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/city-ink/2013-04-27/will-azziz-ask-another-impartial-assessment?v=1367112562
Will Azziz ask for another impartial assessment?
By Sylvia Cooper
Columnist
It’s a cliché to say “blushing bride.” Not so, “blushing university president.” Of course, we don’t know whether Georgia Regents University President Ricar¬do Azziz was red-faced after being called out for using university police and vehicles for his niece’s wedding at the president’s house a week ago. But we do know he was proactive, calling on University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby for an “impartial assessment” of the issues. …So will he call on Hucka¬by for another impartial assessment on using the campus police like a school bus, or just amend his original request?

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http://chronicle.com/article/How-a-President-Can/138855/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
How a President Can Rescue, or Ruin, a College’s Reputation
By Rita Bornstein
In their 1974 classic, Leadership and Ambiguity: The American College President, Michael D. Cohen and James G. March assert, “The status of a president is apparently less dependent on the quality of his tenure as president than it is on the quality of his school. Colleges make presidents, not the reverse.” I want to argue the opposite: The reputation of an institution is, in part, a reflection of the reputation of its president. Presidential actions have an impact on how colleges are perceived.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Self-Sabotage-in-the-Academic/138875/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Self-Sabotage in the Academic Career
15 ways in which faculty members harm their own futures, often without knowing it
By Robert J. Sternberg
Pogo recognized long ago that we often are our own worst enemies. Sure, he was a cartoon character, but he had a point—¬especially in higher education, where self-sabotage seems to be a standard characteristic of academic careers. In my 30 years as a professor, five years as a dean, and three years as a provost, I have observed many academics harm their own careers, often without realizing it. Here are 15 ways in which you can be most self-destructive.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/fail-fast-fumbling-towards-theory
“Fail Fast”: Fumbling Towards a Theory
By Matt Reed
“Fail Fast” is a mantra among entrepreneurs. It means that if it becomes clear that a given project isn’t working, the best move is to pull the plug quickly so you don’t lose more time you could have spent on something else. It’s based on minimizing opportunity cost, and it assumes a certain amount of failure as a feature of the system.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/CommunicationCounseling/138859/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Communication and Counseling Are Keys to a Safer Campus
By Lucinda Roy
Empowered faculty members can play a vital role in preventing violence. Making sure they can do so more effectively is among colleges’ greatest challenges.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/College-Graduates-Deserve-Much/138861/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
College Graduates Deserve Much More Than Transcripts
If students can’t present information about their actual learning, then that learning is devalued. And devalued things don’t get the support they warrant.

www.theheartlandvoice.com
http://www.theheartlandvoice.com/blog/the-promise-of-a-college-degree
The Promise Of A College Degree
By Ted Proulx
For decades, college has been a great way for young people to take a step up on the social ladder. In 1900, only 2 percent of adults with high school degrees went to college. Today, 65 percent do. The reason so many people have flocked to college is clear – in 2007, the average person with a high school degree made $30,000. The average person with a college degree made almost $60,000. According to the 2013 Allstate-National Journal Heartland Poll, 65 percent of Americans with no college degree are concerned about falling out of their own economic class, whereas only 50 percent of those with a college degree share that concern. That survey also found that 36 percent of college graduates were once in a lower class, while among high school graduates, only 26 percent were once in a lower class. In their own lives, people see the difference that a college education can make.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/few-google-glass-education-fantasies
A Few Google Glass Education Fantasies
By Joshua Kim
No, Google has not sent me Glass to review as an educational tool. The closest I’ve been able to get to Google Glass is on Google’s Glass website. Here you can see “How It Feels”, “What It Does”, and “How To Get One”. Will a wearable browser / heads up display / audio & video recorder / app mobile device provide some interesting opportunities for learning?

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/My-Modern-MOOC-Experience/138781/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
My Modern Experience Teaching a MOOC
By Michael S. Roth
My Coursera course, “The Modern and the Postmodern,” might have been labeled “course least likely to become a MOOC.” In many ways, it is an old-fashioned “great books” course, although I prefer to call it a “good-enough books” course, and in the 20 years I’ve been teaching it, it has always relied heavily on student interaction in the classroom.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/2013-Year-of-the-Seminar/138799/?cid=cr
Let’s Make 2013 the Year of the Seminar
By Daniel R. Porterfield
The past year has seen the meteoric rise of the MOOC, or massive open online course, which lets 100,000 strangers—or more—log on to free classes branded “Stanford” or “Harvard.” The New York Times went so far as to call 2012 the “Year of the MOOC.” Amid the cacophony of voices calling for colleges to cut costs and reduce student debt, many of us who work in higher education find ourselves playing defense on an issue we don’t yet know enough about.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Massive-Open-Online-Adventure/138803/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Massive Open Online Adventure
Teaching a MOOC is not for the faint-hearted (or the untenured)
By Karen Head
When I was first approached about teaching a MOOC, my initial response was no. I wondered how anyone could possibly teach writing in a massive open online course—a question that many of my colleagues are still asking. But I decided to accept the challenge, because when so many people are hyping this new pedagogical technology, I didn’t want anyone who was already an eager proponent to misrepresent what is really involved in designing and teaching a MOOC. There is no way to ignore MOOCs, so becoming part of the conversation by also becoming part of the process is the only way to find out what is, or is not, possible.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/29/essay-nature-change-american-higher-education
MOOCs, History and Context
By Arthur Levine
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have captured the nation’s imagination. The notion of online classes enrolling more than 100,000 students is staggering. Companies are springing up to sponsor MOOCs, growing numbers of universities are offering them, and the rest of America’s colleges are afraid they will be left behind if they don’t.
But MOOCs alone are unlikely to reshape American higher education.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCsthe-Material-World/138787/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Rediscovering the Material World
By T. Hugh Crawford
While I was hiking the Appalachian Trail this past summer, Georgia Tech, my home institution, announced its affiliation with Coursera and launched itself headlong into the MOOC world. It occurred to me as I ambled down the trail that day that an intensely embodied experience like long-distance hiking seemed the opposite of long-¬distance education. …I realized that to MOOC or not to MOOC was not really the question. The real issue was how brick-and-mortar institutions could embrace MOOCs while continuing to build on the strengths of local, capital-intensive pedagogical practices—actual in-the-flesh pedagogy in a world of Coursera.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Go-Where-the-Students-Are-/138801/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
Go Where the Students Are: Facebook
By David M. Perry
By using the social-media site for class, a professor sees online discussions that are both student-driven and multidirectional.

Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/29/education-department-issues-guidance-grant-cuts
Education Department Issues Guidance on Grant Cuts
WASHINGTON — While the Pell Grant is exempt from the mandatory, across-the-board budget cuts that went into effect in March, other federal higher education grants are not.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/29/irs-publishes-report-wide-review-colleges
IRS Publishes Report From Wide Review of Colleges
The Internal Revenue Service last week released a report documenting its findings from a series of audits it conducted stemming from a broad, six-year review of tax compliance at hundreds of colleges.

www.usnews.nbcnews.com
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/24/17882085-americans-head-north-for-affordable-college-degrees
Americans head north for affordable college degrees
By Rehema Ellis and Jeff Black, NBC News
MONTREAL, Canada — Eric Andreasen is a college student from Portland, Maine, who has his sights set on a career working for a lawmaker in the nation’s capital. But even though the political science major plans to go straight to Capitol Hill when he graduates this spring, he will have a degree from a Canadian college — McGill University in Montreal.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324874204578440901216478088.html?mod=quicklinks_college
The Diploma’s Vanishing Value
Bachelor’s degrees may not be worth it, but community college can bring a strong return
By JEFFREY J. SELINGO
May 1 is fast approaching, and with it the deadline for high-school seniors to commit to a college. At kitchen tables across the country, anxious students and their parents are asking: Does it really matter where I go to school? When it comes to lifetime earnings, we’ve been told, a bachelor’s degree pays off six times more than a high-school diploma. The credential is all that matters, not where it’s from—a view now widely accepted. That’s one reason why college enrollment jumped by a third last decade and why for-profit schools that make getting a diploma ultraconvenient now enroll 1 in 10 college students. But is it true that all colleges sprinkle their graduates with the same magic dust?

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/29/students-question-whether-canceling-classes-helps-address-social-justice-issues
Preaching to the Choir?
By Allie Grasgreen
If an administration wants to respond to an incident of bigotry with a strong statement of inclusiveness, canceling classes and holding a series of lectures and forums in their place is one way to do it. That’s what two colleges did this spring in response to bias incidents that caused a stir on campus. But while some students commend the effort to foster dialogue and civility, others question the effectiveness and appropriateness of the decisions.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52943/#
Asian Pacific Americans Still Battling Stereotype of Not Being Assertive Enough to Lead
by Lydia Lum
SAN FRANCISCO — Although both of Dr. Lori Adrian’s parents were educators in their native Philippines, she still describes her college presidency as an accident of sorts. Consider her life and career path: …Nationally, only 1.5 percent of college presidents were of Asian descent in 2011, according to the American Council on Education. That figure was similar five years earlier — as well as 25 years earlier. Over the years, incumbent and former Asian-American presidents have told Diverse that their scarcity is tied in part to the so-called bamboo ceiling, a misconception that Asians aren’t assertive enough for leadership.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/29/colorado-regent-will-push-hiring-conservative-profs
Colorado Regent Will Push for Hiring of Conservative Profs
Jim Geddes, a member of the University of Colorado Board of Regents, is calling on liberal arts departments at the flagship campus at Boulder to hire more professors who are conservatives, The Daily Camera reported.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/29/lawmaker-blasts-colleague-over-perceived-intrusion-social-science-funding
A Congressman’s Own Peer Review
By Doug Lederman
Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology isn’t a big fan of some of the grants the National Science Foundation has made to social scientists based on the recommendations of its peer reviewers. And his colleague, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, doesn’t think much of Smith’s questioning of the decisions made by the agency’s peer review process.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/29/california-weighs-its-own-open-access-plan
Open Access Spreads
By Ry Rivard
A bill in the California legislature would require state-funded research to be made public free of charge within a year of its publication. If it passes, the bill would create an open access policy for California’s state-funded research similar to a policy announced earlier this year by the Obama administration.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/29/ocr-dont-retaliate-against-students-who-make-complaints
OCR: Don’t Retaliate Against Students Who Make Complaints
Colleges should not retaliate against students who raise a civil rights complaint – either with an individual institution or with the federal government – The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights said in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent out last week.
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