USG NEWS:
www.independentmail.com
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2013/apr/30/uga-announces-emphasis-economic-development/
UGA announces emphasis on economic development
Associated Press
ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia President-elect Jere Morehead is announcing plans for a greater emphasis on economic development. Morehead said this week that the university will establish an economic development office in Atlanta to provide a closer link with the business sector and the Georgia Department of Economic Development. The office will be charged with making the university’s research, public service and outreach resources more accessible for communities, development authorities and various chambers of commerce.

www.nytimes.com

Antique Film of Black Ballplayers Surfaces, and Their Diamond Is a Plantation
By ROBBIE BROWN
ATLANTA — Buried in storage at a sprawling antebellum Georgia plantation is a film clip that has baseball enthusiasts buzzing. At first glance, it looks ordinary. The grainy, out-of-focus black-and-white footage shows black men playing baseball in a grassy field for 26 seconds. Nobody hits a ball or runs toward a base. But University of Georgia archivists say the film is remarkable for its age: If shot between 1917 and 1919, as they believe, it is the oldest known film of African-American baseball players. …The Georgia footage was donated to the university last year with 140 other reels by the Pebble Hill Plantation, a 3,000-acre farm in Thomasville. For decades, they sat in boxes in a dusty room of the plantation’s main house.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-04-29/uga-will-tighten-security-graduation
UGA will tighten security for graduation
By LEE SHEARER
Security will be tighter at next month’s University of Georgia graduation exercises than it has been in the past. “This year, due to the recent events in Boston, we’re asking all media and photographers to wear credentials provided by the UGA Office of the President at the UGA commencement ceremonies,” the university’s news service office announced in an email to media outlets Monday. In addition, security officers will not allow any backpacks into Sanford Stadium that evening.

GOOD NEWS:
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/04/29/harrison-family-gives-millions-to-ga-medical-school
Harrison Family Gives Millions To Ga. Medical School
By Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. — 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 to the Medical College of Georgia for scholarships.

Related article:
www.northjersey.com
Ga. medical college receives $66 million gift
http://www.northjersey.com/news/international/205329371_Ga__medical_college_receives__66_million_gift.html

RESEARCH:
www.dacula.patch.com
http://dacula.patch.com/articles/dacula-is-at-the-center-of-georgia-s-innovation-crescent
Dacula Is at the Center of Georgia’s Innovation Crescent
Do you know anything about this branding effort that greatly affects nearly 40 percent of Georgia’s population?
By Jimmy Wilbanks
The innovation crescent is a geographic area and a coalition of more than a dozen counties and entities. It includes Gwinnett County and all of the City of Dacula. This is Georgia’s hub for life sciences. It is Georgia’s answer to the Research Triangle in North Carolina. It includes top research organizations such as Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Georgia, Georgia Gwinnett College, and our Gwinnett Tech. It includes a wide range of science companies, large and small. The Innovation Crescent is becoming the hub of life science in the Southeast.

www.chronicle.augusgta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-04-29/new-gru-center-strengthens-pharmacy-tie-uga?v=1367284237
New GRU Center strengthens pharmacy tie with UGA
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
An old antibiotic could prove to be a new treatment for a devastating type of stroke that has no good remedies, said researchers at Georgia Regents University and the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. A new pharmacy center at GRU could help foster more collaborations between the two institutions and fund more joint research, the new director said.

www.businessadministrationinformation.com

Expansion Supports Research Initiatives at Georgia Institute of Technology

Expansion Supports Research Initiatives at Georgia Institute of Technology
Posted by: Jeanne Grunert
After a decade of growth in science and technology research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, biomedical researchers at the institution are getting a new, 200,000 square-foot multidisciplinary research facility to expand their enterprise. The new Engineered Biosystems Building (EBB) will be funded by $34 million contributed by donors and sponsors of Georgia Tech, and $59 million requested in state funding for the fiscal year 2013, according to a description of the project released by the university.

www.medicaldaily.com
http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/14986/20130429/robot-nurses-healthcare-providers-welcome-robotic-assistance.htm
Robot Nurses? Healthcare Providers Welcome Robotic Assistance — But Not For Everything
At Georgia Tech, the Human Factors and Aging Laboratory is committed to bringing a basic knowledge of aging, cognition, and attention to bear on design issues important to the quality and safety of activities of daily living encountered by older adults.
BY SUSAN SCUTTI
A 2012 movie, Robot & Frank, explored the developing relationship between an elderly thief and a gift from his son: a robot programmed to attend to his health and well-being. In real life, assistive robots will have to pass muster with another group of people before care recipients have a chance to accept or reject them: healthcare providers, including nurses and their assistants. Based on a Georgia Institute of Technology study, it all depends on a given task whether or not robots will be welcomed with open arms. “One open question was whether healthcare providers would reject the idea of robotic assistants out of fear that the robots would replace them in the workplace,” said Tracy Mitzner, one of the study’s leaders and associate director of Georgia Tech’s Human Factors and Aging Laboratory. “This doesn’t appear to be a significant concern.

www.dvice.com
http://www.dvice.com/2013-4-29/artificial-skin-lets-robotic-arm-feel-its-way-through-clutter
Artificial skin lets robotic arm feel its way through clutter
Adario Strange
In recent years robots have been touted as the solution for a wide range of issues, such as assisting law enforcement in dealing with potentially explosive devices to providing aid to the elderly during home health care. However, the precision and delicate touch needed in such situations have remained slightly out of reach for even the most advanced robots, until now. A group of roboticists at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta have developed a touch system that allows a robot to feel its way around various situations.

www.engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/26/artificial-sense-of-touch-gets-smarter-lets-robots-really-feel/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget
Artificial sense of touch gets smarter, lets robots really feel Alt
By Joseph Volpe
The verdict’s still out on whether or not androids dream of electric sheep. But their ability to feel? Well, that’s about to approach levels of human sensitivity. We’re of course talking about the sense of touch, not emotions. And thanks to work out of Georgia Tech, tactile sensitivity for robotics, more secure e-signatures and general human-machine interaction is about to get a great ‘ol boost.

www.scienceworldreport.com
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6490/20130426/smart-skin-gives-robots-adaptive-sense-touch-artificial-possibility.htm
‘Smart Skin’ Gives Robots Adaptive Sense of Touch: Artificial Skin a Possibility
Could robots develop a sense of touch? Apparently, they could. Researchers have designed a new “smart skin” that has the potential to give robots a more adaptive sense of touch, provide better security for handwritten signatures and offer new ways for humans to interact with electronic devices.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/ga-embraces-public-backed-venture-capital-fund/nXbmb/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajcpremium
Ga. embraces public-backed venture capital fund
BY GREG BLUESTEIN AND J. SCOTT TRUBEY – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Eager to keep startups from fleeing Georgia when funding dries up, the state took a significant step Monday toward creating a public-backed venture fund that could eventually pump $100 million into innovative new companies. Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision to sign House Bill 318 forges a new, riskier, path for state funding of private companies. There’s no initial funding in the budget for the program, but it creates a blueprint for state investment that supporters hope could keep Georgia entrepreneurs from bolting.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-04-29/greater-good?v=1367275829
For the greater good
In giving back to his alma mater, surgeon invests in Augusta’s future
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
J. Harold Harrison did a lot of hearts good in his day – and his “day” was a 50-year career as a vascular surgeon. He’s credited with over 7,000 vascular surgeries, and that’s just what we know about. Now, even after his passing, his heart for Georgia and his beloved Medical College of Georgia continues to do good. His estate and foundation have given the MCG Foundation an amazing $66 million for student scholarships and faculty chairs – in what is not only the largest-ever gift to MCG, but perhaps in all of Georgia higher education.

www.onlineathes.com
http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2013-04-29/farmer-politics-and-science-dont-mix-well
Farmer: Politics and science don’t mix well
The National Science Foundation, whose slogan is “Where Discoveries Begin,” was established in an effort to maintain the pre-eminence of American science and technology that played such a critical role in the Allied victory in World War II. Faced with the threat of Soviet advances, the NSF became the nation’s research and development unit. Today, it remains “the only federal agency dedicated to the support of fundamental research and education in all scientific and engineering disciplines.”

www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/04/seeing-the-convergence-of-global-health-and-development-in-atlanta/
SaportaReport By Maria Saporta
Seeing the convergence of global health and development in Atlanta
Atlanta’s potential as a fountain for global health and development has bubbled up again with advancements in clean water and sanitation. Whether it be from the academic and civic sectors or whether it be from the corporate and entrepreneurial sectors, innovative solutions are being explored and implemented by Atlanta-based institutions and leaders.

www.thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com

Does the College Major Matter? Not Really
By JEFFREY J. SELINGO
This week, the last of the high school seniors who have yet to make up their minds about where they’re going to college in the fall, will finally put their deposit check in the mail and end the college search process that for some began years ago. So much time, effort and money goes into picking the right college, but then too many students fail to engage in the process that follows: getting ready for their first year and figuring out what they want to get out of the entire college experience. It’s why some 400,000 students drop out of college each year and why one-third of students now transfer at least once before earning a degree.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52979/#
The Model Minority Myth: What 50 Years of Research Does and Does Not Tell Us
by Dr. Nicholas D. Hartlep
It is little wonder why Asian-Americans are perceived by the wider higher education community to be paragons of scholarly success, despite their treatment by the U.S. government, historically, as political pariahs (as seen in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the lawful internment of innocent Japanese-Americans during the early 1940s). The Asian-American student population supposedly scores off-the-charts on high-stakes college admission tests, such as the SAT. Public perception of Asian-American success is evidenced in the phrase “the Asian invasion” — the notion that Asian-Americans are overrepresented on college campuses.

www.businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-29/what-germany-can-teach-the-u-dot-s-dot-about-vocational-education
What Germany Can Teach the U.S. About Vocational Education
By Harold L. Sirkin
For years now, U.S. educators have invested massive amounts of talent and money on two goals: preventing students from dropping out of high school and increasing the percentage of high school graduates who go on to college. We do everything possible to encourage college attendance. In the 2011-12 academic year, for example, one program alone—the federal Pell Grant program, intended to help low- and moderate-income students finance college—cost taxpayers $34.5 billion, about half the entire U.S. Department of Education budget. Yet many Pell Grant recipients never graduate. They flounder; they drop out; they become statistics. How can we prevent such waste?

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it/liberal-arts-and-moocs
Liberal Arts and MOOCs
By Tracy Mitrano
“MOOCs” are making a big splash in higher education. In some ways they disrupt traditional institutional structures, credit hours, and academic credentials. In other ways, they retain traditional formats such as “sage on the stage,” teaching styles, passive learning and notions of “the course.” Rather than think about how “MOOCs” will influence liberal arts education, perhaps it is time to flip the question. What does traditional liberal arts education have to offer “MOOCs”?

www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/04/halt_high_stakes_linked_to_common_core.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Teachers’ Union President: Halt All High Stakes Linked to Common Core
By Catherine Gewertz
AFT President Randi Weingarten is calling for a moratorium on all stakes associated with the Common Core State Standards, saying that teachers have not had enough time or support to understand them deeply and shift their instruction accordingly. In what’s being billed as a major speech this morning in New York City, Weingarten says that it’s unfair to judge students, teachers, and schools on test scores that reflect material that hasn’t been adequately taught yet.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578245302056830928.html?mod=ITP_journalreport_1
Class Acts
Free online business courses offer entrepreneurs the chance to learn from the best
By ALINA DIZIK
Small-business owners can learn a lot without leaving their desk. Lately, there’s been a boom in online courses that target entrepreneurs who are strapped for time and money but need to bone up on some aspect of running a business. Most of these courses—which cover everything from public relations to innovation to finance—are free, and they often have the backing of big-name colleges. Here’s a look at some of the most popular options out there.

www.stream.wsj.com
http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-221715/
Brad Keywell: Entrepreneurship at Universities — 311 Years Late
GUEST MENTOR, Brad Keywell, co-founder of Lightbank, Groupon: Gone may be the days of fumbling for credit cards that can easily be lost or stolen. A new payment option is now at our fingertips — literally. PayTango allows you to pay with your fingerprints, linking your biometric information to your credit cards so you don’t have to carry plastic ever again. The creators? Four Carnegie Mellon University students who germinated the idea in a 2012 school startup lab. They’ve since moved to Silicon Valley and been awarded a spot in Y Combinator. While the first college in the U.S. was established in 1636, the first college course in entrepreneurship didn’t emerge until about 310 years later. How bizarre it is that entrepreneurship — the heart of who we are as a nation — did not become a course until about 170 years after the signing of our Declaration of Independence? Business competitions, now an expected part of school landscapes, didn’t even exist until some ambitious students at The University of Texas at Austin launched one about 30 years ago.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324445904578283792526004684.html?mod=ITP_journalreport_0
How Entrepreneurs Come Up With Great Ideas
There is no magic formula. But that doesn’t mean there’s no formula at all.
Where do eurekas come from? At the heart of any successful business is a great idea. Some seem so simple we wonder why nobody thought of them before. Others are so revolutionary we wonder how anybody could’ve thought of them at all. But those great ideas don’t come on command. And that leaves lots of would-be entrepreneurs asking the same question: How did everybody else get inspiration to strike—and how can we work the same magic? To find out, we turned to the experts—investors, advisers and professors who have seen and heard countless success stories, as well as entrepreneurs who have written success stories of their own.

Education News
www.douglascountysentinel.com
http://douglascountysentinel.com/view/full_story/22410327/article-Governor-appoints-Douglasville-man-to-Ga–Technical-College-Board?instance=DShome_news_top
Governor appoints Douglasville man to Ga. Technical College Board
by Amanda Thomas/Staff Writer
Gov. Nathan Deal has appointed a Douglasville man to the board that is responsible for establishing standards, regulations and policies for the Technical College System of Georgia. The governor’s office announced Friday that Tim Williams, vice president of corporate and external affairs at Greystone Power Corp. in Douglasville was appointed to the Technical College System of Georgia Board.

www.americustimesrecorder.com
http://americustimesrecorder.com/local/x730864592/Technical-independent-colleges-sign-transfer-agreements
Technical, independent colleges sign transfer agreements
The Americus Times-Recorder
Atlanta — The Georgia Independent College Association and the Technical College System of Georgia have made it easier for technical college graduates to enter many four-year private colleges in Georgia with transfer of credit hours. Representatives of the two organizations signed the Transfer Articulation Agreement in a State Capitol ceremony hosted by Governor Nathan Deal recently.

www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/georgia-pre-k-programs-struggling-with-budget-cuts/nXY9q/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajcpremium
Georgia pre-k programs struggling with budget cuts
BY NANCY BADERTSCHER – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
…In a new report out today, the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) found that, in the last school year, state-funded programs in Georgia and elsewhere struggled to increase access for 4 year olds, to meet arguably minimal standards for quality and to survive major budget cuts. …Georgia was long-considered a leader in early education, recognized as the first state to offer pre-k to all 4 year olds, regardless of family income. That ambitious posture drew praise earlier this year from President Barack Obama. But NIEER said Georgia fell from 19th to 25th, out of 40 states, in state spending between the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 school years.

www.news.cincinnati.com
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130429/NEWS/304290016/Growing-corps-anti-Common-Core?nclick_check=1
Growing criticism of Common Core
Naysayers seek to nullify new nationwide education standard
Written by Denise Smith Amos
New Common Core reading and math standards are heading to a classroom near you. And trailing along is a growing chorus of critics and skeptics. These opponents are hosting public forums, organizing phone trees and emailing elected officials. They’re texting and tweeting and signing Internet petitions. And they’re having some impact:

www..insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/30/fafsa-changes-recognized-many-kinds-parents
Aid Applicants With 2 Mothers
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — Beginning in 2014, students whose parents are unmarried but living together, as well as the children of married gay and lesbian couples, will list both parents when applying for federal financial aid, the Education Department announced Monday.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Are-Graduate-Schools-Ready-for/138881/
Admissions Professionals Ask: Are Graduate Schools Ready for MOOCs?
By Stacey Patton
Orlando, Fla.
Many graduate-school admissions counselors aren’t sure if they are ready for massive open online courses, attendees at an annual conference here said, or for the ways those courses could change both their jobs and their universities’ advanced-degree programs. There seemed to be more questions than answers at a session about what the courses, known as MOOCs, might mean for the future of graduate education. “MOOCs are still very new to us,” said Christine Noyes, a graduate-enrollment-services adviser at the University of Washington. “We have to figure out how to adapt.”

www.money.cnn.com
http://money.cnn.com/2013/05/01/pf/college/free-online-courses.moneymag/
College is free!
By Kim Clark
Two things about higher education have become clear. First, your children need it more than ever to stay competitive — and so might you, if you need to upgrade for a fast-changing job market. Second, the model colleges use to deliver that education is broken. Rising tuition, high student debt, and stingier funding for public colleges are making it more difficult for families to keep up. So it’s hard not to get excited about this: Right now, for the unbeatable price of $0, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Anant Agarwal is teaching a class on circuits and electronics to thousands of people online — no MIT application required. Harvard, Princeton, Michigan, and other top schools have also started open courses for everyone. . . . “I completed the first three weeks of classes while patrolling the Bering Sea,” says Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Greg Tozzi, who took a finance course taught by a Georgia Tech professor. Tozzi’s class wasn’t delivered by Georgia Tech, but through a website called Coursera.org, which offers more than 300 classes from 62 schools. Two Stanford professors kicked off the for-profit venture with more than $22 million raised from colleges and Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Some-Colleges-Are-Saying/138863/
Why Some Colleges Are Saying No to MOOC Deals, at Least for Now
By Steve Kolowich
Amherst College, known for its selectivity, is accustomed to sending rejection notices. But when the liberal-arts beacon this month turned down an invitation to join the exclusive partnership of colleges offering massive open online courses through edX, it nonetheless drew surprise from many corners of academe.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/An-Entrepreneur-Reaches-for/138841/
An Entrepreneur Reaches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of Online Education
By Don Troop
As many hail massive open online courses as the future of higher education, one entrepreneur’s plan to exploit the untapped potential of traditional distance learning faces daunting odds, if history is any indicator. Kim Griffo is the founder of UIU Link, which she says will function as a clearinghouse for unfilled seats in traditional online courses. Colleges, academic departments, and even individual faculty members would pay monthly subscription fees to UIU Link in exchange for tuition dollars from students who are on waiting lists for equivalent courses at overcrowded brick-and-mortar institutions.

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/community-colleges-research-ponders-demand-of-online-courses/
Community Colleges Research Ponders Demand of Online Courses
By Aleena Gardezi
Although students enjoy the flexibility of online learning, most students value a more intimate connection with teachers and students in traditional classrooms, according to new leg of the study by from the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “The study suggests that overall, many students feel they don’t learn course material as well online, and that this deficit is due to reduced teacher explanation and interaction in online courses,” stated the April 25 CCRC press release.

www.nytimes.com

Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden
By TAMAR LEWIN
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dazzled by the potential of free online college classes, educators are now turning to the gritty task of harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in American higher education: giving more students access to college, and helping them graduate on time. Nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States arrive on campus needing remedial work before they can begin regular credit-bearing classes. That early detour can be costly, leading many to drop out, often in heavy debt and with diminished prospects of finding a job.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Duke-Us-Undergraduate/138895/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en(*Subscription
Duke U.’s Undergraduate Faculty Derails Plan for Online Courses for Credit
By Steve Kolowich
The faculty of Duke University’s undergraduate college drew a line in the sand last week on online education: Massive online experiments are fine, but there will be no credit-bearing online courses at Duke in the near future. The university’s Arts & Sciences Council, the governing arm of the undergraduate faculty, voted down a proposal to join a consortium of top colleges offering for-credit online courses through 2U, a company that specializes in real-time, small-format online education.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/30/duke-faculty-reject-plan-it-join-online-consortium
Duke Faculty Say No
By Ry Rivard
Duke University faculty members, frustrated with their administration and skeptical of the degrees to be awarded, have forced the institution to back out of a deal with nine other universities and 2U to create a pool of for-credit online classes for undergraduates.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Parents-Education-Level-Is/138849/
In an Unexpected Finding, Parents’ Education Level Is Weak Predictor of Students’ Learning Habits
By Dan Berrett
A parent’s level of education is often thought to be one of the strongest predictors of a student’s future success in college, but a new study upends much of this received wisdom. Parents’ levels of education do not directly influence whether students demonstrate behaviors associated with deep learning, according to the study, “Exploring the Effect of Parental Education on College Students’ Deep Approaches to Learning,” by Amy K. Ribera, a research analyst for the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research.

www.sfgate.com
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Indiana-brain-drain-draws-concerns-at-Purdue-4470302.php#ixzz2RqUO4oew
Indiana ‘brain drain’ draws concerns at Purdue
BRIAN RIVERA, Journal & Courier, By BRIAN RIVERA and HAYLEIGH COLOMBO, Journal & Courier
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — In a few weeks, Ashley Robbins will join thousands of Purdue University students in graduation ceremonies. But unlike most of those wrapping up their studies on the West Lafayette campus, Robbins will start her professional career nearby. Robbins plans to start work this fall at Find8 Digital, a Lafayette media marketing company where she excelled as an intern. “It was mid-February or early March when they first expressed interest in wanting me to stay on,” Robbins said. “I was surprised and ecstatic, because I didn’t think they would want to hire on an intern.”

www.finance.yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/four-10-recent-college-grads-123000013.html;_ylt=A2KJ2UjP.n9Rk3AAog3QtDMD
Four Out of 10 Recent College Grads are Underemployed, New Accenture Research Finds
Young workers want more training but employers disappoint
U.S. employers are underutilizing the capabilities of young, college-educated workers, according to new research by Accenture (ACN) that reveals that 41 percent of workers who graduated from college in the past two years say they are underemployed and working in jobs that do not require their college degrees. The research also reveals that, despite their degrees, nearly two-thirds (63 percent) say they will need more training in order to get their desired job.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/30/obama-pledges-support-science-and-peer-review
Obama Pledges Support for Science and Peer Review
President Obama used a speech Monday at the 150th anniversary meeting of the National Academy of Sciences to pledge that he would continue to push for research funding. “[A]s long as I’m president, we’re going to continue to be committed to investing in the promising ideas that are generated from you and your institutions, because they lead to innovative products, they help boost our economy, but also because that’s who we are.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/04/30/out-state-enrollment-decreases-minority-low-income-student-enrollment
Crowded Out
By Kevin Kiley
There are only so many seats in research university classrooms, and they are increasingly going to those who can pay. In a paper presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, higher education professors Bradley Curs and Ozan Jaquette find that increased enrollment of out-of-state students at public research universities – often done to generate increased tuition revenue in the face of decreased state appropriations – is taking a toll on racial and socioeconomic diversity at the institutions.

www.bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/mit-in-moscow-creates-sputnik-moments-for-300-million.html
MIT in Moscow Creates Sputnik Moments for $300 Million
By Oliver Staley
During the Cold War, scientists working at the laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology produced ideas and inventions, such as distant early- warning radar and satellite-tracking systems, designed to help the U.S. prevail over the Soviet Union. Today, MIT is working with the Russians rather than against them. Just 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kremlin, rising from a field once used for agricultural experiments, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology will have a curriculum designed by MIT and financial backing from the Russian government, Bloomberg Markets will report in its June issue.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/30/adjuncts-file-state-complaint-over-limits-hours
Adjuncts File State Complaint Over Limits on Hours
Many colleges and universities are setting new limits on adjunct hours, seeking to keep the part-time faculty members from being covered by the new federal health-care law.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Federal-Warning-Against/138883/
Federal Warning Against Retaliation Raises Questions for Colleges
By Sara Lipka
Colleges that accept federal funds cannot retaliate against anyone who reports unlawful discrimination, the U.S. Department of Education reminded institutions last week in a letter that legal experts are calling curious for its timing and its reference to “monetary relief” in resolving investigations.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/AgencyConsortium-Seek-to/138897/
Federal Office and Consortium Team Up to Increase Academic Hiring of People With Disabilities
By Sydni Dunn
Washington
The U.S. Labor Department and a nonprofit consortium of colleges that promotes equity in hiring announced on Monday that they would work together to improve employment opportunities in higher education for people with learning and physical disabilities.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/04/30/president-quits-campus-criticized-response-attack
President Quits at Campus Criticized for Response to Attack
George Wasson on Monday resigned as president of the Meramec campus of the St. Louis Community College, effective immediately, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-reversal-justices-to-hear-appeal-that-seeks-to-put-virginia-tech-president-on-trial/2013/04/26/baa0b554-aead-11e2-b59e-adb43da03a8a_story.html
In reversal, justices to hear appeal that seeks to put Virginia Tech president on trial
By Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. — In a reversal, the state Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments that Virginia Tech’s president should be put on trial for his actions during the 2007 campus massacre. Attorneys for the families of two students who were among the 32 killed on April 16 that year want President Charles Steger to be held accountable for delaying alerting the Blacksburg campus of the first two shootings by student-gunman Seung-Hui Cho. He killed himself after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/52983/#
Guns on Campus Bill Scheduled for Texas House Vote
by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas — One of the top pro-gun bills before Texas lawmakers this session was green-lighted Monday for a House floor vote this weekend, and a top backer predicted approval there for the plan to allow concealed weapons permit holders to carry their handguns into college classrooms.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ucla-professor-ordered-to-stand-trial-in-lab-fire-death-of-research-assistant/2013/04/26/fe5f8100-aed3-11e2-b59e-adb43da03a8a_story.html
UCLA professor ordered to stand trial in lab fire death of research assistant
By Associated Press, Published: April 26
LOS ANGELES — A University of California, Los Angeles chemistry professor will face a rare prosecution when he stands trial for workplace safety violations in the death of a 23-year-old research assistant, who died of burns from a lab fire, according to county prosecutors. Judge Lisa Lench on Friday ordered 43-year-old Patrick Harran to be tried on three felony counts of violating workplace safety standards in the death of Sheharbano “Sheri” Sangji, according to a district attorney’s statement.

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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/05/06/130506crbo_books_coll?mobify=0
REMOTE CONTROL
Our drone delusion.
BY STEVE COLL
. . . Since then, America’s targeted-killing program has grown into a campaign without borders, in which the White House, the C.I.A., and the Pentagon all play a part. The role of armed drones in this war is well known, but for years neither President Obama nor his advisers officially acknowledged their existence. Some three thousand people, including an unknown number of civilians, are believed to have died in targeted strikes since 2001. If the death tolls from strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan were included, the figure would be much higher. An assassination campaign against suspected terrorists is not the same as one that occasionally rubs out unfriendly political leaders of nation-states, but it raises similar questions. Is a program of targeted killing, conducted without judicial oversight or public scrutiny, consistent with American interests and values? . . . It is also far from clear that killing leaders is even a reliable means of disrupting terrorist groups like Al Qaeda. Jenna Jordan, of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Aaron Mannes, of the University of Maryland, have separately reviewed dozens of past campaigns by governments to destroy terrorist organizations and found that culling leaders works in some instances—especially when terrorist groups are young and small—but not in others.