USG NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/apr/30/college-says-farewell-to-kaufman/
College says farewell to Kaufman
By Frank Reddy
LAWRENCEVILLE — On occasion, peers who work outside the Georgia Gwinnett College community will ask Stanley “Stas” Preczewski about his boss, Daniel J. Kaufman. They’ve heard positive things about Kaufman, Preczewski said. Most notably: his leadership style. “They ask, ‘Is he really that good?'” said Preczewski, speaking to a crowd of hundreds on Tuesday outside the GGC library. “Unequivocally, yes.” The event was a formal farewell for Kaufman, the college’s current and founding president, as he plans to make his departure on July 1. The gathering featured students, teachers and government officials all reminiscing on time spent with the leader.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-04-30/azziz-says-scholarships-new-programs-fuel-growth-gru?v=1367369901
Azziz says scholarships, new programs fuel growth at GRU
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
With a program to funnel undergraduates into physicians, new presidential scholarships and funding from a recent $66 million gift, Georgia Regents University and the Medical College of Georgia are positioning themselves to get high-caliber students who might have gone elsewhere, President Ricardo Azziz said Tuesday. In his annual State of the University address, Azziz outlined ambitious plans to expand programs, sports and especially student enrollment and research despite challenges.

www.wjbf.com
http://www.wrdw.com/news/politics/headlines/Dr-Azziz-dodges-questions-about-recent-controversey-205471571.html
Dr. Azziz dodges questions about recent controversy
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) — While there was a lot of good news to talk about at the presidential address, there were some topics Dr. Ricardo Azziz would not discuss. He kept quiet on an investigation by the Georgia Board of Regents that started on Tuesday. They’re actually calling it a review. The Board of Regents will look into whether he misused schoolresources for a wedding at his state-funded home. “I think he covered a lot of points in his speech about all the things that have gotten done in the last 100 days,” said Mayor Deke Copenhaver. Azziz talked for more than 40 minutes on good things but kept quiet on everything else. News 12 wanted to know why he asked for the Board of Regents to come and investigate the wedding situation. “We’re actually not going to answer that. We are awaiting on an assessment. Those questions I’m not going to answer today,” Azziz said.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-04-30/azziz-mill-campuses-are-city-effort
Mill campuses are ‘city effort,’ Azziz says
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
While he calls the early plans to convert former Augusta mills into campuses for Georgia Regents University a potential “game-changer,” President Ricardo Azziz said it is still a “city effort” that the university is not ready yet to invest in. Augusta Mayor Deke Copenhaver, a proponent of the mills campuses, said it will be up to the city to get a detailed plan together to present to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents but he is encouraged there is interest in the project. In his first presidential address since Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences universities consolidated into GRU, Azziz referenced a plan by city leaders to convert two former textile mills into expansion campuses.

www.wjbf.com
http://www.wjbf.com/story/22120751/dr-azziz-talks-gru-future-dowtown-mills
Dr. Azziz Talks GRU Future & Downtown Mills
By WJBF Staff
By Mike Miller, WJBF Reporter
Augusta, GA – In a Tuesday afternoon address to students and faculty, Dr. Ricardo Azziz talked about GRU’s interest in downtown property for campus expansion. As WJBF News Channel 6 first reported, the city of Augusta is trying to sell Georgia Regents University on using two old mills as possible dorms and classrooms. In order for the move to take place, the city of Augusta will need to pony up $400,000 on a study to make sure the plans are feasible with the University and University System of Georgia Board of Regents. In his address, the GRU President showed interest in the city’s mill offer but stopped short of making a hard core commitment on the properties pending the Board of Regents approval of the plans.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2013/05/court-documents-uga-hacker-identify.html
Court documents: UGA hacker, identity thief was student
University of Georgia officials thought they may have been under attack from multiple hackers when the identities of thousands of employees and students were taken in fall 2012, but it turns out it was a former student, according to court documents. The Athens Banner-Herald reports that according to documents filed in Clarke County Superior Court, Charles Stapler Stell, 26, used a London-based website, Hidemyass.com, when breaking into UGA’s Identity Management System.

GOOD NEWS:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-alum-starts-scholars-fund-for-students-of-great-promise/article_166b640c-b1e1-11e2-878b-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA alum starts scholars fund for students of ‘great promise’
Jana French
Steve Koonin, Turner Entertainment Networks president, has had a long relationship with the University of Georgia from being an alumnus and Fellow of Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication to seeing his son graduate from Grady. With the Koonin Scholars Fund, Koonin and his wife, Eydie, are giving back to UGA. Announced on April 12 at the Generation(s) of Television Studies Symposium by Grady Dean E. Culpepper Clark, the fund goes to Grady students who are studying in the creative industries, said Parker Middleton, assistant to the dean of Grady and director of learning partnerships and philanthropy. The fund comes after a long friendship with Koonin.

RESEARCH:
www.thecoastalsource.com
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/2013/05/01/georgia-southern-archaeologists-conserve-civil-war-artifacts/
Georgia Southern archaeologists conserve Civil War artifacts
By WJCL Staff
STATESBORO, GA – Georgia Southern University archaeologists will begin a major conservation project to identify and conserve 150-year-old metal artifacts found at Camp Lawton, a Confederate Prisoner of War (POW) camp located at what is now Magnolia Springs State Park in Millen, Ga. The project is the next step in preparation for the opening of a planned History Center at the park.

www.nbcnews.com
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51717167/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/#.UYFbSOCTpGN
Nurses Prefer Robots to Human Help
By Leslie Meredith
How would you describe the perfect assistant? One that doesn’t complain, never takes a day off and always does what you ask? Sounds pretty good and impossible to find — at least in human form. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) found the majority of nurses surveyed preferred a robot to a human to fill the job of assistant health care worker. And they’re not afraid of being replaced by caregiving machines.

Related article:
www.tehnewsdaily.com
Nurses Prefer Robots to Human Help
http://www.technewsdaily.com/17904-nurses-prefer-robots-over-human-help.html

www.popscie.com
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-04/touch-sensitive-robot-arm-can-tuck-you-night
Touch-Sensitive Robot Arm Can Tuck You In At Night
The robot’s stretchy, sensor-studded “skin” lets it touch humans without crushing them.
By Francie Diep
Whoops—excuse me. Here’s a robot arm that knows when it’s bumped into you and can brush safely past you without pressing too hard and hurting you. Many robots today, such as the robots that work in factories, are shielded from their human co-workers because they can’t tell when people are nearby could easily pinch or crush them. That’s why researchers in labs all around the world are working on robots with softer bodies, or robots with sensors that make them work more safely alongside people. Now, roboticists from Georgia Tech and San Francisco-based Meka Robotics have built an arm covered with a sensitive “skin” that lets it reach through clutter without knocking things over and gently dab a person’s mouth clean.

Related articles:
www.news.discovery.com
Robots Learn To Reach, Touch Gently
http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/robots-reach-touch-gently-130430.htm

www.mashable.com
Robot Learns to Gently Touch Objects
http://mashable.com/2013/04/30/robots-reach-touch/

www.rollingstone.com
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-point-of-no-return-should-robots-be-able-to-decide-to-kill-you-on-their-own-20130430#ixzz2S2Z19lMh
‘The Point of No Return’: Should Robots Be Able to Decide to Kill You On Their Own?
U.N. report calls for a moratorium, but lethal autonomous robots could be a reality soon
By JOHN KNEFEL
A U.N. report released earlier this week called for a global moratorium on developing highly sophisticated robots that can select and kill targets without a human being directly issuing a command. These machines, known as Lethal Autonomous Robots (LARs), may sound like science fiction – but experts increasingly believe some version of them could be created in the near future. The report, released by Professor Chrisof Heyns, U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, also calls for the creation of “a high level panel on LARs to articulate a policy for the international community on the issue.”… Supporters argue that using LARs could have a humanitarian upside. Ronald Arkin, a roboticist and roboethicist at Georgia Tech who has received funding from the Department of Defense, is in favor of the moratorium, but is optimistic in the longterm.

www.army-technology.com
http://www.army-technology.com/features/featuresensor-sensibility-future-of-soldier-worn-systems/
Sensor sensibility: the future of soldier-worn systems
Liam Stoker
With survivability high on the agenda, armies worldwide are developing sensors that are not only capable of monitoring a soldier’s vital signs, but could even predict future ailments and injuries… Soldier-worn sensor systems currently in development are not solely designed to collate data for instant use, however. The US Army’s Rapid Equipping Force has challenged Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) to develop a means of measuring the physical environment of an explosion, identifying a soldier’s experience and any possible long-term injuries.

www.e2e.ti.com
http://e2e.ti.com/blogs_/b/aroundti/archive/2013/04/30/georgia-tech-students-working-to-improve-parkinson-s-patients-lives.aspx
Georgia Tech students working to improve Parkinson’s patients’ lives
It was a light-bulb moment: the idea sparked with a TI wristwatch. Georgia Institute of Technology bioengineering PhD student Teresa Sanders, a TI Fellow through the TI Leadership University Program, was working with Emory University Parkinson’s Disease specialists, and received an eZ430-Chronos watch from TI. She had a thought: A watch with an accelerometer could measure limb tremors and be paired with other tools to assess patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD).

www.healthcare-informatics.com
http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/print/news-item/study-text-messages-are-effective-intervention-asthmatic-children
Study: Text Messages are Effective Intervention for Asthmatic Children
By Gabriel Perna
According to the results of a study from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, sending a child with asthma a text message that prods them on their symptoms and help them better understand the condition can improve outcomes.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-04-30/georgia-takes-steps-boost-venture-capital-fund
Georgia takes steps to boost venture capital fund
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Georgia took steps this week to create a public-backed venture fund aimed at keeping startup companies from fleeing the state when funding dries up. The fund could eventually pump $100 million into innovative new companies, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday. Gov. Nathan Deal’s recent decision to sign House Bill 318 forges a new, riskier, path for state funding of private companies.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/counterfeit-cash-cow
A Counterfeit Cash Cow
By Matt Reed
Colleges make money off remediation. That’s why they do so much of it.” Um, no. I’ve heard that one off and on over the years, including three times in the last month. I don’t know if that’s local coincidence or a sign of a trend, but either way, it grinds my gears. My guess is that the accusation about “cash cows” stems from the observation — correct, as far as it goes — that developmental classes are usually staffed disproportionately by adjuncts, who get paid far less per course than full-time faculty. If the faculty are paid less, the assumption goes, then the courses must be profit centers.

www.learning.blogs.nytimes.com

Online Courses and the Challenges of Higher Education
By KATHERINE SCHULTEN
In “Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden,” Tamar Lewin writes about the ways in which some public universities are harnessing the power of online courses.

Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Gay-Rights-Advocates-Describe/138909/
Gay-Rights Advocates Describe Fafsa Changes as Progress Toward Equality
By Allie Bidwell
Washington
Gay-rights advocates said on Tuesday that changes in the Education Department’s student-aid form represented a step forward in equality for same-sex couples. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Monday that, starting in 2014-15, the Free Application for Federal Student Aid would count the income and assets of potential borrowers’ legal parents in the calculation of students’ need, regardless of the parents’ gender or marital status, if the parents lived together.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Students-May-Be-Reading/138911/
Students May Be Reading Plenty, but Not for Class
By Dan Berrett
Those who worry about the reading habits of today’s college students can take heart: They may be reading more than is commonly thought. However, more than 40 percent of the time they spend reading is on social media, and that reading often happens during class, a new study reveals.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/01/instructors-say-anti-hazing-push-led-termination
Terminated for Defending Students?
By Carl Straumsheim
Two former instructors last year attempted to rally the faculty at Young Harris College to stamp out hazing. Three weeks after they spoke up, they say, their contracts were terminated.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/01/faculty-unions-file-complaint-accreditors-handling-ccsf
Faculty vs. Accreditor
By Paul Fain
SAN FRANCISCO — The battle between faculty unions and an accreditor over the fate of City College of San Francisco intensified this week, just two months before the college learns whether it will be shut down.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/adjunct-supporters-call-5000-minimum-course
Adjunct Supporters Call for $5,000 Minimum Per Course
Adjuncts and their supporters are rallying today around a Mayday Manifesto that calls for a minimum payment of $5,000 per course. “The majority of college teachers in the United States today — over a million individuals — are contingent. Most of them are so-called ‘adjuncts.’

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/u-texas-alumni-launch-new-video-against-governors-influence
U. of Texas Alumni Launch New Video Against Governor’s Influence
Alumni of the University of Texas at Austin have launched a new video criticizing the way regents appointed by Governor Rick Perry, a Republican, have put pressure on the university. The alumni (in a view shared by many faculty members) argue that the regents are endangering the university’s quality and have politicized discussions of higher education.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/01/education-research-and-pace-innovation
Quick and Dirty Research
By Paul Fain
SAN FRANCISCO – To keep up with the breakneck pace of developments in online education, higher education researchers must be nimble and sometimes make do with “dirty” and quickly gathered data. Otherwise weighty discussions about student learning might get lost in all the hype around massive open online courses and other digital innovations.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/coursera-eyes-teacher-training-with-new-mooc-partners/43679
Coursera Eyes Teacher Training With New MOOC Partners
By Steve Kolowich
Coursera, the massive-open-online-course provider, announced on Wednesday that it was expanding into teacher education. The company said it would offer MOOCs taught by instructors in graduate programs at the Universities of California at Irvine, Virginia, and Washington; at the Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt Universities; and at some nonaffiliated organizations that train teachers.

Related article:
www.cbs3springfield.com
Coursera to offer new MOOC options for teachers
http://www.cbs3springfield.com/story/22125490/coursera-to-offer-new-mooc-options-for-teachers

www.nytimes.com

Duke University Withdraws From Online Course Group
By TAMAR LEWIN
Duke University has pulled out of Semester Online, an education consortium that will offer online undergraduate courses for credit, after faculty members objected. The consortium announced Tuesday that it would offer 11 courses this fall, from Boston College, Brandeis, Emory, Northwestern, the University of North Carolina, Notre Dame and Washington University in St. Louis. But the Arts and Sciences Council at Duke, which represents faculty members from the university’s largest undergraduate college, voted 16 to 14 last week against participating in the consortium.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/washington-state-students-save-55m-open-courseware
Washington State Students Save $5.5M With Open Courseware
Students at the state of Washington’s 34 community and technical colleges will save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year because of low-cost textbooks produced by the state’s Open Course Library, the college system said this week. The library, which received funding from the state legislature and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, spent $1.8 million to develop low-cost course material, including textbooks of no more than $30, for 81 common courses.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/coursera-enters-teacher-professional-development-market
Coursera Enters Teacher Professional Development Market
Coursera, the Silicon Valley-based provider of massive open online courses, is entering the teacher education market. The company is partnering with teachers colleges and other educational institutions to provide online professional development courses for K-12 teachers and parents.

www.tampabay.com
http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/florida-virtual-students-get-unexpected-down-time/2118494
Florida virtual students get unexpected down time
Jeffrey S. Solochek, Times Staff Writer
Florida students taking online courses through Florida Virtual School and its affiliates found themselves without access to their classes over the past couple of days. They won’t be penalized for getting their work done late. The reason? A computer cracker attacked the system with a Distributed Denial of Service hack. This “zombie computer” attack is designed to overwhelm a server or servers, slowing access for legitimate users.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/key-lawmaker-drafts-bill-alter-nsf-grant-criteria
Key Lawmaker Drafts Bill to Alter NSF Grant Criteria
The new chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee has drafted legislation that would change the criteria under which the National Science Foundation awards grants, Science reported. Traditionally, peer review panels have had considerable latitude within their subject areas. But the draft legislation by Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, would require that all grants adhere to three criteria.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/01/new-mexico-students-protest-continual-athletic-fee-increase
Fed Up With a Fee
By Allie Grasgreen
Tuition at the University of New Mexico has swelled 170 percent in 15 years, with the latest increase coming last month as the Board of Regents approved a new tuition structure that will boost costs 6.6 percent for students taking 15-18 credit hours, and 13.2 percent for those taking fewer than 15.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/05/01/tighter-college-rules-attention-deficit-drugs
Tighter College Rules on Attention-Deficit Drugs
Amid widespread reports of increased numbers of college students taking (and, in some cases, abusing) medication for attention-deficit disorders, some colleges are cracking down, The New York Times reported.

Related article:
www.chronicle.com
Attention-Deficit Drugs Face New Campus Rules

www.nytimes.com

Harvard Student’s Suicide as a Case Study
By ALAN SCHWARZ
A lawsuit against Harvard provides rare detail on the issues involving a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from a student-health department. Johnny Edwards, who had just finished his freshman year, received his diagnosis in June 2007 and was prescribed Adderall after a single examination at Harvard University Health Services. Mr. Edwards killed himself six months later after he was also prescribed antidepressant medications at the clinic. Mr. Edwards’s father, John, contends, among other accusations, that his son had never had A.D.H.D. and that Harvard’s original diagnostic procedure, and subsequent prescriptions for Adderall, did not meet medical standards.