USG NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-05-23/many-students-studying-wrong-things-university-system-georgia-chancellor-says
Many students studying wrong things, University System of Georgia chancellor says
By JIM THOMPSON
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby likely was the most celebrated man in Georgia on Thursday. By proclamation of Gov. Nathan Deal, it was Hank Huckaby Day across the state. Separate proclamations from Athens-Clarke County Mayor Nancy Denson and the Oconee County Board of Commissioners doubled that honor locally by declaring Thursday as Hank Huckaby Day in their respective communities. …Addressing the University System’s role in developing the state’s workforce, Huckaby noted that large numbers of Georgia jobs are going unfilled “because students are studying the wrong things.”

www.southernpoliticalreport.com
http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_524_3173.aspx
Study Shows Which College Buildings Are Underused
Walter Jones
Morris News Service
May 24, 2013 — ATLANTA — A two-year study by the University System of Georgia shows classrooms are empty during most of the week. Of the 440 classrooms at the University of Georgia, the average is used just 18.5 hours per 40-hour work week, and when used, only two-thirds of the seats are full, according to the study. That is a 31 percent utilization rate. Georgia Regents University’s Summerville campus’s 73 rooms average 27.2 hours per 40-hour work week of use and are typically half empty when they’re used for a 37 percent utilization rate. At the Health Sciences campus, use is just 13.4 hours per week for the 26 rooms, but they are 82 percent full for a 28 percent utilization rate. …

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/05/21/2487452/short-list-for-fvsu-presidential.html
Short list for FVSU presidential candidates set
By JENNA MINK
A committee has selected four candidates in its search for the next president of Fort Valley State University, and the public is invited to hear them state their case for leading the university. Larry Rivers plans to step down as the university’s president June 30. A search and screen committee chose the finalists, who will now be reviewed by University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby and Larry Ellis, chairman of the Special Regents’ Search Committee. Huckaby and Ellis will then make a recommendation to the Board of Regents, which will choose the university’s ninth president, according to a news release. …The finalists are:

Related article:
www.41nbc.com
Finalists Announced for Fort Valley State University President
http://www.41nbc.com/news/local-news/23706-finalists-announced-for-fort-valley-state-university-president

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/sports/college-sports/2013-05-23/uga-athletic-association-approves-93m-budget-including-125m-sanford
UGA Athletic Association approves $93M budget, including $1.25M for Sanford Stadium
By MARC WEISZER
ST. SIMONS ISLAND — Outgoing University of Georgia president Michael Adams is presiding over his last Athletic Association Board of Directors meeting this week. …As usual, Georgia expects to end the fiscal year adding to its reserve funds, with more than $930,000 in revenue. Adams said the thing he is the most proud of in athletics during his time as president is the financial health of the department. …The board approved a fiscal year 2014 budget of $93.2 million and $2.18 million for facility improvements, including to Sanford Stadium.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-05-23/legion-pool-re-opens-once-considered-demolition
Legion Pool re-opens, once considered for demolition
By KEITH LLADONEWS
Families, children and students gathered Thursday at Legion Pool to celebrate its summer opening and continued existence. …The historic Legion Pool re-opened following last year’s debate regarding its possible demolition by the University of Georgia. Officials had considered using the area of Legion Pool for another purpose while rebuilding a smaller pool on another part of the campus.

USG VALUE:
www.statesboro.wtoc.com
http://statesboro.wtoc.com/news/events/152081-bulloch-co-students-receive-reach-scholarships
Bulloch Co. students to receive REACH scholarships
Submitted by Jennifer Lifsey, Digital Community Producer
BULLOCH CO., GA (WTOC) – Bulloch County was recently selected as one of five counties in Georgia to pilot Governor Nathan Deal’s REACH scholarship program. Bulloch County Schools and Reach Georgia will be honoring the school system’s first recipients, who are currently seventh graders. They will each receive a $10,000 scholarship upon their successful completion of high school and $20,000 if they attend one of the three post-secondary institutions in Bulloch County (GSU, EGSU, or OTC) or other participating Georgia college or university.

www.valdostadailytimes.com
http://valdostadailytimes.com/local/x1374699231/VECA-recognized-at-VSU
VECA recognized at VSU
Jason Schaefer
The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — Rising juniors from the Valdosta Early College Academy (VECA) were recognized at Valdosta State University Wednesday night as the first group of students to begin earning college credit while still in high school. Called the Legacy Class, 10 students — five each in Math and English — will be allowed to take one dual-credit course at VSU. A partnership that was established in 2007 between VSU and Valdosta City Schools made VECA possible.

www.mygeorgiasouthern.edu
https://my.georgiasouthern.edu/index.php?option=com_content&id=1793
Eagle Statue Lands At William James Middle School On Friday
Eagle Nation in Education winner Kelsey Fallin will watch as her eagle, “Statesboro Nation,” is installed in its new home at William James Middle School, 18809 U.S. Highway 80 West, on Friday, May 24, at 9 a.m. Kelsey, a rising eighth-grader, worked along side Janet Suarez, a master of Fine Arts candidate at Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art, for four months to create her unique design. The eagle features two iconic Statesboro buildings: the original courthouse and Averitt Center for the Arts. …Eagle Nation in Education is a public-service project of Georgia Southern’s Eagle Nation on Parade, created to offer K-12 students in Bulloch County an opportunity to express, create and expand their artistic abilities. Eagle Nation in Education created a partnership with area schools to teach students about public art.

RESEARCH:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/05/emory-georgia-tech-get-4m-nih-grant.html
Emory-Georgia Tech get $4M NIH grant
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Emory University and Georgia Tech have received a $4 million grant to establish the HERCULES Center at Emory University.The HERCULES (Health and Exposome Research Center: Understanding Lifetime Exposures) Center is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.

www.engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/22/thad-starner-on-google-glass/
Wearable-technology pioneer Thad Starner on how Google Glass could augment our realities and memories
By Tim Stevens
Countless wearers of Google Glass stalked the halls of this year’s Google I/O developer conference, but only a lucky few were sporting the prescription model, which makes room for lenses in a more conventional glasses frame. Among those lucky early adopters with imperfect vision was Thad Starner, a Georgia Tech professor who, in 2010, was recruited to join a top-secret project at Google’s fabled X Lab. That project, as it turned out, was Glass, and Starner’s role on the team as a technical lead would be a vital one.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-05-23/uga-research-aims-fix-long-held-inaccurate-insect-model
UGA research aims to fix long-held, inaccurate insect model
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
In humans, a polymer called melanin determines skin, eye and hair color—the darker the skin, the more melanin in a person’s body. For insects, melanin is a major aspect of their immune defense systems—their blood darkens in response to pathogens. For scientists who study insects, having a correct model of how an insect forms melanin is important for not only their research on insect structures but also on how to control them. In a new study, published May 17 in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, University of Georgia entomologists find that the model they and other scientists have been using is wrong.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/05/24/rfp-for-high-profile-tech-computing.html
RFP for high-profile Tech computing center due soon
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech is close to issuing a request for proposals to pick a development adviser for the school’s nearly 700,000-square-foot High Performance Computing Center proposed in Midtown’s Technology Square. The RFP, which Georgia Tech was expected to release in the first quarter, is due any day, said commercial real estate executives familiar with the process.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/05/23/georgia-economy-back-to-outpacing-us.html
Georgia economy back to outpacing U.S.
Dave Williams
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia’s economy will grow faster than the nation’s during the rest of this year and next, a welcome change from the Great Recession and its immediate aftermath, a leading economist said Thursday.
Jeff Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth at The University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, predicted 2.5 percent growth in Georgia’s gross domestic product during the remainder of 2013 and 2.8 percent GDP growth in 2014.

www.businessinsider.com
http://www.businessinsider.com/imminent-chaos-2013-5#ixzz2UDKs6joA
Colleges Are In Denial About The Coming Digital Disruption
Bruce Judson, New Deal 2.0
Last week, in an article for the Huffington Post, titled Commencement 2.0, I discussed the need for higher education officials to begin substantive planning for digital disruption. The article argued that low-cost high quality online courses combined with sophisticated exam tools and online teaching assistance would inevitably lead to massive dislocation in higher education. To my surprise, on the same day this article appeared The Georgia Institute of Technology, one of the nation’s leading engineering and computer science schools announced that it would begin offering a low-cost Online Master of Computer Science degree.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.wsj.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/05/22/mit-profs-mull-privacy-concerns-as-they-parse-big-data/?mod=google_news_blog
MIT Profs Mull Privacy Concerns as They Parse Big Data
Clint Boulton
Reporter
Cambridge, Mass. — Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology researching large amounts of data to gain insight that could improve quality of life say privacy concerns complicate efforts to gather data and make conclusions broadly available. At the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Wednesday, Andrew Lo and Dimitris Bertsimas, of MIT Sloan School of Management, and Alex “Sandy” Pentland of MIT’s Media Lab, said they are building Big Data models to predict financial market movements and crime and improve healthcare outcomes.

Education News
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/05/rollins-foundation-gives-emory-5.html
Rollins Foundation gives Emory $5 million
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Emory University has received a $5 million grant from the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation.
The grant will expand the scope of the Paul W. Seavey Comprehensive Internal Medicine Clinic, support faculty physicians, and expand the Executive Health Discovery Database, which serves as a resource for research in general medicine.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/House-Passes-Bill-Tying/139467/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
House Passes Bill Tying Student-Loan Interest Rates to the Market
By Kelly Field
Washington
Defying a threatened presidential veto, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would tie student-loan interest rates to the free market. If enacted, the bill, HR 1911, would prevent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans from doubling on July 1, and put an end to the temporary fix that has kept rates low over the past year.

www.jbhe.com

University of Pennsylvania Researchers Issue New Report on HBCUs

University of Pennsylvania Researchers Issue New Report on HBCUs
Professor Marybeth Gasman and her research team at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania have published a new report on historically Black colleges and universities. The report is a good compilation of data taken mostly from statistics available on the websites of the Department of Education. Data is given on the racial and gender makeup of student bodies, graduation rates, endowments, faculty etc. There is not a lot new here, but the data pulled together in one place gives us a valuable overview of the current state of HBCUs.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/24/colorado-colleges-education-major-challenges-whether-disciplines-still-define#ixzz2UDFeDC43
Education in the Liberal Arts
By Kevin Kiley
Colorado College has everything one would expect at a traditional liberal arts college: small classes, prestigious faculty, high-achieving peers, a beautiful campus and an innovative curriculum with majors in the humanities, arts and sciences. Unlike most colleges, but true to the liberal arts tradition, Colorado College doesn’t offer a major in business. But it now offers one in education. That a college would add an education major is not necessarily noteworthy. In the past few decades, numerous small colleges that once exclusively offered majors in traditional liberal arts disciplines have added professional and vocational programs in the face of decreased student demand and increased competition from public universities.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/24/phds-teachers-and-other-ideas-emerge-panel-doctoral-reform-stanford#ixzz2UDFp4UOC
Doctoring the Doctorate
By Colleen Flaherty
Hoping to help Ph.D.s secure jobs and challenge old notions about academe, Stanford University will encourage and pay for humanities graduate students to pursue careers as high school teachers, starting next year.
The plan consists of a new course offering that will expose graduate students to humanities issues in high school pedagogy and curriculum, and a promise by the School of Humanities and Sciences to fully fund each humanities Ph.D. admitted to the competitive Stanford Teacher Education Program in the Graduate School of Education.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Program-Closures-in-Singapore/139475/
Program Closures in Singapore Suggest ‘Maturation’ of Its Ambitions
By Karin Fischer
When New York University and the National University of Singapore announced this week that they would end their six-year-old joint law program, it was natural to ask how the move fit in with the high-profile—and, in some circles, highly contentious—overseas plans of NYU’s president, John E. Sexton. Although NYU officials have been careful to say that the decision to end the program was the law school’s, it is clear that a one-off degree program was not in keeping with Mr. Sexton’s idea of a grand worldwide network of campuses and programs.

Other News
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/05/24/georgia-army-bases-facing-cuts#
Georgia Army Bases Facing Cuts
By Joshua Stewart
ATLANTA — With the U.S. Army developing plans to cut 80,000 troops from its active-duty roster, one military expert says it will be nearly impossible for Georgia’s three major Army bases to avoid some reduction in personnel. The question is what those cuts will look like, said Gary Jones a retired Army colonel and now executive vice president for military affairs at the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.