UNIVERSITY SYSTEM – GOOD NEWS
College of Coastal Georgia dedicates presidents and alumni gates
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2013-06-26/story/college-coastal-georgia-dedicates-presidents-and-alumni-gates
The Florida Times-Union
June 26, 2013
By Terry Dickson
BRUNSWICK | College of Coastal Georgia President Valerie Hepburn presided Wednesday over the dedication of two new gates, the Alumni Gate and the Presidents Gate to honor past leaders of the college. By Monday, she will join Earl Hargett, John Teal and Dorothy Lord in the role of former presidents of an institution that began just over 50 years ago as a two-year junior college. Gregory Aloia will be on the job July 1 as the college’s fifth president.
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM – NEWS
Remaining ‘hopeful’ for change after denied domestic partner benefits
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/remaining-hopeful-for-change-after-denied-domestic-partner-benefits/article_67a00f78-deb2-11e2-b0ec-001a4bcf6878.html
Red&Black
June 27, 2013
By Brad Mannion
As America sat in anticipation for the Supreme Court ruling of two pivotal cases for gay-rights, University professor Janet Frick stood in awe over the University of Georgia Foundation’s decision not to provide health benefits to domestic partners of the school’s employees. “I’m very disappointed by this news,” said Frick, former chair of the University Council’s Human Resources Committee. “This is a missed opportunity for the University of Georgia.”
Study: “Educators are not ready”
http://mundohispanico.com/news/2013/jun/26/estudio-educadores-no-estan-preparados/
Mundo Hispanico
June 26, 2013
By Johanes Rosello
From the autumn of this year university students preparing to be teachers will have to meet new requirements, including approval of a more complex teaching certificates. These evaluation measures arise from a concern about the quality of the teachers who are graduating from local university programs and how prepared are to be effective in the classroom. An investigation by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that the majority of universities in Georgia are graduating teachers who lack the skills to manage a classroom and the necessary knowledge of the subjects they teach. [translated from Spanish]
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM – RESEARCH
Coast Guard Common
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/Coast-Guard-Common_79534.html#.UcwY1FNghBE
Aviation Today
June 26, 2013
… The cabin crewchief has a third CDU to access radios, the Harris digital map, and the ESS. Mission plans can also be written on the ground using the Coast Guard Mission Planning System (CGMPS) based on the FalconView mapping application developed by the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
UNIVERSITY SYSTEM – VALUE
Crafting jobs for movie-TV studios
http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/06-26-2013/crafting-jobs-movie-tv-studios
The Citizen
June 26, 2013
When Pinewood Atlanta studios opens in January in rural central Fayette County, it will need qualified people to fill an employment gap. … In addition to Clayton State University being a large component, there will also be educational possibilities through Georgia Tech, the Savannah College of Art and Design, Gordon State College and more. Georgia Tech will be key because about 90 percent of moviemaking these days involves computers in some fashion, particularly in animation, Gough added.
The future of Big Chicken
http://clatl.com/atlanta/the-future-of-big-chicken/Content?oid=8528249
Creative Loafing
June 27, 2013
…Two of the state’s biggest universities, the University of Georgia and Georgia Institute of Technology, have departments devoted to poultry science and food processing, where new technologies to raise, kill, and process chickens at ever faster and more efficient rates are being developed.
EDITORIALS/OPINIONS/ESSAYS/BLOGS/COLUMNS
The Legal Future of Affirmative Action
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/06/27/essay-meaning-supreme-court-ruling-affirmative-action
Inside Higher Education
June 27, 2013
By Rod Smolla
The Supreme Court this week decided Fisher v. University of Texas. It did not decide, as many had expected, what the future affirmative action in American higher education would be. Instead, the Court punted, putting off for a future day any definitive ruling on the rules of engagement for affirmative action.
Bridging the Income Barrier at Top Colleges
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/bridging-the-income-barrier-at-top-colleges/
New York Times Blog
June 26, 2013
The Hamilton Project, a Washington group affiliated with the Brookings Institution, has released a report calling for the expansion of a recent experiment aimed at persuading highly qualified low-income students to apply to top colleges. Only 34 percent of high-achieving high school seniors in the bottom fourth of income distribution attended any one of the country’s 238 most selective colleges in a recent year, according to research conducted by Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford and Christopher Avery of Harvard. Among top students in the highest income quartile, the figure was 78 percent. (Subscription required)
55 Million Good Reasons to Go to College
http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2013/06/26/55-million-good-reasons-to-go-to-college/?KEYWORDS=%22Higher+Education%22
Wall Street Journal Blog
June 26, 2013
As college costs keep rising and student-loan debt causes national consternation, more Americans are asking whether young people should bother with college. Here, at least, is one point in favor of higher education: Americans who fail to complete at least some post-secondary education – if not a college degree, then an associate’s degree or some college credit — sabotage their chances of landing a job as the economy continues to recover, according to a new report out Wednesday.
HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
Bipartisan proposal to keep student loan rates low faces uncertain prospects as Reid objects
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bipartisan-proposal-to-keep-student-loan-rates-low-faces-uncertain-prospects-as-reid-objects/2013/06/26/a1625184-de8b-11e2-ad2e-fcd1bf42174d_story.html
The Washington Post
June 26, 2013
By the Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Efforts to keep interest rates on new student loans from doubling appeared to be falling apart Wednesday as the Democratic leader of the Senate declared a bipartisan proposal unacceptable. With just days to spare before a July 1 deadline sends subsidized Stafford loan rates up from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, a group of senators from both parties announced a plan that would link interest rates on new federally backed loans to the financial markets. The deal would avert a costly rate hike for now but could spell higher rates in coming years. The proposal seemed to stall even before it had a chance to be considered.
Public Colleges Must Focus on Outreach to States, Association Says
http://chronicle.com/article/Public-Colleges-Must-Focus-on/140041/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 27, 2013
As government support for higher education lags, public colleges must strive to become more attractive and accountable recipients of state tax dollars, says a report released on Thursday by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. In the report, “Creating a New Compact Between States and Public Higher Education,” leaders in public higher education urge their peers and state lawmakers to form a new alliance on accountability, finances, and affordability. (Subscription required)
Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage Will Affect Student Aid for Such Couples
http://chronicle.com/article/Ruling-on-Same-Sex-Marriage/140035/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 26, 2013
The Supreme Court’s decision striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 will result in the fairer treatment of married gay students, financial-aid experts say, giving the government a truer picture of the students’ ability to pay for college. For some students, the ruling will mean more financial aid; for others, it will mean less. (Subscription required)
UC-Davis Chancellor Reflects on ‘Horrible’ Debacle at 2011 Protest
http://chronicle.com/article/UC-Davis-Chancellor-Reflects/140039/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 27, 2013
More than a year and a half after University of California at Davis students were pepper-sprayed in a botched police operation, the campus’s chancellor still vividly recalls the emotional toll the incident took on her and her family. Linda P.B. Katehi, whose days as chancellor appeared numbered in late 2011, said on Wednesday that the incident had proved a grueling introduction into the life of a leader in crisis. (Subscription required)
Scaling Up Efforts to Reach High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/scaling-up-efforts-to-reach-high-achieving-low-income-students/35251?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 26, 2013
An experiment conducted by two economists, Caroline M. Hoxby and Sarah Turner, has found that customized college information can change the enrollment patterns of high-achieving, low-income students—students who would be admissible at the most selective colleges but who tend not to apply to them. …Such students’ enrollment choices, in other words, are the result not of their preferences but of an information gap.
NIH to Reduce Dependence on Chimpanzees for Research
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/06/27/nih-reduce-dependence-chimpanzees-research
Inside Higher Education
June 27, 2013
The National Institutes of Health plans to sharply restrict its use of chimpanzees in biomedical research studies and retire most of the animals it now supports, adopting most of the recommendations emerging from a several-year study of the issue.
U.S. To Begin Retiring Most Research Chimps
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/science/us-to-retire-most-chimps-from-research.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
New York Times
June 26, 2013
In another step toward ending biomedical research on chimpanzees, the National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday that it would begin the process of retiring most of its chimps to sanctuaries, though it will leave some for possible future research. The decision, which follows the recommendations of an agency advisory group, does not end biomedical research on N.I.H. chimpanzees.
(Subscription required)
How to Motivate Colleges to Reform Student Financial Aid
http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Motivate-Colleges-to/139959/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Chronicle of Higher Education
June 24, 2013
Before June draws to a close, Congress is expected to decide whether to allow the interest rate on new federally subsidized student loans to double to 6.8 percent as of July 1. If that happens, borrowers will pay, on average, an additional $38 a month, less than their monthly cellphone bill. Keeping the rate at 3.4 percent will cost the government $41-billion over 10 years, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. (Subscription required)
UCLA Wins OK to Make MBA Program ‘Self-Supporting’
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/06/27/ucla-wins-ok-make-mba-program-self-supporting
Inside Higher Education
June 27, 2013
Mark G. Yudof, president of the University of California, has approved a controversial proposal by the University of California at Los Angeles business school to make its M.B.A. program “self-supporting.” Under the plan, the business school would gain more autonomy and flexibility for managing the program in return for giving up the $8 million it would otherwise receive from the state for the program.
UCLA Wins Right to Take MBA Program Private
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-26/ucla-wins-right-to-take-mba-program-private
Bloomberg Businessweek
June 26, 2013
In a surprise move, University of California President Mark Yudof has approved a controversial proposal by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management to forgo state funding for its full-time MBA program and become self-supporting. Yudof’s approval comes nine months after a UC Academic Senate panel suspended its review of the UCLA plan, saying the program failed to meet any of the four criteria required for a program to become self-supporting at UC.
Looking for Bias
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/27/university-colorado-plan-survey-political-climate-draws-mixed-reactions
Inside Higher Education
June 27, 2013
By Colleen Flaherty
Does the University of Colorado need to do a survey to determine that many at the Boulder campus are liberal? And does a liberal-leaning faculty and student body mean that anything is wrong there? Those are among the questions raised by last week’s Board of Regents vote to look into political diversity at the system’s flagship at Boulder and its three other campuses.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/27/feds-tell-colleges-support-parenting-students-sophomore-turned-away-exam-bringing
Inside Higher Education
June 27, 2013
By Allie Grasgreen
A Florida State College at Jacksonville sophomore who was turned away from an exam because she took her baby along may have recourse against the institution, after the U.S. Education Department warned colleges this week that they have legal responsibilities to support pregnant and parenting students. Or, she may not.