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Georgia sells $685M in bonds
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia sold $685 million in general obligation bonds to fund new construction projects and to make repairs and renovations to existing facilities throughout the state, Gov. Nathan Deal reported Thursday. The largest amount of funding is to provide $249.4 million for Board of Regents projects at colleges and universities throughout the state. The second largest amount is $209.5 million for the State Board of Education to provide funding to local school systems for K-12 school facilities. Other agencies that will benefit from the bond proceeds include $38.2 million for Technical College System of Georgia projects,
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State sells $685 million in bonds for projects
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/27/immigration-bill-georgia-colleges/2465535/
Reform bill could affect Ga. undocumented-student ban
Stephanie Talmadge, USA TODAY Collegiate Correspondent
A ban passed by the Board of Regents in October 2010 currently prohibits undocumented students in Georgia from attending the state’s most selective research universities. For undocumented students, graduating high school can be cause for anxiety, rather than celebration. Without a Social Security number, finding work and gaining college admission are both high hurdles to clear. For undocumented students in Georgia, options are even more scarce, as a ban passed by the Board of Regents in October 2010 prohibits their admission to the most selective research universities, including University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State University, Medical College of Georgia and Georgia College & State University. But the sweeping immigration reform bill passed by the U.S. Senate Thursday could change that.
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http://www.13wmaz.com/news/topstories/article/236646/175/Fort-Valley-State-Universitys-President-Reflects-on-Tenure
Fort Valley State University’s President Reflects on Tenure
Austin Lewis
After nearly eight years as President of Fort Valley State University, Larry Rivers will step down at the end of the month. Rivers went to FVSU as an undergraduate and said it was a dream to become the university’s president. “I said my sophomore year to anyone that would listen that one day if it was the Lord’s will I would return to my alma mater as the President of the Fort Valley State University and the Lord allowed that to happen,” said Rivers. Rivers became president in 2006. He said one of his biggest accomplishments included balancing the university’s budget.
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http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/news/stories/06/24/ivelaw-griffith-named-president-of-university-in-georgia/
Ivelaw Griffith named President of university in Georgia
Guyanese Ivelaw Griffith, an expert in Caribbean security issues, has been named as the next president of Fort Valley State University in middle Georgia, USA. The Associated Press reported that Griffith is currently the provost and senior vice president at York College of the City University of New York. He was the sole finalist, and the board’s vote on Friday was unanimous, AP said.
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Georgia Regents to run Warm Springs hospitals
By: Andy Miller
Georgia Regents University said Monday that it will manage the medical hospitals of Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation under a new agreement that begins July 1. “This partnership brings together the Roosevelt legacy at Warm Springs with the state’s academic health system to enhance this historic campus,” said Greg Schmieg, executive director of the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency, which currently operates the hospital facilities. Schmieg said in a statement that he asked Augusta-based Georgia Regents last year for assistance in managing the facility. The partnership will lead to modernization and improvement of the Warm Springs hospital operations, said Bill Bulloch, executive director of Roosevelt Warm Springs.
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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-06-27/uga-dedicates-new-rutherford-hall
UGA dedicates new Rutherford Hall
By LEE SHEARER
Former residents of old Rutherford Hall had a hard time noticing the differences between it and the new Rutherford Hall during a Thursday dedication ceremony at the University of Georgia. …“To me it looks like the new Rutherford has been here forever,” Adams said at a ceremonial ribbon-cutting on the building’s monumental front steps, flanked by two large oak trees that had been preserved when workers demolished the old Rutherford Hall, built in the 1930s, and replaced it with a larger look-alike. Adams acknowledged the controversy that raged over the building’s fate two years ago as the UGA president weighed whether to renovate the historic residence hall or build a new one on the Myers quadrangle. “I am proud of what we have done in restoring so many historic buildings on campus,” said Adams, whose last day as UGA president is Sunday.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/28/georgia-state-tries-new-approach-attract-more-female-students-philosophy#ixzz2XVQFwgZZ
The 20% Experiment
By Colleen Flaherty
Theories abound as to why women are underrepresented among philosophy scholars. Most philosophers are male, and that’s off-putting to those who would study them, some say. Others claim corners of the discipline are misogynistic. But the data as to why women make up just 21 percent of philosophy faculty – unusually low among the humanities – are scant. And women aren’t flocking the field as undergraduate majors, either, even though many take a course or two. So one university is stacking some course syllabuses with female thinkers to see whether it’s a way to retain women’s interest in philosophy. And while many within the discipline are applauding Georgia State University, others question the academic value of such a move.
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http://www.forest-blade.com/news/community/article_79d177a8-ddd7-11e2-9d06-001a4bcf887a.html
Law enforcement participates in Active Shooter Training
On Thursday, June 20, local and state law enforcement agencies participated in an active shooter training exercise at East Georgia State College in Swainsboro. The training was hosted by the East Georgia State College Police Department and conducted by Chief Investigator Rocky Davis of the Emanuel County Sheriff’s Office, Special Agent Joshua Alford of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Agent Josh Thompson of the East Central Drug Task Force, along with guest instructors from the Sheriff’s Office and the Georgia State Patrol. Faculty and students from the college participated in the training by acting as role players in scenarios performed during the training. …“I, along with the other instructors and officers involved in the training, wish to thank the faculty and students at the college who volunteered a day of their free time to help make this training more lifelike and authentic to what law enforcement may face when responding to an active shooter incident,” stated Davis. …The Sheriff thanked East Georgia State College President Dr. Robert Boehmer and Campus Police Chief Drew Durden for hosting the training and providing refreshments and lunch for all of those involved in the training.
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BSC, UGA sign partnership for ag program
By Justin Schuver
Representatives from Bainbridge State College and the University of Georgia-Tifton officially signed a partnership between the two institutions Thursday, allowing Bainbridge State students the opportunity to more easily pursue career opportunities in the agriculture field. The partnership will allow Bainbridge State students, who fulfill a prescribed curriculum and who graduate with an associate degree from Bainbridge State, to gain automatic acceptance into the UGA-Tifton campus, where they can then seamlessly pursue a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness. The partnership was made official Thursday morning at the Bainbridge State Kirbo Center, where Bainbridge State President Dr. Richard Carvajal and J. Scott Angle, dean of the UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, signed three memorandums of understanding between the two institutions.
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http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/51160/
First United Methodist Church hosts soup kitchen on Saturdays
By JULIE LAVENDER
Herald Writer
A few arrived on bikes, several drove cars, but most came on foot. More than 100 people came for a hot meal with scores of homemade dessert choices — men, women and lots of children who might otherwise go hungry that day. Statesboro First United Methodist Church, referred to by many locals as FUMC, hosts a soup kitchen every Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. for those in need of a meal. Local churches and civic groups take turns providing the food. … A dozen Georgia Southern University students from Dr. Alice Hall’s diversity class, most majoring in child and family development, helped New Covenant serve the attendees.
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NSF Science Now, Episode 14
Provided by the National Science Foundation
This week’s episode of NSF Science Now explores sea turtle locomotion by researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, new images from the Gemini North telescope of comet ISON, also how researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign have created the first digital cameras that mimics insects’ unique, 180-degree vision and finally we’ll explore Antarctica through a unique Rutgers University program documentary about science on the frigid continent.
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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/06/27/2561767/georgia-lottery-at-20-big-payoffs.html
Georgia Lottery at 20: Big payoffs and real pitfalls
Wednesday was Zell Miller Day in Georgia. Gov. Nathan Deal so proclaimed the occasion in honor of his Gold Dome predecessor who, in his second term as governor, capped off a longtime effort to enact a state lottery for education. The Georgia Lottery has been in effect for almost exactly 20 years: The first tickets were sold June 29, 1993. Since that day, the program has provided a stunning $14.3 billion for education in Georgia, including HOPE grants and scholarships for 1.4 million college and technical college students, and prekindergarten classes for 1.2 million children.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/06/27/on-numbers-gov-deal-no-7-in-nation.html
On Numbers: Gov. Deal No. 7 in nation for job creation
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has one of the best job-creation records of all the governors in the United States, according to a new On Numbers study. Deal, who took office in January 2011, is tied for seventh-best in the nation with an annual private-sector employment growth rate of 2.37 percent. That compares with the national rate of 1.97 percent. Under the Republican’s watch, the Peach State has added 177,500 private-sector jobs. View more on Deal’s record.
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http://www.myajc.com/news/business/metro-atlantas-jobless-rate-jumps/nYXwX/
Metro Atlanta’s jobless rate jumps
BY DAN CHAPMAN – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Metro Atlanta’s unemployment rate rose in May to 8.2 percent from 7.6 percent the month before, as scores of school workers left jobs for the summer and new college graduates struggled to find work. “While that sounds like really bad news, it really wasn’t all bad news,” Georgia Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said Thursday. “Most of the reasons for the rate going up had a lot to do with more people entering the workforce. We typically see new graduates and summer job seekers entering the workforce.” The metro jobless rate has risen every May and June for the last decade. Not until July, typically, does the rate come back down. University of Georgia economist Jeffrey Humphreys, though, said he expects the rate to move little or even rise slightly the rest of the year and into 2014.
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http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/tea-party-activists-revisit-cobbs-school-board/nYYBy/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Tea party activists revisit Cobb’s school board
BY DAAREL BURNETTE II – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The federal government wants to control Georgia’s classrooms, collect private data and dumb down students through a set of nationally agreed-upon standards called Common Core, tea party activists and a former congressman told Cobb’s school board Thursday evening. The Common Core opponents said it’s only prudent of the school board to reject all textbooks associated with the standards, as the majority of the board did in April when they voted not to buy new math books.
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jun/26/diminished-hope-turns-20-and-debate-continues/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
A diminished HOPE turns 20. And the debate continues
The anniversary of the HOPE Scholarship is upon us. The brainchild of Gov. Zell Miller, HOPE has suffered a series of changes, including a diminishment to HOPE Lite for most students in Georgia. The first lottery ticket to pay for HOPE was sold 20 years ago this weekend. The popular college scholarship program — and the cutbacks to it over the last few years — remains a politically charged issue. Here is what the Georgia Democrats have to say on this anniversary:
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http://www.industryweek.com/education-training/fast-flexible-customized-georgias-quick-start-workforce-training-program?page=1
Fast, Flexible, Customized: Georgia’s Quick Start Workforce Training Program
Manufacturers benefit from targeted training that enables faster start-up of operations.
Bill Dobbs, director of aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing, Georgia Department of Economic Development
As U.S. manufacturing grows, so does the challenge of finding skilled manufacturing workers. Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy added 400,000 manufacturing jobs over the past two years, and manufacturers also face a growing number of worker retirements. Workforce training, hiring and education are top priorities in Georgia’s efforts to help businesses grow. The best-known Georgia workforce advantage is Quick Start, often named as a top workforce development program since its inception in 1967. …Leadership. The Georgia Retraining Tax Credit leverages the strength of the Technical College System of Georgia, home for Quick Start.
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jun/26/ed-secretary-defends-common-core-feds-didnt-write-/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Ed Secretary defends Common Core: Feds didn’t write, approve or mandate them.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan took on the critics of Common Core Tuesday in a speech to the American Society of News Editors. It’s quite a defense and you ought to read the full speech before commenting. Here are excerpts:.
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http://wabe.org/post/common-core-controversy-could-be-headache-teachers
Common Core Controversy Could Be Headache for Teachers
By MARTHA DALTON
45 states, including Georgia, have adopted a set of education standards called the Common Core. The standards were developed by states, but are supported by the U.S. Education Department. Recently, some members of Georgia’s Republican Party voted to try and repeal the standards during the upcoming legislative session. Georgia’s former education standards were used to help write the Common Core. Therefore, State Superintendent John Barge says, if the General Assembly were to repeal the standards, it wouldn’t largely affect state officials. But, he says, there’s one group it will impact significantly. “The difficulty would be teachers, once again, being asked to change what they do,” Barge says, “And they just really have felt jerked around the last couple of years changing so often that it would just be another change. And it’s pretty frustrating for them. They really want to be left alone at this point to teach.”
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http://www.wabe.org/post/look-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-ruling-and-fallout-georgia
A Look at the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling, and the Fallout in Georgia
By DENIS O’HAYER
On Monday, June 24, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to issue a sweeping decision on the use of affirmative action in college admissions. In a 7-1 ruling in a Texas case, the Court sent the issue back to a lower court, with some guidelines on what the Texas court should consider. The decision means that affirmative action can still, for now, be used in college admissions. …(Georgia currently does not use affirmative action as a factor in college admissions. Its policy was found unconstitutional by a Federal appeals court more than a decade ago. After the new Supreme Court ruling in the Texas case, Georgia Board of Regents spokesman John Milsaps issued a brief statement: “The 31 colleges that make up the University System follow Federal law with regards to the admissions of students. At all 31 institutions, race or ethnicity is not a determining factor in admissions.”)
www.nytimes.com
Immigration Reform, Finally
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Senate on Thursday approved the most ambitious overhaul of the nation’s immigration system in a generation. The vote on the bill was 68 to 32, enough to overcome a Republican filibuster and to deliver, as its sponsors had hoped, a strong signal to the House of Representatives that the measure has broad bipartisan support and deserves to be swiftly passed and sent to President Obama’s desk. Of course, as far as signals like those are concerned, the Republican majority in the House has its hands over its ears and is going la-la-la-la-la. It does not care about the Senate’s preoccupations, and it is unimpressed with the months of debate and arduous deal-making that led to the historic vote.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/fisher-happened-now-what/35295?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
‘Fisher’ Happened. Now What?
By Eric Hoover
Like many college officials, Larry White has read and reread the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority opinion in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. He keeps returning to the same sentence on Page 11, searching for guidance. “Strict scrutiny,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote, “imposes on the university the ultimate burden of demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available, workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice.” What, exactly, does that mean? “In those words is a mountain of unanswered questions,” said Mr. White, general counsel at the University of Delaware. “It’s pretty clear what we have to do. What’s not clear is how we have to do it.”
www.forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhorn/2013/06/27/to-lower-costs-dont-expect-professors-to-lower-salaries/
To Lower Costs, Don’t Expect Professors To Lower Salaries
Michael Horn, Contributor
One of the insights in The Innovator’s Prescription, a book about solving the problems afflicting the nation’s health-care system by Clayton Christensen, Dr. Jason Hwang, and Dr. Jerome Grossman, is that we won’t get more affordable health care by asking high-salary individuals to take lower salaries. Instead, the way to make health care affordable is to push care and treatment out of the hospital to less expensive professionals in lower-cost venues whenever possible.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324688404578541372861440606.html?KEYWORDS=%22Higher+Education%22
What’s Really ‘Immoral’ About Student Loans
It’s not so much the interest rates charged. It is, rather, the principal of the thing.
By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS
Unless Congress acts, interest rates for government subsidized student loans will double to 6.8% from 3.4% on July 1. In May, House Republicans passed a bill that would index rates on new loans to the rate on 10-year Treasurys (currently about 2.6%), plus 2.5 percentage points, with an 8.5% cap. But with little Democratic support in the Senate, that bill is dead in the water.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/06/28/who-bill-gates-is-giving-money-to-now-in-education/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
Who Bill Gates is giving money to now in education
The Gates Foundation has distributed a slew of grants to educational institutions and organizations in June for varied pursuits, including implementation of the Common Core State Standards, improvement of the federal financial aid system, and creation of a “national cadre of teachers experimenting with the use of games, learning and assessment tools.” Here are some of the largest education grants awarded by the foundation this month, obtained from the foundation’s Web site.
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/06/28/36rokita.h32.html?tkn=ZWQFIFJuAWUMWG9VvM5CeQPtlnPdSTSc1oFq&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1
Rokita: Rethinking ESEA With the Student Success Act
By Todd Rokita
When I was selected to serve as the chairman of the House early-childhood, elementary, and secondary education subcommittee at the start of the 113th Congress earlier this year, I looked forward to the challenge of helping to write a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, also known by its most recent moniker, No Child Left Behind. The authorization itself expired in 2007, and the law has yet to be reauthorized. The failures of past Congresses have left a vacuum that has been happily filled by a White House and U.S. Department of Education intent on reshaping education policy as they see fit.
www.nytimes.com
Retirement Villas for Laboratory Chimps
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Long-suffering laboratory chimps will be given an honorable retirement under a sensible plan announced this week by the National Institutes of Health. They owe their reprieve mostly to their close resemblance to humans, which gave many scientists pause about causing them pain and keeping them in cramped cages, and to scientific advances that make experiments on chimpanzees less vital than they used to be. The N.I.H., the federal government’s main supporter of biomedical research, announced that most of the chimpanzees it owns or supports — about 310 in all — will be retired in the next several years and moved to sanctuaries from which they cannot be recalled for research. About 50 will be retained for future research that would be conducted under stringent conditions and only if truly necessary. Hundreds of chimps that are privately owned are not directly affected.
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http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/27/4318084/college-leaders-retire-in-a-class.html
College leaders retire in a money class by themselves
BY MARÁ ROSE WILLIAMS
The Kansas City Star
When University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton retires this fall he’ll step away with his name on a new institute and a $200,000-a-year salary. That kind of exit deal may not be nearly as hefty as the multimillion-dollar parachutes some corporate executives land, but only a decade ago big-money exits were virtually unheard of for heads of public colleges. But substantial exit agreements have become more popular as more big business people landed on university governing boards and “brought their business ideas with them,” said Washington lawyer Ray Cotton, nationally known for negotiating college president compensations. Now large exit packages are “common practice,” said Peter Eckel, vice president for programs and research at the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges. …At the end of this month University of Georgia President Michael Adams will retire with $2 million that he will get over five years. Adams, who has been president 16 years, will be paid $660,000 a year for two years to teach and write and $258,000 for each of three years. He’ll also receive a one-time $600,000 payment in deferred compensation.
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NGTC Foundation receives grant from Dollar General Literacy Foundation
By Staff
CLARKESVILLE – The North Georgia Technical College (NGTC) Foundation recently received a $7,000 grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation to support its literacy programs. Specifically, the grant will provide scholarships to qualified GED students to cover the required $160 testing fee. Students with financial needs must be recommended by their instructors and must complete an application in order to be eligible to receive the scholarship.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2013-06-27/augusta-tech-drops-student-loan-program?v=1372378258
Augusta Tech drops student loan program
By Tracey McManus
Staff Writer
Augusta Technical College will no longer offer the federal direct loan program after more than 200 students received loans, dropped out of school and took the money with them – leaving the college to deal with the debt. As students ditched school with cash in their pockets, the college was responsible for repaying $733,000 to the federal government and the state, which had to come out of 2013 profits, according to President Terry Elam. “We had to discontinue the program because of what it’s doing to our bottom line,” Elam said.
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http://www.rn-t.com/view/full_story/22998994/article-State-OKs-property-purchase-for-GNTC-campus-in-Catoosa-County?instance=lead_story_left_column
State OKs property purchase for GNTC campus in Catoosa County
by From press release
Georgia Northwestern Technical College is one step closer to having a campus in Catoosa County. On Thursday, the State Properties Commission approved the purchase of 36 acres of land on Alabama Highway/Georgia 151 and Holcomb Road for the construction of a GNTC Catoosa County Campus. Now, with the approval of the land purchase, the college will begin the process of selecting a general contractor and construction will begin on the project in late 2013. Construction of the facility will take approximately 18 months and the college anticipates occupying the new campus fall term of 2015.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Immigration-Overhaul-Hailed/140055/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Immigration Overhaul, Hailed by Higher-Education Leaders, Passes Senate
By Cory Weinberg
Washington
The U.S. Senate passed a monumental bill to overhaul immigration law on Thursday that higher-education leaders hailed as giving foreign-born graduate students unprecedented access to green cards, a provision that research universities said would help them compete for top talent by giving the students greater certainty of landing jobs after they graduate. The bipartisan bill, which passed, 68 to 32, with 14 Republicans voting in favor, also would provide a gateway to college for 650,000 young people, known as “dreamers,” who were brought to the United States illegally as children. Under the bill, they would be eligible to receive federal student aid and to petition for citizenship five years after graduating from high school and completing some college or military service.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/28/student-loan-interest-rates-will-double-july-1#ixzz2XVQPz8k4
No Deal on Loans
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — It was a scenario that’s become depressingly familiar for higher education in recent years: a race against the clock as a predetermined deadline loomed, with financial aid for thousands of students hanging in the balance. On Thursday, though, the clock ran out: the Senate’s failure to reach a deal to avert an interest rate hike for federally subsidized student loans means the rate will double Monday.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/28/after-pearson-deal-leaders-leaving-embanet#ixzz2XVQs7UHn
Exit at Embanet
By Ry Rivard
Several senior leaders of the largest company that helps colleges take their degree programs online have jumped ship eight months after Pearson paid $650 million last fall to buy the company. At least four senior managers who joined Pearson when it bought EmbanetCompass last year, including Embanet CEO Steve Fireng, have recently left or plan to leave Pearson.
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http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/education-126050-million-jobs.html
Shortage of trained workers looms, study says
By Adrienne Lu
The United States is on track to create 55 million new job openings by 2020, but will face a shortage of five million workers with the education or training to fill these positions, according to a new report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. “If the U.S. Congress can deal with budgetary challenges, we are on schedule for recovery,” said Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the center, a nonprofit research and policy institute. “But we will still face a major shortage of college-educated workers especially as baby boomers retire.” …Four of the five fastest-growing occupations will require high levels of postsecondary education, the study found: health care professional and technical; science, technology, engineering and math; education; and community services.
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Seven Careers That Are Sweeping The Nation
http://education.yahoo.net/articles/hot_careers_hiring_now_2.htm?kid=1O130
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/54245/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=2075e1812be14e228b773d19010ad216&elqCampaignId=31#
AACC Preparing the Next Generation of Community College Leaders
by David Pluviose
Dozens of aspiring community college CEOs descended on Baltimore this week to learn keys to career success from noted practitioners and thinkers in the community college leadership realm. On Monday, American Association of Community Colleges President and CEO Walter Bumphus helped kick off the Roueche Future Leaders Institute/Future Presidents Institute with a presentation titled “The Community College Leader: Challenges, Expectations and Rewards,” during which he related powerful and poignant reflections on his four-plus decades of community college leadership experience.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/28/education-department-releases-annual-tuition-pricing-lists#ixzz2XVQdT762
‘Hall of Shame,’ Again
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — The Education Department has updated its annual list of the country’s most expensive colleges (by net price and by list price), and, as always, this year’s list contains familiar names.
Columbia University narrowly edged out Sarah Lawrence College — a perpetual contender on the list, and one that has defended its high tuition — for the most expensive tuition list price, at $45,290 in the 2011-12 academic year. Among four-year public colleges, the University of Pittsburgh surpassed Pennsylvania State University for the most expensive list price, at $16,132. And the most expensive net price (based on what students actually pay after financial aid) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at $42,882, on a list dominated by colleges specializing in music and visual arts.
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Feds’ list of most expensive colleges
http://onlineathens.com/national-news/2013-06-27/feds-list-most-expensive-colleges
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/06/28/36science_ep.h32.html?tkn=RZOFZbsg57N%2FEEIDlr8Vj4SOCd8lGa3bdj0k&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
New Science Standards Designed for Wide Range of Learners
By Lesli A. Maxwell
When the writers of the Next Generation Science Standards began sketching out a new vision for K-12 science education, they gave themselves a mandate: Develop standards with all students in mind, not just the high achievers already expected to excel in the subject. Now, three years later, their notion—that every student should get a deep, rigorous science education that would prepare them for demanding coursework, a college degree in the sciences, and a career that could follow—has helped produce a set of standards meant for the most-advanced science students, as well as students who previously may have been steered away from taking a science class, writers of the standards said.