University System News

USG NEWS:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/jere-morehead-s-day-in-uga-welcomes-president-morehead/article_ec46cc10-e34b-11e2-a1f3-0019bb30f31a.html
Jere Morehead’s day in: UGA welcomes President Morehead
Brad Mannion
After nearly 5 months since the announcement, the University of Georgia’s Jere Morehead assumed the role on July 1 that Michael Adams has left — president of UGA. To commence his presidency, President Morehead met with student leaders and discussed campus life over breakfast inside the Tate Student Center. From there, he moved onto the Administration Building, where he received a warm welcome and applause from many of the building’s staff members, according to a UGA Today news release. Morehead’s first day also marks the beginning of an economic development office in Atlanta “as part of a restructuring of the university’s economic development,” according to an article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

www.rockmartjrl.com
http://www.rockmartjrl.com/pages/full_story/push?article-UWG+welcomes+new+president%20&id=23032162
UWG welcomes new president
On July 1, the University of West Georgia celebrated Dr. Kyle Marrero’s first day as the seventh president of the university in grand fashion. Yesterday morning, students, faculty and staff lined Front Campus Drive with welcome banners, balloons and excited cheers as the Marrero family arrived on campus. Marrero met with university and community leaders, had lunch with the student government association leadership, toured Greek Village, and hosted a meet and greet with the press. He also officially moved into his new office. …“It is with genuine enthusiasm and gratitude that I join the University of West Georgia team, the Carroll County community, and the vibrant west Georgia region,” he says. “I’m following in the footsteps of an exceptional leader, visionary, and scholar. Dr. Sethna and the outstanding faculty and staff have achieved so much. These are indeed exciting times for UWG!”

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-07-02/university-north-georgia-launching-economic-development-effort
University of North Georgia launching economic development effort
By LEE SHEARER
WATKINSVILLE — Business, education and community leaders from much of northeast Georgia gathered at the University of North Georgia’s Oconee County campus Thursday to talk about the intersection of education and economic development. The idea is to get people thinking about regional approaches to making sure the part of the state the University of North Georgia serves has a workforce with the skills needed for future jobs and economic development. Tuesday’s meeting was the third of three convened since June 17 under the university’s banner in what it calls the North Georgia Regional Economic and Education Development Task Force.

GOOD NEWS:
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/jul/01/asu-gets-16000-nea-grant/
ASU gets $16,000 NEA grant
Staff Reports
ALBANY, Ga. — Albany State University is the recipient of a $16,000 grant to host “The Big Read” in Albany-Dougherty County. The program, organized by the National Endowment for the Arts, is designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to read for pleasure and enlightenment. …The university is one of 77 nonprofit organizations to receive funding to host the yearlong nationwide project.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-02/uga-receives-34-million-gates-foundation-grant-fight-infectious-disease
UGA receives $3.4 million Gates Foundation grant to fight infectious disease
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia Research Foundation received a $3.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its operational research on how best to eliminate schistosomiasis, a debilitating and neglected tropical disease affecting millions of people in countries throughout much of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. This recent award adds to an $18.7 million grant awarded to UGA by the Gates Foundation in 2008, bringing the funding total to more than $22 million. Researchers will use this additional money to find out how to move from repeatedly treating infected people to eliminating the disease.

www.mysouthwestga.com
http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/story.aspx?id=914460#.UdQwRuCTpGM
Albany State online degree named one of the best
by Colby Gallagher
ALBANY, GA — Just four years into the program, the Online Masters Criminal Justice Degree at Albany State University was named one of the top 50 in the country according to Masters Degree Online, a website aimed at promoting discussion about higher education and providing information on masters programs. The college was one of three named in the state and Criminal Justice and Forensic Science Chair Dr. Charles Ochie says it is an honor to be recognized as one of the best.

www.statesboro.wtoc.com
http://statesboro.wtoc.com/news/news/174161-georgia-southern-student-receives-honorable-mention
Georgia Southern student receives honorable mention
Submitted by Rossano Stewart
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Georgia Southern senior interior design major, Callie Harkness of Richmond Hill, has been recognized with an honorable mention in a student design competition by the National Kitchen and Bath Association. The student design competition was held in April and required Harkness to turn a man’s basement into living quarters for his mother who uses a walker and suffers from arthritis. Harkness, who graduates in December, gave credit to the Interior Design Program at Georgia Southern University for her success in the competition.

USG VALUE:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-02/georgia-develops-first-nationally-accredited-environmental-education-program
Georgia develops first nationally accredited environmental education program
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia recently helped a state program—the Advanced Training for Environmental Education in Georgia Certification Program—achieve national accreditation status, making ATEEG the first to attain this standing from the North American Association for Environmental Education. ATEEG worked with the UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, which continues to serve as the program’s required certifying agent. Having ATEEG accredited means it will now receive national recognition, and Georgia can assist other states seeking accreditation for their programs, said Kris Irwin, a senior public service associate in the Warnell School.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-student-to-help-revitalize-downtown-gainesville/article_7e76020a-e2c9-11e2-baca-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA student to help ‘revitalize’ downtown Gainesville
Chet Martin
If you find yourself enjoying downtown Gainesville in the next few months, thank Elizabeth Lawandales. Lawandales, a senior landscape architecture major from Alpharetta, is working with Gainesville’s government and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government to re-design Gainesville’s downtown into a pedestrian-friendly hub of commerce and culture. “The students get to take theory, apply it and see how it works and get immediate feedback,” said Danny Bivins, a downtown development specialist with CVIG.

www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/sports/article_c0545d78-e2b2-11e2-ae7f-001a4bcf6878.html
Sertoma Club, UWG staff team up for camp
by Jordan Hofeditz
With an assist from the Carroll County Sertoma Club, the University of West Georgia was able to open up The Coliseum to the local Boys and Girls Club to participate in men’s coach Michael Cooney’s basketball camp last weekend. The camp hosted more than 45 members of the Boys and Girls club to work with the UWG coaching staff of Cooney and assistant coaches Andy Young and Ryan Litzinger, along with members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams at West Georgia.

RESEARCH:
www.wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/gpu-programming-language/
Man Invents New Language for Turning Graphics Chips Into Supercomputers
BY KLINT FINLEY
GPU stands for graphics processing unit, but these tiny chips can be used for much more than just graphics. Google is using GPUs to model the human brain, and Salesforce leans on them as a way of analyzing data streaming across Twitter feeds. They’re particularly suited to what’s known as parallel processing, where thousands of tasks are executed at the same time. The trick is that you have to build new software that’s specifically designed to tap into these chips. But a computer science Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University wants to help with that. He just released a new programming language called Harlan dedicated to building applications that run GPUs. “GPU programming still requires the programmer to manage a lot of low-level details that often distract them from the core of what they’re trying to do,” says Eric Holk. “We wanted a system that could manage these details for the programmer, letting them be more productive and still getting good performance from the GPU.”… The term GPU wasn’t coined until 1999, but the earliest video processing chips were introduced in the 1970s and 1980s, according to a paper on the history of GPU architecture by Chris McClanahan of Georgia Tech.

www.aviationtoday.com
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/issue/cover/Coast-Guard-Common_79534.html#.UdQ92OCTpGN
Coast Guard Common
The U.S. Coast Guard integrates the Common Avionics Architecture System across its Search and Rescue helicopter fleets
by Frank Colucci
Amid all the striking images from Superstorm Sandy last year was action video of sailors hoisted from 30 ft seas by two U.S. Coast Guard MH-60T helicopters about 90 miles off North Carolina. Pilots of the glass-cockpit Jayhawks used the Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) to navigate to the sinking tall ship HMS Bounty through poor visibility at low altitude. CAAS enabled the aviators to overlay flight plans on weather radar displays and plot return courses with accurate fuel consumption through an integrated Flight Management System (FMS). … Coast Guard Bravo Zero standards demand helicopters launch within 30 minutes of a distress call, and the MH-60T cockpit was designed for pilots to program their navigation computer on-the-fly with intuitive keystrokes through center console CDUs. 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.

www.riverreporter.com
http://www.riverreporter.com/news/4302/2013/07/02/center-discovery-expansion-plans-high-risk-assessment-clinic
Center for Discovery expansion plans; High risk assessment clinic
By Fritz Mayer
The Center for Discovery is well known as one of the most important success stories in Sullivan County, and president and CEO Patrick Dollard said he intends to expand on that success in the coming years and beyond. At a presentation at the center’s Michael Richie Big Barn Center in Hurleyville on June 27, Dollard explained the center’s plans to add a High Risk Assessment Center, which “will likely attract families from all over the world.” The new center will ultimately add 350 jobs to the area, and will involve an investment of $40 million. It is projected that, once it is open, the assessment center will save New York State $29 million annually on the cost of providing care… In discussing the center’s position in the world of treating individuals with complex illnesses and conditions, Dollard noted that the center is working with organizations such as Harvard, M.I.T., Georgia Tech, Chapel Hill and others with the goal of creating “new models of care.”

www.solarindustrymag.com
http://solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.12916
Smile! DOE Takes Snapshots For Grid-Friendly Distributed PV
By Nora Caley
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is trying to help connect more distributed photovoltaics to the grid. Researchers from the DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Georgia Institute of Technology released a report describing a new methodology to help utilities better evaluate how PV can affect distribution system operations. The report, “Time Series Power Flow Analysis for Distribution Connected PV Generation,” demonstrates how quasi-static time series (QSTS) simulation and high time resolution data can be used to quantify the potential effects a distributed PV system might have on the grid. The report also illustrates some strategies for mitigating them.

www.thestar.com
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/07/02/biodiversity_spending_study_finds_40_countries_most_underfunded_to_properly_protect_species.html
Biodiversity spending study finds 40 countries most underfunded to properly protect species
A group of scientists that includes a Simon Fraser University researcher has come up with a way to rank the 40 most underfunded countries in terms of biodiversity conservation. There are some predictable results — and some surprises, too.
By: Kate Allen Science and Technology reporter, Published on Tue Jul 02 2013
It is a bedrock principle of the conservation community that the world spends only a fraction of the money necessary to properly protect global biodiversity. But faced with such severe underfunding and a ticking clock, the decision of how and where to allocate precious conservation dollars is a much more contentious matter. “This is a really serious debate,” says Arne Mooers, a biodiversity professor at Simon Fraser University. “If you have limited funding, what do you do? Do you just give it to the cutest things, or whatever the nicest place is, or do you give it where it is really needed?” …The researchers, led by Anthony Waldron of the University of Georgia, collected data such as country size, stability and GDP over the period from 2001 to 2008. They plugged those figures into a statistical model to calculate which countries fell furthest below expected funding levels based on their political and ecological “peer group.”

www.wtvm.com
http://www.wtvm.com/story/22740898/dr-paula-walker-talks-heart-disease-on-wtvm?autostart=true
Dr. Paula Walker discusses heart disease
Posted by Samantha Perpignand
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Every minute in the United State, someone’s wife, mother, daughter or sister dies from heart disease, stroke, or another form of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Paula Walker from Columbus State University discussed this topic in greater detail. She says heart disease is a broad term used to describe a range of diseases that affect your heart and blood vessels.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/07/03/2542714/rivers-leaves-a-formidable-legacy.html
Rivers leaves a formidable legacy at FVSU
Rarely can you attribute the transformation of a university campus to one man, but there is little doubt that Fort Valley State University’s physical plant is very different — and much better — than it was when Larry Rivers arrived a little more than seven years ago to lead his alma mater. While the physical plant is new and improved, the school’s fiscal health is better as well. From a $2.5 million deficit to a string of balanced budgets, the school is healthy even during a period where state support has dropped almost 40 percent. But there is a more important aspect of Rivers’ tenure. He’s restored relevance to the university. He has changed the way faculty, parents, students, the city of Fort Valley, and observers think when they say FVSU.

www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2013/07/common_core_a_theme_of_neas_20.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Common Core a Theme of NEA’s 2013 Gathering
By Stephen Sawchuk
Atlanta
We haven’t begun the 2013 NEA Representative Assembly quite yet, but already there are clues that the Common Core State Standards are likely to be one of the big topics of discussion. mTake a look at New Business Item A, which was submitted by the union’s board of directors. It calls on NEA to support and make guidance available “to affiliates, parent organizations, and community stakeholders to assist them in advocating for, and developing implementation plans, to transition to Common Core State Standards and better assessments.”

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jul/03/get-beyong-buzz-words-and-common-core-exercise-del/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Get beyond buzz words and Common Core is “exercise in delusion.”
Cindy Lutenbacher is a teacher and DeKalb County public school parent. She is also an ardent critic of Common Core State Standards.
In this essay, she explains why:
By Cindy Lutenbacher
Common Core … robust … rigorous academic standards … global economy … 21st century workplace … competitive … college-ready … Duplicitous buzzwords ad nauseum, we’ve heard them ten thousand times in the barrage of press releases about Common Core. And every one is bogus. The ideals of “rigorous standards” make good sound bites, but they come with almost pathological standardized testing demands, curricular overhaul, and the use of these standardized tests to rate teachers.

www.rockdalecitizen.com
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2013/jul/02/meadors-dual-enrollment-an-asset-that-shouldnt-be/
Jeff Meadors: Dual enrollment an asset that shouldn’t be ignored
By Jeff Meadors
Fall semester at Georgia colleges is six weeks away; it’s a good time to examine guidelines and debunk myths for early access to college. Student participation in dual enrollment boosts the annual achievement scorecard of every high school and district in Georgia. DE classes do not pull from HOPE and do not take FTE dollars away from high schools except in the case of Move on When Ready. DE students should seek early academic advisement. With Georgia Perimeter College classes taught at Rockdale Career Academy, within 5.2 miles of every high school in Rockdale, and a Newton Campus of GPC within 6 miles of both Eastside and Social Circle high schools, access to transferable college credits comes on a silver platter.

www.nytimes.com

The Amazing Energy Race
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
President Obama delivered his most important national security and jobs speech last week. I think he also mentioned something about climate change. The headline from Obama’s speech was his decision to cut America’s carbon emissions by bypassing a dysfunctional Congress and directing the Environmental Protection Agency to implement cleaner air-quality standards. If the rules are enacted — they will face many legal challenges — it would hasten our switching from coal to natural gas for electricity generation. Natural gas emits about half the global-warming carbon dioxide of coal, and it is in growing supply in our own country. As a result of market forces alone, coal has already fallen from about one-half to one-third of America’s electric power supply.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2013/jul/03/obamacare-victim-our-all-or-nothing-politics/
Jay Bookman
ObamaCare a victim of our all-or-nothing politics
In a surprise move Tuesday, the Obama administration postponed a requirement that all businesses with more than 50 full-time employees offer health insurance or pay penalties. The provision scheduled to take effect in 2014 will now be delayed until 2015, supposedly to allow more time for private businesses and government bureaucrats to work out kinks in the program.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/tweet-about-fat-ph-d-applicants-wasnt-research-university-board-says/62547?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Tweet About Fat Ph.D. Applicants Wasn’t Research, University Board Says
The University of New Mexico has announced that its institutional review board is no longer investigating a professor’s claim that his offensive Twitter message about fat Ph.D. applicants was part of a research project.
The professor, Geoffrey F. Miller, posted the tweet on June 2 and made the research claim a week later. He is an associate professor of psychology at at New Mexico and is a visiting professor this summer at New York University. Both universities were examining whether he was conducting research that would have required approval by an institutional review board, or IRB.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/07/03/article-fall-and-winter-scholarly-books#ixzz2XyxzkeDm
Sneak Previews
By Scott McLemee
Going through the offerings of more than 30 university presses for the fall and winter publishing, I kept an eye out for two things. The first was anything of possible interest to readers who don’t come across university press books very often, or ever. Or, to put it another way, the general reader. …My other goal was to identify trends or patterns emerging from catalog to catalog. Most proved fairly obvious and come as no surprise – any topic making the front page of the newspaper long enough is taken on eventually. But in a couple of cases, interesting or odd connections among books occurred to me after a third or fourth tour of the listings. So without further ado, here’s my selection of fall and winter books from American university presses — compiled by means of hunchwork and caffeine. It won’t be exhaustive. It might get kaleidoscopic. But there’s something here for everyone.

Education News
www.calhountimes.com
http://www.calhountimes.com/view/full_story/23031290/article-Dalton-business-donates-more-than-%2412k-to-GNTC?instance=lead_story_left_column
Dalton business donates more than $12k to GNTC
The Grainger Foundation recently donated $10,000 to the Georgia Northwestern Technical College Foundation, and $2,000 to the Roman Open Charities, Inc., in support of their advancement of Industrial Technical Education programs at Georgia Northwestern Technical College’s (GNTC) Whitfield Murray Campus. “The grants will be used to replace instructional welding equipment and provide future scholarship opportunities,” said Jason Gamel, Director of Institutional Advancement, Georgia Northwestern Technical College.

www.covnews.com
http://www.covnews.com/section/1/article/42798/
GPTC has highest enrollment jump
Based on preliminary data from the Technical College System of Georgia, Georgia Piedmont Technical College has the highest summer semester increase in student enrollment among the 25 technical colleges statewide. The college has seen a total enrollment increase of 17 percent, and the number of students taking 12 credit hours or higher increased to 29 percent against the system’s average, which is 7 percent. Under the leadership and direction of GPTC’s new president Dr. Jabari Simama, the college has refocused itself on new processes and programs.

www.northfulton.com
http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-COMMUNITY-NEWS-c-2013-07-02-199598.114126-sub24320.114126-AD-Frazier-calls-for-more-investment-in-IT-education.html
A.D. Frazier calls for more investment in IT education
Addresses North Fulton Chamber breakfast
by Staff Reports
ALPHARETTA, Ga. – Members of the Greater North Fulton Chamber of Commerce welcomed A.D. Frazier, former chief operating officer for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, as keynote speaker at the chamber’s monthly Eggs and Enterprise meeting June 25. The breakfast, sponsored by Frazier and Deeter LLC, was held at the Country Club of the South in Johns Creek. …Frazier pointed out the need for the state to invest more in K-12 education, saying Georgia’s emerging information technology industry will require a trained workforce. “Georgia wants to become the first state to run fiber [optics] into every school,” said Frazier, adding that plans are in place to see it happen within the next 12 months.

www.ledgernews.com
http://www.ledgernews.com/news/weekly_news/drive-under-way-to-help-students/article_276d9bda-e33c-11e2-bff1-0019bb30f31a.html
Drive under way to help students
By Carolyn Mathews
Officials at Chattahoochee Technical College (CTC) are encouraging those who want to finish their high school requirements to do it before year’s end. At the same time, volunteers from Cherokee are needed to encourage those who need to finish high school to take the General Educational Development (GED) Diploma and to help generate funds to pay for testing. The GED must be passed in order to take college-level courses at Georgia’s technical colleges or in the university system.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54362/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=05774a2b7a094e19b33f2602ab1c734e&elqCampaignId=33
Mississippi Universities Plan Tuition Increases
by Jeff Amy, Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss.—Tuition at Mississippi’s eight public universities will increase by an average of more than 6 percent this fall, an amount universities say is needed to make up for the lingering effects of state aid cuts during the recession. State College Board figures show the average price for two semesters of full-time tuition and fees will rise by an average of $381. That puts it at $6,329.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324251504578582101593420808.html?KEYWORDS=%22Higher+Education%22
Oregon Explores Novel Way to Fund College
By DOUGLAS BELKIN CONNECT
As lawmakers in Washington remain at loggerheads over the student-debt crisis, Oregon’s legislature is moving ahead with a plan to enable students to attend state schools with no money down. In return, under one proposal, the students would agree to pay into a special fund 3% of their salaries annually for 24 years. The plan, called “Pay it Forward, Pay it Back,” would create a fund that students would draw from and eventually pay into—potentially bypassing traditional education lenders and the interest rates they charge. The state would likely borrow for the fund’s seed money, which could exceed $9 billion, but the program’s designers intend it to become self-sustaining.

www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/07/02/10-highest-priced-public-colleges-for-out-of-state-students
10 Highest-Priced Public Colleges for Out-of-State Students
Nonresident students pay a premium to attend these top-rated public college and universities.
By KELSEY SHEEHY
The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College and The Short List: Grad School to find data that matters to you in your college or grad school search. The University of Michigan and University of Virginia are two of the best public universities in the country. Students living in those states can get a first-rate education at a bargain, but undergrads crossing state lines to attend should expect to fork over some cash.

www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/02/college-default-rates-higher-than-grad-rates/2480295/
College default rates higher than grad rates
Mary Beth Marklein, Jodi Upton and Sandhya Kambhampati, USA TODAY
More than 260 colleges and universities in 40 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have students who are more likely to default on their loans than full-time freshmen are to graduate, an analysis of federal data shows. Hundreds of thousands of students are enrolled at the 265 schools, nearly half of which are operated by for-profit colleges, a USA TODAY analysis shows. About one-third of the schools they attended were are public community colleges.

www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/07/03/36publishers.h32.html?tkn=TUWFWlciGT5caHdcW6y2F%2F%2BifrIpCHwAmVkk&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Free Online Content Forces Publishers to Adjust
By Sean Cavanagh
Commercial publishers are accustomed to battling with one another for control of state and local markets for textbooks and other academic materials. Now they face a more complicated task: how to cope with what’s being offered to schools for free. The menu of products available to educators today includes not only textbooks and digital products offered at a cost, but also a growing number of “open educational resources” developed or supported by nonprofit groups, universities, philanthropies, individual teachers, and entire states.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Report-Calls-for-Better/140107/
Report Calls for Better Federal Data to Help Students With College Choices
By Cory Weinberg
The federal government’s efforts to track student-loan-default rates and graduation rates are sending some students down the wrong path, according to a report released on Tuesday. In the report, Education Sector, an education-policy group, calls on the U.S. Department of Education to pair the default rates and graduation rates, instead of releasing the numbers separately, to arm potential students with more-complete information.

www.thestreet.com
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11968547/1/colleges-offer-more-aid-to-keep-enrollment-up.html?cm_ven=RSSFeed
Colleges Offer More Aid To Keep Enrollment Up
By Chris Metinko
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — Seeing their pool of students decrease, many U.S. private colleges are offering more and more aid to keep classrooms filled. That was the finding of an annual tuition discounting survey conducted by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The study found the average tuition discount — which are grants and scholarships offered by the schools — for the 2012 incoming class hit a new all-time high of 45% at schools.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/03/review-board-finds-professors-tweet-was-not-research#ixzz2XywuMtqM
That Wasn’t Research
By Lauren Ingeno
Geoffrey Miller has been called a jerk and a hypocrite. Now his excuse for the controversy that has brought him such criticism is being questioned as well. Miller ignited a firestorm of outrage in June when he tweeted: “Dear obese PhD applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.” After that fat-shaming tweet landed him in hot water, the evolutionary psychology professor claimed it was part of a research project. Reviews by two different universities have found that his tweet could not be considered “research” that would have required approval by an institutional review board.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/03/tech-start-helping-colleges-institutionalize-voter-registration-campus#ixzz2XyxH6owJ
Voting 2.0
By Lauren Ingeno
What if registering to vote as a college freshman were as commonplace as attending orientation or signing up for classes? This is what the creators of TurboVote — an up-and-coming tech startup that strives to make voter registration as easy and “awesome as renting a DVD from Netflix” — are hoping could happen in the near future. The nonpartisan nonprofit has launched The New Standard for Campus Voter Engagement, an initiative to “institutionalize voting in the class registration or freshman orientation process of every college in America by fall 2014.”

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/03/how-will-colleges-respond-extra-year-health-insurance-requirement#ixzz2XywmA8am
An Extra Year
By Scott Jaschik
The surprising announcement Tuesday that the Obama administration is delaying for one year — until 2015 — a key requirement of the landmark health care law could reopen discussions of the limits many colleges have been placing on adjunct hours. A key provision in the Affordable Care Act — which had been scheduled to take effect at the start of 2014 — would have required large employers (a group into which almost all colleges fall) to provide health coverage for those who work at least 30 hours a week, or else to pay fines. Starting in in the fall of 2012, colleges started to limit the hours of adjuncts (many of whom aren’t covered by institutions’ health plans) to avoid having to provide coverage to them. College officials have said that it would be too expensive to do so.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/03/education-department-fills-two-leadership-vacancies#ixzz2Xyx4vbCL
Fewer Empty Desks
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — The Education Department is slowly filling its long list of second-term vacancies, naming a consultant and a deputy under secretary on higher education issues who will shape federal policy in the coming years.