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http://tiftongazette.com/local/x1952116513/Bridges-begins-eighth-year-as-ABAC-president
Bridges begins eighth year as ABAC president
CNHI
TIFTON — With seven years as president of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College under his belt, Dr. David Bridges is thinking about the future. But then again, the 10th president in the history of ABAC never stops thinking about days to come. “We’ve got to be thinking about the next innovation that will continue to make ABAC a place where people choose to come,” Bridges, who began his eighth year as the ABAC president July 1, said. “My goal for ABAC is for it to be as successful in the future as it has been in the past. For that to happen, we must do things differently.”
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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-05/hoped-building-projects-would-boost-uga-science-morehead-says
Hoped-for building projects would boost UGA science, Morehead says
By LEE SHEARER
A big new building on the University of Georgia’s South Campus could be key to an expansion of the university’s research enterprise, according to new UGA President Jere Morehead. The so-called “Science Learning Center” is the top request on an annual wish list of capital projects university officials recently submitted to the University System of Georgia for possible inclusion in the Board of Regents’ annual capital budget request to the governor.
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-07-06/evaluation-north-georgia-president-calls-corrections
Evaluation of North Georgia president calls for corrections
By WALTER C. JONESMORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA – A consultant for the University System of Georgia recently recommended the president of the University of North Georgia make a “midcourse correction.” Bonita Jacobs had not been formally installed as president of the 15,000-student school when University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby assigned David G. Brown to assess her performance in late March. After interviewing more than 200 faculty, students, alumni and community leaders, Brown concluded Jacobs needed to make some changes, but that it was too early to assess her fitness for the post.
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UNG survives bumps in transition
Jacobs vows to fulfill review’s charge to improve communication
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/85866/
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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-07/interest-rates-doubled-federal-student-loans?utm_source=DAILY+NEWS+BRIEFINGS&utm_campaign=dacca4f4d0-January+8%2C+2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d6ecc7eae-dacca4f4d0-303226457
Interest rates doubled on federal student loans
By LEE SHEARER
The soaring cost of college got a little more expensive July 1, but a reprieve still is possible for students who borrow money to pay for college. Interest rates have doubled on federal student loans, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. The hike will add about $400 a year to the annual interest rate paid by a student who graduates owing $20,000 in student loans — about the average for University of Georgia students as of 2012, when the average student debt for new graduates was $19,621.
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-07-07/uga-student-seeks-2-million-lawsuit-over-use-facebook-photo
UGA student seeks $2 million in lawsuit over use of Facebook photo
By JOE JOHNSON
A University of Georgia student recently filed a $2 million lawsuit against an official at her former high school and the Fayette County School District for using a photograph of her in a bikini without her permission. The lawsuit alleges the photo was stolen from 19-year-old Chelsea Chaney’s Facebook page for use in an Internet safety seminar. The now-UGA freshman had posted the photo taken during a family vacation in a semi-private forum of her Facebook page, where only “friends” and “friends of friends” had access to it. The student’s attorney, Pete Wellborn, said the lawsuit is significant for the protection of people’s privacy.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/latest-news/2013-07-07/ga-southern-student-recovering-shark-bite#.UdrE8OCTpGM
Ga. Southern student recovering from shark bite
By Associated Press
SUWANEE, Ga. — A Georgia Southern University student is back home in Suwanee recovering from a shark bite. Colleen Malone was bitten on the foot June 25 while visiting Jacksonville, Fla. The 19-year-old college student says she was standing in about four feet of water about 40 feet from shore when she saw two fins.
www.myfoxatlanta.com
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/22769145/ga-tech-student-robbed-of-cell-phone
Ga. Tech student robbed of cell phone
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF
ATLANTA -A Georgia Tech student was robbed while walking along Atlantic Drive on Friday. Police say a man approached the student and asked to use his cell phone around 1:50 p.m. After making a few calls, he flashed a gun and told the student he was keeping the phone.
GOOD NEWS:
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/51386/preview/
GSU engineering students win $105K in EPA grants
Team designed more efficient biodiesel engine
By GABY BENNETT Herald Intern
A team of mechanical engineering students from Georgia Southern University has received $105,000 in grants from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Peace, Prosperity and People Competition, held recently in Washington, D.C.
USG VALUE:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/07/05/olivermcmillan-loan-one-of-years.html?page=all
OliverMcMillan loan one of year’s largest
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
…Cousins embraces artists
Cousins Properties Inc. is one of Atlanta’s largest office building landlords, but it wants more than that. It wants to connect its buildings with the spirit of the city. In Midtown, home to Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center, Cousins commissioned a sculpture that will be displayed at Promenade, the 38-story glass office tower with the ziggurat spire. The sculpture will face 15th Street and the Arts Center. It’s the work of Georgia Tech grad Tristan Al-Haddad.
RESEARCH:
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http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/tech-students-run-deluxe-studio-design-for-future/nYfdN/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Tech students run deluxe studio, design for future
BY ARIEL HART – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Summer or not, one corner of the Georgia Tech campus is still swarming with students. One day last week, Francisco Gonzalez, a student in biomedical engineering, was at a computer designing a part for a machine to aid in pharmaceutical research. In another room, Siddharth Avachat was cutting metals to evaluate under high-intensity loads, hoping his work will help the U.S. Navy build better ship hulls. Across the hall, two students were nailing together the wooden frame for a machine to chill beer from 90 degrees to 38 degrees within one minute. Tech’s “Invention Studio” is a place where bits of the future are forged — a cross between a think tank and an ultra-high-end machine shop. Here, students brainstorm and prototype technologies that may shape the most intimate aspects of our lives, or change the dynamics of an industry.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/accent/2013-07-06/georgia-southern-students-helping-find-civil-war-artifacts#.UdrRmeCTpGM
Georgia Southern students helping find Civil War artifacts
By RUSS BYNUM
SAVANNAH — In just three years of field work, researchers have turned up more than 600 artifacts — from suspender buckles to railroad spikes — at the site of a Civil War prison camp in southeast Georgia that remained virtually undisturbed since it was abandoned in 1864. And that’s only scratching the surface.
www.wlox.com
http://www.wlox.com/story/22770444/scientists-studying-impact-of-oil-spill-on-coral-reefs
Scientists studying impact of oil spill on coral reefs
By Steve Phillips
Scientists studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill invited the media aboard their research vessels Friday morning during a stop at the Port of Gulfport. Much of their research has focused on the oil spill’s impact on coral reefs in the Gulf. The scientists gave a tour of their working laboratories aboard the Nautilus and the Endeavor… “We’ve been doing experiments to see what happens to oil when it falls to the sea floor, when it rises up and what happens when the carbon from the oil enters organisms and move through the food web,” said Dr. Joseph Montoya, a professor of geology at Georgia Tech.
www.finance.yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/better-email-comprehensive-scientific-guide-191230583.html
How to Be Better at Email: A Comprehensive Scientific Guide
By Anna Codrea-Rado | The Atlantic
Email is all-pervasive, and arguably one of the most important tools of modern business. But the fact is most of us are not particularly good at it, wasting time on messages we should ignore and losing track of those that we should be focusing on. Then there’s the base human instinct to cc: everyone in our address notebook whenever possible… Tanushree Mitra and Eric Gilbert from the Georgia Institute of Technology found that gossip is all-pervasive in organizations and that it appears both in personal exchanges as well as formal business communications. By studying the email usage of Enron employees released in court filings, Mitra and Gilbert also found organizational gossip to be a social process that involves gossip sources (its generators) and gossip sinks (its silent readers.) Mitra and Gilbert concluded that if companies can scan employees’ email to identify gossip sources, they could get a better idea of workplace mood. It doesn’t make things any better, but if you gossip over your work email you can know at least that you’re not alone.
www.douglascountysentinel.com
http://www.douglascountysentinel.com/news/local/article_cb5895ee-e506-11e2-87cb-0019bb30f31a.html
Housing, job growth show steady gains
Winston Jones / The Times-Georgian
The West Georgia region has experienced both positive and negative economic news over the past few months, with employment and housing continuing to show steady gains, according to a report released this week by the Center for Business and Economic Research at University of West Georgia.
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-07-06/georgia-down-40th-capita-income?utm_source=DAILY+NEWS+BRIEFINGS&utm_campaign=dacca4f4d0-January+8%2C+2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6d6ecc7eae-dacca4f4d0-303226457
Georgia down to 40th in per capita income
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Georgia has slipped toward the lower rankings of states in per capita income during the last decade. Federal data shows Georgia is now 40th among the states. Georgia has been declining since measuring 25th in 2001. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/10FJA0U) reports that Georgia now has the same ranking it did in 1979. …Economist Martin Shields, director of the Regional Economic Institute at Colorado State University, said the data shows Georgia is adding jobs, but they are lower-paying jobs.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/07/05/perimeter-market-home-to-many-tech-firms.html?page=all
Perimeter market home to many tech firms
Tonya Layman, Contributing Writer
A number of technology companies are calling Dunwoody and an even broader area — the Central Perimeter market — home, and taking advantage of many amenities that makes this area business-friendly. The technology industry has an annual $113.1 billion economic impact on Georgia, and Perimeter is one significant area where the industry is flourishing, said Tino Mantella, president and CEO of the Technology Association of Georgia… Area representatives tout how the proximity to a number of universities, including Georgia Tech, that have strong technology programs is helping them to recruit that highly educated workforce.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jul/03/tech-among-best-buys-college-today/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Georgia Tech among the best college buys
The only Georgia college that made the Fiske 2014 Best Buy list this year was the Georgia Institute of Technology. Morehouse College and Spelman College were best buys last year. Tech appears on most lists that rate colleges on cost, education quality and job prospects. The guide was created by former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske and is a widely used reference tool among parents and high school students.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2013-07-06/settlement-settles-nothing
Settlement settles nothing
Disillusionment hangs heavy in wake of dropped lawsuit against GRU
Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
…It’s likely that the world record for the number of simultaneous sighs was challenged here last Saturday too, as Augustans learned that a lawsuit to change the name of Georgia Regents University had been dropped.
Regent University, a private school in Virginia, had sued Georgia last September claiming the state Board of Regents had infringed on its trademark by selecting “Georgia Regents University” as the name for the consolidation of Augusta State University and the former Medical College of Georgia. Odd as it may seem to outsiders, many in Augusta were pulling for the Virginia school to prevail.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2013-07-07/jones-new-education-group-comes-georgia
Jones: New education group comes to Georgia
ATLANTA — A new organization — StudentsFirst, led by the charismatic former head of the District of Columbia schools — aims to change the dynamics of Georgia’s education politics, For years, the battlements have been divvied up between groups for administrators, parents, teachers and school board members fighting for greater funding. On most issues, they generally agreed. Lately, a debate would often come down to all of these established education groups on one side and Republicans on the other. Since Republicans tend to see business as being better run than government, they have spent the last decade pushing reforms intended to install businesslike practices in public education. In response, the established education lobby has argued that government has a goal of universal service rather than profit maximization.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Community-Colleges-Can/140121/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en
How Community Colleges Can Help Themselves
By Neil Kreisel and Vanessa L. Patterson
The country’s community colleges are at great risk of becoming “separate but unequal institutions in the higher-education landscape,” according to a report issued recently by the Century Foundation. This is hardly news to those of us in the world of community colleges. And yet we—particularly those of us with fund-raising responsibilities—could be doing so much more than we are to help close the parity gap and help our own institutions thrive.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCsthe-Arts-A-Plea-for/140119/?cid=cr
MOOCs and the Arts: A Plea for Slow Education
By Rachel Shteir
When I lived in New York in the 1990s, I briefly worked for the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, a company that combined a theater and an Internet start-up. The reason for this unusual hybrid was that the theater’s brilliant artistic director was devoted not only to the modernist playwright but also to technology, which she used to pay for her experiments and nourish her creativity. If you study the history of the arts, you can find plenty of examples of artists using technology to enrich and complicate their work. I mention this to affirm that I am not antitechnology. But I am unsettled by the embracing of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, both inside and outside the academy, in part because the conversation about them mostly excludes the arts and humanities.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jul/08/common-core-lesson-shrewd-marketing/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Common Core State Standards: A lesson in shrewd marketing
University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky is a frequent contributor to the Get Schooled blog. This is a long and provocative piece on Common Core State Standards, which Smagorinsky argues is a manufactured solution to a manufactured crisis.
www.chinabusinessreview.com
The Limits of Cybersecurity Talks
The first US-China cybersecurity working group meets next week, but significant progress is unlikely in the short term
by Doug Mackey
Doug Mackey helped to develop Australia’s national cyber defense capability; he worked as an analyst for Australia’s Department of Defense for more than 10 years. He is currently undertaking a master’s in information security at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The United States and China will hold the first round of the official US-China cybersecurity working group talks during the week of July 8-12 as part of the fifth round of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington, DC. The United States initiated the talks as part of its efforts to push China to address US concerns over cyber trade secret theft.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/07/08/essay-supreme-court-decision-affirmative-action#ixzz2YSCUGJWa
Affirmative Action Jumps the Shark
By Stephen T. Asma
The Supreme Court just kicked the latest affirmative action case (Fisher v. University of Texas), back down to an appeals court, effectively avoiding the big issues of race and class in America – at least for now. Abigail Fisher claimed that the University of Texas at Austin violated her rights by considering race in its admissions process. Fisher is a white woman who was not admitted to the University in 2008.
Education News
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http://americustimesrecorder.com/local/x881892224/South-Georgia-Tech-included-in-Top-100-associate-degree-producing-college-s-national-poll-for-2013
South Georgia Tech included in Top 100 associate degree producing college’s national poll for 2013
Americus Times-Recorder
AMERICUS — South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) was been included in the Top 100 Associate Degree Producers national poll for One-Year and Two-Year Certificate Production by “Community College Week” magazine recently. The results were reported in their June 24 issue.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/blueprint/2013-07-07/plum-creek-supports-colleges-adult-literacy-program
Plum Creek supports college’s adult literacy program
Donation by Plum Creek
The Plum Creek Foundation recently donated $5,000 to the Athens Tech Foundation to support Athens Technical College’s Adult Education program. The $5,000 will be used to purchase computers to administer GED testing to Adult Education students.
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/education/581166-20130706midway-beast-SQ
Beast Feast Raises Funds For Adult Education At WGTC
The West Georgia Technical College Foundation received $20,000 from the second annual Beast Feast held at Midway Church in Villa Rica. The Beast Feast is an annual wild game dinner that serves as a way to bring people to church who normally would not attend as well as support the adult education program at West Georgia Technical College. …“We are grateful to be a recipient of the proceeds from the Beast Feast,” said West Georgia Technical College President Dr. Skip Sullivan.
www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/news/article_22541f66-e5d5-11e2-834b-001a4bcf6878.html
New state laws aid tech students, veterans
Winston Jones/Times-Georgian
Students at West Georgia Technical College and other state technical colleges can now qualify for HOPE grants with a grade point average of 2.0, instead of 3.0, as it has been since 2011. The law, which became effective Monday, had broad support of the state Legislature, passing the House by a 176-1 vote and the state Senate by a 52-0 tally.
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http://rn-t.com/bookmark/23071491
Dalton’s ‘comeback’? State leaders to tour community ‘doing it right’
by The Dalton Daily Citizen
The rest of the state could learn a thing or two from Whitfield County as it rallies from economic “trauma,” said Bill Maddox. Maddox, the communications director for the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education (GPEE), said Whitfield County’s survival through the national recession is a testimony to its people, especially since the county was hit extra hard after the housing market crisis stalled much of the local carpet industry in 2008. That’s why officials with GPEE, a state nonprofit partnership covering business, education and government, are bringing a bus filled with state leaders to Whitfield and Murray counties Oct. 29-30 to tour area schools and community organizations. …The need to unite officials from Whitfield County Schools and Dalton Public Schools became evident during years of research, said Melissa Lu with the Archway Partnership, a University of Georgia program that came to Dalton to help the community improve itself. …One of those things — something Ward said she hopes to highlight during the tour — is a mechatronics curriculum at the Northwest Georgia College and Career Academy.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/08/how-much-impact-will-interest-rate-increase-have-student-borrowing#ixzz2YSC5JTUw
The Interest Rate Impact
By Libby A. Nelson
WASHINGTON — After weeks of warnings and stalled debate in Congress on a long-term solution, the interest rate for new, federally subsidized Stafford student loans doubled July 1. Unless Congress agrees on a new plan next week and applies it retroactively, borrowers will pay 6.8 percent interest on new subsidized and unsubsidized loans.
www.nytimes.com
Oregon Looks at Way to Attend College Now and Repay State Later
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Going to college can seem like a choice between impossibly high payments while in school or a crushing debt load for years afterward, but one state is experimenting with a third way. This week, the Oregon Legislature approved a plan that could allow students to attend state colleges without paying tuition or taking out traditional loans. Instead, they would commit a small percentage of their future incomes to repaying the state; those who earn very little would pay very little. The proposal faces a series of procedural and practical hurdles and will not go into effect for at least a few years, but it could point to a new direction in the long-running debate over how to cope with the rising cost of higher education.
www.techcrunch.com
Move Over Peter Thiel, Oregon Proposes Investment Model For Student Loans
Move Over Peter Thiel, Oregon Proposes Investment Model For Student Loans
GREGORY FERENSTEIN
As college debt skyrockets to over $35,000 per student, the state of Oregon has proposed a novel investment approach to loans: free tuition at public universities in exchange for 3 percent of earnings for the first 25 years after graduation. Just like a venture-capital portfolio that earns its profit from a few star investments, many students would end up underpaying the cost of their college, subsidized by the school’s star businessmen. For example, students who earned a meager $600,000 over a quarter century would pay just $18,000 for their degree, while a multi millionaire would theoretically pay enough to subsidize all the artists, public servants, and most of the humanities. Assuming the Higher Education Coordinating Commission’s pilot goes according to plan, Oregon will roll out a polished version of the so-called “Pay It Forward” student loan program statewide.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Universitys-Offer-of-Credit/140131/
A University’s Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers
By Steve Kolowich
It was big news last fall when Colorado State University-Global Campus became the first college in the United States to grant credit to students who passed a MOOC, or massive open online course. For students, it meant a chance to get college credit on the cheap: $89, the cost of the required proctored exam, compared with the $1,050 that Colorado State charges for a comparable three-credit course.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/helen-dragas-points-to-positive-outcomes-of-u-va-leadership-crisis/2013/07/06/3e0cd422-e31a-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html
Helen Dragas points to positive outcomes of U-Va. leadership crisis
By Jenna Johnson
VIRGINIA BEACH — Helen Dragas regrets the turmoil and anger that enveloped the University of Virginia last summer after governing board leaders privately asked U-Va. President Teresa Sullivan to resign. But Dragas firmly maintains that the board did the right thing. The university was — and still is — in trouble, Dragas says, a stance she believes has been vindicated by a recent consultant’s report that paints the public university as elitist and in need of change. Sullivan’s ouster and reinstatement a year ago, though painful and embarrassing, pushed administrators to form long-term, strategic academic and financial plans, the outcome Dragas says she wanted all along.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/08/san-francisco-community-colleges-fight-survival-may-hinge-appeal
Appeal or Bust
By Paul Fain
There are no clear answers to the question of where City College of San Francisco’s 85,000 students will go if the college shuts down next year. That unprecedented and nightmarish scenario became a real possibility last week when the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges voted to strip the college of its accreditation in June 2014. City College is San Francisco’s only two-year institution. No nearby community college is in a good position to run the college, which is California’s largest. And the idea of turning over control to another two-year college is not considered viable by college and state officials, sources said, in part because the commission does not favor it.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/07/kan-law-thrusts-iowa-insurer-into-gun-debate/2495815/
Kansas law thrusts Iowa insurer into gun debate
Victor Epstein, The Des Moines Register
The Kansas law allows teachers and staff to carry weapons in schools to protect children and prevent mass shootings.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A new Kansas law allowing gun owners to carry weapons in public buildings, including schools, has thrust a major Des Moines-based insurer into the national gun control debate. The EMC Insurance Cos. insures 85 percent to 90 percent of all Kansas school districts and has refused to renew coverage for schools that permit teachers and custodians to carry concealed firearms on their campuses under the new law, which took effect July 1. It’s not a political decision, but a financial one based on the riskier climate it estimates would be created, the insurer said.
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/07/10/36safety.h32.html?tkn=LOYFdNBo731P4V7Smp%2B8%2F0%2B%2Blol7Ikirr0Ch&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Feds’ Advice on School Intruders Worries Some Experts
Plan urges fighting when all else fails
By Jaclyn Zubrzycki and Nirvi Shah
New guidelines from the Obama administration for planning for emergencies at schools following the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., touch on everything from school design and storm shelters to planning emergency drills and balancing privacy and safety. But one facet of the plan, released June 18, is on active-shooting situations, and some of the recommendations in those scenarios make school safety experts nervous—namely, a suggestion that school employees try to fight an intruder when given no other choice.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/08/hypermasculinity-sexual-aggression-link-non-fraternity-members-points-need-broader#ixzz2YSCIxlZO
Greeks as Role Models
By Allie Grasgreen
What with widely reported allegations of rape, hazing and alcohol abuse, fraternities are not generally thought of as bastions of humility or respect for women. But a new study suggests that a characteristic commonly associated with fraternity members – hypermasculinity – is actually more problematic for non-Greeks when it comes to sexually aggressive attitudes, or beliefs that “sex should be indiscriminate, rough, coercive and non-consensual.”
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/07/06/high-tech-jobs-no-college-degree/2487025/
High-tech jobs that don’t require college degree
Mike Sauter, 24/7 Wall St.
When people think of high-tech jobs, they typically think of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Ivy League Ph.D.s. But according to a new definition of STEM jobs — those requiring skills in science, technology, engineering or math — half of all high-tech positions are held by employees without a bachelor’s degree. A recent report by the Brookings Institution redefines STEM jobs to include those with a substantial base of technical knowledge, but not necessarily requiring a bachelor’s degree. With this new perspective, high-tech jobs are not limited to advanced degrees and represent a larger part of the American middle class.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54433/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=12df181e75194c8eaaec67f64f8244e4&elqCampaignId=33#
Continued Push Needed for STEM Training and Education Fund
by Lezli Baskerville
…Last month’s historic passage of comprehensive immigration reform in the United States Senate, in addition to improving the hopes and prospects of millions of undocumented immigrants, both affirms and undergirds the heroic efforts of teachers like Ms. Martin by establishing a STEM Training and Education fund for under-served and under-resourced students. Twenty percent of the fund is targeted to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other minority serving institutions through a special provision created by Senators Charles Schumer (D-New York), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana).
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13576_3-57592280-315/with-blue-waters-supercomputing-goes-national/
With Blue Waters, supercomputing goes national
In March, the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications unveiled Blue Waters. CNET Road Trip 2013 checked out our new national supercomputer.
by Daniel Terdiman
CHAMPAIGN, Ill.–If you are a scientist, engineer, or academic in need of time on a supercomputer, March 28, 2013 was a very big day. That was the day that the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana brought its new baby online. Known as Blue Waters, the new machine instantly became one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and, perhaps more importantly for those whose work requires access to such machines, became a lifeline for massive computing capability.
www.mashable.com
http://mashable.com/2013/07/04/silicon-cant-be-copied/
Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied
VIVEK WADHWA for MIT Technology Review
For 50 years, people have tried to figure out what makes Silicon Valley tick. By 1960, Silicon Valley had already captured the attention of the world as a teeming technology center. It had spawned the microwave electronics industry and set a pattern for industry academic partnerships. French president Charles de Gaulle paid a visit and marveled at its sprawling research parks set amid farms and orchards south of San Francisco. Stanford University, which is at the heart of Silicon Valley, had given birth to leading companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, Watkins-Johnson and Applied Technologies. These companies were pushing the frontiers of technology. There was clearly something unusual happening here — in innovation and entrepreneurship.
www.chornicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/UCLA-Reaches-Deal-With-Glaxo/140125/
UCLA Reaches Deal With Glaxo Over Controversial Drug-Discovery Contest
By Paul Basken
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles are free to participate in a “fast track” drug-discovery competition sponsored by the drug maker GlaxoSmithKline—now that the “fast track” part of it has been removed. Glaxo sent researchers at UCLA and other institutions an offer in late May to join a Discovery Fast Track competition, in which the faculty members would give the company, also known as GSK, creative ideas for new pharmaceutical products without the “bottleneck” of contract negotiations.
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What I Did This Summer | Internships: Test Driving Tomorrow’s Employees
By Allegra Bennett
From preventing tall trucks ramming low bridges to preparing NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) for a 2017 mission to discovering heart valve behavior in diabetics, enterprising young college students majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics landed solid, paid summer internships in 2012, developing real-world solutions for real-world problems. STEM students and employers around the country say internships have implications for the future that reach well beyond summer income and logging on-the-job experience. Students value internships as an opportunity to confirm or refine their choice of majors as well as an essential element in their long-term strategy for launching post-graduation careers with some of the most visible brands in the world. An increasing number of companies regard internships as an on-the-job audition and the first step in their recruiting and hiring process.