USG NEWS:
www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/23153831/article-KSU-to-close-health-clinic-at-MUST-Ministries?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
KSU to close health clinic at MUST Ministries
by Jon Gillooly
KENNESAW — After a 15-year run, Kennesaw State University on Friday is closing the health clinic it runs at MUST Ministries, the faith-based, nonprofit charity that serves people struggling in poverty. Kennesaw State President Dan Papp said the university could no longer afford to operate the $200,000-a-year clinic. The clinic treated 1,609 patients during 2012, with some of those patients seen multiple times, Kennesaw State spokeswoman Arlethia Perry-Johnson said.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/facing-fees-student-costs-hit-high-little-sign-of-lowering/article_4cf7ea08-ef2c-11e2-88d7-001a4bcf6878.html
Facing fees: student costs hit high, little sign of lowering
Brad Mannion
Nothing beats the feeling of entering college with the cushion of the HOPE Scholarship at your side. But with additional student fees – fees not paid for by HOPE – costing University of Georgia students roughly $1,000, a scholarship to help pay for tuition may lose its luster. “Essentially, the fees across the board go to covering the university’s expenses where tuition or where the money from the state doesn’t cover – where that doesn’t cover, the university uses fees,” said an employee in the Office of the Registrar at UGA. According to the registrar’s website, student fees for the Fall 2013 term will cost $1,117 – none of it covered by HOPE.

GOOD NEWS:
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20130718textile-grant-uwg
West Ga. Textile Heritage Trail Gets Callaway Grant
The Center for Public History at the University of West Georgia recently received a $35,600 grant from the Callaway Foundation to support the West Georgia Textile Heritage Trail. The funds will be used to support the publication of a photography book on the textile industry in northwest Georgia and a conference on the importance of textile history and heritage tourism in this region.

RESEARCH:
www.hngn.com
http://www.hngn.com/articles/7908/20130717/ap-exams-personality-traits-help-predict-long-term-college-success.htm
AP Exams and Personality Traits Can Help Predict Long-Term College Success
By Sam Goodwin
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Rice University found that AP exams and personality traits can help predict a student’s long-term college success. Going to college is a big deal from many students as admission procedures can be very stringent. Owing to this, most students as well as college officials like to pre-determine whether a student would graduate from college or not. Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Rice University suggested, after a study, that including AP (Advance Placements) exams and an analysis of a student’s personality traits along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades during the college admission process can better help this prediction. Researchers found that students who changed their college major from a field in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) gave different reasons for doing so.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/07/researchers-link-brain-blood-flow-to.html
Researchers link brain blood flow to sexual dysfunction
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Premenopausal women who aren’t interested in sex and are unhappy about this reality have distinctive blood flow patterns in their brains in response to explicit videos compared to women with normal sexual function, according to researchers at Georgia Regents University.

www.news.discovery.com
http://news.discovery.com/tech/gear-and-gadgets/google-glass-like-tech-going-to-the-dogs-13027.htm
Google Glass-Like Tech Going to the Dogs
BY ALYSSA DANIGELIS
Barking is so old school. Futuristic working dogs assisting humans are set to get Google Glass-like tech for communication. Get ready to see what dogs are thinking. The system is being developed as part of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations (FIDO) project. Associate professor of interactive computing Melody Jackson and research scientist Clint Zeagler are working on the project with contextual computing professor Thad Starner, who also serves as the technical lead on Google Glass. Their goal: better communication between dogs and humans.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/georgia-lottery-profits-break-record/nYszb/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Georgia Lottery profits break record
BY KRISTINA TORRES – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The state’s HOPE Scholarship for college students and early childhood pre-k efforts got another boost Wednesday when Georgia Lottery officials announced a record-breaking $927 million in profits for the recently completed fiscal year. The total surpassed last year’s record mark by more than $26 million. It also came as the lottery celebrates its 20th anniversary — a happy milestone for an organization that, despite record revenue, faces ever-rising college enrollment and tuition that have it straining to keep up with demand. Since 1993 almost 3 million students have benefited from one or both of Georgia’s premier education programs, with the state lottery considered among the nation’s elite in sales per capita.

www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/ap/ap/education/ga-officials-promote-child-care-rating-program/nYsCd/
Ga. officials promote child care rating program
By JAIME HENRY-WHITE
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal on Tuesday encouraged more child care and early education programs to join Georgia’s Quality Rated assessment program, calling it an invaluable aid to parents and a tool for creating a better workforce of the future. The governor joined Bobby Cagle, Commissioner for Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning, at a news conference recognizing more than 230 child care programs that were among the first to be ranked by Quality Rated. First lady Sandra Deal also took part. “We are growing tomorrow’s workforce through this process,” the governor said at the gathering at the Georgia State Capitol.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/07/15/2583589/georgia-chamber-ceo-urges-school.html
Georgia Chamber CEO urges school, business alliances
The University System of Georgia is the “envy of the country,” and the state’s technical colleges are “the envy of the world,” Georgia Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Chris Clark told a business audience in Atlanta last week. Georgia’s academic and technical colleges aren’t the problem, Clark said. The problem is that too many Georgians are educationally and technologically unprepared to reach that stage. And that bodes especially ill in an increasingly competitive national and international business climate.

www.edmondsun.com
http://www.edmondsun.com/opinion/x1538944677/ROCK-DOC-Stalagmites-speak-of-climate-history
ROCK DOC: Stalagmites speak of climate history
By E. Kirsten Peters
Special to The Sun
SPOKANE — Some of the interesting features of certain caves are stalactites and stalagmites, the column-like features that hang down from the ceiling and are built up from the floor. Humans have known of their existence since time immemorial, but it’s only in recent years we’ve realized they have a story about climate to tell us. As reported recently in Science Express, researchers led by a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology studied four stalagmites from Borneo. The stalagmites are made of calcite, a relatively soft mineral made of calcium, carbon and oxygen. It’s estimated that the stalagmites in Borneo grow at a rate of about three-eighths of an inch every thousand years.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/07/18/colleges-need-emphasize-learning-over-credentials-essay#ixzz2ZO7vlTjF
Process Over Product
By Doug Ward
American higher education suffers from an identity crisis that threatens its long-term viability. As costs have surged and free online courses have proliferated, colleges and universities have elevated image over substance and clung to an antiquated structure that has left them vulnerable in an era of rapid change. Until they focus seriously on improving their core function – student learning – they risk foundering in a sea of mixed messages.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324328204578573323173137426.html
Time to Sequester Insipid Federal Research
Focus science funding on real science, not on silliness like studying how to ride a bike.
By HENRY I. MILLER
The budget sequester has hit federal research hard, and the lions of the scientific research establishment are roaring. Bruce Alberts—editor of the journal Science and former president of the National Academy of Sciences—recently lamented the National Science Foundation’s announcement that “it may award 1000 fewer research grants in 2013 than it did in 2012.” Still, all research is not created equal. Too much of what’s dispensed is pork, overlaps with work that would otherwise be performed in the private sector, or supports poorly conceived or trivial experiments.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/will-students-be-able-to-repay-those-loans/35637
Will Students Be Able to Repay Those Loans?
By Beckie Supiano
Las Vegas — Many people who work in financial aid are frustrated by news coverage that suggests lots of students are taking on six-figure debts for their bachelor’s degrees. (They’re not.) But even if they think that talk of a student-loan crisis is overblown, aid administrators do worry about whether students will be able to repay their loans. That worry is part of their job: If too many of a college’s borrowers default, the college can lose its eligibility to participate in the federal student-aid programs. Besides, aid administrators tend to care about access and affordability, and if many borrowers are struggling, those values are undermined.

Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/senators-ready-to-restore-lower-college-loan-rates/nYtgn/
Senators ready to restore lower college loan rates
By PHILIP ELLIOTT
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senators are ready to offer students a better deal on their college loans this fall, but future classes could see higher interest rates. The Senate could vote as early as Thursday on a bipartisan compromise that heads off a costly increase for returning students. A senior administration official said the White House was deeply involved in the negotiations and supports the agreement as a way to get lower rates now and protect students from future rate increases. The official was not authorized to discuss the negotiations on the record and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Senators ready to restore lower college loan rates
http://www.macon.com/2013/07/18/2560841/senators-ready-to-restore-lower.html

www.insidehighered.com
(Another) Apparent Loan Deal
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/senate-negotiators-reach-another-student-loan-deal#ixzz2ZO6kYatt

www.chronicle.com
Senate Crafts a Deal on Student-Loan Interest Rates
http://chronicle.com/article/Senate-Crafts-a-Deal-on/140439/

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Federal-Student-Loan-Debt/140427/
Federal Student-Loan Debt Crosses $1-Trillion Threshold
By Cory Weinberg
Washington
Student-loan borrowers now owe the federal government more than $1-trillion for the first time, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on Wednesday. The swelling federal student-loan debt now sits at $1.2-trillion, the bureau estimated. The country passed the milestone with a fitting backdrop: the debate in Congress over student-loan interest rates. Rates for new borrowers of federally subsidized loans doubled, to 6.8 percent, on July 1, with Democrats and Republicans sparring, before and since, over the best way to set future rates.

www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/blogs/georgia-works/2013/07/17/dollar-general-awards-grants-to-georgia-colleges
Dollar General Awards Grants to Georgia Colleges
By Chip Rogers
Dollar General not only helps shoppers save money, but they are also helping individuals to read and graduate from high school. The Dollar General Literacy Foundation has awarded more than $6 million dollars in grants to more than 725 schools, nonprofits and literacy organizations. …More than 15 Georgia schools and nonprofits have benefitted from their generosity. Augusta Technical College Foundation, Central Georgia Technical College, Georgia Northwestern Technical College Foundation, and West Georgia Technical College have received $5,000 or more in literacy grants this past year.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/citing-disappointing-student-outcomes-san-jose-state-pauses-work-udacity#ixzz2ZO6Wssj0
Udacity Project on ‘Pause’
By Ry Rivard
After six months of high-profile experimentation, San Jose State University plans to “pause” its work with Udacity, a company that promises to deliver low-cost, high-quality online education to the masses. The decision will likely be seen as a setback for a unique partnership announced in January by California Gov. Jerry Brown in a 45-minute news conference with university officials and Udacity CEO Sebastian Thrun. The pause is also the latest in a series of developments that may dampen the often hyperbolic enthusiasm that has surrounded massive open online courses, even though the companies that provide MOOCs have received millions in venture capital money. … San Jose State is one of Udacity’s few university partners, though the company recently signed a major deal with the Georgia Institute of Technology to eventually offer a low-cost online master’s degree to 10,000 students at once.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Graduation-Gaps-Between/140437/
Graduation Gaps Between Minority and White Students Slowly Narrow
By Katherine Mangan
The graduation gap between minority and white college students is slowly narrowing, and the campuses having the most success aren’t necessarily the wealthiest or most selective, according to a new report by the Education Trust. “Colleges that decide student success is the No. 1 priority have been able to move the needle even with decreasing levels of state support,” the report’s author, Joseph Yeado, a higher-education research and policy analyst for the Education Trust, said in an interview on Wednesday.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/college-grads-less-engaged-work-those-less-education-survey-finds#ixzz2ZO72Uehd
Graduates, Disengaged
By Allie Grasgreen
As politicians, pundits and the general public continue to question the “value” of a degree, defenders of academe have maintained a reliable counterpoint: college graduates are more likely to be employed. Maybe so, but a new survey suggests that even if they’re employed, many aren’t particularly happy.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/study-highlights-inner-struggles-african-american-students#ixzz2ZO7RReQl
Racial Tensions
By Lauren Ingeno
Tension between the races is a visible reality on many college campuses. But African-American students who attend predominantly white universities also experience significant internal tensions — over their cultural identity and their desire to acclimate — that often goes unnoticed, says a new study. The study, released today and published in Communication Education, a journal of the National Communication Association, sought to examine the experiences of a small sample of African-American students on campuses that had experienced open racial tensions between black and white students.

www.wtvm.com
http://www.wtvm.com/story/22860189/nominee-for-calif-student-regent-draws-rare-ire
UC Regents confirm Muslim student to board
By MIHIR ZAVERI and LISA LEFF
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – The University of California’s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups’ claims that she marginalized Jewish students and promoted an anti-Israel agenda. Regents voted unanimously to ratify UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin’s nomination, with one regent, Richard Blum, abstaining from the vote.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/18/mitch-daniels-renews-criticism-howard-zinn#ixzz2ZO7CnWJ0
Daniels vs. Zinn: Round II
By Scott Jaschik
Howard Zinn for decades enjoyed sparring with people in authority. So if it weren’t for the fact that Zinn is dead, he might well enjoy knowing that the president of Purdue University spent some of his time Wednesday denouncing his work. Mitch Daniels, the Purdue president, was the subject of an Associated Press article Tuesday afternoon based on e-mail exchanges Daniels and staffers had while he was governor of Indiana. In those exchanges – which came shortly after Zinn died in 2010 – Daniels wanted to be assured that Zinn wasn’t being taught in the state, and he discussed trying to make sure that university courses used to train teachers didn’t include Zinn’s works. In fact, to Daniels’s distress, some of these programs were using Zinn’s work. It appears that despite those e-mail exchanges, no one told the state’s faculty members to stop teaching Zinn.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54708/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=4d7ba09beea643569cd548f8359feafd&elqCampaignId=33#
Daniels Denies Trying to Censor Indiana Universities
by Tom LoBianco, Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — Purdue University President Mitch Daniels said Wednesday he never tried to quash academic freedom while serving as Indiana’s governor and criticized an Associated Press report citing emails in which he opposed use of a book by historian and antiwar activist Howard Zinn. Emails published Tuesday by the AP show Daniels tried to ensure Zinn’s book was not used in Indiana’s K-12 and college classrooms and that he worked to “disqualify the propaganda” he said was being taught to teachers in training at Indiana’s colleges. Daniels on Wednesday told reporters at Purdue that the story was “unfair and erroneous.”

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578612244100607524.html
Penn State to Settle Some Claims for $60 Million
Settlement Covers About Two Dozen Men Who Say Sandusky Abused Them
By KRIS MAHER
Pennsylvania State University’s board of trustees has authorized payment of roughly $60 million to settle about two dozen personal-injury claims by men who say they were sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to people familiar with the matter. The university has reached agreements in principle to settle about 25 out of some 30 claims, and settlements are expected to be finalized within the next month, the people said. It is unclear what will happen to the remaining claims, including at least one in which the plaintiff has filed a civil lawsuit against the university.