University System News

GOOD NEWS:
www.forest-blade.com
http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_266f2328-ff6d-11e2-beda-001a4bcf887a.html
EGSC celebrates 40 years
Emanuel County Junior College was founded in 1973 based on the concept that every Georgian, whether located in urban areas or rural communities, would have access to a college education. Forty years later, that vision still prevails as East Georgia State College delivers a world-class educational experience to a widely diverse group of students on campus locations in Swainsboro, Statesboro and Augusta. Since the first graduating class of three in 1974, EGSC now boasts an enrollment of 3,000, hailing from 110 Georgia counties, 27 states other than Georgia and 11 foreign countries.

www.tiftongazette.com
http://tiftongazette.com/local/x738624158/Record-enrollment-for-ABAC
Record enrollment for ABAC
CNHI
TIFTON — Three months ago, a record number of students walked across the graduation stage with their bachelor’s degrees in hand. Today, enrollment is climbing and every available housing space on campus is filled to capacity. Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College President David Bridges said in a press conference Monday he anticipates the start of classes for the fall semester Wednesday. In fact, he’s downright ecstatic.

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www.mysouthwestga.com
Student enrollment sprouts at local college
http://www.mysouthwestga.com/news/story.aspx?id=933080#.UgpAcOCTpGM

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ABAC President Bridges says enrollment, housing up

www.walb.com
ABAC increases student enrollment
http://www.walb.com/story/23118931/abac-increases-student-enrollment

www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/23119006/campus-housing-full-placing-students-on-waiting-list
Campus housing full placing students on waiting list
By Josh Rhoden
TIFTON, GA (WALB) – Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College officials expect fall enrollment to be about 3,300. More of those students want to live on campus than the college can accommodate. On-campus housing is full, and there is a waiting list for students. ABAC officials are working with students who didn’t get on-campus rooms to make sure they have housing.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-08-12/uga-campus-bustles-classes-begin-fall-semester
UGA campus bustles as classes begin for fall semester
By LEE SHEARER
Waves of young humanity surged across the University of Georgia campus and Athens on Monday as fall semester classes got underway. University administrators and police said the first day went smoothly, all in all. …New UGA President Jere Morehead mingled with students near the Tate Center for a while on Monday morning as hundreds of students jammed the nearby bus stops, including a few who were not quite sure where to go.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/ugalife/uga-seniors-relieve-freshmen-jitters/collection_c890db52-040d-11e3-9ad4-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA Seniors Relieve Freshmen Jitters
The incoming freshman class is only a week away from walking around the Arch with the rest of us. The Red & Black asked four freshman what their fears were for the next four years. Then we asked four seniors to alleviate those fears. Whether they asked about grades, friends or just want it is we do here, there was a familiar note in the freshman’s voice: nervous excitement.

www.cen.acs.org
http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i32/Mentoring-Milestone-Unconventional-Wines.html
A Mentoring Milestone, Unconventional Wines
By Linda Wang
Charles A. Eckert has reached a milestone that few professors achieve in their lifetimes. This past June, the professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology graduated his 100th Ph.D. student. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution noted the achievement in a July 20 article, and Eckert’s department celebrated the occasion with a wine and cheese reception. At age 74, Eckert has outworked some of his Ph.D. students who have already retired.

USG NEWS:
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/aug/12/darton8217s-sireno-embrace-changes-from-growth/
Darton’s Sireno: Embrace changes from growth
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — Darton State College President Peter Sireno delivered his annual State of the College Address Monday morning, congratulating the school’s faculty and staff for graduating its first class of four-year nursing students, while urging the Darton family to gear up for a SACS-COC (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools — Commission on Colleges) reaccreditation visit in October.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2013-08-12/american-cancer-society-present-4th-annual-suits-and-sneakers-gala-university
American Cancer Society to present 4th annual Suits and Sneakers Gala at University of Georgia
Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox and wife Cindy Fox will help the American Cancer Society host the fourth annual Suits & Sneakers Gala at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Stegeman Coliseum at the University of Georgia as part of Coaches vs. Cancer, a nationwide collaboration between the National Association of Basketball Coaches and the American Cancer Society.

www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/news/article_5693e866-02d5-11e3-bc62-001a4bcf6878.html
Police to interview alleged wolf thief Friday
Bruce Browning and Colton Campbell/Times-Georgian
Police intend to interview a University of West Georgia student who turned himself in over the weekend for the theft of the “howling wolf” art piece outside city hall on Friday. …The statue, an art piece designed and installed as part of the Howl for UWG project, was taken in the early morning hours last Wednesday from its post on a concrete slab on the city hall lawn. Since then, investigators have been seeking witnesses and surveillance footage to identify the perpetrator.

RESEARCH:
www.thecoastalsource.com
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/2013/08/12/tackling-concussions-in-the-coastal-empire/
Tackling Concussions in the Coastal Empire
As preseason football practice rolls on for college and high school teams here in the coastal empire and low country, concussion safety continues to be on the first page of the playbook. Unlike other sports injuries, diagnosing a concussion or injury to the brain can be a tough process. But at Georgia Southern University, a new piece of equipment is in place to help protect players from concussions. The Eagles are the only collegiate football team in the state using the Helmet Impact Telemetry System (HITS) which measures and records every hit to the head during practices and games.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2013-08-12/researchers-uga-hope-educate-women-impact-obesity-pregnancy
Researchers at UGA hope to educate women on impact of obesity on pregnancy
By APRIL BURKHART
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third story in a six-part series on obesity research conducted through the Obesity Initiative at the University of Georgia.
The next generation may be a healthier one, thanks to the efforts of researchers at the University of Georgia. Lynn Bailey, a professor and department head in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at UGA, is studying how changes in levels of folate, a water-soluble B vitamin, impact maternal and child health.

www.spectrum.ieee.org
http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanowires-give-off-light-under-pressure
Nanowires Give Off Light Under Pressure
By Dexter Johnson
Nanomaterials have offered the tantalizing possibility of lifelike artificial skin. Now researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a use for zinc-oxide (ZnO) nanowires to serve as tiny LEDs whose emission intensity is dependent on the local strain put on them. The Georgia Tech researchers believe that this work offers a new approach to imaging force and could lead to a new approach for human-machine interfaces.

Related article:
www.azonano.com
Nanowire LED Sensor Could Revolutionise Human-Machine Interfaces
http://www.azonano.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=3601

www.nydailynews.com
http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/internet-viruses-charge-public-power-stations-article-1.1422680#ixzz2bqnJ6L00
Public charging stations help smartphone users, but also open a new avenue for hacking
Malicious devices and viruses are lurking as more Internet activity migrates to phones and other mobile devices
BY JUSTIN ROCKET SILVERMAN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
When the battery is low, phone-toting New Yorkers will plug into just about anything — but prior to hooking up they should consider who that charger’s been with before. With public smartphone chargers popping up along streets and in restaurants, bars and airports, security experts fear unprotected charging could cause an epidemic of electronically transmitted viruses… “I would never plug my phone into a public charger,” says Billy Lau, a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who led the Black Hat demo. …Lau explained that most viruses are designed to hide themselves, so a typical user wouldn’t know if the phone had been infected.

www.power-eng.com
http://www.power-eng.com/articles/print/volume-117/issue-8/departments1/nuclear-reactions/re-energizing-nuclear-power.html
Re-Energizing Nuclear Power
By Mary Jo Rogers, Ph.D., partner, Strategic Talent Solutions
At the American Nuclear Society (ANS) annual meeting this year in Atlanta, I did not expect to be inspired. Southern California Edison (SCE) had just announced that it would be permanently retiring Units 2 and 3 at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) due to continuing regulatory and financial uncertainty. SCE decided it was better to completely shut-down both units instead of pursuing the ongoing challenges associated with actual and potential steam generator tube leaks. The SONGS shutdown followed the closings of Dominion’s Kewaunee and Duke’s Crystal River station for financial and regulatory-related issues as well… The conversations about re-thinking nuclear energy and playing better offense continued in the afternoon session organized by Jeffrey Jay, of CB & I Power, and at the executive dinner hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy.

www.northfulton.com
http://www.northfulton.com/Articles-BUSINESS-c-2013-08-12-200122.114126-sub-Alpharetta-stresses-technology.html
Alpharetta stresses technology
Lt. Gov. says state, city poised for greatness
by Jonathan Copsey
Anyone who has picked up an iPhone or use an app knows that technology has the potential to change the way we do business on all levels. Luckily for the city of Alpharetta, it is poised to be the Technology Capital of the South. At the dinner marking the second anniversary of the Alpharetta Technology Commission Aug. 1, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Alpharetta Mayor David Belle Isle joined with more than 600 tech companies within the city limits… Innovation is the name of the game, said Dr. Stephen Cross, executive vice president for research at Georgia Tech. “Georgia Tech’s strategy is to innovate everything,” Cross said. Since the university has stressed innovation, the number of startup companies created in or around the university has increased sevenfold in the past three years. Alpharetta is home to many of the companies involved in Ga. Tech’s innovation incubators. “Ten percent of those companies are located in Alpharetta,” he said.

www.pewresearch.org
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/12/communication-grads-give-their-alma-maters-mostly-good-grades/
Communication grads give their alma maters mostly good grades
BY JAN LAUREN BOYLES
Journalism educators attending last week’s conference held by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication were greeted with news of the shrinking population in their classrooms. According to a new report from the University of Georgia (pdf), undergraduate enrollments in journalism and mass communication programs declined 2.9% in 2012, marking only the second time in two decades that they have dropped for two consecutive years. They fell 0.5% in 2011.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/13/are-reformers-reviving-reading-wars/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
Literacy experts say reformers reviving ‘reading wars’
In June a group called the National Council on Teacher Quality published ratings of teacher education schools that garnered a lot of attention — and a good deal of criticism. Why? The NCTQ was created by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation in 2000 in order to promote alternative teacher certification and try to diminish the influence of education schools. Its largely negative results were hardly unexpected. In this post, Stanford Professor Linda Darling-Hammond, an expert on teacher training, critiqued the NCTQ’s methodology and said the ratings did not reflect the work of ed schools:

www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/08/12/how-come-officials-could-predict-results-on-new-test-scores/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
How come officials could predict new test score results?
New scores from standardized tests aligned with the Common Core State Standards were released earlier this month in New York, and, as expected, the number of students who did well plummeted. This decline was predicted by New York State officials. How did they know?

www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/08/07/37thomas.h32.html?tkn=SPUF5mlK2ryvdv%2F6593boVuih5LzFwfkJ97S&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1
The Common Core: Why Some Private Schools Are Signing On
By Carol Thomas
If Big Brother were behind the new academic standards for public school students in 46 states, you would expect private schools these days to be reveling in their independence. But as I work in Florida to build parent engagement in the nation’s largest tax-credit-scholarship program for economically disadvantaged students, private educators in the state are tugging at my sleeve with a remarkable request: Let us use the Common Core State Standards.

www.nydailyrecord.com
http://nydailyrecord.com/blog/2013/08/12/commentary-enhanced-earning-capacity-can-impact-online-learners/#ixzz2bqnnepM0
Commentary: Enhanced earning capacity can impact online learners
By Robert C. Baron
You’ve heard the myths: Online degrees are not accredited so you are not getting a ‘real’ degree; employers won’t take your online degree seriously; no respectable college or university would ever dare offer an online degree. The facts, however, tell a much different story. In today’s high-tech world, the importance of keeping up with the latest in technological trends and advancements is paramount in the workplace, and the colleges and universities that provide the education to the corporate workforce are no different.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Ambiguous-Role-of-Money-in/141035/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Ambiguous Role of Money in Higher Education
By Derek Bok
Money is a mixed blessing for higher education. It is obviously essential for colleges to survive and improve. Yet it is also at the root of many problems. Since academic leaders are under constant pressure to raise increasing amounts of money, they may be tempted to accede too readily to the desires of those on whom they depend for support.

www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/08/11/coburn-national-science-foundation-republicans-column/2641201/
‘Dr. No’ a good steward for our money: Column
Alex B. Berezow
Late last month, the National Science Foundation decided to stop funding new political science grants through the end of 2013. Predictably, political scientists are outraged. But so are hard science researchers. The anger is misplaced. The temporary move is a sign that Congress is actually doing its job — setting priorities. Indeed, the funding has been held up not because Congress wants to stop funding political science, but because it wants the funding focused on U.S. economic and national security interests.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/08/13/essay-defends-state-communications-scholarship#ixzz2bqFbxpxc
Another View on Communication Scholarship
By Nancy Kidd and Trevor Parry-Giles
As the scholarly society dedicated to serving the nation’s communication scholars, teachers, and practitioners, the National Communication Association (NCA) took a special interest in Ernest Wilson’s essay, “Communication Scholars Need to Communicate,” as well as the comments elicited by Wilson’s piece. Wilson’s lament has sparked interesting debate and discussion not only among those in our discipline, but also among administrators, faculty, and students throughout higher education.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/08/13/essay-need-colleges-change-their-fund-raising-efforts-reflect-diversity-donors#ixzz2bqFNfmRW
To Alienate or to Advance?
By Noah D. Drezner
Recently the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education released a well-produced video celebrating 220 years of alumni associations and the 100 of the Association of Alumni Secretaries, which merged into the American Alumni Council in 1927, and eventually became CASE in 1974. …While the photo and archival document montage in the video does a nice job highlighting many of the “firsts” in alumni engagement, I was shocked by what could be viewed as a whitewashing of this history.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/study-casts-skeptical-light-on-campus-hookup-culture/33389?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Study Casts Skeptical Light on Campus ‘Hookup Culture’
By Marc Parry
New York—The photo depicts a young woman in bed, one bare leg exposed, under the headline: “Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game, Too.” This recent story in The New York Times is the latest addition to the stack of articles and scholarly studies that examine the “hookup culture” on college campuses. To Martin A. Monto, a professor of sociology at the University of Portland, the hookup discussion conveys a sense of moral panic—and an impression that young people are having more no-strings-attached sex than their predecessors.

Education News
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/study-analyzes-public-and-private-colleges-pricing-and-admissions-strategies#ixzz2bqEpmvIb
Why Colleges Act as They Do
By Doug Lederman
Do increases in federal spending on student financial aid drive up college tuitions? Do cuts in state budgets for public colleges impede college-going? Do public and private colleges admit and award financial aid in similar or different ways? Research on higher education tends to have difficulty answering such broad questions because there is so much variation among states and such great diversity in the types of postsecondary institutions.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/white-definitions-merit-and-admissions-change-when-they-think-about-asian-americans#ixzz2bqEPwe9Q
Meritocracy or Bias?
By Scott Jaschik
NEW YORK — Critics of affirmative action generally argue that the country would be better off with a meritocracy, typically defined as an admissions system where high school grades and standardized test scores are the key factors, applied in the same way to applicants of all races and ethnicities. But what if they think they favor meritocracy but at some level actually have a flexible definition, depending on which groups would be helped by certain policies?

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/a-healthy-conversation/2013/08/emory-gets-95m-nih-grant-to-study.html
Emory gets $9.5M NIH grant to study oxytocin
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University, has received a five-year, $9.5 million grant to study oxytocin, a brain chemical known for forming bonds between mother and baby.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/13/study-finds-widespread-mismatching-students-and-colleges-primarily-due-student
Admissions Mismatch
By Scott Jaschik
A majority of undergraduates are either “undermatching” or “overmatching” when they enroll in college — and the students themselves may be responsible for the choices being made. That is the finding of a study released Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Related article:
www.chronicle.com
Researchers Explore Factors Behind Mismatched College Choices
http://chronicle.com/article/Researchers-Explore-Factors/141095/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tuition-makes-up-less-than-half-of-what-college-costs-some-students-as-bills-climb-quickly/2013/08/13/8463d5b8-03e7-11e3-bfc5-406b928603b2_story.html
Tuition makes up less than half of what college costs some students as bills climb quickly
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, August 13, 9:46 AM
WASHINGTON — Despite all the grumbling about tuition increases and student loan costs, other college expenses also are going up. The price of housing and food trumps tuition costs for students who attend two- and four-year public universities in their home states, according to a College Board survey. Even with the lower interest rates on student loans that President Barack Obama signed into law, students are eyeing bills that are growing on just about every line.

www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/business/cost-of-higher-education/ (graphic)
Why is college so expensive?
Tuition continues to skyrocket
Students pay more now than in 2000 for all types of higher education. Public institutions have seen the most dramatic rise, followed by community colleges and private schools.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/55235/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=0366feed92604a549b3d19f55200f683&elqCampaignId=33
Program to Pay Tuition Cost for 2-year Degree
by Associated Press
NASHVILLE Tenn.—Graduating high school seniors will be able to attend a community college tuition-free thanks to a program that’s expanding to Davidson County. …The public-private partnership is an expansion of a larger initiative that provides scholarships to students in 26 other Tennessee counties. Officials say the program helps students who may not be able to pay tuition but want to further their education at a community or technical institution.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/55229/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=0366feed92604a549b3d19f55200f683&elqCampaignId=33
Jackson State Using $800K of Housing Fees to Rent Motel
by Jeff Amy, Associated Press
JACKSON Miss.—Facing more demand than it has dormitory beds, Jackson State University will spend more than $800,000 to rent a motel to house students for the coming school year. The College Board voted unanimously Monday to approve the plan to rent a downtown Jackson Travelodge from Bapu Hotels LLC. The money comes from student housing fees. Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds says Jackson State has 250 students awaiting housing.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-New-Graduates-Unemployment/141093/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In New Graduates’ Unemployment Rates, That Predictable ‘Summer Surge’
By Libby Sander
Every summer, unemployment rates for young people surge as new graduates flood the labor market. Then, as the job seekers find work throughout the summer and fall, the numbers decline. The pattern is cyclical, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, “The Summer Surge in College Unemployment: Why It Happens and What You Can Do About It.”

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/55218/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=0366feed92604a549b3d19f55200f683&elqCampaignId=33
Summer of STEM
by Dianne Hayes
Against the backdrop of a national imperative to address projected shortages of underrepresented minorities earning degrees in STEM, universities throughout the country are using summer downtime to offer programs that expose youth to the sciences. From hands-on science to engineering and robotics camps to specialized STEM career programs, universities throughout the country are targeting minority students in order to fill the pipeline—even before they enter college.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/UCLA-Will-Entrust-Tech/141039/
UCLA, Eyeing Profits, Entrusts Tech Transfer to Industry Experts
By Paul Basken
The University of California at Los Angeles is one of the nation’s top research universities, with scientific inventions generating some $20-million a year in revenues. But after years of dwindling state resources, UCLA doesn’t think that’s good enough. And so it plans to get more aggressive. The university will create a new private foundation—overseen by corporate leaders in fields like medicine, engineering, and finance—that will take control of the university’s patent and licensing operations next year.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323300004578557473861805376.html
Gene Breakthroughs Spark a Revolution in Cancer Treatment
By RON WINSLOW
…Tests found Ms. Carey’s lung cancer to be of a rare type that researchers had found just three years earlier by deciphering its genetic code. The 45-year-old businesswoman in 2010 went on a drug Pfizer Inc. PFE -0.10% was testing for that type. By pinpointing her cancer, the drug probably helped give her years more to live than chemotherapy would have, her doctors say.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/universities-must-encourage-researchers-to-share-data-panel-says/45409?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Universities Must Encourage Researchers to Share Data, Panel Says
By Lawrence Biemiller
A panel of experts convened by the publishing giant Thomson Reuters recommends that researchers, universities, and publishers come up with ways to make a researcher’s data available to other scholars even if the researcher doesn’t have a journal article ready for publication.

www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/13/science/how-to-share-scientific-data.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
How to Share Scientific Data
By JOHN MARKOFF
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That paradox is increasingly haunting the world of modern science. A deluge of digital data from scientific research has spawned a controversy over who should have access to it, how it can be stored and who will pay to do so.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/As-Visiting-Professors/141063/?cid=at
The Professor Is Famous. Is That Worth the Controversy?
By Seth Zweifler
When David H. Petraeus signed on to teach at the City University of New York this fall, it was supposed to be an opportunity for the retired four-star general to reinvent his public image by way of the classroom. Accepting an academic post, some CUNY professors said, could go a long way toward helping Mr. Petraeus, whose reputation had taken a hit after he resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency last fall amid a scandal over an extramarital affair. …Instead, the move has bred a controversy of its own. …In response to the outcry, Mr. Petraeus later announced that he had agreed to do the job for just $1. The former CIA director’s efforts to appease the faculty fell on deaf ears. Professors have continued to decry the hire, saying that CUNY needs a reality check.

www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/usc-sexual-assault_n_3741267.html?utm_hp_ref=college
USC Mislabels Sexual Assault To Keep Crime Numbers Low, Clery Complaint Says
Tyler Kingkade
…Mostov joined with several other USC students in filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education against the university over the weekend, alleging violations of the Clery Act, a federal law mandating accurate and timely reporting of crime on campus, including sexual violence. Mostov said she believes her case shows USC’s routine failures in responding to sexual assaults and reporting the crimes. USC is “persistently underreporting sexual battery, sexual assault, and rape in the Annual Clery Security Report by … categorizing instances of ‘rape’ as ‘personal injury,’ ‘domestic dispute,’ and other less serious crimes or non-crimes,” the complaint says.