University System News
USG VALUE:
www.romenews-tribune.com
http://www.romenews-tribune.com/view/full_story/23530995/article-Georgia-Highlands-College-works-to-keep-students-in-school?instance=home_news
Georgia Highlands College works to keep students in school
by Doug Walker, Associate Editor
It has been a watershed year for the way higher education is financed across the U.S. Private resources now top traditional state aid to colleges by 51-to-49 percent ration nationwide, Raymond Carnley, chief advancement officer at Georgia Highlands College, said. Across the entire University System of Georgia, state appropriations have shrunk to $1.67 billion for fiscal year 2014. That pays 44 percent of the bill for students to attend the 31 USG institutions. Student and other outside resources account for $2.13 billion this year. Georgia Highland’s situation is somewhat better but right at the tipping point.
www.thecoastalsource.com
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/2013/09/05/ga-southern-students-learn-dangers-of-distracted-driving/
Ga. Southern students learn dangers of distracted driving
By Dave Williams
STATESBORO, GA – Teaching college students about the dangers of drinking and texting while driving was the purpose of the Arrive Alive Tour that paid a visit to Georgia Southern University Thursday. A high tech simulator allowed the students to experience in a controlled environment the potential consequences of drunk and distracted driving.
GOOD NEWS:
www.lawrenceville-ga.patch.com
http://lawrenceville-ga.patch.com/groups/schools/p/construction-continues-at-georgia-gwinnett-college
Construction Continues at Georgia Gwinnett College
The Allied Health and Science Building at GGC in Lawrenceville, Ga. is expected to open in the fall of 2014.
Posted by Vanzetta Evans
Crews are working on a new building on the Lawrenceville campus. In March, Georgia Gwinnett College broke ground on the Allied Health and Science Building. The $30 million, three-story, 91,000 square foot building is now taking shape.
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/23353837/georgia-southern-university-to-hold-stem-festival
STEM Festival to take place at Georgia Southern
By WTOC.com Staff
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Georgia Southern University is working to get more students interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The school is holding a STEM Festival to give students a hands-on opportunity to see that these subjects have real applications and ties to interesting careers.
USG NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/09/06/new-event-seeks-to-inspire-collaboration.html?page=all
New event seeks to inspire collaboration
Maria Saporta
Contributing Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
After 40 years of nurturing leaders in Atlanta, Leadership Atlanta believed it needed to harness the opportunities in the region by engaging a broader coalition to participate in a first-of-its-kind event. That’s how (co)lab, a two-day summit taking place Sept. 22-23 at the Woodruff Arts Center, came to be… Among the 60 speakers who will be at the summit are Thomas Friedman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist for The New York Times; Leigh Gallagher, managing editor of Fortune; Sir Ken Robinson, international adviser in education innovation; Tony Wagner, education expert and founder of the Harvard Change Leadership Group; Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed; Gov. Nathan Deal; Alan Dabbiere, chairman of AirWatch; David Butler, vice president of innovation at The Coca-Cola Co.; Robin Chase, founder of ZipCar and BuzzCar; and Bud Peterson, president of Georgia Tech.
www.suwanee.patch.com
http://suwanee.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/suwanee-to-hold-ceremony-for-911-artifact
Suwanee to Hold Ceremony for 9/11 Artifact
Dubbed Remembrance, the steel piece will have a permanent site in Town Center Park.
Posted by Steve Burns
Two years after arriving in Suwanee, the artifact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York finally will have a permanent site. …The display is the work of Georgia Southern University professor Marc Moulton, who was commissioned by the city to create the base after he was selected through a proposal process.
RESEARCH:
www.myfoxatlanta.com
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/23314737/tech-check-google-glass
Tech Check: Google Glass
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF
ATLANTA – Is Google Glass the future of computing? In case you haven’t heard the buzz about it, Google Glass is wearable technology that may just promise to take smart devices to the next level, but through all the buzz there is some controversy. The device is still in the final development phase with it being released to app designers and beta testers. Southern Polytech graduate Morgan Willis is one of the Google Glass Explorers. That’s the term the tech company gives to testers.
www.hngn.com
http://www.hngn.com/articles/11779/20130906/new-compound-coating-reduces-risk-blood-clots-inside-stents.htm
New Compound Coating Reduces Risk of Blood Clots Inside Stents
By Sam Goodwin
Preliminary studies conducted by researchers from University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine in Athens found that coating arteries with a new compound lowers the risk of blood clots inside stents.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/09/06/academic-minute-recreating-remora-grip#ixzz2e79LgoXx
Academic Minute: Recreating the Remora Grip
In today’s Academic Minute, Jason Nadler of the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals how the remora is able to maintain such a strong grip on its host.
www.wamc.org
http://wamc.org/post/dr-jason-nadler-georgia-tech-recreating-remora-grip
Dr. Jason Nadler, Georgia Tech – Recreating the Remora Grip
By BRADLEY CORNELIUS
In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Jason Nadler of the Georgia Institute of Technology reveals how the remora is able to maintain such a strong grip on its host. Jason Nadler is an adjunct professor of materials science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. More specifically, Nadler is a research engineer in the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Group at Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/09/05/forbes-in-re-imagined-us-atlanta.html
Forbes: In re-imagined U.S., Atlanta is capital of The Southeast Manufacturing Belt
Jacques Couret
Senior Online Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta already is the Empire City of the South and the capitol of Georgia, but in Forbes magazine’s re-imagined America of the future it is the capitol of “The Southeast Manufacturing Belt.” Click here to view a different map of the United States that features seven nations, three quasi-independent city-states and capitals for each nation. This bold prediction is featured in Forbes’ article, “A Map of America’s Future: Where Growth Will Be Over the Next Decade,” part of the “Reinventing America”series.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-ivelaw-lloyd-griffith/dreaming-and-doing-in-mid_b_3873865.html
Dreaming and Doing in Middle Georgia — About Things National and International
Dr. Iveylaw Loyd Griffith
President, Fort Valley State University
“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.” So said one of my intellectual heroes–Benjamin E. Mays, the late, great American educator and one-time, long-time president of Morehouse College. My mantra as the Ninth President of The Fort Valley State University is about dreams and dreaming. We’re in the “Dreams Business” in middle Georgia, as one of three public HBCUs in Georgia, and one of the state’s only two land-grant universities, the other being the University of Georgia.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/sep/04/colleges-concerned-about-affordability-many-still-/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Colleges: Concerned about affordability but many still raising tuition
I found some interesting stuff in this new higher ed survey by KPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm, most notably that 51 percent of colleges are considering tuition hikes or had already increased tuition to make up for cuts in state and federal funding. U.S. campuses are under increasing pressure from the Obama Administration and the public to make college more affordable for middle-class students, many of whom are graduating with $25,000 or more in debt.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/09/06/understanding-different-perspectives-higher-ed-debate-essay#ixzz2e7Jd50N1
Making Sense of the Higher Ed Debate
By Johann Neem
President Barack Obama’s recent proposals to reform higher education have once again made the debate over the future of higher education big news. Today, higher education is under scrutiny to explain what it does and why, while reformers from the White House to Wall Street are eager to provide alternatives.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/06/scrutiny-u-essex-marketing-memo#ixzz2e7JRQfRo
Marketing vs. Reality
By John Morgan for Times Higher Education
The cynics predicted that the creation of a market in higher education would lead to universities pointlessly splurging on marketing as competition for students increased. But they reckoned without the “Challenger Lighthouse.” A paper titled “Developing a ‘Challenger’ Lighthouse Identity” was recently presented at the University of Essex’s governing council.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/09/06/all-of-us-can-help-georgias-students.html
All of us can help Georgia’s students
Jeff Haidet
We’re all for better schools, but who can help Georgia students improve their chances in what has become an intensely competitive global economy? The answer in the near future may well be “all of us.” Certainly for those in the business community there are unique early opportunities to take a hands-on approach to assist in the improvement of education in Georgia.
Education News
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/06/the-tuition-is-too-damn-high-part-x-so-how-do-we-fix-it/
The Tuition is Too Damn High, Part X: So how do we fix it?
By Dylan Matthews
As I hope this series has made clear, it’s tough to speak in general terms about what’s driving the increase in the price of college. The story differs greatly from school to school, and among categories. But one can, in general, divide the institutions into three camps, each with its own set of issues. For public colleges offering master’s and bachelor’s degrees and for community colleges, the problem is simple.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/06/congressional-study-explores-costs-and-possible-changes-pell-program
Pondering Pell
By Doug Lederman
WASHINGTON — Proposals to do everything from slightly tweak to completely transform the Pell Grant Program have begun churning through the higher education policy world in this town, driven by the view (held by many, but not all) that the program’s expanded costs warrant a reboot. A new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office does not take sides in the potentially contentious debates either over whether Pell is now too big or ineffective, or whether or how it might be reworked.
www.money.cnn.com
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/05/pf/college/college-credits/index.html?iid=H_PF_News
AP tests, ‘early college’: High school students get a head start
By Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)
Bahiya Nasuuna hasn’t even started college, but she already has several academic credits in the bank that will give her a jump on graduation. “My parents need as much help as they can get [to cover tuition],” said Nasuuna, who will be attending the University of Massachusetts, Amherst this fall. Nasuuna passed seven Advanced Placement exams at her public high school in Chelsea, Mass., including one in English that will allow her to forgo an introductory writing course her freshman year. She is one of a growing number of students getting a head start on college credits while they are still in high school, cutting costs and speeding toward degrees — and jobs — as quickly as possible.
www.usnews.nbcnews.com
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/03/20309979-college-enrollment-down-by-a-half-million-students-in-2012-census-bureau-report?lite
College enrollment down by a half million students in 2012: Census Bureau report
By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News
College enrollment in 2012 declined by nearly a half million students compared to a year earlier, according to new figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau, with students over the age of 25 leading the miniature exodus from higher learning. Enrollment at colleges and universities among students aged 25 and older dropped by 419,000 last year, while enrollment among younger students dropped at about a tenth of that rate, according to the statistics released Tuesday.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/09/06/seven-best-paying-jobs-with-only-high-school-diploma/2770715/
Report: Best-paying jobs with no college degree
Thomas C. Frohlich
Close to a third of the adult U.S. population has a college degree. While it no longer necessarily guarantees a job, as it once did, graduating from college is a prerequisite for the vast majority of high-paying jobs. Of the job categories that earned a median of at least $60,000 in 2012, just a handful did not require at least some college education. The top-paying job categories all required a bachelor’s degree, and in many cases, a master’s or doctoral degree.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/55782/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=88bb2671ee694c36afc0ef0d1d6c19cd&elqCampaignId=62#
Study Shows Graduates of Elite Schools Don’t Necessarily Earn More
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
Graduates of elite colleges and universities don’t necessarily make more money than their counterparts at less well-known schools, according to new research. Using the first-year earnings of graduates of colleges and universities in five states, the study found that those from regional and second-tier campuses, on average, earn about the same as those who go to prestigious flagship universities.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/10-States-Are-Shortchanging/141453/
10 States Are Shortchanging Historically-Black Land Grant Universities, Report Says
By Eric Kelderman
Several Southern states underfunded historically black land-grant universities by tens of millions of dollars over a three-year period, according to a new report from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. …Alabama matched the federal dollars for one of its two historically black land-grant institutions, Alabama A&M University, but not the other, Tuskegee University, for which the state matched about 81 percent of the federal government’s appropriation. The states that did match all of the federal contribution to their historically black universities were Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/55775/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=88bb2671ee694c36afc0ef0d1d6c19cd&elqCampaignId=62#
Panel Says There Should Be No Question About HBCUs’ Relevancy
By Reginald Stuart
WASHINGTON — Historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) continue to play a key role in the nation’s higher education landscape despite the emerging debate in political and academic circles over their relevance, a panel of HBCU presidents declared Thursday. A top White House aide echoed their sentiments.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/community-colleges-overwhelmed-by-rising-latino-student-population/?utm_campaign=090313ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
Community Colleges Overwhelmed By Rising Latino Student Population
Source: fronteradesk.org
More and more Latinos are going to college. A recent study from the Pew Hispanic Center shows that, for the first time, Latinos have surpassed whites in college enrollment numbers and more than half of these students are enrolled in community colleges. One college in Southern Nevada is struggling to meet the needs of its Latino student body.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/college-wants-concealed-weapons-to-stay-in-cars/?utm_campaign=090313ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
College wants concealed weapons to stay in cars
Source: thetimesnews.com
Community colleges have a no-weapons policy on campus, but a new state law means changing those rules, at least a little. “I don’t think it helps the safety of our students, that’s our priority,” said Martin Nadelman, president of Alamance Community College. “If we call the Graham police, they are here almost immediately.” House Bill 937 allows people with concealed-handgun permits to carry them in more places, and limits the rights of businesses and schools to keep guns out.
www.miamiherald.typepad.com
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/09/florida-joins-nra-lawsuit-against-federal-gun-restrictions.html
Florida joins NRA lawsuit against federal gun restrictions
Florida is supporting a National Rifle Association challenge of a federal law restricting young adults from purchasing guns. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi joined 22 other attorneys general in signing onto a brief intended to bolster the NRA’s case. The gun rights organization wants the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a federal law restricting people ages 18, 19 and 20 from buying handguns. …In addition to Florida and Alabama, the other states supporting the NRA lawsuit are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, etc.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/06/national-center-campus-public-safety-will-centralize-federal-institutional-resources#ixzz2e7JEP18H
Campus Safety Clearinghouse
By Allie Grasgreen
It’s been nearly a decade in the making, but a federal clearinghouse for all things campus safety and security was finally set in motion this week, with the U.S. Department of Justice announcing a $2.3 million grant to establish the center at the University of Vermont. The National Center for Campus Public Safety will be “a one-stop shop” for resources, advice, training and best practices on all the issues that campuses generally must grapple with alone: threat assessment, emergency management, and compliance with federal laws such as Title IX and the Clery Act, among other things.
www.gainesville.com
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130906/ARTICLES/130909753/-1/sports08
UF withstands impact of federal research cutbacks
By Jeff Schweers
Staff writer
A 30 percent boost in research grants from private industry nearly made up for a drop in federal funding last year, leaving the University of Florida’s research community relatively unscathed.
www.pewstates.org
http://www.pewstates.org/projects/stateline/headlines/lasting-effects-from-financial-crash-mean-new-normal-in-states-85899502664?utm_source=eNews&utm_campaign=f0af796737-July_247_23_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5fb1de72ab-f0af796737-74460973#
Lasting Effects from Financial Crash Mean New Normal in States
By Jake Grovum, Staff
The effects of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression are forcing changes on state governments and the U.S. economy that could linger for decades. By one Federal Reserve estimate, the country lost almost an entire year’s worth of economic activity – nearly $14 trillion – during the recession from 2007 to 2009. …Education comprises a significant portion of state budgets. In the 2012-2013 school year, for example, 35 states had K-12 funding that was below pre-recession levels when adjusted for inflation, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), a left-leaning think tank. Some states reeled from spending cuts percent of almost 22 percent compared to 2008. Higher education funds fell too. Nationally, states cut spending by more than 28 percent per college student from 2008 to 2013 when adjusted for inflation, according to the center.