USG VALUE:
www.finance.yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/complete-ranking-americas-501-smartest-144858001.html
The Complete Ranking Of America’s 501 Smartest Colleges
Business InsiderBy Jonathan Wai and Max Nisen
Below is the complete ranking of the smartest colleges in America, based on 501 schools with available data. They are ranked by average SAT scores using the methodology described here. The national and liberal arts rankings come from US News, as does the test score data. … 46. Georgia Institute of Technology …141 University of Georgia …234 Gordon College …286 Georgia Southern University …349 Georgia State University …488 Savannah State University
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http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_6087a94a-1f9d-11e3-84e8-0019bb2963f4.html
EGSC holds AAMI workshop
Approximately 80 young men participated in the African-American Male Initiative workshop held in the Sudie Fulford Community Learning Center at East Georgia State College on Monday evening, September 16. … Colleges and universities in the United States are struggling to enroll and retain African-American male students. However, Georgia’s public colleges and universities have dramatically increased their enrollment, retention and graduation rates thanks to the University System of Georgia’s African-American Male Initiative (AAMI) — an innovative project launched in 2002 by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) — and the results are quite impressive.
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/campus/helping-hands-uga-hosts-athens-volunteer-fair/article_2aa230ee-20aa-11e3-a0ea-001a4bcf6878.html
Helping Hands: UGA hosts Athens Volunteer Fair
Arvind Deol
The motto of The University of Georgia is “Et docere et rerum exquirere causus” — to teach, to serve and to inquire into the nature of things. UGA has teachers who teach and students who inquire — the Athens Volunteer Fair helps fulfill the serving aspect of the motto. UGA hosted the 2013 Athens Volunteer Fair Wednesday afternoon at the Tate Student Center Grand Hall.
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http://www.mcduffieprogress.com/article_5946.shtml
AT&T grant helps THS keep college advisor
By Wayne Parham
A $25,000 grant from AT&T, through the University of Georgia Foundation, helps Thomson High School retain a special college advising position for another year.
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http://valdostadailytimes.com/local/x134959205/VSU-Kicks-off-50th-anniversary-celebration
VSU Kicks off 50th anniversary celebration
Kristin Finney The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — In celebration of “50 Years of Integration: A Celebration of Inclusion,” Valdosta State University will be hosting several dinners, presentations, programs and exhibits throughout the next year.
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http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_0e57a18a-1bbe-11e3-9607-0019bb2963f4.html
EGSC’s Fall Convocation to be held September 26
at 11 a.m. in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Auditorium. The ceremony officially kicks-off a three-day community celebration from Thursday, September 26 through Saturday, September 28. Guest speaker for the Fall Convocation will be Interim Superintendent of the Dekalb County School District, Michael L. Thurmond.
East Georgia State College’s Fall Convocation 2013 will be held on Thursday, September 26 at 11 a.m. in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Auditorium. The ceremony officially kicks-off a three-day community celebration from Thursday, September 26
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http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/sep/19/georgia-gwinnett-college-honors-students-faculty/?news
GGC honors students, faculty during convocation
From staff reports
LAWRENCEVILLE — Georgia Gwinnett College recognized several students and faculty members during its annual academic convocation ceremony Thursday. … The ceremony included comments by Richard Pennington, associate professor of chemistry and recipient of the Outstanding Teaching award. He was recently named the recipient of the 2013 University System of Georgia Board of Regents’ Teaching Excellence Award.
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Vietnam Traveling Wall now set up at GSW
The Americus Times-Recorder
AMERICUS — The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall is completely up and is available to view on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University.
RESEARCH:
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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-09-19/uga-education-researchers-receive-265-million-test-new-science-teaching-model
UGA education researchers receive $2.65 million to test new science teaching model
By UGA News Service
A University of Georgia College of Education research team has received a $2.65 million grant from the National Science Foundation to test a new teaching model that improves science learning for middle schools educating English language learners and perhaps for all students.
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http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-09-19/mental-illness-prescriptions-increase-during-recession-says-uga-study
Mental illness prescriptions increase during recession, says UGA study
By UGA News Service
Perhaps surprisingly, public health overall improves during economic recessions. Fewer people die, fewer heart attacks are reported and general morbidity decreases, according to research from the World Health Organization. However, a recent study from the University of Georgia shows mental illness may increase during recessions.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/health/2013-09-19/georgia-regents-university-gets-big-grant-battle-sickle-cell-disease?v=1379625264
Georgia Regents University gets big grant to battle sickle cell disease
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
You don’t have to tell Ashley Williams that her sickle cell disease can lead to lung damage – she’s felt it. …Exactly how the disease causes damage in the lungs and kidneys and creates pain crises is the subject of an $8.8 million, five-year grant to researchers at Georgia Regents and Rutgers universities. …One GRU team already has a very large grant to study the effects this endothelin A receptor has in the kidney in a diabetes model.
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-09-19/gsu-awarded-19-million-tobacco-research-grant
GSU awarded $19 million tobacco research grant
By Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia State University officials say the school has been given the largest grant in school history from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. GSU officials said Thursday that the federal agencies have given Georgia State University a five-year, $19 million grant to help establish one of 14 Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science. The centers are tasked with studying the reasons why people choose to use tobacco.
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-09-19/georgia-state-professor-wins-nih-research-grant
Georgia State professor wins NIH research grant
By Associated Press
ATLANTA — Georgia State University officials say a professor has won a grant to study the potential links between early alcohol use and HIV in Africa. GSU public health professor Monica Swahn has been awarded a two-year, $390,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the role alcohol may play in young people acquiring HIV in Africa.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24162115
The technology that lets dogs ‘talk’ to owners
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a vest that allows a trained dog to “talk” to its owner, anti-virus company McAfee has compiled a list of the top 10 most “dangerous” celebrities to search for online – some sites have tested positive for malware – and YouTube is to allow offline viewing for video content downloaded for mobile devices.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2013/09/will-georgia-techs-online-degree-hurt.html
Will Georgia Tech’s online degree hurt Atlanta’s office market
Ben Hautt
I was very excited when I first read about Georgia Tech’s online master’s degree. The lower cost program expands access and the degree allows people to get a great education from anywhere in the world. All in all, I believe this is a great gift to society.
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Celebrating 20 years of Hope
by Sen. Cecil Staton
Since its inception in 1993, Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship Program continues to be ranked among the nation’s most competitive and successful merit-based scholarships. This nationally renowned program – funded entirely by the proceeds of the Georgia lottery – awards Georgia’s best and brightest students and incentivizes academic achievement.
Education News
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kaipetainen/2013/09/19/great-stocks-at-the-best-public-colleges-why-you-should-pay-attention-to-what-college-leaders-own/
Great Stocks At The Best Public Colleges — Why You Should Pay Attention To What College Leaders Own
Kai Petainen Contributor
Perhaps the best stocks can be found in the stocks that are held by the best College leaders. Stocks held by College leaders have outperformed the market by 40% over the past two years, and shareholders and fund managers should pay close attention. Forbes creates a list of the top 25 public colleges… So, I went through the Forbes list of the top 25 public colleges, and I took the leader of each college and looked for public filings on their stock holdings. I found it surprising, that most public college leaders held nothing. Here is a listing of the schools and the leaders, for which I found no stock holdings… Georgia Institute of Technology; G. P. “Bud” Peterson
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http://www.independentmail.com/news/2013/sep/20/ga-community-colleges-get-56-million-grants/
Ga. community colleges get $5.6 million in grants
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Two Georgia community colleges have been awarded $5.68 million from the Obama administration to expand partnerships with local employers. U.S. Department of Labor officials said Thursday that the grants are part of a national pot of $474.5 million. The grants are aimed at developing programs to help community colleges and universities across the country expand programs to train students to develop skillsets to meet the needs of local employers.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/college-board-president-gives-some-hints-about-changes-sat#ixzz2fR8gTa8s
Hints on the New SAT
By Scott Jaschik
TORONTO — David Coleman, president of the College Board, was fairly general here Thursday in describing the changes coming to the SAT. His theme was that the new SAT would be more closely tied to high school and college curriculums and less coachable than is the current version. And he said that, however much the current SAT can be improved, “I think the SAT is the best current test there is.”
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http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-09-19/common-core-alliance-fraying-new-states-poised-pull-back
Common Core alliance fraying as new states poised to pull back
By Lee Shearer
The fraying Common Core coalition might be headed for trouble if Florida pulls out, a Washington policy analyst said at a University of Georgia conference on Thursday. All but five of the 50 states,including Georgia, signed up for the federally backed reform movement designed to standardize the basic elements of what students learn in public schools.
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/19/05doubletest.h33.html?tkn=YTQFfqILlgoou0l5bwZnNXfaf37bmt7vpBFR&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS1
Next Steps Weighed on Federal ‘Double-Testing’ Relief
By Catherine Gewertz
The U.S. Department of Education’s announcement that it will give states the chance to suspend some or all of their current tests in mathematics and English/language arts for the 2013-14 school year could spark big changes in student testing nationally. The offer comes with strict conditions, however, and doesn’t mean that states can skip tests altogether.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/house-withdraws-vote-science-laureate-amid-conservative-objections#ixzz2fR9EaiAv
Symbolic Setback for Science
By Megan Rogers
The U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote last week on a bill that would create the position of “science laureate” — a national title to honor an accomplished scientist and promote science, akin to the U.S. poet laureate. But backlash from a conservative group led lawmakers to pull the proposal from the floor.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Global-Partnerships/141765/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Colleges’ Global Partnerships Get Temporary Reprieve From Budget Cuts
By Karin Fischer
The U.S. Agency for International Development has reversed itself, saying it will not go through with drastic cuts in the budget of the group that runs its global higher-education partnerships. As first reported by The Chronicle, the agency had informed the group, Higher Education for Development, by e-mail in August that its operating budget could be reduced by nearly 80 percent, to $1-million, as of October 1, the start of the federal fiscal year.
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Global Agreements Spared
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/usaid-continue-fund-global-university-partnerships-after-all#ixzz2fR94nwYU
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/20/senate-education-committee-begins-process-reauthorization-higher-education-act#ixzz2fR8uKKdF
Senate Kicks Off Reauthorization
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Senate’s education committee formally began the process of updating the massive law governing federal student aid Thursday, its chairman laid out a straightforward plan: hold 11 more fact-finding hearings over the next several months and then produce a draft Higher Education Act by early next year.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Senate-Hearing-Focuses-on/141767/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Senate Hearing Focuses on ‘Triad’ Responsible for Overseeing Colleges
By Kelly Field
Washington
The U.S. Senate kicked off its effort to reauthorize the Higher Education Act on Thursday with a relatively tame hearing on the regulatory “triad” that oversees colleges. Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, the Democratic chairman of the education committee, described the hearing as an opportunity to re-examine the three-legged system of states, the federal government, and accreditors, “and determine whether it is up to the task of overseeing higher education both today and tomorrow.”
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http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/18/04hea.h33.html?tkn=ZRNF5jEvaY0HAN6LOocHyJAAN8HW4uGO41Ai&cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Congress Gears Up for Higher Ed. Law Renewal
By Alyson Klein
There’s no shortage of proposals in Washington to inject additional scrutiny into higher education amid soaring student loan debt, as Congress considers renewal of the Higher Education Act. The issue has gotten a lot of political attention lately, thanks in part to this summer’s protracted debate over how to cope with a planned rise in student-loan interest rates—resulting in a plethora of postsecondary accountability proposals, including a high-profile pitch from the president himself to tie federal financial aid to student outcomes.