USG VALUE:
www.msgr.com
http://www.msgr.com/news/community/article_988958aa-21ed-11e3-8aee-0019bb2963f4.html
Continuing education for 50+ begins next week at MMCC
A new partnership between the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Georgia will bring “thought-provoking, adult continuing-education classes to Madison,” organizers say. Six lectures by professionals and UGA professors are set from 2:30-3:45 p.m. at the Cultural Center during the 2013-2014 season.
GOOD NEWS:
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2013-09-20/exchange-brief#.UkBv4LyAEXx
Exchange in brief
Georgia Southern designated military friendly
STATESBORO — For the third year in a row, Georgia Southern University has been named a Military Friendly School by G.I. Jobs magazine for its efforts to provide educational opportunities to America’s veterans, active-duty troops and their families.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/09/22/2679875/midstate-students-among-those.html
Education notebook: Midstate students among those chosen for Student Advisory Council
By Staff reports
MGSC named a military friendly school
Middle Georgia State College has been named to the 2014 Military Friendly Schools list published by Victory Media. The list honors the top 20 percent of colleges, universities and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace America’s military personnel, according to a news release.
www.11alive.com
http://www.11alive.com/news/article/307100/3/Ga-Tech-among-top-universities-to-work-for
Ga. Tech among top universities to work for
Beth Sawicki
(WXIA) — Georgia Tech has been named one of Glassdoor’s Top 25 Universities to Work For. The Atlanta university is No. 14 on the 2013 list, which was based entirely on employee feedback. … Georgia Tech President Bud Peterson earned a 93 percent approval rating.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/09/22/2679875/midstate-students-among-those.html
College fair to be held next month
More than 75 colleges are expected for the PROBE College Fair next month.
The event is scheduled 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 2 at Middle Georgia State College. The fair aims to give students access to colleges and universities for a chance to learn more about the schools, admissions, scholarships, financial aid and information in other areas.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-09-20/uga-athletics-generates-nearly-100-million-revenues
UGA athletics generates nearly $100 million in revenues
By Lee Shearer
The University of Georgia Athletic Association had another good financial year, UGA Vice President for Finance and Administration Ryan Nesbit said Friday. … The association had $98.9 million in revenues in the 2013 fiscal year, according to unaudited figures, Nesbit told the athletic association board that met Friday in Athens.
USG NEWS:
www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/ap/ap/education/ga-students-borrowing-for-college-despite-hope/nZ4R5/
Ga students borrowing for college despite HOPE
by Lee Shearer, The Athens Banner-Herald
ATHENS Ga.—Christina Serra is like a lot of University of Georgia students. The HOPE Scholarship has paid for a huge part of her college expenses, but she still has to work to pay for her college education. But Serra, now a UGA graduate student, is also different. A year away from graduating with a master’s of public administration degree, Serra has managed to avoid borrowing money, unlike most UGA students.
Related article:
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Ga. Students Can’t Depend on HOPE; Start Borrowing More for College
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RESEARCH:
www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/health/2013/09/23/georgia-tech-gets-2-million-to-study-lymphedema
Georgia Tech gets $2 million to study lymphedema
Condition is rarely discussed and often misdiagnosed
by Mary Jo DiLonardo
Lymphedema is a painful and chronic swelling of the lymphatic system that often affects women after breast cancer surgery or radiation, and sometimes men after prostate cancer surgery. The condition is infrequently discussed by doctors and often misdiagnosed. The National Institutes of Health just awarded Georgia Tech a $2 million research grant to study lymphedema.
www.wsbtv.com
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/ap/education/georgia-tech-taps-crowd-for-funds/nZ4py/
Georgia Tech taps ‘crowd’ for funds
By KRISTINA TORRES
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Attention geeks, what deserves your money more: honey bees equipped with tiny transmitters or a lumbering Robosaurus? Folks from around the world can now vote with their dollars about research at Georgia Tech, as one of the state’s top institutions launched a website last week tapping into that most basic of Internet Age fundraising methods: crowd funding.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/lifestyles/a-new-way-to-fund-dreams-of-all-kinds/nZ3s5/
A new way to fund dreams of all kinds
Do you need money to fund your great business idea, your latest invention, your breast implants? Do not fear, crowd funding is here. Asking people for money is an idea as old as time, but since appearing on the Web in 2008 crowd funding as we now know it has fueled a financial revolution. …“Anyone who has a good idea has the option of getting it crowd funded.”… More ambitious people or larger institutions may decide to create their own crowd funding site rather than rely on other companies. Georgia Tech, for example, created a website to crowd fund research.
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20130922-SUNDAY-UWG-Economic-Outlook-_Yamaha-Expansion
West Georgia economic outlook positive
The plans for additional utility vehicle production at the Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation facility in Newnan were among four expansions expected to add more than 500 jobs in the West Georgia region over the next three years. The University of West Georgia’s Center for Business and Economic Research recently released the Summer 2013 West Georgia Regional Update, a research study that provides economic findings from Carroll, Coweta, Douglas, Haralson, Paulding and Polk counties.
www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/news/local/article_39e2a83c-2252-11e3-897b-001a4bcf6878.html
UWG study: Unemployment rises as more join labor force
Unemployment rates in June 2013 were lower in five of the west Georgia region’s six counties compared to June 2012, according to a University of West Georgia study.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/09/20/uga-plays-important-role-in-georgias.html
UGA plays important role in Georgia’s economic development
Jere Morehead
One of my first acts upon becoming the 22nd president of The University of Georgia was to open an economic development office in Atlanta. Some might ask why I did so, and my response is a simple one: As a land-grant institution, UGA is charged with serving the citizens of Georgia in ways that improve their lives.
www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/09/new-study-of-georgias-schools-questions-their-ability-to-provide-skilled-workforce/
New study of Georgia’s school funding questions state’s ability to provide skilled workforce to business
Posted in David Pendered
A new report on state funding for K-12 education raises some challenging questions about Georgia’s ability to provide a skilled workforce to businesses – especially in areas beyond metro Atlanta.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/2-Year-Students-Have-Long-Had/141787/
2-Year Students Have Long Had 4-Year Dreams
By Stephen J. Handel
Last month the National Student Clearinghouse released a report showing that more than 60 percent of community-college students who transferred to four-year universities ultimately earned bachelor’s degrees within six years after transfer. I was pleased to hear these findings but not surprised. New, first-time community-college students have always been ambitious.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opinion/math-and-minorities-grim-numbers/nZ2wZ/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Grim outlook for black students in math, science
By Kamau Bobb
Dr. Kamau Bobb is a research scientist at the Center for Education Integrating Science Mathematics and Computing at Georgia Tech.
The national emphasis on improving Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education is designed to ensure the United States maintains global technological and economic leadership. Behind the mask of those broad and very real concerns is the withering reality of the under-preparedness of black students in the basics of mathematics and science.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/opinion/its-all-about-effort/nZ245/
The smartest kids in the world
It’s all about effort
By Maureen Downey – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In his first day at a new high school, Eric looked around in disbelief: A third of his class was asleep. Fast asleep. Heads down. Out of it. The teacher ignored them, as well as the students who chatted through her lecture. This was not an urban American classroom. It was South Korea, a nation with some of the highest-achieving students in the world. Eric is one of the American high school students featured in journalist Amanda Ripley’s fascinating book, “The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got that Way.”
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/has-the-cost-of-college-reached-a-tipping-point/36693?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Has the Cost of College Reached a Tipping Point?
By Beckie Supiano
Toronto — Almost 150 colleges charged $50,000 or more in tuition, fees, room, and board in 2012-13. That one-year price is pretty darn close to the median household income in the United States. So has the cost of college reached a critical tipping point?
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2013-09-22/johnson-obama-initiative-could-help-evaluation-higher-education
Johnson: Obama initiative could help in evaluation of higher education
When President Obama visited the State University of New York at Buffalo in August to explain his plans for higher education reform that include rating schools on how well they prepare students for careers and awarding federal aid based on college performance, universities were served notice that they may not be doing business as usual anymore.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/09/19/obamas-college-plan-scorecard-graduation-rates-column/2839715/
Obama’s college plan has potential genius: Column
A rating system could help minorities and students from low-income backgrounds choose the right school.
President Obama’s college affordability plan has been eclipsed by the diplomatic showdown over Syria and now talk of a government shutdown, but it will be back this fall when, hopefully, its true benefit will get an airing. The plan sounds like an appeal to the middle class, but it could prove more a boon to minorities and students from low-income families.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/09/20/ad-campaign-aims-to-scare-college-students-about-obamacare/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
Ad campaign aims to scare college students about Obamacare
A Virginia-based youth organization with financial ties to the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers has launched an ad campaign to scare college students about Obamacare so much that they “opt out” of the health-care law and don’t sign up for health insurance. Generation Opportunity issued a press release Thursday about its $750,000 campaign that said:
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/09/25/05pace_ep.h33.html?tkn=NUQFCgRZFQm02hT0jFK56e2jWvg4W5ii%2Ffak&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1
A Pathway for the Future of Education
By Lillian Pace
When Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, completes his purchase of The Washington Post in October for $250 million in cash, it will represent something larger than a business transaction. It will defy convention. Amazon did not exist 20 years ago, but its success allowed Bezos to buy the venerable Post, a product of 19th-century innovation struggling to cater to the changing needs and desires of a 21st-century public. There is a parallel in education.
Education News
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/09/21/2703121/columbus-technical-college-leads.html
Columbus Technical College leads Georgia system in enrollment growth
Enrollment rose 6.2 percent in FY2013
By MARK RICE
Columbus Technical College is No. 1 among the 26 institutions in the state system when it comes to total enrollment growth the past year. Total enrollment increased 6.2 percent, from 5,928 in fiscal year 2012 to 6,295 in fiscal year 2013 at Columbus Tech, according to a Technical College System of Georgia report. Even more impressive, that growth was achieved while the state system as a whole saw its enrollment go in the opposite direction, a decline of 3.6 percent, from 156,800 to 151,150.
www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/23484307/mtc-shares-in-56-million-in-grants
MTC shares in $5.6 million in grants
By Dave Miller
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – ATLANTA (AP) – Two Georgia community colleges have been awarded $5.68 million from the Obama administration to expand partnerships with local employers. …The grants are aimed at developing programs to help community colleges and universities across the country expand programs to train students to develop skill sets to meet the needs of local employers. Officials say Central Georgia Technical College will be given more than $2.6 million and Moultrie Technical College will be given more than $3 million.
www.catwalkchatt.com
http://www.catwalkchatt.com/view/full_story/23652799/article-Adult-education-is-key-to-returning-to-the-workforce?instance=home_Most_popular
Adult education is key to returning to the workforce
by Matt Ledger
The bean counters may have declared that the recession ended a while ago, but the reality of furloughs, layoffs, plant closures and lost jobs continue to affect family finances. While it hasn’t always been the case, job seekers aiming to rejoin the workforce quickly realize that a high school diploma or GED has become a minimum standard for employment in many cases.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2013-09-20/construction-firms-augusta-area-concerned-finding-qualified?v=1379709447
Construction firms in Augusta area concerned with finding qualified workers
Construction workforce aging fast
By Jenna Martin
Staff Writer
…Nationally, nearly 75 percent of 700 construction firms polled by the association reported that they are having issues finding qualified labor. In Georgia, 65 percent of contractors in the survey said they can’t fill some or all key professional and craft worker positions. Among the hardest jobs to staff were carpenters, electricians, project supervisors, estimators and engineers.
www.gainesvilletimes.com
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/89052/
Fewer standardized tests a possibility for next school year
State school superintendent: Common Core not going away
By Carly Sharec
When new standardized test formats are rolled out in the 2014-15 school year, there may be fewer of them. State School Superintendent John Barge hinted at consolidation during a round-table discussion during a Friday visit to Gainesville’s Enota Multiple Intelligences Academy.
www.gpb.org
http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/09/23/in-push-for-common-standards-many-parents-left-uneducated
In Push For ‘Common’ Standards, Many Parents Left Uneducated
By Claudio Sanchez
Forty-five states have adopted the Common Core State Standards, the first-ever national academic standards for students. But opposition is growing, and some lawmakers are having second thoughts about their states’ support. Meanwhile, proponents of the standards are still struggling to explain the initiative to parents, many of whom say they’ve never even heard of the Common Core.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56130/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c857dcde60334ba7952bf4705119568f&elqCampaignId=62#
Nation Leaders Highlight Critical Needs for the Future of American Universities
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
New York – During a two-day conference that drew dozens of university heads, thought leaders and more, Dr. Norman Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, stressed that American research universities must do a better job of engaging minority students in scientific research as well as provide internships and other career-building opportunities, in order for schools to maintain their global preeminence.
www.wtsp.com
http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/336357/19/UF-administrators-discuss-future-of-online-degrees
UF administrators discuss future of online degrees
The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – University of Florida’s online bachelor’s degree program will start off with a small number of students and it will operate in the red for the first few years but ramp up to 24,100 students and millions in profits within 10 years.
www.nytimes.com
European Universities Catch the Online Wave
By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE
BIELEFELD, Germany — At first blush, the unassuming Bielefeld University of Applied Science — a small public technical college in a small German city — has little in common with the world-renowned Stanford University. Checking the Internet, however, one surprising similarity emerges: the long reach of some of their undergraduate lectures. Jörn Loviscach, a professor of mathematics and computer science in Bielefeld, has been putting his lectures on YouTube since 2009.
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/uc-promise-for-education-_n_3965021.html
California Universities Come Up With Crazy Crowdfunding Scholarship Idea
The Huffington Post | By Lydia O’Connor
If you’ve made a promise to learn the didgeridoo, adopt a kitten, dress up in a costume everyday for a month or do just about anything, you can turn your goal into a fundraising campaign for University of California financial-need scholarships. On Wednesday, the UC system launched Promise for Education, a unique, six-week social media initiative to create scholarships for UC students.
www.nytimes.com
Law Opens Financing of Start-Ups to Crowds
By JENNA WORTHAM
Entrepreneurs looking to the crowd to finance their big ideas just got a little extra help from the government. On Monday, federal legislation goes into effect to allow “emerging growth” companies — essentially, small start-ups — to ask for equity investments publicly, such as through social media sites or elsewhere on the Internet, without having to register the shares for public trading.
www.boston.com
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/09/21/harvard-launches-record-billion-capital-campaign/6GW2jIcgkE4l6a8LYSEljN/story.html
Harvard launches record $6.5 billion capital campaign
By David Abel, Globe Staff
Harvard University announced Saturday that it has launched a campaign to raise $6.5 billion by 2018 — a record goal for higher education — and plans to use the money to expand the campus in Allston, enhance engineering programs, and renovate aging undergraduate houses.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324665604579078933691163714.html?mod=ITP_journalreport_1
Should the U.S. Finance Alternative-Energy Startups?
After some well-publicized failures, two experts debate whether the federal government should play this role.
The federal government has long been a player in the energy industry. On top of its regulatory role, the U.S. government extends tax credits to companies in fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear energy alike. It also makes direct investments. … In more recent years, partly in response to some very public failures, controversy has erupted over the Department of Energy’s investments in clean-energy startups.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/education-dept-names-a-new-key-player-to-higher-education-policy-team/66381
Education Dept. Names a New Key Player to Higher-Education Policy Team
by Charles Huckabee
Jamienne S. Studley, a former president of Skidmore College and a former top lawyer for the U.S. Department of Education, has been appointed as a deputy under secretary of education to help lead the department’s higher-education policy initiatives. Martha J. Kanter, the under secretary of education, announced the appointment on Friday in a letter to colleagues.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Duncan-Calls-Criticism-of/141813/
Duncan Calls Criticism of College-Rating Proposal ‘More Than a Little Silly’
By Goldie Blumenstyk and Andy Thomason
New York
[Updated (9/20/2013, 5:09 p.m.) with response from Terry Hartle.]
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan took critics of the Obama administration’s proposed college-rating system to task on Friday, saying that attacking a system before its details have been worked out is “more than a little silly.” He also emphasized that the proposal could represent a meaningful improvement over the current system for doling out federal aid.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/09/23/duncan-chides-critics-college-ratings-system-pledges-advance-metrics#ixzz2fiSFRSn9
Duncan Chides 1 Dupont
By Michael Stratford
Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Friday admonished critics of the Obama administration’s plan for a federal college rating system and pledged to move full-speed ahead in developing the metrics by which institutions will be judged. The reaction to the proposal by some college leaders and higher education groups had been “premature and more than a little silly,” Duncan said in remarks at the Time Education Summit in New York City.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56126/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c857dcde60334ba7952bf4705119568f&elqCampaignId=62#
As Affirmative Action Continues to be Threatened, Schools Weigh Diversity Options
by Autumn A. Arnett
As the Supreme Court continues its review of affirmative action policies in higher education, institutions are bracing themselves for the seemingly inevitable toppling of their programs.