University System News
USG NEWS:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/administration/morehead-to-champion-research-support-on-new-national-council/article_cdd91d9a-2be5-11e3-a006-001a4bcf6878.html
Morehead to champion research support on new national council
By Jeanette Kazmierczak
University of Georgia President Jere Morehead will serve a one-year term on a committee to advise the 218-member Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The Committee of Research Intensive Public Universities is a new committee designed as an advisory board for the association when it needs to make major decisions about issues related to public research universities.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/money-can-t-buy-experience-uga-students-urged-to-consider/article_98308320-2b15-11e3-8ff5-001a4bcf6878.html
Money Can’t Buy Experience: UGA students urged to consider unpaid internships
Laura James
A push to stop employers from taking advantage of unpaid interns has begun to attract national attention — but some University of Georgia students find the experience or class credits are more rewarding than a monetary salary.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56454/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=fcb94bf9cce6456d81a9f009ef288709&elqCampaignId=62
Seasoned Journalists Increasingly Move Into Academia
by Reginald Stuart
When veteran news executive Wanda Lloyd retired from daily newspaper work in 2012, she decided against leaving more than 40 years of experience on the shelf to gather dust. A few months after exiting her position as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, Lloyd began her new role as chair of the mass communications department at Savannah State University in Georgia. …These days, more seasoned journalists are finding their place in a community that has historically snubbed them — academia.
www.myfoxatlanta.com
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/23596064/shooter-response-drill-held-in-cobb-county
Shooter response drill held in Cobb County
By MYFOXATLANTA STAFF
MARIETTA, Ga. – Cobb County law enforcement took park in a live active shooter response drill on Wednesday. The training had officers in full gear with weapons to prepare them if a mass violence incident happened on the campus of Southern Polytechnic State in Marietta.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/10/04/agnihotri-helps-indian-us-companies.html?page=all
Agnihotri helps Indian, U.S. companies find opportunity
Tonya Layman, Contributing Writer
Anurag “Ani” Agnihotri, founder and managing partner of the Atlanta-based U.S. Indian Business and Research Center LLC (USIBRC), is focused on helping Indian and U.S. companies pursue new opportunities and excel in a globalized world. Because of his efforts, he is a finalist in the Individual of the Year category for Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2013 Governor’s International Awards in partnership with World Trade Center Atlanta… “I started USA India Business Summit and India’s Supply Conference in partnership with [the] Georgia Tech Center for Business Education and Research (CIBER).
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/10/04/evestment-provides-single-data-source.html?page=all
eVestment provides single data source for global investing
Tonya Layman, Contributing Writer
Since 2000, eVestment has grown to be one of the world’s leading providers of institutional investment data and analytics. Co-founded by CEO Jim Minnick, Heath Wilson and Matt Crisp, eVestment delivers insight and intelligence to the institutional investing community through a comprehensive, global database and cloud-based analytics technology. Because of its consistent growth and success, eVestment is a finalist in the New Company of the Year category for Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2013 Governor’s International Awards in partnership with World Trade Center Atlanta… The ability to access metro Atlanta talent from schools like Georgia Tech, Emory University and The University of Georgia – students who have an understanding of both technology and finance — has also been a key factor in the company’s growth.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-10-03/board-regents-cited-breeding-mosquitoes-former-gardens
Board of Regents cited for breeding mosquitoes at former gardens
By Meg Mirshak
Staff Writer
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia was the latest target of Richmond County Mosquito Control. The governing board was cited for an environmental health violation for standing water at the former Georgia Golf Hall of Fame Botanical Gardens site. What were once raised, brick fountains and a cascading, stone waterfall were collecting green and slimy rain water. According to a letter dated Wednesday to the Board of Regents, an inspection this week discovered the water features were not operating, holding stagnant water and breeding mosquitoes.
Related article:
www.timesfreepress.com
Georgia Regents cited for mosquito issues at Augusta site
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/oct/04/georgia-regents-cited-mosquito-issues-augusta-site/
USG VALUE:
www.georgiatrend.com
http://www.georgiatrend.com/October-2013/Athens-Clarke-County-College-Town-Boom-Town/
Athens | Clarke County: College Town, Boom Town
Locations, expansions and transformations
Karen Rosen
Athens-Clarke County is brimming with so much vitality that it is experiencing what Mayor Nancy Denson calls “the reverse broken window syndrome.” … The city is also forging stronger ties with the University of Georgia. Within his first two weeks on the job, new President Jere Morehead hosted a reception at his home for the chamber’s board of directors and their colleagues. Representatives from Athens-Clarke County have also met with Sean Mc-Millan, who opened UGA’s trail-blazing economic development office in Atlanta in August. Morehead “made a very strong statement of support and desire to work closely with the business community in Athens,” Eldridge says. “You have to have the University of Georgia on your team in just about everything we do, because they pull our train.”
GOOD NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-10-03/uga-awarded-grants-improve-security-kenya-indonesia-pakistan-and-saudi-arabia
UGA awarded grants to improve security in Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
By UGA News Service
The Center for International Trade and Security in the University of Georgia School of Public and International Affairs has received four grants totaling more than $700,000 from the U.S. State Department to improve security in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.
RESEARCH:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/10/04/gsu-field-study-pairs-students-with.html
GSU field study pairs students with global firms
Tonya Layman, Contributing Writer
Georgia State University’s International Business Field Study is an education-industry partnership that demonstrates the important role of education and facilitates the growth of international business in the state of Georgia. This study is an experiential, hands-on component of the Master of International Business (MIB) one-year degree program offered by the Institute of International Business at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/10/04/collaboration-innovation-and-marketing.html?page=all
Collaboration, innovation and marketing
Ken Bernhardt
Last week Leadership Atlanta, in collaboration with the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Metro Atlanta Chamber and the city of Atlanta, hosted co(lab), a Collaboration Leadership Summit. The event attracted over 1,400 corporate, civic, and government leaders and entrepreneurs. The key themes of the summit were transforming education, attracting and retaining talent, and cultivating innovation. I attended each of the sessions on cultivating innovation and will report some of the things I learned from the sessions… The other was Merrick Furst, Georgia Tech professor and founder of Flashpoint. He argued that there are problems with a Minimally Viable Product and that “authentic demand is a requirement for success.”
www.theatlanticcities.com
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/have-we-reached-peak-sprawl/7102/
Have We Reached Peak Sprawl?
Emily Badger
Several real estate researchers met in Atlanta on Wednesday to announce a milestone nearly as significant, they believe, as when historian Fredrick Jackson Turner declared the closing of America’s frontier after the 1890 census… “This is indicative that we’re seeing the end of sprawl,” says Leinberger, a research professor with the George Washington University School of Business, who led the study in conjunction with Georgia Tech and the Atlanta Regional Commission. “It does not say that everything turns off.
www.crn.com
http://www.crn.com/240162059/printablearticle.htm
10 Cool Tech Products Seeking Kickstarter Funding
By Kathy Kim, CRN
For tech products on the rise, crowdfunding has considerably helped creative ideas become realities for many. From a techie sketchpad to a beer-brewing robot, check out 10 of the coolest tech products that are currently waiting to catch their break on Kickstarter. The harsh and sudden blaring of an alarm clock is no way to start the day. Designed to be comfortable and customizable, Baboomi is one alarm clock that won’t be slapped into snooze mode. Created by a trio — a Georgia Tech student, graphic artist, and electronic and software engineer — Baboomi wakes users they way they want.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www..chronicle.com
chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/10/03/the-artificially-constrained-community-college-discussion/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Artificially Constrained Community-College Discussion
By Richard D. Kahlenberg
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Seattle at a symposium of the Association of Community College Trustees on “The Journey to Completion.” The topic couldn’t be more important in a country where 81 percent of entering community-college students indicate that they would like to eventually transfer and get bachelor’s degrees, yet only 12 percent do so within six years. The sessions were lively and informative and important—focused on all the hot reforms—but I was struck as much by what was not on the agenda as by what was.
Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCs-Could-Help-2-Year/142123/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
MOOCs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates
By Katherine Mangan
Seattle
Community colleges have generally cast a wary eye toward massive open online courses, or MOOCs. But a relatively new model, which “flips” homework and classwork by incorporating outsourced lectures, could help struggling students and make colleges more efficient, Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, told a packed gathering of community-college leaders here on Wednesday.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56450/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=fcb94bf9cce6456d81a9f009ef288709&elqCampaignId=62
MOOC Bandwagon Shows Signs of Slowing Down
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
After barely more than a year in business, opposite-coast rivals edX and Coursera have become two of the biggest higher-education organizations in the world, with a combined 6 million registered users drawn to the online teaching they provide. And why not?
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Government-Shutdown-Reaches/142137/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Federal Shutdown Hits the Classroom, Limiting Research and Fieldwork
By Lindsay Ellis
After Wednesday’s meeting of his research-methods class, Richard A. Williams, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, told students to light a candle in the university’s grotto, an outdoor stone hollow where community members pray, for the government shutdown to end soon. His request was in jest, but Mr. Williams said that the inconveniences brought by the government shutdown are affecting faculty members and students alike.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/04/new-book-explains-how-college-presidents-and-boards-can-avoid-leadership-disasters#ixzz2gl0mxe5j
Avoiding Disastrous Presidencies
By Ry Rivard
There’s a slim new book for higher ed leaders hoping to avoid a train-wreck presidency. In an interview, one of its co-authors, George Washington University President Emeritus Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, advises presidents to be “slightly paranoid” and governing boards to get their act together.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/04/open-access-journals-confuse-contributors-they-experiment-peer-review-models#ixzz2gl0eetGb
Puzzling Peer Reviews
By Carl Straumsheim
Just because scholars who seek to publish in open-access journals are open to new forms of peer review, that doesn’t mean they all see eye-to-eye — or know what to expect. As one sting operation shows, many such journals are unable to reject obviously flawed submissions, even as they promise thorough review processes. Meanwhile, other journals are even criticized for being too much like the traditional publishing they aim to reform.
www.edweek.org
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/10/02/06scotus.h33.html?tkn=PWRFCV5BMGzjE%2BrnYyaIn1qdt2WyL6C%2F1qsO&cmp=clp-edweek
Supreme Court to Tackle Race Case
By Mark Walsh
Combatants in the long-running war over affirmative action in education are lined up again in the U.S. Supreme Court. But the coming battle is a little different from those that produced well-known high court landmarks involving race and admissions. Early in the new court term that opens next week, the justices will weigh a case about a 2006 Michigan ballot measure that prohibited racial preferences in education and other areas of state and local government.
www.businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-04/duke-to-nyu-missteps-abroad-lead-colleges-to-reassess-expansion
Missteps Abroad Lead U.S. Colleges to Rethink Growth
By Oliver Staley
For two decades, U.S. universities have raced to build campuses abroad to burnish their reputation and attract foreign students. Now, controversies and stumbles at high-profile projects have led some to reconsider expansion.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/04/harvard-rejects-call-divest-fossil-fuels#ixzz2gl16aKM4
Harvard Says No
By Scott Jaschik
Harvard University will not divest of its endowment holdings in the fossil fuel industry, said a statement issued Thursday by Drew Faust, the president. She wrote that she and board members did not consider such a move to be “warranted or wise.” The push for colleges to divest of such holdings has attracted considerable attention in the last year or so, but most of the institutions that have announced plans to divest have relatively small endowments and do not depend on them for their finances. Harvard has the world’s largest endowment.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/04/u-arizonas-foundation-had-stake-offshore-tax-shelter-suing-donors-financial-advisers#ixzz2gl2LlZwX
Foundation and Donor Sue Over Failed Deal
By Ry Rivard
The University of Arizona Foundation and one of its major donors had a stake in a “sham” offshore tax shelter that the U.S. government later cracked down on, they say in a recent court filing. Now, they are both in federal court accusing a bank that helped set up the deal of defrauding them.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/04/faculty-advocate-new-ncaa-division-far-governance-plan#ixzz2gl2Vxj66
Faculty on the NCAA’s Future
By Allie Grasgreen
Many faculty members may resent the money and power big-time athletics programs wield on campus, but the fact is that college sports are bigger than ever and they’re not going anywhere. With that in mind, the Division I Faculty Athletics Representatives Board, which represents the designated academic-athletic department liaisons/watchdogs at institutions nationwide, proposed its own plan detailing how the National Collegiate Athletic Association should be restructured.
www.nytimes.com
Adobe Announces Security Breach
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Hackers infiltrated the computer system of the software company Adobe, gaining access to credit card information and other personal data from 2.9 million of its customers, the company acknowledged on Thursday. The security breach, which Adobe called a part of a “sophisticated attack,” also allowed hackers to obtain encrypted passwords and other personal information from customers.