UNIVERSITY SYSTEM NEWS
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University system, technical colleges work together to produce more graduates
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-10-17/university-system-technical-colleges-work-together-produce-more-graduates
By Lee Shearer
October 17, 2013
The state’s two public higher education systems are cooperating as never before to build an educated Georgia workforce, the systems’ respective leaders told an Athens audience this week. “We will meet all the requirements of industries and business that they will have the workforce they need,” said Ron Jackson, commissioner of the Technical College System of Georgia
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Freeman looks back over nine years at ASU
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/oct/17/freeman-looks-back-over-nine-years-at-asu/
By Terry Lewis –
terry.lewis@albanyherald.com
October 17, 2013
Just minutes before holding what was likely his final news conference as the president of Albany State University, Everette Freeman was relaxed and talkative.
Earlier this week, Freeman effectively closed the book on a nine-year stint at ASU when he accepted the president’s position at the Community College of Denver (CCD) in Colorado. He’ll begin work out west on Nov. 1When asked what he thought would be the legacy he would leave behind at Albany State, Freeman smiled.
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Southern Polytechnic raises $309,109 during ‘PolyDay’
http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/23874949
Southern Polytechnic State University wrapped up its annual corporate-community-campus fundraising campaign Oct. 14 on “PolyDay,” with a reception attended by the university’s community partners, trustees, alumni, faculty and staff. President Lisa A. Rossbacher said the goal for this year’s campaign was $200,000 and the amount raised totaled $309,109 including $66,002 contributed by SPSU faculty and staff and $243,107 from alumni, civic and professional organizations and businesses in the Cobb community.
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UGA team developing Web tool to improve young students’ literacy skills
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-10-17/uga-team-developing-web-tool-improve-young-students%E2%80%99-literacy-skills
By UGA News Service
Thursday, October 17, 2013
A team of University of Georgia College of Education professors is developing a Web-based tool to improve young students’ literacy skills thanks to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The specific aim of the grant is to support underachieving writers from low-income backgrounds, English language learners, students with a range of learning disabilities and those for whom initial motivation in writing or engaged writing is a problem.
Finance.Yahoo.com
The 10 Best Colleges For Math Whizzes (Georgia Tech is ranked.)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-best-colleges-math-whizzes-144900830.html
Business Insider
By Peter Jacobs
For those students more inclined towards numbers, college can often be a mathematics Eden.
We teamed up with data website Find The Best to compile this list of the best colleges in the country for math whizzes. Specifically, we looked for schools that had a high average SAT math score and a large difference between their average math and critical reading scores.
Colleges were ranked by the difference between their math and critical reading scores for the middle 75% of students. Any ties were given in favor of the school with the higher math score.
Our top school — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — has an average SAT math score of 790, but incoming students only scored a 680 on critical reading, a difference of 110 points.
Www.BizJournals.com (Atlanta Business Chronicle)
Atlanta well-suited to begin, expand startups
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2013/10/18/atlanta-well-suited-to-begin-expand.html?page=all
by Giannina Smith Bedford, Contributing Writer
Atlanta’s startups have gone gangbusters in the past few years, producing world-class companies and entrepreneurs. As the support network for startups grows, many expect the city to continue churning out new companies overflowing with potential.
While high-quality academia and the bustling international airport are no doubts big drivers of this success, there is also a unique attitude of innovation in Atlanta that is fueling the startup fire.
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Georgia Southern students use art, chili to help the hungry
http://www.wtoc.com/story/23722800/georgia-southern-students-use-art-chili-to-help-the-hungry
Oct 17, 2013
By Dal Cannady
Some Georgia Southern students used their art to help a local food bank while others used their own hunger. Professor Jeff Schmuki’s art students crafted ceramic bowls and sold them as part of the university’s annual “Empty Bowl Project”. Students could also get chili as part of their donation to the cause and they quickly went through 400 servings. The funds raised will help the Statesboro Food Bank.
EDUCATION NEWS
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Veterans are flocking to college as wars wind down
By KEVIN FREKING – Associated Press
Published: October 17, 2013
At 25, he’s older than most of his classmates. He’s married, too. And while most of his fellow students spent the past couple years in high school, Fisher was dodging bullets and roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now a civilian, Fisher is trying to make the transition from the battlefields to the classrooms of the University of Toledo. About two months into a new mission, he is far from alone. Some 1 million veterans and their dependents have enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities over the past four years, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. This influx of veterans has come with the drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and more generous financial incentives that generally cover a veteran’s tuition, housing and books. Many veterans face an array of challenges in making the transition to college life.
Www.Chronicle.com
October 18, 2013
After the Shutdown, Academics Have a Lot of Catching Up to Do
http://chronicle.com/article/After-the-Shutdown-Academics/142463/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
By Kelly Field
The federal government is back in business, and researchers are returning to government buildings and labs shuttered during the 16-day federal shutdown that ended late Wednesday. But the standoff, which cost the economy billions and disrupted research projects and education plans nationwide, is likely to have lingering effects on academe. It could be weeks before government workers get through the backlog of civil-rights complaints and tuition-assistance claims, and grant making could be delayed. In Washington, academics flooded the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian museums, eager to resume their research after a two-week delay. Research rooms at the National Archives remained closed, “to give staff time to ensure the proper protection of holdings,” according to the agency’s Web site, but were scheduled to reopen on Friday.
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Why Are the Underrepresented Minorities Underachieving in STEM?
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56822/
October 17, 2013
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
Whenever Tamara L. Battle taught middle and high school students as a member of the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education program — or GK-12 — she always made it a point to talk about her previous struggles in math and science. “I always tell students what my background is to let them know that I know what I’m talking about,” says Battle, who served as a GK-12 fellow at the Cesar Chavez Charter Schools for Public Policy in Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2008. “But I always tell this story about me failing my first physics class [in college], and now I’m teaching [physics],” Battle says of the time when she earned an F in physics at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in the 1990s. Battle says the idea behind sharing her personal story was to help students at the mostly African-American and Hispanic school overcome the fear of failure in what is often unfamiliar terrain. “I try to reduce the fear … because I know sometimes as minority students, that has already been infused at an early age,” says Battle, who now helps manage the GK-12 program as a Science Assistant within the Division of Graduate Education at the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va.
Www.Chronicle.com
As Common App Announces Fixes, Admissions Offices Preach Calm
http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/as-common-app-announces-fixes-admissions-offices-preach-calm/36973
October 18, 2013, 4:55 am
By Eric Hoover
The Common Application announced on Thursday that it had fixed two of the major technical glitches that college applicants encountered this week. One fix pertained to delays in receiving payment confirmations. “If you have been charged more than once for a single application fee,” a message from the Common Application said, “we have this information from our payment vendor, and we are in the process of issuing refunds.” Another fix apparently resolved problems some users ran into when using a Chrome browser. The Common Application, the nonprofit organization that runs the online application of the same name, said it was still working to solve other problems, which initially cropped up over the summer.
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October 18, 2013
International and Diversity Offices Look for Ways to Work Together
http://chronicle.com/article/InternationalDiversity/142465/
By Karin Fischer
In many ways, colleges’ international offices and diversity offices have similar missions: Both serve students whose backgrounds often differ from the rest of the student body. Each seeks to expose all students to cultures or belief systems unlike their own.
Yet, too often, despite their commonalities, those offices don’t play together.
A two-day meeting here aims to bridge that divide. Organized by the American Council on Education, the gathering, which attracted dozens of institutions, is the capstone of a three-year project to explore the potential for collaboration between multicultural education and internationalization efforts on campuses.