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Most libraries in Georgia to lose funding
by Mark Andrews
Beginning July 2014, the Bartow County Library System, along with two dozen other library systems across the state, will see a reduction in its local funding formula based on recommendations from the Georgia Public Library Service under its board of regents. For Bartow, this means a projected loss of $60,543 in funding in Fiscal Year 2015 and an overall loss of more than $600,000 in the next 10 years, says BCLS Director Carmen Sims.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/dec/27/your-daily-jolt-why-university-system-waived-106-m/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Your Daily Jolt: Why the university system waived $106 million in out-of-state tuition
By Greg Bluestein, Jim Galloway and Daniel Malloy
The end of the year is a notoriously good time for state officials to release juicy audits, timed to jolt legislators ahead of a legislative session or try to sneak through bombshells during a slow season. Over at myajc.com we tell you about one that raises concerns about the shadowy network of development authorities around the state. But there’s another audit released this month worth noting. It found that the University System of Georgia waived about $106 million in out-of-state tuition this past academic year. Tuition for non-residents can top $9,000 more per semester than in-state tuition and schools are forgoing revenue by awarding those waivers. But auditors can’t pinpoint exactly how much partly because it’s impossible to tell whether another out-of-state student would have been willing to pay full price.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/59686/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=58e5ef1b650f4d6ba021647e79411c08&elqCampaignId=168#
College President’s Primary Goal? Make a Difference
by Brian C. Mitchell
Dr. Brian C. Mitchell is president of Brian Mitchell Associates and a director of the Edvance Foundation. He is the retired president of Bucknell University and former president of Washington & Jefferson College.
Someone once asked me what a president does all day. They thought, like so many others, that presidents held out tin cups traveling the world searching for alumni with money. I replied that presidents are better thought of as King Solomon determining how to divide the baby. They behave most days as 19th century political ward bosses rationing funds and dispensing favors while working to manage an enterprise run by faculty operating like a medieval craft guild. A large, unwieldy, archaic volunteer governing board further confuses their job. There was a thoughtful interlude between the question and the answer. Then – I hope graciously – I accepted their quite sincere condolences with good humor.
Education News
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/georgia-students-seeing-success-with-second-math-c/ncTMH/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1
Georgia students seeing success with second math course tied to Common Core
BY WAYNE WASHINGTON – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Perhaps the second time’s the charm.
Georgia students are expected to fare well on the end-of-course test for analytical geometry, the second math course tied to the national academic standards called Common Core. Final results will be released early next year. Based on scores that have come in so far, the state Department of Education expects 67 percent of test-takers to meet or exceed state standards.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/59716/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=a4baea9495d74b8fb8fccfaa1dbfbb40&elqCampaignId=146#
Colleges Tying Presidential Raises to Results
by Rebecca Trounson, The Hechinger Report
Like all leaders of American colleges and universities these days, Massachusetts Bay Community College President John O’Donnell is under pressure to increase graduation rates and turn out students ready for jobs. And like a small but growing number of his counterparts around the country, O’Donnell has a new incentive to meet these goals: His salary partly depends on it. “College presidents need to be accountable,” said O’Donnell, a self-professed advocate of the idea that presidential pay be used to reward good performance, and whose board of trustees has recommended that he get the relatively modest maximum allowable incentive bonus of $7,390 for this, on top of his $211,150 base pay.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/59694/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=58e5ef1b650f4d6ba021647e79411c08&elqCampaignId=168#
Calif. Higher Ed Leader: Demand-Based Funding Best Serves Underrepresented Groups
by Jamal E. Mazyck
SAN FRANCISCO – Following the system leadership panel discussion earlier this month at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ (AASCU) Higher Education Government Relations Conference, California Community Colleges Chancellor Dr. Brice W. Harris talked to Diverse about the population growth of first-generation college students and the diversity concerns of underrepresented groups. The California system, the largest higher education system in the nation, is comprised of 112 campuses and serves 2.4 million students.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/foundation-organizes-community-focused-u-s-college-attainment-campaign/?utm_campaign=1227ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=adc050e16b5142e6aa2cc46d06539932&elqCampaignId=169
Foundation Organizes Community-Focused U.S. College Attainment Campaign
Source: DiverseEducation.com
With a cohort of 20 U.S. cities and their metropolitan regions leading the way, the Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation has launched a community mobilization campaign aimed at helping residents in selected metropolitan areas increase their attainment of postsecondary education and training. The campaign, which will conclude at the end of 2016, will cover 75 American cities that will be partnered with Lumina and other national organizations to enact local action plans to “increase the percentage of high-quality credentials” by residents living in those communities.