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Arthur Dunning Is the New Leader of Albany State University
The University System of Georgia has announced that Arthur N. Dunning is the new interim president of Albany State University. Dr. Dunning was serving as a professor and senior research fellow at the Education Policy Center of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He recently completed a three-year term as vice chancellor for international programs and outreach for the University of Alabama system.
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http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/9636ecc03c804c1285cdc45b38ff4369/GA–KSU-Online-Courses
Kennesaw State University tests online course model
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KENNESAW, Georgia — Kennesaw State University has launched its first so-called massive online open course. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/19h2mCB) that the courses — also known as MOOCs — have seen mixed results so far in higher education. KSU’s course is offered as part of a University System of Georgia multi-institution partnership with the Coursera company.
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/jan/02/sweet-career-move-ggc-harvard-grad-opens-suwanee/
Sweet career move: GGC, Harvard grad opens Suwanee cupcake business
By Keith Farner
Opening a bakery wasn’t the original career path for Andre Ide. Not with a master’s degree from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from Georgia Gwinnett College. But thanks to a friend’s suggestion, who thought her recipe was unmatched, Ide has opened a cupcake business in Suwanee called Crazy Cakes. …In 2006, Ide was one of GGC’s 118 charter students, and because she already had an associate’s degree in psychology, she graduated from GGC in two years. About that time, a GGC professor suggested the program at Harvard, and while she didn’t pursue a career in the psychology field, Ide doesn’t regret the move. “Before moving to Boston to attend Harvard, I would never have dreamed of moving somewhere on my own,” Ide said. “Going to GGC and helping to found the student government and some of the clubs made me realize that I can work hard, and that I love seeing results come from that hard work.”
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http://www.myajc.com/news/news/crime-law/reports-of-rape-on-campus-up-sharply/ncWww/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1
Reports of rape on campus up sharply
BY SHANNON MCCAFFREY AND STEVE VISSER – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Reports of sexual assaults at Georgia college campuses nearly doubled over two years, according to a review of federal education data and law enforcement records by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Some campus officials attribute the sharp rise between 2010 and 2012 to better education and outreach, which encourages victims to seek help. But even as reporting has climbed, prosecutions have not. No cases were prosecuted at the two colleges with the most reported offenses in 2012: Emory University and the University of Georgia.
USG VALUE:
www.beta.effinghamherald.net
http://beta.effinghamherald.net/section/1/article/23794/
Rincon chosen for community housing initiative
Staff report
Five Georgia communities — Albany, Douglasville, Perry, Porterdale and Rincon — have been selected to begin a three-year program to assist them in addressing their housing needs.The Georgia Initiative for Community Housing is a collaboration of the Housing and Demographics Research Center and the Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at the University of Georgia, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs, and the Georgia Municipal Association. The program is funded by the Georgia Power Company. Additional in-kind services are provided by the University of Georgia’s Archway Partnership and the Carl Vinson Institute of Government. The five communities selected will attend their first workshop in February 2014.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-01-02/zumba-thon-benefit-food-2-kids
Zumba-thon to benefit Food 2 Kids
By ANDRE GALLANT
Zumba-thon to benefit Food 2 Kids
Most people Zumba to stay healthy, but an event Saturday uses the cardiovascular exercise to help kids in Athens fight hunger. The Links, a civic group of women dedicated to mentoring the next generation, is sponsoring a Zumba-thon at the University of Georgia’s Butts-Mehre Building. It benefits Food 2 Kids, a hunger-fighting program through the Food Bank of Northeast Georgia that sends Clarke County School District students home with bags of food.
www.businessinsider.com
http://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-prepare-future-of-work-2014-1
How Millennials Can Prepare For The Future Of Work
DAN FRIEDMAN, THINKFUL
Today, we “20-somethings” expect to have three jobs before our 30th birthdays. We build our careers in two to three year stints. We take jobs for the learning experience, rather than the company brand name or lucrative salary. We know that what matters now, and what will matter even more in the future, is the skills we have, not just the places we worked or where we earned a degree… Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, often held as the leader of the MOOC movement, abandoned the core principles of the MOOC. Udacity’s full course experience is no longer free, and they’ve partnered with Georgia Tech to offer a more traditional online Master’s Degree.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-12-31/uga-vet-college-humane-society-partnering-spayneuter-surgeries
UGA vet college, humane society partnering on spay/neuter surgeries
By APRIL BURKHART
A new partnership between the Athens Area Humane Society and the University of Georgia is aimed at educating future veterinarians on the issues that surround pet overpopulation and showing them how they can make a difference through spay and neuter surgeries.
GOOD NEWS:
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http://www.news-daily.com/news/2014/jan/02/senior-nursing-student-earns-national-recognition/
Senior nursing student earns national recognition
School Notebook 1-3-14
By Johnny Jackson
STATESBORO — Nicole Crawford recently earned second place in the undergraduate poster competition at The Seventh Annual National Conference on Health Disparities in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The Hampton native is a senior in Georgia Southern University’s School of Nursing, where she also is a member of the Black Student Nursing Association, the Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training Program and RUN2 Nursing. “It was an honor to be amongst the few awarded and a privilege to represent Georgia Southern at such a prestigious event,” she said.
www.coosavalleynews.com
http://www.coosavalleynews.com/np105328.htm
New Ga Military Academic Training Center to Open
Tony Potts
AT&T announced this week that it is joining in a strategic educational partnership with the State of Georgia in a soon-to-be-built center in Warner Robins, Georgia that will provide higher education programming to military veterans and their families in the transition to civilian careers. Governor Nathan Deal and the General Assembly have committed $10 million to build the one-of-a-kind educational and professional development facility on 44 acres of land directly across from Warner Robins Air Force Base. For now, the facility has the working name of Military and Academic Training Center. The University System of Georgia and the Technical College System of Georgia are collaborating on the project and will provide veterans with education, training and job placement assistance to speed the transition from military service to careers in Georgia’s workforce.
Related articles:
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/01/02/2860133/future-veterans-training-center.html
Future veterans training center lands AT&T partnership
www.stripes.com
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/planned-veterans-career-training-center-lands-at-t-partnership-1.260344
Planned veterans career training center lands AT&T partnership
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/01/02/top-of-the-list-georgias-25-most.html
Top of the List: Georgia’s 25 Most Innovative Organizations
David Allison
Editor-Atlanta Business Chronicle
What were the most innovative Georgia organizations in 2013? You can find out in Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Jan. 3 print edition (which by the way also unveils our very innovative new design). “Innovation” is a hot topic in business. Forbes magazine has its list of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2013.” Business Insider also has its list of the most innovative companies in the world… Here’s a peek at the lists: The list of Georgia’s companies and universities ranked by the number of U.S. patents they received in 2013 leads off with AT&T Inc., Georgia Tech, Siemens Industry Inc., NCR Corp. and Graphic Packaging Holding Co. The list of Georgia companies and universities ranked by the number of patent applications made public in 2013 leads off with AT&T Inc., NCR Corp., Siemens Industry Inc., Georgia Tech and AGCO Corp.
RESEARCH:
www.westmilfordmessenger.com
http://westmilfordmessenger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131230/NEWS01/131239990/Are-we-lazy-in-our-approach-to-educating-boys
Are we lazy in our approach to educating boys? They have fundamentally different learning patterns, says expert
The problem of boys in education is not a new one — data has been mounting for many years that our sons are simply falling behind our daughters, says pioneering veteran in education, Edmond J. Dixon, Ph.D. But it’s not because boys are any less intelligent than girls, he adds. A recent study from researchers at the University of Georgia, which followed 10,000 students as they moved from kindergarten to eighth grade, indicates that though boys scored well on tests, indicating mastery of material, girls got better grades. Researchers account for higher scores in girls because they comported themselves better than boys while in the classroom.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-12-28/tips-save-energy-and-reduce-carbon-footprint
Tips to save energy and reduce carbon footprint
By PAM TURNERNEWS
Many Georgians already recycle, compost and use energy-efficient light bulbs. Even these families can further reduce their impact on the environment. For households looking to become even greener in 2014, here are a few simple changes from University of Georgia Extension that can help cut carbon footprints and natural resource consumption.
www.tauntongazette.com
http://www.tauntongazette.com/health/x1467741957/Is-there-a-cure-for-the-cough
Is there a cure for the cough?
Sorry, no — but there are ways to care for it
By Melissa Erickson
How can you cure that annoying, nagging cough that you just can’t get rid of?
The short answer is you can’t. …While a cough of longer than one week may send some rushing to their doctor looking for a prescription for antibiotics, researchers at the University of Georgia found that acute bronchitis — a severe illness with hacking cough — can last for an average of 18 days and that antibiotics are ineffective against coughs caused by the common cold and other viral infections.
www.news.cnet.com
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57616484-76/how-to-better-spy-on-a-childhood-virus/?part=rss&subj=crave&tag=title&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+cnet/pRza+%28Crave%29
How to better spy on a childhood virus
Scientists at Georgia Tech say a new technique for tagging the genome and studying the RNA of a virus could help them discover better antiviral drugs and perhaps even more effective vaccines.
By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
Influenza, Ebola, and respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV) can be nasty little buggers, infecting their hosts with rash abandon and, especially when they attack young babies, even killing them. And the danger reaches beyond the very young. Pneumonia, for instance, is the leading cause of death in children worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, and RSV is the most common viral cause of pneumonia. As imaging techniques advance, researchers are being able to study these viruses in greater and greater detail. Now, according to a team of scientists at Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, and Emory, one new technique for studying RSV in microscopic detail could help them spy on the structure of the virus for days and help them better understand how it enters cells, how it replicates, why some lung cells manage to escape the wrath of the virus, and so on.
www.yottafire.com
http://yottafire.com/2014/01/statin-osteoporosis-drug-combo-may-help-treat-parasitic-infections/
Statin, osteoporosis drug combo may help treat parasitic infections
by PressRelease
Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that a combination of two commonly prescribed drugs used to treat high cholesterol and osteoporosis may serve as the foundation of a new treatment for toxoplasmosis, a parasitic infection caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. They published their findings in PLOS Pathogens.
www.medicalxpress.com
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-disease-hispanic-population.html
Research suggests exercise reduces disease risk among Hispanic population
by Rebecca Ayer
(Medical Xpress)—Over time, exposure to stress can cause wear and tear on the body. Referred to as allostatic load, this measure of stress exposure can indicate an increased risk for a number of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. University of Georgia researchers found physical activity reduces those risks among a Hispanic population.
www.sacbee.com
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/30/6035543/for-georgia-peanut-farmers-sales.html
For Georgia peanut farmers, sales to China a bonanza that may not last
By Catherine Brzycki
Medill News Service
OGLETHORPE, Ga. — Another peanut harvest has come to an end, and the fields of southern Georgia are littered with gray vines, which will fertilize next year’s crop. For farmers in southern Georgia, 2012 was a record-setting year; 2013 paled in comparison. As they talk about 2014 and how the markets might change, one thing always comes up: China’s massive potential market. …Georgia is the leading peanut producer in the United States, providing more than 45 percent of the American crop per year, according to data from the University of Georgia. Since trading with China in 2012, Georgia’s economy stands to gain even more ground internationally, but that future is uncertain.
www.technologyreview.com
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/522586/ok-glass-find-a-killer-app/
Developers hope apps that improve upon their smartphone versions will help Google’s head-worn computer catch on.
By Rachel Metz
When Google first introduced Glass over a year and a half ago, one question loomed: what kind of apps could make it worth wearing a head-mounted computer everywhere you go? There’s still no good answer for that, in part because Glass is still not publicly available; it is expected to be released sometime this year. However, a select group of developers have had Glass in their hands (and on their heads) for months, and the apps they’re developing hint at what they think will make Glass—and other head-worn computers—a mainstream hit… A similar idea motivates Georgia Tech professor Thad Starner, who is the technical lead on Glass for Google, as he develops an app called Captioning on Glass.
www.newscientist.com
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129504.400-collapsing-backpack-charges-gadgets-as-you-walk.html#.Usbp0ijGEeV
Collapsing backpack charges gadgets as you walk
by MacGregor Campbell
WEARABLE computers are on their way and soon you’ll be able to power them yourself. A new type of nano-generator converts movement from walking into electricity to keep your gadgets going. Wearable generators often use electromagnetic induction, which is efficient but requires bulky, heavy magnets. Smaller, lighter piezoelectric generators use ceramic crystal to convert pressure into voltage, but they are expensive and a lot less efficient. Now Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, have captured the electricity generated from bringing two differently charged surfaces into contact, then separating them.
www.news.yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/video/researchers-tap-power-motion-energy-013803650.html
Researchers tap power in motion as energy alternative
Reuters Videos
Researchers at Georgia Tech are developing technology that can harvest the power of motion, an energy source they say could one day produce enough clean, renewable electricity to power the planet.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2014/01/ford-teams-up-with-georgia-tech-on.html
Ford connects with Georgia Tech to drive solar-powered car
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
First there was gas, then electricity. Now there’s sunlight.
Ford Motor Co. is teaming up with Georgia Tech to develop a sun-powered vehicle that can convert a day’s worth of sunlight into the equivalent driving range of a plug-in hybrid.
Related article:
www.nytimes.com
From Ford, a Plug-In That Tracks the Sun
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/01/03/five-hot-technology-trends-for-2014.html
Five hot technology trends for 2014
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
As a Georgia Tech vice president, Stephen Fleming has his finger on the pulse of Atlanta’s tech industry. On the cusp of the new year, Fleming suggests the smart money should bet on these areas of innovation being driven by Georgia companies. Privacy: The overwhelming tech trend of 2014 is going to be privacy — privacy from online crooks, from advertisers, from neighbors, even privacy from the government. Enough of us have clicked enough Terms of Service agreements without reading them that we’ve leaving elephant-sized footprints across the Internet, even if we think we’re just making a phone call to the local pizza joint or checking our friends’ selfies on Facebook.
www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-netflix-reverse-engineered-hollywood/282679/
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words, … and built our own new-genre generator.
ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL
If you use Netflix, you’ve probably wondered about the specific genres that it suggests to you. Some of them just seem so specific that it’s absurd. Emotional Fight-the-System Documentaries? Period Pieces About Royalty Based on Real Life? Foreign Satanic Stories from the 1980s? If Netflix can show such tiny slices of cinema to any given user, and they have 40 million users, how vast did their set of “personalized genres” need to be to describe the entire Hollywood universe?… Georgia Tech professor and Atlantic contributing editor, Ian Bogost, worked closely with me recreating the Netflix grammar, and he programmed the magical genre generator above.
www.blogs.computerworld.com
http://blogs.computerworld.com/mobile-security/23335/why-you-should-stay-google-play-app-store
Why you should stay in Google Play, App Store
By Antone Gonsalves
Malware infection rates for mobile devices are very low. So low that you have better odds of being killed in a cataclysmic storm in the U.S. Nevertheless, hackers are trying hard to better their chances of success… However, it’s doubtful the majority of those downloads caused many problems. A recent three-month study by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found roughly 3,500 mobile devices with malware out of a pool of 380 million. That’s an infection rate of 0.0009 percent.
www.industryweek.com
http://www.industryweek.com/expansion-management/georgias-commitment-manufacturing-keeps-ethicon-expanding-state
Georgia’s Commitment to Manufacturing Keeps Ethicon Expanding in State
Georgia helps keep manufacturing strong through its ‘pro-business’ environment.
Adrienne Selko | IndustryWeek
Commitment best describes the philosophy at Ethicon’s Cornelia, Ga. plant and ultimately its success. -Commitment to the state of Georgia where it has been operating for over 65 years and last year announced another expansion. -Commitment to its workforce offering personalized career path planning… Ethicon partners with local trade schools, technical colleges and universities such as Georgia Institute of Technology and Clemson University. They provide internships and co-ops for students and have found that bringing in students during the college years can lead to full-time employees after graduation.
www.business-standard.com
http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ani/new-nano-generator-charges-gadgets-as-you-walk-114010300868_1.html
New nano-generator charges gadgets as you walk
A new nano-generator has been designed to convert movement from walking into electricity. Zhong Lin Wang and colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way to generate electricity by bringing two differently charged surfaces into contact, then separating them, New Scientist reported. The new technology uses the triboelectric effect, the same process that causes static electricity shocks. While testing, the 2 kilogram backpack generated over 1 watt of power during walking, which is sufficient to run 40 LEDs simultaneously.
www.psychologytoday.com
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-motivated-brain/201312/does-brain-training-work
Does Brain-Training Work?
Don’t believe the hype—there’s a catch to mental skills training programs.
by Dr. Elliot T. Berkman in The Motivated Brain
The recent proliferation of commercial online “brain-training” services that promise to enhance intelligence and other cognitive abilities is understandable: Who wouldn’t want to be smarter and have greater working memory and inhibitory control? Seeing the potential for low-cost and reliable measurement of performance, some corporations have begun using similar tools to assess potential hires and evaluate employees (“people analytics”)… The best work debunking studies claiming to produce training effects has been done by Randall Engel, Zach Shipstead, and their colleagues at Georgia Tech, who find that practice indeed improves skills at the trained tasks, but doesn’t transfer to untrained tasks when adequate control groups are used. They also raise concerns about the durability of the training over longer periods of time used in the research (usually 3 or 6 months).
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http://www.myajc.com/news/business/georgia-manufacters-expect-more-hiring-production/ncbKJ/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1
Georgia manufacturers expect more hiring, production
BY CHRISTOPHER SEWARD – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Georgia’s manufacturers expect more growth in the months ahead despite a mixed bag of results for key economic indicators in December, according to a new report from Kennesaw State University’s Econometric Center. The center’s monthly survey of purchasing managers responsible for acquiring the materials companies use to make products found optimism that they would continue to benefit from a strengthening economy in the first quarter. KSU’s Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose 1.6 points to 53.9 in December.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/colleges/2014/01/02/hope-glass-half-full
HOPE glass half-full
The scholarship program has surpassed its goals. So why are people complaining?
by Rebecca Burns
The HOPE scholarship program was launched two decades ago with three specific goals: increase the number of Georgians with postsecondary education, improve the overall quality of the state’s university system, and stanch the exodus of high-achieving students. HOPE has accomplished all three aims—and then some. Over the past two decades, the number of Georgians with college degrees increased from 19 to 28 percent. The state’s big schools, not just Tech and UGA, have become more competitive (see the chart of rising SATs here). And kids who could go anywhere in the country stay here; a decade after HOPE’s debut, more than 40 percent of Georgia high school seniors who scored between 1400 and 1490 on the SAT elected to stay in-state for college—double the rate before the scholarship existed… Maybe kids—if not yet their parents—are starting to realize the value of schools other than UGA and Tech.
www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/colleges/2014/01/02/special-report-hope-at-20
Special report: HOPE at 20
The scholarship program has changed a lot over the past two decades. Should we still be optimistic?
by Betsy Riley and Rebecca Burns
When the first HOPE scholars were freshmen twenty years ago, Georgia’s scholarship program looked very different from today. It covered two years of tuition at any public college in Georgia for B students whose household income was $66,000 or less. When the brand-new lottery met its annual sales target in five months, then exceeded $1 billion in revenue by year’s end, the state expanded the program to four years and added coverage for books and fees. The next year, the legislature revoked the income cap. But by 2004, the joyride was over. Faced with skyrocketing costs, lawmakers started making cutbacks. They tweaked the formula for calculating high school GPAs, quit covering fees, and made it tougher for college students to keep HOPE. In 2011 there were even more radical changes.
www.nationalreview.com
http://www.nationalreview.com/phi-beta-cons/367318/facebook-controversy-university-georgia-blake-seitz
Facebook Controversy at the University of Georgia
By Blake Seitz
Last month, a series of offensive Facebook posts directed at two University of Georgia student groups sparked a campus controversy. Before the controversy subsided weeks later, it led to two protests and a student-government resolution condemning UGA’s culture as unwelcoming — even unsafe — for minorities. …As an official investigation is ongoing, all claims about the antagonist and his motives are speculative. If we are to speculate, however, three explanations stand out as plausible.
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/01/02/2882229/richard-hyatt-wider-range-makes.html
RICHARD HYATT: Wider range makes Georgia Trend’s influence list
Georgia Trend has published its listing of the 100 Most Influential Georgians and, for the 16th year, the magazine left me off the list. More serious than that oversight are the names that did make the list, for this year’s assortment of the powerful and influential shows a seismic shift away from statewide politicians and button-downed business leaders. …For community voices to be included instead of the usual suspects in state government is interesting. It shows that homegrown leaders are becoming as important as those on the larger stages. There are also a noticeable number of leaders from higher education, including Columbus State University President Tim Mescon. Many of his peers are also mentioned.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/land-grant-universities-group-opposes-israel-boycott/70977?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Land-Grant Universities’ Group Opposes Israel Boycott
The leadership of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities on Thursday denounced the recent votes by some scholarly groups to support a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, becoming the latest prominent higher-education organization to criticize the movement.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/03/essay-boycott-israeli-universities-american-studies-association
Boycott Reflections
By Emily Budick
I want to begin with a quotation from Tzvetan Todorov’s Facing the Extreme Moral Life in the Concentration Camps, because, of all the many things that might be said in opposition to the American Studies Association boycott of Israeli institutions of higher education, the one I want to focus on is the association’s lack of moral courage, which, in this case, includes its failure to have learned the lessons of the association’s extraordinary and ethical achievements in previous generations.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/01/03/essay-growth-support-boycott-israeli-universities
A Tipping Point?
By Omar Barghouti
“What seemed impossible only a year ago seems quite possible now,” an academic involved in the American Studies Association endorsement of an academic boycott of Israel wrote to me after the news of the ASA membership vote on the boycott resolution came in. In response to a membership referendum organized by the ASA National Council, 66 percent of the voters endorsed the resolution.. Independently but simultaneously, the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association announced its elected council’s unanimous support for the academic boycott of Israel.
www.chroniclevitae.com
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/241-training-ph-d-s-to-teach-where-the-jobs-are?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Training Ph.D.’s to Teach Where the Jobs Are
Paula Krebs
As I was following the annual Council of Graduate Schools meeting on Twitter (#CGS53), I wondered why they hadn’t invited me to speak. Not me, personally. But someone like me—a dean or department chair at the kind of place most doctoral students (the ones who get jobs) will end up teaching. I thought about this after @VersatilePhD tweeted a suggestion from Stanford English professor Jennifer Summit: “We can learn from Ph.D. grads who’ve gone on to teaching-intensive institutions. Yes. Yes, doctoral programs, you can learn from the teaching institutions how better to prepare Ph.D.’s to teach at teaching institutions. And the fact is, of course, most Ph.D.’s will teach at “teaching-intensive institutions.” That’s because most students study at teaching-intensive institutions, from community colleges to regional comprehensives like mine to liberal-arts colleges.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/01/03/essay-humanities-phds-who-pursue-careers-based-passion-discipline
Beware the Passion Track
By Deb Werrlein
Given the dismal academic job market described by numerous writers, you’d think humanities Ph.D. programs would have shuttered their doors, boarded up their windows and hung a sign on the front entrance that reads, “Out of Business.” On the contrary, a recent Inside Higher Ed article shows the number of humanities Ph.D.s rising by over 500 graduates between 2010 and 2012. Why haven’t humanities students scattered like rats fleeing a sinking ship?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/5-edtech-vendor-hopes-2014
5 EdTech Vendor Hopes for 2014
By Joshua Kim
What are your edtech vendor hopes and wishes for 2014? Here are a few of my own: Hope #1. That Higher Ed Decision Makers Insist That EdTech Vendors Get More Transparent in Their Pricing:
Education News
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2014-01-02/augusta-commissions-corey-johnson-pushing-college-row?v=1388729486
Augusta Commission’s Corey Johnson pushing for ‘college row’
By Susan McCord
Staff Writer
As one of his final pursuits as mayor pro tem, Augusta Commission member Corey Johnson said he is pushing for the creation of a “college row” along Walton Way and surrounding areas between Summerville and downtown Augusta. Johnson, who is running for the Georgia Senate seat being vacated by Hardie Davis, D-Augusta, said he has been working “for the past three years” on a plan to create a mixed-use and entertainment district for college students. The district would bridge the merged Augusta State and Georgia Health Sciences campuses, Paine College and Harrisburg, where the city has proposed creation of a mills campus for the new Georgia Regents University.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/01/03/australian-academic-suggests-boycott-support-cost-him-grant
Australian Academic Suggests Boycott Support Cost Him Grant
A University of Sydney researcher is alleging that he may have lost out on a grant from the Australian Research Council because some government officials were concerned about his support for a boycott of Israeli universities, The Australian reported.
www.education.yahoo.net
http://education.yahoo.net/articles/booming_careers_to_pursue_now.htm?kid=1O1DQ
Three hot fields with booming careers to consider now
Thinking about making a career move and starting fresh? Consider targeting these fast-growing fields.
By Danielle Blundell
Going back to school takes time, money, and energy. So, it’s in your best interest to choose wisely when deciding what to study. But what exactly does “wise” look like? Well, for starters, how about considering an occupation where job opportunities are expected to grow rather than shrink? According to the Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, certain occupational groups will be instrumental in leading the economic recovery. Their report, “Recovery: Job Growth and Education Requirements Through 2020,” lists health care, community service and the arts, and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) as the top three fastest-growing occupational groups.
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Early Admission of African Americans to Leading Colleges and Universities
Early Admission of African Americans to Leading Colleges and Universities
Several of the nation’s highest ranked colleges and universities have reported data on students they have accepted under early decision or early action admissions plans. Some of these selective educational institutions have provided data broken down by racial or ethnic group.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/01/03/reform-chinas-university-admissions-system
Reform of China’s University Admissions System
China is moving to change the test that is generally the sole factor in university admissions, The Economist reported. Government officials have indicated that they want to add some subjective factors — such as consideration of extracurricular activities — to admissions decisions. Some educators are concerned that the current system (and possibly the new one) favor wealthier applicants.
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Florida HBCUs Join Up for Mentoring Program for Black Youth
Florida’s historically Black colleges and universities are partnering with the University of a Florida in a new mentoring program targeting African American males. The program’s goal is to increase the academic achievement of Black males in fourth and fifth grade.
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Four Colleges and Universities Honored for Promoting Access for Minority Students
Four Colleges and Universities Honored for Promoting Access for Minority Students
The Institute for Higher Education Policy has named four colleges and universities as winners of the inaugural Champions of Access and Success Award. Joining historically Black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, are Florida State University, California State University, Northridge, and Miami Dade College in Florida.
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New Program to Help More Native Americans Attend College
by Jennifer Naylor Gesick, Rapid City Journal
…LeBeau-Hein made her way from the reservation of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to the University of South Dakota in Vermillion in 2001, earned her master’s degree and now helps mentor other Native American students. She helps them navigate the often overwhelming and confusing environment of college campus life, and overcome cultural issues that can cause Native Americans to skip college or give up too soon.Her mentoring efforts could be a model for a new program that will soon be launched by the South Dakota Board of Regents to increase the number of Native Americans who attend state colleges and to help them succeed once there, the Rapid City Journal reported. The regents recently commissioned a study on Native American attitudes toward higher education to pinpoint barriers to college attendance and graduation.
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More Than 5 Million Living African Americans Now Hold a Four-Year College Degree
More Than 5 Million Living African Americans Now Hold a Four-Year College Degree
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that there are now more than 5 million living African Americans who hold at least a four-year college degree. Some 21.2 percent of the African American population over 25 years now has at least a bachelor’s degree. For Whites over the age of 25, 34.5 percent of the population has obtained at least a bachelor’s degree.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/03/uc-daviss-groundbreaking-digital-badge-system-new-sustainable-agriculture-program
Badging From Within
By Paul Fain
The University of California at Davis is creating what may be higher education’s most promising digital badge system. But the badges are no threat to the university’s degrees. They’re add-ons – perhaps valuable ones for students.
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Gallup, Purdue to Examine Post-college Success
By Ronald Roach
With decades of experience in public opinion polling and research, global management consulting giant Gallup Inc. has announced that it is launching a higher education survey project with Purdue University that is aimed at providing insight into how the college experience enables graduates to pursue life and career success.
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Law Schools Evolve to Meet Social, Economic Changes
By Lois Elfman
Although the legal profession has seen a decline in the hiring of entry-level lawyers, the Association of American Law Schools conference is reinforcing the continuing value of diverse legal education. For members attending the AALS conference in New York—which began yesterday and will last until Sunday—they are clear that law school remains the correct choice for clear and committed students. AALS is a non-profit educational association of 176 law schools representing more than 10,000 law faculty with the purpose of improving the legal profession through legal education.
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Educators Make the Case for Going to Law School
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Picked to Lead Tests of Drones, 3 Universities Are ‘in the Catbird Seat’
By Megan O’Neil
Three universities designated by the Federal Aviation Administration this week as test sites for unmanned-aircraft systems are positioned for a windfall of research dollars and collaborative projects in what officials say is a burgeoning industry soon to be worth billions of dollars a year. The institutions also say the designation could help them lure businesses to their regions, creating thousands of jobs.
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CUTTING SPORTS A GROWING TREND AT MAJOR COLLEGES
BY WILL GRAVES
AP SPORTS WRITER
The meeting was brief. A few minutes tops. Temple athletic director Kevin Clark didn’t mince words. Standing inside the football team’s indoor practice facility earlier this month, Clark scanned the crowd of dozens of student-athletes – none of them football players – and told them the financially strapped athletic department was cutting their sport at the end of the 2013-14 academic year. …Temple’s announcement that it’s going from 24 sports to 17 next fall, a move that will eventually save about $3-3.5 million a year, was just the latest in a growing line of colleges and universities that are reshaping overextended athletic programs by shuttering smaller sports to help make those that remain – particularly those designed to bring in revenue – more competitive.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/01/03/delaware-sued-mishandling-athlete-rape-allegation
Delaware Sued for Mishandling Athlete Rape Allegation
A former University of Delaware student is suing the institution under Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment after administrators allegedly mishandled her sexual assault complaint, court filings show.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/aclu-lawsuit-against-carnegie-mellon-2014-1#ixzz2pLYP4hQ1
‘My University Has Failed Me’: Carnegie Mellon Student Reveals Traumatic History Of Sexual Assault And Stalking
Erin Fuchs
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit claiming Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University failed to protect a female student whose girlfriend allegedly assaulted and then relentlessly stalked her. CMU’s police treated the victim dismissively and even informed her assailant that she’d been reported, the ACLU says. The ACLU is suing under Title IX of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which bars sexual discrimination in education.
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Ruling could make it harder for state-college faculty to get tenure
Source: Orlando Sentinel
TALLAHASSEE — An administrative law judge has sided with the Florida Board of Education in a dispute about new requirements that could make it harder for faculty members to get and keep tenure-like contracts at state colleges. The United Faculty of Florida in June challenged a rule that set new guidelines for continuing contracts at state colleges, including a requirement that they consider measures of student success in awarding the contracts. The state college system was long known as the community-college system. But Administrative Law Judge June McKinney rejected the faculty group’s arguments that the Board of Education had overstepped its legal authority in approving the rule early this year.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/03/debate-over-panel-mla-raises-issue-when-balance-matters
Should Panels Be Balanced?
By Scott Jaschik
On a scholarly panel, does balance of views matter? This is the question being debated by some members of the Modern Language Association after several pro-Israel groups on Thursday criticized the MLA for the make-up of a panel at the association’s annual meeting that will be discussing academic boycotts of Israel. According to critics, the panel is inappropriate because its members are all in favor of the boycott movement.
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New Life for CCSF
By Paul Fain
Supporters of City College of San Francisco have won a temporary reprieve in their quest to prevent the college from losing its accreditation in July. A San Francisco Superior Court judge on Thursday granted a partial injunction to block the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) from yanking the college’s accreditation until after a lawsuit filed by the city attorney, Dennis Herrera, can be resolved.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Higher-Education-Lobbyists/143785/?cid=at
Higher-Education Lobbyists Keep Expectations Low for State Budgets
By Eric Kelderman
As higher-education advocates prepare for state legislative sessions across the country, a new reality has set in about what they can expect from state budgets. “The new ‘good budget’ is the no-reduction budget,” says Daniel C. Holsenbeck, vice president for university relations at the University of Central Florida. “I think we’re looking at a good budget.” Even as state tax revenues creep back into the black, lobbyists for public colleges are not expecting lawmakers to increase appropriations substantially, or at all, for the next fiscal year.