University System News

2014 GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION NEWS:
www.daltondailycitizen.com
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1984797476/State-Senate-passes-bill-creating-the-Zell-Miller-Grant
State Senate passes bill creating the Zell Miller Grant
Submitted by the Senate Press Office
The Georgia Senate on Thursday approved House Bill 697, a bill that establishes the Zell Miller Grant and defines additional opportunities for taxpayer contributions towards educational assistance nonprofits. The bill passed unanimously by a vote of 56 to 0 and was carried by Sen. Charlie Bethel, R-Dalton. Rep. Stacey Evans, D-Smyrna, sponsored the bill in the House.

www.times-georgian.com
http://www.times-georgian.com/news/article_3a356378-b23b-11e3-91d0-001a4bcf6878.html
Legislative roundup: Wins, losses for local lawmakers
Winston Jones/Times-Georgian
Members of the local delegation to the Georgia General Assembly returned home after an early Friday morning adjournment, happy with some of the legislation that passed, but disappointed that the medical marijuana and autism treatment bill died in the final hours. …Lawmakers, however, were happy with the passage of House Bill 60, the gun carry legislation.

USG NEWS:
www.unionrecorder.com
http://www.unionrecorder.com/editorials/x787227026/Movement-against-smoking-felt-in-Georgia-universities
Movement against smoking felt in Georgia universities
The Union-Recorder
MILLEDGEVILLE — The University System of Georgia followed suit with what appears to be a growing movement this week as the Board of Regents voted to prohibit the use of all forms of tobacco products on property owned, leased, rented or in the possession of the University System of Georgia (USG). The policy applies to all employees, students, contractors, subcontractors and visitors and is applicable 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Also, all events hosted by a USG-entity or on behalf of the USG shall be tobacco and smoke free, according to the policy.

www.gainesvilletimes.com
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/97490/
Smoking ban heading to campuses
Restriction also will apply to automobiles starting Oct. 1
By Carly Sharec
University of North Georgia junior Ty Poole waved his electronic cigarette around while sitting in his car on the Gainesville campus. “I guess it’s a good thing, if they’re just trying to get people to quit smoking,” he said. “But I guess in a way they could abuse their authority.” Poole was talking about a new policy for all University System of Georgia campuses, banning all tobacco products on the state-run properties beginning Oct. 1. The ban also extends to e-cigarettes. “I mean, I’m in my car,” Poole said. “It’s good that they’re trying to get everybody to stop, but I guess it’s wrong in some ways to overuse their power. The University of North Georgia’s student code of conduct now reads tobacco products are permitted on nonresidential campuses “if the user and all contents remain inside an automobile.”

www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/effort-aims-to-boost-black-males-college-achieveme/nfMd3/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1
Effort aims to boost black males’ college achievement
Summit looks for solutions to enrollment, retention, graduation barriers
BY JANEL DAVIS – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The numbers are improving, but black males still face challenges in getting into colleges, staying there and graduating. Those problems will be among the topics discussed when the White House comes to Morehouse College on Friday and Saturday for the first stop on a multicity series of summits on educational issues affecting black youth. …More than a decade ago, the University System of Georgia launched its African American Male Initiative targeting the obstacles black males face in getting to college. AAMI now counts campus-based programs for black males at 26 of the University System’s 31 institutions, said Arlethia Perry-Johnson, AAMI’s director.

www.wctv.tv
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Gov-Deal-Visits-Bainbridge-State-College-252452431.html
Gov. Deal Visits Bainbridge State College, Announces Jobs [GALLERY] Bainbridge, Ga. — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal visited Bainbridge State College today to announce the impending opening of Bainbridge Manufacturing, which he says will create 240 jobs and invest more than $100 million in the local economy. The Governor made the announcement in Bainbridge State’s Student Wellness Center gymnasium at 10 a.m. The Governor chose to make this announcement at Bainbridge State to acknowledge the College’s role in helping to land the new company as well as the role the four-year institution will play in training up its future workforce.

www.newswise.com
http://www.newswise.com/articles/david-bader-chosen-to-lead-georgia-tech-s-school-of-computational-science-and-engineering
David Bader Chosen to Lead Georgia Tech’s School of Computational Science and Engineering
Newswise — Following a national search for new leadership of its School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Georgia Tech’s College of Computing has selected its own David A. Bader, a renowned leader in high-performance computing, to chair the school. Bader, a professor in the School of CSE and executive director of the High-Performance Computing Lab, succeeds Regents’ Professor Richard Fujimoto, who has served in the role since 2007 and through CSE’s elevation to “school” status in 2010. Fujimoto has continued to serve as chair amid the search and will remain as a professor within the school. Bader will assume his new role in July 2014. His appointment is contingent upon approval by Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson and the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.

www.marketplace.org
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/education/mooc-20-open-online-education-moves-forward
MOOC 2.0: Open online education moves forward
by Amy Scott
There are some new developments this week in the land of the MOOC. That’s shorthand for the “Massive Open Online Courses” that were supposed to transform higher education as we know it, bringing free education from the likes of Harvard and Stanford to you and me. MOOC pioneer Coursera has hired a new CEO — none other than the former long-time president of Yale University, Richard Levin… 6. Georgia Tech offers master’s degree through a MOOC – Though MOOCs can broadcast a college’s content, most universities don’t offer accreditation for completing one. So it was big news when Georgia Tech offered a Master’s in Computer Science using massively open online course technology. The master’s degree cost $6,600, cheap compared to the $44,000 Georgia Tech charges for residential studies, but far more than the $49 Coursera charges for its courses.

www.myfoxatlanta.com
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/25088289/crime-down-on-marta-trains-buses#ixzz2xG5geGqr
Crime down on MARTA trains, buses
By Katie Beasley, Good Day Atlanta transportation reporter
Do you feel safe on MARTA? More than 415,000 passengers use MARTA each day and officers say crime is down. According to their reports, felony crimes during this fiscal year are down about 10 percent from the year before… And speaking of MARTA, a new app we introduced you to last year, is finally up and running. Students and faculty at Georgia Tech have launched the “One Bus Away” smartphone app. They say studies show MARTA ridership is down, because of inconsistencies with wait times. “One Bus Away” uses live information, pulled from MARTA, to map out your trip and tell you how long you should plan to wait.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/blog/atlantech/2014/03/atlanta-techpreneurs-launch-studio-to-turn-ideas.html
Atlanta techpreneurs launch “studio” to turn ideas into billion-dollar exits
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer-Atlanta Business Chronicle
A pair of Atlanta techpreneurs have tag-teamed to help turn back-of-the-napkin ideas into billion-dollar exits. Paul Judge and Allen Nance have launched Tech Square Labs, which they grandly refer to as a “company building studio.” Shrewd marketing — who wants to read about yet another incubator… Tech Square Labs will be located in a 20,000 square foot office at Atlanta’s geek ground-zero — Georgia Tech’s Technology Square in Midtown (that’s a mouthful of tech). The search is narrowed to three sites within a couple blocks of 5th Street and Spring Street, and a location will be picked in 30 days-to-60 days.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/blotter/2014-03-27/uga-student-reports-fraud
UGA student reports fraud
A University of Georgia student living in an off-campus home reported to Athens-Clarke police that on Tuesday she received an email from a company promising to reduce her student loan debt through a program offered by President Obama. The woman said she called the number listed and while talking to the woman, she provided her Social Security number and date of birth. She became suspicious the company is a fraud and has placed a fraud alert on her credit.

USG VALUE:
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/public-colleges-pay-off-payscale-ranking_n_5035843.html
The Public Colleges That Pay Off The Most
Newsflash: college is expensive, even at public universities. But there are some state schools that pay off more than others. A new ranking released Wednesday from PayScale shows which colleges and universities — public, private, religious and secular — that have the best return on investment… Below is a ranking of the public colleges with the highest return on investment. The first number listed below each school photo is the weighted total cost for a graduate based on in-state tuition rates, and the second number is the 20-year net return on investment. 2. Georgia Institute of Technology ($92,250 — $755,600)

www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/03/which-college-and-which-major-will-make-you-richest/359628/
Which College—and Which Major—Will Make You Richest?
A new study finds that nine of the 10 most lucrative degrees in America are in computer science programs at elite colleges—and Harvey Mudd runs away with the lead
DEREK THOMPSON
A Bachelor of Science from Harvey Mudd College, the small California science and engineering school, is the most valuable college degree in America. Stanford’s computer science program pays off more than any single major in the country. For the best dollar-for-dollar investment, nothing beats the University of Virginia. As those three (all true) facts illustrate, there are many ways to answer the question What’s the most valuable college education in the country? Every year PayScale, the largest private tracker of U.S. salaries, tries to answer the question… By that dollar-for-dollar measure, the best college investment isn’t Harvey Mudd, Cal Tech, MIT, or any of those schools you might expect. It’s the University of Virginia (if you’re an in-state student) and Georgia Tech. Harvard and Stanford also crack the top 10. (Alert: I’ve shortened the Y-axis here to highlight just how far ahead UVA and Georgia Tech are.)

GOOD NEWS:
www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/25091618/ssu-celebrates-students-acadmeic-success
SSU Celebrates Student’s Academic Success
By Liz Buckthorpe
SAVANNAH, GA – On Thursday Savannah State University celebrated the academic accomplishments of its students. …During the ceremony, SSU President Cheryl D. Dozier presented the 2014 University System of Georgia Board of Regents Academic Achievement Award to Asia Stinson, a biology major and member of the women’s track and field team. Stinson was one of 31 students in the University System of Georgia to be honored by the Georgia General Assembly during its 2014 Academic Recognition Day.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-03-27/uga-marketing-professor-named-educator-year-marketing-edge
UGA marketing professor named Educator of the Year by Marketing EDGE
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Marketing EDGE, a nonprofit education organization (formerly known as the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation), has announced that Charlotte Mason, professor of marketing in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, will receive this year’s Robert B. Clarke Outstanding Educator Award, recognizing an academician’s overall achievement in marketing education.

www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/mar/27/hall-greater-gwinnett-championship-is-more-than/
HALL: Greater Gwinnett Championship is more than just a golf tournament
By Stan Hall
In just a few short weeks the Champions Tour rolls back into Gwinnett and the Atlanta area for the Greater Gwinnett Championship at TPC Sugarloaf. After a successful inaugural event in 2013, the 2014 production looks to be even bigger and better. …The tournament, in true PGA Tour fashion, also gives back to the community through charitable partners. This year’s recipients are the Gwinnett Medical Center Foundation, Georgia Gwinnett College and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2014-03-27/georgias-most-innovative-companies-honored
Georgia’s most innovative companies honored
By Walter C. Jones
Morris News Service
ATLANTA — Imaginative Georgia companies that are creating new services and jobs got a moment in the spotlight Wednesday at the Technology Association of Georgia’s Technology Summit… Georgia Tech students had a company of their own, Partpic Inc., a sort of facial-recognition software for do-it-yourselfers trying to find a replacement for a plumbing or electrical part. To decide which companies to highlight, TAG recruited investors, entrepreneurs, business consultants and previous winners to sift through scores of applications to come up with the Top 40 Innovative Companies in Georgia. The winning firms came from Valdosta, Macon and Gainesville but mostly metro Atlanta is home. Many are clustered around Georgia Tech’s downtown campus, and five are based in Alpharetta, what was a farming community of 3,000 residents 25 years ago before the construction of Ga. Hwy 400 and installation of a new power grid offering the uninterrupted electricity computer companies depend on.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/03/27/atlanta-hedge-fund-challenge-selects-finalists.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_atlanta+%28Atlanta+Business+Chronicle%29
Atlanta Hedge Fund Challenge selects finalists (SLIDESHOW)
Phil W. Hudson
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
The second annual Atlanta Hedge Fund Challenge has chosen its finalists. The winner of the 2014 Atlanta Hedge Fund Challenge will be announced tonight at the Georgia State University Executive Education Center. Teams of three students from Georgia Tech, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Emory University, Kennesaw State University,

RESEARCH:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-03-26/uga-researchers-explore-function-cancer-causing-gene
UGA researchers explore function of cancer-causing gene
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Developmental biologists at the University of Georgia are discovering new roles for a specific gene known as Max’s Giant Associated protein, or MGA. A little studied protein, MGA appears to control a number of developmental processes, and also may be connected to cancer development. The researchers detail their findings in a paper published recently in the journal Developmental Cell.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/science_health/drones-serve-as-research-tools-for-uga/article_8a2a4a2a-b523-11e3-aa77-001a4bcf6878.html
Drones serve as research tools for UGA
Stephen Mays
Some researchers at the University of Georgia have a new tool in their arsenal — drones. The unmanned aerial vehicles are DJI Phantom 2 Vision quadcopters. The camera-wielding machines give researchers an invaluable new vantage point, said Tommy Jordan, associate director of the Center for Geospatial Research.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-03-27/college-education-and-south-korean-company-bring-robotics-classroom
College of Education and South Korean company to bring robotics to classroom
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The University of Georgia College of Education has established a partnership with Roborobo Co. Ltd., a robotics education company in South Korea, to bring robotics to local K-12 classrooms. The partnership will bring Roborobo’s robotics kits and education programs to the U.S. for the first time, according to Ikseon Choi, an associate professor in learning design and technology who is leading the project. The college’s Educational Technology Center will be the hub for this collaboration and its staff will deliver educational robotics workshops for area K-12 teachers, students and parents.

www.finance.yahoo.com
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/insanely-small-3d-camera-shows-175455716.html
This Insanely Small 3D Camera Shows What’s Happening In Your Bloodstream
By Leslie Baehr
The protrusions on the sides of the chip fold down to attach to the tip of the cathater, a tube that gets inserted into your body. Doctors can now recreate in three dimensions the insides of your heart, arteries, and blood vessels using a “camera” chip only slightly bigger than the tip of a pencil. The new chip, created by F. Levent Degertekin and his colleagues at Georgia Tech University, doesn’t take pictures directly since blood and tissue are not transparent to visible light, Degertekin said in an email to Business Insider… “Our device will allow doctors to see the whole volume that is in front of them within a blood vessel,” Degertekin said in a press release.

www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/agenda/2014/03/27/thanks-to-georgia-tech-a-tongue-piercing-could-soon-control-a-wheelchair
Thanks to Georgia Tech, a tongue piercing could soon control a wheelchair
This new system would replace sip-and-puff wheelchairs, making movement easier and faster
by Mary Jo DiLonardo
Most people who are quadriplegics use sip-and-puff wheelchairs; they blow or suck into a straw to direct their chairs. But movement is limited to left, right, forward, and backward. New technology developed by a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology would allow quadriplegics to use tongue-controlled devices to command not only wheelchairs, but also computers, phones, and video games. We talked with Georgia Tech associate professor Maysam Ghovanloo, director of the GT bionics lab behind the research.

www.gizmodo.com
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-created-bio-rocket-fuel-1552748130
Scientists Have Created Bio-Rocket Fuel
Jamie Condliffe
For those of you concerned that rockets, jet fighters and the like aren’t environmentally friendly, some good news: scientists have worked out how to use bacteria to create rocket fuel. A team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute have genetically engineered a version of E. Coli that is capable of producing pinene. That’s a hydrocarbon produced by trees that could potentially replace high-energy fuels such as JP-10, which is currently used in many jet engines and rockets. The research is published in ACS Synthetic Biology. The team inserted enzymes from trees into the bacterium in order to create the pinene-producing bugs. Pinene is particularly energy-dense, just like jet fuels—where the weight saving of cramming more calories into the same volume of liquid is a significant bonus.

www.news.science360.gov
http://news.science360.gov/archives/20140328
Robotic arm probes chemistry of 3-D objects by mass spectrometry
Science 360/National Science Foundation
Robotic system could soon let scientists better simulate and analyze the chemical retains of early Earth on the surface on real rocks to further test this theory (by Georgia Tech)

www.deseretnews.com
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865599428/From-fantasy-to-reality-2-augmented-reality-that-is.html?pg=all
From science-fiction to reality — augmented reality that is
By Kandra Polatis, Deseret News National Edition
Imagine traveling internationally while wearing glasses that superimposed translations over foreign words. Or watching a program on your 3-D TV while Internet content that you could control with hand gestures floated in front of the screen. Sound like science fiction? It’s actually right around the corner, and within a few years these products could be available to the general public. It’s called augmented reality, or AR, and it represents the next great leap forward in the information age. …Dr. Maribeth Gandy, director of the Interactive Media Technology Center at Georgia Tech, agrees that Google Glass is not a true augmented reality platform. However, she said people realize that augmented reality products are commercially viable after a large, popular company like Google backs the idea. “Google has their stamp of approval on the idea of wearing a display and to some extent augmenting your environment,” said Gandy. Gandy, who has studied augmented reality development for years, is currently researching how to use augmented reality in STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math).

www.newscientist.com
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129624.300-dolphin-whistle-instantly-translated-by-computer.html#.UzWOzSgrseU
Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer
by Hal Hodson
IT was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean. The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly, she heard one of them say, “Sargassum”. “I was like whoa! We have a match. I was stunned,” says Herzing, who is the director of the Wild Dolphin Project. She was wearing a prototype dolphin translator called Cetacean Hearing and Telemetry (CHAT) and it had just translated a live dolphin whistle for the first time… Thad Starner at the Georgia Institute of Technology and technical lead on the wearable computer Google Glass, built CHAT for Herzing with a team of graduate students. Starner and Herzing are using pattern-discovery algorithms, designed to analyse dolphin whistles and extract meaningful features that a person might miss or not think to look for. As well as listening out for invented whistles, the team hopes to start trying to figure out what the dolphins’ natural communication means, too.

STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/03/27/georgia-no-1-for-women-owned-businesses.html
Georgia No. 1 for women-owned businesses
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
There’s just no beating Georgia Peaches. Georgia ranks first in the nation for growth in women-owned businesses, according to the fourth annual American Express OPEN State the of Women-Owned Businesses Report. The Peach State has an estimated 317,200 women-owned firms (up 117.9 percent since 1997) that employ 240,200 people (up 26 percent since 1997) and generate $45.6 million in revenue (up 80.4 percent since 1997).

Related article:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/study-georgia-leads-nation-in-growth-of-women-owne/nfMgg/
Study: Georgia leads nation in growth of women-owned firms

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2014-03-20/just-11-percent-us-long-term-unemployed-find-jobs?v=1395353138
Just 11 percent of US long-term unemployed find jobs
By Josh Boak
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A new study documents the bleak plight of Americans who have been unemployed for more than six months: Just 11 percent of them, on average, will ever regain steady full-time work. The findings by three Princeton University economists show the extent to which the long-term unemployed have been shunted to the sidelines of the U.S. economy since the Great Recession. The long-term jobless number 3.8 million, or 37 percent of all unemployed Americans.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/27/march-madness-millions-of-kids-being-used-as-common-core-testing-guinea-pigs/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
March Madness: Millions of kids being used as Common Core testing guinea pigs
If you think a bunch of college basketball teams facing off in a tournament is March Madness, consider this: Starting this week and going into June, more than 4 million students in 36 states and the District of Columbia are “field testing” (read it: being used as human guinea pigs) English and math standardized tests that are being created as part of the Obama administration-supported Common Core State Standards initiative. Kids are spending hours taking exams and answering surveys designed to help complete new Common Core-aligned exams being created by two multi-state consortia with $360 million in federal funding. The sole purpose of the field testing is to help the test creators tease out any problems with questions and/or the online administration of the exams. The scores won’t be shared with teachers, parents, schools or anybody else. (Next time you hear people worrying about lost instructional time for snow days or anything else, remember this use of the school day.)

www.slate.com
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/03/women_in_stem_how_georgia_tech_caltech_and_others_opened_up_to_female_engineers.html
“Women Are NOT for Engineering”
How Caltech, Georgia Tech, and other schools reluctantly began accepting female students into engineering programs.
By Amy Bix
This month, many high school seniors nervously await verdicts on their college applications. Young women of 2014 would be justifiably appalled to receive letters from major American universities reading, “Our school specializes in training engineers and therefore only accepts men,” or, “Our engineering program is officially coeducational, but doesn’t welcome women, since admitting too many will waste faculty time, distract serious male classmates, and undermine our professional reputation.”Yet well within living memory, young women who wanted to study engineering faced precisely such antagonism, even if rejection letters sometimes put it less bluntly… Well into the late 20th century, some leading engineering programs remained male-only. Georgia Tech students and alumni defined their “hell of an engineer” identity by equating technical mastery with masculinity. Campus humor mocked the notion of admitting “powder-puff engineers”; cartoons showed female students using hydraulic testing-machines to crack pecans. Two-thirds of the postwar student body opposed opening Tech to women.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/free-education-human-right
Free education is a human right
The Huffington Post
Social progress is never a straightforward, linear process. Sometimes society struggles to recognize moral questions that in retrospect should have seemed obvious. Then, in a historical moment, something crystallizes. Slavery, civil rights, women’s rights, marriage equality: each of these moral challenges arose in the national conscience before becoming the subject of a fight for justice (some of which have yet to be won). I believe the moment will come, perhaps very soon, when we as a society will ask ourselves: How can we deny a higher education to any young person in this country just because she or he can’t afford it?

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/bright-side-higher-college-tuition
The bright side of higher college tuition
U.S. News
Much has been made recently of the rising cost of attending a four-year college. House Speaker John Boehner has decried the fact that “during the 1980s, the cost of attending college rose more than three times as fast as the typical family income,” and that “[t]his trend of rapidly-increasing college costs continued unfettered through the 1990s.” President Obama has threatened colleges and universities with funding cuts unless they clamp down on tuition increases. But all of this attention typically focuses on colleges’ “sticker prices” or posted tuition rates.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/undoing-influence-rising-college-costs
Undoing the influence of rising college costs
Roll Call
The rising cost of college is unduly influencing our nation’s future. A new survey from UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute indicated that the percentage of college freshmen attending their first-choice school has reached its lowest level in almost 40 years, primarily due to rising costs and limited availability of financial aid. The cost of a college degree has increased more than 1,120 percent in the past 30 years — far outpacing the price inflation of consumer goods, medical expenses and food.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/equity-better-debt-financing-higher-education
Equity is better than debt in financing higher education
Forbes
Sometimes it makes sense to borrow to finance an investment; sometimes equity is a better choice. When it comes to college education, however, borrowing (especially through the government) is usually a mistake. If we could catalyze a system of equity financing for higher education, that would be a great improvement over the status quo.

www.jg-tc.com
http://jg-tc.com/print-specific/jg-tc/guest-columnist/community-colleges-show-value/article_42b8f6a2-63cc-5df7-8e9b-046de7cbe53c.html
Community colleges show value
Josh Bullock Lake Land College president
The impact of community colleges on our local, state and national economy is a story that has remained relatively untold in the past but has gained significant attention over the past several years. From corporate leaders, to legislators, to the President, the national spotlight is shining brightly on community colleges. In support of that bright light, The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), in partnership with Economic Modeling Specialists, Inc., released an affirming report entitled, “Where Value Meets Values: The Economic Impact of Community Colleges.”

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/we-need-strengthen-iowas-legacy-higher-education
We need to strengthen Iowa’s legacy in higher education
DesMoinesRegister.com
If you want to prepare for the future, you should take a good look at the past. A glance to where you have been and what you have done provides insight, perspective and focus — lending confidence and comfort to situations ahead that might be uncertain or unknown. Iowa’s three public institutions of higher education, among the most respected in the country, have 461 years of combined experience, expertise and achievement.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/top-heavy-university-takes-low-road
Top-heavy university takes low road
Portland Press Herald
Something is rotten in Bangor. The state’s public college campuses – where faculty teach and students learn – face huge cutbacks. But the University of Maine System office in Bangor – where no one teaches anybody anything – spends $20 million a year, almost 10 percent of the state’s higher education appropriation.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-football-labor-decision-may-hurt-schools-moody’s-says
College football labor decision may hurt schools, Moody’s says
Bloomberg Businessweek
A ruling yesterday by the National Labor Relations Board allowing Northwestern University football players to unionize is the latest threat to the model of not paying athletes in college sports, Moody’s analysts led by Dennis Gephardt said today in a report. A change in the practice “would ultimately precipitate a major retooling of college sports programs, which are often critical to the identity of universities and help with student recruitment and donor support,” Gephardt said. The NCAA is facing separate lawsuits challenging its authority and faces the potential of higher costs from legal judgments and settlements, regulations or new policies, Moody’s said.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/koch-brothers-target-hearts-and-minds-college-students
Koch brothers target the hearts and minds of college students
The Huffington Post
The campus of Koch Brothers Academy spans a nation. Learn about the “role of government institutions in a capitalistic society” at South Carolina’s College of Charleston. Dive into the “integrated study of philosophy, politics and economics” at Duke University and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. And philosophize about the “moral imperatives of free markets and individual liberty” at the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University in Alabama.

www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/high-school-in-southern-georgia-what-career-technical-education-looks-like/359725/
High School in Southern Georgia: What ‘Career Technical’ Education Looks Like
A school that is famous for football is notable in an entirely different way.
JAMES FALLOWS
…Now what struck us, which was the very practical-minded and well-supported embrace of what used to be called “vocational education,” and now is called the “career technical” approach. In practice what this means is dividing a large, sprawling campus and student body into six “academies,” with different emphases. One of them is the Freshman Academy, to get the new students acclimated. (“I don’t know if you’ve seen ninth graders recently,” one person there told us. “But some of them look big and old enough to be parents of some others. It’s a big range, and it helps to have a special place for them.”) The other five academies each have a “career technical” emphasis. After freshman year, all students enroll in one of the five. While they still take the normal academic-core range of subjects, they also get extensive and seemingly very-well-equipped training in the realities of jobs they might hold.

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College campuses catching up with mobile trends
Tech Page One
Today’s college students are likely to come to campus with a collection of mobile devices they rely on, but schools often have been slow out of the gate in capitalizing on the trend, experts say. Nearly 80 percent of colleges and universities reported they either had or would be activating mobile apps last year, according to the 2013 Campus Computing Survey. This is up from just a quarter in 2010. Full saturation is expected by the next academic year according to K.C. Green, founding director of the project.

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http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/97290/
Class Notes: Federal progress report mostly positive on Georgia’s Race to the Top status
By Carly Sharec
While backlash against the Common Core continues among political groups in Georgia, it appears the state is doing well in implementing the set of standards. The United States Department of Education released its annual progress report on states participating in the Race to the Top initiative Thursday, with Georgia’s report listing “several key accomplishments,” including the launch of the Innovation in Teaching competition, new teacher assessments and the promotion of courses in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/mar/27/report-georgia-shines-in-common-core/
Report: Georgia shines in Common Core implementation
By Keith Farner
Georgia’s implemenation of the Common Core educational standards was recently given high marks on a report from a nonprofit and nonpartisan education board. The report from the Southern Regional Education Board tracked progress in 15 states and benchmarked five areas to find “leading states” and “strong states.” Georgia was named a “leading state,” with the most comprehensive array of resources and materials and the most extensive efforts, in two areas: Teaching Resources and Accountability. Georgia was identified as a “strong state” in Timeline and Approach to Standards, Professional Development and Teacher and Leader Evaluation.

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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/administration/georgia-receives-low-grade-for-investment-in-higher-education/article_68c596e0-b524-11e3-ac7e-001a4bcf6878.html
Georgia receives low grade for investment in higher education
Daniel Funke
Efforts to expand access to colleges and universities in Georgia may not be benefiting students and their families as much as those in other states, according to a recent report. The Student Impact Project, a rating system conducted by the public policy organization Young Invincibles, gave Georgia a grade of C+ for its higher education policies, and included factors such as tuition, state aid and burden on families.

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http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2014/mar/27/gov-deal-set-to-visit-newton-for-bioscience/
Gov. Deal set to visit Newton for BioScience Training Center groundbreaking
By Jessicah Peters
COVINGTON — Gov. Nathan Deal is set to visit Newton County in order to be part of the Georgia BioScience Training Center’s groundbreaking. On Monday, the Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development will host a ceremony to break ground on the site at Stanton Springs where the new training facility will be constructed. The center is being built in addition to Baxter International, a $1 billion manufacturing campus, where plasma-based therapies that treat chronic and life-threatening illnesses will be made.

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http://www.timesenterprise.com/news/x787232889/SWGTC-names-Carter-dean
SWGTC names Carter dean
CNHI
THOMASVILLE — Southwest Georgia Technical College (SWGTC) recently appointed Abigail Carter as a Dean of Academic Affairs. In her new role, Carter is responsible for both administrative and instructional tasks as well as planning, evaluation and supervision for all programs within the Schools of Business, Professional Services and Industrial Technology. Providing leadership to the faculty and increasing student retention rates are a few of her personal goals.

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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/recent-veterans-are-succeeding-college
Recent veterans are succeeding in college
USA Today
Just over half of veterans who sought a higher education from 2002 through 2013 under the GI Bill completed schooling ranging from vocational training to post-graduate, according to an unprecedented review of nearly 800,000 college records to be released Monday. The research released by the Student Veterans of America service organization is the first in-depth look at how those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are performing in college.

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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/03/24/supporting-the-gi-bill-student-veteran-degree-completion-similar-to-peers
Report: Student Veterans Complete College in Sync With Others
Student veterans who have used GI Bill benefits earn degrees and certificates at a rate similar to traditional students.
By Allie Bidwell
Despite the unique challenges student veterans face in pursuing a higher education, they are earning degrees at rates that aren’t very different from the rates of traditional students who attend college full-time and without any interruptions. Most also are doing so in about the same time as their peers, according to new research. A first-of-its-kind report released Monday – a collaboration between Student Veterans of America (SVA), the National Student Clearinghouse and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – set out to investigate whether anecdotal evidence claiming that student veterans drop out of college at a higher than normal rate bears any weight.

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$1 Trillion Student Loan Debt Widens U.S. Wealth Gap
by Carolyn Thompson, Associated Press
Every month that Gregory Zbylut pays $1,300 toward his law school loans is another month of not qualifying for a decent mortgage. Every payment toward their student loans is $900 Dr. Nida Degesys and her husband aren’t putting in their retirement savings account. They believe they’ll eventually climb from debt and begin using their earnings to build assets rather than fill holes. But, like the roughly 37 million others in the U.S. saddled with $1 trillion in student debt, they may never catch up with wealthy peers who began life after college free from the burden. The disparity, experts say, is contributing to the widening of the gap between rich and everyone else in the country.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Student-DebtFederal-Loan/145591/
Student Debt and Federal Loan Policy Take Center Stage at Senate Hearing
By Mark Keierleber
Washington
Policy makers and higher-education officials used a Senate hearing on Thursday to discuss growing student-loan debt, making the federal student-loan programs easier for borrowers to navigate, and increasing college access for lower-income students.

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Survey Finds Black Men Try Hard But Still Have Difficulty Achieving Educational Success

Survey Finds Black Men Try Hard But Still Have Difficulty Achieving Educational Success
A new report produced by the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas finds that Black men and other men of color are more engaged in the community college experience than White men. However, despite the greater engagement, men of color do worse academically than White men.

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Scaling Up: Opening College Access to More Students
by Brian C. Mitchell
One of the significant problems facing college leaders and policy planners as they work to expand access for students is the range of higher education options open to Americans. American higher education is highly decentralized. The solutions that are practical and responsive to large public institutions often have limited relevance to independent colleges and universities. The conditions that apply to community colleges are unique to them. And, none of these groups works together sufficiently well to create a seamless, integrated pathway for student success.

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University of California regents debate lifting tuition freeze
The Sacramento Bee
Facing a budget shortfall of more than a hundred million dollars, the University of California Board of Regents expressed doubts at its bimonthly meeting Wednesday that it could sustain the current tuition freeze for students. “Obviously, none of us want to increase tuition,” board Chairman Bruce Varner said. But realistically, “we will need to have increases that make sense.”

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Proposed New Jersey cap on college tuition faces stiff resistance
NorthJersey.com
A bill to mandate a fixed-rate four-year tuition at the state’s colleges and universities would, if made into law, put New Jersey in the vanguard of states trying the tactic in an effort to hold down college costs. But the measure — introduced as the “signature piece” of a 20-bill higher education reform package last week — is likely to face stiff opposition from the schools and critics who say there is no evidence that it will stem tuition in the long run.

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Sen. Warner promotes higher education transparency bill
The Roanoke Times
While touring Piedmont Virginia Community College on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner pitched a bill aimed at making the total cost of higher education more transparent. In front of a class, Warner touted the Student Right to Know Before You Go Act, which would increase public access to such data as the cost of attendance, graduate earnings and average debt. That information already is gathered by the government, he said.

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http://www.gpb.org/news/2014/03/25/maze-of-college-costs-and-aid-programs-traps-some-families
Maze Of College Costs And Aid Programs Traps Some Families
By Eric Westervelt
In the past 20 years, the average burden for a four-year college graduate in the U.S. has gone from about $9,000 to nearly $30,000 today. The percentage of students carrying debt has shot up from less than half to nearly 70 percent these days. At a large public high school in Freemont, Calif., southeast of San Francisco, Alyssa Tucker and Thao Le sit on a metal table. Both come from families with modest incomes. Both are 17 and facing college this fall with anxious excitement. They’ve put in years of hard work at Irvington: lots of late nights and weekends studying, as well as student leadership and community involvement. They’ve excelled academically and are confident they can shine in college, too. But there’s a price tag, and it’s not just tuition: There’s also housing, food, medical, transportation, books, supplies and other fees.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/google-chairman-eric-schmidt-go-to-college-2014-3
GOOGLE’S ERIC SCHMIDT: ‘Go To College. I Can’t Be Any Clearer’
Peter Jacobs
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt strongly argued in favor of a college education while speaking at SXSW, TechCrunch reports, telling potential students, “Go to college. I can’t be any clearer.” Schmidt — who has a bachelors degree from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley — was speaking at SXSW to promote his book “The New Digital Age.” According to TechCrunch, Schmidt also came out against higher education critics such as Peter Thiel, who believe that a college degree is no longer necessary for success.

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Games make applying to college fun
U.S. News
A chance to make new friends, take part in new experiences and move one step closer to a desired career are among the many benefits of enrolling in college. Of course, being accepted to a school is its own challenge, which is why many students dread the college admissions process. To make applying to college and learning about financial aid options fun, researchers at the University of Southern California set out to create games that lessen the stress of the admissions process, USA Today College reports.

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Using Salary Prospects to Choose a College Major
An Expert Panel Weighs the Pros and Cons for Students and Parents
By DOUGLAS BELKIN CONNECT
The only thing growing faster than the sticker price on a college education may be the debate around the value of one—particularly if a student majors in something with no obvious pathway to a decent job. In January, President Barack Obama inadvertently caused a bit of an uproar when he questioned the value of a degree in art history while he was talking about better aligning job-training programs with employer needs. Mr. Obama later sent a handwritten apology note to a University of Texas art historian who took offense at the remark. Apologies aside, the question of what a student should major in and what sort of return on investment it can generate is becoming an increasingly important question, as families struggle to pay for school and graduates shoulder growing college debt.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/whats-the-least-valuable-college-degree-in-the-us/
What’s the least valuable college degree in the U.S.?
By Aimee Picchi
With high school seniors and their families now deciding where to enroll for college next fall, they might want to take a gander at research showing the best — and worst — values for a degree. The shocker in a survey by PayScale, a research firm that focuses on compensation, is that there are schools where students would have been better off not attending. Why? The 20-year net return on their college investment amounts to a financial loss, even when financial aid is included. Taking the time to get and spend money on a degree, in short, means you might actually find yourself in a financial hole. The survey may add to parents’ doubts about the value of a college degree, especially given that rising tuition costs have far outpaced the pace of inflation and the tough job market for some majors (think liberal arts).

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University, Peace Corps sign program agreement
The Michigan Daily
After a ceremony Wednesday afternoon, the University of Michigan’s School of Information expanded its partnership with the Peace Corps through two new initiatives. The first agreement allowed the University to create its own branch of the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program. The Coverdell program provides financial support and academic credit to any students who have previously served in the Peace Corps, allowing them to count part of their time in the organization towards graduation.

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Survey: Nearly One-quarter Recall Negative Social Climate Experience in UC System
by Ronald Roach
Almost one-quarter of University of California system students, staff and faculty members say they have personally encountered some exclusionary, intimidating, offensive or hostile conduct while on campus, and 9 percent indicated that such negative experiences had interfered with their abilities to study or work, a new university system survey says.

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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/university-michigan-hopes-app-promotes-wellness
University of Michigan hopes app promotes wellness
SunHerald.com
Can a smartphone app help students feel less isolated and depressed? University of Michigan thinks so. In January the Ann Arbor college released an app to promote student wellness and linking students to health-centric events on campus, according to The Ann Arbor News.

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Louisiana College students to strike despite possible sanctions
Shreveport Times
The Louisiana College administration is calling a student strike set for Monday a possible violation of the school’s policies — one that comes with serious consequences. “Most importantly, please be reminded that under some circumstances, severe sanctions such as suspension, denial of a degree, or expulsion from the College may be imposed upon the first violation of the Code,” according to a notice the LC administration sent to students and faculty Friday evening. The strike — being called “Prayers for Progress” — became public Thursday after a group of current LC students posted fliers around campus overnight.

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Obama to promote expanded economic opportunities for women
The New York Times
President Obama is traveling to Florida on Thursday to talk with female college students about how to expand their economic potential. Mr. Obama will use an address at Valencia College in Orlando to emphasize his administration’s efforts to give more women access to higher education and to promote equality in the workplace, a White House official said.

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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/bar-talks-how-new-yorkers-quench-their-thirst-knowledge
Bar talks: how New Yorkers quench their thirst for knowledge
The Guardian
Heard the one about the professor who walked into a bar? New Yorkers soon will: the city is preparing for a mass public education event in which 50 world-renowned academics will escape from the lecture theatre and deliver free talks to drinkers in the bars and cafes of Manhattan. The pioneering project, Raising the Bar, is sponsored by Columbia and New York universities, with more top higher education institutions due to come on board as it expands to Boston and the West Coast in the coming months.

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http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/new-u-of-california-president-plays-down-online-education/51409?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
New U. of California President Plays Down Online Education
by Steve Kolowich
The new president of the University of California, Janet Napolitano, does not think online education is the answer to the fundamental challenges facing her system. Ms. Napolitano, who took office last fall after serving four years as U.S. secretary of homeland security, sat for an interview this week with Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California. Mr. Baldassare noted that online education did not figure in her stated initiatives.

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Wisdom of massive open online courses now in doubt
The Washington Times
They have been touted as the biggest revolution in higher education since Plato opened his academy, but a growing number of educators are saying that MOOCs — “massive open online courses” offering free instruction through cyberspace — may not be ready for a cap and gown. Academic administrators at top colleges are increasingly questioning the rigor of MOOC courses, the rates of success for students and the financial viability of teaming up with private companies using aggressive marketing tactics.

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Yale’s ex-president isn’t worried that many people who take online courses drop out
Quartz
Depending on who you ask, massive open online courses are either the future of education or chronically overhyped. Coursera, the largest provider of courses from universities, got a big boost in image when it announced that Yale’s former president, Rick Levin, would take over as the company’s CEO. Levin, an economist by training, led Yale for 20 years before retiring in 2012. He’s credited with significantly improving the university’s finances and safeguarding its reputation. Before retiring, he was the Ivy League’s longest serving president, and one of the United States’ best regarded university administrators. He was an early adopter of web courses, offering them to alumni as far back as 2000.

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University of Florida mum on consulting fees
TheLedger.com
The University of Florida had to pay an education consulting company cash up front before it could help get the Legislature-mandated and state revenue-funded UF Online up and running. But UF officials have been mum on how much the university is paying Pearson Learning, the largest “enabler” of online education for nonprofit universities.

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PSU president thanks lawmakers for restoring funds to university system
New Hampshire Union Leader
Saying “the challenges in higher education are significant,” Plymouth State University President Sara Jayne Steen credited state lawmakers with restoring funds for the university system in her State of the University address Wednesday. “Governmental decisions affect higher education. Federal financial aid guidelines impact institutions and families struggling to meet the costs of attendance,” she said.

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University of Alaska president says gun bill unacceptable
Daily News-Miner
University of Alaska President Pat Gamble said even a compromise on a bill allowing the concealed carry of handguns on campus is unacceptable. The Senate Judiciary Committee unveiled a rewrite of Senate Bill 176 Wednesday to tighten requirements for people to conceal carry on university campuses after hearing vocal opposition to bill, but Gamble remained opposed. He said the measure won’t make campuses any safer but that it would introduce a “whole bucket of problems.”

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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/03/28/shared-governance-review-george-washington-sheds-light-faculty-bullies-board-chair#ixzz2xGBsGEzh
No Bullies Allowed
By Colleen Flaherty
Do professors at George Washington University have a bullying problem? The new chair of its Board of Trustees might think so, and he’s expressed concern that non-tenure-track faculty members are on the receiving end of that bullying. To address the issue, the chair has said he’s taking steps to extend academic freedom and greater access to shared governance to those without tenure.

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Universities spend big to find top job candidates
The Tampa Tribune
It’s common in the private sector for a major company to turn to an executive search firm when it’s time to fill a high-profile vacancy. In what is now the big-money world of academia and college athletics, school administrators are turning to outside firms to nab top talent, too.

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Leaders of California’s 3 higher ed institutions talk collaboration
Press-Telegram
The top leaders of the state’s three public higher education institutions on Wednesday delivered a joint presentation on collaboration efforts to the California State University Board of Trustees. Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California system and former secretary of U.S. Homeland Security, joined CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White and Brice W. Harris, chancellor of California Community Colleges, to update the trustees on partnerships between the three systems.

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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/sunys-cnse-merge-suny-it
SUNY’s CNSE to merge with SUNY-IT
timesunion.com
The Albany-based College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering is merging with an established-but-struggling SUNY technology college in Utica as it leaves the University of Albany. The SUNY board of trustees on Wednesday voted to create the State University of New York Institute of Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology, to be known as INSET. The merger, scheduled for January, is being billed as a SUNY option to world-class schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Center partners uneasy over Washington State University administration
HeraldNet
With Washington State University poised to settle permanently in Everett this summer, two other universities want assurances their programs don’t face future eviction from the community. WSU is on course to replace Everett Community College as operator of the University Center of North Puget Sound, a consortium of public and private colleges offering degree programs to hundreds of students on the EvCC campus and online.

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http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/mar/22/college-and-career-academy-model-coming-to/
College and career academy model coming to Gwinnett high schools
By Keith Farner
Beginning in August, students at five Gwinnett high schools will be exposed to career paths that will allow them to job shadow a professional, pursue internships and, above all, answer the age-old question, “How is this going to help me in the real world?” The goal of these programs at Central Gwinnett, Lanier, Meadowcreek, Shiloh and South Gwinnett is to provide the students with work-based experience in some cases, college credit or professional certification and a plan for postsecondary education and a career.

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/young-workers-change-jobs-frequently-151323107.html
Young workers change jobs frequently, study shows
Younger workers having hard time finding work and keeping jobs, new Labor Dept. study shows
By Tom Raum, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Young adults born in the early 1980s held an average of just over six jobs each from ages 18 through 26, a Labor Department survey showed Wednesday.
Since 1997, the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has been keeping tabs on about 9,000 young men and women born in the early 1980s, surveying their educational and workplace progress. The latest survey is from interviews conducted in 2011-2012. According to the survey, more than two-thirds of the jobs held by high-school dropouts lasted less than a year. Women in the study group overall were more educated than the men.

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States Boost Workforce Development to Attract Employers
By DOUGLAS BELKIN And MARK PETERS
State governments have long offered tax incentives to draw new businesses, but when Alan Easome scouted sites for a new $300 million tire plant last year, he was most impressed by the technology training labs at a community college in eastern Mississippi. The senior director for Yokohama Tire Corp. liked how the control panels and gauges mimicked those used at nearby factories—part of a tailor-made education package that helped West Point, Miss., beat out more than 2,000 other communities vying for the plant. “There was a sincere interest not only to see our labor needs met to commence production, but to sustain production for the long term,” said Mr. Easome. Mississippi’s pitch—to train local residents in basic manufacturing at the community college and to build a skills center at Yokohama’s new plant—comes as many states battle stubbornly high unemployment in the wake of the recession.

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Northwestern athletes win NLRB case, ruled to be employees
Sports Illustrated
Northwestern University athletes won their case before the National Labor Relations Board and were ruled to be employees eligible to form a union. The win on March 26 effectively gives the student-athletes collective bargaining rights. The school said on Wednesday afternoon that it would release a statement soon but that the university will in fact appeal, according to a tweet from NCAA reporter Allie Grasgreen. The official ruling between Northwestern University — the employer — and CAPA — the petitioner — can be found here.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Employees-or-Not-/145573/
Employees or Not? Graduate-Student Assistants Versus Scholarship Athletes
By Sara Hebel
The National Labor Relations Board’s ruling on Wednesday spelled out how Northwestern University’s scholarship football players are different from graduate-student assistants when determining whether or not those groups should be considered employees with the right to organize. In a 2004 decision involving Brown University, the National Labor Relations Board held that graduate-student assistants who performed services in connection with their studies were not employees. In the Northwestern case, a regional office of the board ruled that the athletes are employees of the university and deserve the right to organize.

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Union Ruling Comes at Bad Time for NCAA
by Tim Dahlberg, Associated Press
They’re battling in courtrooms, and could one day meet over a bargaining table. About the only things the two sides in the debate over big-time college athletics agree on is that things are changing. Schools bringing in hundreds of millions in bloated television contracts. Coaches making the kind of salaries that late UCLA legend John Wooden wouldn’t recognize. Athletes insisting on basic rights, if not outright cash. And now a union for football players at Northwestern that would previously have been unthinkable in college sports. …For the NCAA, the timing of a National Labor Relations Board opinion allowing a union at Northwestern couldn’t have been worse. In the middle of a tournament that earns schools close to $1 billion a year, it is being taken to task not only for not paying players, but for not ensuring their health and future welfare. Add in embarrassing revelations like Florida coach Billy Donovan’s new $3.7 million-a-year contract and the $18,000 bonus that Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith got for one of the school’s wrestlers winning an NCAA title, and it gets harder for some to sympathize with the NCAA’s contention that everything it does is for the benefit of athletes who play for the glory of their schools.