University System News
USG NEWS:
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http://www.macon.com/2014/04/05/3031374/georgia-could-become-biggest-test.html
Georgia could become biggest test of private dorms
BY KATHLEEN FOODY
ATLANTA — Georgia is on course to become one of the nation’s largest experiments in privatized college dorms, but it’s unclear whether the changes will lower students’ bills at a time when university costs are soaring. The new arrangements, which the state’s university system has been planning since 2012, would lease to private companies the future revenue streams from the dorms — essentially student rent. In exchange, such companies would oversee maintenance. Student housing on nine campuses is included in the first phase of the privatization plan backed by the system’s governing body, the Board of Regents.
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Georgia could become biggest test of private dorms
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http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/25170812/georgia-could-become-biggest-test-of-private-dorms
Georgia could become biggest test of private dorms
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/58522/
Keel to Congress: GSU exploring ‘forgivable loans’
Concept: Students who work in job after graduation wouldn’t have to repay
By Jason Wermers
A congressional hearing Wednesday assembled a panel of six people in higher education — including Georgia Southern University President Brooks Keel — to answer a question that is on many minds today: How can a college education be kept affordable yet also produce the highly skilled workers needed for a 21st-century workforce? Keel offered an innovative idea that Georgia Southern hopes to have in place soon. “We are actively exploring the concept of industry-sponsored, forgivable, worker-readiness educational loans, awarded to students who participate in co-ops and subsequently commit to working with the sponsoring industry for a one- to three-year term following graduation,” he told the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
www.wjcl.com
http://wjcl.com/2014/04/02/ga-southern-president-testifies-before-us-congress/
Ga. Southern President testifies before US Congress
By Ga. Southern University News Release
STATESBORO, Ga. – April 2, 2014 – Georgia Southern University President Brooks A. Keel, Ph.D., testified before a Congressional committee in Washington, D.C., Wednesday in a hearing examining higher education issues. The House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing titled “Keeping College Within Reach: Meeting the Needs of Contemporary Students,” and Keel spoke on the importance of preparing the 21st century workforce and the need for a “Workforce-Grant University.” In his prepared remarks, Keel expressed how Georgia Southern serves as an example of a Workforce-Grant University.
www.myemail.com
http://myemail.constantcontact.com/UGA-Tifton–Critical–to-State.html?soid=1108636655667&aid=imns87G4uZQ
TIFTON CAMPUS ‘CRITICAL,’
SAYS UGA PRESIDENT
By FRANK SAYLES JR.
Tifton Grapevine
The University of Georgia’s Tifton Campus is “critical to the state” and is an important part of the university, UGA President Jere Morehead said in Tifton this week. “I think Tifton (campus) is critical to the state; this is the University of Georgia for this part of the state,” Morehead told the Tifton Rotary Club on Wednesday, April 2. “I think we’re going to remain strong here.” Morehead told Rotarians the Tifton campus is growing and that he is trying to, across the state, emulate the Tifton Campus’ successful partnerships with local businesses.
www.jbhe.com
University of Georgia to Honor Its First Black Applicant
In 1950 Horace Ward applied for admission to the University of Georgia School of Law. He was the first African American to have applied to the university. His application was denied because at that time Blacks were not permitted at the racially segregated educational institution. …Now the University of Georgia, which more than 60 years ago did not consider Horace Ward’s application for admission because of his race, has decided to award him an honorary doctor of laws degree at this spring’s commencement ceremonies.
www.forsythnews.com
http://www.forsythnews.com/section/4/article/23206/
UNG honors mayor of Cumming
Gravitt lauded for dedication, vision
By Crystal Ledford
CUMMING — Cumming’s longtime mayor received the highest honor presented by the University of North Georgia during an event Friday night. H. Ford Gravitt — now in his 48thyear of service to the city of Cumming, first as a city councilman and for more than four decades as mayor — was presented with the Presidential Leadership Award during the university’s second annual Scholarship Ball at the Lanier Technical College Forsyth Conference Center. First held last year in Gainesville, the black-tie event raises money for student scholarships and celebrates the university’s supporters. Next year, the ball will be held in Dahlonega. Gravitt received the Presidential Leadership Award, which is given rarely and only to those who have shown the highest level of support for the university. He was honored for his long-standing efforts to create a higher education campus in Forsyth County.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-04-02/uga-says-increased-number-students-reported-academic-dishonesty
UGA says increased number of students reported for academic dishonesty
By LEE SHEARER
The number of University of Georgia students reported for academic dishonesty more than doubled between the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. But the ballooning statistics in UGA’s annual academic dishonesty report, scheduled to be presented at the UGA University Council’s executive committee next week, are more a reflection of what happened in one class than an epidemic of cheating at the university.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-04-02/uga-employee-arrested-stealing-text-books-campus
UGA employee arrested for stealing text books on campus
By JOE JOHNSON
A University of Georgia employee was arrested Tuesday after police said they caught her stealing text books. Julia Hannah Meranski, 26, of Athens, also was illegally in possession of several types of prescription medication, according to police. UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said that Meranski is under suspicion for text book thefts on campus going back possibly as long as two years ago.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/athens/drinking-challenges-dangerous-to-collegians/article_5e2ccd2a-b538-11e3-9513-001a4bcf6878.html
Drinking challenges dangerous to collegians
Michelle Baruchman
Completing a drinking challenge after being tagged in a social media post with #neknomination could lead to more than just social acceptance — five people have already been reported dead after participating in the dare. Neknomination is a social media trend where friend nominates others to post a video of them drinking large amounts of alcohol usually in a funny, creative or absurd way, according to an Urban Dictionary post. The nominees are then required to complete the challenges within 24 hours. …“Too much alcohol, as is in this challenge, is detrimental and can cause nerve and brain damage,” said Lou Kudon, program manager at the Northeast Health District.
GOOD NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-04-02/ung-raises-1-million-scholarships
UNG raises $1 million for scholarships
By LEE SHEARER
The University of North Georgia raised more than $1 million for student scholarships over the past year, including $340,498 raised at a scholarship ball held in Cumming last week, the school has announced. Most of the roughly 15,000 students at the school receive one or more forms of aid such as scholarships or student loans, and the scholarship help it provides for students is one reason why it was ranked as one of the Top 100 Best Value Public Colleges in the nation, according to a Kiplinger Personal Finance ranking. According to the magazine’s 2013 ranking, UNG students had the smallest average debt load in the nation among universities.
www.coosavalleynews.com
http://www.coosavalleynews.com/np106490.htm
GHC student organization wins national Award
CVN News
Georgia Highlands College`s chapter of Brother 2 Brother won the Outstanding Chapter of the Year Award at their recent national conference of the Student African American Brotherhood, which was held in Detroit, Michigan. …Outstanding Chapter of the Year is determined by the strength of the enrollment, retention and graduation rates of its members, as well as by the activities and dedication of the chapter during the year. This is the second time that Georgia Highlands has won Chapter of the Year in the past three years. Brother 2 Brother is a part of the larger Georgia Highlands College initiative called GHAME (Georgia Highlands African American and Minority Male Excellence) which itself is part of the University System of Georgia`s African American Male Initiative (AAMI).
www.wvtm.com
http://www.wtvm.com/story/25157108/csu-greek-week-bbq-raises-money-for-boys-girls-club
CSU Greek Week BBQ raises money for Boys & Girls Club
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) –
It’s Greek Week at Columbus State University, and the African-American Male Initiative along with Greek organizations hosted a barbecue Thursday for charity. Students participating in Greek Week are raising money for the Boys and Girls Club of the Chattahoochee Valley.
RESEARCH:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-04-03/uga-awarded-14-million-study-critical-earth-zone-sumter-national-forest
UGA awarded $1.4 million to study critical earth zone in Sumter National Forest
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Looking back now, it’s easy to see where farmers in the 1800s went wrong. Attempting to grow profits from a lush environment, landowners cleared entire forests in the South to make room for agricultural farmland. But using primitive agricultural techniques scarred the landscape, and when the profits dried up, they abandoned the barren land. Now University of Georgia researchers want to understand the ongoing repercussions of a bygone era. Five UGA researchers are joining with the U.S. Forest Service on the project to calculate how past land use has influenced the present environment-and how it will impact the future. They were awarded $1.4 million from an overall $5 million National Science Foundation grant led by Duke University to set up one of 10 national observatories focused on the thin outer layer of the planet most important for human life.
www.daltondailycitizen.com
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/business/x1316966179/Study-looking-at-ways-to-bring-more-manufacturing-to-area
Study looking at ways to bring more manufacturing to area
Charles Oliver
— Technology is changing every part of the economy, including manufacturing. Advanced machinery and manufacturing processes require workers with new and advanced skills.
Now, the Northwest Georgia Regional Commission has partnered with Georgia Tech to develop a plan to make sure that workers in the region have the skills they need to compete in the 21st century and that the region can attract advanced manufacturing. The commission provides planning and other services for 15 counties in northwest Georgia, including Whitfield and Murray.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/04/04/atlantic-station-to-become-se-region-s-largest-ev.html?page=all
Pindrop relos HQ to Biltmore Hotel (2nd article down)
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
A Georgia Tech spinoff that has developed phone fraud-busting technology is dialing up an expansion in Midtown.
Pindrop Security is doubling its workforce and and has quadrupled its workspace. The company recently signed a 12,000-square-foot lease at the Biltmore Hotel across the street from its current digs at the Advanced Technology Development Center.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-04-05/uga-research-helps-prevent-scab-disease-peach-crop
UGA research helps prevent scab disease on peach crop
By CLINT THOMPSONUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Last summer’s abnormally wet conditions could have caused serious problems for the state’s peach crop, but thanks to University of Georgia researchers, scab disease issues were prevented.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-04-05/release-first-peanut-genome-sequences-aid-plant-breeders
Release of first peanut genome sequences to aid plant breeders
By MERRITT MELANCONUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The International Peanut Genome Initiative — a multinational group of crop geneticists who have been working in tandem for the last several years — has successfully sequenced the peanut’s genome. Scott Jackson, director of the University of Georgia Center for Applied Genetic Technologies in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, serves as chair of the IPGI. The new peanut genome sequence will be available to researchers and plant breeders across the globe to aid in the breeding of more productive and more resilient peanut varieties.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/04/03/did-that-dolphin-just-say-seaweed/?tid=hp_mm
Did that dolphin just say seaweed?
BY PAM TOBEY
Dolphins may be communicating with each other about seaweed. No, really. Scientist Denise Herzing was swimming with a dolphin pod in the Caribbean last August when she heard one say, “sargassum,” according to New Scientist… The CHAT translator was developed for Herzog by Thad Starner — who also helped create Google Glass — and a team of graduate students at Georgia Institute of Technology, according to the Daily Mail. Herzing, who is the director and founder of the Wild Dolphin Project, has been studying a particular dolphin pod for 25 years and uses the device while listening to the dolphins interact.
www.mnn.com
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/new-material-may-help-to-soundproof-your-life
New material may help to soundproof your life
The use of phononic crystal scatters sound waves and lessens the noise caused by machines.
By: Katia Moskvitch, Live Science
Air conditioners, cars and other machinery may soon be free of vibrations and thus much quieter than they are now, thanks to new so-called adaptive phononic crystals. A group of researchers has demonstrated that by changing an electrical parameter of such a material, it is possible to get it to modify its mechanical properties and to program the way sound propagates through it, canceling out vibration… In their recent work, the researchers from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), ETH Zürich and the Georgia Institute of Technology tried to control the way the waves travel through a solid to make that object vibration-free and, hence, soundproof. To do so, a team led by material engineer Andrea Bergamini of Empa arranged 10 small aluminum cylinders on an aluminum plate just a millimeter thick in a periodic manner.
www.govtech.com
http://www.govtech.com/question-of-the-day/Question-of-the-Day-for-040414.html
Smartphones may one day be powered by what “digital” device?
Answer: your fingertips
By News Staff
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology created a generator that harnesses the power created by swiping and touching a screen to power the device. The technology makes use of the Triboelectric effect, most commonly experienced when static electricity is generated after two objects rub together.
www.grubstreet.com
http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/04/negative-reviews-bad-weather.html
People Post More Negative Restaurant Reviews When the Weather Is Miserable
Here’s something interesting: A new study suggests that you’re more likely to tear into your local pizza parlor if you had to walk in the rain to get there. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yahoo Labs took a look at online customer-review data gleaned from sites like Citysearch, TripAdvisor, and Foursquare to determine that very cold (less than 40°) and very hot (more than 100°) temperatures correspond to the “most negative reviews,” the New York Times reports.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.morganzountycitizen.com
http://www.morgancountycitizen.com/gov-helps-launch-14-million-center/
Gov. helps launch $14 million center
By Tia Lynn Lecorchick staff writer
The Technical College System of Georgia and the Georgia Department of Economic Development hosted a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the soon-to-be constructed $14 million Georgia BioScience Training Center, located in Stanton Springs, on March 30. Governor Nathan Deal lead the ceremony to celebrate the coming center that will support Baxter International, a life sciences business which manufactures plasma-based therapies to treat chronic and deadly diseases. The center will be built right across from Baxter International’s $1 billion bio-manufacturing plant.
Related article:
www.themonticellonews.com
http://themonticellonews.com/ground-is-broken-for-bioscience-training-center-p10723-1.htm
Ground Is Broken for Bioscience Training Center
www.georgiatrend.com
http://www.georgiatrend.com/April-2014/2014-Industry-outlook/
2014 INDUSTRY OUTLOOK
The director of the Selig Center for Economic Research at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business reports on what to expect this year for the state’s key industries.
Jeffrey Humphreys
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/24873453/article-New-HOPE-for-top-tech-college-students–big-impact-in-local-jobs?instance=lead_story_left_column
New HOPE for top college students, big impact in local jobs
By Don Kee
HOPE springs anew for the top tier of Georgia’s technical college students, the source of job-ready graduates for business and industry. House Bill 697 creates the Zell Miller Grant Scholar program and provides full tuition for tech college students with a 3.5 grade point average — about 16,000 students of the 151,000 enrolled in the state’s 24 technical colleges. Already, tech students with at least a 2.0 GPA receive a regular HOPE grant covering part of the tuition.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/04/04/3028555/burke-nothing-wrong-with-hb-60.html?sp=/99/203//
BURKE: No wrong with HB 60
You probably won’t be surprised when I tell you that true liberty lovers think House Bill 60 didn’t go far enough in making it legal for licensed gun carriers to carry their weapons in various locations in the state. Since you went point by point, I hope you’ll grant me the same privilege:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/apr/04/lawsuit-private-school-scholarships-serve-no-publi/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Lawsuit: Private school scholarships serve no public good and violate constitution
In 2008, Legislators enacted a scholarship tax credit program — that has since come under fire for blatant abuses — that subsidizes private-school tuition. Thus far, the program has diverted $300 million from the state treasury.
www.azcentral.com
http://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/2014/04/01/university-phoenix-names-michigan-cfo-new-president/7175837/
University of Phoenix taps Michigan CFO to be its new president
Ronald J. Hansen, The Republic
Amid sliding enrollment and more restrictive federal rules that could threaten some of its programs, the University of Phoenix named a financial executive from the University of Michigan as its new president Tuesday. Timothy P. Slottow, the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Michigan, will take over in Phoenix in June as the seventh president in the for-profit university’s history.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/62608/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=00a379d23c734e9ea234c39889f2e0f3&elqCampaignId=258
HBCU Presidential Crisis: Here’s What Can Be Done Now
by Walter Kimbrough
At the recent March meeting of the United Negro College Fund, I finally allowed myself to feel the crisis of leadership for HBCUs. I have tracked new presidents for over a decade ― when they were appointed, previous position, and age ― and clearly noticed the high turnover rate. In fact, 38 of the 78 four year HBCUs have appointed a new president since January of 2011, and, in that short time, nine of those 38 are no longer in office. So as I read my UNCF briefing book, I noticed the number of names that had either interim or acting next to them ― eight in all. That’s 22 percent of the UNCF. Another eight of the presidents have been in office three years or less.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/62653/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=2662b8bc512c4435a86936736e528324&elqCampaignId=173
Researchers Discuss Role of HBCUs in Supporting School-age Black Males
by Jamal Watson
PHILADELPHIA – During a panel session at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), several prominent researchers on African-American males highlighted strategies and policies to improve the Black male experience in preK-12 schools and in postsecondary contexts, including at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
www.theatlantavoice.com
http://theatlantavoice.com/news/2014/apr/04/summit-held-bring-about-change-young-african-ameri/
Summit Held to Bring about Change for Young African American Males
By Titus Falodun
ATLANTA – “Only four percent of African American high school seniors are college-ready in a wide range of courses,” Morehouse College President John Silvanus Wilson told the packed auditorium, filled with impressionable youths. “That ought to shake people up.” The stage was set for President Barack Obama’s initiative, My Brother’s Keeper, to shed an honest light on the issues facing young black males, as students, experts, and community and business leaders held dialogue at Morehouse College on March 28-29. A poignant moment during Friday’s sessions was a panel featuring five African American male students from local schools: Thabiti Stephens and Otha Thornton, seniors at Morehouse; Miles Ezeilo, a Grady High School freshman; Keith Slaughter, a sophomore at Westlake High School; and Joshua Young, a student at Atlanta Technical College.
www.scnow.com
http://www.scnow.com/opinion/article_7ad72de4-bc31-11e3-b758-0017a43b2370.html
COLUMN: Challenging books ahead! Avert your eyes!
MATT TATE
To crib from “Fahrenheit 451” author Ray Bradbury, there’s more than one way to burn a book, and the South Carolina House has got matches to spare. S.C. representatives recently approved nearly $70,000 in cuts to two public universities — College of Charleston and the University of South Carolina-Upstate — after the two higher education institutions refused to alter their required-reading books for this school year, both of which contained homosexual themes.
www.nytimes.com
Half of New York’s Tech Workers Lack College Degrees, Report Says
By PATRICK McGEEHAN
The fast-growing technology industry in New York is often cited as a magnet for graduates of the nation’s top universities. But a new report to be discussed in a speech by a deputy mayor on Wednesday found that almost half of the technology jobs in the city are filled by people without college degrees. The report was commissioned to show just how important the tech sector has become, estimating that it accounts for nearly 300,000 jobs in the city, more than half of them at companies in nontechnology businesses, such as finance and advertising.
www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/the-crucial-role-of-college-counselors/360026/
The Crucial Role of College Counselors
Acceptance letters are only one part of going to college.
BETH ZASLOFF AND JOSHUA STECKEL
When Michael Forbes, a student at an underfunded public school in Brooklyn, received his college admissions results, most would have expected him to be thrilled with his range of choices. Mike, who was living in a homeless shelter, was accepted to five prestigious New York State liberal arts colleges, as well as Morehouse College and Clark-Atlanta University. Most offered him substantial funding as well as academic and social support. But Mike told the college counselor at his high school that he had decided to stay in New York City and attend the less selective Brooklyn College. He did not even want to visit the other colleges to which he had been accepted. …The vast majority of American high school students receive little guidance from college counselors.
www.news-register.net
http://www.news-register.net/page/content.detail/id/598248/Higher-Education-Is-Adapting-to-Rapid-Changes.html?nav=509
Higher Education Is Adapting to Rapid Changes
By SCOTT D. MILLER , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
We live in an age of predictions – of the economy, the environment, technology, medicine, communication, and much more. Higher education is not immune from trends. In fact, predicting trends at colleges and universities is a very hot topic these days. That’s because campus life as we know it is beginning to change radically. The trends heralding that change are already here.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/four-emergent-higher-education-models
Four Emergent Higher Education Models
Steven Mintz
The model that dominates non-profit higher education today is under severe stress, particularly at the less-selective institutions that serve the bulk of American students.
Four forces – behavioral, demographic, financial, and political — have combined to disrupt these institutions’ business practices.
www.mndaily.com
http://www.mndaily.com/opinion/columns/2014/04/02/harassment-free-higher-education
Harassment-free higher education
Public universities have an obligation to create safe learning environments for all.
ByLuis Ruuska
Tyler Clementi committed suicide in 2010 after his Rutgers University roommate streamed a video of his sexual encounter online. Clementi’s death put cyberbullying in the national spotlight as celebrities, politicians, parents and other college students called for tougher measures against it. Currently, the best chance of real change is the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act, a bill from last year. Sen. Pat Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., reintroduced the bill last month.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/04/07/essay-considers-whether-higher-education-us-has-peaked
Has Higher Ed Peaked?
By Bryan Alexander
American higher education now seems to be recovering at last from the 2008 financial crisis. Some states are increasing their support for public universities and colleges. Backlash against the impact of budget cuts seems to have the idea of austerity down a peg, if not discredited it entirely, which might free up more budgetary room for governmental support of education. On the private side, institutional endowments are finally rising after years of stagnation and decline. Domestically, American college graduates still enjoy higher lifetime earnings than those with only high school experience. Internationally, the number of students traveling to study in the United States continues to grow. But what if these cheerful data paint an inaccurate picture?
www.4hoteliers.com
http://www.4hoteliers.com/news/story/12411
College graduates not prepared for work.
Source : Joyce Gioia, Strategic Business Futurist
Across the globe, employers are increasingly wrestling with a major issue: young people are graduating from colleges and universities not workforce ready, not prepared to take the jobs for which employers need them. In a recent survey by The Gallup Organization, 66 percent business leaders “have doubts that higher education institutions in the United States are graduating students who meet their particular businesses’ needs”.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/04/04/addressing-mismatch-between-colleges-and-job-market-essay
Work Ready or Not
By Peter Stokes
Recently, the McKinsey Center for Government released the second in its “Education to Employment” series of the reports. The first, “Education to Employment: Designing a System that Works,” released in December 2012, looked at global youth unemployment challenges and the roles of higher education institutions and employers in helping students to make the transition from one domain to the other more successfully. The second report, “Education to Employment: Getting Europe’s Youth into Work,” released in January of this year, takes a geographically more narrow look at the same issues, and makes some practical recommendations for addressing the so-called skills gap currently vexing many European nations.
www.thenews.org
http://thenews.org/2014/04/01/kentucky-legislature-agrees-on-biennial-budget-universities-still-suffer-cuts/
Kentucky legislature agrees on biennial budget, universities still suffer cuts
Leaders from the Republican-controlled Kentucky Senate and Democratically controlled House reached a compromise on the biennial budget for the Commonwealth Monday night for the years 2014-2016. The final $20.3 million budget, if approved by Gov. Steve Beshear, restores funding to a number of universities’ construction projects removed in the Senate’s draft of the budget and includes an across-the-board funding cut to state higher education. This compromise comes a week after the Senate released its counter-proposition to the House’s state budget.
www.registerguard.com
http://www.registerguard.com/rg/opinion/31370467-78/oregon-university-state-education-higher.html.csp
Regional schools stand to lose by standing alone
By Paul Primak
What the HECC is going on with public higher education in Oregon? I’m not sure whether to be angry, mystified or apathetic. HECC is the Higher Education Coordinating Commission. The Register-Guard’s March 30 editorial points to the retrenchment at Southern Oregon University that will eliminate 80 faculty and staff positions, along with several majors (really, a university without a physics major?). With the SOU Faculty Senate having taken a vote of no confidence in the upper administration, one can hardly see a constructive outcome to the exercise. It doesn’t serve the region or the state as a whole.
www.tampaby.com
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-political-meddling-ill-serves-state-colleges/2173008
Editorial: Political meddling ill serves state colleges
Perhaps state Sen. Joe Negron is right that some state colleges are guilty of mission creep in rushing to offer four-year degree programs. But his solution — to strip authority from the Board of Education to approve new bachelor degree programs for state colleges and force them to reduce their tuition for those programs — is another example of bad higher education policy on the fly.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2014/04/04/campuses-must-create-formal-networks-female-stem-professors-essay#ixzz2xvGA2yMK
Networks and the STEM Gender Gap
By Santa J. Ono and Valerie Gray Hardcastle
The recent threat to boycott an upcoming international chemistry conference because of its all-male speaking program reminds us how far we still have to go when it comes to women in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. The challenge remains that many STEM professions remain male-dominated, especially in academia.
www.blogs.wsj.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/atwork/2014/04/03/so-long-interview-suit-here-comes-the-virtual-career-fair/
So Long, Interview Suit: Here Comes the Virtual Career Fair
By MELISSA KORN
Recruiters, meet computers. As tech-savvy Millennials reshape the work world, employers and college career-services offices are bringing the job-search process online with tools like virtual career fairs and finely targeted email feeds of job opportunities (for students) and candidates (for employers). Later this month, tech startup Collegefeed Inc. will host a “digital career fair” for students at Carnegie Mellon University.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/worldwise/embracing-the-new-globalism-a-challenge-to-rethink-study-abroad/33733?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Embracing the New Globalism: a Challenge to Rethink Study Abroad
The following is by William G. Durden, former president of Dickinson College. It is adapted from a speech he gave Wednesday at the Forum on Education Abroad’s annual meeting in San Diego.
Higher education in the United States is not prepared to lead the future of study abroad. It is mired in past assumptions and internal professional disputes disconnected from public demand and opportunity. And despite “cosmetic” tweaks to traditional programs, what is potentially the future of education abroad eludes us. American colleges are not accommodating a student population that is interconnected globally, that is, to each other via technology, but not connected to them.
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State moves to new evaluation system for teachers, principals
BY WAYNE WASHINGTON – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Starting this fall, Georgia’s 119,000 teachers and principals will be graded on a new scale that formally includes student test scores, upping the ante on a standardized testing system some have argued is already too weighty. The state Board of Education gave final approval Thursday to the new system, which nearly all districts in the state have been informally piloting for the past couple of years.
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http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/calhoun_times/gordon_life/local/literacy-improves-business-life/article_c6f32084-ba74-11e3-acc6-001a4bcf6878.html
Literacy improves business, life
by Aaron Mann
At the Gordon County Chamber of Commerce Booster Breakfast sponsored by the Calhoun-Gordon Council for a Literate Community, the speaker talked about the importance of adult education. Beverly E. Smith, assistant commissioner and Georgia State Director for Adult Education and GED testing through the Technical College System of Georgia, was the keynote speaker and addressed the economic, as well as quality of life, importance of literacy. …She said adult education creates a better future for Georgia and a better future for America.
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Air Force colonel will head technical college veteran program
Air Force colonel will head technical college veteran program A soon-to-retire Air Force colonel will head up the Technical College System of Georgia’s military affairs post.
As director of military affairs, Col. Patricia Ross will lead a TCSG initiative that aims to increase education and job training opportunities for current and former military personnel and their family members.
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TCSG Military Outreach Initiative Names Leader
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RETIRING AIR FORCE COLONEL TO LEAD THE TCSG MILITARY OUTREACH INITIATIVE
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http://www.georgiatrend.com/April-2014/Embracing-Change/
EMBRACING CHANGE
The Technical College System of Georgia is adapting to changing needs and encouraging industries new to the state to hire local workers.
Ed Lightsey
There was a time 50 years ago when today’s 24-school Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) was only a smattering of vocational schools and courses were just about limited to auto repair for the boys and cosmetology in a hair salon for the girls. The daily pace of learning was leisurely. The modern technical college curriculum is no longer separated by gender, with the welding shop likely to have as many females as males firing up their acetylene torches. The cosmetology classes may have evolved to include courses on makeup artistry for motion pictures and television shows. And an important part of the coursework is usually connected to businesses and industries in the technical college’s service area.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/04/community-college-philadelphia-trustees-hire-president-despite-faculty-concerns
A For-Profit Past
By Colleen Flaherty
Despite faculty concerns that its pick for president might be unfit for the job, the board of the Community College of Philadelphia confirmed Donald Generals Jr. as the institution’s new leader on Thursday. Generals, vice president for academic affairs at nearby Mercer County Community College in New Jersey, formerly served as provost at the embattled and now-defunct Katherine Gibbs School of New York.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/04/04/educause-president-retire
Educause President to Retire
Diana G. Oblinger, president and CEO of the higher education information technology organization Educause, on Thursday announced she will retire in March 2015. Oblinger has been involved in the organization’s leadership for a decade, also serving as vice president between 2004 and 2008.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/04/study-shows-positive-imapcts-government-aid-graduation-rates
Grants vs. Loans
By Scott Jaschik
PHILADELPHIA — Much of the debate about encouraging college completion has focused on academic requirements, advising or the curriculum. Many experts commonly say that completion rates are about much more than money. But a study released here Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association suggests that money, and different kinds of money, matter a lot in the graduation of low-income students.
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Parents, group sues state over private school scholarship program
By James Salzer and Wayne Washington
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A controversial state program that offers tax credits to people who fund private school scholarships is unconstitutional and robs public schools of much-needed financial support, a lawsuit filed by Georgia parents Thursday argues. The group, backed by the Southern Education Foundation, says the student scholarship tax credits violate both the state constitution and tax laws by, among other things, providing indirect public funding to religious schools, giving donors illegal benefits and allowing a school program to be run by private groups.
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http://flaglerlive.com/65756/college-loan-defaults/
More Parents Are Defaulting on College Loans For Their Children, Costing Taxpayers
Parents are increasingly struggling to repay federal loans they’ve taken out to help cover their children’s college costs, according to newly released federal data. The Parent Plus program allows parents to take out essentially uncapped amounts to cover college costs, regardless of the borrower’s income or ability to repay the loan. As the cost of college has risen, the program has become an increasingly critical workaround for families that max out on federal student loans and can’t pay the rest out of pocket.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/03/middlebury-backs-away-attempt-control-rising-prices
Inflation Plus Whatever
By Ry Rivard
Middlebury College is weakening a plan to hold down student costs. The Vermont-based liberal arts college announced in 2010 it would cap its tuition, room and board charges at 1 percentage point above the rate of inflation. The strategy, its president said at the time, was designed to recognize there was a price at which even the richest families would question their investment in a four-year liberal arts degree. The college has attracted considerable praise for its policy. Now, the same administration is breaking its own self-imposed limits, at least for the coming academic year.
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Despite Changes over Years, HBCU Advocacy Remains the Priority
by Cheryl D. Fields
Public funding is the life blood of higher education, specifically from financial aid, grants and contracts. Advocacy often determines not only how much public funding an institution will receive, but whether its concerns and those of its students will be taken into account as federal and state policies, programs and contracts are being developed.
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HBCUX Network Ready for Its Opening Act
by Reginald Stuart
An ambitious new social media venture hoping there’s money to be made by enhancing public access to news and information about and to supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) is set for launch Monday. The Washington-based HBCUX Network, backed principally by two former veteran executives of Black Entertainment Network (BET), the cable television channel, say they hope their social media venture will be able to distinguish itself enough to be considered a valued complement to the growing cast of social media sites courting HBCU audiences.
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Rachel Canning, teen who sued parents for tuition, gets $56K scholarship
April 2, 2014 (ASBURY PARK, N.J.) — Turns out the 18-year-old New Jersey high school cheerleader who sued her parents for college tuition won’t need all that money after all.
According to the Asbury Park Press, Rachel Canning posted on her Facebook page Saturday that she will attend Western New England University on a $56,000 scholarship.
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New Yorker Kwasi Enin is accepted to all eight Ivy League colleges
WENLEI MA
YOU might call him the ultimate high achiever – a US teenager who has achieved a seemingly impossible feat. Seventeen-year old New Yorker, Kwasi Enin, has been accepted to all eight Ivy League colleges, the top echelon of higher education institutions in the US. The Ivy League consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.
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http://www.dailycal.org/2014/04/02/uc-college-board-partner-outreach-low-income-high-schoolers/
UC, College Board partner in outreach to low-income high schoolers
BY MEGAN MESSERLY | SENIOR STAFF
The University of California teamed up with College Board this week to reach out to low-income high school students as part of a new partnership between the two institutions. UC President Janet Napolitano, in a letter sent this week to several thousand ninth- to 11th-graders across the state, urged students to take Advanced Placement classes, explaining that it could increase their chances of being admitted to one of the university’s nine undergraduate campuses.
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http://norwalk.patch.com/groups/schools/p/new-high-schoolassociates-degree-school-to-start-in-norwalk
IBM Creates 1st Early College High School in Connecticut
Known as a P-TECH model school, the six-year academy is a collaboration with IBM, Norwalk Public Schools and Norwalk Community College.
Posted by David Gurliacci (Editor)
A new kind of high school is coming to Connecticut: Housed within Norwalk High School, the “Early College High School” will allow students to stay an extra two years and earn an associate’s degree in applied science. …Governor Dannel P. Malloy today announced that Connecticut’s first Pathways in Technology Early College High School will open in Norwalk in September. Known as a P-TECH model school, the six-year academy is a collaboration with IBM, Norwalk Public Schools and Norwalk Community College.
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Tennessee close to approving free community college for all high school grads
By Eric Pfeiffer
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has proposed that his state use lottery funds to provide high school graduates with two free years of education at community or technical colleges. First announced in February, the proposal now appears to be on track for approval, having won support from several of Haslem’s Republican colleagues in the state’s General Assembly. Called “Tennessee Promise,” Haslam’s plan would allow high school graduates to attend an in-state technical or community college without having to pay any tuition or associated fees. The funds would come from a newly created endowment using money from the lottery’s reserves.
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College-Readiness Not Keeping Up In California
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fewer than 4 in 10 California high school students are completing the requirements to be eligible for the state’s public universities, fueling worries of a shortage of college-educated workers when the value of a bachelor’s degree has never been higher.
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Baylor advocates for more recruitment, retention of women faculty
By REGINA DENNIS
The low number of women leaders and professors in higher academia is a disparity universities must address with strategic recruitment and support programs, Baylor University officials say. Women make up about 76 percent of the 3.7 million K-12 teachers nationwide, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Education. But they comprise only 26 percent of full-time professors at universities, despite earning about half of the doctorate degrees issued in the U.S.
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Veterans’ path to graduation can be twisty
By JEFF HARGARTEN-Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – University of Minnesota student Zac Bair enlisted in the U.S. Army to help pay for college. After three deployments in Afghanistan with the 75th Ranger Regiment and his “fair share” of combat, Bair was honorably discharged. Soon after, he enrolled at the University. The Post-9/11 GI Bill completely covered his tuition and provided a $1,000 yearly stipend for books and an allowance for living costs. Without GI benefits, Bair said, he would likely be either working low-end jobs, living with his family, homeless or back in the military.
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Throwing the book at the high costs of college textbooks
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By Sarah Rohrs/Times-Herald staff writer
For a college student on a budget, forking over $200 for one textbook can be a major burden. To get books they need, some students borrow from their parents, use financial aid or even try to get by without them for a course, or two. The high cost of textbooks is a problem, which adds to debt and other financial loads students must carry, according to the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG).
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/03/online-education-provider-2u-disband-semester-online-consortium
2U Ends Semester Online
By Carl Straumsheim
The online education provider 2U will this summer eliminate its online course pool initiative in favor of developing fully online undergraduate degree programs, ending a high-profile effort to offer scalable, credit-granting online courses at residential colleges. The consortium, known as Semester Online, was initially marketed as a platform for top-tier universities to offer online courses to paying students at participating universities.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/04/03/college-degree-gender-gap-widens-with-younger-gen-xers/
College degree gender gap widens with younger Gen Xers, study finds
There’s a growing gender gap when it comes to the youngest members of Generation X and college. A federal survey of about 9,000 young men and women born during the years 1980 to 1984 shows a big disparity when it comes to higher education, with women a third more likely to have received a bachelor’s degree by age 27. While it has long been known that women are outpacing men when it comes to pursuing higher education, the extensive study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics highlighted several numbers that show the trend is accelerating.
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Educating Nevada’s Workforce: Higher Education in Nevada
BY JENNIFER RACHEL BAUMER
Education and economy go together. It’s almost like an equation: education plus workforce equals a healthy economy. A top flight, community-involved system of higher education is a draw for new industries looking to locate within a state. There’s a need for research institutions, an educated, trainable workforce and a healthy feeder K through 12 school system that prepares students for higher education.
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Just Graduated, and Fumbling Through a First Job
TARA GOODFELLOW shudders when she remembers how she acted at her first job out of college. She once chased a 50-year-old colleague up the stairs to get to their boss first to explain her side of a story. She impulsively quit her job over the phone. Now 38 and a career coach in Charlotte, N.C., here’s what she wishes her 21-year-old self had known: “How to manage my expectations, learn about office politics and realize that perhaps I didn’t know it all at 21.”
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http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600131-too-many-degrees-are-waste-money-return-higher-education-would-be-much-better
Is college worth it?
Too many degrees are a waste of money. The return on higher education would be much better if college were cheaper
WHEN LaTisha Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2006 she had $35,000 of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no shortage of Spanish-speakers in a nation that borders Latin America. So Ms Styles found herself working in a clothes shop and a fast-food restaurant for no more than $11 an hour. Frustrated, she took the gutsy decision to go back to the same college and study something more pragmatic. She majored in finance, and now has a good job at an investment consulting firm. Her debt has swollen to $65,000, but she will have little trouble paying it off. As Ms Styles’s story shows, there is no simple answer to the question “Is college worth it?” Some degrees pay for themselves; others don’t.
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http://www.businessinsider.com/unemployment-and-salary-graduates-and-non-graduates-2014-4
Here’s The Difference In Career Prospects Between People Who Did And Didn’t Go To College
Joe Weisenthal
Not convinced that going to college makes a difference? This chart from JPMorgan should dispel any notion of that. The difference in terms of both unemployment and salary between college grads and those with less education is remarkable.
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/1/paul-ryans-final-federal-budget-cuts-5-trillion/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
Paul Ryan’s final federal budget cuts $5 trillion, reaches balance in 2024
By Stephen Dinan-The Washington Times
House Republicans on Tuesday proposed a new federal budget that would make deep cuts to domestic spending, trimming about $5 trillion from projected federal deficits over the next decade and finally reaching balance in 2024. The fiscal year 2015 plan — Rep. Paul Ryan’s last blueprint as chairman of the House Budget Committee — would freeze revenues where they are and would boost defense spending, while cutting from college loans, Medicaid, the federal road-building program and seniors’ prescription-drug benefits under Medicare.
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S.C. Lawmakers Advance Compromise to Controversial Merger Proposal
by Nick DeSantis
A panel of the South Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced a measure that is being billed as a compromise to controversial efforts to merge the College of Charleston and the Medical University of South Carolina, according to The State and The Post and Courier.
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http://chronicle.com/article/First-Milestone-Is-Claimed-on/145693/
First Milestone Is Claimed on Long Road to Tracking Science’s Economic Value
By Paul Basken
Washington
Just last week, at a budget hearing on Capitol Hill, a member of Congress cited a well-traveled number: $2.21. That figure, said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations subcommittee in charge of education issues, is how much the National Institutes of Health generates in economic growth for every taxpayer dollar it receives. “That is an over-100-percent return on the investment,” Ms. DeLauro assured her legislative colleagues.
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http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/253504651.html
After labor ruling victory, college athletes seek support in Congress for unionizing
Article by: KIMBERLY HEFLING , Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Northwestern University athletes pressed their case for collective bargaining rights during meetings Wednesday with lawmakers, as a vote was scheduled for them to decide whether to authorize a union. The vote will be held April 25, according to Ramogi Huma, president of the College Athletes Players Association. During meetings on Capitol Hill, Huma and former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter tried to drum up support just a week after a ruling that the athletes were employees and had the same rights to bargain collectively as other workers.
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http://boston.com/lifestyle/2014/04/01/dear-harvard-puts-the-revaluation-rape-the-table/OnFe8AvcCvzkknnzNW1XrJ/story.html
‘Dear Harvard’ ignites discussion of what defines rape
By Rachel Raczka / Boston.com Staff
An anonymous Harvard student identified herself as a victim of sexual assault and detailed her subsequent struggle to receive support from her school’s administration in a letter published Monday in The Crimson, titled: “Dear Harvard: You Win.” The editor’s note that opens the piece states: “This is a first-person, present-tense account of the aftermath of a sexual assault that took place in 2013. For reasons of both style and substance, we have left it in present tense.” …Due to Harvard’s policy on sexual conduct, Letterwriter feared she would be unable to rightfully plea her case and was met with discouragement from the school’s administration, who would abide by the wording, and advised her to not move forward. She decided against opening a case through the school’s Ad Board as she was told “they would probably be dropped because [her] situation did not match the language of a 20-year-old policy.” The Letterwriter continues to say Harvard took an “innocent until proven guilty” approach following her request to have her assailant moved to another residence House on campus.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/04/04/ocr-investigates-fla-state-handling-assault-charge
OCR Investigates Fla. State Handling of Assault Charge
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has started an investigation into how Florida State University responded to allegations of a sexual assault by Jameis Winston, a star football player, USA Today reported.
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Gillibrand, McCaskill call for more federal funding to help combat sexual assaults on college campuses
Robert Harding
U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Claire McCaskill are teaming up to lead an effort calling for more federal resources to enforce sexual assault laws on college campuses. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and McCaskill, D-Mo., co-authored a letter to leaders of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education requesting more funding for agencies and programs dedicated to investigating sexual assaults on college and university campuses.
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Fire code violations raise concern at local college
by BORA KIM / NBC Charlotte
SALISBURY, N.C. — Livingstone College President Dr. Jimmy Jenkins responded to public criticism that the school is not doing enough to comply with state fire standards. On March 24, Fire Chief Robert Parnell sent a letter to the Livingstone Board of Trustees requesting the board’s action in directing the college administration to “meet compliance with state fire code, fix current and future violations promptly, and appropriate the funds to rectify current fire code violations.” The Chief stated the College received more than 1,000 fire code violations in four years.
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http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/04/police_investigate_report_of_a.html
Kent State University campus goes on lockdown after shot fired; suspect in custody
By Plain Dealer staff
KENT, Ohio — Kent State’s campus was put into lockdown and police swarmed the area Wednesday evening after a gunman fired a shot into the ground near a classroom building.
Police say a suspect was taken into custody around 11:35 p.m. after some tense hours that kept students and others locked in buildings and led to two buildings being evacuated room-by-room.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/03/us-usa-connecticut-threat-idUSBREA3215V20140403
University of Connecticut issues all-clear after bomb threat
(Reuters) – Police found no evidence of explosive devices in a search of a building on the University of Connecticut’s campus outside Hartford following a bomb threat earlier on Thursday, and students and staff were cleared to return to the premises. The administrative building had been evacuated following the threat, received at 9:12 a.m. EDT, and a police search of the premises yielded “no credible threat,” according to a posting on the university Web site.