University System News

USG NEWS:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional/ugas-adams-among-highest-paid-public-college-presi/nfy5D/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#a2b69569.3458083.735372
UGA’s Adams among highest paid public college presidents
BY JANEL DAVIS – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Former University of Georgia President Michael Adams total pay reached more than $1 million last year, making him one of the highest paid public college presidents, according to a survey by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The annual survey, released Sunday, listed Adams’ total compensation at $1,074,869, including a base pay of $258,670, and $800,000 in deferred compensation paid out. That’s tuition for just more than 109 UGA students, the survey found. …The Chronicle of Higher Education survey includes information from the 2012-2013 fiscal year on 256 leaders from 227 public colleges and systems. The list includes leaders whose tenures began or ended during the year, which runs from July 1 to June 30 at most colleges, resulting in more people than institutions.

www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/25124707-Flying-high-Sprayberry-senior-aims-for-the-stars-literally
Flying high: Sprayberry senior aims for the stars — literally
by Haisten Willis
DeJuan McBurnie started to think about becoming a pilot at age 10. At age 17, he already has a student pilot’s license and a full-ride scholarship to Georgia Tech. In the future, he hopes to become not just a pilot but a commercial space flight pilot. McBurnie attended Sprayberry High School his freshman and sophomore years, but hasn’t set foot on the Marietta campus since then. Instead, he’s been enrolled full time at Middle Georgia State College in Cochran, about 30 minutes south of Macon. He has essentially been a college student for the last two years and will enroll at Tech next fall with 78 hours of college credit — making him a college junior. He already has an associate degree in math and is on track to get a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering in less than two years. From there, McBurnie is already leaning toward getting a master’s degree. “It’s been a very enlightening experience,” he said.

www.statesboroherald.com

http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/59968/

Local officers recognized during Police Week
Area law enforcement officers were recognized this week as the nation observed Peace Officers Memorial Day and National Police Week. …Georgia Southern University officers were honored recently with an awards ceremony and dinner, University Police Chief Mike Russell said. And, officers from three local agencies were noted for their dedication to public safety by the Rotary Club of Downtown Statesboro during a meeting Thursday morning.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/ncaa-academic-rules-hit-smaller-poor-colleges
NCAA academic rules hit smaller, poor colleges
Submitted by Kylie Lacey
Marketplace.org
At Savannah State University, a historically black college in Georgia, the school’s Division 1 football team has no chance of making it to the playoffs next year. It’s not because of the team record. Rather, it’s among 36 teams nationwide barred from playoffs because of National Collegiate Athletic Association academic ratings. Like most of the teams on the list, Savannah State is among the Division 1 schools with fewer resources. Even so, Savannah State is spending all it can on tutoring, study time, and other resources to improve its athletes’ performance and graduation rates. Steward expects the school to be free of restrictions within two years.

GOOD NEWS:
www.mms.tveyes.com
http://mms.tveyes.com/Transcript.asp?StationID=5040&DateTime=5%2F16%2F2014+5%3A09%3A05+PM&Term=Middle+Georgia+State&PlayClip=TRUE
Middle Georgia State graduates
WGXA (FOX) – Macon, GA
WGXA …more the 13 hundred students will soon be facing the real world … as Middle Georgia State held graduation today at the macon coliseum. there was a morning ceremony for graduates in the schools of aviation, business, i-t and social sciences; followed by an evening graduation for students in the schools of education, health sciences, liberal arts, science & math and the Georgia academy of aviation, mathematics, engineering and science.

www.rockdalecitizen.com
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2014/may/16/rchs-grads-ready-to-embark-on-new-experiences/
RCHS grads ready to embark on new experiences | PHOTOS
By Jay Jones
CONYERS — Rockdale County High School seniors were looking forward to Friday night. The Class of 2014 said good-bye to their high school years during commencement exercises at Reid Memorial Stadium where the green grass of the field and clear, cool spring skies were in contrast to the gowns and mortar boards of the assembled graduates — ladies wore white for the first time in memory, while gentlemen wore black. Both had red trim. …The word commencement means “a beginning or a start” and that was so true to the 423 graduates — Friday marked the beginning of something new. Sixty-seven percent of the class plan to attend a four-year college or university like the University of Georgia and Stanford University; 16 percent plan to attend a two-year or technical college like Piedmont Technical College and Gordon State College; 9 percent will serve in the military; and 7 percent plan to go directly into the workforce or other post-secondary opportunity, according to school officials.

www.crossroadsnews.com
http://crossroadsnews.com/news/2014/may/16/new-citizen-gets-diploma-degree/
New citizen gets diploma, degree
Rebecca Rakoczy
Fatima Koko was just 7 years old when her family emigrated from Sudan to the United States to escape persecution. She spoke no English when she started elementary school in Avondale Estates. “It was a major culture shock,” she recalls. “I don’t think I was bullied, but I was aware that they thought I was different.” Her family is of Nubian descent, an African minority group experiencing ethnic and political persecution in Sudan. …Flash forward 10 years to May 12, when Fatima received her associate degree in psychology from Georgia Perimeter College and to May 16 when she gets her high school diploma from DeKalb Early College Academy. She was one of nine students in DECA’s 2014 class of 14 to get associate degrees from GPC. Fatima said she learned about the DeKalb Early College Academy as a middle schooler and immediately applied when she reached high school age.

www.gainesvilletimes.com
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/99736/
Class Notes: UNG instructor Purucker honored at White House
By Carly Sharec
Tom Purucker, an instructor at the University of North Georgia’s Oconee campus, was honored at the White House in April with the Presidential Early Career Award for scientists and engineers. “The classroom and laboratory activities here at UNG have really helped me to be a better science communicator,” Purucker said in a news release. “The award itself would not have been possible without my involvement on this campus, both in terms of how it has impacted my research and because the White House puts a lot of weight on public service, such as science teaching and mentoring, when selecting award recipients.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-05-16/uga-extension-celebrates-100-years-service-georgians
UGA Extension celebrates 100 years of service to Georgians
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
University of Georgia Extension invites Georgians to celebrate 100 years of community-centered information, education and service. On May 15, UGA Extension celebrated its 100th anniversary with the opening of a multimedia museum exhibit in the Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries highlighting the impacts the organization has had over the past century.

RESEARCH:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/05/16/georgia-top-medical-researchers.html
Georgia top medical researchers
Ellie Hensley
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia is often lauded for its sweet peaches and even sweeter tea, but it also happens to be a hub for brilliant academic medical researchers. Respected research universities such as Georgia Tech and Emory University draw top talent, and a high level of collaborations between institutions like these creates a unique environment for scientists in the state. …The state ranks 12th in research funding, though as a city, Atlanta ranks fifth in the United States for research expenditures. An important driver is the expansion of the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA), which was established in 1990 to foster economic growth by advancing research efforts at partner universities Emory, Georgia Tech, The University of Georgia, Georgia Regents University, Clark Atlanta University and Georgia State University.

www.theconversation.com
http://theconversation.com/the-devils-bargain-of-online-learning-that-technology-cant-change-26896
The devil’s bargain of online learning that technology can’t change
David Glance
Georgia Tech has become the first university to offer a Masters degree based on massive open online course (MOOC)-style courses in partnership with MOOC provider Udacity. Costing less than $7,000, the offer of the online course attracted about 2,360 applicants of which, 375 have started their degree with courses that cover Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for Robotics. Already though, administrators at Georgia Tech have been grappling with the unique set of problems that the new MOOC students have brought to the college. The main issue is one of “calibrating” students to the challenge that they have set themselves, especially if they are working full time and have been out of full-time education for a significant period.

www.articles.philly.com
http://articles.philly.com/2014-05-18/news/49928282_1_own-stem-cells-bone-marrow-dna
Genetic ‘typo’ corrector
By Meeri N. Kim, For The Inquirer
Imagine a document 25,000 words long – about 100 pages, double-spaced – with one small error. Within the text of our genetic code, a single change like this can lead to a life-threatening disease such as sickle-cell anemia or cystic fibrosis. Most of these single-gene disorders have no cure. But using a new technique, doctors may one day be able to correct the genetic typo by replacing a harmful mutation in the genome with healthy DNA… Here’s where CRISPR can help. Biomedical engineer Gang Bao of the Georgia Institute of Technology aims to use the system to repair the DNA of a patient’s own stem cells, so no outside donor would be needed.

www.allafrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/201405160938.html
Zimbabwe: Another Top Award for Mtetwa, Plus $100 000
TOP Zimbabwean human rights attorney, Beatrice Mtetwa, is the recipient of the international and prestigious 2014 Ivan Allen Jr. Prize for Social Courage, it was revealed Thursday. The award was established in 2011 by Georgia Institute of Technology, a US public research university in Atlanta, Georgia to honour the city’s late mayor Ivan Allen Jr, a pivotal leader during America’s struggle for racial integration during the 1960s. The Prize, which comes with a US$100,000 cash award, recognizes “those around the world who, by standing up for moral principle, have positively affected public discourse at the risk of their own careers, their livelihoods, and even their lives”.

www.wsbradio.com
http://www.wsbradio.com/news/business/economy/atts-new-cricket-shifts-adds-hundreds-of-jobs-to-l/nfyN5/
AT&T’s new Cricket shifts, adds hundreds of jobs to Lindbergh
By Matt Kempner
AT&T will move hundreds of jobs into the city of Atlanta over the next year as it expands its push into no-contract wireless service, a company executive said. The decision helps the city in its efforts to boost jobs. But it’s also another example of metro Atlanta suburban operations eyeing moves intown, bucking trends of past decades. The jobs, in AT&T’s new Cricket Wireless subsidiary, will be based near the Lindbergh MARTA station. They include hundreds of positions new to the metro area as well as about 200 that will shift with the relocation of the company’s former Aio Wireless operation now headquartered in Alpharetta, Cricket president Jennifer Van Buskirk told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution… Big tech employer NCR has considered moving its Duluth headquarters and as many as 4,000 employees to near Georgia Tech.

www.gainesvilletimes.com
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/99740/
Officials weigh in on SPLOST hopes
Infrastructure, traffic improvements top list of possible funding priorities
By Joshua Silavent
Revenue projections for a new round of special purpose local option sales taxes will be unveiled today when local government officials gather for the first in a series of meetings to identify funding priorities. Hall County will hold a ballot referendum this fall asking voters to approve the five-year capital funding program — a 1 percent sales tax. But officials are already weighing in on what they’d like to see funded through SPLOST VII revenues, with many saying spending should be limited to infrastructure and transportation improvements… Georgia Tech economist Dr. Alfie Meek has been hired by the county to help formulate revenue projections. If approved by voters this fall, SPLOST VII will take effect July 1, 2015.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/may/17/sixty-years-after-brown-where-do-we-go-here/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Sixty years after Brown, where do we go from here?
Today is the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared racially segregated schools violated the Constitution.
Many people are sending out statements to mark both the occasion and the lack of progress.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/former-mayor-be-university-baltimores-next-president
Former mayor to be University of Baltimore’s next president
The Baltimore Sun
The University of Baltimore on Wednesday named former mayor Kurt L. Schmoke its next president, marking the return of a pivotal figure in the city’s political history and someone boosters hope will strengthen the institution and its neighborhood. Schmoke, who has held several roles at Howard University, including law school dean, said he hoped to “build on the momentum” of Robert L. Bogomolny, who announced last fall he would retire as president at the end of the academic year. Schmoke will take over the job in July.

www.hechingerreport.org
http://hechingerreport.org/content/white-enrollment-sags-colleges-turn-new-market-hispanics_15935/
As white enrollment sags, colleges turn to new market: Hispanics
By Timothy Pratt
Driving along US-411N toward Maryville, Tenn., surrounded on both sides of the road by rolling green hills and slow-moving cows, it seems surprising to hear a DJ on the FM dial breathlessly announcing a merengue show in nearby Knoxville — in Spanish. In fact, Tennessee, like fellow Appalachian states Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, is home to one of the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the country, much younger, on average, than the region’s white and black populations, and with larger families. This has not escaped the attention of the region’s colleges, most of which have historically drawn heavily for their students on the region’s white population. But that population is shrinking, said Deborah Santiago, vice president for policy at Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit that advocates for Hispanics in higher education.

www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/05/15/where-do-moocs-fit-in-higher-education
Where Do MOOCs Fit in Higher Education?
Online education providers don’t always live up to their promises, critics say.
By Allie Bidwell
University faculty members from across the country continued an attack on massive open online courses with a video and group of letters sent to three leading online education providers, claiming the companies overpromise and underdeliver when it comes to the types of students they claim to serve. The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education last week sent letters to the leaders of Coursera, Udacity and edX saying the claims the companies made about online higher education are “overblown, misleading, or simply false.” In an accompanying video released Tuesday, the coalition of faculty leaders questions whether online education providers are adequately serving student populations they have claimed to help in the past, such as those in rural communities and underdeveloped countries.

www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/15/johns-hopkins-sexual-assault-white-house_n_5310690.html?utm_hp_ref=college
Johns Hopkins, Recruited By White House To Tackle Sexual Assault, Has Problems Of Its Own
Tyler Kingkade
Johns Hopkins University, one of three institutions the White House recently claimed would “lead by example” in reforming the way schools address cases of sexual assault, has joined a list of other elite schools accused of mishandling such cases. JHU currently faces a federal Clery complaint for not disclosing an alleged gang rape at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, or PIKE. As first reported this month by The Huffington Post, multiple university officials knew Baltimore police were investigating an alleged gang rape at PIKE in March 2013, but decided against notifying the campus community. PIKE continued to hold parties, and almost a year after the alleged assault, a stabbing at one such party resulted in the fraternity being put on probation. A subsequent university investigation is ongoing, and may ultimately result in the chapter’s expulsion.

www.insidephilanthropy.com
http://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2014/5/14/next-stop-for-laura-and-john-arnold-disrupting-higher-ed.html
Next Stop for Laura and John Arnold: Disrupting Higher Ed
Laurence Peters
Regardless of how you feel about the philanthropy of Laura and John Arnold, you can always count on this couple to keep things interesting. Their foundation just made a $6 million gift to Rice University to continue developing open-source textbooks using its trade name OpenStax, and to allow more of the textbooks to be offered for free. This jumbo grant fits two of the new foundation’s driving principles that “philanthropy should seek transformational change, not incremental change” and that it should be “entrepreneurial, not institutional or bureaucratic.”

www.betanews.com

Why tablets are failing miserably in higher education

Why tablets are failing miserably in higher education
By Derrick Wlodarz
While Apple and Google are fighting a FUD war for the hearts and minds of K-12 campuses, there’s one area of education that neither has been able to penetrate with success: higher ed. Specifically, I’m referring to the conglomerate of colleges and universities across the US (and likely abroad). That’s because for all their love in the media, tablets have yet to prove their weight when it comes to deep research and content manipulation in the classroom. Real student work comes in the form of content creation, not consumption — an area Google and Apple are endlessly infatuated with.

www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/recent-graduates-should-learn-these-abcs-of-workplace-success/2014/05/15/d4c1f136-daf4-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html
Recent graduates should learn these ABCs of workplace success
Michelle Singletary
Columnist
I’ve been thinking about the advice I would give to this year’s graduates. You might expect me to tell them about the importance of saving or the need to take advantage of any workplace retirement plan. I could also urge them to pay off their credit cards every month, and try to stay as debt-free as possible. But this year, I want to talk about advice that’s not just about money. I call it the ABCs of workplace success: Avoid gossip, be on time and challenge yourself to be content. …“Gossip is a social process,” two Georgia Tech researchers wrote in a 2012 paper examining the e-mail from employees at Enron.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/colleges-cope-tragedies-campus
Colleges cope with tragedies on campus
Democrat and Chronicle
The joy and celebration that marks college commencements at springtime has been tempered this year by tragedy. A week ago Sunday, State University College at Geneseo student Alex Davis — a 20-year-old sophomore from Victor who dreamed of becoming a doctor — was found dead in a bedroom of his fraternity house in the village of Geneseo. And while the cause of death has not been disclosed, the loss of Davis rippled through the community, with his family describing a young man who will be remembered for “his kind and loving spirit and his sense of humor.”

www.nytimes.com

Class, Cost and College
Frank Bruni
THE word “crisis” pops up frequently in “Ivory Tower,” a compelling new documentary about the state of higher education in America. It pops up in regard to the mountains of student debt. It pops up in regard to the steep drop in government funding for public universities, which have been forced to charge higher and higher tuition in response. That price increase is also a “crisis” in the estimation of one of many alarmed educators and experts on camera.

Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Education-Dept-Is-Urged-to/146679/
Education Dept. Is Urged to Clarify Policy on Student-Loan Bankruptcies
By Mark Keierleber
Washington
Seven Democratic members of Congress are pushing for clarity and lenience in how the Department of Education and its contractors forgive student-loan borrowers who are bankrupt and unable to pay back their loan debt. “Because federal law treats student debt as nondischargeable in bankruptcy proceedings, borrowers can be burdened with this debt for a lifetime even if circumstances make it unlikely that the borrower will ever be able to repay,” the members wrote on Friday in a letter to the education secretary, Arne Duncan.

www.dispatch.com
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2014/05/18/students-find-creative-ways-to-pay-for-college.html
Students find creative ways to pay for college
By Denise-Marie Ordway
Alex Ramirez is the first in her family to go to college. In August, she’ll start classes at the University of South Florida. But even with grants and scholarships lined up, the high-school senior said she has less than half of the $10,000 she needs for tuition, housing and other costs for the fall semester. So, Ramirez is launching her own mini-business to get cash for college. She joins other students trying to raise money in creative ways.

www.nytimes.com

Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds
By TAMAR LEWIN
At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012, according to a new study by the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-leaning Washington research group. The study, “The One Percent at State U: How University Presidents Profit from Rising Student Debt and Low-Wage Faculty Labor,” examined the relationship between executive pay, student debt and low-wage faculty labor at the 25 top-paying public universities.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Hard-Pressed-to/146659/
Colleges Hard-Pressed to Explain Variations in Price
By Eric Kelderman
To the casual observer, the University of Connecticut at Storrs and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill look a lot alike. Both are public flagship institutions, research universities that enroll about the same number of undergraduates (around 18,000), and both have popular and successful basketball teams for men and women. Notably, they get roughly the same amount of money from their respective state legislatures, according to the most recent federal data—about $486-million each in the 2011-12 academic year. There are, of course, plenty of differences between the two campuses, but one that stands out is the price.

www.bostonglobe.com
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/16/guyanese-social-workers-and-teachers-graduate-from-special-lesley-university-program/flFF2sdZkRZMncX0AqS9mK/story.html
Guyanese students first to graduate from Lesley’s antiabuse program
By James H. Burnett III | GLOBE STAFF
At Lesley University in Cambridge on Saturday, 28-year-old Gonsalves and a dozen other schoolteachers and social workers from Guyana graduated with master’s degrees in trauma, sensitive assessment, intervention, and consultation. If the degree title seems oddly cobbled together, it is because the program was tailored specifically for Guyanese social workers who largely lack specialized training to address domestic violence and child abuse. In fall 2010, Catherine Koverola, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Lesley University, along with officials from UNICEF and the Guyanese government’s social service agencies, began designing the specialized counseling curriculum.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/19/firing-sets-debate-over-whether-deans-must-publicly-back-administrations#ixzz32AMxU4VY
Must Deans Be Silent?
By Scott Jaschik
“The Silence of the Deans” is a two-page document in which the dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Saskatchewan, Robert Buckingham, recounts a meeting of deans, vice presidents, and the most senior administrators of the university in December 2013. At the meeting, Buckingham wrote, President Ilene Busch-Vishniac said that if anyone publicly disagreed with Transform US, her reorganization plan for the university, their “tenure would be short.” Busch-Vishniac was true to her word.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/regents’-plan-could-cost-university-iowa-60-million-year
Regents’ plan could cost University of Iowa $60 million a year
Supporters of the University of Iowa say a proposed new way of allocating higher education funding in the state threatens the quality of education at UI and could cut the university’s appropriation by nearly $60 million a year. Unlike Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa, UI has far more graduate and professional-degree programs that not only cost more to operate, but also attract students from around the world, officials said. Those two qualities enrich the university’s academic experience and improve its ability to recruit top-notch faculty members, they said.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/regents-approve-social-media-policy
Regents approve social media policy
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
LJWorld.com
The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday approved a social media policy that will allow a university leader to fire a faculty member or staff member for posting messages on social media that are “contrary to the best interests of the employer.” Regents Chairman Fred Logan said the policy strongly supported free speech. But many faculty and staff have disagreed.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/technical-schools-keep-pushing-right-be-called-colleges-florida
Technical schools to keep pushing for right to be called colleges in Florida
By JENNA BUZZACCO-FOERSTER
While interest in technical centers has remained steady through the years, officials said a push to change their names to technical colleges may have changed the way people look at these career centers. “It’s been a trend for 20 or 30 years that everyone has to go to college,” said Yolanda Flores, the principal of Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology and its companion school, Lorenzo Walker Technical High School. “There is a stigma still very much connected to the era when I grew up, when it was vo-tech. There were career paths you chose as a high school student — you either chose to go on a vocational track or a college track. Things have changed over the years. It’s no long either-or. Its college- and career-ready.”

www.yakimaherald.com
http://www.yakimaherald.com/news/2189661-8/walla-walla-college-a-case-study-in-success
Walla Walla Community College a case study in success
Katherine Long
The Seattle Times
WALLA WALLA — With its picturesque main street and pleasant, tree-lined neighborhoods, Walla Walla was recently named the friendliest small town in America. The epicenter of a celebrated wine industry, its All-American atmosphere also harbors a soul that’s ambitious and entrepreneurial. It’s an attitude that extends to the local community college, too. So when Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) took a hard look at the number of students it was losing every year — students on the verge of completing their degrees, but who instead simply drifted away — administrators knew they needed to take action.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/accreditors-firm-deadline-closing-city-college-san-francisco
Accreditors firm on deadline for closing City College of San Francisco
Submitted by Kylie Lacey
San Francisco Chronicle
Leaders of the commission seeking to revoke accreditation from City College of San Francisco said Thursday that they will not grant the school more time to fix its problems because U.S. Department of Education lawyers told their lawyers such an extension is prohibited. Commission lawyers consulted the federal lawyers on Wednesday, raising the possibility that the commission could adopt a policy allowing it to extend its July 31 revocation deadline to let the college avoid closure. ”

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Door-by-Door-Colleges-Install/146647/
Door by Door, Colleges Install Systems for Online Control of Building Access
By Megan O’Neil
Kathy Gallagher, director of university card systems at Villanova University, was out to dinner one rainy autumn night in 2012 when she received a telephone call from a priest on the staff of the Roman Catholic university. He had gone out to his car to retrieve something only to find himself locked out of a corridor leading to his dormitory room. Campus security was not immediately available. Instead of prematurely abandoning her meal, Ms. Gallagher pulled out her iPad and opened the door remotely, thanks to a newly tested online system for building access. The next day, she visited the priest’s office to tutor him in a feature that gives employees and students access to given doors using their mobile devices. …The changes under way at Villanova—it is now installing the online system in all of its residence halls in a multiyear approach—are emblematic of a technology-fueled shift in how colleges are investing in building access and security.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-administrators-learning-be-sexual-misconduct-detectives
College administrators learning to be sexual misconduct detectives
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho on Thu, 05/15/2014 – 8:48am
Los Angeles Times
Butte College administrator Al Renville was never trained as a police investigator, but that’s close to the job he found himself in when two students had a sexual encounter off campus that led one to file a complaint with the school. Renville said his inquiry took at least 200 hours, cost $100,000 and awkwardly bumped up against a parallel police investigation. And because the accuser appealed the outcome to the federal government, the small college in the Sierra Nevada foothills suddenly found itself in the national spotlight, named as one of 55 colleges and universities under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for their handling of sexual misconduct allegations.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Origami-Finds-Legitimacy-in/146637/
Origami Finds Legitimacy in Science, if Not in Congress
By Paul Basken
Everyone remembers origami. It’s that thing you did in grade school where you folded a piece of paper into the shape of a bird or a fish. Increasingly, however, it’s also the stuff of serious science. A Stanford University professor has gotten a fair bit of attention recently for devising the Foldscope—a simple, 50-cent microscope that can be printed on thick paper and shipped to places like Africa, where it can be quickly and reliably folded into a tool capable of 2,000-times magnification, enabling life-saving tests for malaria and other diseases.

www.univrsitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/oklahoma-higher-education-leaders-hope-avoid-budget-cut
Oklahoma higher education leaders hope to avoid budget cut
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
NewsOK
As lawmakers continue to craft the state budget this week, higher education leaders say retaining the current level of funding is critical to the state’s college completion goals and economic growth. Officials launched the Complete College America initiative in 2011, with Gov. Mary Fallin announcing the goal to boost the number of college degrees earned per year by 67 percent over 12 years. That would require adding 1,700 degrees conferred each year through 2023.

www.univrsitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-illinois-contract-sales-plummet
College Illinois contract sales plummet
Crain’s Chicago Business
Sales of College Illinois savings plans fell in half this year, the second sales season after the state reopened the program to new investors following a scandal that called into question its future viability. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which administers the college savings plan for more than 46,000 beneficiaries, sold just 438 new contracts in the 2013-14 sales season that ended April 30. That was down from 883 the year before. The result is problematic, since a higher level of contract sales is necessary to put the underfunded plan on sound financial footing.

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U. of I. lecturer denounced as ‘domestic terrorist’ pleads case
Chicago Tribune
A University of Illinois adjunct lecturer with ties to a 1970s revolutionary group asked the school’s board on Wednesday to consider the unique perspective he can bring to the classroom if allowed to continue teaching there. “Who better to tell (someone) how to avoid a destructive path than someone who has walked that path?” said James Kilgore, who publicly addressed the board for the first time since his position at the state’s largest university came under scrutiny earlier this year.

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For-profit colleges, student advocates lobby Obama
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
USA Today
As the Obama administration prepares to establish new rules governing for-profit colleges later this year, student advocates and the career college industry are waging a fierce battle to shape the coming regulations. Stakeholders on both sides of the debate are ramping up their push on the administration just as the public comment period on a proposed “gainful employment” regulation is set to close May 26.

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Ending a Well-Paid Presidency Often Comes at High Cost
By Jack Stripling
The three highest-paid public-college leaders in the nation have something in common: They earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on their way out the door. The size of the parting packages given to these men—two who resigned amid long-churning controversies and one who quit unexpectedly—demonstrates just how expensive it can be for a college to end the presidency of a well-paid chief.

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Michigan’s Incoming President Says Employees’ Full Pay Should Be Public
by Don Troop
Mark S. Schlissel, who will become president of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in July, says the university should publicly report additional pay to employees just as it reports their base salaries, The Ann Arbor News reported. “Transparency is important, and I’m going to work with the provost so that when the university reports salary, unless there are legal reasons in my way, I’d like the university to report salary, supplements, bonuses, et cetera,” Mr. Schlissel told the newspaper. “If we’re going to report it, we might as well report it.”

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University of Michigan president-elect wants to release full employee compensation figures

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Presidential Pay, Student Debt and Adjuncts
At the 25 public universities where presidents earn the most, student debt is rising faster than at other public universities, according to a report issued Sunday evening by the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Women Are Underrepresented as College Chiefs but May Get Higher Pay
by Jonah Newman
Walk into the president’s office at a public research university, and chances are high that the person behind the desk is a man. An 84-percent chance, in fact. According to new data from The Chronicle’s annual survey of executive compensation, women accounted for just 40 of the 254 people who served as chief executives of public universities and public-college systems in 2012-13. It probably isn’t a surprise that women are underrepresented at the helms of universities, considering that they are also underrepresented at the highest faculty levels.

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Executive Compensation at Public Colleges, 2013 Fiscal Year
By Jonah Newman and Brian O’Leary Taylor Harvey contributed to this report.
These data show the total compensation received in the 2013 fiscal year by 257 chief executives at 227 public universities and systems in the United States. Fiscal years typically run from July 1 to June 30, but can vary by institution. The Chronicle surveyed institutions to collect these public data. Our analysis included all public doctoral universities in the United States and all state college and university systems or governing boards with at least three campuses and 50,000 total students in the 2011-12 academic year.
Michael F. Adams, University of Georgia (7th); G.P. (Bud) Peterson, Georgia Institute of Technology (17th); Mark P. Becker, Georgia State University (71st); Hank M. Huckaby, University System of Georgia (105th); Brooks A. Keel, Georgia Southern University (150th); Ronald W. Jackson, Technical College System of Georgia (226th)