University System News

USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/interim-president-appointed-for-southern-poly/nf5jX/
Interim president appointed for Southern Poly
By Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Southern Polytechnic State University will get a short-term president to lead the school until its consolidation with Kennesaw State University is completed in January 2015. Ron Koger, currently SPSU’s vice president for student enrollment services, will take over as interim president when current president Lisa Rossbacher steps down this summer. He was appointed to the position Thursday by University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/former-state-senator-named-university-system-admin/nf5mJ/
Former state senator named university system administrator
By Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Longtime Georgia senator Cecil Staton has been named vice chancellor for extended education for the University System of Georgia. …In his new position, Staton will served as a liaison between the Board of Regents for the University System, USG institutions and other government and business entities. He will be responsible for guiding long-term initiatives of military affairs, extended and continuing education, entrepreneurship and international education for the University System. Staton will also work with the system’s economic development team to find new funding and expansion projects in the private sector.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/senator-resigns-for-university-system-job/nf5mS/
Senator resigns for university system job
By Aaron Gould Sheinin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
State Sen. Cecil Staton, R-Macon, announced Thursday he will resign at the end of the month to take a job with the University System of Georgia. …Staton’s resignation will not trigger a special election. He said he is resigning to become vice chancellor for extended education, effective June 1.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/armstrong-savannah-state-get-construction-money
Armstrong, Savannah State to get construction money
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
The Board of Regents unanimously approved a four-year building plan Tuesday for the University System of Georgia despite repeated interruptions by protesters angry over policies on undocumented students. The construction plan seeks to allocate the $250 million anticipated yearly in the state budget for building new classrooms and repairing existing ones.

www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/activists-demand-georgia-universities-end-discrimination-against-undocument/30010/
Activists Demand Georgia Universities End Discrimination Against Undocumented
Activists protested Tuesday in front of the offices of the Georgia Board of Regents to demand an end to a measure that bars undocumented students from admission to the state’s five most-selective public universities.

www.northwestgeorgianews.com
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/ag-whose-office-tried-to-force-student-to-unpublish-records/article_fc9114f8-e120-11e3-8166-001a4bcf6878.html
AG whose office tried to force student to unpublish records had a rep as FOI hero
Columbia Journalism Review
Two years ago, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens was widely hailed when he fulfilled his campaign promise to strengthen the state’s open records law, ushering in its first major rewrite in more than a decade. Well, the hailing has stopped for now: Olens’ fight for transparency simply doesn’t square with his office’s recent aggressive efforts to defend the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia against an open records lawsuit filed by a college student.

GOOD NEWS:
www.valdostadailytimes.com
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/local/x611380579/State-budget-aids-VSU-Wiregrass-SGMC
State budget aids VSU, Wiregrass, SGMC
Matthew Woody
The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA — Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal signed the Fiscal Year 2015 state budget on April 28, 2014. This budget allocated funds for several projects for South Georgia’s District 8. On Wednesday, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and District 8 state Sen. Tim Golden spoke at Wiregrass Technical College on how the 2015 budget will benefit Lowndes County. The budget allots $1.9 million to both Wiregrass Georgia Technical College and to Valdosta State University.

www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/25579898/state-leaders-celebrate-future-of-college-education-in-s-ga
State leaders celebrate future of college education in S. GA
By Colter Anstaett
VALDOSTA, GA (WALB) – State leaders are celebrating Wiregrass Georgia Tech and VSU’s efforts to help increase college education in South Georgia. Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle and Senator Tim Golden spoke at Wiregrass Wednesday afternoon. They talked about recent funding Wiregrass received through the state budget to help more students be able to afford a technical college education. …Cagle and Golden both also praised the college and university’s work with South Georgia Medical Center to boost the health care industry in Valdosta.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/may/21/trigger-warnings-topic-going-annoy-you-more-usual/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Trigger warning: This topic is going to annoy you more than usual
Do college students need to be forewarned before being exposed to potentially troubling or traumatic themes in their classes? A New York Times story this week reports on the emerging movement on college campuses to alert students to potentially emotionally wrenching material or content.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/64435/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=7c980f509a4841c19ccbc49c2091f120&elqCampaignId=173
Diverse Conversations: Training Tomorrow’s Educators
by Matthew Lynch
It’s an unavoidable reality that today’s students will be tomorrow’s educators. The professors involved in teacher training initiatives and teacher education programs today are the ones responsible for training tomorrow’s teachers. With that said, it’s increasingly important for those involved in education to be aware of innovations and trends that apply to the teaching profession and what strategies are most effective when it comes to making teacher education programs a success. Recently I sat down with Dr. Maria del Carmen Salazar, associate professor of curriculum studies and teaching at the University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education, to discuss this challenge of training tomorrow’s educators and what can be done to make these efforts a success.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/22/essay-says-students-need-not-decide-between-job-related-and-more-general#sthash.K3qL5bLm.dpbs
A False Choice
By Gloria Cordes Larson
There has been extensive hand-wringing about what can be done to help young graduates succeed in today’s tough labor market – especially in the spring, as high school seniors decide on their college offers, and college seniors prepare to graduate and face the world. Unemployment and underemployment rates among recent college graduates in the United States – largely a result of the recession’s lingering damage – are too high. And we’ve all seen the headlines questioning the value of college and the surveys that show employers bemoaning the “preparedness gap.” But I am full of optimism. As a university president, I spend far too much time among skilled, talented, motivated young people to be anything but hopeful about the future of higher education and the capabilities of the millennial generation – those born roughly between the early 1980s and the early 2000s.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/22/short-term-thinking-main-problem-profit-colleges-essay#sthash.zyfDsVcP.dpbs
For-Profit Status Is Not the Problem
By Jorge Klor de Alva
The debate on the Department of Education’s proposed “Gainful Employment” rule has fixed attention on the failure by both sides to resolve one of the nation’s most important problems: How to effectively serve the education needs of America’s new traditional students.

www.theleafchronicle.com
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20140521/OPINION/305210004/GUEST-EDITORIAL-Funding-fight-looms-colleges?nclick_check=1
GUEST EDITORIAL: Funding fight looms for colleges
State’s innovative formulaflawed without new money
Bill Haslam
Austin Peay State University
The freeze in Tennessee’s higher education expenditures for next year is disappointing for the public colleges and universities that embraced the state’s new funding formula. Instead of looking for ways to collaborate on efforts to reach Gov. Bill Haslam’s ambitious Drive to 55 campaign, higher education institutions in Tennessee will be tempted to fight each other for dollars and rely even more heavily on student tuition and fees to meet expenses. The Complete College Tennessee Act was passed in 2010 and has received national attention for its innovative funding formula.

www.cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/19/opinion/wan-bias-against-asians/
The surprising racial bias against Asians
By Helen Wan
(CNN) — So we thought Asian kids did great in school. Think again. A new study suggests that women and minorities are less likely to receive early support from potential academic mentors. Researchers from Wharton, Columbia and NYU ran an interesting field experiment: Pretending to be students, they e-mailed more than 6500 professors at top U.S. universities admiring each professor’s work and asking to meet. The e-mails were all identical except for the senders’ names.

www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/yogi-roth/college-football-players-_b_5358181.html
College Football Players Are Creating a New Culture of Acceptance
Yogi Roth
Athlete Ally Ambassador, New York Times best-selling author
In college football, the coach calls the plays. The coach sets the daily tempo, and the coach makes every critical decision within the program. But today in college football, the players are the ones creating a new environment.

Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/report-atlanta-the-no-1-us-city-for-new-college-gr/nf5FY/
Report: Atlanta the No. 1 U.S. city for new college graduates
By Alexis Stevens
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Finally earned your college diploma and made mom and dad so proud? About 1.6 million graduates comprise the college Class of 2014, according to national numbers. Now, it gets real. You don’t want to move back home. You’d like to eat. You need a job. If you’re in Atlanta, you’re in luck. Or at least better off than in many cities, according to rankings released today by MarketWatch.com. Atlanta takes the No. 1 spot in the list of top 10 U.S. cities for recent college graduates, the report states.

www.college.usatoday.com
http://college.usatoday.com/2014/05/20/congratsgrads-college-graduation-hashtags-more-prominent-than-ever/
#CongratsGrads: College graduation hashtags more prominent than ever
By: Samantha Reid
While some universities are banning selfies at graduation, others are encouraging the role of social media during commencements. Graduation hashtags are more common than ever, allowing graduates and their friends and family to commemorate the occasion on Twitter, Instagram and more. “I feel like administrators know we’re going to be on our phones because that’s how we as a generation tend to document important things,” says Cara Garvey, a recent graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, which used the hashtag #Roosevelt2014 during commencement. “So creating a hashtag makes it OK.”

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/64429/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=7c980f509a4841c19ccbc49c2091f120&elqCampaignId=173
Report: Financial Aid, Student Support Reforms Should Embrace Non-Traditional Black Students
by Ronald Roach
Nearly two-thirds of African-Americans in college either finance their education without relying upon parents and grandparents, or are considered non-traditional students meaning they typically are working adults with families to support, says a new report from the National Urban League. In “From Access to Completion: A Seamless Path to College Graduation for African Americans,” the National Urban League (NUL) concludes that independent and non-traditional students “require a comprehensive, customized approach that includes strengthening the Pell Grant program to better align with rising tuition costs and student need.” The report is the second completed by the civil rights-focused community and economic development organization as part of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Reimagining Aid Delivery and Design (RADD) project.

www.military.com
http://www.military.com/education/2014/05/20/uw-offers-in-state-tuition-for-veteran-students.html
UW Offers In-State Tuition for Veteran Students
by University of Wyoming
Through a new state law, the University of Wyoming now offers in-state tuition to qualified military veteran students. The law passed by the Wyoming State Legislature this year will provide a substantial financial opportunity for qualified veterans across the country considering UW as the place to meet their educational goals, UW officials say.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/64432/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=7c980f509a4841c19ccbc49c2091f120&elqCampaignId=173
Mexico, U.S. Seek to Boost Student Exchanges
by E. Eduardo Castillo, Associated Press
MEXICO CITY — Americans studying in Latin America have stopped looking so intently at Mexico, which has dropped from first to fourth for U.S. students going abroad in the region in 10 years. Only about 4,000 U.S. students study in Mexico, with crime and drug violence being the main deterrent. More American students go to Costa Rica, Argentina and Brazil today than Mexico. The U.S. government wants to boost that number to 100,000, one reason for coinciding visits Wednesday by both Secretary of State John Kerry and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who heads the 10-campus University of California system.

www.ktvu.com
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/san-jose-school-served-eviction-notice/nfzjq/
San Jose school served with eviction notice
By Heather Holmes
KTVU.com
SAN JOSE, Calif. — College students in the South Bay are outraged by the sudden closure of their school. Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Deputies Monday closed Bryman College on South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose after the landlord slapped the school with an eviction order. The school provides training in medical fields at campuses in San Jose, Hayward, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

www.detroitnews.com
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140521/SCHOOLS/305210085/U-M-refutes-claims-made-higher-education-study
U-M refutes claims made in higher education study
Kim Kozlowski
The Detroit News
The University of Michigan fired back at an organization that portrayed it as one of the worst in the nation for high executive pay, soaring student debt and low-wage faculty labor, saying the data is wrong. “Your report May 18, ‘The One Percent at State U’ is nearly 100 percent wrong,” U-M spokesman Rick Fitzgerald wrote in a letter emailed Wednesday to Institute for Policy Studies, which unveiled the study earlier this week.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/22/job-training-bill-gets-upgrade-thanks-bipartisan-compromise#sthash.LpuI8cQt.HfSfEgCv.dpbs
Somewhat Leaner and Meaner
By Paul Fain
WASHINGTON — After years of failed attempts, the U.S. Congress has reached a bipartisan deal to replace the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), which oversees a hodgepodge of more than $3 billion in federal job-training programs. The proposed legislation drew praise from community colleges and others in higher education, as well as from think tanks and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/to-empower-community-colleges-empower-their-librarians/?utm_campaign=052114ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=41687549f1704848859cf8af44015e48&elqCampaignId=290
To Empower Community Colleges, Empower Their Librarians
Source: libraryjournal.com
Community colleges are increasingly important to America’s higher education system, but they are also a point of failure for too many students. The American Association for Community Colleges (AACC) is planning to change that with the rollout of a new guide—but where do librarians fit into the program?

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/community-colleges-answer-obamas-call-to-build-a-skilled-solar-workforce/?utm_campaign=052114ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=41687549f1704848859cf8af44015e48&elqCampaignId=290
Community Colleges Answer Obama’s Call To Build A Skilled Solar Workforce
Source: solarindustrymag.com
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced commitments and executive actions to advance solar deployment in the U.S. One of the key areas he covered was “building a skilled solar workforce.” In the speech and supporting White House documents, the president noted that the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Solar Instructor Training Network (SITN) “will support training programs at community colleges across the country that will assist 50,000 workers to enter the solar industry by 2020.” That will be an increase from the SITN’s existing 400 community colleges that have trained more than 22,000 people for work in the solar industry since 2010. The announcement did not offer funding or timeline details, but industry experts say they are optimistic.

www.miamiherald.com
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/20/4127754/many-new-college-graduates-seek.html
Many new college graduates seek work/life balance, flexibility as they look for jobs
For the Class of 2014, work/life balance wins out over the needs of the wallet. Companies that meet them halfway could be the winners.
BY CINDY KRISCHER GOODMAN
BALANCEGAL@GMAIL.COM
Here come the 2014 college graduates, flooding the highly competitive job market over the next several weeks and bringing their workplace expectations. University of Florida graduate Stephanie Savage is one of the 11 percent nationwide who has successfully landed a full-time job. Yet, she notices an interesting trend with some of her friends who still are searching: “They’re picky.” With their notably high debt from student loans, you would think new college graduates would jump at any job they could get. Instead, some of this year’s crop are selective in their job searches, reluctant to be stuck in a cramped cubicle from 9-to-5 each day and looking to be wowed by the jobs they land, career experts say.

www.hhmi.org
http://www.hhmi.org/news/three-universities-unite-replicate-and-spread-successful-stem-program?utm_source=HHMI%20News&utm_campaign=8f9c5a6666-Meyerhoff_Replication&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8f2808e1d6-8f9c5a6666-69524405
Three Universities Unite to Replicate and Spread Successful STEM Program
Can the nationally acclaimed Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which has an unparalleled record of advancing diversity in the sciences, be adapted successfully at more universities?
That question is at the heart of a new partnership between the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the Pennsylvania State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The four institutions are launching the collaborative Meyerhoff Adaptation Project to learn whether elements of UMBC’s highly regarded Meyerhoff Scholars Program can be adapted at Penn State and UNC.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/22/controversy-report-presidential-salaries#sthash.VVbJw6VD.dpbs
Controversy on Report on Presidential Salaries
The Institute for Policy Studies on Wednesday briefly took down a report issued earlier in the week, “The One Percent at State U,” after acknowledging some problems with some of the data. Late Wednesday afternoon, the institute posted an updated version of the report, saying that some numbers had been changed, but none that challenged the overall conclusions of the study. Those conclusions were that the public universities with the highest presidential salaries had seen more growth than other public universities in student debt and the use of non-tenure-track faculty members.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/22/head-higher-ed-software-company-pleads-guilty#sthash.hdiLcfoL.dpbs
Head of Higher Ed Software Company Pleads Guilty
Ariel Manuel Friedler, CEO of Symplicity, a company that provides software to colleges for managing student disciplinary records, has pleaded guilty to charges related to hacking into the private networks of two competitors, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/bryan-college-torn-can-darwin-and-eden-coexist
Bryan College is torn: Can Darwin and Eden coexist?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho on Wed, 05/21/2014 – 3:34pm
The New York Times
William Jennings Bryan earned a permanent place in American history nearly nine decades ago in the Scopes trial, when he stood in a courtroom here and successfully prosecuted a teacher who broke the law by teaching evolution in a public school. While not quite “the fantastic cross between a circus and a holy war,” as Time magazine put it, that captivated the nation in 1925, a similar debate is again playing out in Dayton, this time at an evangelical Christian college named for Bryan, which is being sued as part of a controversy over its own stance on the origin of humans.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/22/education-dept-pushes-back-release-college-ratings-fall#sthash.cQaDvGPE.dpbs
Education Dept. Pushes Back Release of College Ratings to Fall
The Obama administration has delayed the release of its college ratings system until later this year, according to a blog post published by the Education Department on Wednesday. Jamienne S. Studley, a deputy under secretary of education who has been leading the development of the ratings, wrote that the administration was “on track to come out with a proposal by this fall and a final version of the new ratings system before the 2015-16 school year.”

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/22/uc-presidents-letter-sparks-confusion-over-her-stance-gainful-employment#sthash.TIhknqDR.dpbs
Napolitano’s Perplexing Letter
By Michael Stratford
University of California officials on Wednesday sought to clarify recent comments by President Janet Napolitano that some critics of for-profit colleges interpreted as urging her former Obama administration colleagues to back off their regulatory proposal aimed at cracking down on the industry.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/22/paper-argues-profit-colleges-operate-and-should-be-treated-differently#sthash.v5YsbjxI.dpbs
For-Profits’ Fundamental Difference
By Doug Lederman
WASHINGTON — Let’s stipulate up front that Bob Shireman is anything but an objective observer of for-profit higher education. For much of President Obama’s first term, he made life a living hell for colleges in the sector through his aggressive pursuit of new regulations designed to ensure they were preparing their graduates for “gainful employment.”
A federal judge blocked the rules in 2012, and Shireman moved on to a new job in California where he has focused more on the performance of the state’s community colleges than on for-profit institutions. But with the Obama administration set to promulgate a new version of its gainful employment rules, Shireman weighed in Wednesday with a new paper that makes a philosophical and historical argument about what differentiates for-profit colleges from their nonprofit counterparts and offers what looks like a rationale for why the federal government is right to regulate them differently.