USG NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-05-19/funding-uga-science-learning-center-regents-agenda
Funding for UGA Science Learning Center on Regents agenda
By LEE SHEARER
The State Board of Regents might approve agenda items today that earmark millions of dollars for University of Georgia projects. The Board of Regents, appointed by governors, sets policy and allocates funds for UGA and other public colleges and universities in Georgia. It’s monthly board meeting was scheduled for today in Atlanta. At the top of the list of UGA-related agenda items is funding for the university’s planned Science Learning Center to be built on the UGA south campus near Stegeman Coliseum.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/local-business/2014-05-16/college-graduates-face-tight-competitive-job-market?v=1400416041
College graduates face a tight, competitive job market
Graduates find entry-level jobs difficult to come by
By Jenna Martin
Staff Writer
Recent Georgia Regents University graduate Layla Boyd may have just closed her college chapter, but she is still waiting to turn the next page on her career. Before receiving her diploma less than two weeks ago, the mother of three sent more than half a dozen applications to local hospitals and healthcare centers, trying to put her new bachelor’s degree in social work to use. Boyd said she’s had one callback, and that was to inform her that she didn’t land the job. …Boyd was one of about 1,100 graduates from GRU on May 9. Her plight in finding work is all too familiar for recent college graduates, according to experts.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/05/19/gsu-to-add-atms-around-campus.html
GSU to add ATMs around campus
Phil W. Hudson
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia State University is requesting quotes from qualified suppliers to provide ATM banking services for the University. The initial term of the contract will start on July 1, 2014 and end on June 30, 2015, with the provision of up to four additional renewable years, according to the University’s May 15 Request for Quote.
www.abcnews.go.com
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/public-college-presidents-pay-tops-million-23771451
9 Public College Presidents’ Pay Tops $1 Million
The number of public college presidents earning over $1 million more than doubled in the 2012-2013 fiscal year from the year before, according to a new survey. The Chronicle of Higher Education study found that nine college presidents earned more than $1 million in total compensation in 2013, compared to just four in 2012. Public college presidents first exceeded the $1 million total compensation mark in 2006-2007, according to the survey. …The top 10 earners in the fiscal year 2012-2013 were: …— Michael Adams, University of Georgia Adams earned about $1.1 million in 2013, and retired from his position in July. His base pay for the year was $258,760; the vast majority of his total compensation is made up of deferred pay.
GOOD NEWS:
www.valdostatoday.com
http://valdostatoday.com/2014/05/vsu-receives-the-georgia-trust-award/
VSU RECEIVES THE GEORGIA TRUST AWARD
VALDOSTA, GA – The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation has presented Valdosta State University with the Excellence in Rehabilitation Award for the renovation of Ashley Hall. Headquartered in Atlanta, The Georgia Trust is a nonprofit organization organized in 1969 to recognize and celebrate the preservation of buildings throughout the state.
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WGXA (FOX) – Macon, GA
Middle georgia State got designated as a yellow ribbon school for the 2014-2015 academic year
…middle georgia State got designated as a yellow ribbon school for the 2014-2015 academic year. the u.s. department of veterans affairs designation, means Middle Georgia State can waive out-of-state tuition for veterans who are not legal residents of Georgia. this program allows public institutions of higher learning in the united states to voluntarily enter into an agreement with va to help with tuition expenses and fees above the amount state residents pay.
RESEARCH:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2014-05-20/skin-signal-could-be-key-skin-cancer
Skin signal could be key to skin cancer
Student researches skin cancer
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
As someone who is fair-skinned, Abigail Cline burns easily in the sun and she preaches the value of sunscreen. Through a prestigious fellowship, the student at the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University will study a certain cell signal that could be involved in skin cancer formation – and potentially ways to stop it. Cline was awarded an Alpha Omega Alpha Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship, one of about 50 given this year by the national medical honors society. She will use the money to fund research over the summer, then travel to a national conference to present her results.
www.thegrower.com
http://www.thegrower.com/news/University-of-Georgia-lab-tests-Vidalia-onions-for-sweetness-259832531.html
University of Georgia lab tests Vidalia onions for sweetness
Vicky Boyd
University of Georgia’s Crop Quality Lab technicians have a job that brings tears to their eyes—they have to test thousands of Vidalia onions for quality. This is the second year that the lab has been tasked with the job. Last year, it only tested a few hundred pounds, according to a news release.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-16/tech-enabled-courses-aren-t-living-up-to-promises-in-higher-ed.html
Tech-Enabled Courses Aren’t Living Up to Promises in Higher Ed
By Sonali Basak
Online technologies are falling short of their promises in delivering affordable education to the masses, educators are finding. So-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, are attracting students who are already educated and already working instead of the millions of students without access to higher education, according to a more than 200-page report released yesterday by Columbia University’s Teachers College.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/05/19/college-graduation-rice-lagarde-higher-education-costs-tuition-column/9249371/
Higher ed becoming a joke: Column
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
American colleges are fraught with petty politics and bad economics.
As college graduates around the country fling their caps into the air, college and university administrators are ending the year in a less positive state. It has been a tough year for higher education in America, and it’s not especially likely that next year will be a lot better. As an industry, higher education is beset with problems, problems that for the most part aren’t being addressed. One set of problems is economic.
www.forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/northwesternmutual/2014/05/19/whats-a-college-diploma-worth-why-higher-education-matters/
What’s A College Diploma Worth?
Why Higher Education Matters
Northwestern MutualVoice Team , Northwestern Mutual
In the U.S., college is a rite of passage for many. But with the cost of college rising sharply in recent years, you’ve got to wonder: Is a college degree really worth it? Turns out, college continues to be a good investment—a fact that is consistent and convincing on virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/05/19/the-erosion-of-faculty-rights/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Erosion of Faculty Rights
by Colleen Lye and James Vernon
In the rush to online education, faculty members have been signing contracts that abrogate the ownership of their classes, erode their collective interests, and threaten the quality of higher education. No standard (let alone best) practice has yet emerged, and faculty members are largely in the dark about what is at stake. Put simply, the stakes are huge. Online education is the new frontier where the traditional rights of faculty members and the quality of instruction are up for grabs. It is a frontier that threatens to turn all faculty members, including those on the tenure track, into teachers who “work for hire.”
Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/the-college-board-recommends-changes-to-the-pell-grant-program/78061?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
College Board Recommends Changes in the Pell Grant Program
by Chronicle Staff
Report: “Redesigning the Pell Grant Program to Boost Access and Completion”
Organization: The College Board
Summary: This paper is the College Board’s contribution to a consortium focused on federal grants and work-study for the second round of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s “Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery” project. The College Board also released a set of recommendations related to simplification and transparency.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Panel-Nears-Agreement-on-New/146691/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Panel Nears Agreement on New Standards for PLUS Loans
By Lee Gardner
Washington
The latest round of the U.S. Education Department’s negotiated rule-making process for consumer-protection issues began with a tentative agreement on Monday on proposed regulations of PLUS loans. The rest of the day found negotiators divided over proposals regarding state authorization of online education and college-affiliated debit cards, a day before they are supposed to vote on final proposals.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/20/consumer-group-sues-education-dept-debt-collection-records#sthash.0JKfFdmO.dpbs
Consumer Group Sues Education Dept. for Debt Collection Records
A consumer advocacy group on Monday sued the U.S. Department of Education over the agency’s refusal to release documents showing how the federal government awards bonuses to debt collection companies it hires to recover defaulted student loans. The National Consumer Law Center charges in its lawsuit that the department violated the Freedom of Information Act by withholding records relating to the performance and incentive pay for the government’s contracted debt collectors.
www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/more-concurrent-enrollment-programs-meet-accreditation-standards/?utm_campaign=052014ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=320d079714774fcdb1d72fe969e50cdf&elqCampaignId=289
More Concurrent-Enrollment Programs Meet Accreditation Standards
Source: edweek.org
Six higher education institutions—including Idaho State University and Crowder College in Missouri—recently earned a seal of approval for programs that provide high school students with an opportunity to earn college credit. In addition, five other programs were reaccredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships. The announcement this week by NACEP brings the total number of programs it has accredited to 92. …Currently, 47 states and the District of Columbia that have laws in place allowing for dual enrollment, a recent analysis by the Education Commission of the States shows.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/umasss-caret-how-get-4-year-degree-30k
UMass’s Caret on how to get a 4-year degree for $30K
Boston Business Journal
Robert Caret, the president of UMass, has at least two things for him in his role of steering the state’s university system. One, he has a knack for selling his ideas to politicians, no ordinarily skill. Second, he has extensive experience in public higher education in California and Maryland, states that traditionally have received more taxpayer support and have developed coordinated higher education models that help usher students from community colleges to the state colleges and universities. Under Caret’s leadership, last year the Legislature approved a plan to boost funding at UMass in exchange for keeping a lid on tuition. Now Caret is looking at the potential of the community colleges to lower costs and expand opportunities. He believes a total price tag of $30,000 for a four-year degree is possible.
www.deseretnews.com
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865603261/Top-10-college-commencement-speeches.html
Top 10 college commencement speeches
Compiled by Nicole Shepard, Deseret News National Edition
Here are 10 of the most classic graduation speech topics and the speaker who delivered the message better than most.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/haverford-college-commencement-speaker-lambastes-students
Haverford College commencement speaker lambastes students
Philly.com
In a surprising move, a commencement speaker at Haverford College on Sunday used the celebratory occasion to deliver a sharp rebuke to students who had mounted a campaign against another speaker who had been scheduled to appear but withdrew amid the controversy. William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton and a nationally respected higher education leader, called the student protestors’ approach both “immature” and “arrogant” and the subsequent withdrawal of Robert J. Birgeneau, former chancellor of the University of California Berkeley, a “defeat” for the Quaker college and its ideals.
Related article:
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/A-Bid-to-Control-a/146689/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
A Bid to ‘Control a Contagion’ of Commencement Protests
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-drop-out-allegedly-called-bomb-threats-stop-commencement
College drop-out allegedly called in bomb threats to stop commencement
The Hartford Courant
A Massachusetts woman who didn’t want her family to know she had dropped out of school and wouldn’t be graduating called in two bomb threats to Quinnipiac University on Sunday in an effort to get the ceremony canceled. Danielle Shea, 22, of Quincy, was arrested while wearing a cap and gown inside the TD Bank Sports Center, where school officials had moved the graduation for students of the College of Arts and Sciences after the initial bomb threats came in. Police were able to trace the two threatening calls to Shea’s cellphone.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/seattle-career-bootcamp-adds-job-skills-those-liberal-arts-degrees
Seattle career bootcamp adds job skills to those liberal arts degrees
Crosscut.com
One Monday afternoon in early March, a group of about a dozen college students gathered in an office space in lower Queen Anne. The mix of male and female coeds were all approaching graduation, most from liberal arts degree programs, but they were all still missing one key skillset: The tools to navigate a challenging job market. …Koru, a startup founded in Seattle last year, provides career counseling workshops to college seniors facing a looming and intimidating job market. It’s not all dry lecture or classroom learning though. Koru sets itself apart by bringing together students with professionals hiring for actual job opportunities at growing Northwest companies like Julep, REI and Zulily.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/20/many-internships-require-significant-technical-skills#sthash.iU2VfaLl.dpbs
Many Internships Require Significant Technical Skills
Internships are meant to be a steppingstone to potential full-time jobs — but intern positions in many fields require significant technical skills that would-be applicants may lack, a new analysis finds.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/new-curriculum-devoted-study-marijuana
New curriculum devoted to study of marijuana
Fox News Insider
A new curriculum in Colorado is devoted to the study of marijuana. Clover Leaf University offers a curriculum which includes cannabis consulting, master cultivation and cannabis culinary art.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/20/study-suggests-research-plays-bigger-role-faculty-evaluations-student-evaluations#sthash.F2qHkTxC.dpbs
Evaluating Evaluations
By Colleen Flaherty
To the many professors who say that student course evaluation data play too big a role in promotion and tenure decisions, a new study might come as both good news and bad. On the one hand, faculty evaluations seem to be getting more holistic, with deans gathering data from an increasing number of sources to assess professor performance. On the other hand, student evaluation results are playing a role in promotion and tenure decisions at more and more colleges.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/jp/connecticut-board-lets-promotion-stand-for-professor-who-is-jailed?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Connecticut Board Lets Promotion Stand for Professor Who Is Jailed
by Charles Huckabee
Connecticut’s state Board of Regents for Higher Education has decided to let stand the promotion of a Central Connecticut State University professor who is serving time in prison, The Courant, in Hartford, reported. The board met on Monday and decided not to take up a resolution that would have rescinded its approval last week of the university’s recommendation to promote the professor, Ravi Shankar, from tenured associate professor to full professor.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/05/20/mccaskill-says-legislation-could-seek-tougher-penalties-colleges-sexual-assaults#sthash.JWpvV8uD.dpbs
Senate Warning on Sexual Assault
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill, one of several lawmakers leading a new effort to combat sexual assault on colleges campuses, said Monday that she’s eyeing stiffer penalties for institutions that violate federal rules on reporting and handling sexual assault cases.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/university-oregon-warns-two-reported-sexual-assaults
University of Oregon warns of two reported sexual assaults
KMTR
Officers are looking into reports of two women being assaulted near the University of Oregon campus over the past week, the UO Police Department said Sunday. During one of the assaults, a female student was allegedly drugged on May 10 at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at 19th and University. Campus police said in a press release “giving someone a drug to disable the person is aggravated assault, a felony crime.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/05/20/court-lets-case-proceed-against-sexual-assault-accuser-campus-administrator#sthash.CFz4z48N.dpbs
Court Lets Case Proceed Against Sexual Assault Accuser, Campus Administrator
A federal district court in Pennsylvania gave a former Saint Joseph’s University student accused of sexual assault the go-ahead to sue not only the institution but also his female accuser and a college official last week. Brian Harris – who was convicted by a Saint Joseph’s panel of sexually assaulting a first-year student in their first year at the university in 2012 – is now able to sue all defendants for defamation and intentional interference with contractual relations.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/article/higher-ed-procurement-co-ops-branch-out
Higher ed procurement co-ops branch out
How buying cooperatives decide which new categories to offer, and how institutions can benefit
By: Nancy Mann Jackson
University Business
When it became clear that the scientific equipment in hundreds of labs across the University of Pittsburgh campus was not being maintained effectively, professionals in the university procurement department began looking for a new provider to do the job. The university had long relied on a purchasing cooperative to secure favorable contracts with vendors for bulk products such as office supplies. When administrators discovered that the cooperative had established an agreement with Specialty Underwriters (SU), a provider of equipment maintenance, their search was over.