University System News

USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/suit-seeking-in-state-tuition-for-those-without-le/ngH2R/
Suit seeking in-state tuition for those without legal status dismissed
By Jeremy Redmon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Fulton County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking in-state college tuition in Georgia for immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children. In an order issued Monday, Judge John Goger said Georgia law bars such lawsuits “due to sovereign immunity.” The attorney for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit — Charles Kuck — said Tuesday he would appeal the judge’s decision. At the heart of the case is a federal program that has granted the 39 plaintiffs in the lawsuit a temporary reprieve from deportation. The federal government says people granted that benefit are legally present in the U.S. Georgia’s in-state tuition policy requires “lawful presence.” But state attorneys sought to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing sovereign immunity shields the Georgia Board of Regents from the lawsuit.

www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/suit-seeking-in-state-tuition-for-those-without-le/ngJFN/#20c023e1.3566685.735395
Suit seeking in-state tuition for those without legal status dismissed
By Janel Davis and Jeremy Redmon – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Fulton County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking in-state college tuition in Georgia for immigrants who were illegally brought to the U.S. as children.
In a 19-page order filed Monday, Judge John Goger said Georgia law bars such lawsuits through sovereign immunity. At the same time, he was sympathetic toward the 39 plaintiffs in the case, calling them “intelligent individuals who seek to better themselves through education and are presumably the type of people, residents, that this state wants and needs.”

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Suit seeking in-state tuition for those without legal status dismissed

www.accessnorthga.com
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=275925
Immigrants’ suit seeking in-state tuition tossed

GOOD NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/06/10/georgia-tech-lands-43m-ipcf-grant.html
Georgia Tech lands $43M IPCF grant
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
The Institute of Paper Chemistry Foundation gave Georgia Tech a $43.6 million grant — one of the largest in the university’s history. “Through the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, we will maximize Georgia Tech’s and the state of Georgia’s strengths in sustainability and innovation to develop real-world applications as well as educate the next generation of leadership in the forest and bioproducts industry,” said Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson, in a statement.

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www.examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/article/georgia-tech-announces-436-million-donation
Georgia Tech announces $436 million donation

www.bestcolleges.com
http://www.bestcolleges.com/features/top-online-schools/
THE 100 BEST ONLINE COLLEGES FOR THE 2014 ACADEMIC YEAR
We’ve ranked the overall 50 best two-year and 50 best four-year colleges that offer fully online degree programs. Learn more about your best options for an optimal distance learning experience. All the schools included on our ranking are universities offering at least one fully online degree. For the two-year schools, we only included those that offered at least one fully online associate degree. For the four-year schools, we only included those that offered at least one fully online bachelor’s degree. …5. University of Georgia

www.41nbc.cm
http://www.41nbc.com/story/d/story/cgtc-teams-up-with-valdosta-state-university/15764/jm65_U6dYke43D1UQIkE1Q
CGTC Teams up with Valdosta State University
Elaine Rackle
MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Central Georgia Technical College signed a “Pathways Program Agreement” Tuesday with Valdosta State University (VSU). It means CGTC students who have earned an Associate of Applied Science or an Associate of Applied Technology degree are now eligible to work toward their Bachelor’s degrees at VSU.

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http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/VSU-Continues-To-Create-Pathways-For-Technical-And-Community-College-Students-262595721.html
VSU Continues To Create “Pathways” For Technical And Community College Students

www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/06/09/3140549/central-ga-tech-valdosta-state.html?sp=/99/148/
Central Ga. Tech, Valdosta State to sign academic agreement

RESEARCH:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/innovative-technology-aids-study-in-analysis-of-rising-extinction-rates/article_0c055316-f0c3-11e3-b169-0017a43b2370.html
Innovative technology aids study in analysis of rising extinction rates
Daniel Funke
Technological innovations, such as smartphone applications and satellite monitors, may play an important role in solving rising extinction rates among endangered animal species, according to an international study. The paper, which was published in the journal Science, addresses the role of new information sharing technologies in collecting information about animal extinction around the world. John L. Gittleman, dean of the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology, contributed to the study and cited its analysis of data based on technology use as an important move toward better understanding conservation and extinction.

www.bbc.com
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140611-can-we-ever-end-traffic-jams
Can a city ever be traffic jam-free?
By Katia Moskvitch
Traffic jams are the bane of motorists’ lives, whether it’s the daily bottleneck during the commute to work, or endless delays on motorways at the start of the holidays. If you think your journey is bad, spare a thought for drivers in Sao Paolo, Brazil – one evening in May this year, the traffic jams during rush hour added up to a 344km (214-mile) cumulative queue, according to the city’s traffic management agency… A study by the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta blamed a combination of aggressive drivers – too fast and too close to the car in front – and timid drivers, who leave large gaps in traffic; both kinds force other drivers to brake, resulting in yet more ripples bringing traffic to a standstill.

www.politico.com
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/apps-that-are-changing-american-cities-107678.html#ixzz34KiwdJAO
The Apps That Are Changing American Cities
By JORDANA CEPELEWICZ
From addressing crime to turning us all into citizen scientists, smartphone apps are increasingly being designed not only to make urbanites’ lives more convenient, but also to improve, inspire and empower entire communities. Here are just a few examples…Cycle Atlanta – Developed in 2012 by a group of researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Cycle Atlanta lets cyclists automatically track their routes and, once they’ve reached their destination, manually upload feedback about road conditions and safety issues. In doing so, it’s promoting more effective, less bureaucratic communication between cyclists and the City of Atlanta.

www.bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-11/fbi-shutdown-of-virus-demanded-new-anti-hacker-tactics.html
FBI Shutdown of Virus Demanded New Anti-Hacker Tactics
By Del Quentin Wilber and Chris Strohm
Dismantling one of the world’s most insidious computer viruses required complex and fast-paced tactics that will be the blueprint for U.S. law enforcement’s future cyberbattles… FBI agents in Pittsburgh, Omaha and Washington spearheaded the investigation. The bureau was joined by law enforcement officials in Canada, Britain, Ukraine, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in the final assaults on nefarious servers. Consultants at private companies including CrowdStrike Inc., Dell Corp.’s SecureWorks, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), McAfee Inc., and Symantec Corp. (SYMC) were joined by specialists from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Tech, who provided key technical assistance.

www.govtech.com
http://www.govtech.com/transportation/Drones-Eyed-as-Tools-in-Traffic-War.html
Drones Eyed as Tools in Traffic War
Potential uses for drones include everything from traffic management to inspections of traffic signals after installation or sampling vehicle speed along particular corridors.
BY KELLY YAMANOUCHI, MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE
Could drones be part of the answer to Atlanta’s traffic woes? A new Georgia Tech study found unmanned aircraft — commonly known as drones — could be used to help the Georgia Department of Transportation count vehicles on the highway to analyze traffic congestion and or to help with accident investigations. The $75,000 study, commissioned by GDOT to explore the potential benefits of drones, came up with more than 40 tasks they could help with. The goal of the study was to “take a look into the future and see how this could help us,” said Georgene Geary, research engineer at GDOT. There could be safety benefits and cost savings, but there’s “still some unanswered questions” for a cost-benefit analysis, she said. And there are other issues to address, including federal regulations and privacy concerns.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Use-the-Common-Core-Use-It/147007/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Use the Common Core. Use It Widely. Use It Well.
By William E. (Brit) Kirwan, Timothy P. White, and Nancy Zimpher
Many of us in higher education have observed an increasing number of students arriving at our doorstep not fully prepared to pursue a college degree. This is our collective problem as a nation. Our country, and our local communities, can ill afford to turn our backs on these prospective students and their families. Consequently, higher education has invested billions of public dollars every year in so-called remedial education to prepare students for basic mathematics and writing. This is not sustainable. There has to be a better way. Fortunately, there’s a solution that most states and many others are pursuing: the Common Core State Standards.

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/viewpoints-innovative-new-courses-can-turn-around-our-community-colleges/?utm_campaign=061114ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=eb3fb24c0d91491ca252e4493763eee8&elqCampaignId=309
Viewpoints: Innovative new courses can turn around our community colleges
Source: Gary Hart, a former California state senator, is a board member of the Campaign for College Opportunity, in sacbee.com.
California community colleges are hemorrhaging students at the front door. More than 70 percent of students who take an initial academic assessment are deemed “unprepared for college” and required to take as many as four semesters of remedial math and/or English courses. Sadly, most of these students drop out without ever transferring to a four-year college or earning a two-year degree. This is a terrible waste of state resources and, more importantly, a tragic outcome for students desiring a college education and better employment opportunities. …In response to this dysfunctional situation, a number of community college faculty members created the California Acceleration Project to help underprepared entering students.

www.motherjones.com

College Is Too Expensive, But Is Student Loan Relief the Answer?

College Is Too Expensive, But Is Student Loan Relief the Answer?
—By Kevin Drum
Megan McArdle, despite her own experience with crushing student debt, doesn’t support efforts to allow students to refinance their loans at lower rates: It’s good to remember, as we discuss these plans, that people with college degrees are the best-off people in the U.S. They are a cognitive elite with substantially more earning power than almost anyone else….It’s hard to see why we would take money from other people and give it to this group. At this point, someone in the audience is mentally complaining that I don’t understand the impact student loans have on family formation . . . buying a house . . . saving for retirement. But au contraire: I understand all too well….However. Some perspective is useful.

www.nytimes.com

Colleges and Evangelicals Collide on Bias Policy
By MICHAEL PAULSON
BRUNSWICK, Me. — For 40 years, evangelicals at Bowdoin College have gathered periodically to study the Bible together, to pray and to worship. They are a tiny minority on the liberal arts college campus, but they have been a part of the school’s community, gathering in the chapel, the dining center, the dorms. After this summer, the Bowdoin Christian Fellowship will no longer be recognized by the college. Already, the college has disabled the electronic key cards of the group’s longtime volunteer advisers. In a collision between religious freedom and antidiscrimination policies, the student group, and its advisers, have refused to agree to the college’s demand that any student, regardless of his or her religious beliefs, should be able to run for election as a leader of any group, including the Christian association.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/universities-are-missing-out-explosive-growth-sector-their-own
Universities are missing out on an explosive growth sector: Their own
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Harvard Business Review
Education is on the brink of rapid change that will create a lot of value for innovators. But still sitting on the sidelines? Those who make the decisions and control the purse strings at legacy higher education institutions. One representative example: April’s Education Innovation Summit, where more than 2,000 people energetically discussed how technology and markets are charting the future of education globally. The summit’s organizers claimed that 80 universities were in attendance, but a closer look at the attendee list revealed only a handful of high-level decision makers — and exactly one university endowment.

www.america.aljazeera.com
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/college-sexual-violencerapeeducationtitleixbranding.html
When schools put their brands before assaulted students
As colleges go corporate, strategies for dealing with sexual violence focus on risk management, not justice
by Dana Bolger
Avoid mistakes: Congressional investigations bring collateral risks, such as litigation or regulatory risks, public relations risks and reputational harm. Remember: What will play well on TV? That’s the advice that a top education lobby group presented to colleges and universities on how to respond to a survey that Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., distributed in April to assess schools’ handling of sexual violence on their campuses. McCaskill, who championed reform of the military’s response to sexual assaults in its ranks, is now tackling campus rape. In addition to the survey, which went out to 350 schools, she has held two congressional round tables to take stock of campus policies. She is expected to introduce legislation on the issue later this month. The American Council on Education’s (ACE) presentation — which was obtained by McCaskill’s office last week and “troubled” her “extremely” — doles out advice on how to deal with the survey but fails to mention either sexual assault victims’ needs or possible solutions. It exemplifies everything that’s wrong with schools’ responses to one of today’s most significant safety and civil rights challenges.

Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/gwinnett-college-to-remove-hivaids-questions-from-/ngH3Z/
Gwinnett College to pay student; remove AIDS questions from applications
By Alexis Stevens
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett College has agreed to remove questions related to HIV and AIDS on its application and pay $23,000 to a former student forced to leave the school because she has HIV, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. The College has also agreed to draft new policies indicating that it does not discriminate against applicants or students on the basis of disability, including HIV, and conduct ADA training for its employees, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates said. The changes are part of a settlement agreement following an investigation into whether the school violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

www.nationaljournal.com
http://www.nationaljournal.com/next-america/education/life-after-community-college-20140610
Life After Community College
Forty-five percent of college students start out at a community college. To continue on for a bachelor’s degree, they’ll have to beat the odds. Here are three who did.
By Janell Ross
Across the country, nearly half of U.S. college students start out at community colleges. Though these institutions are often touted as a lower-cost, incremental route to obtaining a four-year degree, a close look at federal education data reveals a far different picture. In fact, only about one-quarter of community college students go on to obtain a bachelor’s degree within six years of entering school, according to a 2013 study conducted by Toby J. Park at Florida State University.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/06/10/georgia-federal-student-loan-debt-more-than-39.html
Georgia federal student loan debt more than $39 billion
David Allison
Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia college students have the ninth-highest federal student loan debt, according to a report issued Tuesday by the White House. President Barack Obama on June 9 announced an executive action which would allow millions of student borrowers to cap their monthly student loan payments. On Tuesday the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers and Domestic Policy Council released a new report showing outstanding federal student loan debt by state.

www.covnews.com
http://www.covnews.com/section/163/article/53168/
Obama moves to extend student loan payment relief
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the rising costs of college have left America’s middle class feeling trapped. He says no hard-working youngster in America should be priced out of a higher education. Obama is signing a presidential memorandum he says could help an additional 5 million borrowers.

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www.abcnews.com
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-aims-expand-student-loan-relief-24053412
Prodding Congress, Obama Acts to Ease Student Debt

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/White-House-Doesn-t-Know-How/147017/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
White House Doesn’t Know How Much Expanding Loan Program Will Cost
By Kelly Field
Washington
White House officials aren’t sure how much President Obama’s plan to expand the most generous income-based repayment program will cost, but they’re confident the proposal will be worth it.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/What-s-Out-Student-Debt/147023/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
What’s Out: Student Debt. What’s In: Free College.
By Goldie Blumenstyk
Student-debt relief plans are all the rage these days in Washington, but a more-radical idea is also gaining some ground: making college free. In 2013 the idea was aired in a much-discussed book by a faculty-labor activist in California. Then this year it was enacted for community colleges as the Tennessee Promise, and promoted in a different form as two years of free college by a University of Wisconsin professor in an attention-grabbing proposal presented publicly at a Lumina Foundation event and privately at the White House. Next week a new coalition called Redeeming America’s Promise will unveil its free-college proposal—a call to create an American Promise Scholarship program that would provide federally funded grants to allow students to complete degrees at two-year and four-year colleges. The scholarship amounts would be roughly equal to the average price of public-college tuition.

www.npr.org
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/06/11/320633113/college-for-free-tulsa-radical-idea?ft=1&f=1001
College For Free: Tulsa’s Radical Idea
by CORY TURNER and CLAUDIO SANCHEZ
The average cost of one college year across all degree-granting intuitions in the U.S. was more than $19,000 in 2012, and we don’t need to tell you what direction the price is heading. Which means lots of students are now borrowing heavily to make college work. President Obama threw some of them a lifeline earlier this week, with revisions to the government’s Pay As You Earn program. But the promise of some — emphasis on “some” — student loan relief down the road isn’t enticement enough for many kids to spend big on a college education. The fact is, lots of them have simply been priced out of higher ed. But what if the first two years of college could be tuition-free, for everyone? …The program is called Tulsa Achieves, and, so far, it’s helped some 10,000 kids into college.

www.thestate.com
http://www.thestate.com/2014/06/10/3499621/cost-of-florida-prepaid-tuition.html?sp=/99/101/
Cost of Florida prepaid tuition plan to drop
TALLAHASSEE, FLA. — Florida’s prepaid tuition plan is going to get cheaper. Gov. Rick Scott on Monday signed into a law a bill that restricts state universities from being able to raise tuition above the rate set each year by legislators. The prepaid tuition plan allows parents to lock in the current cost of college. Roughly 100,000 students are attending college on the plans. The Florida College Prepaid Tuition Board says the new law will bring down the cost of purchasing a four-year university contract for newborns by nearly $20,000 from its current price of $54,000.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/florida-grants-people-without-legal-status-access-/ngHx9/
Florida grants people without legal status access to in-state tuition
By Jeremy Redmon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed legislation making people without legal status in the U.S. eligible to qualify for in-state college tuition. “Making sure all Floridians have access to an affordable higher education is one of my top priorities,” the Republican governor said in a prepared statement after signing House Bill 851 Monday.

www.usforacle.com
http://www.usforacle.com/news/view.php/706973/Scott-signs-new-budget-USF-prospers
Scott signs new budget, USF prospers
By STAFF REPORT
Approving a budget that includes several multimillion-dollar projects for USF, Gov. Rick Scott signed the 2014-15 state budget Monday, marking significant gains for higher education. Among other projects, next year’s budget will include $5 million in recurring funds for the Florida Center for Cybersecurity at USF, $15 million for the construction of the USF Health Heart Institute, $10 million for the construction of the USF St. Pete College of Business and $5 million to replace the outdated facilities of the Morsani College of Medicine. USF Assistant Vice President for Government Relations Mark Walsh said the university is grateful for the approved budget, as it includes all the projects requested at the start of the legislative session.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/11/after-weeks-rumors-universities-unveil-digital-education-consortium-unizin#sthash.S0IXOU3S.dpbs
Unizin Unveiled
By Carl Straumsheim
After weeks of rumors, Colorado State University, Indiana University, the University of Florida and the University of Michigan on Wednesday unveiled Unizin, a consortium aimed at “tipping the table in favor of the academy” on digital education. On a website that went live just after midnight this morning, organizers described Unizin as a sort of one-stop shop for digital education, supporting “flipped classroom[s], online courses/degrees, badged experiences for alumni, or even MOOCs if desired.”

www.hartfordbusiness.com
http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/article/20140609/PRINTEDITION/306069967
Stemming the CT college enrollment decline
BRAD KANE
Connecticut state college and university officials say a $125.5 million investment by the state should be enough money to stem a four-year enrollment slide, but it will require a new approach to higher education that focuses more on online education and catering to non-traditional students. “As a system looking for enrollment, we understand the problems with a declining market,” said Gregory Gray, president of the Board of Regents for Higher Education, who is spearheading efforts to get more students at Connecticut state colleges. “Our plan [to boost enrollment] is quite ambitious.”

www.slate.com
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/06/03/for_profit_college_sleaze_everest_admits_a_student_with_a_third_grade_reading.html
This For-Profit College Admitted a Student With a Third-Grade Reading Level
By Jordan Weissmann
By now, it’s old news that for-profit colleges often admit students who have little hope of graduating in order to collect their tuition checks. But David Halperin at Republic Report seems to have uncovered a particularly nauseating instance of such sleaze at a California campus of Everest College, where a librarian recently resigned in disgust because the school had admitted “a 37-year-old man who appears to read at a third grade level” and “may suffer from a developmental disability.”The student, who Halperin refers to pseudonymously as “Tom,” is enrolled in Everest’s two-year, $45,000 criminal justice program. After the librarian, Laurie McConnell, began trying to help Tom with his reading assignments, she contacted Everest’s president about his difficulties. The administration never responded, and so she reached out to the California attorney general’s office:

www.the australian.com
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/universities-set-free-to-compete-on-price/story-e6frgcjx-1226949815699#
Universities set free to compete on price
Bernard Lane
Reporter
Sydney
Universities have for years thrived in an oligopoly and reforms to higher education will throw them into a robust market with incentives to compete on price for the first time, the head of the federal Education Department told Senate estimates last week. Lisa Paul likened effect to that of international education where, under market pressure, universities offer pseudo-scholarships and other discounts such that many students do not pay “book price”. Education Minister Christopher Pyne proposes to deregulate fees for domestic students, and open up federal teaching subsidies to private providers and sub-­bachelor courses.

www.orlandosentinel.com
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/os-worse-off-than-parents-20140610,0,6039808.story
Are today’s grads worse off than their parents?
By Kate Santich, Orlando Sentinel
Blame staggering college debt, a weak economy or shrinking employee benefits, but researchers say today’s younger generation will wind up worse off financially than its parents.
The millennial generation — ages 14 to 34 — is the first in modern times to have higher levels of poverty and unemployment than its two immediate predecessors, the Gen Xers and the baby boomers, had at the same point in their lives. And the long-term prognosis for prosperity has been slipping since 1999. Yet studies also find that most millennials don’t seem to care, either because they’re optimistic or because they have different standards for success.

www.news.yahoo.com
http://news.yahoo.com/70–of-college-graduates-aren-t-financially-independent-190110492.html;_ylt=AwrBJSBgN5dT9H4A_XLQtDMD
More than half of college graduates rely on family for financial support
By Mandi Woodruff
We already know that the economic recovery has left many young people financially disadvantaged. But just how badly prepared are today’s 20-somethings to manage their finances? A unique, multi-year study by researchers at the University of Arizona, has some fascinating answers. In “Arizona Pathways to Life Success for University Students,” researchers found more than half of college graduates are still relying on their parents or other family members for financial support.

www.time.com
http://time.com/2851844/number-of-campus-sex-crimes-reported-surges-by-50/
Report Sees Surge in Sex Crimes on College Campuses
Laura Stampler
According to an Education Department report, the number of sexual assaults reported on college campuses increased from 2,200 in 2001 to 3,300 in 2011
The number of sex crimes reported on U.S. college campuses soared by 50% over the course of a decade, according to a new government report Tuesday, even as total campus crime decreased. The federal Department of Education report looked at assault data up to 2011, when 3,300 forcible sex offenses were reported on campuses across the U.S. That was up from 2,200 reported sex assaults a decade earlier. University crimes in every other category decreased, said the report, which primarily focused on elementary and secondary school safety.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/faculty-feud-chancellor-heats
Faculty feud with chancellor heats up
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Prairie Business
Minnesota’s state university faculty union sent a harsh critique of Chancellor Steven Rosenstone’s performance to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities governing board as it gears up to evaluate him. The union and Rosenstone have had a tense relationship. Since last fall, they have clashed over a new strategic planning process for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. And they have been caught in contract negotiations for more than a year.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/congressmen-introduce-resolution-opposing-college-rating-system/79495?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Congressmen Introduce Resolution Opposing College-Rating System
Two U.S. congressmen introduced a resolution on Tuesday that opposes the Department of Education’s controversial plan to design a ratings system for colleges and universities.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, and Rep. Michael E. Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, also issued a joint statement calling the department’s proposal, which much of academe has greeted with skepticism, “misguided.”

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/11/obama-defends-college-ratings-system-amid-growing-backlash-capitol-hill#sthash.4elSHrTD.dpbs
Obama Defends College Ratings
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan pair of Congressional lawmakers on Tuesday introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives opposing the Obama administration’s college ratings system. The president, meanwhile, defended the proposal as a necessary tool for students. The resolution, by Representatives Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Michael Capuano of Massachusetts, Republican and Democrat, respectively, criticizes the ratings system as “reductionist” and warns that the government’s ratings would “carry an image of validity that will mislead” prospective students.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/11/senate-panel-oks-nih-funding-boost-increase-pell-grant#sthash.mjnG1Nl0.dpbs
Funding Boost for NIH
By Michael Stratford
A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday approved a budget bill that would increase funding for the National Institutes of Health by $605 million for the fiscal year that begins October 1.
Lawmakers on the Senate’s appropriations subcommittee that oversees education, health and labor programs passed legislation that would increase the NIH’s budget to nearly $30.5 billion in the coming year. That $605 million jump represents a greater increase than the $198-million increase the Obama administration had requested. The measure, which now goes to the full Senate appropriations committee, mirrors the president’s request for Pell Grants.

Related article:
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Senate-Panel-Approves-Budget/147019/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Senate Panel Approves Budget Increases for Pell Grants and NIH in 2015

www.ccdaily.com
http://ccdaily.com/Pages/Funding/75M-to-GEAR-UP.aspx
$75M to GEAR UP for college
By Daily Staff
​The U.S. Department of Education is accepting proposals for grants totaling $75 million through a program to improve college readiness for underrepresented, underprepared and low-income students. The goal of two new Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) competitions is to help prepare high school students so they don’t need developmental education in college.

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Author Tells College-Bound Students to Embrace International Challenge
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — Drawing lessons from her critically acclaimed book, The Smartest Kids in the World, journalist Amanda Ripley told a group of graduating high school students that they should see themselves as part of a global competition when they head off to college in the fall. “It’s not this vague competition that may happen one day,” Ripley told several dozen graduating seniors at the inaugural “Cap & Gown” ceremony of Capital Partners for Education, a nonprofit college prep program that serves close to 200 students in the Washington metropolitan area. …“One of the reasons it’s harder to get into an American university is because they are admitting more international students,” Ripley said, an assertion supported by statistics that show the percentage of international students in the U.S. reached a record high of 3.9 percent in the 2012-2013 academic year. Ripley urged the students not to be daunted by competition from abroad, even though the “kids from Korea” may be the ones who “determine the curve” in their biology class in college.

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College Presidents Express Support for Common Core
by Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press
WASHINGTON ― Higher education leaders in 33 states on Tuesday announced the formation of a coalition in support of Common Core education standards rolling out in most states. The more than 200 college presidents and state higher education leaders say the K-12 standards represent a significant improvement over most states’ standards. They say they are needed to tackle the high rate of students needing remedial help in college, and that the higher education community has a “clear and compelling” stake in the debate.

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Higher Ed Group Launches to Support Common Core

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College Leaders Sign On to Support Common Core Educational Standards

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Leaders of 200 plus colleges including SUNY defend Common Core

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Common Core, battered by midterm politics, gets higher-ed support. Too late?
The midterms ‘can’t come soon enough’ for Common Core, which has been taking fire from both the left and right. Higher Ed for Higher Standards says it hopes to debunk Common Core myths.
By Amanda Paulson
A new coalition of Common Core supporters, this time from the higher-education community, announced itself Tuesday. Its mission: to raise awareness about the importance of the standards and try to counter the spread of misinformation and the growing backlash against the standards. It’s a battle that has become central in the education world lately, and is spilling out into more general debate, as Common Core becomes a key issue in many midterm campaigns.

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Where have all the missing American workers gone?
US economy rebounds, but percentage of working-age people with jobs stays flat at 6 out of 10
By Tom Raum, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate has been on a slow downward trajectory since the recession ended nearly five years ago. While the overall jobless level has dropped to non-recession levels, the number of the working-age people with jobs is barely over 6 in 10, hovering at a level reminiscent of the late 1970s. In May, the U.S. workforce-participation rate — the combination of those with jobs and unemployed workers actively seeking them — was just 62.8 percent, the same as the month before. Job markets have been essentially flat since October. Where have all the missing workers gone? A key factor, nearly all agree, is the growing exodus from the job market of Baby Boomers.