University System News
USG NEWS:
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/06/22/3163202/midstate-colleges-conscious-of.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1
Midstate colleges conscious of student loan crisis
BY ANDRES DAVID LOPEZ
Amanda Carroll has been able to work hard and pay for her college tuition at Middle Georgia State College without taking on any debt. Still, the 26-year-old from Macon knows there are graduates across the country worried about paying back tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. …“Middle Georgia State College has taken a great deal of care in ensuring that tuition and fees are structured as minimally as they possibly can, because we want to be affordable and we want to be an access institution for this region,” said Lee Ann Kirkland, director of financial aid at the college.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/06/20/the-100-most-influential-atlantans-of-2014.html?ana=sm_atl_ucp43&b=1403109101%5E14765631&page=all
The 100 Most Influential Atlantans of 2014 (SLIDESHOW)
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Welcome to Atlanta Business Chronicle’s annual special section profiling Atlanta’s 100 most influential people, as selected by the Chronicle’s editors. The list contains many familiar names, but also some new ones: …Mark Becker, President, Georgia State University; G.P. “Bud” Peterson, President, Georgia Tech; Hank Huckaby, Chancellor, University System of Georgia; Daniel Papp, President, Kennesaw State University
www.northwestgeorgianews.com
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/study-abroad-trip-to-normandy-europe-changes-georgia-highlands-college/article_f9c6c2e2-f9dd-11e3-9f93-001a4bcf6878.html
Study abroad trip to Normandy, Europe changes Georgia Highlands College students in unexpected ways
by Kristina Wilder
It was truly the trip of a lifetime. At the beginning of June, seven Georgia Highlands College students and two faculty members went to London to begin a trip organized by EF College Tours. The tour followed the route of World War II soldiers and was part of a Western Civilization class at the college. The study abroad trip was open to students not taking the class as well as those who were.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-06-20/state-spend-millions-lower-utility-bills-uga-georgia-tech-others
State to spend millions to lower utility bills at UGA, Georgia Tech, others
By LEE SHEARER
University of Georgia officials plan to spend up to $4 million to improve energy and water efficiency on the university’s East Campus under a new state program. The money will be UGA’s share of some $87.4 million in projects approved by the Georgia Environmental Finance Authority, or GEFA, and the Georgia State Financing and Investment Commission.
USG VALUE:
www.forsythnews.com
http://www.forsythnews.com/section/3/article/24528/
University helping with summer meal program
By Megan Reed
CUMMING — The University of North Georgia is helping feed local children this summer. As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Summer Food Service Program, the college will be providing free meals to eligible children in Forsyth, Hall and Lumpkin counties. It’s the third year UNG, which has a campus in Cumming, has participated in the program.
GOOD NEWS:
www.maconceo.com
http://maconceo.com/features/2014/06/mgsc-collaborates-south-korean-universities/
MGSC Collaborates with South Korean Universities on Information Technology
Sheron Smith
Students studying information technology at two South Korean universities will soon spend an academic year at Middle Georgia State College, and faculty members at all three institutions will begin collaborating on research projects. An agreement made formal on June 12 also opens the door to other collaborations between Middle Georgia State and Mokwon University and Woosuk University, both in central South Korea. The specific collaborative projects will focus on IT. In addition to students at the South Korean universities coming here, Middle Georgia State students could spend time studying abroad at the two universities.
www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2014/06/12/grads-of-these-law-schools-get-the-most-judicial-clerkships
Grads of These Law Schools Get the Most Judicial Clerkships
Yale Law School had, by far, the highest percentage of 2012 grads in federal clerkships, followed by Stanford and Harvard.
By Robert Morse
New law school grads covet judicial clerkships for their positive career implications. Federal clerkships are typically the hardest to get, but state and local clerkships can give new grads’ careers a boost, too. Judges at federal, state and local courts consistently say that their clerks perform vital functions in their chambers. …With that in mind, U.S. News has just published two exclusive clerkship lists of law schools using data from our 2015 Best Law Schools rankings for the 2012 J.D. graduating class. …University of Georgia 2015 Best Law Schools rank:29, Percent of 2012 employed J.D. Grads with federal judicial clerkships: 10.3%, Percent of 2012 employed J.D. Grads with state and local judicial clerksips:
7.2%
RESEARCH:
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2014-06-21/skidaway-institute-takes-part-historic-worldwide-ocean-sampling#.U6g35ygRseU
Skidaway Institute takes part in historic worldwide ocean sampling
By KARSON BRANDENBURG
The ocean is one of the world’s most important natural resources, yet scientists know very little about it. To unveil a little of that mystery, scientists from more than 70 different countries gathered in their respective locations Saturday for a worldwide ocean sampling day. While this may seem like a trivial action in the realm of scientific discoveries, it marks the first time in history that there has been a global ocean sampling day. …Marc Frischer, a professor at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography on Skidaway Island, led the research group doing testing off the Georgia coast Saturday.
www.dining.savannahnow.com
http://dining.savannahnow.com/exchange/2014-06-19/georgia-prepared-be-player-when-drone-industry-takes#.U6g_IygRseV
Georgia is prepared to be a player when the drone industry takes off
By WALTER C. JONES
ATLANTA — Georgia universities and companies are revving their engines and prepared to soar the moment the Federal Aviation Administration approves the commercial use of unmanned aerial vehicles although other practical hurdles could be as significant. That was the message from experts meeting this week in an international conference of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting in Atlanta. “The state is working on creating an environment that’s good for our companies so that when the FAA does pull the switch, we can pull out and start doing these commercially and that our companies here in the state will be ready, both with the product and the service companies and we’ll have people trained to fly and service those vehicles across the board,” said Steve Justice, executive director of the Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace. Even though commercial drone operation isn’t legal, there are already firms here flying the planes legally for research purposes. Area-I is a 6-year-old company in Kennesaw that partners with Middle Georgia State College and uses its academic exemption to test composite materials and airframe designs for NASA and the Department of Defense.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/626/article/61114/
Willingway, Georgia Southern conference will update addiction treatment methods
Special to the Herald
For Dr. Al Mooney, Director of Addiction Medicine and Recovery at Willingway, one of the key factors that distinguishes this week’s Addiction Update Conference is its “focus on the solutions rather than the problems.” Mooney will be joined by three other professionals from Willingway and many more from across the southeast at Georgia Southern University’s 21st Annual Addiction Update Conference, scheduled for Thursday and Friday at the Nessmith-Lane Conference Center on GSU’s campus. The Conference is a two-day program that will focus on the ongoing search for the cure, a designer drug update, adolescent treatment perspectives, cross cultural competencies in treatment and recovery for special population groups, addiction and recovery for the emerging adult/collegiate population and process addiction.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/veterinary-surgeons-perform-another-adult-feline-kidney-transplant-with-stem/article_ed5d72f4-f8ce-11e3-b3f5-0017a43b2370.html
Veterinary surgeons perform another adult feline kidney transplant with stem cells
Brad Mannion
After suffering from chronic renal, or kidney, failure, four-year-old Arthur went under the knife to receive his newly transplanted kidney in May. He is fortunate his body accepted the kidney with the help of adult feline stem cells — his own, that is. Veterinary surgeons in the University of Georgia Veterinary Teaching Hospital transplanted Arthur’s kidney, using adult stem cells pulled from his own fat cells.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/06/20/nonprofit-to-boost-new-technologies-at-tech-emory.html
Nonprofit to boost new technologies at Tech, Emory
Ellie Hensley and Urvaksh Karkaria
Atlanta Business Chronicle
A Miami-based nonprofit that aims to foster entrepreneurship hopes to seed Atlanta’s next generation of biotech companies.
The Walter H. Coulter Foundation will invest $1.5 million per year to commercialize promising science at Georgia Tech and Emory University’s joint biomedical engineering department.
www.biofuelsdigest.com
Oak Ridge Laboratory to house two new ERFC projects
Isabel Lane
In Tennessee, Oak Ridge Laboratory will house two Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) announced this week by US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz. The projects are among 32 ERFC projects awarded $100 million by the Department of Energy to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy. The two Oak Ridge EFRCs are a renewal of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, which is led by David Wesolowski, and a new award to the Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE) Center, led by Yanwen Zhang. ORNL scientists also partnered on successful proposals to lay the groundwork for fundamental advances in solar energy, electrical energy storage, carbon capture and sequestration, materials and chemistry by design, biosciences and extreme environments. Those proposals include three new projects (led by the Georgia Institute of Technology, the State University of New York–Stony Brook, and Pennsylvania State University) and three renewals (led by Washington University in St. Louis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
www.generalaviationnews.com
Report: Air traffic controller staffing should consider fatigue
Report: Air traffic controller staffing should consider fatigue
by General Aviation News Staff
A new report notes the FAA’s models for determining air traffic controller staffing needs are suitable for developing initial estimates of the number of controllers required at terminal areas and airport towers, but the models used to staff the centers that control air traffic between airports can be improved. The congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council also notes that the FAA should collaborate with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association to develop an enhanced tool capable of creating efficient controller work schedules that incorporate fatigue mitigation strategies… “The FAA faces many challenges in identifying the level of controller staffing needed to ensure safe and cost-effective services nationally and at its 315 facilities, starting with the lack of definitive methods for relating staffing levels to safety,” said committee chair Amy Pritchett, David S. Lewis Associate Professor of Cognitive Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
www.business-standard.com
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/now-vibrating-gloves-to-teach-braille-114062200277_1.html
Now, vibrating gloves to teach braille
Press Trust of India
Researchers have created smart gloves that can help the blind learn braille through vibrations. The gloves created by researchers at Georgia Tech in the US have vibrating motors at the knuckle of each finger. When one of them vibrates, the wearer presses the corresponding key, and audio feedback tells them what letter they are typing.
www.blogs.wsj.com
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/23/we-were-lucky-to-get-hacked-yo-founder-says/?KEYWORDS=%22Georgia+Institute+of+Technology%22
We Were Lucky to Get Hacked, Yo Founder Says
By AMIR MIZROCH and ORR HIRSCHAUGE
Yo, the one-word, one-tap social messaging platform which has taken the app stores, and tech media, by storm, was “lucky to be hacked” so soon after its launch, its founder has said. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology Thursday night revealed a glaring privacy hole in Or Arbel’s Yo program, which lets users text one word (Yes, “Yo”) to each other. “We were lucky enough to get hacked at an early stage and the issue has been fixed,” Arbel wrote on Medium. He added that the hack was a lucky turn of events because it highlighted what Yo was really all about, which is simplicity.
Related article:
www.tectimes.com
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/8986/20140621/yo-yes-im-talking-new-app-draw-some-unwanted-attention-surprise.htm
Yo. Yes I’m talking to you. New app draws some unwanted attention to no one’s surprise
www.wabe.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net
http://wabe.drupal.publicbroadcasting.net/post/tech-researchers-uncover-android-security-issue
Tech Researchers Uncover Android Security Issue
By JIM BURRESS
Georgia Tech researchers have identified a potential “security weakness” in Android-based mobile phones. But Android users shouldn’t be too concerned.
www.globalatlanta.com
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/26981/strong-ties-between-israel-and-georgia-revealed-at-awards-ceremony/
Strong Ties Between Israel and Georgia Revealed at Awards Ceremony
by Phil Bolton
The commercial ties binding Georgia to Israel were strikingly apparent at the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce’s Eagle Awards gala including a commitment to defense and business innovation in the telephone mobility and medical fields. Held at the AT&T Mobility building on West Peachtree Street June 11, Opher Aviran, Israel’s consul general for the Southeast, quickly underscored in his introductory remarks the important defense links… Mr. Aviran also referred in his remarks to the partnership including Microsoft’s research and development center in Israel with the Israel Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Flashpoint program all aimed at launching startups from innovative ideas.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/opinion/2014-06-21/editorial-fight-rising-sticker-shock-college-tuition#.U6g7uSgRseV
Editorial: Fight rising sticker shock on college tuition
ATTENDING A public college in Georgia remains a relative bargain when compared to public instititions in other states. Unfortunately, it’s less of a bargain today than it used to be.
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, a nationwide group of CEOs who serve statewide governing boards that oversee higher education, said college tuition and fees in Georgia have been skyrocketing faster than any other state in the nation over the past five years, save one (New Mexico).
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/06/23/is-there-a-crisis-in-computer-science-education/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Is There a Crisis in Computer-Science Education?
by Jonah Newman
We’ve been following the continuing conversation among journalists, programmers, and educators about computer-science education in the United States and whether everyone should—or should not—learn how to code. It’s a question that comes up often in digital-media circles, so we were pleased to read a thoughtful, nuanced contribution to that conversation last week from Tasneem Raja, the interactive editor at Mother Jones. In it, one statistic in particular caught our eye: The United States graduated proportionally fewer computer-science majors in 2011-12 than in 1985-86. Could that really be?
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/provost-prose/tenure#sthash.L6rxO548.dpbs
Tenure
By Herman Berliner
I am still a strong supporter of tenure and I will continue to defend the importance of tenure as an important foundation of our higher education system. But I also feel strongly that the tenure system needs to change — not in any fundamental way but rather to be closer to what tenure used to mean and represent.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/corinthian-and-ccsf#sthash.YUAl9NkM.dpbs
Corinthian and CCSF
By Matt Reed
As a veteran of both the for-profit and community college sectors, I’ve been struck by the different ways in which the higher ed world has viewed the struggles of Corinthian Colleges and the City College of San Francisco. They’re facing existential crises at the same time, and they have nearly the same number of students; we have a natural experiment. What can we learn from it? At a really basic level — poli sci 101 — the distribution of those students matters. Spread 72,000 students all over the country, as in the Corinthian model, and they aren’t massive enough in any one location to exert serious political strength. Concentrate 77,000 in one city, as at CCSF, and you have a major political force on your hands. Having a Congressional delegation in your corner helps.
Education News
www.nytimes.com
There Is a Simpler Way for Students to Apply for Financial Aid
By Susan Dynarski and Judith Scott-Clayton
Any college student who wants a federal loan or Pell grant has to file a Free Application for Federal Student Aid. With well over 100 questions about income, assets and expenses, the Fafsa approaches the IRS Form 1040 in length, and is longer and more complicated than the 1040A and 1040EZ, the tax forms filed by a majority of taxpayers. Senators Lamar Alexander and Michael Bennet, in a New York Times Op-Ed on Thursday, said they were introducing legislation that would significantly simplify the process of applying for aid for college. The legislation would slice the Fafsa to just two questions: family size and income.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/justice-sonia-sotomayor-defends-affirmative-action/2014/06/22/cfdbe774-fa22-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html
Justice Sonia Sotomayor defends affirmative action
BY ROBERT BARNES
Justice Sonia Sotomayor said she supports affirmative action in higher education because she believes that alternatives based on geographic or economic status don’t work to ensure a diverse student body. Sotomayor has said race-conscious programs in the 1970s that opened the Ivy League to minorities were essential to her rise from the Bronx housing projects to her admissions to Princeton and Yale Law School, where she excelled.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65089/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8bf35903e3644bf299ea0a49e523f6b4&elqCampaignId=173
Course Correction Uncertain for Increasing Black Enrollment in Higher Ed
by Jamal Watson
ATLANTA — While historically Black colleges and universities across the nation look to build a direct pipeline for Black high school students, mounting challenges continue to serve as a roadblock, said a veteran educator. “The problem with our students is that they don’t go far enough,” said Erroll B. Davis Jr., the outgoing superintendent of Atlanta’s 48,400 person school district. Of the 59 percent of Atlanta’s high school students who graduate each year, for example, only 35 percent enroll in college and about 17 percent of those students return to campus for their second year. “Not only are we not doing enough,” he told attendees at the 2014 HBCU Student Success Summit sponsored by the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, “but it may indicate that we don’t know what we’re doing.” That kind of tough talk from the former chancellor of the University System of Georgia is being echoed throughout the nation as the number of Black high school students attending college, and HBCUs in particular, continue to dwindle.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65095/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8bf35903e3644bf299ea0a49e523f6b4&elqCampaignId=173
Financial Help Not Likely on Horizon for Tribal Colleges
by Catherine Morris
…Addressing the crowd, Obama promised a renewed commitment to American Indian interests, with a particular focus on education. “Let’s put our minds together to improve our schools, because our children deserve a world-class education, too, that prepares them for colleges and careers. And that means returning control of Indian education to tribal nations with additional resources and support so that you can direct your children’s education and reform,” said Obama. In concert with the president’s visit, the Department of the Interior released a statement on a new plan to improve educational outcomes for Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools on June 13.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65104/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8bf35903e3644bf299ea0a49e523f6b4&elqCampaignId=173
Accrediting Agency Issues Warning to Alabama State
by Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An accrediting agency has issued a warning to Alabama State University for failing to comply with several accreditation standards. The Montgomery Advertiser reports the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools issued the warning to ASU late last week, saying the school hasn’t complied with standards on board of trustees governance, financial stability and Title IV funding issues.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/23/contract-reveals-arizona-state-u-starbucks-partnership-details#ixzz35SzWFXxV
The Starbucks-ASU Contract
By Carl Straumsheim
Yes, Starbucks will reimburse its employees for studying online at Arizona State University, but students should not expect to earn their bachelor’s degree without spending a dime.
Nor should they expect to take as much time as they want. In an appearance on This Week @ Inside Higher Ed on Friday, Arizona State President Michael M. Crow described his university’s partnership with the coffee giant, announced last Sunday night, with one word: “completion.”
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/and-a-hologram-in-every-lecture-hall-marketing-3d-tech-to-universities/53499?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
And a Hologram in Every Lecture Hall: Marketing 3D Tech to Universities
by Avi Wolfman-Arent
First came the mouse, then touch-screen technology. And if Silicon-Valley-based zSpace has its way, the next leap in human-computer interaction will look like something out of your local IMAX Theater. The company calls it “immersive exploration.” In real terms, zSpace’s eponymous flagship product is a tablet-software combination that allows students to view and manipulate hologram-like three-dimensional images.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/23/researchers-seek-ethical-guidelines-higher-ed-studies-privacy-concerns-remain#ixzz35TF77Sq5
Unanswered Questions
By Carl Straumsheim
Almost 40 years ago, a commission met to establish ethical guidelines governing research with human subjects. Earlier this month, a similar group met to discuss a different kind of guinea pig: the online learner. The Asilomar Convention for Learning Research in Higher Education, a gathering of faculty members, researchers and legal scholars, on Monday produced a two-page report affirming that higher education research should be guided by transparent data collection processes, shared results and respect for the learner.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Liability-in-the-Lab-UCLA/147303/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Liability in the Lab: UCLA Case Sends a Signal to Universities
By Paul Basken
Prosecutors in Los Angeles reached a plea agreement on Friday in their criminal case against a University of California chemistry professor over the accidental death of a student researcher, putting an opaque ending on a landmark legal pursuit credited with pushing lab-safety improvements on university campuses nationwide.