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GPC has accreditation reaffirmed
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Board of Trustees lifts GPC financial warning
Georgia Perimiter College, which has a campus in Newton County, received good news recently. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Board of Trustees voted June 19 to reaffirm Georgia Perimeter College’s (GPC) accreditation for 10 years. The board also voted to lift the financial warning it issued to the college in December 2012, acknowledging that Georgia Perimeter is now in compliance with all SACS financial standards.
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http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-06-24/uga-offers-yearlong-certificate-program-comparative-medical-illustration
UGA offers yearlong certificate program in comparative medical illustration
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine has launched a yearlong certificate program designed to teach medical illustrators the fine art of veterinary illustration.
The college’s Certificate of Comparative Medical Illustration will provide further instruction for students who have previously obtained a master’s degree from one of the four accredited medical illustration programs in the U.S. Will McAbee, the first student accepted into the program, earned his master’s degree in medical illustration from Georgia Regents University in 2013. He began his training at the College of Veterinary Medicine this month.
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/athens-named-on-list-of-best-summer-college-towns/article_3b6e9050-fb3f-11e3-b28c-001a4bcf6878.html
Athens named on list of best summer college towns
Gil Golan
GQ magazine gave Athens the Indie Spirit Award for Best Long Weekend in an article about the best summer college towns in America.
RESEARCH:
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-archivists-uncover-oldest-known-footage-of-african-americans-playing/article_a8b2af76-fbca-11e3-8f35-0017a43b2370.html
UGA archivists uncover oldest known footage of African-Americans playing baseball
Brad Mannion
Archivists at the University of Georgia Libraries’ Walter J. Brown Media Archives have discovered footage dating back nearly a century. The 26-second footage, which features scenes of African-American employees of the Pebble Hill Plantation playing baseball, makes it some of the oldest footage of its kind. The footage also made its way to Cooperstown, where Margaret Compton, the archivist who discovered the film, presented the film and her research at the 26th Annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture.
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http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2014/06/23/get-a-jump-start-on-college-classes-as-a-stem-major?page=2
Prepare for College Classes as a STEM Major
Aspiring engineering majors can spend the summer developing a wellness plan for the school year.
By Delece Smith-Barrow
Many college freshmen will spend the summer before classes begin relaxing at the beach or working to raise money for books, tuition and a mountain of other expenses. Students who plan to major in a science, technology, engineering or math discipline may need to fit in one other activity: pre-college prep. Classes in chemistry, engineering or advanced trigonometry are typically not a cake walk… • Science majors: In many sciences, such as chemistry and physics, there’s an underlying common language: math. For that reason, Paul Goldbart, dean of the college of sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, has some keen advice for students. “Brush up on your math skills,” he says. “They should practice their existing math skills at a time in their lives when they’re not cramming for exams.”
www.engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/24/glove-braille-georgia-tech/
High-tech gloves can teach you Braille even if you’re distracted
BY MARIELLA MOON
It looks like a team of Georgia Tech researchers is in the business of making wondrous, high-tech gloves — their most recent one, for instance, can teach you Braille even if you’re doing something else. Similar to the piano-teaching glove they designed years ago, this new pair has vibrating motors on each knuckle that buzz in different patterns to correspond with preset Braille phrases.
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www.crazyengineers.com
http://www.crazyengineers.com/threads/smart-gloves-from-georgia-tech-can-help-you-learn-braille-even-if-you-aren’t-paying-attention.75494/
Smart Gloves From Georgia Tech Can Help You Learn Braille Even If You Aren’t Paying Attention
www.politico.com
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/06/cnn-to-study-drone-use-for-media-coverage-190939.html
CNN to study drone use for media coverage
By KATY BACHMAN
Broadcast TV stations have traffic helicopters, so why not drones? To uncover the potential of unmanned aerial vehicles in news reporting, CNN and the Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed together for a research project to explore access and safety issues around the technology. The findings will be shared with the Federal Aviation Administration, which is considering regulations for the operation of commercial drones and is expected to propose a final rule for small drones by later this year.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2014/06/atlanta-establishes-itself-as-a-leader-in-green.html?page=all
Atlanta establishes itself as a leader in green buildings
Douglas Sams
Commercial Real Estate Editor- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta is a top 10 U.S. city for green buildings, according to a new list compiled in part by real estate services giant CBRE Inc. Atlanta ranked No. 5 on the list of 30 “green cities,” with 54 percent of its commercial space — such as office towers, hotels, and shopping centers — certified as sustainable, according to the Green Building Adoption Index, a project led by Maastricht University of the Netherlands, along with the U.S. Green Building Council and CBRE. … Led by Atlanta-based design firms such as The Epsten Group and schools including Georgia Tech, Atlanta has started to more widely embrace how architecture, land-use policy ands real estate development affect the way people live and work.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/business/another-japanese-firm-building-plant-in-griffin/ngR5P/
Another Japanese firm building plant in Griffin
By Greg Bluestein
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
TEL AVIV, Israel — A Spalding County eco-friendly park is fast becoming a favorite of Japanese companies. Gov. Nathan Deal said Wednesday that Toppan Printing Co. will create 80 jobs and invest $100 million in a plant at The Lakes at Green Valley in Griffin. The packing firm is the second Japanese company to move to the area. …Otsuka Chemical in May also announced it would create 32 jobs at the site, which is a collaboration between the county and Georgia Tech.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
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http://www.myajc.com/news/business/surveys-tout-georgias-economy-business-climate/ngRrk/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#661010b1.3566685.735409
Surveys tout Georgia’s economy, business climate
By David Markiewicz and J. Scott Trubey – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Three surveys have named Georgia to their honor rolls for business climate. Business network CNBC on Tuesday named Georgia its top state for business for 2014. Two other surveys recognized the Peach State and the city of Atlanta for being near the head their classes for both small business friendliness and tax friendliness. …CNBC lauded Georgia for its “abundant supply of educated, largely non-union workers” and for its improving economy. The network also noted infrastructure such as the Savannah port and world’s busiest airport.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/101767549
Georgia is CNBC’s Top State for Business in 2014
Scott Cohn
The South rises again!
Georgia—the Peach State—slices up the competition in the 2014 America’s Top States for Business rankings by CNBC, signaling an apparent shift back to the Sun Belt from the energy-rich Northern Plains. Always a contender, Georgia outdid itself in 2014. The state scores a solid 1,659 points out of a possible 2,500, finishing at or near the top in three categories and in the top half in all but two.
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CNBC names Georgia America’s top state for business
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/06/24/a-sequel-to-a-top-business-ranking-and-a-new-stump-speech-line-for-nathan-deal/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
CNBC names Georgia top state for biz – and gives Nathan Deal new fodder for campaign
By Greg Bluestein
Tel Aviv, Israel – Gov. Nathan Deal has taken plenty of heat for frequently citing a little-known niche magazine’s ranking of Georgia as the nation’s top place to do business. Now he has another credential from a brand-name media outlet to back it up. CNBC on Tuesday declared Georgia the No. 1 place in the nation to do business. Deal, on the middle of a trade mission to Israel, went to the broadcaster’s Tel Aviv studios to acknowledge the award.
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http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/06/georgia-leading-with-its-investments-in-nuclear-and-renewable-energy/
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Georgia leading with its investments in nuclear and renewable energy
When it comes to reducing greenhouse gases to meet future federal standards, Georgia is ahead of the game. That was the message that Carol Browner, a distinguished senior fellow at American Progress who most recently served as assistant to President Barack Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy, gave Monday to the Rotary Club of Atlanta. “In Georgia, you are well on your way with your investment in nuclear energy, and your investment in renewables,” Browner said. “It won’t get you all the way there, but you are well on your way.”
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http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/jun/24/divest-vs-invest-colleges-face-increasing-pressure/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Divest vs. invest: Colleges face increasing pressure
Today, University of Pennsylvania student and Decatur resident Clare Lombardo takes up an issue under debate on many campuses including her own: Divestiture.
A rising sophomore with aspirations in journalism and an interest in education, Lombardo is contributing blog entries this summer to AJC Get Schooled.You can read her most recent entry here.
By Clare Lombardo
It’s common knowledge that many colleges have enormous endowments, but we don’t often hear about where this money is invested. Recently, we have heard. On Monday, the University of Dayton became the first Catholic institution to withdraw its investments in coal and other fossil fuels. Stanford pledged to divest from coal companies in May. …College-age activists have turned to divestment as a way of sparking environmental change. But divestment is a tool with a long history. In the late 1970s and 1980s, in protest of apartheid, 155 colleges and universities across the United States either partially or completely divested from companies with business affiliations in South Africa. Among the 155 were Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Spelman.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/06/24/better-ways-to-use-millions-of-dollars-now-spent-on-testing/
The Answer Sheet by Valerie Strauss
Better ways to use millions of dollars now spent on testing
Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent by states and school districts on standardized tests every year, money that could be used for purposes far more helpful in improving student achievement. What are those purposes? Here are some suggestions, from Jim Arnold and Peter Smagorinsky. Jim Arnold recently retired from the superintendent’s position of the Pelham City Schools in Georgia and he blogs at drjamesarnold.com. Peter Smagorinsky is Distinguished Research Professor of English Education at the University of Georgia.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/student-loan-crisis-horizon
Is a student loan crisis on the horizon?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings
College tuition and student debt levels have been increasing at a fast pace for at least two decades. These well-documented trends, coupled with an economy weakened by a major recession, have raised serious questions about whether the market for student debt is headed for a crisis, with many borrowers unable to repay their loans and taxpayers being forced to foot the bill. Our analysis of more than two decades of data on the financial well-being of American households suggests that the reality of student loans may not be as dire as many commentators fear.
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http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/learningcurve/how-education-tax-breaks-benefit-rich
HOW EDUCATION TAX BREAKS BENEFIT THE RICH
Dan Abendschein
People who earn more tend to benefit more from education-related tax breaks. For every dollar in deductions going to someone in the top 40 percent of earners, how much goes to someone in the bottom 40 percent?
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/state-colleges-raise-salaries
State colleges raise salaries
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
TimesDaily.com
Tuition isn’t the only thing that has increased by double-digit percentages at Alabama universities in recent years. Some universities saw significant average salary increases between the 2005-06 and 2011-12 academic years, according to information from the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. Others were smaller and more in line with Legislature-allocated cost-of-living increases given early in that time frame.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/one-place-where-glass-ceiling-has-cracked-open
One place where the glass ceiling has cracked open
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Albany Business Review
During the course of her day, Nancy Zimpher is often introduced as the first female chancellor of the state’s 64-campus university system. Similarly, Zimpher was the first female chancellor and president at both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Cincinnati. “One day I had a young man shadowing me and I think I was giving a speech at a local Rotary and on the way back to campus he said, ‘Don’t you get tired of being introduced as the first woman dot dot dot’ I said back to him, ‘When it doesn’t have to be said anymore, it won’t be.'”
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/should-colleges-issue-campus-alerts-after-reported-rapes
Should colleges issue campus alerts after reported rapes?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
In the Capital
A discussion revolving around the topic of college sexual assault struck a nerve for college administrators and victim advocates Monday when it came to the issue of whether colleges should alert the campus after reported sex crimes. The two parties invited to the roundtable event by Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) were a part of the last of three conversations McCaskill held before introducing legislation to improve schools’ response to sexual violence.
Education News
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/06/25/louisiana-higher-education-officials-stick-to-common-core-despite-gov-jindals-objections/
Louisiana higher education officials stick to Common Core, despite Gov. Jindal’s objections
BY SARAH FERRIS
The group overseeing Louisiana’s public colleges and universities delivered a strong message to Gov. Bobby Jindal this week: We will keep teaching Common Core. The Louisiana Board of Regents – a group of Jindal appointees – reiterated to colleges and universities on Monday that all educators in the state will still be trained to teach the national K-12 standards. The announcement comes less than a week after Jindal declared that Louisiana would drop adhering to the standards. His announcement made his among the first states to pull away from Common Core.
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http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional/georgia-college-loses-accreditation/ngRpp/#c8e210f7.3566685.735409
Georgia college loses accreditation
By Janel Davis – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A regional college accrediting agency stripped a Georgia Baptist college of its accreditation after it was on probation the past year for financial failures. For Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, the ruling could mean the loss of federal financial aid. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges handed down the ruling this month during its biannual meeting. SACS deemed that Brewton-Parker, located almost 170 miles southeast of Atlanta, failed to comply with requirements involving financial stability and controls. …As part of the June actions, SACS also placed Paine College in Augusta on probation. The ruling against the private, historically black college is the most severe sanction that SACS can issue before revoking accreditation.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/25/higher-education-act-proposals-portend-partisan-clashes-over-accountability#ixzz35ejSGEiy
Fault Lines Surface
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — Sharper divisions are emerging between Democrats and Republicans over how Congress should go about reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. House Republicans released an outline Tuesday of their priorities for rewriting the massive law. Their plan includes streamlining and consolidating federal student aid programs as well as eliminating many regulations affecting colleges. Meanwhile, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, the Democrat who chairs the Senate education committee, unveiled an outline of the Higher Education Act legislation he is drafting.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/25/nearly-70-colleges-team-assess-student-learning#sthash.1Ms5xElX.dpbs
Nearly 70 Colleges Team Up to Assess Student Learning
Nearly 70 institutions are collaborating to better assess learning outcomes as part of a new initiative called the Multi-State Collaborative to Advance Learning Outcomes Assessment. The colleges and universities are a mix of two- and four-year institutions. The initiative, funded in its initial planning year by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was announced Monday by the Association of Colleges and Universities and the State Higher Education Executive Officers association.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-program-intellectually-disabled-expand
College program for intellectually disabled to expand
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
The Metro West Daily News
A “revolutionary” program that makes college a reality for students with intellectual disabilities is poised for expansion in the region, a representative for MassBay Community College said Monday night. But for the state-funded Inclusive Concurrent Enrollment (ICE) program to see growth statewide, school districts may have to start chipping in more, a Boston schools administrator said.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/25/studies-offer-varying-perspectives-student-loan-crisis-and-value-college#sthash.4ezUgxmM.dpbs
A Slew of Studies, Summarized
By Doug Lederman
Hardly a day goes that doesn’t bring the release of some analysis or another about higher education. But an unusually large number of reports and studies about college financial aid and finances were released Tuesday (or are being made public today). The following are brief summaries of them, with links for those who want to dig deeper. The New York Federal Reserve: College Is Still Worth It.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/college-degree-worth-study-24279446
Is a College Degree Still Worth It? Study Says Yes
NEW YORK — Jun 24, 2014, 10:05 AM ET
By JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer
Some comforting news for recent college graduates facing a tough job market and years of student loan payments: That college degree is still worth it. Those with bachelor’s or associate’s degrees earn more money over their lifetime than those who skip college, even after factoring in the cost of higher education, according to a report released Tuesday by The Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The study, by economists Jaison R. Abel and Richard Deitz, also found that a degree is still a good investment for college grads whose jobs don’t require college. About a third of all college graduates remain underemployed for most of their careers.
www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/articles/fed-study-says-it-still-makes-sense-to-go-to-college-1403618488
Surprising Findings on Two-Year vs. Four-Year Degrees
Return on Investment Holds Steady at About 15% for Recent Graduates
By MARK PETERS and DOUGLAS BELKIN
Who earns more, a recent graduate from a flagship state university with a bachelor’s degree or one who finishes a two-year program at a little-known community college? The answer isn’t so clear. As states for the first time mine graduates’ salary data from public colleges, they are finding that paychecks for holders of associate degrees in a technical field are outstripping many grads with four-year degrees, at least early in a career. The growing body of data, from states including Texas, Colorado and Indiana, provides a sober new look at the value of a postsecondary education in a slowly recovering economy. Overall, the findings reinforce the belief that a college degree is worth the investment.
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http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-06/24/content_17610395.htm
‘Reform needed’ for vocational education
By Zhao Yinan and Luo Wangshu (China Daily)
Premier says private investors, social enterprises can play important role
Skills-based vocational education is receiving unprecedented attention from the central government as China seeks to ensure high employment and improve the image of perceived “cheap” made-in-China products. Premier Li Keqiang invited private investors and social enterprises on Monday to play an important role in helping vocational training attain that goal.
www.marketplace.org
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/education/surprising-data-student-loans
Surprising data on student loans
by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
A new Brookings Institution report on student loan debt is causing quite a stir. It says the student loan crisis we’ve heard so much about may not be as bad as we think. The findings are so startling, even co-author Matthew Chingos didn’t believe them at first. “My first reaction when we ran these data was, this has to be wrong,” he says. But Chingos re-checked the data until he was satisfied with his conclusions. Among them: monthly student loan payments have stayed at three to four percent of a borrower’s monthly income, since 1992. Chingos also says, in 2010, only two percent of young households owed more than $100,000. “There don’t seem to be more of those than there used to be,” he says. “If anything there are less.” But Chingos says more people have student loans. Because more students are going to college.
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http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/education/2014/06/23/college-saving-plan-offers-benefits/11294133/
College saving plan offers benefits
By Mike Hastenmhasten
BATON ROUGE – Although it might sound too good to be true, almost 48,000 Louisiana residents are putting aside money for a child’s college education and shielding it from taxes by investing in START, the Student Tuition Assistance and Revenue Trust Program. A state audit released Monday shows that on Dec. 31 the START investment portfolios totaled about $525 million and grew 21 percent in one year. START is a state program with IRS Code Section 529 designation that makes all earnings tax-exempt as long as they are spent on legitimate college education expenses.
www.mcclatchydc.com
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/06/24/231314/college-match-helping-low-income.html
College Match: Helping low-income students achieve more than they might imagine
BY JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIM
The Hechinger Report
NEW YORK — In spite of being among the top students in his school, Joseph Nelzy was quick to give up on being admitted to one of the nation’s best colleges after he got a rejection letter from Brandeis University, near Boston. “I had no hope after that,” Nelzy, 18, said in the college advising office at Abraham Lincoln High School, a huge Depression-era building in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach section, where more than half of its students live at or below the poverty line. But as Nelzy brooded over the rejection, hope arrived the next day in the form of an email _ an acceptance to Cornell University’s Class of 2018, which was later followed by an offer of a full scholarship. …Stories like Nelzy’s are unfolding for a few dozen seniors at Lincoln chosen to participate in an experimental program called College Match, which tries to encourage and counsel low-income, high-achieving students to apply to selective colleges that match their academic qualifications.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/25/education-department-apologizes-bridesmaid-tweet-offends-many#ixzz35ejvr8ID
Twitter Fail
By Michael Stratford
The U.S. Department of Education early Wednesday morning apologized for a tweet that some people found offensive because it appeared to mock low-income students. On Tuesday evening, the Twitter account for the department’s Office of Federal Student Aid sent out a message that said: “If this is you, then you better fill out your FAFSA.” It included a photo of a woman frowning with the caption, “Help me. I’m poor.”
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http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/06/24/higher-education-needs-to-give-older-working-students-more-opportunities
Older College Students Face Challenges
Some colleges are reluctant to fit the needs of older students because it could cut profits, a new film argues.
By Allie Bidwell
College brochures often depict fresh-faced, newly minted high school graduates, ready to for the first time venture out of their parents’ homes to their dorm rooms. The problem with that picture is those students – the 18- to 22-year-old “traditional” college students – are no longer the norm. In fact, most students who used to be classified as nontraditional – older students, those with families and jobs, as well as veterans – are now more common on college campuses. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, fewer than half of all college students are 21 or younger.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/google-will-finance-carnegie-mellons-mooc-research/53521?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Google Will Finance Carnegie Mellon’s MOOC Research
by Avi Wolfman-Arent
Carnegie Mellon University’s receiving a grant to study MOOCs is no surprise. But the source’s identity is bound to raise eyebrows. Google announced on Tuesday that it would give Carnegie Mellon $300,000 in each of the next two years through the Google Focused Research Award program. Google can fund the research for a third year at the same price if it chooses. The university’s research will focus on “data driven” approaches to research on massive open online courses, including “techniques for automatically analyzing and providing feedback on student work,” according to a news release. The goal, it said, is to develop platforms intelligent enough to mimic the traditional classroom experience.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/25/can-moocs-lure-international-students-us-colleges-and-universities#ixzz35ek7h1h4
From MOOC to Shining MOOC
By Charlie Tyson
WASHINGTON — Minutes into a State Department-backed presentation on online courses, department officials tried to load and play a short video about the merits of MOOCs. The sound system seemed to be out, and the video wasn’t streaming properly. One panelist experimented, holding a microphone to the central computer. “Sorry for the technical difficulties,” a State Department official said. The lesson seems irresistible: technology yields rich possibilities, but also unforeseen complications.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/25/new-analysis-challenges-narrative-decline-about-liberal-arts-colleges#ixzz35ejjizK8
Non-Decline of Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik
Could it be that the demise of liberal arts colleges, like the death of Mark Twain, has been exaggerated? That’s the contention of an analysis published in Harvard Educational Review (abstract available here) — which seeks to challenge the “declension narrative” about liberal arts colleges.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/survey-on-digital-games-use-in-the-classroom/57295?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Survey on Digital Games Use in the Classroom
by Anastasia Salter
A survey of grade school educators on using games in the classroom was recently released by the Games and Learning Publishing Council (funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation). While this survey isn’t directly applicable to those of us working in higher education, the adoption and success of games methods in K-12 will impact responses to those approaches when we try them in our classes with those students years later. A few findings that stand out:
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Minesto, Florida Atlantic University to study ocean current power feasibility
CTBR Staff Writer
Swedish marine energy technology firm Minesto has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Florida Atlantic University (FAU) to examine the feasibility of ocean current power. Under the MoU, both the parties will examine the technical, environmental and economic case for installing demonstration and commercial power plants in the Florida current.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-recruiting-gamers-athletes
College recruiting gamers as athletes
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Chicago Tribune
The idea came to Kurt Melcher, not surprisingly, when he was online searching for video games. Melcher is associate athletic director at Robert Morris University, a Chicago-based university that gives out 1,400 athletic and activity scholarships across its 10 Illinois campuses as a way of recruiting and retaining students. But it occurred to him that one sport, rapidly growing in popularity, was missing from the scholarship roster. After a little research and the blessing of the university’s administration, that’s about to change. Robert Morris this fall evidently will be the first school in the country to offer athletic scholarships to students who play the video game “League of Legends.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/25/sports/ncaafootball/big-ten-joins-pacific-12-in-pressing-ncaa-for-changes.html?_r=1
Big Ten Joins Pac-12 in Pressing the N.C.A.A. to Make Changes
By BEN STRAUSS
OAKLAND, Calif. — For the second time in a month, every university president belonging to an athletic conference has jointly issued a public letter calling for change within the N.C.A.A. All 12 university presidents in the Pacific-12 Conference signed a 10-point reform plan last month, and now the leaders of the Big Ten’s 14 universities have done that, releasing a bullet-pointed agenda Tuesday afternoon.
www.oregonlive.com
http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2014/06/victims_lawyer_says_former_ore.html
lleged victim’s lawyer says former Oregon basketball players suspended up to 10 years
By Andrew Greif
EUGENE — John Clune, the attorney for the alleged victim of an alleged sexual assault from March by three former University of Oregon basketball players, said Monday morning that the university will suspend the three from campus a minimum of four years, and up to 10.
www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/sports/ncaafootball/report-says-pennsylvania-governor-did-not-drag-feet-in-sandusky-case.html?_r=1
Inquiry Finds No Political Pacing of Sandusky Case
By MARC TRACY
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania may have taken longer than he should have to investigate claims of sexual abuse by the former Penn State football assistant Jerry Sandusky, but there was no evidence that he tried to slow the case for political purposes as he ran for the state’s highest office, according to a report released Monday.