USG NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/jun/25/ggc-president-preczewski-outlines-college8217s/?news
GGC President Preczewski outlines college’s goals to Chamber
By Keith Farner
DULUTH — While it aims to set itself apart in the higher education landscape across Georgia and the Southeast, Georgia Gwinnett College also aims to reflect the demographics of its community. Newly minted President Stas Preczewski outlined that message and many highlights of what school officials are most proud of, and what they need, during a lunchtime speech with the Gwinnett Chamber on Wednesday at the 1818 Club in Duluth. …During an hour-long presentation, Preczewski shared that GGC was built to meet the educational needs of the Gwinnett region, and serve the 21st century student, which means teaching them to be, in part, technologically literate.

www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/25872408/darton-earns-reaccreditation-for-another-decade
Darton earns reaccreditation for another decade
By Diane Dean
ALBANY, GA (WALB) – Darton College has earned a reaffirmation of its accreditation for another ten years. Interim President Dr. Paul Jones says it’s important for the community, students, and staff.

www.41nbc.com
http://www.41nbc.com/story/d/story/middle-georgia-state-college-preparing-to-become-a/19833/PCtd1o_K9EqpuBetOJMXRA
Middle Georgia State College preparing to become a university
Elaine Rackley
Macon, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Middle Georgia high school seniors looking to further their education will soon have another option. Middle Georgia State College is working to become a university. Dr. Christopher Blake has been the college’s president for six months. When he was hired, he was expected to fulfill numerous goals. Dr. Blake is in the process of offering more undergraduate and master degrees. “Part of the work when i was asked to become president was to help transition us to being a state university,” says Dr. Blake. “So we’ll be moving ahead with a new vision.”

www.dailyreportonline.com
http://www.dailyreportonline.com/home/id=1202660835833?kw=GSU%20Tops%20Off%20Superstructure%20for%20New%20Law%20School&et=editorial&bu=Daily%20Report&cn=20140625&src=EMC-Email&pt=Afternoon%20News&slreturn=20140526091204#
Slideshow: GSU Tops Off Superstructure for New Law School
Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report
Georgia State University College of Law held a topping out ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the completion of the steel and concrete framework for its new law school at 85 Park Place, in the heart of downtown Atlanta. …The $82.5 million building is the university’s first to be designed and built specifically for the law school, which currently shares space with other departments in GSU’s Student Life Building at 140 Decatur Street.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/college-graduates-may-delay-careers-facing-today-s-job-market/article_fafb65c2-fcbd-11e3-8349-001a4bcf6878.html
College graduates may delay careers facing today’s job market
Daniel Funke
After completing her undergraduate career at the University of Georgia, Blaire Barnhart said she was looking forward to a career as a middle school teacher in Georgia. But she is now taking an unexpected detour in Kentucky beforehand. “[Working at a horse farm] is in no way related to my major at all,” she said. “It was really just a seasonal job as I expected to start teaching in the fall. …Because she was unable to find a job right after graduation, Barnhart is working at a horse farm in Kentucky while her career is suspended in limbo. And she is not the only one. The United States has a deficit of nearly 7 million jobs in the wake of the Great Recession, according to data compiled by the Economic Policy Institute. As a result, the unemployment rate for young college graduates has risen from 5.5 percent in 2007 to 8.5 percent, while the underemployment is up from 9.6 percent to 16.8 percent.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/georgia-state-alumni-offer-alternative-plzn-for-st/ngSLy/
Georgia State alumni offer alternative plan for student-run WRAS
By Janel Davis
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Georgia State University alumni group is offering a counterproposal to keep the university’s radio station a student-controlled operation. The Album 88 Alumni proposal, presented to university administrators last week, would keep students running the WRAS-FM 88.5 radio station 24 hours per day, provide more student internships, and create mentoring and networking programs. Alumni leaders say the alternative proposal would benefit students more than the current plan to allow Georgia Pubilc Broadcasting to take over the station’s daytime programming beginning Sunday.

www.radioink.com
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=2807777&spid=24698
COLLEGE RADIO RALLIES BEHIND WRAS
On Thursday, 47 college radio stations across the country will unite to say “We Are WRAS” as WRAS, the college radio station of Georgia State University, offers an unprecedented radio simulcast to highlight their fight to stay a student-run radio station. For one hour (10 a.m. PDST, 1 a.m. EDST), listeners will hear the Atlanta-based station on their own college radio station as participating stations show their support for WRAS.

USG VALUE:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2014-06-25/expert-coach-augusta-ways-improve-health-georgia-regents-university-sponsored?v=1403742369
Expert to ‘coach’ Augusta on ways to improve health at Georgia Regents University sponsored event
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
The health statistics don’t look good for Augusta but the community is about to get a little “coaching” on how they might be improved. Stephanie Johnson, an associate researcher with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, will be speaking from 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday at the Augusta Public Library. Her visit is sponsored by the Georgia Regents University Institute of Public and Preventive Health and Healthy Augusta.

www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/jun/25/students-attend-irrigation-camp-in-camilla/
Georgia 4-H students learn about water
By Clint Thompson
TIFTON — Southwest Georgia 4-Hers were soaked with information this week as they learned about one of the world’s most prized resources — water.
Almost 100 campers representing nine counties attended Stripling Irrigation Research Park’s 4H20 camp on Tuesday. The irrigation park, which is part of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is an education and research center in Camilla, Georgia, and conducts the camp on an annual basis.

GOOD NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/prnewswire/press_releases/Pennsylvania/2014/06/24/PH55179
SocialWorkDegreeGuide.com Highlights the 25 Cheapest Master’s in Social Work Degree Programs from U.S. News and World Report’s Top 100 Programs
A new web article launched by Social Work Degree Guide finds the 25 cheapest U.S.-based MSW Programs.
PR Newswire
People interested in becoming social workers can find the cheapest graduate programs in the United States in a new article published by Social Work Degree Guide. “Top 25 Most Affordable Master’s in Social Work Programs” ranks the universities by order of quality and affordability. Social Work Degree Guide is on a mission to help prospective and current social workers learn more about the profession, and the rankings for cheap degrees make a noteworthy addition to its website. The 25 cheapest degree programs were selected from a list of 100 top graduate programs in social work as rated by U.S. News and World Report. …5. Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies …19. University of Georgia, School of Social Work

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-06-25/uga-career-center-wins-national-technology-award-angry-dawgs-app
UGA Career Center wins national technology award for Angry Dawgs app
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The University of Georgia Career Center has received a national award for its newly created Angry Dawgs game for IPhone and iPad. The National Association of Colleges and Employers gave the UGA Career Center the Technology Excellence Award at the June 2014 NACE annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. The award is presented for excellence in best practices using technology and/or social media outlets. …Created to help promote the Career Center’s array of resources and services to UGA students and alumni, the Angry Dawgs game aims to inform as it entertains.

www.northwestgeorgianews.com
http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/sports/georgia-highlands-college-athletes-recognized-by-njcaa-for-academic-achievement/article_6d3e9a72-fc92-11e3-b884-0017a43b2370.html
Georgia Highlands College athletes recognized by NJCAA for academic achievement
The National Junior College Athletic Association national office recently announced the 2013-2014 NJCAA Academic Teams of the Year and Academic Student-Athlete Awards. Georgia Highlands College women’s softball team was recognized as an NJCAA Academic Team for achieving an overall grade point average of 3.34.

RESEARCH:
www.medicalxpress.com
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-06-poor-impacts-physical-mental-health.html
Growing up poor impacts physical and mental health in young adults
by Stephanie Stephens
Socioeconomic adversity during childhood increases the likelihood of both depression and higher body mass index (BMI) in early adolescence, which can worsen and lead to illness for young adults, according to a new report in the Journal of Adolescent Health. …”As subscribers to the ‘life course’ theory, we know experiences in early life affect you later—even if they’re latent for a while—and that these stresses can be compounded,” said Josephine Kwon, M.S., of the department of human development and family science at the University of Georgia in Athens. Kwon and her co-authors used data obtained from more than 12,000 adolescents, ages 12 to 19 years enrolled in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health on four different occasions, or waves, between 1995 and 2001.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-06-25/university-georgia-research-reveals-three-keys-slogan-likability
University of Georgia research reveals the three keys to slogan likability
UGA NEWS SERVICE
New work published by a University of Georgia researcher helps explain why consumers gravitate toward “Got milk?” rather than “I’m lovin’ it.” Slogans convey information about products and brands in pithy, bite-sized bits designed to be memorable and functional. Yet slogans offer companies another opportunity: To demonstrate likability. While marketers have long understood the inner workings of memorable slogans, research on slogan likability is just emerging.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/jun/25/new-survey-teachers-their-jobs-feel-theyre-underva/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Interesting news release on teacher attitudes toward their jobs in the U.S. as compared to elsewhere: U.S. teachers report high levels of job satisfaction, but two thirds do not believe their profession is valued by U.S. society and a majority face challenging circumstances in schools due to socio-economic factors and special needs, a new international survey by the OECD finds.

www.nytimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/06/23/are-college-presidents-overpaid/end-the-era-of-the-ceo-college-president
End the Era of the C.E.O. College President
Kathleen Cawsey is an associate professor of English at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
When a colleague posted the job ad for the president of the University of Alberta, I joked that we could split the job four ways and she’d still triple her salary. So we applied – with over 50 other academics – in groups of four. We wanted to highlight the gap between the rhetoric of austerity at universities such as the University of Alberta, and the increasing costs of university administrations across North America. First, the increasing costs of administration come on the backs of adjuncts and students.

www.businessweek.com
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-24/business-school-admissions-offices-track-applicant-interest-to-improve-yield
Business Schools Get Smarter About Weeding Out Uninterested Applicants
By Cory Weinberg
When Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business starts making admissions decisions this fall, antsy MBA candidates who flood admissions offices with e-mails may have unwittingly given themselves a better shot at acceptance. That’s because Fuqua is one of a growing number of schools around the country that employs software to track “demonstrated interest.” Fuqua uses software called Talisma to log whether a student has e-mailed admissions staff, or how many times they attended admissions events. Other schools use even more sophisticated software that can track such things as whether applicants did alumni interviews or requested program information. Those data points inform a profile of each student that’s slipped in alongside test scores and essay responses as schools consider which students to admit.

Education News
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65171/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=a569bc5613474144a80401a094ca0bb6&elqCampaignId=173
Higher Education Scrambles to Get Ready for the Common Core
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — In sterile, air-conditioned conference rooms across the state, educators will be gathering this summer to prepare for the new standards soon to be in place in most of the nation’s kindergartens through high schools called Common Core. But the people at these meetings won’t be primary- or secondary-school teachers. They’ll be university professors, planning changes to accommodate the imminent arrival of students being taught in dramatically new ways.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/26/hofstra-goes-test-optional-admissions#sthash.dHuttNyr.dpbs
Hofstra Goes Test-Optional on Admissions
Hofstra University has announced that, starting with the class admitted to enroll in the fall of 2015, applicants will no longer be required to submit SAT or ACT scores. “[W]e have concluded that standardized tests are not the most important predictors of academic success at Hofstra,” said a statement from the university.

www.touch.latimes.com
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-80598437/
Tuition financial aid on the way for middle-class California families
BY LARRY GORDON
Some financial relief is in sight for thousands of middle-class students at California’s public universities, under a new and unusual state program that will provide aid to families that earn up to $150,000 annually. Over the next month or so, an estimated 156,000 undergraduates are scheduled to be notified that they will receive tuition grants for the academic year estimated to be as much as $1,450 for UC students and $650 for Cal State, with smaller amounts for more affluent families in the eligible range.

www.usnews.com
http://www.usnews.com/education/community-colleges/articles/2014/06/26/build-a-network-on-campus-as-a-community-college-student
Build a Network on Campus as a Community College Student
Joining student organizations is one way community college students can stay engaged outside of class.
By Delece Smith-Barrow
For many community college students, finding a sense of community on campus can be challenging. They fall into a routine that Dave Leenhouts, vice president of student services at Wharton County Junior College in Texas, calls “PCP”: parking lot, class and then back to the parking lot where they drive off. “Community college students are historically commuters,” he says. Many of these schools do not have residence halls, which help students engage with their campus, professors and peers outside of class hours, Leenhouts says. Community college students often don’t spend extra hours at school. …Students who establish a campus support network can increase their chance of progressing in school, experts say, and excelling in school can be especially challenging for these students.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/online-upstarts-goal-mooc-lectures-that-go-viral/53539?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Online Upstart’s Goal: MOOC Lectures That Go Viral
by Avi Wolfman-Arent
Donald J. Boudreaux’s five-minute video lecture on the evolution of human prosperity—complete with slick animation, studio lighting, and killer graphics—looks seamless. Making it, he says, was anything but. “It was hard,” says Mr. Boudreaux, an economics professor at George Mason University. “There were a lot of takes.” In all, he spent two full days filming the four lectures that compose his new course, “Everyday Economics.” The result—produced by a professional film studio in San Francisco—is undeniably chic. In the winding path online education has taken, it marks a turn toward video lectures so short, scrumptious, and simple they can stand alone, and perhaps even go viral.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/26/book-focuses-human-aspects-graduate-advising#sthash.S1BEpFEm.dpbs
Focusing on the Grad Student
By Colleen Flaherty
Good graduate student advising is both an art and a science. But what books there are on good advising tend to focus on the science: how to tackle the dissertation, part by part, or how to help a student secure funding. So what about those more nuanced, personal aspects of advising, such as how to help a student through a major life transition? Or what to say when he discloses something private, such as the fact that he has a learning disability?

www.jbhe.com
http://www.jbhe.com/2014/06/louisiana-state-university-is-a-leader-in-graduating-black-students-with-ph-d-s-in-chemistry/
Louisiana State University Is a Leader in Graduating Black Students With Ph.D.s in Chemistry
A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado, ranks the nation’s 50 leading chemistry departments by the percentage of all Ph.D. recipients who are African Americans. Nationwide, Blacks earn about 2 percent of all doctorates awarded in chemistry. But among the nation’s 50 leading university chemistry departments, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge leads the way in achieving the highest percentage of African Americans among Ph.D. recipients in chemistry.

www.massive.com
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/06/charlie_baker_plan_to_reduce_h.html
Charlie Baker’s plan to reduce higher education costs would emphasize online learning, three-year degrees and expanded co-op programs
By State House News Service
If elected governor, Republican Charles Baker would pursue more online learning, three-year degrees and expanded co-op programs as part of a plan to reduce higher education costs and expand student opportunities. Baker announced his plan Monday, saying Massachusetts would see jobs continue to migrate out of state unless it makes higher education more affordable and does a better job connecting the public higher education system to the needs of employers. Baker said he would enable more students to earn college credits while in high school and to combine year-round classes with online courses in a bid to “shrink both the time and expense of a college degree.”

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/26/senate-passes-work-force-training-bill#sthash.dKLwhZdQ.dpbs
Senate Passes Work Force Training Bill
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved legislation that will overhaul federal job training programs and funding for vocational education. Lawmakers passed the measure, which reauthorizes the Workforce Investment Act, on a 95-3 vote. Democrats and Republicans struck a bipartisan deal on the legislation earlier this year. The bill would streamline job training programs an emphasize partnerships between higher education and employers. Community colleges and other higher education have praised the bill.

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www.politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/25/in-rare-bipartisan-achievement-senate-easily-passes-jobs-bill/
In rare bipartisan achievement, Senate easily passes jobs bill

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/26/study-preserve-digital-resources-institutions-should-play-their-strengths#sthash.nowOwUKK.dpbs
When Digital Projects End
By Carl Straumsheim
The efforts to preserve digital humanities research are as numerous as the definitions of the catchall term, according to a report that urges institutions to develop their own strategies to preserve resources that can’t simply be bound and stored in a library.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/health-facility-university-indianapolis-aims-serve-community
Health facility at University of Indianapolis aims to serve community
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Fox59
The University of Indianapolis will break ground Thursday morning on a new health facility with a focus on serving the community. The UIndy Health Pavilion will be a four story, 160,000 square foot building on the southwest corner of Hanna Avenue and State Street, across from the campus football stadium. The concept of the pavilion is to integrate faculty and students into providing health services for the public.

www.press-citizen.com
http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/education/university-of-iowa/2014/06/25/ui-chinese-students-struggle-adjust/11330499/
UI and its Chinese students struggle to adjust
Lu Shen, Iowa Watch
The University of Iowa has intensely recruited Chinese students since 2007 but has made little progress fostering their assimilation to campus life. In some respects, an IowaWatch investigation has found, the university’s practices make interactions with domestic students more difficult for Chinese students and increased isolation. This is particularly the case with Chinese undergraduates, who pay tuition twice that of in-state students and make up the overwhelming majority of the nearly 4,000 international students at UI.

www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/english-test-scam-let-48k-bogus-students-beat-border-checks
English test scam that let 48K bogus students beat border checks
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Daily Mail
The staggering scale of abuse of the student visa system by immigrants desperate to stay in Britain was revealed yesterday. Tens of thousands of bogus students faked English language tests to beat UK border controls, the Government admitted. An estimated 48,000 immigrants had exploited the lax system in a ‘shocking’ scam run by criminal gangs, said Immigration Minister James Brokenshire.

www.kentucky.com
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/06/23/3306225/university-of-kentuckys-media.html
University of Kentucky’s multimedia deal includes rights to sell more than athletics
BY LINDA B. BLACKFORD
Most of JMI Sports’ new multimedia contract with the University of Kentucky is tied to athletics, but another potentially big piece involves the sale of “campus rights.” What exactly it means to sell the rights to campus remains nebulous, even though that portion of UK’s contract with JMI Sports starts July 1. “Campus rights” could include finding corporate sponsors for signs that indicate where things are on campus. It could include, as one UK administrator said Monday, “access to students” or bringing in speakers from corporate partners. In contract documents, UK said it would be open to advertising opportunities within its residence halls.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-O-Bannon-Antitrust-Case/147385/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In O’Bannon Antitrust Case, NCAA’s Best Chance May Come on Appeal
By Brad Wolverton
As testimony concludes this week in a closely watched trial challenging the NCAA’s ban on paying college athletes for the commercial use of their images, many pundits have already declared the National Collegiate Athletic Association the loser.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/26/wilberforce-u-could-lose-accreditation#sthash.3AIHtJJm.dpbs
Wilberforce U. Could Lose Accreditation
Wilberforce University, the oldest private historically black college in the country, is in danger of losing accreditation. The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association, this week sent the university a “show cause” order asking Wilbeforce to give specific reasons and evidence that it should not lose accreditation.

www.bizlex.com
http://bizlex.com/2014/06/georgetown-college-sanctioned-by-accreditation-agency/
Georgetown College Sanctioned by Accreditation Agency
BY DAN ADKINS – GEORGETOWN NEWS-GRAPHIC VIA KENTUCKY PRESS NEWS SERVICE
Georgetown, KY – For the second time in 10 years, Georgetown College is facing accreditation issues because of its financial condition. …The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) on Thursday issued a warning to Georgetown College officials following a determination by the SACSCOC Board of Trustees that the school is not in compliance with requirements on financial resources and standards on financial stability, Greene said.

www.chornicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Key-US-Official-Wants-to/147383/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Key U.S. Official Wants to Ease Accreditors’ Compliance-Monitoring Role
By Dan Bauman
Washington
Speaking to an audience of accreditors and university representatives on Wednesday, the federal government’s top higher-education official said clarifying the role of accrediting institutions was a major goal for him. Ted Mitchell, the under secretary of education, told attendees at a workshop held by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation that accreditors’ acceptance of more responsibility over the years for monitoring colleges had created “complicated expectations for institutions, regulators, politicians, and the public.”

www.chornicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Accreditors-Are-Urged-to-Help/147379/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Accreditors Are Urged to Help Safeguard Academic Freedom Abroad
By Karin Fischer
Washington
Scholars at Risk is best known for its work to help scholars persecuted in their home countries find temporary academic positions abroad. So Robert Quinn, the advocacy group’s director, would seem an unlikely speaker at a meeting of accreditors. Yet Mr. Quinn’s presence on Wednesday at the Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s Summer Workshop is evidence of how, as more colleges venture abroad, they must wrestle with the challenges of extending academic freedom and other American higher-education values overseas.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/06/26/corinthians-failure-and-us-role-it-fuels-profit-critics#sthash.s7N826OP.dpbs
Fallen Giant
By Paul Fain
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration now can claim partial credit for the demise of one of the largest for-profit college chains. And both critics and supporters of the sector expect the federal scrutiny to continue. “I have no reason to be optimistic about an era of constructive collaboration,” said Steve Gunderson, president and CEO of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, which is the industry’s primary trade group. He said for-profits are facing a “regulatory assault” by a White House that is “ideologically opposed to this sector.” On Monday the U.S. Department of Education and Corinthian Colleges announced the bare bones of a deal to sell off and close all of the publicly traded for-profit’s 107 campuses.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/06/26/top-democrat-unveils-full-plan-rewrite-higher-ed-act#sthash.92e7YdKP.dpbs
Top Democrat Unveils Full Plan to Rewrite Higher Ed Act
Senator Tom Harkin, the Democrat who chairs the Senate education committee, on Wednesday released his plan to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. Harkin unveiled the full text of his proposal, an outline of which he released Tuesday evening. He said that the proposal was a “discussion draft” and that he would accept public comments on the plan through August 29.

Related article:
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/5-Key-Areas-of-the-Senate/147381/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
5 Key Areas of the Senate Democrats’ Bill to Renew the Higher Education Act