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www.daltondailycitizen.com
http://www.daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1736709589/Dalton-State-remains-one-of-the-most-affordable-colleges-in-the-nation
Dalton State remains one of the most affordable colleges in the nation
Submitted by Dalton State College
Dalton State College continues to be one of the most affordable four-year colleges in the nation, according to the U.S. Department of Education. For a fourth straight year, Dalton State has been placed on the DOE list for the lowest net price, which is the average cost of college attendance for full-time students after grants and scholarships are taken into account. Dalton State is among the top 10 percent of public four-year colleges with the lowest net price. It ranks 26 on the list overall.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/07/11/health-care-companies-lead-the-way-in-adding-jobs.html
Health-care companies lead the way in adding jobs
Leah Jordan
Editorial Intern- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Five of the six fastest-growing employers in metro Atlanta are in the health-care industry.
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s latest list of Atlanta’s Top 25 Employers is led in job growth by Northeast Georgia Health System, DeKalb Regional Health System(DeKalb Medical), Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology, Piedmont Healthcare and WellStar Health System Inc. Of those, only Georgia Tech is not a hospital system.
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www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-07-09/2-million-grant-help-uga-math-department-attract-train-more-students
$2 million grant to help UGA math department attract, train more students
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Behind every facet of digital communication is a well-trained mathematician, and the University of Georgia mathematics department is on the front lines of training for this ever-increasing field of employment. One recent grant award will ensure that mathematics education advances at the university. Thanks to a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation, UGA will continue its efforts to educate math majors at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The grant will be administered over five years.
www.m.redandblack.com
http://m.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-school-of-law-ranked-on-list-of-grads-likely/article_628d4696-06f6-11e4-9b31-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm
UGA School of Law ranked on list of grads likely to earn clerkships
Graduates from the University of Georgia School of Law fared better in obtaining judicial courtships than many of its peer institutions, according to a list compiled by U.S. News & World Report article. The UGA law school had 10.3 percent of its law graduates receive federal judicial clerkships, placing ahead of law schools such as Columbia University and the University of California at Berkeley.
www.globalatlatlanta.com
http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/27030/carnegie-honors-former-west-georgia-president-as-great-immigrant/
Carnegie Honors Former West Georgia President as Great Immigrant
by Chris Freiberg
Former University of West Georgia President Beheruz Sethna, the first Indian-American to lead a U.S. university, has been honored as one of the Carnegie Corp.’s 40 “Great Immigrants” this year. Dr. Sethna was recognized for a 19-year tenure during which he grew the school’s enrollment by 50 percent and transformed it from a small liberal arts college into a full-fledged university in 1996. He was the longest-serving university president in Georgia upon his retirement last year.
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www.indiawest.com
http://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/four-indian-americans-honored-on-fourth-of-july/article_c5d2c59a-06e3-11e4-8b9a-001a4bcf887a.html
Four Indian Americans Honored on Fourth of July
www.ibtimes.co.in
http://www.ibtimes.co.in/us-fetes-satya-nadella-3-other-indian-americans-independence-day-603973
US Fetes Satya Nadella, 3 Other Indian-Americans on Independence Day
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Migrant students attend Georgia university’s summer camp
By John Newton
Last month, 24 Georgia middle school students from around the state spent a week living on the campus of Georgia Southern University (GSU) in Statesboro while attending the second annual Georgia Migrant Education Program (MEP) summer camp. They represented immigrant families from six different countries including Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Honduras, El Salvador, and Puerto Rico. Migrant students in Georgia are held to the same Common Core Georgia Performance Standards that all students are to meet and education professionals work hard to help them overcome the special barriers they face because of language and cultural differences as well as their parent’s mobile migrant lifestyles. According to GSU event coordinator Judy Hendrix-Poole, the summer camp had two goals. “We wanted these students to experience what it’s like to live in a college campus environment so they become comfortable with the idea of attending college themselves,” she said. “We also wanted to give them an additional boost in some of their core academic subjects.”
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/campus/culture-talk-indian-cultural-exchange-unites-students-on-campus/article_4081cbc6-0188-11e4-ada6-001a4bcf6878.html
Culture talk: Indian Cultural Exchange unites students on campus
Lauren Pratt
The Indian Cultural Exchange is a nonprofit student-led organization that seeks to reach out to Indian students on the University of Georgia campus as well as those interested in Indian culture. “For me, it’s basically [about] bringing together anyone who has an interest in Indian culture whether they’re Indian or not and sharing that culture,” said Radhika Patel, president of ICE.
www.motoemag.com
http://www.motoemag.com/2014/07/10/nutrition-managers-take-on-childhood-obesity/
Nutrition Managers take on childhood obesity
Georgia Southern University hosted Nutrition Managers from K-12 schools all across the state this past week in an effort to promote healthy, creative recipes for school dining. Culinary Institute II is a 32-hour training course developed by the Georgia Department of Education’s School Nutrition Program. The program aims to promote the farm-to-table process in Georgia’s K-12 schools, thus providing healthier options for school breakfast and lunch.
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www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/07/10/3191515/committee-for-georgia-medical.html?sp=/99/148/
Committee for Georgia medical cannabis study announces meeting dates
BY PHILLIP RAMATI
State Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, and state Sen. Renee Unterman, R-Buford, announced several upcoming meeting dates Thursday for a committee that’s researching medical cannabis. The Prescription of Medical Cannabis for Serious Medical Conditions Joint Study Committee will hold five meetings: Aug. 27 and Nov. 12 at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta; Sept. 10 at Mercer University in Macon; Oct. 1 at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville; and Oct. 22 at Georgia Regents University in Augusta. All of the meetings will be held from 1-3 p.m. The committee was created by a state Senate resolution following the 2014 legislative session.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2014-07-11/debris-workshop-informs-k-12-teachers-about-environmental-issues-affecting-georgia#.U8Pj_SjgYeX
Debris workshop informs K-12 teachers about environmental issues affecting Georgia coast
By HANNAH LANDERS
A group of K-12 teachers stepped off a skiff onto the southern tip of Tybee Island on Tuesday morning. Slathered in sunblock and carrying large plastic buckets, they weaved through lounging beachgoers and shouting children, sifting sand through circular metal sieves. They were there to search for microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic material that have become an environmental threat to Georgia’s coasts. The expedition to Tybee was part of a four-day workshop about marine debris attended by teachers from across South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia. The workshop was led by University of Georgia Marine Extension Service in partnership with the Skidaway Island Institute of Oceanography and funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Marine Debris Program. Skidaway researcher Jay Brandes said he hopes the teachers take away an appreciation for the environment. “I also hope they get a better understanding of what we’re doing here and just how many plastics are out there,” Brandes said.
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/25992916/ssu-football-player-redefines-student-athlete
SSU football player redefines student athlete
By Cristina Tuso
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – Extracting bottle nose dolphin DNA for a summer internship doesn’t sound like something you envision a college football player doing, is it? A senior on the Savannah State football team is giving new meaning to the phrase student athlete. Kris Drummond’s football IQ matches his actual IQ. He’s been an influential player for the Tigers for the past three years as a tight end, and when he’s not on the team, he can be spotted at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. Drummond has a summer internship there where he is studying bottle nose dolphin DNA. “Our project involves looking at bacterial communities associated with bottle nose dolphins,” said SKIO graduate student Kevin McKenzie said. “Tissue specimens to be analyzed to figure out which bacteria’s are found and associated with these tissues.” …”When I was looking at potential schools, I saw that Savannah State had a good Marine Science program, and I wanted to do something that I was passionate about,” said Drummond.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-professors-recognized-for-innovative-app-development/article_0e6fa0da-07b0-11e4-bb8a-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA professors recognized for innovative app development
Hyacinth Empinado
An app created by University of Georgia professors was recently touted as one of the “Apps We Can’t Live Without” at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Marine Debris Tracker, an app that allows people to log marine debris from all over the planet, received the award. But this is not the only app that has come out of the UGA woodwork. Several other UGA faculty members have worked on several apps ranging from ecology and geography to public health and chemistry.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-07-10/new-uga-research-challenges-fundamental-precept-organic-chemistry
New UGA research challenges fundamental precept of organic chemistry
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
A family of millions of known chemical compounds called “aromatics” or “arenes” and their products, including a great number of medicines, plastics and synthetic fibers, are characterized by their regular arrangement of ring atoms instead of alternating single and double bonds. A new study published by researchers in the University of Georgia Franklin College of Arts and Sciences department of chemistry posits a different fundamental mechanism for the way these compounds react to replace atoms.
www.engadget.com
http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/10/kids-robots-play-angry-birds/
Kids with disabilities can teach this robot how to play ‘Angry Birds’
BY EDGAR ALVAREZ
As a way to help children dealing with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities, researchers from Georgia Tech have developed a rehabilitation tool that pairs a robot and an Android tablet. To demonstrate this system in action, the research team used Angry Birds to let kids teach the humanoid how to play Rovio’s popular game. Essentially, the robot is smart enough to learn by simply watching each move the child makes while flinging those birds toward the iconic green pigs.
www.theconversation.com
http://theconversation.com/chimpanzee-intelligence-has-a-genetic-basis-28949
Chimpanzee intelligence has a genetic basis
Not all chimpanzees are created equal. Not only are some more intelligent than others, but about half of this variation is genetically inherited, according to research published today in Current Biology. Professor William Hopkins and colleagues from Georgia State University and Yerkes National Primate Research Center tested chimpanzees using 13 different cognitive tasks to give a generalised measure of intelligence. “Our results suggest that, like humans, chimpanzees appear to have what would be considered an underlying ‘g’ factor [general intelligence] or latent trait that contributes to intelligence,” Hopkins said.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0710/.U8AFfRWn3Ys.email
Some chimps smarter than others, say scientists
www.natureworldnews.com
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8007/20140711/genes-more-important-environment-determining-intelligence-chimpanzees.htm
Genes More Important than Environment in Determining Intelligence in Chimpanzees
www.scientificamerican.com
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hotter-heat-waves-deadly-but-cities-can-use-tricks-for-cooling-off/
Hotter Heat Waves Deadly, but Cities Can Use Tricks for Cooling Off
Cities can combat the urban heat island effect under global warming with trees, white roofs and other fixes
By Umair Irfan and ClimateWire
Dense metropolises of concrete, glass and asphalt are poised to warm faster than their surroundings as the planet heats up. The higher temperatures mean more severe heat waves, which, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are already the deadliest weather phenomenon in the United States… In a study published last month in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers reported that white roofs, reflective pavement and trees can counteract temperature increases in cities. “No studies had looked at how cities could mitigate those impacts through what we would call ‘climate responsive design,'” said Brian Stone Jr., an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lead author of the report.
www.slate.com
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/07/flipperbot_rhex_military_robots_get_adorable_and_creepy.html
The Military Is Funding the Creation of Adorable Robots
That’s creepy.
By Shannon Palus
A year ago, physicist Daniel Goldman (Georgia Tech) sent me a video of a skeletal creature pushing its way through sand. It came with a superlative descriptor: “World’s first baby turtle robot.” I wrote 196 words for Science’s website under the Internet-friendly headline “Meet FlipperBot.” Goldman created FlipperBot as a model to figure out how sea turtles use their flippers—appendages that sport an obvious utility for traveling through water—to crawl through sand. For the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, which contributed to a six-week study on hatchling movement for the paper, insights from FlipperBot might help explain why some babies get stuck on their journey from nest to ocean. To paleontologists, the baby bot could be a step to understanding how fish may have first crawled out of the water and onto sand. The “thanks for funding” section at the bottom of the paper suggests another motive. FlipperBot was funded in part by the Army Research Laboratory’s Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology Alliance (MAST).
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Makes-an-Appalling-Mess/147561/
Texas Makes an Appalling Mess of Education ‘Reform’
By Hunter R. Rawlings III
[Updated (7/9/2014, 5:20 p.m.) to reflect the announcement that William C. Powers Jr. will step down next year.]
Another year, another ham-handed attempt by a governing board to fire a successful public-university president. What has happened to responsible governance of our flagship research universities? First the University of Virginia, now the University of Texas at Austin, two superb institutions with notable stature and excellent leadership. In the former case, the Board of Visitors retracted its decision to terminate Teresa Sullivan when confronted by mobilized faculty members and public outrage. In Texas, a last-minute agreement has enabled UT-Austin’s president, William C. Powers Jr., to retire on his own timetable, but it followed an unfortunate effort by the governor, Rick Perry, and the system chancellor, Francisco G. Cigarroa, both lame ducks, to force his immediate departure. What is going on here?
Education News
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/federal-student-loan-process-faces-potential-simplification/article_3d5764d8-0917-11e4-a2f2-0017a43b2370.html
Federal student loan process faces potential simplification
Aaron Layman
Two U.S. senators proposed to shorten and simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form “to the size of a postcard” earlier this month. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Sen. Michael F. Bennet (D-CO) called for a change to the FAFSA in order to remove the complications that stand in the way of some students going to college.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/07/10/tuition-and-fees-rise-but-cost-of-living-by-colleges-estimate-falls/
Tuition and Fees Rise, but Cost of Living—by Colleges’ Estimate—Falls
by Jonah Newman
As usual, the U.S. Department of Education is a bit behind when it comes to data. Published tuition and fees increased by about 4 percent at public and private nonprofit four-year colleges and by nearly 5 percent at public two-year colleges from 2011-12 to 2013-14, when adjusted for inflation, according to a new release from the National Center for Education Statistics.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/business/2014-07-12/students-not-state-grapple-higher-price-higher-education
Students, not state, grapple with higher price for higher education
By ERICA TECHOMORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA | Most people agree a college degree provides valuable benefits, even if not everyone can afford one, but experts say there are ways to make it attainable to more people.
On Tuesday, a survey from Georgia Credit Union Affiliates showed that 70 percent of credit union members believe a college degree is worth the financial investment. Kristi Arrington, vice president of information development for the credit union cooperative, said the value of a degree will also only increase over time.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/10/clearinghouse-study-finds-declining-student-persistence-rates#sthash.WxCl3RJb.dpbs
Leaving the System
By Paul Fain
The portion of first-time U.S. students who return to college for a second year has dropped 1.2 percentage points since 2009, according to a report that looks like bad news for the national college completion push. The findings are the latest from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The nonprofit group regularly releases studies based on the Clearinghouse’s data sets, which cover 96 percent of students nationwide.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65515/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c5ec1d235be84d2c897f27399004ed8b&elqCampaignId=173
Research Shows U.S. Students ‘Average’ in Terms of Financial Literacy
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
WASHINGTON — American education must evolve to ensure that students are better able to navigate an increasingly complex financial landscape — one that they will traverse from the moment they take out their first student loans until their sunset years when they must tap their retirement funds to survive. That was the message that a series of education researchers and Obama administration officials delivered Wednesday on the heels of the release of the first financial literacy assessment from the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/can-moocs-help-professors-teach-traditional-courses-more-efficiently/53851?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Can MOOCs Help Professors Teach Traditional Courses More Efficiently?
by Steve Kolowich
Using free online materials such as massive open online courses in traditional classes can help colleges teach more efficiently without harming students, according to a long-awaited report from Ithaka S+R, an education-technology nonprofit group, and the University System of Maryland. However, the report notes practical barriers that might make it difficult for professors to incorporate MOOCs or similar materials into their classes without incurring other costs. Those costs might limit any gains in efficiency, according to university officials.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/10/us-house-passes-job-training-bill#sthash.MVoFumhs.dpbs
U.S. House Passes Job-Training Bill
A key federal job-training bill has been updated for the first time in more than a decade. The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), which governs more than $3 billion in programs, many of them aimed at community colleges.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65548/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9fb60a77be784cf8af8b3c29e333268c&elqCampaignId=173
Report: Blacks Need Additional Schooling to Have Equal Employment Chances as Lesser Educated Whites
by Ronald Roach
…In a striking example cited in the report, young African-American adults need to have earned an associate’s degree to have the same job prospects as young White adults who have only earned a high school diploma. In addition, an African-American male needs some college credit to have a similar probability of employment as a White male high school dropout, the report says. “We found that young African-Americans have a lower probability [than others] of having a job at every level of education. In fact, young African-Americans need two more levels of education to have the same chance at landing a job as their White peers,” said Young Invincibles research and policy manager Tom Allison this past Thursday during a news media conference call that included U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La. Landrieu participated in the news media call to talk about the Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically (CHANCE) Act that she has introduced in the U.S. Senate. The legislation is expected to help close the employment gap between White and African-American young adults by making college more affordable and accessible.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/10/mccaskill-says-her-survey-shows-colleges-falling-short-dealing-sex-assaults#sthash.BiLL4CL2.dpbs
‘Wake-Up Call’ on Sex Assault
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — More than a fifth of colleges nationwide allow their athletic departments to oversee sexual assault cases involving student-athletes, according to the results of a survey released Wednesday by Senator Claire McCaskill. In addition, more than 40 percent of colleges responding to the survey said that they had not conducted a single investigation of sexual assault in the past five years — a finding that the Democratic lawmaker called “unbelievable.” The survey included a range of institutions, including large public institutions, private colleges and for-profit institutions.
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www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65518/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c5ec1d235be84d2c897f27399004ed8b&elqCampaignId=173
Survey: Rapes not Investigated at 2 in 5 Colleges
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Senator-s-Survey-Finds/147581/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Senator’s Survey Finds Subpar Response From Colleges to Sexual Assault
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/10/city-kills-contract-college-over-anti-gay-stance#sthash.mp7nzDPm.dpbs
City Kills Contract With College Over Anti-Gay Stance
The City of Salem, Mass. has killed a contract under which Gordon College has operated the city’s historic Old Town Hall, Boston.com reported. The city cited the Christian college’s “behavioral standards” for the college, which ban sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65558/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9fb60a77be784cf8af8b3c29e333268c&elqCampaignId=173
Union Pulls UNCF Support in Wake of $25M Koch Gift
by Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press
WASHINGTON ― A powerful government workers’ union will end its support for the United Negro College Fund after the group accepted $25 million from the conservative powerhouse Koch brothers and the college fund’s president appeared at a Koch event. In a letter made public last Thursday, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees said it will no longer partner with or raise funds for the fund.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/One-Professor-Schemes-to-Keep/147589/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
One Professor Schemes to Keep Colleges in the Web’s Fast Lane
By Avi Wolfman-Arent
William F. Baker has no quarrel with net neutrality, the principle that says all Internet traffic should be treated equally regardless of substance or source. He’s all for it—in the abstract. But after 50 years in media, Mr. Baker, a former television executive who now directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Public Policy and Education at Fordham University, no longer dwells in the abstract. “I’m a person who’s been in the trenches a long time,” he says. “I’m not a theoretician.” So when the Federal Communications Commission proposed new rules in May that could allow Internet-service providers, or ISPs, to charge extra for faster connection speeds, Mr. Baker didn’t despair. Instead, he strategized. This month, while moderating a panel on net neutrality at the New York campus of the University of Navarra’s IESE Business School, Mr. Baker unveiled a paper advocating a “public-sector space on the Internet” akin to the bandwidth reserved for public broadcasting.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65560/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9fb60a77be784cf8af8b3c29e333268c&elqCampaignId=173
Teachers Union Leader Derides Obama Education Chief
by Michael R. Blood, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES ― The president of the nation’s second-largest teachers union said Friday that President Barack Obama’s education chief has turned his back on the concerns of educators and parents, but she stopped short of calling for his ouster. Teachers unions have been clashing with the Obama administration over its support for charter schools and its push to use student test scores as part of teacher evaluations, a relationship that further frayed after Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke in support of a California judge’s ruling last month that struck down tenure and other job protections for the state’s public school teachers.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65509/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c5ec1d235be84d2c897f27399004ed8b&elqCampaignId=173
Spelman College President Beverly Tatum to Retire Next Year
by Jamal Watson
After serving for more than a decade as president of the all-female historically Black college, Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum has announced that she will retire from Spelman College next year. “I have been president for 12 years. That’s a long time in the world of college presidents,” Tatum said in an interview with Diverse on Wednesday. “In the meantime, we have another year to keep Spelman moving forward and more work to be done.” The end of an ambitious 10-year fundraising campaign that yielded $157.8 million for the school and the celebration of her 60th birthday in September were the two factors that Tatum said led her to decide that it was time for her to move on next year. In recognition of her years of service, the Board of Trustees has agreed to honor her with the title of president emerita once she steps down.
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www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/10/spelman-president-campaign-concluded-step-down#sthash.3TAb2OVM.dpbs
Spelman President, Campaign Concluded, to Step Down
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/10/u-texas-austin-leader-wont-be-forced-out-immediately#sthash.Yc46XPsF.dpbs
Texas President Holds On
By Ry Rivard
AUSTIN, Tex. — In a reversal of fortunes for the president of one of the nation’s largest and most prominent public universities, Bill Powers will continue to lead the University of Texas at Austin until next summer. Just days ago, starting on July 4, it looked like Powers was on his way out after years of politically tinged acrimony. The chancellor of the UT system last week demanded Powers quit by October or be dismissed by the system’s Board of Regents today. Instead, Chancellor Francisco G. Cigarroa announced a deal under which Powers exits in June, after nine years as president.
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www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Showdown-Is-Averted/147591/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Texas Showdown Is Averted, With President to Stay On for a Year
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/65552/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9fb60a77be784cf8af8b3c29e333268c&elqCampaignId=173
Tumult at University of Texas May Hurt Hiring of New Leaders
by Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas ― Years of turmoil at the University of Texas at Austin could complicate a search for two of the most powerful higher education jobs in the state: a new UT system chancellor and a president of the 50,000-student flagship campus. Both offices will have new leaders after embattled UT Austin President Bill Powers this week negotiated a June 2015 exit after receiving an ultimatum from his boss to resign or risk being fired.