USG NEWS:
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http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional/police-accuse-man-of-faking-residency-for-daughter/ngfpx/
Police accuse man of faking residency for daughter to attend UGA
By Steve Visser
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Pierre Mortemousque’s daughter apparently really wanted to attend UGA; he really didn’t want to pay for it — at least full price. That is what the University of Georgia police say they found after they got a tip the Virginia man was passing himself off as an in-state resident while his daughter was on Greek Row. Now the Lynchburg, Va., resident is facing four felony charges of theft — totaling nearly $40,000 — for the two years his daughter got her education subsidized by Georgia taxpayers, said UGA Chief Jimmy Williamson.
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/07/14/3199718/columbus-state-to-renovate-ragsdale.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1
Columbus State to renovate, rename Ragsdale Field
BY KEVIN PRICE
Columbus State is on the verge of a major renovation of its baseball stadium, which will include a new name. The school announced Monday that Ragsdale Field will undergo a $1.4-$1.6 million upgrade that is scheduled to be completed before the first game of the 2015 season, which should come in early February. Roger Shultz, CSU’s Director of Development for Athletics, said there is not a start date yet for the renovations, which will include 750 chair-back seats, a roof over the entire seating area and a picnic terrace beyond the left-field wall. In a news release, the school said the renovation would be paid for ”entirely with private donations including a ‘significant investment from Todd Schuster and the Schuster family, owners of Schuster Enterprises, which operates more than 60 Burger Kings in the Southeast.” …The school will re-name the renovated facility Burger King Stadium at Ragsdale Field.
www.clatl.com
http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2014/07/11/gpb-to-wabe-we-are-responding-to-the-high-demand-we-have-heard-for-years
GPB to WABE: ‘We are responding to the high demand we have heard for years’
Posted by Thomas Wheatley
Nothing like a good ole fashioned public radio battle royale! Georgia Public Broadcasting, now ending its second week of its controversial partnership with Georgia State University to broadcast daytime programming of WRAS 88.5 FM, has responded to the widely read letter from WABE. The two media outlets for decades had kept their distance and not competed against each other. Louis Sullivan, the chairman of the board of Pubic Broadcasting Atlanta, which operates WABE, said in his letter that GPB’s decision to air duplicate programming and compete was a waste of Georgia taxpayer dollars. On Tuesday, Michael McDougald, chairman of GPB’s board, responded in a long letter addressed to Sullivan. He takes issue with Sullivan’s claim that the initiative will waste public funds and suggests having discussions about partnerships in the future.
USG VALUE:
www.hhjonline.com
http://hhjonline.com/keeping-it-real-mgsc-summer-learning-festival-brings-history-to-life-p4961-90.htm
Keeping it real- MGSC Summer Learning Festival brings history to life
Don Moncrief/Managing Editor
This was Middle Georgia State College’s Summer Learning Festival, held Wednesday in Thomas Hall on the Warner Robins campus. The goal, said Nancy Greene, one of two professors who oversee the annual event – the other is Loleta Sartin, and it is now in its fourth year – is to “integrate the arts and other content areas into history lessons. Kind of make history come alive.” The festival is built not only around the arts and history – and children – but is also used as an extended classroom for “teaching candidates” – rising MGSC seniors. About 45 took part. They, Greene said, were given an era about six weeks out. They then had to “create a unit and they’re now teaching the units to the children.” –
RESEARCH:
www.connectsavannah.com
http://www.connectsavannah.com/NewsFeed/archives/2014/07/14/26-hours-on-the-marsh-set-for-july-16-17
‘26 Hours on the Marsh’ set for July 16-17
Posted By Jim Morekis
Researchers at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography will conduct an intensive regimen of around-the-clock sampling and testing into salt marsh biological and chemical activity on July 16-17. “The program is part of a joint research effort between UGA Skidaway Institute and researchers from the University of Tennessee to study how salt marshes function and interact with their surrounding environment,” said a spokesperson with the UGA Skidaway Institute.
www.cbsnews.com
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/private-light-sail-spacecraft-to-launch-by-2016/
Private light sail spacecraft to launch by 2016
By Elizabeth Howel/SPACE.COM
Nine years after a rocket failure destroyed its solar-sailing spacecraft, the Planetary Society — the nonprofit space advocacy group led by scientist and popular TV host Bill Nye — is ready for another try. On July 9, the Planetary Society announced launch dates for its LightSail-1 spacecraft — a possible test flight in 2015 (LightSail-A) and a full mission the next year (LightSail-B) with nearly identical hardware. Both solar sail missions operate under the LightSail-1 designation… LightSail-B will be boosted to medium-Earth orbit inside another spacecraft called Prox-1, a Georgia Institute of Technology project. Prox-1 will spit LightSail out and remain nearby to watch the spacecraft unfurl. (LightSail-A, meanwhile, would only reach low-Earth orbit in a mission designed to show how well the craft operates in space.)
www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/07/roberto-goizuetas-legacy-lives-on-in-atlanta-through-foundation/
SaportaReport
Roberto Goizueta’s legacy lives on in Atlanta through family foundation
Upon walking into the new offices of The Goizueta Foundation off Northside Parkway, one is immediately enveloped with the presence of the late Roberto Goizueta, the legendary CEO of The Coca-Cola Co. The secondary aura one feels is the presence of his widow, Olga C. de Goizueta, chair emeritus of the foundation who guided the foundation through most of the 17 years since her husband passed away… Georgia Tech also has been a beneficiary of the Goizuetas’ new focus, receiving a $5 million, five-year grant to support and enhance a research-based model called GoSTEM (for Goizueta STEM – before Arts was added).
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-07-15/georgia-ends-fiscal-year-52-percent
Georgia ends fiscal year up 5.2 percent
MORRIS NEWS SERVICE
ATLANTA – When the state’s fiscal year wound up last month, tax collections were 5.2 percent above those of the previous year, according to figures released Monday by the Governor’s Office. An 11.5 percent increase in June’s monthly collections over the same month of 2013 provided the final boost to the fiscal year that ended June 30.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/universal-college-application-option
The universal college application is an option
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Gazettes
The Universal College Application (UCA) application site went live on July 1. Feature-rich, stable, reliable, dependable and efficient, UCA launched a full month before the Common Application is scheduled to flip on the switch. Yet before you rejoice or yawn, let’s recapitulate last year’s launch of the Common Application’s new version called CA4. On Aug. 1, 2013, after a record number of applicants registered, CA4 crashed, allowing only 74 of 517 member colleges to upload their supplements.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/fading-free-speech-campus
Fading free speech on campus
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
BloombergView
Last September, Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle, a student at Citrus Community College near Los Angeles, was collecting signatures on a petition asking the student government to condemn spying by the National Security Agency. He left the school’s designated “free speech area” to go to the student center. On his way there, he saw a likely prospect to join his cause: a student wearing a “Don’t Tread on Me” T-shirt. He stopped the student and they began talking about the petition. Then an administrator came out of a nearby building, informed them their discussion was forbidden outside the speech zone, and warned Sinapi-Riddle he could be ejected from campus for violating the speech-zone rule.
www.nytimes.com
Reporting Rape, and Wishing She Hadn’t
How One College Handled a Sexual Assault Complaint
By WALT BOGDANICH
…Whatever precisely happened that September night, the internal records, along with interviews with students, sexual-assault experts and college officials, depict a school ill prepared to evaluate an allegation so serious that, if proved in a court of law, would be a felony, with a likely prison sentence. As the case illustrates, school disciplinary panels are a world unto themselves, operating in secret with scant accountability and limited protections for the accuser or the accused.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/can-university-transform-city
Can a university transform a city?
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Politico
What happens when a university begins to transform the city around it? Just look at Powelton Village, Philadelphia. Fashioned as an upscale, Gilded Age suburb for wealthy industrialists looking to cross the Schuylkill River and escape the clamor and the grime of Center City, Powelton is an architectural gem, still packed with the three-story Italianate villas and Victorian twins its prosperous settlers built 150 years ago. Now a national historic district, the neighborhood has survived a rocky evolution—from tycoon stomping ground, though depression-driven decline and 1950s gang violence, to 1960s countercultural hub—only to be rediscovered in the 1980s by upper-middle-class Philadelphians with the money to refurbish Powelton’s stately homes. Now, the area is in transition once again—into the backyard of fast-growing and ambitious Drexel University.
www.nytimes.com
A Tale of ‘Too Big to Fail’ in Higher Education
City College of San Francisco Survives
Kevin Carey
For the last two years, the City College of San Francisco has operated in the shadow of imminent death. It is the city’s main community college, with 77,000 students, and in June 2012 its accreditor warned that chronic financial and organizational mismanagement threatened its future. If the problems weren’t fixed in short order, the accreditor said, it would shut down the college. A year later, the accreditor decided that City College’s remedial efforts were too little, too late, and ordered the campus to close its doors this July. The political backlash was fierce.
Education News
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http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/business/word_on_the_street/beaulieu-to-create-jobs-with-million-cartersville-plant/article_52e01cae-0b66-11e4-98b4-0017a43b2370.html
Beaulieu to create 350 jobs with $200 million Cartersville plant
by bpoulnot
A Belgium-based company is bringing its manufacturing operations to the United States with a Cartersville facility. Gov. Nathan Deal announced Monday at Tellus Science Museum that textiles company Beaulieu International Group will establish its U.S. headquarters inside the city limits, make a $200 million investment and create 350 jobs in the next five years.
“It’s a big win for us, and we’re proud. They could have located anywhere in the world, and they chose Cartersville, Georgia,” Mayor Matt Santini said. “It means that we’re bringing yet another quality, world-class company to our community. We’re bringing more quality jobs, the kind of jobs that require technical skill that are going to be higher-paying jobs.”
www.timesfreepress.com
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/jul/14/vw-announce-new-suv-today-chattanooga/
UPDATE: VW announces Chattanooga-made SUV, and 2,000 new jobs
by Mike Pare
Volkswagen will invest $600 million and create 2,000 new jobs to produce a new sport utility vehicle in Hamilton County. Also, the company will build a new research and development center that will employ 200 in Chattanooga, the company announced today in a news conference in Germany.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/community-college-students-suffer-without-access-to-loans-report-argues/81833?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Community-College Students Suffer Without Access to Loans, Report Says
Report: “At What Cost? How Community Colleges That Do Not Offer Federal Loans Put Students at Risk”
Authors: Debbie Cochrane, research director, and Laura Szabo-Kubitz, California project manager, the Institute for College Access and Success
Organization: The Institute for College Access and Success
Summary: The report says nearly one million students at community colleges, or 8.5 percent of all community-college students, cannot get federal student loans because their college chooses not to participate in the program. Without access to student loans, the report says, some students may turn to riskier loan sources or drop out of college.
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Inequitable Access to Loans
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/65581/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8c4d5c53f6aa432891d8e9ed41d3bac8&elqCampaignId=173
Report: Lack of Loan Access Has Nearly 1M Community College Students at Risk
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Illinois-Sues-2-Student-Loan/147703/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Illinois Sues 2 Student-Loan Debt-Relief Firms
By Kelly Field
The attorney general of Illinois filed lawsuits on Monday against two student-loan debt-relief companies, accusing them of charging borrowers large fees to enroll them in free government programs. According to the complaints, the companies—First American Tax Defense LLC and Broadsword Student Advantage LLC—duped struggling borrowers into paying as much as $1,200 for “bogus services” and for help in applying for free federal repayment plans, such as loan consolidation.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Report-Faults-Education/147705/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Report Faults Education Dept.’s Oversight of Debt-Collection Firms It Hires
By Dan Bauman
Washington
An audit report released on Monday criticizes the U.S. Department of Education’s handling of borrower complaints lodged against private companies that help the department collect on defaulted federal student loans. The report, by the department’s Office of Inspector General, says the agency has not effectively monitored borrowers’ complaints and ensured that corrective actions are taken, that it has been lax in its oversight of the companies, and that it has failed to penalize companies for continued bad behavior.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/missouri’s-bright-flight-scholarship-be-fully-funded-top-students
Missouri’s Bright Flight scholarship to be fully funded for top students
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
The Joplin Globe
Missouri’s Bright Flight scholarship will be fully funded for top students this year for the first time since the 2009-10 academic year, officials with the state Department of Higher Education announced Friday. Students receiving the Missouri Higher Education Academic Scholarship, more commonly referred to as Bright Flight, also will see a $500 increase in the scholarship amount for the 2014-15 academic year.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/14/scholar-explores-how-graduate-admissions-committees-view-measures-merit-and#ixzz37RhcrexT
Merit, Diversity and Grad Admissions
By Scott Jaschik
Litigation and political battles about affirmative action tend to focus on undergraduate or professional school admissions, which are supervised by admissions professionals. In Ph.D. admissions, faculty members are the key players. And although they too must weigh the relative value of various measures of merit, and how much diversity should be considered a form of merit, a separate qualification or not considered at all. A new study aims to lift the veil on this type of admissions — at least at a group of top programs.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/College-On-Your-Own/147659/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
College, on Your Own
Competency-based education can help motivated students. But critics say it’s no panacea.
By Dan Berrett
Nichele L. Pollock felt like she was moving through college in slow motion. In seven years, she had gotten about halfway through her bachelor’s degree. But recently she’s been racing forward, racking up 50 credits in just eight months at Northern Arizona University, more than most full-time students earn in three semesters. She’s done it while holding down a full-time job coordinating clinical trials at a medical-research facility in Tucson. She has no classmates, no classroom, no lectures, and no professor-led discussions with fellow students. And she’s the model for how competency-based learning could transform higher education. For decades, competency programs have served a niche market of adults seeking credentials to help them advance in their careers. Now, they are attracting broad interest and making forays into the liberal arts. Competency programs are going mainstream.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/14/veterans-groups-public-universities-spar-over-federal-bill-calling-state-tuition#ixzz37RhpLcv8
Veterans vs. Land Grants
By Michael Stratford
As Congressional lawmakers seek to reconcile the differences between the House and Senate versions of Veterans Affairs Department reform legislation, one provision on the negotiating table has sparked a clash between veterans groups and public universities. Part of the Senate-passed bill would, in effect, require public universities to offer in-state tuition to any veteran within three years after he or she comes off active duty. It would also extend that benefit to spouses and dependents.
www.universitybusiness.com
http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/colleges-talk-about-services-veterans
Colleges to talk about services for veterans
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Poughkeepsie Journal
The first meeting of the newly formed Veterans Committee of the Hudson Valley Consortium for Higher Education will take place this month on the SUNY New Paltz campus. The Veterans Committee of the Hudson Valley Consortium for Higher Education will bring together veterans services representatives from nearly every university in the Hudson Valley.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/princeton-camp-provides-stem-learning-middle-school-students
Princeton camp provides STEM learning for middle school students
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
NJ.com
Ryan Wu watched intently as an instructor slowly moved two charged wires together, but when sparks began to fly as the wires met, Wu’s face flashed first with excitement and then suddenly fear as he imagined the danger of such an experiment on a larger scale. Thirty Princeton area middle-schoolers are participating in a camp at Princeton University that runs weekly segments from June 30 through August 1, focusing science, technology, engineering and math. Students participate in different activities every week depending on the theme.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/most-with-college-stem-degrees-go-to-other-fields-of-work/2014/07/10/9aede466-084d-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html
Most with college STEM degrees go to work in other fields, survey finds
By Wesley Robinson July 10
People with bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering and math are more likely than other college graduates to have a job, but most of them don’t work in STEM occupations, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Thursday. Nearly 75 percent of all holders of bachelor’s degrees in STEM disciplines don’t have jobs in STEM occupations, according to a survey that reached 3.5 million homes, said Liana Christin Landivar, a sociologist with the Census Bureau. The bureau’s American Community Survey is the largest household survey in the nation.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/15/college-sexual-assault-summit-talk-apologies-and-toxic-climates#sthash.Py9egTfX.dpbs
Summit on Sexual Assault
By Jake New
HANOVER, N.H. — A leading forensic consultant urged representatives from more than 60 colleges and universities gathered here Monday to acknowledge that they’ve made mistakes in handling campus sexual assaults and to apologize publicly to student survivors.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/15/after-massiveteaching-questions-about-mooc-quality-control#sthash.Mx8ddKHV.dpbs
A Question of Quality
By Carl Straumsheim
If students in a face-to-face course emailed their provost with concerns that their professor had stopped lecturing, chances are that someone — a department head or an administrator — would intervene. But what if the students were scattered across different countries and time zones in a not-for-credit massive open online course? The issue of MOOC quality control has resurfaced in the wake of the #MassiveTeaching debacle, the MOOC-turned-social experiment that last week inspired a scavenger hunt across the internet.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/15/george-fox-previously-won-exemption-title-ix-so-it-could-discriminate-against#sthash.bPbkytj4.dpbs
Not the First Exemption
By Scott Jaschik
Many advocates for gay and transgender students were surprised and angered when they learned that U.S. Education Department had granted George Fox University an exemption from parts of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The exemption will permit George Fox to deny a transgender student the right to live in male student housing. George Fox said, and the Education Department accepted, that its Quaker religious beliefs would be violated by being forced to let the transgender student live in a way that affirms his gender identity. This is not the first time George Fox has sought and received exemptions from Title IX.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/15/philosophy-association-considers-whether-it-needs-code-conduct#sthash.RsqcdsCT.dpbs
Rules for a Discipline
Byy Colleen Flaherty
It’s no secret that philosophy has been plagued by allegations of sexual harassment and gender inequity in recent years. And the American Philosophical Association has taken steps to address the issue, forming the Committee on the Status of Women and beginning by-invitation site visits to departments with questionable climates or that seek to be more hospitable to women.
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/65585/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8c4d5c53f6aa432891d8e9ed41d3bac8&elqCampaignId=173
Ohio University Steps Up for Its President in Tax Matter
by Associated Press
ATHENS, Ohio — Trustees at Ohio University have stepped in after the Internal Revenue Service said the school’s president must pay taxes on the free, on-campus lodging provided for him. An ongoing IRS audit of OU found that President Roderick McDavis should be paying taxes on his free residency in the 7,000-square-foot university-owned house in the heart of the Athens campus in southeastern Ohio.
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/65570/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=8c4d5c53f6aa432891d8e9ed41d3bac8&elqCampaignId=173
College Presidents Returning to Classroom
by Jamal Eric Watson
Michael J. Sorrell has the distinction of being both a college president and a college student. Each month, the 47-year-old president of Paul Quinn College boards a plane in Dallas to make the three-and-a-half-hour commute to Philadelphia, where he’s currently a doctoral student in the University of Pennsylvania’s Executive Doctorate in Higher Education Management program. …Experts say that, over the past decade, the number of college presidents enrolling into doctoral programs has steadily increased, particularly as more colleges and universities look outside academia to find talented individuals to lead their struggling institutions.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/accreditation-board-take-gordon-college-backlash
Accreditation board to take up Gordon College backlash
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
Boston Business Journal
Gordon College President D. Michael Lindsay thrust the college into the spotlight a week ago by signing a letter to President Barack Obama requesting that he exclude religious institutions from an executive order barring organizations that take federal money from discrimination in hiring based on sexual orientation. Now the Christian college on the North Shore faces scrutiny from the body that accredits colleges and universities in New England.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/college-works-local-unmanned-aircraft-company-new-programs
College works with local unmanned aircraft company on new programs
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
The Daily Courier
Small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS), better known as drones, may soon be crisscrossing the skies over Chino Valley. But they won’t be doing any spying. The sUAS are part of a new program under development at Yavapai College that would use UAS for safety programs, including fire sciences, emergency management and agricultural studies.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/States-Give-Slightly-More/147499/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
States Give Slightly More Money to Higher Education, Raising Expectations
By Eric Kelderman
A new dynamic is emerging in many statehouses, where policy makers are debating not only how much money to appropriate for higher education but also what colleges should do to get that money. That discussion may be a welcome change for public colleges, after the deep cuts of the recent economic downturn. With most legislatures having finished their 2014 sessions, next year’s state budgets are expected to increase, over all, for a fifth consecutive year, according to a report from the National Association of State Budget Officers. The predicted increase, less than 3 percent over all, is below historical standards for state spending, the association said in its annual survey of state-budget conditions.
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http://www.universitybusiness.com/news/british-government-cuts-funding-student-mental-health-services
British government cuts funding for student mental health services
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho
The International
While increasing numbers of young people are applying for university, especially from lower-income backgrounds and abroad, the British government has cut Minimum Practice Income Guarantee (MPIG) for student-specialist mental health services at a time that it is said to be most crucial.
www.nytimes.com
Dutch Higher Education Policy Refocuses on Quality
By PETER TEFFER
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — When the Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, was deputy minister of education, from 2004 to 2006, the government was committed to the so-called Lisbon Strategy, which aimed to make the European Union a competitive knowledge economy. One goal was that half of the union’s labor force should have had higher education by 2010. The plan largely failed, and European leaders set a new, more modest goal that year: 40 percent of people aged 30 to 34 should be educated to tertiary level by 2020 — up from 36.8 percent unionwide in 2013, according to Eurostat. In the Netherlands that target had already been reached when it was set. Since then the government has stepped away from numerical objectives. In an interview the current education minister, Jet Bussemaker, said quality now has priority over quantity in higher education.