USG NEWS:
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2014/jul/17/dougherty-school-board-listening-session-focuses/
Dougherty School Board listening session focuses on dropout rate, academics
The University of Georgia Fanning Institute gatherd information on how to improve K-16 education in Dougherty County
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY — The University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development held a short listening session Thursday with several Dougherty County School Board members. The purpose was to gather feedback from the board as to the direction the DCSS would like to proceed in stemming the county’s dropout rate and improving academics. The meeting is part of the educational collaborative of Albany State Interim President Art Dunning, Darton State College Interim President Paul Jones, Albany Technical College President Anthony Parker and DCSS Superintendent Butch Mosely to address local K-16 (kindergarten through fourth year of college) education issues.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/ex-ksu-department-head-associates-charged-in-kickb/nghcK/
Ex-KSU department head, associates charged in kickback scheme
By Alexis Stevens
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Cobb County grand jury charged a former Kennesaw State University employee and his associates with racketeering for allegedly obtaining more than $686,000 through fraudulent billing, the state attorney general said Thursday. Gerald Donaldson, 46, was charged with two counts of racketeering, and his associates Joseph Eto, Ramon Morgan, Don Thomas and Lionel Elder were each charged with one count of racketeering, Attorney General Sam Olens’ office said in an emailed release.

GOOD NEWS:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/07/17/uga-fundraising-sets-all-time-record.html
UGA fundraising sets all-time record
Staff
Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University of Georgia ended its best fundraising year on June 30, garnering $126.4 million in new gifts and commitments for the 2014 fiscal year. That’s an 8 percent increase over last year’s total of $117.3 million and marks only the second year that private giving to the university has exceeded $120 million, the university said.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/07/18/deloitte-plans-400-job-ilab-in-atlanta.html
Deloitte plans 400-job ‘iLab’ in Atlanta
Urvaksh Karkaria
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Deloitte LLP has picked Atlanta as the site of a technology development center — a first of its kind for the global professional services firm. New York-based Deloitte will invest “tens of millions” of dollars and create up to 400 high-tech jobs over the next few years at the 26,000 square foot downtown Atlanta “iLab,” where it will develop software and analytics products for its Fortune 250 clients… Corporations are picking Atlanta for development hubs because that’s where the tech talent is, Georgia Tech Vice President Stephen Fleming said. “They don’t have to go relocate a bunch of people — and that’s both at the senior levels and young graduates coming straight out of university,” Fleming said. “The Deloitte expansion is an endorsement that Atlanta is a great place to do this very active, very client-focused creative work.”

www.examiner.com
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-most-bicycle-friendly-campuses-america
The most bicycle-friendly campuses in America
The League of American Bicyclists is serious about bike safety as well as making bicycling a viable and convenient mode of transportation for everyone… The Bicycle Friendly University℠ (BFU℠) program recognizes colleges and universities that promote and provide more bikeable campus environments for students, staff, and visitors. Toward this end, campuses are evaluated in five areas: engineering, encouragement, education, enforcement and evaluation/planning—otherwise known as the Five E’s… A new round of evaluations will begin later this year. For now, colleges and universities earning Silver status and above include: Georgia Tech.

RESEARCH:
www.universityherald.com
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/10472/20140718/magnetic-nanomotors-stroke-george-clot-drugs-blood.htm
Magnetically-Controlled Nanomotors Can Enhance Stroke Treatment, Study
By Stephen Adkins, University Herald Reporter
University of Georgia researchers have developed a new technique to enhance stroke treatment. The new technique involves magnetically-controlled nanomotors that transport clot-busting drugs to remove life-threatening blockages in blood vessels.

www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/features/2014/07/15/little-town-big-idea-romes-cancer-navigators
Little Town, Big Idea: Rome’s Cancer Navigators
The organization does more than support patients through a medial crisis. They steer clients through the emotional, financial, physical, and logistical challenges of coping with the deadly disease.
by Lee Walburn
Rome is a small town in northwest Georgia. In small towns, if someone thinks you are marching to a different drummer, they don’t mind telling you so. One day an older doctor confronted young radiation oncologist Matt Mumber and said, “What in the world are you doing? Other physicians are coming to me and complaining that you are preaching stuff like the importance of nutrition and stress management in the treatment of cancer.”… Ochoa has also taken advantage of MyJourney Compass, an educational effort provided through a federally funded pilot program. Under the auspices of the Georgia Department of Community Health and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, the tool was implemented in collaboration with Georgia Tech, the Northwest Georgia Regional Cancer Coalition, Harbin Clinic, Floyd Medical Center, Redmond Regional Medical Center, and Cancer Navigators. Breast cancer patients receive Nexus 7 tablet computers that enable them to access health information as well as educational materials related to their diagnosis.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/study-shows-mental-physical-health-effects-of-poverty/article_42252d02-0e57-11e4-87ca-0017a43b2370.html
Study shows mental, physical health effects of poverty
Natalie Adams
A recent study conducted by a group of University of Georgia students and professors indicated the mental and physical health effects growing up in poverty can have on a person. The authors of the study, Josephine Kwon, Kandauda Wickrama, Assaf Oshri, and Jung Sun Lee are from the UGA department of Family and Consumer Science. Their research was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2014/07/drone-business-booming-at-metro-atlanta-hobby.html
Drone business booming at metro Atlanta hobby company (VIDEO)
Carla Caldwell, Morning Edition Editor
The president of Atlanta Hobby in Cumming says his business is soaring as more companies turn to drones. Cliff Whitney, whose company sells remote controlled helicopters with a camera attached, told Atlanta Business Chronicle broadcast partner WXIA-TV his biggest client is the movie industry. Other major customers are people in agriculture and real estate… Some of the nation’s leading research and development on drones is taking place at Georgia Tech.

www.arstechinca.com
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/07/air-force-research-how-to-use-social-media-to-control-people-like-drones/
Air Force research: How to use social media to control people like drones
“Containment control” model looks at how groups of influencers can manipulate people.
by Sean Gallagher
Facebook isn’t the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media. The Department of Defense has invested millions of dollars over the past few years investigating social media, social networks, and how information spreads across them. While Facebook and Cornell University researchers manipulated what individuals saw in their social media streams, military-funded research—including projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Social Media in Strategic Communications (SMISC) program—has looked primarily into how messages from influential members of social networks propagate… DARPA launched its SMISC program in 2011 to examine ways social networks could be used for propaganda and what broadly falls under the euphemistic title of Military Information Support Operations (MISO), formerly known as psychological operations… a study by the Georgia Tech Research Institute into automatically identifying deceptive content in social media with linguistic cues:

www.mashable.com
http://mashable.com/2014/07/18/boomerang-employees/
The Business Case for Re-Hiring Former Employees
BusinessNewsDaily
As LeBron James proved this week, sometimes you can go home again. And, the Cleveland Cavaliers aren’t the only ones who might benefit from giving former employees a second chance. It might be good for your business, too. That’s the finding of two studies co-written by a University of Illinois expert in organizational behavior and human resources management…The current research, tentatively titled “Employees on the Rebound: Toward a Framework for Boomerang Employee Performance,” was co-authored by Richard Gardner of Brigham Young University, Joseph Liu of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Brian Swider of Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business.

www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/real_talk/2014/07/city-awarded-100-000-for-beltlines-reynoldstown.html
City awarded $100,000 for BeltLine’s Reynoldstown Stage (SLIDESHOW)
Amy Wenk
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
A new performing arts stage in Atlanta just got a boost. The Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Arts will get $100,000 to advance the design of the Atlanta BeltLine’s Reynoldstown stage. The project, developed in partnership with Georgia Tech, seeks to create a permanent stage, landscaped exhibit space and elevated park connection with stunning city views, says the BeltLine. It will be located on the southeast portion of Beltline, a 22-mile former railroad corridor that’s being transformed into trails, parks and transit.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/jul/17/rating-every-black-student-risk-pathologizing-stud/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Viewing every black student as at-risk: Are we pathologizing children rather than helping them?
Here is an interesting piece by University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky on the over application of “at-risk” labels in school data collections. Smagorinsky says data collection is an example of the expected bureaucratic time-wasting built into organizational life. But he says the new wave of data gathering required of teachers is more than simply irritating and frustrating. It requires teachers judge which students are at risk for school failure based on broad demographic data that essentially leave only one large group label free — white middle-class kids.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/views/our-take-tuition-on-the-rise-once-again/article_bf593c66-0d1f-11e4-bd58-001a4bcf6878.html
Our Take: Tuition on the rise, once again
Joshua L. Jones
It’s that time of the year again with only one month until the fall semester starts, and students at the University of Georgia once again find themselves coming to terms with another tuition hike. In April, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents approved a seven percent tuition increase for UGA students. …Tuition increasing is certainly the main issue locally in Athens, but the issue of paying for a college education is now becoming an issue that will affect the county on a national scale.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/07/18/professors-must-take-academic-fraud-among-athletes-more-seriously-essay#sthash.jj0knOqL.dpbs
Academic Fraud, Athletes and Faculty Responsibility
By Gerald Gurney and Mary Willingham
The National Collegiate Athletic Association rarely admits to the need to revisit an infractions case, and particularly one that strikes at the core of academic integrity issues. So when the NCAA announced an unusual and embarrassing return to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reopen an academic fraud investigation that first came to light in 2011 and resulted in narrowly constructed sanctions in 2012 that affected the eligibility of a single athlete, it marked another confidence crisis in whether the NCAA can control the powerful forces of big-time college sports.

Education News
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-07-17/georgia-lottery-earns-more-945-million-education
Georgia lottery earns more than $945 million for education
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Georgia Lottery Corp. officials say a record $940 million in revenue has been transferred to the Georgia Lottery for Education Account. Officials say the state lottery has generated $945,097,000 to fund the state’s HOPE Scholarship and pre-kindergarten programs. Officials say the fiscal year 2014 figure eclipses revenue from 2013 by more than $17.6 million.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/18/state-college-group-blasts-pay-it-forward-financing#sthash.unZjVUYT.dpbs
State College Group Blasts ‘Pay It Forward’ Financing
A method of financing public higher education by allowing students to forgo upfront tuition payments in exchange for repaying a portion of their wages after graduation has captured the imagination of lawmakers in several states, but an analysis by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities argues that it would be bad for colleges, students and ultimately state taxpayers as well.

www.ccnewsnow.com
http://www.ccnewsnow.com/how-professors-help-community-college-students-transfer/?utm_campaign=071814ccnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=498df333e16243d592dd06f856b655e2&elqCampaignId=345
How Professors Help Community College Students Transfer
Source: huffingtonpost.com
Around 75 percent of community college students who enroll in a community college report that their primary goal is to transfer and ultimately earn a bachelor’s degree. Unfortunately, according to the Community College Survey of Student Engagementfewer than half of those students currently reach that goal.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Video-What-It-Takes-to-Help/147511/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
What It Takes to Help Students Succeed
President of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County since 1992, Freeman A. Hrabowski III thinks he knows what students need: lots of support. Morally, colleges owe it to students to do everything possible to help them succeed, he said in a recent visit to The Chronicle, and a higher retention rate means more tuition dollars, too.
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One Thousand HBCU Students to be Awarded Scholarships to Study in China
by Ronald Roach
Over the next few years, 1,000 scholarships will be available to students enrolled at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to study at Chinese universities. The new scholarship program, which will enable HBCU students to participate in study programs in durations from four weeks to two years, is the centerpiece of a wide-ranging agreement between the Chinese government and the historically Black colleges and universities pilot network leadership group signed recently in Beijing, China.

www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-johnson/study-supports-getting-financial-literacy_b_5596817.html
Study Supports Getting Onboard With Financial Literacy Education
Mary Johnson
Recent news that Florida is the first state in the nation to adopt the Council for Economic Education’s National Standards for Financial Literacy is an encouraging development, and hopefully other states will similarly follow suit. “Money Matters on Campus”, a recently released study on financial literacy among young adults, supports providing students with the opportunity to learn how to make informed decisions about their consumer choices, how to manage money on their own, and how to grow and protect their financial assets before they enter college and/or the workforce.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/18/partner-benefits-higher-ed-evolve-more-states-recognize-gay-marriage#sthash.eeN0rs1q.dpbs
New Politics of Partner Benefits
By Colleen Flaherty
Now that gay marriage is recognized in their state, faculty members and other employees within the University of Minnesota system with same-sex partners no longer need access to domestic partner benefits. Right? The university has a clear answer to the question: Right – and it’s canceling same-sex domestic partner benefits at the end of this year. But some say it may be acting too quickly in eliminating those benefits, and failing to give enough thought to how the policy change will impact diverse families. …In many states, voters previously barred gay marriage or anything resembling it, so a combination of the law and politics discouraged public institutions from offering such benefits. But that may be starting to change. Same-sex marriage still isn’t recognized in Georgia, but the University of Georgia announced in May that it was offering such soft benefits as dental, vision and life insurance to domestic partners of benefits-eligible employees. Employees pay for the entire monthly premium themselves, and no state funds are used. Similar programs are offered at other institutions within the University System of Georgia, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported, but the fact that the state flagship was making such as move came as good news to many. Still, the program falls short of an earlier proposal from the University Council’s Human Resources Committee that the university also find a way to offer access to health insurance for domestic partners.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/gaps-are-found-in-colleges-efforts-to-lower-alcohol-use-on-campuses/82177?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Gaps Are Found in Colleges’ Efforts to Lower Alcohol Use on Campuses
Report: “College Law Enforcement and Security Department Responses to Alcohol-Related Incidents: A National Study”
Authors: Debra H. Bernat of the University of Maryland at College Park; Kathleen M. Lenk, Toben F. Nelson, and 
Traci L. Toomey of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; and Ken C. Winters of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.
Summary: The authors of the report, to be published online in August by the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, surveyed directors of campus police and security at 343 four-year colleges on how serious, less-serious, and underage alcohol-related incidents both on and off their campuses are resolved. Serious incidents involved property crimes, assault, and severe impairment, less-serious incidents involved loitering and noise violations, and underage incidents involved drinking by students under the age of 21.
Findings:

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/18/analysts-see-changes-ahead-lms-market-after-summer-light-news#sthash.E7uVK49C.dpbs
The Post-LMS LMS
By Carl Straumsheim
Blackboard has Learn, Instructure has Canvas, and now, Desire2Learn has Brightspace. With Desire2Learn’s announcement, the three leading learning management system providers have all finally put a name to their products, but analysts say vendors may be on the verge of tearing down those silos in favor of an open ecosystem.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/17/self-publishing-option-academics-periphery#ixzz37pQ10aUh
A Publisher of One’s Own
By Charlie Tyson
Self-published books are on the rise, to the dismay of onlookers who wonder what to expect from a sector where E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey – originally published as online fan fiction by a tiny Australian e-book company – appears to be the best of the lot… Roger Whitson, an assistant professor of English at Washington State University, said he thought self-publishing books was, on the whole, an activity that only already-tenured professors could afford to undertake… Whitson has self-published a book of his own: a collection of writing from his postdoctoral program at Georgia Tech. “I would never consider it a major publication of mine,” he said. “It was just something that was fun.” Whitson does not list the book on his C.V.

www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/sustainability-divestment-and-debt-survey-business-officers#sthash.LPPPw9HG.dpbs
Sustainability, Divestment and Debt: A Survey of Business Officers
By Ry Rivard
Many campus chief financial officers lack confidence in the sustainability of their colleges’ business model over the next decade — but they also seem loath to take cost-saving measures that could ignite campus controversy, according to a new survey by Inside Higher Ed and Gallup.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/How-Do-You-Plan-the-Campus-of/147803/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
How Do You Plan the Campus of the Future? Try Not To.
By Avi Wolfman-Arent
New York
In shunning any semblance of permanence, Mr. Huttenlocher hopes to answer the central question of this daring and expensive endeavor: “How do you do something that’s technologically advanced that isn’t immediately technologically dated?” To ask it another way, how do you create a new institution in an age where everything—office design, intelligent infrastructure, cloud computing, classroom technology—presents some opportunity to break with the past? What do you build? What do you wire? What kind of interactions do you encourage? Some institutions might create committees to try to anticipate specific changes. Cornell Tech is determined to do the opposite. Those responsible for building the campus of the future won’t pretend to know what the future holds. They only hope they’re building something malleable enough to handle it.

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http://diverseeducation.com/article/65680/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=acb9b8dcfcb74a7989f864fc2fd52fb7&elqCampaignId=173
Both Sides Find Reason for Optimism After Latest Ruling on Texas Affirmative Action
by Kimberly Davis
When federal judges on Tuesday upheld the University of Texas’ use of race as a factor in college admissions, the decision sent two important signals. To proponents of affirmative action, the ruling was confirmation that diversity, particularly race and ethnicity, in education is an essential and constitutional goal. To the opponents who have waged a six-year battle to end the consideration of race, the decision means the fight will go on — again.

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http://diverseeducation.com/article/65677/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=acb9b8dcfcb74a7989f864fc2fd52fb7&elqCampaignId=173
Texas Chancellor: No Trust in Campus President
by Jim Vertuno, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas ― The chancellor of the University of Texas System says that a breakdown of trust and communication led him to demand the resignation of the flagship campus’ president, not pressure from members of the Austin school’s governing board. University of Texas president Bill Powers resigned last week, effective June 2015. The move came several years of clashes with the board of regents and several previous attempts to fire him.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Texas-Lawmakers-Take-New-Steps/147805/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Tex. Lawmakers Take New Steps Toward Sanctions Against University Regent
By Katherine Mangan
Austin, Tex.
Members of a Texas legislative committee who have been drawing up articles of impeachment against a University of Texas regent are expected to announce next month whether they will move ahead with that lengthy process, which would assure the flagship campus’s most dogged critic many more months in the spotlight. Frustration and weariness were evident this week as members of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations grilled system officials about their relationships with the regent, Wallace L. Hall Jr.

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Judge Allows City College Lawsuit To Continue Against Accrediting Commission
Source: sfappeal.com
A judge ruled this morning that a lawsuit filed on behalf of beleaguered City College of San Francisco against a regional accrediting commission can continue despite the school’s accreditation no longer being in imminent danger of revocation.