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http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/jul/30/hank-huckaby-to-speak-at-ggc-summer-graduation/
Hank Huckaby to speak at GGC summer graduation
By Keith Farner
A well-known name in the Georgia higher education community will offer a message to the newest graduates of Georgia Gwinnett College next week. University System Chancellor Hank Huckaby, who oversees 31 public colleges and universities including GGC, will give the summer commencement address at 10 a.m. on Aug. 5 at the Gwinnett Center. The school expects 118 graduates, including the Army ROTC commissioning of Jose Vicente Targa.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/07/30/3224261/cadet-training-up-and-running.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1
Cadet training up and running at Middle Georgia State
BY LIZ FABIAN
Kori Sears has wanted to be a law enforcement officer since she was a child watching dashboard video of her father’s first chase. “It was exciting,” Sears said. The 22-year-old daughter of a Camden County sheriff’s lieutenant has worked her way up from the department’s front desk to become a corrections officer in the jail. She currently is training for patrol with more than five dozen other recruits enrolled in the new law enforcement academy at Middle Georgia State College.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2014/07/30/3225023/midstate-college-leaders-support.html
Midstate college leaders support sexual assault bill
BY JENNA MINK
Some midstate college officials are applauding a proposed bill aimed at combating sexual assaults on college campuses. The proposed legislation, which would require colleges to survey students about the issue of sexual assault on campus, would bring more awareness to the issue and help colleges increase prevention efforts, local campus leaders say. “I’m really glad the issue of sexual assault is being focused on at a national level,” said Jennifer Graham, coordinator of the Women’s Center at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville. “This kind of attention is great because it allows for there to be more conversations like this on college campuses.” At Georgia College, workers at the Women’s Center have been tackling the issue for the past decade. …Now, thanks to a three-year $300,000 federal grant, the center is increasing its efforts.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/62240/
Georgia Southern, Coca-Cola celebrate 10-year extension of agreement
From staff reports
Georgia Southern University renewed an agreement with Coca-Cola Co. that allows the world’s top beverage company to be the exclusive beverage provider on campus for the next 10 years. University President Brooks Keel said during a celebratory news conference this morning at Bishop Alumni Center that the new agreement will allow Georgia Southern to provide more scholarships for more students with financial need.
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UNG included on Money’s ‘Best Colleges’ list
By Staff
DAHLONEGA – Money magazine has ranked the University of North Georgia as one of the top five public universities in Georgia on its inaugural “Best Colleges” list, which measures educational quality, affordability and career outcomes. Only 14 of Georgia’s public and private institutions of higher education were included on the list, which was released on July 28. …In addition to UNG, the top 10 Georgia schools on Money’s “Best Colleges” list include public universities like Georgia Tech, University of Georgia and Georgia State University
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http://www.macon.com/2014/07/30/3224364/wesleyan-mercer-on-forbes-list.html?sp=/99/148/198/
Wesleyan, Mercer on Forbes’ list of top colleges
Staff report
Two Middle Georgia colleges are ranked on Forbes’ new list of top U.S. colleges. Wesleyan College was ranked No. 325 (sixth overall in Georgia), and Mercer University was No. 477, or 10th in the state. Elsewhere across the state, Georgia Tech came in at No. 90 overall and No. 1 in Georgia, and the University of Georgia was No. 94 nationally and second in the state. Georgia Southern was No. 595, good for 12th on the state list.
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http://www.connectsavannah.com/NewsFeed/archives/2014/07/30/26-hours-on-the-marsh-research-completed
’26 Hours on the Marsh’ research completed
Posted By staff
The University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography completed an intensive, round-the-clock sampling regimen called “26 Hours on the Marsh” this month. The project was designed to investigate how salt marshes function and interact with their surrounding environment, specifically how bacteria consume and process carbon in the marsh.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-research-shows-breakthrough-in-organic-chemistry-teachings/article_9b834388-175e-11e4-a22a-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA research shows breakthrough in organic chemistry teachings
Hyacinth Empinado
Scientists at the University of Georgia are challenging a widely regarded mechanism in organic chemistry. “The conventional “textbook” mechanism accepted for more than 70 years to be the reaction paradigm of aromatic compounds may not be favored, and certainly is not “obligatory”,” said Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry at UGA and co-author of the study, in an email to the Red and Black.
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-students-professor-dig-up-historic-excavation/article_43673586-1760-11e4-b1bb-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA students, professor dig up historic excavation
Sam Newton
University of Georgia students joined anthropology professor Victor Thompson on an excavation at Ossabaw Island off of the Georgia coast July 11-12. Accessible only by boat, Ossabaw Island’s history dates back to a Native American settlement 4,500 years ago. The site was occupied during almost every major archaeological period, but it is relatively small—only 10 miles long and seven miles at its widest point. UGA’s graduate and undergraduate archaeology students studied the island and participated in a dig, searching for artifacts from Georgia’s past.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2014-07-30/editors-desk-go-back-move-ahead-worthwhile-workforce-development-program
The Editor’s Desk: ‘Go Back. Move Ahead’ is worthwhile workforce development program
By JIM THOMPSON
Casting aside any election-year cynicism about Gov. Nathan Deal’s announcement earlier this week of a new college completion program in the state, the “Go Back. Move Ahead.” initiative unveiled Tuesday by the governor, University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby and Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Ron Jackson seems to hold some significant promise. Briefly, “Go Back. Move Ahead.” is aimed at encouraging the hundreds of thousands of Georgians who have completed some college to return to school to earn their degrees.
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/66054/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=4b428398ef8b4f6d9331ccce0c80b612&elqCampaignId=358
Becoming Intentional About College Retention
by Dr. Brian C. Mitchell
One of the biggest concerns at colleges and universities is how best to improve retention. Retention means something quite different depending upon the institution. At elite colleges, for example, retention rates below 85 percent in four years are a cause of concern. At two-year and four-year colleges that are overwhelmingly first generation, highly diverse, adult-learning focused, and tuition dependent, the numbers are often well below 40 percent over four years. At community colleges, two-year retention rates are even lower.
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/07/31/who-decides-when-college-affordable-and-whom-essay
On Affordability, Who Decides?
By Jacob P.K. Gross
A consensus has clearly emerged that higher education affordability needs to be addressed by colleges and universities, states, and the federal government. Less clear is how to address the problem, and perhaps more fundamentally, how to decide what affordability means. …However, largely absent from the policy discourse is the important but often-overlooked question that has to be part of the discourse, “Who decides for whom whether college is affordable?”
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http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/confessions-community-college-dean/shared-among-whom
Shared Among Whom?
By Matt Reed
Among whom should “shared governance” be shared? And how, exactly? This week, IHE featured two articles on the subject, both of which rely on an assumption I find troubling. The first is a profile of the argument in a new book, The Rise and Decline of Faculty Governance, by Larry Gerber. …The second is a much more nuanced and intelligent take offered by Brian Rosenberg, the president of Macalester College.
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http://onlineathens.com/opinion/2014-07-30/what-others-say-uga-study-shows-problem-our-politics-albany-herald0
What Others Say: UGA study shows problem with our politics (Albany Herald0
With politics jammed at people 24/7 from every form of media, the cacophony of partisan noise is undermining the political process rather than expanding knowledge and understanding of it. America has transformed into a nation where individuals listen and see news the way they want it spun with political outcomes predicted to occur the way they want them to. And when it doesn’t happen, rather than doubt their own judgment or the sources of their information, they lose faith in government and democracy. At least that’s the takeaway we got from a report on a study released recently by the University of Georgia.
Education News
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http://members.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2014-07-30/story/committee-taking-look-common-core-georgia
Committee taking look at Common Core in Georgia
By Walter C. Jones
ATLANTA | The controversial Common Core multi-state education standards and federal funding came under the microscope Wednesday as part of the job of a temporary committee looking at Washington’s role in public education. Georgia House Speaker David Ralston instructed the panel of legislators, parents and educators to keep an open mind. “This committee, as I told all of you, has no predetermined destination,” said Ralston, R-Blue Ridge. With armed officers outside the door and a packed audience of representatives of education organizations and tea party groups, the committee spent most of its first meeting hearing about federal funding through grants and entitlement programs and about the evolution of the Common Core.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/31/senators-introduce-data-privacy-changes-ferpa
Senators Introduce Data Privacy Changes to FERPA
Senators Ed Markey and Orrin Hatch on Wednesday introduced changes to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, which would require institutions to have policies in place for protecting student data or risk losing federal funding.
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http://chronicle.com/article/In-NC-Debate-Over-an-Aid/147993/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In N.C., Debate Over an Aid Freeze—and What It Means to Be Affordable
By Eric Kelderman
Affordability is the aim of countless proposed higher-education policies. The question is, affordability for whom? In North Carolina, that’s what the university system’s Board of Governors is trying to sort out. The board is considering a policy that would cap the amount of tuition revenue the state’s public universities could put toward need-based financial aid. Under the plan, each of the system’s 16 campuses would be allowed to apply just 15 percent of its total tuition revenue to such aid.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/student-aid-group-suggests-changes-to-public-service-loan-forgiveness/82967?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Student-Aid Group Suggests Changes in Loan Forgiveness for Public Service
by Nick DeSantis
Report: “Nasfaa Task Force Report: Public Service Loan Forgiveness”
Organization: National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (Nasfaa)
Summary: Nasfaa’s Public Service Loan Forgiveness Task Force offers several policy recommendations for improving the loan-forgiveness program.
www.nscresearchcenter.org
http://nscresearchcenter.org/signaturereport7/
Some College, No Degree: A National View of Students with Some College Enrollment, but No Completion
Over the past 20 years, more than 31 million students have enrolled in college and left without receiving a degree or certificate. Almost one-third of this population had only a minimal interaction with the higher education system, having enrolled for just a single term at a single institution. Signature Report 7 examines the “some college, no degree” phenomenon to better understand the value of some college in its own right and as well as the contribution the “some college, no degree” population can make to achieving college completion goals.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Spending-Shifts-as-Colleges/147921/
Spending Shifts as Colleges Compete on Students’ Comfort
By Scott Carlson
Bethany, W.Va.
When someone stops by Bethany College, claiming that they’re just passing through, Scott D. Miller knows they’re lying. This West Virginia college, where he has been president since 2007, is only 39 miles from Pittsburgh, but it’s a long 39 miles, down one of three winding country roads. (There was a fourth road some years ago, but when a bridge on that route washed out in a rainstorm, state officials didn’t bother replacing it.) In this town of about 1,000 people, a visitor finds two businesses aside from the college: a general store, which sells everything from air filters to filet mignon, and a college watering hole that seems to sell beer and not much else. Even more than 170 years after the college’s founding, the remote mountainside is just the sort of place that the clergyman Alexander Campbell had in mind when he created Bethany. “There’s this quote that Campbell had in the 1830s, before he founded the college,” Mr. Miller says, “where he talked about wanting a location that was secluded, free from distraction.”
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/07/31/parents-are-paying-more-college
Parents Are Paying More for College
Out-of-pocket contributions to cover the price of college rose in 2014 after three years of decreases, according to the seventh annual installment of a study the lender Sallie Mae released today. Parents in particular are picking up more of tuition costs, and now pay for 30 percent of the total amount from their own income and savings.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/38879/38879?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
How 4 Types of Families Approach Paying for College
by Beckie Supiano
The overwhelming majority of current students and their parents see college as an investment in the future. That unsurprising finding appears in Sallie Mae’s annual “How America Pays for College” report, which was released on Thursday. Families may agree college is an investment, but it’s one they approach with different priorities and varying degrees of preparation. For the first time, this year’s report divides families into four “personas” based on an analysis of their responses to survey questions about the value of college, reasons for going, and college planning:
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-finds-college-still-more-worthwhile-than-spe,36576/
Study Finds College Still More Worthwhile Than Spending 4 Years Chained To Radiator
WASHINGTON—A study published Wednesday by the National Education Association has determined that a four-year college education is still a better investment of one’s time and money than spending the same duration chained to a radiator in a dank, unlit basement.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/07/31/us-senators-announce-campus-sexual-assault-legislation
Sex Assault Bill Unveiled
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of eight U.S. Senators on Wednesday unveiled legislation aimed at holding colleges more accountable for preventing and dealing with the sexual assaults that occur on campuses. The lawmakers, led by Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, both Democrats, said that the bill responds to a national problem of campus sexual assault and the publicized cases of colleges mishandling investigations.
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http://diverseeducation.com/article/66057/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=4b428398ef8b4f6d9331ccce0c80b612&elqCampaignId=358
Senators Introduce Legislation to Curb Campus Sexual Assault
by Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Colleges and universities could be more accountable to rape victims under legislation introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan group of senators.
Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., led the effort, with lawmakers from both parties saying they have heard too many stories of campus assault and bungled cases. More than a half dozen senators stood with campus sexual assault victims on Capitol Hill as they announced the legislation. At least two senators—Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Mark Warner, D-Va.—said that, as fathers of college-age daughters, they want campuses to track the problem more effectively.
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Former Alabama State University Trustee Wiggins Threatens to Sue Governor
by Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins is threatening to sue Gov. Robert Bentley for removing him as a trustee of Alabama State University. Wiggins sent an emailed letter to the governor, saying the removal violates his due process rights and is in violation of the standards of the university’s accrediting agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. “Your unilateral removal deprives me of the rights and liberties bestowed upon me once I was appointed by Gov. Bob Riley and confirmed by the Alabama State Senate,” the judge wrote. …Bentley removed Watkins as a trustee on Friday after Watkins refused the governor’s request to resign.