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Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta offers testing ground for new, local products
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2014/09/12/atlanta-offers-testing-ground-for-new-local.html?s=print
Sep 12, 2014, 6:00am EDT
Dave Williams
A turbine able to generate hydropower in slow-moving water could be the first invention tested on city of Atlanta property under a program encouraging entrepreneurs to keep their business startups local. With a high concentration of scientific researchers, Atlanta has long been a hotbed for developing new technology. But all too often, young entrepreneurs looking to grow their startups into mature businesses are forced to move elsewhere to test their products and seek out investors. “The mayor has said, ‘I want to keep Georgia Tech, Georgia State and AUC (Atlanta University Center) graduates here,’ ” said Eloisa Klementich, managing director …
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Heaberlin tapped for chief role at UWG
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20140911Heaberlin_UWG-Off-Campus-Programs-wmug
Thursday, September 11, 2014
The University of West Georgia on Wednesday announced the appointment of Dr. Robert Heaberlin, a retired Coweta County school principal, as senior director and chief administrative officer of Off-Campus Programs. Based at the UWG Newnan center, Heaberlin will be responsible for spearheading the growth and success of UWG Newnan as it moves to its historic downtown location in 2015. He will also be responsible for UWG’s Douglasville sites and other off-campus locations. Heaberlin, a long-time resident of Coweta County, is a nationally recognized educator and retired principal who worked with the Coweta County School System. Among his many awards, he received the Distinguished Educator of the Year from the Association for Middle Level Education, and was subsequently honored in 2013 by the Georgia House of Representatives.
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Woman robbed at gunpoint on Marietta Street
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2014/09/11/armed-robbery-student-morehouse-spelman-georgia-tech/15484081/
Kevin Rowson, WXIA
September 11, 2014
Another armed robbery has police trying to figure out if it may be related to a series of robberies of Atlanta college students. The latest robbery happened shortly after midnight on Thursday on Marietta Street near Ivan Allen Boulevard. One of the victims said his girlfriend was waiting for him in a parking lot when she was robbed. He only wanted us to use his first name, Boris. Boris said his girlfriend was sitting in the driver’s seat of his car when a suspect jumped into the passenger side of the car.
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Georgia Southern to participate in new statewide campus safety committee
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/63548/
Special to the Herald
September 12, 2014
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby announced Thursday a new Campus Safety and Security Committee that will review and develop recommendations on matters related to public safety at the system’s 31 public colleges and universities. Georgia Southern University will have two representatives on the committee: Student Government Association President Azell Francis and Director of Equal Opportunity Gary Gawel. “The safety and well being of our students, our faculty and staff on our campuses is both a concern and a priority,” said Huckaby. “Looking ahead in the University System, as we work to be more student-focused in the academic performance of students, I have concluded that we must simultaneously sharpen our focus on campus safety and behavior.”
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Georgia Tech Computer Science Wins the World Championship!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-thielen/georgia-tech-computer-sci_b_5798084.html
By David Thielen
9/10/2014 6:59 pm EDT
Georgia Tech team Yellow Jackets beat an incredibly competitive field to win the Windward Studios Code War with an impressive 102.49 points. Colorado School of Mines team Over Developed came in second with 94.13 just edging out third place University of Maryland team String theory; at 94.06 points. The Windward Studios Code War is one of the most challenging programming competitions in the world, composed of multiple teams from most of the top computer science schools in the world. It is held every year on Super Bowl Saturday. The Code War, because of the challenge it presents, tends to bring in the top students from the top schools. It is a competition between the best of the best.
Valdosta Daily Times
Dr. Ben Carson excites crowd at VSU
http://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/local_news/article_3e7c0104-3a39-11e4-a050-b38c005ab8fc.html
September 12, 2014 6:00 am
Joe Adgie
Neurosurgeon and potential presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson spoke to a standing-room-only crowd Thursday night at Valdosta State University. The crowd listened to Carson’s tales of his childhood in Detroit and Boston, as well as what he thought was wrong with America, and how it could be fixed. “Education represents the great economic divide,” Carson said. “In fact, it marks the biggest difference between the haves and have-nots.” Carson remarked that 20 to 30 percent of high school students fail to graduate, and companies such as Intel, whose CEO recently spoke to Carson, aren’t able to provide American kids with high-tech, high-paying jobs because of this failure.
Education News
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/12/education-department-reaches-agreement-ohio-state-u-title-ix
Ohio State and Title IX
September 12, 2014
By Jake New
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has concluded a four-year investigation into Ohio State University, reaching an agreement with the university to ensure its compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Unlike many other Title IX investigations, this review was not initiated by a federal complaint, but rather was a proactive inquiry that broadly examined several areas where Ohio State could improve how it addresses sexual violence and harassment on campus. The department is still investigating 78 other institutions. Such compliance reviews, even when settled amicably, as was the case here, provide an indication of the kinds of things OCR is looking for when examining colleges. The department reached a similar agreement with the State University of New York last year.
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A Simple Equation: More Education = More Income
By EDUARDO PORTER
SEPT. 10, 2014
Imagine if the United States government taxed the nation’s one-percenters so that their post-tax share of the nation’s income remained at 10 percent, roughly where it was in 1979. If the excess money were distributed equally among the rest of the population, in 2012 every family below that very top tier would have gotten a $7,105 check. This is hardly trivial money. But it pales compared to the gap between the wages of a family of two college graduates and a family of high school graduates. Between 1979 and 2012, that gap grew by some $30,000, after inflation. This clever calculation by Lawrence Katz, a labor economist from Harvard, amounts to a powerful counterargument to anybody who doubts the importance of education in the battle against the nation’s entrenched inequality.
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On Campus, Grenade Launchers, M-16s, and Armored Vehicles
http://chronicle.com/article/On-Campus-Grenade-Launchers/148749/
By Dan Bauman
September 11, 2014
Should the campus police at the University of Central Florida ever need a modified grenade launcher, one sits waiting in the department’s armory. Retooled to fire tear-gas canisters, the weapon was used several years ago for training purposes, according to Richard Beary, the university’s chief of police. It hasn’t left storage since. At Central Florida, which has an enrollment of nearly 60,000 and a Division I football team, the device was acquired, a police spokeswoman said, for “security and crowd control.” But the university’s police force isn’t the only one to have come upon a grenade launcher. Hinds Community College—located in western Mississippi, with a student population of 11,000—had one too. (Campus police officers at Hinds declined to comment. A woman who worked for the department but declined to identify herself said that the launcher had been repurposed to shoot flares but that the college no longer possessed it.) Both institutions received their launchers from the same source: the Department of Defense. At least 117 colleges have acquired equipment from the department through a federal program, known as the 1033 program, that transfers military surplus to law-enforcement agencies across the country, according to records The Chronicle received after filing Freedom of Information requests with state governments (see table of equipment).
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MOOC Provider Gets Into College Counseling
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-provider-gets-into-college-counseling/54485
September 10, 2014
by Steve Kolowich
The providers of massive open online courses mostly cater to adults who already went to college. Now one provider, edX, is setting its sights on high-school students who are trying to get in. The nonprofit organization just announced a raft of free, online courses for high-school students. Most of the new MOOCs cover material from Advanced Placement courses in traditional disciplines. But one course, called “The Road to Selective College Admissions,” will aim to counsel students on how to produce a successful college application. “We will provide tools to help students plan their high-school summers, and begin considering financing a college education,” reads a description of the course, which will be taught by college counselors at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, a private school in California. “Students will learn how to build a support network and be given tips on how to be successful in college once they matriculate.” This may be the first move a major MOOC provider has made into college counseling, an industry that has boomed in the last decade.
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Generation i
Temporary, unregulated and often unpaid, the internship has become the route to professional work
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21615612-temporary-unregulated-and-often-unpaid-internship-has-become-route
Sep 6th 2014 | From the print edition
“DON’T talk to the press. Have a good attitude. Always say yes. You are not here to change the world.” And ladies, please, “Do not put us in a position to remind or suggest what qualifies as proper attire.” These are among the instructions given to interns in the office of John Boehner, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, in an 80-page manual accidentally left at a Capitol Hill house-party last summer and then posted online. Interns in “Boehnerland”, as his offices are known, spend their time answering the phone, sorting through the post and giving tours of the Capitol (“Do not make something up.”). They are instructed to point out a photograph of Mr Boehner with his high-school friends, “illustrating [his] humility”. Boehnerland’s Washington offices are employing 24 unpaid interns this summer. The 534 other members of the House and Senate have many more—no one knows exactly how many, because Congress is exempt from freedom-of-information laws, but perhaps 6,000, with more in spring and autumn. Down the Mall, the White House has employed 429 unpaid interns in the past year. The Supreme Court has its own programme. In all, each summer between 20,000 and 40,000 interns work in Washington’s government departments, lobbyists, non-profit groups and firms.