University System News

USG NEWS:
www.coosvalleynews.com
http://www.coosavalleynews.com/np108455.htm
Former Governor Zell Miller Visits UWG for Signing
CVN News
The University of West Georgia recently welcomed former Governor Zell Miller and his wife Shirley. Governor and Mrs. Miller were joined by Judge Mike and Carol Murphy, Regent Larry Walker and his wife Janice, Mayor Wayne Garner and his son Griffin and the Honorable Dink NeSmith for lunch and a tour following the signing of the Thomas B. Murphy Memorial Endowment. The distinguished group toured Speaker Thomas B. Murphy’s replica office in the Ingram Library sharing memories of the late Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives before the official signing. The Thomas B. Murphy Memorial Endowment was established in 2007 as a lasting tribute to Speaker Murphy’s dedication to his family, community and state.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2014-09-11/uga-team-begins-after-school-enrichment-program-two-clarke-county-elementary
UGA team begins after-school enrichment program at two Clarke County elementary schools
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
A multidisciplinary team of University of Georgia faculty is partnering with the Clarke County School District this fall to provide a new after-school enrichment program aimed at improving the children’s health and stimulate their learning in reading and mathematics. “We are bringing together UGA teacher educators, health promotion and kinesiology professors with Clarke County school administrators, staff and parents to provide a hands-on, engaging after-school program that will address the challenges faced by children,” said Phillip Tomporowski, a professor of kinesiology in the College of Education.

www.businessinsider.com
http://www.businessinsider.com/texas-revenue-college-sports-2014-9?op=1#ixzz3DLaB7UkU
The 20 Colleges That Make The Most Money On Sports
CORK GAINES
…No. 16 Georgia — $98.1 Million

www.forsythnews.com
http://www.forsythnews.com/section/1/article/25647/
GSU student from Forsyth found dead
From the Statesboro Herald
STATESBORO — An 18-year-old Georgia Southern University student from Forsyth County was found unresponsive Friday at her off-campus apartment and was later pronounced dead, the university announced Monday morning. Brooke Edwards, 18, was a sophomore biology major from Cumming.

GOOD NEWS:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-ranked-no-on-list-of-best-public-colleges-terry/article_ce302388-39ea-11e4-ae16-0017a43b2370.html
UGA ranked No. 20 on list of best public colleges, Terry ranked No. 2
Lauren McDonald
The University of Georgia ranked No. 20 on a list of the top public universities in the U.S. as part of the Best Colleges 2015 edition released by the U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday, placing it among the nation’s elite public research universities. …The Terry College of Business moved up six places on the list to No. 21 for best undergraduate business schools, and its insurance and risk management program ranked first again this year among best business specialties. Its real estate program was ranked fourth.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-09-13/terry-college-receives-donation-establish-real-estate-chair
Terry College receives donation to establish real estate chair
The University of Georgia has received a $2.5 million gift from the estate of Roy Adams Dorsey to establish the Roy Adams Dorsey Distinguished Chair in Real Estate in the Terry College of Business, pending approval by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. The check was presented to UGA President Jere W. Morehead at a recent ceremony in Atlanta by the executors of the Dorsey estate.

www.forest-blade.com
http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_0d910094-3859-11e4-b72b-001a4bcf887a.html
Dekle-Lamb/Kiwanis/Circle K Scholarship awarded at EGSC
A full-tuition leadership scholarship was established at East Georgia State College in 2005 by Linda Dekle Lamb and the late David Lamb of Swainsboro. The annual scholarship, named the Dekle-Lamb/Kiwanis/Circle K Scholarship, is awarded to the president of the East Georgia State College Circle K Club.

RESEARCH:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-researchers-report-bullying-shift-in-local-k–schools/article_ff4fa86c-39fe-11e4-9154-0017a43b2370.html
UGA researchers report bullying shift in local K-12 schools
Katelyn Umholtz
The Clarke County School System has recently begun using a new technique to combat bullying: Prevention. Katherine Raczynski, a University of Georgia researcher and director of Safe and Welcoming Schools, an outreach project of UGA’s College of Education, reported a shift she saw with schools taking an approach aimed at making their schools a safer and more supportive environment, rather than just responding to the bullying incident.

www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-professor-helps-grow-first-artificial-organ-for-living-animal/article_3bb6c6b6-3921-11e4-be7c-0017a43b2370.html
UGA professor helps grow first artificial organ for living animal
Gabe Cavallaro
A group of researchers, including one University of Georgia genetics professor, grew a fully functioning organ in a living animal for the first time in history, a development that holds encouraging potential for growing replacement human organs.

www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/news/2014-09-14/loggerhead-set-free-wassaw-island#.VBcJiyivIeW
Loggerhead set free on Wassaw Island
By Mary Landers
When you work with wildlife, a job well done can make for bittersweet consequences. Such was the case Monday with a loggerhead sea turtle. Ossabaw, as the turtle is called, was delivered to the UGA marine Extension Service Aquarium at Skidaway as a 3-day-old hatchling in 2011. It was a straggler, discovered in its Ossabaw Island nest long after most of the eggs hatched and likely would have died on the beach if turtle researchers hadn’t intervened and delivered it to the aquarium.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-09-11/university-georgia-orianne-society-form-partnership-research-conservation
University of Georgia, Orianne Society form partnership for research, conservation
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
An international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of imperiled reptiles and amphibians has partnered with the University of Georgia to collaborate on conservation efforts for these species and their habitats. The Orianne Society, a worldwide conservation organization, is working with researchers from UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources on projects that focus on the conservation of reptiles and amphibians and their habitats.

www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/upgrade-for-federal-lab-in-athens-languishes-in-co/nhGwH/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#0ad0164c.3566685.735491
Upgrade for federal lab in Athens languishes in Congress
By Daniel Malloy – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WASHINGTON — For years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has wanted to expand and modernize a poultry lab in Athens. It appeared this year as a $155 million line item on the president’s budget request. But as Congress works this month to extend government funding into the next fiscal year, the project’s backers see little hope for it. …That likely would doom the project this year, University of Georgia lobbyist Andrew Dill said. Even though the university is not specifically lobbying for the USDA expansion, it would provide a boost to its partnership with UGA’s poultry science department.

www.newscientist.com
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329863.700-ethical-trap-robot-paralysed-by-choice-of-who-to-save.html#.VBcWISivIeV
Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save
CAN we teach a robot to be good? Fascinated by the idea, roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK built an ethical trap for a robot – and was stunned by the machine’s response… But robots designed for military combat may offer the beginning of a solution. Ronald Arkin, a computer scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, has built a set of algorithms for military robots – dubbed an “ethical governor” – which is meant to help them make smart decisions on the battlefield. He has already tested it in simulated combat, showing that drones with such programming can choose not to shoot, or try to minimise casualties during a battle near an area protected from combat according to the rules of war, like a school or hospital.

www.bangaloremirror.com
http://www.bangaloremirror.com/others/sci-tech/Simple-test-could-help-fight-anemia/articleshow/42463661.cms
Simple test could help fight anemia
Bangalore Mirror Bureau
A new testing device for anemia could provide more rapid diagnosis of the common blood disorder and allow inexpensive self-monitoring for people with chronic forms of the disease. The disposable self-testing device analyses a single droplet of blood using a chemical reagent that produces visible colour changes corresponding to different levels of anemia. The basic test produces results in about 60 seconds and requires no electrical power. A companion smartphone app can automatically correlate the visual results to specific blood hemoglobin levels… The test device was developed in a collaboration of Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

www.punemirror.in
http://www.punemirror.in/others/scitech/Synthetic-platelets-help-heal-wounds/articleshow/42397307.cms
Synthetic platelets help heal wounds
The research was reported in the journal Nature Materials. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Arizona State University worked on the research. “When used by emergency medical technicians in the civilian world or by medics in the military, we expect this technology could reduce the number of deaths from excessive bleeding,” said Ashley Brown, a scientist at the Georgia Tech and first author of the paper. “If EMTs and medics had particles like these that could be injected and then go specifically to the site of a injury, they could decrease the number of deaths associated with serious injuries.”

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/12/one-year-after-takeoff-boeing-sponsored-engineering-capstone-project-expands
Taking Off
By Carl Straumsheim
To get five universities to collaborate on closing the skills gap in aerospace engineering, all it took was the attention of a global multibillion-dollar corporation: Boeing. It’s a partnership known as AerosPACE, short for Aerospace Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering. This fall, students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Brigham Young, Purdue, Tuskegee and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universities can choose a yearlong capstone project in which they design, build and test fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (or, in less technical terms, a drone). Last year — the program’s first — students built drones to collect terrain data with the goal of boosting crop yields and food production. This year, with newcomer Tuskegee on board, students will create drones that can be launched in disaster areas to help first responders decide where to focus their relief efforts.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/09/11/we-dont-need-state-takeover-of-schools-we-need-greater-school-choice-as-in-hope-program/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
We don’t need state takeover of schools; we need greater school choice as in HOPE program
Atlanta attorney Glenn Delk has 30 years of experience in education reform efforts, primarily in increasing options and choices for families and their children through charter schools, tuition tax-credit scholarships and other means.
Delk recently found a new nonprofit, New Schools for Georgia, to lead public-private partnerships to offer high-quality educational options to all students, regardless of income or zip code. He wrote this essay in response to Gov. Nathan Deal’s announcement yesterday that he wanted to allow state takeover of failing schools.
By Glenn Delk
Gov. Nathan Deal, while on the campaign trail with Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, indicated he’s interested in a New Orleans-type recovery school district, saying “We’re continuing to put money into schools systems that continue to fail. That is not the end result that we want…” Gov. Jindal added…”There are too many children in America who are trapped in failing schools…and charter schools are simply one more way to give those parents and children another option…” While I agree with the comments from both governors about the problems with our k-12 system, especially given that nearly 400,000 students in Georgia now attend a school ranked D or F by the state, rather than creating another top-down, centralized approach in the form of a state-wide school district, Gov. Deal would do well to follow the approach of former Gov. Zell Miller in creating the HOPE Scholarship.

www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/09/14/76/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Common Core: Georgia should not retreat now
We are likely to see another Common Core debate when the Georgia Legislature meets in January. Here’s a piece in favor of the standards from Michael J. Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Michael Brickman, national policy director. Every new school year starts with great excitement and anticipation for students, teachers, and parents alike. This year will carry special significance throughout much of the country, including Georgia, as schools complete the transition to the Common Core standards (a.k.a., the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards).

www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/09/13/96/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
We have good teachers, data and technology. Yet, we lag in academics. Why?
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, an affiliate of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, released its fourth “Leaders & Laggards series, A State-by-State Report Card on K–12 Educational Effectiveness.” Georgia makes out better on the foundation blocks that ought to lead to high academic performance, including teacher force, data, parental options and technology. We earn largely B’s. Our only A comes in fiscal responsibility, and that is because of pension funding.

www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2014/09/14/cnbc-unbundled-mba-degree/15462785/
Future of the executive education: Unbundled MBA
John A. Byrne, Special to CNBC
In a quarter of a century, most business students will never enter a classroom. The faculty lectures, the MBA student discussions and the homework assignments will occur instead over the Internet, where each part of the educational experience can be played as many times as it takes to fully absorb or satisfy, as if it were a Seinfeld rerun. The world’s most famous professors will more likely be compelling teachers—rather than journal-published researchers—and many of them will be free agents, unattached to a single university.

www.seattletimes.com
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2024518265_biztaltoncol14xml.html
Eyes turn to superrich to fill university gap
Creating new world-class universities not among hobbies of super wealthy today.
By Jon Talton
Special to The Seattle Times
My colleague Danny Westneat has written powerful columns on the wrongheadedness of demanding that the state’s public universities reduce their budgets by 15 percent. This on top of savage cuts made during the Great Recession. Let me add: We’re playing Russian roulette with the state economy, only with one empty chamber in the revolver rather than five. In 2010, a report by the consulting firm Tripp Umbach commissioned by the University of Washington found that UW’s economic impact was $9.1 billion. Another report last year showed Washington State University’s footprint at $3.6 billion. In both cases, the universities returned far more money to the state than the tax dollars used to fund them.

Education News
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Hottest-Seat-on-Campus/148777/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Hottest Seat on Campus
With growing competition for students, enrollment leaders face more scrutiny and less job security
By Eric Hoover
Today’s enrollment officials need a mind for marketing and a nose for numbers. Thick skin helps, too. And they must accept that, at any moment, their heads could roll. As the coast-to-coast competition for students intensifies, a profession that rides the whims of teenagers has become even more uncertain. Demographic shifts, declining family incomes, and rising tuition have complicated the task of recruiting and retaining students. On many campuses, shrinking budgets make revenue a daily worry. The belt is tight, and it hurts. Meanwhile, another story is quietly unfolding. The men and women who run admissions and enrollment offices face growing scrutiny.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/15/u-oregon-search-criticized-faculty
Who Gets to Decide?
By Ry Rivard
As the University of Oregon begins to look for its sixth president in seven years, faculty and staff union leaders say they are being blocked from having much say in the new search.
The public university last week approved a presidential search plan that union leaders say excludes their representatives and members from the search.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/15/state-student-aid-spending-plateaus-need-based-grants-get-boost
Boost for Need-Based Aid
By Michael Stratford
States last year doled out roughly the same amount of student aid money in 2012-13 as they did the previous year, but they increased the share of money flowing to students based on financial need, according to a new survey published Monday. The annual survey, conducted by the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, found that although the top-line number of state aid — $11.28 billion — actually declined just slightly from the previous year when adjusting for inflation, states collectively boosted their investment in need-based grant aid.

www.online.wsj.com
http://online.wsj.com/articles/parents-poised-to-gain-easier-access-to-college-loans-1410542622
Parents Poised to Gain Easier Access to College Loans
Amid Enrollment Pinch, Tighter Standards Put on Borrowing Program in 2011 in Line to Be Loosened
By JOSH MITCHELL
The Obama administration is moving to ease access to student loans for parents with damaged credit, a policy reversal that could saddle poor families with piles of debt but also boost college enrollment. Under a plan likely to take effect next year, the Education Department would check the past two years of a borrower’s credit, instead of the current standard of five, for blemishes such as delinquencies or debts in collection. Also, any delinquent debts below $2,085 would be overlooked; currently, delinquencies of any amount are grounds for rejected applications. Supporters of the plan say the loan program, known as Parent Plus, is increasingly needed to help poor families who lack savings afford the college of their choice.

www.jbhe.com

Interactive Teaching in College Science Classes Can Close the Racial Achievement Gap

Interactive Teaching in College Science Classes Can Close the Racial Achievement Gap
A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Washington finds that “active learning” techniques in science courses in college classrooms help all students, but have particular benefits for African American students.

www.jbhe.com

Ohio University President Gets Hefty Raise and $85,000 Bonus

Ohio University President Gets Hefty Raise and $85,000 Bonus
Roderick J. McDavis, president of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, received an $85,000 bonus from the university’s board of trustees and an 8 percent salary increase. He now makes $465,000 a year.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66868/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9f172bc05ed243ba9b86df0f79431121&elqCampaignId=415
WWU President Won’t Be Offering Budget Cut Ideas
by Associated Press
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Every two years for at least a decade, the governor and the Legislature have asked public university and college presidents to project what kind of cuts they would make if they have to slash their state budgets. And every time, they groan and figure something out. Not this year. Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard is refusing to play the budget cutting game, after being asked by the state Office of Financial Management for a list of proposed cuts adding up to 15 percent of the university’s state budget.

www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66862/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=9f172bc05ed243ba9b86df0f79431121&elqCampaignId=415
Oregon Ballot Measure Would Create College Aid Fund
by Jonathan J. Cooper, Associated Press
SALEM, Ore. — Students are facing a rising loan burden, and Oregon’s state treasurer wants the state to be able to take on debt of its own to help them out.
Ted Wheeler proposed a little-known measure that will appear on the November ballot. Measure 86 would amend the state constitution, creating an endowment that could be used only for student financial aid. It would also allow the state to take on debt to fill the kitty. He wants to start with $100 million. Oregon’s college tuition is high, and state support for financial aid is low compared with other states, Wheeler said.

www.wusa9.com
http://www.wusa9.com/story/news/local/virginia/2014/09/13/uva-combat-sexual-assaults-teresa-sullivan-new-policy/15600837/
U.Va. launches new efforts to combat sex assaults
Associated Press
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – The University of Virginia says it’s launching several new initiatives this fall to combat sexual assaults on campus. U.Va. President Teresa A. Sullivan and others on Friday told members of the Board of Visitors about a new reporting policy, along with public awareness campaign and prevention efforts.

www.college.usatoday.com
http://college.usatoday.com/2014/09/13/university-of-florida-students-team-up-against-assaults/
University of Florida students team up against assaults
By: Carla Vianna
Sexual Assault Awareness Week took place at the University of Florida this week, a movement launched by the UF Student Government to educate students on how to stay safe on or off campus.

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/nus-sexual-harassment-rife-on-campus/2015731.article
NUS: sexual harassment ‘rife’ on campus
BY JACK GROVE
More than a third of female students have been groped or touched inappropriately while at university, according to a new survey.
According to the study by the National Union of Students, 37 per cent of women said they had experienced some type of unwelcome sexual advances while studying, while 12 per cent of men reported the same thing, according to the survey of more than 2,000 students. A quarter of all students said they had received unsolicited sexual comments about their bodies, while 36 per cent had witnessed these comments directed at others. The survey revealed that “harassment is rife on campus”, said Toni Pearce, NUS president, who added that universities are not doing enough to combat so-called lad culture.