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www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-09-07/educational-events-week
Educational events this week
TUESDAY
• Board of Regents. Regular monthly meeting of the state Board of Regents in Atlanta
www.bainbridgega.com
http://bainbridgega.com/bnews/bnews.php?Board-of-Regents-Visit-BSC-Campus-9790
Board of Regents Visit BSC Campus
by Susanne Reynolds, BSC Media Coordinator
Board of Regents Impressed by BSC Main Campus
On Wednesday, Sept. 3, two members from the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia visited the Bainbridge State College main campus. The regents were impressed with the campus’s newest additions, faculty and staff.
www.news-daily.com
http://www.news-daily.com/news/2014/sep/05/president-hynes-first-recipient-of-gene-hatfield/
President Hynes first recipient of Gene Hatfield Annual Service Award
By Johnny Jackson
MORROW — Clayton State University’s College of Arts and Sciences, with the support of long-time history professor Dr. Gene Hatfield, has established the Gene Hatfield Annual Service Award. Hatfield served as a history professor at Clayton State between 1976 and 2008. The College of Arts and Sciences has been presenting the Gene Hatfield Scholar of the Year and Teacher of the Year awards to faculty members for the past five years. The Gene Hatfield Annual Service Award recognizes individuals for their outstanding and significant acts of service to the university and its community. Its first recipient is University President Dr. Tim Hynes.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/organizations/no-increase-to-green-fee-despite-student-interest/article_aaf93336-33b0-11e4-ab9f-001a4bcf6878.html
No increase to green fee despite student interest
Lauren McDonald
On last year’s University of Georgia homecoming ballot, 75 percent of student votes were in favor of increasing the $3 per semester green fee to $4. Yet, a year later, students continue to pay $3, more than half of which goes to administrative costs for the Office of Sustainability. The portion of the fee that goes to tangible sustainability initatives is $1.29 after discounting administrative costs, according to a previous Red & Black article. A number of factors played into the delay of a fee increase, including resistance from the Board of Regents to increase fees in general, the planned five-year evaluation of the Office of Sustainability set to conclude in 2015 and the low voter turnout for the homecoming ballot last year.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/uga-forced-to-shutter-health-insurance-navigator-p/nhG4n/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#24a35b15.3566685.735484
UGA forced to shutter health insurance navigator program
By Virginia Anderson
A new state law has forced the University of Georgia to shutter its health insurance navigator program that helped more than 33,000 Georgians — many of them from rural areas — buy coverage on the Affordable Care Act’s online insurance marketplace.
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/crime/2014-09-06/update-student-charged-savannah-state-shooting#.VA3W5yjgYeU
UPDATE: Student charged in Savannah State shooting
By Dash Coleman
A Savannah State University student has been charged with the Friday night shooting of a fellow student on campus, a school spokeswoman says. Marviq Leekhi Richardson, 18, was charged with aggravated assault, carrying a weapon on school property and reckless conduct. He was being held without bond at the Chatham County jail Saturday. Savannah State police say he shot another student, a male, about 8 p.m. Friday night in the area of University Village, a residence facility on campus.
RESEARCH:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/sports/college/uga-to-take-part-in-sports-concussion-study/nhH6h/?icmp=ajc_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_ajcstub1#ce96c8e6.3566685.735484
UGA to take part in sports concussion study
By Nicholas Fouriezos – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
WASHINGTON — The University of Georgia will be one of several institutions across the nation to take part in a study aimed to improve the understanding of concussions in athletics and how to change their prevalence in college and youth sports.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-family-and-consumer-sciences-department-receives-innovation-grant/article_03cf7414-3480-11e4-a4e7-001a4bcf6878.html
UGA Family and Consumer Sciences department receives innovation grant
Richard Alexander Banton
A research team in the Textiles, Manufacturing and Interiors department in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Georgia received a $171, 371 grant from the Walmart U.S. Manufacturing Innovation Fund to study an innovative and sustainable approach to fabric dyeing.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/spotlight-on-science-two-uga-ecology-professors-recognized-with-national/article_c699b0f6-3479-11e4-bbc7-001a4bcf6878.html
Spotlight on Science: Two UGA ecology professors recognized with national awards
Gabe Cavallaro
Two ecology professors at the University of Georgia were recognized with national awards for their research. This week, The Red & Black conducted profiles on both Gene Helfman and Gary Grossman in order to better learn a little bit about them as well as the scientific research that each are conducting at UGA.
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2014/09/05/moda-marks-25-years-honors-portman-slideshow.html
MODA marks 25 years, honors Portman (SLIDESHOW)
Staff
The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) on Thursday celebrated its 25th anniversary by hosting a celebration to honor Atlanta architect, artist and visionary John C. Portman Jr. for his contributions to MODA during its early history… MODA’s also presented “25 Atlanta Designs We Love from the Last 25 Years,” ranked through online public voting. Here are the top 10: Renovation of the Polaris Restaurant by The Johnson Studio, Exhibition Design in the Center for Civil & Human Rights, Living Walls, The City Speaks, Atlanta BeltLine, 1996 Olympic Look by Iconologic, Paste Magazine, Cartoon Network, Trees Atlanta, Centennial Olympic Park, designed by EDAW and H.J. Russell, SafiChoo Toilet, designed by four Georgia Tech students
www.ubergizmo.com
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2014/09/bioglass-figures-it-out-when-you-are-stressed/
BioGlass Figures It Out When You Are Stressed
By Edwin Kee
Imagine if you have a pair of smart glasses – what are you going to do with it? I am quite sure that this is still a very fertile ground for new innovations to break through, and here is one prime example. We all live in an extremely stressful environment these days, with plenty of work that piles up at the office and not having any kind of outlet to release it. Researchers over at Georgia Tech and MIT have worked together by working on the BioGlass, where it will feature an Android-powered app which relies on Google Glass in order to figure out just how much stress you’re having.
www.theatlantic.com
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/to-kill-a-terrorist-shabab-somalia-godane/379723/
To Kill a Terrorist
The leader of the Somali militant group al-Shabab is dead. Now what?
KATHY GILSINAN
On Friday, the Pentagon confirmed that American airstrikes in Somalia last week had succeeded in killing Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader and co-founder of the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group al-Shabab. “Removing Godane from the battlefield is a major symbolic and operational loss to al-Shabaab,” Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Admiral John Kirby said in a statement… More systematic studies of leadership decapitation only confirm that the evidence for its success rate is mixed. In 2009, for instance, Jenna Jordon of Georgia Tech examined 298 instances of terrorist leaders being targeted between 1945 and 2004. According to her findings, organizations that experienced a loss of leadership in many cases remained active—as measured by their inclusion on the U.S. State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations—longer than organizations that collapsed for other reasons. “Organizations that have not had their leaders removed are more likely to fall apart than those that have undergone a loss of leadership,” she concluded.
www.heraldnet.com
Why don’t local schools rate higher?
Sierra Magazine’s current issue ranks the top 100 “green” colleges in the U.S. for its 17th year. The West Coast looks good except for Washington: No. 1 is the University of California, Irvine, and No. 6 is Stanford. Oregon’s Lewis and Clark College is No. 5. Not until you get to No. 34 do we find the University of Washington and Evergreen at No. 56 do you find our state represented.All of these schools take different routes to “greenest,” with campus-grown food, solar and wind power installations, waste water reuse, hormone-free meat used in cafeterias, no bottled water on campus, and more energy-efficient buildings part of the list.Even a bastion of conservatism as Georgia Tech made the list, if not the top 10.
Editorial/Columns/Opinions
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/editorials/2014-09-06/charting-new-paths
Charting new paths
Parent-led charter schools rightly challenge hidebound educational approach
By Augusta Chronicle Editorial Staff
Imagine if your child’s college destination was determined by the physical location of your home. Everyone seeking a college degree in Augusta, for example, would have to attend Georgia Regents University. North Augusta would be “zoned” for the University of South Carolina Aiken. And Savannah residents would fall inside the “district” of, say, Armstrong State University. That would be pretty preposterous, wouldn’t it? Yet this same monopolistic model, like it or not, is how the majority of Americans receive their K-12 education – arguably the most important schooling they will ever receive.
www.saportareport.com
SaportaReport
http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/09/new-report-on-education-funding-provides-context-for-claims-in-race-for-governor/
New report on education funding provides context for claims by Deal, Carter in campaign for governor
Posted in David Pendered
A new report on Georgia’s education funding, from an Atlanta think tank, offers more fodder for the gubernatorial battle between Gov. Nathan Deal and challenger Sen. Jason Carter. The report by the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute finds little improvement since GBPI’s similar report last year – which determined that cutbacks in funding for K-12 education were causing local districts to trim days from the school year and assign more students to each teacher.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2014/sep/04/average-state-georgia-shorts-school-districts-439-/
Get schooled with Maureen Downey
On average, state of Georgia shorts school districts $439 per student
The Georgia Budget & Policy Institute updated its 2013 “Schoolhouse Squeeze” report on the state of school funding in Georgia in 2014.
The news is still bleak.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2014/09/05/is-a-degree-still-worth-it-yes-researchers-say-and-the-payoff-is-getting-better/
Is a Degree Still Worth It? Yes, Researchers Say, and the Payoff Is Getting Better
By Lance Lambert
One could be excused for thinking the value of a college degree is in a downward spiral. With overall student-loan debt topping $1-trillion and tuition racing upward, to college graduates facing high levels of underemployment and stagnating wages, it might appear college simply isn’t worth it. However, a study released on Tuesday by two researchers with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York concludes the opposite is true: The value of a bachelor’s degree is near an all-time high.
www.learning.blogs.nytimes.com
What Is the Point of College?
By SHANNON DOYNE
What is the purpose of attaining a college degree? Is it to ensure a life of financial stability? Is it to develop as a person and as a thinker? Can it be all of these things–or is it, for you, about something else entirely? In the Op-Ed “Demanding More From College,” Frank Bruni writes about the “rightful mission” of higher education. Meanwhile, the sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa were out with a new book, “Aspiring Adults Adrift,” in which they assessed how a diverse group of nearly 1,000 recent graduates were faring two years after they finished their undergraduate studies.
Education News
www.accessnorthga.com
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=279227
Hearing in Gainesville Tues. to address Common Core, other education issues
By Ken Stanford
ATLANTA – The state Board of Education will hold a hearing in Gainesville Tuesday on the controversial Common Core Standards and other public education issues. …This includes the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards in Mathematics and English Language Arts as part of the State Board’s formal evaluation of these standards.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66760/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5a9fb76bf33d4ddb81e9478aaad1a1ce&elqCampaignId=358
Ohio Higher Education Changes Extend to 2-Year Schools
by Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio ― State funding formulas for Ohio’s two-year public colleges are now tied to graduation rates and course completion rather than enrollment. The changes that kicked in Thursday have been in effect at Ohio’s four-year schools. Two-year colleges will now be able to join four-year institutions in offering students a single tuition rate during their time on campus and the new funding formula provides more money for some low-income, minority and older students.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66699/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=fa568070f44a4aeaa56710db50e9f3d2&elqCampaignId=358
Role of Technology Growing in Realm of College Advising
By Jamaal Abdul-Alim
A new mobile phone app that nudges students to perform certain tasks that are part of the college admissions process. College advisers who interact with students via Skype. Websites that produce a list of prospective colleges based on student preferences. These are just a few of the growing number of ways that technology is reshaping the landscape of college advising.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66754/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5a9fb76bf33d4ddb81e9478aaad1a1ce&elqCampaignId=358
Open-source Texts Gaining Ground at Maryland Colleges
by Alissa Gulin, The Daily Record
BALTIMORE ― An experiment with open-source online textbooks at several Maryland universities last semester yielded promising results, and officials are preparing to expand the program this fall. The University System of Maryland designed the Maryland Open-Source Textbook (MOST) Initiative to evaluate the feasibility of using online materials instead of printed books to ease the cost of purchasing multiple textbooks each year.
www.heraldtribune.com
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140904/ARTICLE/140909856/2107/BUSINESS?Title=Study-suggests-recent-graduates-can-afford-to-buy-a-home
Study suggests recent graduates can afford to buy a home
By John Hielscher
Recent college graduates saddled with student loan debts have found it tough to buy homes in the resurgent Southwest Florida real estate market. But a new study contends local housing remains affordable for those first-time homebuyers — even if they earn less than the median household income for the area. RealtyTrac Inc. said new college graduates with student loans can afford to buy a median-priced home here and in almost every U.S. city, though they need at least 30 percent more income than grads who are not burdened by education debts.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/college-police-rarely-issue-citations-for-underage-drinking-study-finds/article_8aec6352-1d93-11e4-928b-001a4bcf6878.html
College police rarely issue citations for underage drinking, study finds
Richard Banton
A study published by Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research indicates a gap in colleges’ efforts to tackle student drinking issues. Surveying 343 directors of campus police/security across the United States, researchers found only 33 percent of campus law enforcement units “nearly always” issued criminal charges or citations to students after underage or serious alcohol-related incidents on campus, despite 51 percent of directors describing students’ alcohol use as a moderate problem and 27 percent describing it as a major one.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66762/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5a9fb76bf33d4ddb81e9478aaad1a1ce&elqCampaignId=358
Middle Tennessee State U. Engaging Males in Sexual Assault Prevention
by Associated Press
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. ― Middle Tennessee State University is starting a program that aims to reduce the possibility of sexual assaults on campus by training male students.The Daily News Journal reports that student orientation at the Murfreesboro university already had a section advising students about ways to avoid sexual assault, including teaching safety tips such as avoiding traveling alone and staying in well-lit, populated areas. Now the June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students will sponsor training focused on engaging male students in the discussion about preventing sexual assault.
www.nytimes.com
Princeton Faculty to Vote on Altering Sexual Misconduct Policies
By ARIEL KAMINER
Princeton University may soon make significant changes in the way it handles allegations of sexual misconduct, including lowering the standards required to find someone guilty in its disciplinary proceedings. The changes at the university, whose sexual misconduct policies are the subject of a continuing federal investigation, would bring its procedures in line with those at peer institutions and in compliance, administrators say, with federal requirements.
www.bostonglobe.com
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/09/04/brandeis-university-latest-local-college-face-probe-for-handling-sexual-assault/tf3LNnZZaVqQwpTuGTtIkM/story.html
Brandeis facing federal probe for handling of sexual assault
By Matt Rocheleau | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
The US Education Department has opened an investigation into Brandeis University’s handling of a sexual assault complaint, the college said Thursday, making it the 10th school in the state and one of more than 75 nationwide facing such an inquiry. The Education Department, in a document obtained by the Globe, said it is investigating a student’s allegation that the school wrongly and unfairly found him responsible for sexual misconduct this past spring and subsequently disciplined him.
www.usatoday.com
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/04/student-outraged-rapist-fine-university-of-toledo/15058269/
College student outraged over alleged rapist’s $25 fine
Deirdre Shesgreen, USATODAY
WASHINGTON — Last fall, as she was starting her senior year at the University of Toledo, Sarah was raped by someone she had trusted and considered a close friend. It was six months before she could bring herself to report the assault to officials at the school. Once she did come forward, Sarah said she suffered a fresh wave of anxiety when she learned how the university planned to punish her attacker: a $25 fine, 10 hours of sexual assault education, and one year of probation.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66702/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=fa568070f44a4aeaa56710db50e9f3d2&elqCampaignId=358
Purdue Still Wants Ex-Chancellor Report Kept Secret
by Associated Press
FORT WAYNE, Ind. ― Purdue University is continuing efforts to keep secret a report about the ouster of the Fort Wayne campus chancellor, even though federal and state judges have ruled it isn’t protected by attorney-client privilege.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66705/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=fa568070f44a4aeaa56710db50e9f3d2&elqCampaignId=358
Diverse Conversations: Effective Fundraising for Higher Education
by Matthew Lynch
In these difficult economic times, fundraising is challenging across the board. In higher education, it is no exception. University presidents and chief advancement officers, those in charge of higher education fundraising, are having to get more and more creative to not only raise awareness about the support needed by higher education institutions but also to get funding in place through effective campaigning.
To discuss some of the ways higher education institutions can effectively fundraise, I talked with Anne-Marie Campbell, founder and principal of Hawk Mountain Strategies, a consulting firm focused on fundraising strategy, training and innovation.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/08/families-student-loan-debt-grows-rate-increase-slows
Young Families and Student Debt
By Doug Lederman
Studies that show student loan debt increasing are a dime a dozen these days. But while a new report from the Federal Reserve Board reinforces the idea that more Americans are taking on more debt to finance their postsecondary education, it also suggests a slowing of that trend in the last three years.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66751/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=5a9fb76bf33d4ddb81e9478aaad1a1ce&elqCampaignId=358
DOE Official: College Rating System Developed To Be Refined
by Jamaal Abdul-Alim
DALLAS — The Obama administration’s forthcoming college ratings system will ultimately show which institutions are doing “phenomenally well” and which ones need to “step up their game,” but the primary objective in the interim is to develop the first iteration so that it can be refined, a top U.S. Department of Education official said.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Ratings-Will/148691/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Colleges’ Ratings Will Reflect Their Missions, Key Education Official Says
By Katherine Mangan
DallasIf the federal college-ratings system that is due out in draft form this fall creates incentives for colleges to accept fewer at-risk students, “then we will have failed,” Ted Mitchell, the recently appointed U.S. under secretary of education, said on Saturday.