USG NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/sep/22/new-georgia-gwinnett-college-facility-technology/
New Georgia Gwinnett College facility, technology praised during opening
By Joshua Sharpe
LAWRENCEVILLE — When Georgia Gwinnett College was in the making a decade ago, those at the drawing board dreamed of an advanced nursing program that would employ the best technology and faculty available. To make it happen, there needed to be a state-of-the-art facility in which budding medical workers could learn the skills they’d need to have a leg up in the field. With the new $30-million Allied Health and Science Building, officials with the growing Lawrenceville college believe they now have that facility. …Gov. Nathan Deal, who was praised for aiding in funding for the college, said the facility, which serves far more than just nursing majors, will be a “great asset to the future education options of the students.”
www.savannahnow.com
http://savannahnow.com/your-good-news/2014-09-22/armstrong-becomes-first-school-georgia-offer-interactive-virtual-anatomy
Armstrong becomes first school in Georgia to offer interactive virtual anatomy dissection table
By Savannah Morning News
Armstrong State University recently became the first school in the state of Georgia to purchase Anatomage, an interactive virtual anatomy dissection table. To date, the Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced anatomy visualization system for anatomy education and is being adopted by many of the world’s leading medical schools and institutions.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-09-23/uga-unveil-portrait-former-president-adams
UGA to unveil portrait of former president Adams
ASSOCIATED PRESS
The University of Georgia plans to unveil the official portrait of former president Michael F. Adams. The university says the ceremony is set for Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the Administration Building. Adams was the school’s 21st president. He stepped down June 30, 2013 and is now a president emeritus at UGA.
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www.wsav.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/26600779/uga-to-unveil-portrait-of-former-president-adams
UGA to unveil portrait of former president Adams
www.forest-blade.com
http://www.forest-blade.com/news/education/article_36668a4a-3dcf-11e4-bbfd-fb68d94dc90e.html
EGSC’s Fall Convocation to be held September 25
East Georgia State College’s Fall Convocation will be held on Thursday, September 25 at 11 a.m. in the Luck Flanders Gambrell Auditorium. The theme for this year’s Convocation will be centered around the effects technology has on the future of learning and communicating.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-09-22/uga-student-who-made-social-media-threat-suggesting-violence-have-bond
UGA student who made social media threat suggesting violence to have bond hearing
By JOE JOHNSON
The University of Georgia student accused of causing a scare on campus Friday afternoon by issuing a threatening post on social media is scheduled to appear at a bond hearing today in Athens-Clarke County Magistrate Court. Authorities arrested Ariel Omar Arias, 19, of Martin Luther King Parkway, and charged him with two counts of making terroristic threats several hours after the social media post prompted police to clear out the Zell B. Miller Learning Center on the UGA campus.
GOOD NEWS:
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/office-of-international-education-receives-grant-to-provide-student-internships/article_d6cc3c8e-420a-11e4-a1ec-0017a43b2370.html
Office of International Education receives $200,000 grant to provide student internships in Asia
Katelyn Umholtz
The University of Georgia Office of International Education received a $200,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation of Asia, a private foundation whose objective is to build stronger bonds between the United States and Asia by promoting internships abroad for college students. With this grant, the OIE will be able to give out approximately 40-50 awards to UGA students worth up to $5,000, based on each applicants’ financial need. Once awarded, students will be able to begin internships during fall, spring and summer semesters in East Asian countries, including China, Thailand and Nepal.
RESEARCH:
www.sciencecodex.com
http://www.sciencecodex.com/cheater_cheater_uga_study_shows_what_happens_when_employees_feel_excluded_at_work-142106
Cheater, cheater: UGA study shows what happens when employees feel excluded at work
Athens, Ga. – When employees feel left out, they act out. That’s the message that new research from the University of Georgia Terry College of Business delivers as it explains why employees can become weasels to benefit their work group.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/09/georgia-makes-strides-in-research-but-it-is-missing-a-focal-point/
SaportaReport
Georgia makes strides in research, but is missing bioscience ‘focal point’
In the 24 years since the founding of the Georgia Research Alliance, federally-funded research and development grants to Georgia’s universities has increased five-fold. The state’s total share of federal research funding increased to nearly 3 percent, ranking 12th and one of only five of the top 16 states that is increasing its market share. These are the findings in new report prepared by consultants for the Georgia Research Alliance that was presented to the board at its recent meeting.
www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2014/09/heart-mind-and-eye-the-art-of-lamar-dodd/
SaportaReport
Heart, mind, and eye — the art of Lamar Dodd
By Jamil Zainaldin
“Georgia on my mind” — that would be an apt description for the art of the great Georgia artist Lamar Dodd, born September 22, 1909. According to New Georgia Encyclopedia author, Georgia Museum of Art director, and Dodd biographer William U. Eiland, a reviewer of a 1932 New York exhibition of Dodd’s watercolors and oil paintings described his work as having “not one scene of the Scottish moors with their purple heather. . . . Not one scene of the fountains of Rome! . . . Nothing of Paris or London or Athens or Pompeii. But Georgia, Georgia, Georgia.” The critic was hailing this new “regional” American spirit of Dodd’s with both delight and relief. …Over an unusual career of practice and academic leadership that would span 40 years, Dodd trained generations of University of Georgia students while helping to build that institution’s highly regarded national program that today bears his name: the Lamar Dodd School of Art.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/09/23/essay-support-teach-act
Higher Ed Needs TEACH Act
By Bea Awoniyi and Stephan J. Smith
Recently there has been much debate about the proposed TEACH Act. As the landscape in higher education has evolved, and most educational opportunities now require use of electronic and information technology, institutions have been left without an effective structure for taking access for all into account. Currently, institutions have only lawsuits and enforcement actions to guide them; the point of the TEACH Act is to pave the way for consistent national guidance. The Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) supports the proposed legislation and seeks to clarify a few points.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/co-teaching-blended-class-across-universities
Co-Teaching a Blended Class Across Universities
Tom Gleeson
Last term I co-taught a graduate class in advanced groundwater hydrology with Grant Ferguson (University of Saskatchewan) and Steve Loheide (University of Wisconsin – Madison).
In co-developing and co-delivering this course we have learned a lot – I’ll start here with our initial motivations and write later about our pedagogic decisions, software tools and reflections after the course. It is mostly win-win for students and professors, but I’ll describe some of the disadvantages below. Instead of being a MOOC , the course is a SPOC – a small, private, online classroom.
Education News
www.wabe.org
http://wabe.org/post/georgia-receives-mixed-results-national-education-report
Georgia Receives Mixed Results on National Education Report
By MARTHA DALTON
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation has released its latest Educational Leaders and Laggards report. The analysis grades each state in several academic areas. The report shows Georgia is leading in some and lagging in others. Developing teachers: B-. Fiscal responsibility: A. Academic Performance: D. Georgia received mixed results on the report. But Cheryl Oldham, the foundation’s Vice President of Education and Workforce, says the state has improved since 2007. “Georgia has made a decent amount of progress, relative to other states in the country,” she says. “So, there is progress. There is growth. I think, we just, you know, it’s important to note that we want to continue to see that growth.”
www.touch.latimes.com
http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81424197/
Student loan debt curbs housing market by $83 billion, study says
BY TIM LOGAN
There’s been lots of debate lately in housing circles about the impact of student debt on home ownership. Now there’s a new study out that attempts to put a number on that impact: 414,000.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/23/berkeley-journalism-school-considering-10000-tuition-increase
Jacking Up J-School Tuition
By Kaitlin Mulhere
A proposal to raise tuition at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism has some faculty members, alumni and students worried about destroying the school’s distinctive character. Faced with a half-million-dollar budget gap, Dean Edward Wasserman announced plans to recommend a tuition increase for the 2016-17 academic year in a memo to campus members earlier this month.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/23/educause-gates-foundation-examine-history-and-future-lms
Where Does the LMS Go From Here?
By Carl Straumsheim
Faculty members and students want their future learning management systems to be customizable and full of features, but a new study finds they still use the systems’ basic functions most often. The report, produced by Eden Dahlstrom, D. Christopher Brooks and Jacqueline Bichsel at the Educause Center for Analysis and Research, provides an overview of faculty and student opinions about a piece of educational software present at virtually every college and university in the U.S.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/23/syracuse-u-curbs-work-program-help-urban-youth-attend-college
Shrinking Numbers, Changing Values
By Ry Rivard
Syracuse University plans to scale back its involvement in a scholarship program for public high school students, a decision that prompted scores of its Syracuse students to protest on Friday. The cutback represents a move by Chancellor Kent Syverud, who started in January, to dismantle at least part of the previous chancellor’s ambitious and controversial effort to increase the economic and racial diversity of students at Syracuse.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/NIH-Issues-10-Million-in/148961/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
NIH Issues $10-Million in Grants to Cut Gender-Based Test Biases
By Paul Basken
The National Institutes of Health on Tuesday announced more than $10-million in grant supplements to bring gender balance to the subjects of medical lab work, its largest financial commitment to ending the research bias.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/66989/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=a2b87c48376e46af9617f1f0f370bb1f&elqCampaignId=415
Wesleyan University Orders Fraternities to Become Coed
by Pat Eaton-Robb, Associated Press
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Wesleyan University in Connecticut on Monday ordered its fraternities with houses on campus to become coeducational within the next three years. The move was announced in a letter to the university community from President Michael Roth and trustees Chairman Joshua Boger. It requires its residential Greek organizations to have both male and female members and to have each gender “well represented” in their organizational leadership to quality for housing on campus and the use of university spaces.
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Wesleyan orders fraternities to become coed
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/23/wesleyan-university-orders-its-fraternities-become-coeducational
Admit Women or Else
www.nytimes.com
Making a Splash on Campus
College Recreation Now Includes Pool Parties and River Rides
By COURTNEY RUBIN
When Louisiana State University surveyed students in 2009 to find out what they most wanted in their new recreation complex, one feature beat out even massage therapy: a lazy river.
But with dozens of schools (including some of its Southeastern Conference rivals) building the water rides, the university had to do one better: When its lazy river is finished in 2016, it will spell out the letters “LSU” in the school’s signature Geaux font. …In the university recreation center arms race — with 92 schools reporting over $1.7 billion in capital projects, according to a 2013 study from the Nirsa: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation (formerly known as the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association) — the latest thing is to turn a piece of campus into something approaching a water theme park.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/09/23/showdown-today-over-next-florida-state-president
Showdown Today Over Next Florida State President
The search committee for the next president of Florida State University on Monday rejected the advice of faculty and student leaders and included a state senator without experience leading a college or university among four finalists, The Tallahassee Democrat reported.