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Ga. college smoking ban goes into effect Wednesday
By The Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) A rule smoking ban at all University System of Georgia campuses is scheduled to go into effect this week. The University System of Georgia smoking and tobacco ban goes into effect Wednesday and applies to all 31 member institutions.
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http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/25852865/article-KSU-goes-smoke-free–students-unhappy?instance=home_lead_story
KSU goes smoke-free; students unhappy
by Aimee Sachs
KENNESAW — The days of Kennesaw State students smoking on campus are numbered, and that number is one. Starting Wednesday, the University System of Georgia’s tobacco and smoke-free campus policy will go into effect. The USG’s Board of Regents adopted the policy in March. Kennesaw State has provided designated smoking areas for smokers, but today is the last day smoking will be allowed on campus. Students smoking in designated areas on campus Monday afternoon expressed their frustration with the new policy.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/uga-begins-work-on-it-s-on-us-campaign-women/article_00739b68-4819-11e4-8aee-0017a43b2370.html
UGA begins work on ‘It’s on Us’ campaign, women’s initiatives
Lauren McDonald
The White House wants to change the culture of sexual assault on college campuses nationwide by making communities realize that “it’s on us.” The White House announced the “It’s On Us” campaign, a public awareness and action campaign to encourage college students, faculty and staff to take responsibility in preventing sexual assault, on Sept. 19. And the University of Georgia has already taken steps to participate in the campaign.
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http://www.cbs46.com/story/26658806/no-mail-residents-upset-post-office-is-treating-their-townhome-as-a-dorm
No mail, residents upset post office is treating their townhouse as a dorm
By Jason Aubry
CARROLLTON, GA (CBS46) – Residents living on privately owned property that borders the University of West Georgia, called the Village at West Georgia on Cunningham Drive in Carrollton, haven’t gotten their mail in nearly a month according to Al Hamiliton. Hamilton is a non-student who lives in the complex. Roughly three weeks ago, the Carrollton post office and the property management group began a dispute over who is responsible for putting the mail in the resident’s mail boxes. In a letter to the residents, the post office explained they considered the townhouse community a dormitory or residence hall. The letter tells residents, who are not all students at the university, that the mode of delivery for College Students is defined in the Postal Operations Manual.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2014-09-29/uga-students-robbed-separate-weekend-incidents-nine-suspects-arrested
UGA students robbed in separate weekend incidents, nine suspects arrested
By JOE JOHNSON
Two University of Georgia students were robbed early Sunday in separate incidents, Athens-Clarke County police said. The robberies occurred just a couple of days after UGA police issued a warning about students being robbed and offered tips on how to reduce chances of becoming victims.
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http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2014-09-29/university-georgia-pharmacy-program-coming-savannah
University of Georgia pharmacy program coming to Savannah
By Mary Carr Mayle
The University of Georgia’s 100-year-old College of Pharmacy will soon have a Savannah campus where students can complete the last two years of their degree under the college’s 2+2 program. Ray Maddox, director of clinical pharmacy, research and pulmonary medicine at St. Joseph’s/Candler Health System in Savannah since 2002, has been named assistant dean at the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and clinical professor in the College’s Department of Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy. As assistant dean, Maddox will oversee the development of the school’s new Southeast Georgia campus in Savannah.
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/extinction-rates-times-faster-today-than-pre-human-times-uga/article_92f2465c-4809-11e4-b30b-0017a43b2370.html
Extinction rates 1,000 times faster today than pre-human times, UGA researchers find
Kunal Tanna
Two University of Georgia ecologists contributed to a study that reveals species are going extinct 1,000 times faster today than during pre-human times. …Both Gittleman and Patrick Stephens, an assistant research scientist in Odum, conducted analytical simulations of fossil records and evolutionary trees to determine how many species go extinct per year, and if the current rate is normal or unusual. What they found was the extinction rate is at a higher magnitude than previously recorded, and will continue to increase up to 10,000 times more in the future.
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http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/new-partnership-to-bolster-uga-s-conservation-efforts/article_2f200210-4762-11e4-9d29-0017a43b2370.html
New partnership to bolster UGA’s conservation efforts
Gabe Cavallaro
The University of Georgia has added a new partnership focused on studying and protecting herpetological species to its growing network of conservation collaborators. Working with the Orianne Society, a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect imperiled snakes worldwide, the goal is to raise public awareness about the importance of herpetological species, primarily snakes and salamanders, said Michael Clutter, dean and Hargreaves Professor of forest finance in UGA’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
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http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/09/29/georgia-teachers-wording-of-common-core-works-for-us/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Georgia teachers: Wording of Common Core works for us
Critics of Common Core contend the math and English language arts/literacy standards are poorly written and confuse teachers. Apparently, Georgia teachers are not flummoxed by Common Core.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/09/30/essay-janet-napolitano-her-first-year-president-university-california
My Freshman Year
By Janet Napolitano
To linger for too long on the vastness and complexity of the University of California is to risk a form of intellectual paralysis. With its 10 distinct campuses, each a major university in its own right, five medical centers, three national laboratories, and an agricultural and natural resources division with representatives in every corner of California; with its $24 billion budget, its more than 230,000 students, and its 190,000 employees — nuclear scientists, literature professors, doctors and nurses, staff members of all types (some union, some not), you name it — the University of California is one of the largest, most complicated organizations in the world. One year ago, on September 30, 2013, I began my freshman year serving as the 20th president of the University of California. I’m not sure how much I have changed the university, but I would like to tell you how the university has changed me.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/education-reformers-dont-know-what-college-ready-means
Education Reformers Don’t Know What “College Ready” Means
By John Warner
The phrase “college and career ready” is today’s education reform mantra. It riddles the Common Core State Standards. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan includes it in just about all of his public remarks. In April, a year-end kindergarten show in Elwood, NY was even canceled in the name of needing more time to prepare children for “college and career.”
As someone who is tasked with teaching students at the moment they arrive in college in a course (first year writing) that just about every student will take, let me channel my inner Inigo Montoya regarding “college and career ready”: “You keep using those words. I do not think they mean what you think they mean.”
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Stop-Blaming-Students-for-Your/149067/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Stop Blaming Students for Your Listless Classroom
How the use of games as a teaching methodology has the potential to break the long history of student disengagement in college learning
By James M. Lang
For the past eight years I have been arguing in this column that the professoriate should pay closer attention to what researchers tell us about how students learn. I’ve also maintained that we should consider a wider variety of approaches to teaching than the ones we inherited from our forebears, and should look more closely at our teaching practices when we encounter problems like distracted and disengaged students, lifeless classroom discussions, or academic dishonesty.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/MOOC-U-The-Revolution-Isnt/149039/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
MOOC U: The Revolution Isn’t Over
By Jeffrey Selingo
Three years ago, this headline appeared in The New York Times: “Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course.” We all know the rest of the story. When the artificial-intelligence class at Stanford University started that fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries had signed up, touching off MOOC mania on campuses around the world. Massive open online courses were heralded as the invention that would disrupt higher education’s expensive business model and would become the next big innovation in the tech world. By the end of 2012, the Times declared it “the year of the MOOC.” But a year later, after a series of high-profile failed experiments using MOOCs, another proclamation from the Times about the massive classes arrived in this front-page headline: “After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought.”
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/09/29/yes-means-yes-is-a-bad-coupling-of-feminism-and-the-state/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
‘Yes Means Yes’ Is a Bad Coupling of Feminism and the State
by Laurie Essig
California’s enacting on Sunday of the “yes means yes” law is a victory for some campus feminist activists but an ill-conceived detour for feminism. The new law guiding how colleges must handle accusations of sexual assault will require “an affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” In other words, if a person is not actively agreeing to a sexual exchange and doing so throughout the exchange, it is not consensual. More important, the onus is no longer on the victim of sexual assault since she or he no longer has to have said “no.”
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Ga. lawmakers to discuss medical education
The Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A group of Georgia lawmakers is scheduled to hold a meeting this week in Savannah to discuss how national policy issues could impact the education of medical professionals. The House Study Committee on Medical Education is scheduled to meet Thursday at the Memorial Health Hoskins Center in Savannah.
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Biden Announces $450 Million Worth of Grants for Higher Ed
by Catherine Morris
Vice President Joe Biden announced the recipients of $450 million in grants designed to help community colleges and other institutions of higher education provide better job training for students. The grants will go to almost 270 higher education institutions, and are intended to provide funding for partnerships with employers in industries like information technology, health care, energy and advanced manufacturing.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/09/30/white-house-announces-job-training-grants
White House Announces Job-Training Grants
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Upside-of-Selling-Your/149019/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
The Upside of Selling Your Soul
By Lee Gardner
…Prospective students might be tempted by those pitches, but for many in higher education, they send a different message: Education is a product. Students are customers. Institutions are brands. Colleges are selling their souls. But these days, maybe selling your soul is a smart thing to do. Done right, marketing goes beyond mere sloganeering to offer colleges an exercise in clear-eyed assessment. If what a college is selling is the essence of what makes it unique, marketing can reinvigorate the campus, draw students, shore up the bottom line, and improve the institutional reputation.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/What-You-Need-to-Know-About/149075/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
What You Need to Know About Companies That Run Online Programs for Colleges
By Steve Kolowich
“Publish or perish” is an old saw that, like so many things in higher education, has been updated to reflect modern wisdom. The revised version of the phrase offers advice not to professors but to colleges: “Partner or perish.” The growth of online higher education, the breakdown of competitive borders, and the decline of public support for colleges have caused traditional institutions—even sturdy ones—to reflect on their strategies for survival. In the soil of this anxiety, online “enablers” have taken root.
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http://chronicle.com/article/Can-t-Get-Into-Berkeley-You/149077/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Can’t Get Into Berkeley? You Might Like …
By Steve Kolowich
A contract between 2U and the University of California at Berkeley sheds light on how applicant data might be used for marketing purposes when a university outsources its recruiting to an online “enabler,” a company that helps traditional institutions move their programs to the web. In January 2013, Berkeley signed a contract with 2U to have the company help build its new online master’s program in data science. One of the company’s main responsibilities under the contract, which The Chronicle obtained via a public-records request, is getting prospective students to apply to the program.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/for-bill-on-disabled-access-to-online-teaching-materials-the-devils-in-the-details/54651?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
For Bill on Disabled Access to Online Teaching Materials, the Devil’s in the Details
by Rebecca Koenig
As smart classrooms become the norm on more campuses and online courses proliferate, some observers worry that the digital revolution will leave students with disabilities behind. But a bill under consideration in the U.S. Congress, the Technology, Equality, and Accessibility in College and Higher Education Act (HR 3505), would deal with that concern by creating accessibility guidelines for electronic materials used or assigned by college professors and administrators.
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http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/new-laws-in-calif-allow-4-year-degrees-at-2-year-colleges-and-more-dream-aid/87047?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
New Laws in Calif. Will Allow 4-Year Degrees at 2-Year Colleges and More ‘Dream’ Aid
by Charles Huckabee
Gov. Jerry Brown of California acted on Sunday on several bills that affect higher education, including signing into law measures that will allow some of the state’s community colleges to grant four-year degrees and that will let public university students who can’t take out federal loans because of their immigration status borrow from their colleges instead. With Mr. Brown’s signature on the community-college bill, California joins 21 other states that have given two-year colleges the authority to award bachelor’s degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. California will begin a pilot program no later than the 2017-18 academic year, and the pilot will end in 2024.
www.sun-sentinel.com
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/os-florida-teachers-worst-place-study,0,7663611.post
Florida 8th worst state for teachers, study says
Leslie Postal
Florida ranks near the bottom when it comes to opportunities for teachers, according to a new study. It was the “eighth worst state for teachers” on the list that ranked the 50 states and Washington, D.C. The study by WalletHub was released this morning. It ranked the states based on a number of factors, including starting teacher salaries, 10-year change in teacher salaries, per-pupil spending, average class sizes, safe school measures and teacher unemployment.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/30/both-complainants-and-respondents-sexual-assault-cases-question-privacy-policies
Confidentiality Concerns
By Colleen Flaherty
Advocates say that confidentiality in investigating sexual assault and harassment cases is crucial to promoting an environment in which victims feel comfortable coming forward. So colleges’ individual sexual assault harassment policies usually err on the side of more privacy, not less. But is there such a thing as too much confidentiality?
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https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/09/30/umass-review-policy-students-confidential-drug-informants
UMass to Review Policy on Students as Confidential Drug Informants
The University of Massachusetts at Amherst said Monday it would review a program that drafts students as confidential drug informants, The Boston Globe reported, in the wake of a Globe article Sunday that described the death of one such informant from a heroin overdose.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/09/30/college-endowment-funds-likely-had-another-year-double-digit-returns
Far Out of the Red
By Ry Rivard
Investment returns from a group of select, well-endowed public and private colleges suggest the 2014 budget year was a good year for college endowment funds. Many endowment managers will see double-digit investment returns for the second year in a row, just two years after market returns shrank slightly and six years after the economic crisis torpedoed some funds.