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Federal Appeals Court Won’t Reinstate Discrimination Suit Against Savannah State
by Eric Freedman
A federal appeals court has refused to reinstate a discrimination case against Savannah State University by four White football recruits who were offered athletic scholarships by a White head coach but didn’t receive them from the coach’s Black replacement.
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New study takes ‘Freshman 15’ myth off the table
Mollie Simon
When it comes to starting college, the so-called “Freshman 15” is often referenced by incoming students with a tone of disdain usually reserved for opposing football teams. While students may talk about the 15 pounds freshmen supposedly gain in their first year, a recent University of Georgia study out of the Body Composition and Metabolism Lab indicates college weight gain is greatly overstated, and that on average students will only put on about 3.5 pounds cumulatively across all four years of school.
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To educate Georgians, regents expand distance learning, request $212.7 million in campus construction
By David Pendered
Georgia’s Board of Regents have expanded an aggressive, two-pronged plan to create an additional 250,000 college graduates by 2025. The goal is to propel Georgia’s population toward the type of education necessary to attract quality employers, as well as to manage civic and cultural responsibilities. Regents agreed in September to extend to 11 additional campuses the system’s distance education program. The board also adopted a construction budget request that’s almost 11 percent higher than the previous request to the state Legislature.
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http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/13/jason-carters-campaign-calls-gop-attack-on-hope-a-shameful-lie/
Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Jason Carter’s campaign calls GOP attack on HOPE a ‘shameful lie’
By Greg Bluestein
We now have the second Democrat to use the “L” word — as in “lie” — about a Republican attack. Georgia voters began receiving robocalls over the weekend from a female narrator claiming that Democrat Jason Carter “wants to eliminate the HOPE scholarship for thousands of middle-class families.” The end of the recording, which you can hear below, says it was paid for by the Georgia Republican Party. It ends thusly: “Vote no on Jason Carter. HOPE is too important.” …Carter’s campaign manager, Matt McGrath, called it a “shameful lie from a desperate politician” and said Republican Gov. Nathan Deal is to blame for changes that have led to fewer HOPE recipients. Republicans stand by the ad, and say that Democrats would have eventually limited HOPE eligibility to families with a household income of $100,000 or less.
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Political Insider with Jim Galloway
Jason Carter says caps on HOPE eligibilty are ‘too blunt an instrument’
By Greg Bluestein
In the state Senate, Jason Carter championed an effort to place an income cap on eligibility for the HOPE scholarship to ensure it paid full tuition to the most needy recipients. You won’t hear him doing the same in the governor’s race. As the back-and-forth between Carter’s campaign and Gov. Nathan Deal’s allies reached new heights over a robo-call that claimed the Democrat wanted to scuttle the HOPE scholarship for thousands of middle-class families, the two candidates met at a forum Monday to discuss the future of lottery-funded programs.
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Wooing Medical Students
by Wilson Ring, Associated Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. ― The new secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs made an impassioned recruitment pitch to medical school and nursing students at the University of Vermont on Monday, urging them to consider careers in the VA. It was the latest in a series of recruiting stops VA Secretary Robert McDonald has made since he took over at the end of July with a mission to overhaul an agency beleaguered by long waits for health care for the nation’s veterans and by workers falsifying records to cover up delays.
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New Data on Transition from High School to College
The National Student Clearinghouse on Tuesday released a broad data set on students’ transition from high school to college. The nonprofit group’s report, which is the second annual installment, tracked 3.5 million students from public and private high schools over four years.
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High Schools’ Average Incomes Predict College Enrollment, Study Finds
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https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/10/14/job-prospects-are-new-graduates
Job Prospects Are Up for New Graduates
The job market for new graduates in the spring appears to be much improved. According to “Recruiting Trends,” an annual national survey of companies by Michigan State University, hiring is expected to grow by 16 percent next year, after several years of very modest growth.
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On Campuses and Beyond, the Job Market for New Graduates Looks Up
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The U. of Texas Tracks What Its Graduates Earn. It Thinks You Should, Too.
By Eric Kelderman
Washington
Representatives of the University of Texas system came to town last week, touting an online data tool that shows the salaries of the universities’ graduates. It wasn’t just the associations of peer institutions that got a look. The officials also met with federal lawmakers to register their support for a “unit record” system to track individual students during college and after they graduate.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/14/jack-kent-cooke-foundation-embraces-technology-help-low-income-students
Reaching Out With Tech
By Carl Straumsheim
A former New York City schools chancellor plans to use technology — and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s $700 million endowment — to connect more low-income students with prestigious colleges and universities. The foundation, which during its first 15 years has mainly awarded grants and scholarships, is now working with technology companies such as IBM to produce virtual college search and advising tools, among other technology-mediated initiatives.
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http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81668029/
Biotech leaders forecast more growth
By Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun Sentinel
Biotech industry leaders from around the state met Monday in Fort Lauderdale to foster collaboration and keep the industry on a steady growth track. The two-day conference is expected to attract about 500 business owners, research institute leaders, academics and investors. “To go forward, we have to build on our strengths,” said Dawn Johnson, senior director of Florida operations for Jupiter-based research institute Scripps Florida. Research on cancer, infectious diseases and aging are among the state’s strengths, and continued collaboration is key to Florida’s success in the industry, she said. Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Parkland, said Florida’s relatively new biotech sector got a jump-start eight years ago with legislative funding, and now, “it’s working and churning on its own.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/14/florida-governor-candidates-spar-over-higher-education-funding
Best for Florida Higher Ed?
By Kaitlin Mulhere
A tight gubernatorial race in Florida has included a back-and-forth battle over who can claim pro-higher-education bragging rights. Both candidates — Republican incumbent Rick Scott and Democratic convert Charlie Crist — have been working for months to paint themselves as an ally to students, parents and teachers. Those efforts have included claims of financial support for college students and the cash-strapped state university system, where universities saw several straight years of budget cuts prior to 2013.
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https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/14/cathy-davidsons-new-big-idea
Big Idea, Tall Order
By Colleen Flaherty
When it comes to ideas, bigger is definitely better for Cathy N. Davidson. During her more than 20 years at Duke University, Davidson held two endowed professorships, in English and interdisciplinary studies, and wrote prolifically on the intersections of technology, education, work and culture. A pioneering digital humanist, she also co-founded the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory to connect academics, artists and technologists around issues of pedagogy (the group’s motto is “Changing the way we teach and learn”). …But Davidson’s newest idea, the Futures Initiative at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, might just be her biggest yet. This summer, she was lured away from Duke by the Graduate Center to do something truly unique, on a grand scale: foster interdisciplinary and collaborative teaching and learning across the CUNY system, in a way that inspires reinvestment in public higher education.
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Nearly 200 Students Sue Kansas-Based College
by Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. ― Nearly 200 students have joined a lawsuit accusing Kansas-based Wright Career College of fraud. The lawsuit against Mission Group Kansas Inc., a nonprofit company doing business as Wright Career College, was filed last year but recently amended to add 195 more students, the Kansas City Star reported. The current and former students attended Wright’s campuses in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The lawsuit states Wright Career College enticed students to enroll and apply for student loans they can’t pay back. It also claims Wright deceived students about attendance costs, employment prospects and the value of the school’s accreditation.
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How a Sex-Assault Researcher Persevered Against University Resistance
By Tom Bartlett
The numbers, though not surprising at this point, were still distressing. A survey of nearly 1,000 students at the University of Oregon, released this month, found that 10 percent of women had been raped and more than a third had experienced at least one nonconsensual sexual encounter. Troubling, too, was the finding that nine out of 10 victims never reported their assaults. Such statistics reveal a situation on college campuses that President Obama recently called “an affront to our basic humanity.” The researcher behind that survey is Jennifer J. Freyd, a professor of psychology at Oregon. Ms. Freyd’s work on “betrayal trauma,” a term she coined in the early 1990s, has attracted increased interest from policy makers in recent years.
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At Saint Louis U., Ferguson Protests Make for a Long, Tense, but Peaceful Night
By Katherine Mangan
It was almost 2 a.m. on Monday when students at Saint Louis University awoke to the chanting of hundreds of protesters converging on their campus. University security officers, who had little warning that the protests that had roiled the streets of St. Louis and suburban Ferguson, Mo., would spill through their gates, stepped aside to make way for the crowds, which were protesting the killing of an unarmed black teenager in August and another teen last week. …Campus security officers were first summoned about 15 minutes before the protesters arrived, after social-media posts hinted that the marchers were heading their way. One top priority: making sure residence-hall monitors were checking anyone who entered for a campus ID.
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Off-Campus Student Charged in Penn State Threat
by Joe Mandak, Associated Press
PITTSBURGH ― A 20-year-old off-campus student has been jailed on charges that he posted a social media threat to shoot people at a popular gathering area on Penn State’s main campus. Jong Seong Shim, of Tinton Falls, New Jersey, told police on the campus about 140 miles east of Pittsburgh that his post on the social media site Yik Yak was a “prank,” according to a criminal complaint filed Monday by campus police. But Police Chief Tyrone Parham said in a statement that, “Alarming an entire community is not considered a joke.” The sophomore engineering student was jailed after he was unable to immediately post $100,000 bond following his arraignment on two counts of making terroristic threats and one count of disorderly conduct.