USG NEWS:
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/27156222/eagle-expo-connects-gsu-students-with-employers?autostart=true
Eagle Expo connects GSU students with employers
By Dal Cannady
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Hundreds of Georgia Southern students got the chance to network with companies that could soon be their employers.
It wasn’t exactly a first interview, but the annual Eagle Expo brought students together with nearly 100 recruiters. The companies ranged from retailers to industry, government to logistics. The expo gives seniors a chance to make contact for job openings after graduation.
RESEARCH:
www.biomassmagazine.com
http://www.biomassmagazine.com/articles/11127/herty-launches-consortium-for-advanced-wood-to-energy-solutions
Herty launches Consortium for Advanced Wood-to-Energy Solutions
The Georgia Southern University Herty Advanced Materials Development Center in Savannah, Georgia, U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, announced the launch of the Consortium for Advanced Wood-to-Energy Solutions. The consortium’s goal is to spearhead development of commercially-viable, advanced wood-to-energy products that can be produced from low-value trees and forest residues that can compromise forest health and increase the frequency of wildfires. The U.S. Endowment and the Forest Service, via its state and private Forestry division, have “jump started” the consortium with a $4 million investment designed to identify and fill critical research, development, and deployment needs in launching successful commercial biomass to energy products operations.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/30/which-campus-boasts-georgias-smartest-students-based-on-test-scores-georgia-tech/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Which campus boasts Georgia’s smartest students based on test scores? Georgia Tech.
We can debate the value of a ranking that determines which colleges are the “smartest in America” based on their student SAT and ACT scores, or we can celebrate how many Georgia campuses make the cut. I vote for the latter on this lovely fall morning. (I am being positive after spending an hour on this post and then having it disappear, never to be seen again. This is my second effort, and I hope it sticks.)
www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/10/30/georgia-doe-high-school-graduation-rate-rises/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Georgia DOE: High school graduation rate rises
From Georgia DOE this morning: Georgia’s public high school graduation rate has increased for the third consecutive year, rising from 71.8 percent in 2013 to 72.5 percent in 2014, and rising a total of 5.1 percentage points since 2011.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/10/30/essay-emotional-costs-student-success
The Emotional Costs of Student Success
By Andrew Joseph Pegoda
“Success” means many different things. There are as many definitions as there are people (or students in this case). “Student success” is the big push at colleges and universities across the nation, and this push is largely being forced upon colleges by state legislatures and federal bodies overseeing education. This well-intended goal has many definitions but generally includes a focus on having higher enrollments, more full-time students, students passing their classes (with high grades), and more graduates. One aspect of this approach is that it tends to, at least sometimes, imply that students who do not graduate or who are not full-time are not successful.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/our-online-learning-communitys-online-learning-failures
Our Online Learning Community’s Online Learning Failures
By Joshua Kim
Are you as depressed as I am about the results of the 2014 IHE Survey of Faculty Attitudes on Technology? Some lowlights: Only 9 percent of faculty strongly agree that online courses can achieve student learning outcomes that are at least equivalent to those of in-person courses at any institution. Only 4 percent of faculty think that online learning is better than in-person courses in delivering the necessary content to meet learning objectives.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/future-moocs
The Future of MOOCs
Steven Mintz
MOOCs are not dead, but MOOC mania has certainly abated. Predictions made in 2012 that MOOCs would totally disrupt the existing higher education model were certainly exaggerated. But that does not mean that MOOCs won’t have an profound impact on the future of higher education.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Service-Academies-Too-Should/149705/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Service Academies, Too, Should Have to Publicly Report Sexual Assaults
By K. Denise Rucker Krepp
Last week the Department of Education issued new rules requiring colleges to provide training to students and employees on how to prevent sexual assault on campuses. This comes just a month after the White House announced the “It’s On Us” campaign, which is supposed to inspire students and others to confront the long-hidden problem. I hope the federal government also begins taking responsibility to prevent the sexual assaults that occur at the five federal service academies, instead of continuing to hide them.
Education News
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/georgia-graduation-rates-rise-slightly/nhwTb/
Georgia graduation rates rise slightly
By Ty Tagami
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s public high school graduation rate rose last year, but not by much. The 72.5 percent four-year graduation rate for the class of 2014 was up less than a percentage point from the prior year. It is a continuation of annual — but slowing — increases since 2011, when the federal government developed the new way of measuring graduation.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/hope-scholarship-enters-gubernatorial-race-debate-amid-talk-of-income/article_f2387a8a-5fad-11e4-9f0c-0017a43b2370.html
HOPE Scholarship enters gubernatorial race debate amid talk of income caps
Mollie Simon
With the clock counting down to Election Day (Nov. 4) and the final votes in the gubernatorial race, anyone who hoped for a clean campaign may be out of luck. The HOPE and Zell Miller scholarships, which together benefited 20,086 UGA students during the 2012-2013 school year, have become a point of debate between democratic candidate and Georgia state Sen. Jason Carter (D-DeKalb) and Republican incumbent Gov. Nathan Deal.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/67644/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=71948cc52fea4d1d9e50d4c3eed1fccd&elqCampaignId=415
The Secret Sauce of College Admissions
by Brian C. Mitchell
Moody’s issued a report recently pointing to a basic discrepancy in how we view college admissions that underscores the collapse of the college tuition-dependent finance model. In its report, Moody’s noted that applications to private colleges rose 70 percent from 2004 to last year but the annual total of new high school graduates rose only 5 percent. The credit rating agency argued that the rise in applications created a perception of far greater selectivity than actually occurred at many colleges and universities.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/10/30/med-school-enrollments-are-again
Med School Enrollments Are Up Again
A total of 20,343 students enrolled in medical colleges this fall, an increase of 1.4 percent and a record number, the Association of American Medical Colleges announced.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/67647/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=71948cc52fea4d1d9e50d4c3eed1fccd&elqCampaignId=415
Retention, Graduation Efforts of Akron Area Pays Dividends
by Catherine Morris
WASHINGTON ― The Akron metropolitan area of Northeast Ohio won a $1 million prize for success in helping students stay in college and graduate. Northeast Ohio beat out 56 other regions across the country competing for the Talent Dividend Prize.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/30/lynn-u-launch-ipad-powered-distance-education-programs-fall-2015
An iPad in Every Home
By Carl Straumsheim
Lynn University’s tablet initiative is spreading online — that is, its distance education programs will from next fall be delivered through tablets and at notably low prices. The university’s Board of Trustees approved the plans on Oct. 22 — two years to the day after President Obama and Mitt Romney clashed over foreign policy issues at Lynn’s Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center, an event that prompted Lynn to upgrade its IT infrastructure. The go-ahead for the revamped program highlights the breakneck pace at which Lynn has hurled itself into a tablet-centric future.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/30/survey-college-presidents-shows-mixed-views-climate-surveys-politics
Pressure on the Presidents
By Scott Jaschik
Twenty-eight percent of public four-year college and university presidents say they feel pressure from their governors to conduct their presidencies in ways that differ from their judgment about what’s best for their institutions. That is among the findings of the latest snap poll of presidents — conducted by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed — on breaking issues. A total of 620 presidents responded to the latest survey.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/10/30/final-gainful-employment-rules-drop-loan-default-rate
Gainful Employment Arrives
By Paul Fain
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Education today will release what is likely the Obama administration’s last chance to set regulations to clamp down on for-profit colleges. But this second iteration of “gainful employment” rules will fail to please either advocates for the for-profit sector or its critics. The final version of the regulations will not use a student loan default rate, which was one of two metrics for judging colleges in the draft the department released in March. The rules will feature unchanged standards for graduates’ debt-to-earnings ratios.
www.washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/white-house-issues-rules-to-regulate-colleges-with-career-training-programs/2014/10/29/daa89996-5fa7-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html?wpisrc=nl-headlines&wpmm=1
Obama administration issues rules to regulate colleges with career-training programs
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel
For-profit colleges will have to limit how much debt students amass in career-training programs or have their federal funding cut, according to rules issued Thursday by the Obama administration. The rules are the culmination of years of contentious debates over the responsibility for-profit colleges have to ensure that graduates of career programs receive “gainful employment.” While the restrictions could place 1,400 programs in jeopardy of losing federal student aid, critics say the rules still leave room for schools to abuse the system.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/67650/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=71948cc52fea4d1d9e50d4c3eed1fccd&elqCampaignId=415
Scholars Find Obama’s Education Legacy Remains Up for Debate
by Autumn A. Arnett
As President Barack Obama hits the midpoint of his second term, many have begun to consider what will be his legacy, particularly as it relates to education. Debates have raged on about whether the president has done enough to help Black students overcome the historic and systemic deficits they have faced in their educational pursuits. During a panel hosted last week by George Mason University, scholars discussed “the Historical Relevance of Education Equity Policies in an Obama Era.”
www.news-press.com
http://www.news-press.com/story/news/education/2014/10/29/florida-earns-b-education-policies/18104911/
Florida earns B for education policies
Dave Breitenstein
A national organization has given Florida a B grade for its education policies, putting it second in the nation. Today, Virginia-based American Legislative Exchange Council issued its Report Card on American Education, which awarded letter grades based on six facets of states’ education policies. Florida’s B grade reflects the following ratings: