USG NEWS:
www.gwinnettdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2014/nov/10/georgia-gwinnett-college-leads-state-in/
Georgia Gwinnett College leads state in enrollment growth
By Keith Farner
Growth continues at Georgia Gwinnett College, and the Lawrenceville school leads the state in enrollment increase from last fall. GGC recorded an 11.4 percent enrollment spike this fall compared to fall 2013 as 10,828 students were enrolled. For full-time enrollment, which accounts for 69.5 percent of students at GGC, that number jumped 10.8 percent from last fall.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/morning_call/2014/11/georgia-gwinnett-college-leads-state-in-enrollment.html
Georgia Gwinnett College leads state in enrollment growth

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/education/2014-11-10/gru-officials-say-enrollment-numbers-line-planned-progress?v=1415651320
GRU officials say enrollment numbers in line with planned progress
By Tracey McManus
Staff Writer
While total enrollment fell for two years straight at Georgia Regents University, officials say the shift is actually evidence of its progress toward becoming a more selective institution that recruits and retains higher achieving students. …“It is a positive direction,” Poisel said. “If we can increase the number of students that meet higher requirements, then that is going to impact our retention rates, it’s going to impact our graduation rates. Admissions folks are telling students from the beginning that requirements are going up. We are being very upfront.”

www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/11/10/3406301_improved-retention-helps-columbus.html?rh=1
Improved retention helps Columbus State increase enrollment
BY MARK RICE
Columbus State University’s fall semester enrollment grew only 0.4 percent this past year, but it helped the University System of Georgia reverse a two-year decline, officials announced Monday. CSU’s fall enrollment increased from 8,156 in 2013 to 8,192 in 2014, while the system increased 1.1 percent, from 309,469 to 312,936 in 2014. CSU’s enrollment had dropped the previous two fall semesters, by 0.8 percent from 2011 to 2012 and by 0.9 percent from 2012 to 2013. The most encouraging statistic for CSU is its retention rate (first-time, full-time freshmen who become sophomores), which has increased 5.4 percentage points in two academic years, from 65.6 percent in 2011-12 to 70.9 percent in 2013-14.

www.rockdalecitizen.com
http://www.rockdalecitizen.com/news/2014/nov/10/georgia-perimeter-college-reports-slight/
Georgia Perimeter College reports slight enrollment increase
From staff reports
COVINGTON — Georgia Perimeter College reported Friday a slight uptick in fall student enrollment. Fall student enrollment increased by 1.2 percent over fall 2013, according to GPC, with 21,371 students signing up for classes. GPC, which is the fifth-largest in the university system in terms of enrollment, has campuses in Clarkston, Decatur, Dunwoody and Alpharetta, in addition to the Newton Campus off Ga. Highway 11 in Newton County.

www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/ung-enrollment-soars/nh5C9/
UNG enrollment soars
Mark Woolsey
The University of North Georgia is continuing a trend of enrollment growth outpacing the state average. School officials say 16, 064 students registered for the fall semester, an increase of 3.9 percent from the fall of 2013. …UNG also enrolled the largest number of new transfer students among the four newly-consolidated USG schools.

www.daily-tribune.com
http://www.daily-tribune.com/view/full_story/26077925/article-GHC-president-seeks-partnership-between-college–local-businesses?instance=latest_articles
GHC president seeks partnership between college, local businesses
by Donna Harris
Forming a mutually beneficial partnership between Georgia Highlands College and the local business community is high on Dr. Donald Green’s priority list. The newly appointed college president addressed GHC’s advisory council Friday morning about the need to educate students in ways that will serve the labor market in northwest Georgia.

www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2014-11-10/georgia-regents-medical-center-wants-40-years-loan-refinance
Georgia Regents Medical Center wants 40 years, loan refinance
By Tom Corwin
Staff Writer
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents will be asked Wednesday to extend the lease of Georgia Regents Medical Center to its operating company and change the rent the university gets back. MCG Health Inc. is asking for a 40-year-lease instead of a series of 10-year leases that is continually renewed. The lease length is to coincide with the length of refinancing about $48 million from a $50 million bank loan taken out by the health system in 2009 that was to come due next July, said Chief Business Officer Tony Wagner.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-11-10/athens-man-charged-armed-robbery-uga-students
Athens man charged in armed robbery of UGA students
By JOE JOHNSON
Athens-Clarke County police have arrested one of two suspects in an armed robbery of three University of Georgia students last month. Ralph Lakee Bess, 25, of East Paces Drive, was arrested Sunday morning and charged with one count each of robbery and aggravated assault, police said.

GOOD NEWS:
www.militarytimes.com
http://www.militarytimes.com/story/veterans/best-for-vets/education/2014/11/10/best-for-vets-colleges-2015/18798437/
Best for Vets: Colleges 2015
By George Altman, Staff writer
…Several hundred schools participated in this year’s survey, filling out a detailed questionnaire with well over 100 questions that delved into the issues most crucial to student vets. Schools that identified themselves as primarily career and technical colleges were considered in a separate set of rankings, published last month. To decide which schools made the list and where they should be ranked, we compared not only schools’ survey responses, but also data compiled by the U.S. Education Department, including academic success measures.
These schools told us they offer bachelor’s or graduate degrees or both. …12. Armstrong State University; 58. Georgia Perimeter College; 71. Kennesaw State University; 76 University of Georgia …Online & nontraditional schools These schools told us more than half of their classes are online-only or that most of their students don’t attend classes at a central campus or a few regional campuses. 9. Clayton State University

www.statesborherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/64367/
Bulloch County industry training, innovation labs get $500,000 boost
OneGeorgia awards grant to Georgia Southern, Ogeechee Tech and Bulloch County Development Authority
Special to the Herald
The OneGeorgia Authority has approved a $500,000 grant for workforce development and business innovation efforts in the Statesboro and Bulloch County area, recipient organizations revealed Friday. The Development Authority of Bulloch County, Georgia Southern University and Ogeechee Technical College worked together on the proposal, called the Statesboro-Bulloch Regional Career and Workforce Initiative. The money will go to purchase equipment and software for two previously announced projects: the Industrial Maintenance and Advanced Manufacturing Skills program being added at Ogeechee Tech and the Innovation Incubator and Fabrication Laboratory, or FabLab, being added to Georgia Southern’s City Campus.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-11-10/uga-scientists-get-3-million-grant-develop-infectious-disease-outbreak
UGA scientists get $3 million grant to develop infectious disease outbreak warning system
UGA NEWS SERVICE
John Drake, an associate professor in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, will use a five-year, $3.18 million grant to develop an early warning system that could help public health officials prepare for — and possibly prevent — infectious disease outbreaks. Funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, the research is part of the Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study, a coordinated network of scientists who use computer models to study infectious disease dynamics.

www.thinkinghighways.com
http://thinkinghighways.com/its-georgia-announces-best-of-its-and-shackelford-scholarship-winners/
TS Georgia announces Best of ITS and Shackelford Scholarship winners
By Thinking Highways
The Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia announced the Best of ITS Award winners and the Shackelford Scholar at the 2014 Awards Banquet in Atlanta last week. “Special congratulations are in order for our 2014 Best of ITS Award winners, as they represent the highest order of transportation professionals and projects in Georgia,” said Tom Sever, President of ITS Georgia. “We are also pleased to recognize future leadership in transportation with our fifth-annual Wayne Shackelford memorial scholarship winner representing the excellent transportation research carried out in the University System of Georgia.” …Wayne Shackelford Scholarship – Simon J. Berrebi, a doctoral candidate at Georgia Tech who developed a method that uses real-time information to control buses on a high-frequency route – a technology he hopes to commercialize upon graduation.

RESEARCH:
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/the-problem-with-using-tests-to-rate-music-art-and/nh3bP/
The problem with using tests to rate music, art and gym teachers
By Molly Bloom and Ty Tagami – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
For the first time this year, all Georgia teachers will be rated in part on student test results. That’s straightforward enough for teachers whose students take state standardized tests. But the majority of teachers – in subjects like art, music and gym – teach subjects and grades that aren’t covered by such high-stakes tests. For them, many school districts have come up with their own exams. Educators and research suggest that system isn’t good enough for evaluations that could make or break careers. …Another issue educators are concerned about: Student growth ratings for teachers of areas not covered by state tests tend to be lower than those for teachers of state-tested subjects, according to a 2014 University of Georgia research report.

www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/features/2014-11-10/compound-found-coffee-may-help-battle-obesity
Compound found in coffee may help battle obesity
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered that a chemical compound commonly found in coffee may help prevent some of the damaging effects of obesity. In a paper published recently in Pharmaceutical Research, scientists found that chlorogenic acid, or CGA, significantly reduced insulin resistance and accumulation of fat in the livers of mice who were fed a high-fat diet.

Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.thewestgeorgian.com
http://thewestgeorgian.com/core-classes-are-they-necessary/
The Necessity of Core Classes
By Aaron Allen
As high school seniors are preparing for graduation, they are challenged with the question, “Do I go to college to get a degree to ultimately earn more money, or do I go straight into the work force to begin my life?” Attending a university includes taking almost two years of core classes before getting into classes that are actually focused on a selected major. The core classes required in college are the same material that is taught through middle and high school. Why should students pay universities extra money to take classes they have already taken?
UWG students are required core classes in a variety of subjects before moving on to their major-specific classes.

www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
Nothing against grandparents, but educators ought to inform the Common Core discussion
Maureen Downey
A confounding aspect of the attacks on Common Core State Standards has been the minimization of the opinion of educators, the folks who have devoted their lives to teaching math, language arts and science. Their views are ignored in favor of grandparents who have not had kids in the schools in 25 years. I like grandparents; I just became one. But we ought to be placing the highest premium on the classroom expertise from classroom experts, not from people far removed from the classroom whose grasp of standards overall and Common Core specifically is tenuous. (I have attended a half-dozen hearings on Common Core in the last year; people don’t understand standards vs. curriculum.)

Education News
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/emory-panel-discussion-to-address-immigrant-studen/nh4c6/
Emory panel discussion to address immigrant student access to college
By Jeremy Redmon – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A panel discussion scheduled for Wednesday at Emory University will explore how immigrant students living without legal status in Georgia can get a college education. Freedom at Emory, which aims to make the university more accessible to these students, is joining the Emory College Council and TedxEmory to present the discussion. Entitled “Freedom Fighters Speak: Undocumented Youth and Higher Education in Georgia,”

www.chronicle.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/education/on-us-campuses-networking-and-nurturing-to-retain-black-men.html?_r=3
On U.S. Campuses, Networking and Nurturing to Retain Black Men
By BEN GOSE | THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
…In his first year, he and his friends noticed some adults on the campus, in North Little Rock, who always seemed to be chatting with black male undergraduates. “We thought they were probation officers,” he said. The adults were actually academic coaches at the Network for Student Success, a Pulaski effort supported by the United States Education Department to improve retention and graduation rates among black male students. Mr. Slater gave the program a try. He was assigned a “success coach,” who helped him identify academic goals. He was advised to sit at the front of his class and introduce himself to his instructors. He was urged to dress in a shirt and tie and to overcome his natural shyness to speak in front of groups.

www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Another-College-Access-Issue-/149909/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Another College-Access Issue: Financial-Aid Jargon
By Beckie Supiano
From his office window, Eric Johnson can see the groundskeeping staff clearing off the sidewalk with leaf blowers. Colleges like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he works, pull out all the stops to make their campuses inviting. But rarely, he says, do they work as diligently to create a welcoming presence online, even though that’s where today’s prospective students encounter them first. In a way, Mr. Johnson’s job is to be the online equivalent of those groundskeepers, clearing debris from a corner of the university’s website that can be particularly inhospitable: the section explaining financial aid. One of his tasks, as the fairly new assistant director of communications in the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid, is to translate web pages and application forms from financial-aid jargon into plain English.

www.diverseeducation.com
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University of Nebraska Benefits From Extra Tuition
by Associated Press
LINCOLN, Neb. — A tuition increase that only University of Nebraska-Lincoln business and engineering students pay hasn’t swayed them from choosing those majors. The $50-per-credit hour increase, known as differential tuition, has generated millions in revenue that’s helped employ additional professors, renovate facilities and expand student services at the school. Students enrolled in either the College of Business Administration or the College of Engineering pay an extra $3,000 over their time at the university. However, those students also usually get jobs with higher earning potential than students in other programs.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/11/one-way-permit-federal-funding-new-postsecondary-institutions
Innovation vs. Gatekeeping
By Doug Lederman
The tension between promoting innovation and new approaches on the one hand and protecting academic quality and federal financial aid funds on the other is at the core of many major issues in higher education — not the least of which is the accreditation system. The system of peer-reviewed quality assurance is frequently attacked as a brake on progress and competition in American higher education, even as others criticize it for going too soft on institutions in ways that cost taxpayers money.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/11/11/universities-blast-congressional-probe-nsf-grants
Universities Blast Congressional Probe of NSF Grants
The Association of American Universities, a group of the nation’s leading research institutions, on Monday criticized an inquiry by the U.S. House science committee into specific National Science Foundation grants. The panel, led by Republican Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, has been requesting information from the NSF about specific grants the agency awarded through its peer review process. Smith has long criticized some NSF research grants as an example of unnecessary or wasteful government spending.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/11/colleges-turn-campuswide-bans-fraternity-sorority-parties
Collective Punishment
By Jake New
When a 16-year-old girl reported having been raped by two men at a John Hopkins University fraternity party last week, the university moved quickly to punish the chapter. Neither the victim nor the men are believed to be affiliated with Sigma Alpha Epsilon or the university, but John Hopkins said the incident was related to underage drinking at the off-campus house, and placed the chapter on interim suspension. …On Friday, the university announced that open parties at fraternities are banned for the rest of the semester. It’s a measure that some John Hopkins students worry could dramatically alter the university’s social scene, but collective punishment of Greek systems has been used with some frequency at other colleges this academic year, as well.

www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/11/11/laptop-heist-ucla
Laptop Heist at UCLA
A thief took 55 Apple laptops from the library at the University of California at Los Angeles this weekend, The Los Angeles Times reported. The thief smashed a window at 2:26 a.m. Saturday and appeared to know where he was going to find numerous laptops.