USG NEWS:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2014-11-17/late-georgia-gov-carl-sanders-remembered-uga-leaders
Late Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders remembered by UGA leaders
By LEE SHEARER
Former Georgia “education” Gov. Carl Sanders died on Sunday. Educational leaders on Monday were saddened by the loss of one of public education’s greatest friends.
“The University of Georgia community mourns the loss of one of its finest alumni and one of the state’s greatest champions for public higher education,” said UGA President Jere Morehead. Robert Webb, chairman of the Atlanta law firm Sanders founded, says the former governor’s family told the firm that Sanders fell at home on Friday and developed respiratory issues. Sanders was a Democrat and served as governor from 1963 to 1967 after terms in the state House and Senate. Sanders made significant changes to the state’s education system and took steps to improve Georgia’s civil rights image. While governor, the state spent more money on construction for higher education institutions than in the previous 31 years. Also, average salaries in the University System of Georgia increased by nearly one-third.
www.businessinsavannah.com
http://businessinsavannah.com/bis/2014-11-19/bis-brief-armstrong-savannah-state-co-sponsor-ethics-symposium#.VGywwiivIeU
BiS in brief: Armstrong, Savannah State co-sponsor ethics symposium
Armstrong, Savannah State co-sponsor ethics symposium
Armstrong State University and Savannah State University will co-host a special presentation Thursday night on ethics and fraud in today’s workplace. Presenters at the symposium titled “Creating a More Ethical Culture in the Workplace” will include Andrew Mudrinich, assistant professor of accounting at SSU; Rick McGrath, professor of economics at Armstrong; and Kelly Crosby, senior director-internal audit of the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System.
www.wtvm.com
http://www.wtvm.com/story/27416535/columbus-state-participates-in-international-fraud-awareness-week
Columbus State participates in International Fraud Awareness Week
By Jasmine Agyemang
COLUMBUS, GA (WTVM) – Columbus State University is participating in International Fraud Awareness Week from Nov. 16 until Nov. 22. CSU will host activities to help bring awareness to fraud prevention and will reinforce the University System of Georgia’s culture of recognizing the hard work of all employees. It will also promote shared values of integrity, excellence, accountability, and responsibility.
www.multihousingnews.com
http://www.multihousingnews.com/news/corvias-and-university-system-of-georgia-partner-on-innovative-517m-p3-deal/1004110865.html
Corvias and University System of Georgia Partner on Innovative $517M P3 Deal
By Keith Loria, Contributing Editor
Atlanta—Corvias Campus Living has been picked by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia to develop, construct, manage and maintain student housing in the first phase of a public-private partnership, which will include 3,683 new beds and 6,195 existing beds totaling more than 3 million square feet across nine of the USG’s 31 campuses. The joint venture is the first time ever that a state system has initiated the privatization of student housing through a portfolio of campuses.
www.mdjonline.com
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26121901/article-Balfour-Beatty-Construction-has-new-project-at-SPSU
Balfour Beatty Construction has new project at SPSU
by MDJ staff
Balfour Beatty Construction’s Georgia division will serve as construction manager for the renovation of Building D on the Southern Polytechnic State University campus in Marietta. The project, which broke ground recently, is slated to be completed in time for the 2015 fall semester. Building D, referred to on campus as the Mathematics Building, is one of the original buildings on the campus – constructed in the early 1960s. This 27,000-square-foot facility will undergo renovations to 20 classrooms and 14 faculty offices. The new classrooms will contain new, state-of-the art A/V technology.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/breaking-news/2014-11-18/sexual-consent-uga-it-doesnt-have-be-verbal-should-be-clear
Sexual consent: at UGA it doesn’t have to be verbal, but should be clear
By LEE SHEARER
University of Georgia policy doesn’t require people to actually say “yes” to give consent to a mutual sexual act, but it does require students, faculty and others covered by the policy to make sure both people mean “yes,” even if they don’t say it in words.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/64470/
Georgia Southern police use pepper spray to break up fight
Report: Woman tried to grab officer’s weapon
BY Jason Wermers
Georgia Southern University Police officers had to use pepper spray to break up a fight outside a restaurant over the weekend, and one suspect tried to grab an officer’s weapon as he was trying to subdue her, police said. It started when university and Statesboro police were dispatched to the report of a fight in the parking lot of Paulson Stadium at 11:56 p.m. Saturday. They found nothing there, but 911 dispatchers told them the fight was actually in the parking lot of nearby Bigshow’s Burgers and Bar, 200 Lanier Drive. On arriving there, GSU police Cpl. Chris Dyal reported seeing 15-20 men and women running through the parking lot and two men fighting near some vehicles. …When Dyal regained his vision, he saw a woman walking through the parking lot, pushing other people and repeatedly yelling obscenities, the report says. Dyal told her to stop, but she wouldn’t, so he jogged up behind her and grabbed her by the jacket. The woman, later identified as Breanna Michelle Kimbro, 21, of Lanier Drive, pulled away and grabbed onto the spoiler of a nearby vehicle, but Dyal was able to pry her hands away and handcuff her, according to the report. …Kimbro was charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction/hindering a law enforcement officer. Kimbro, who is a Georgia Southern student, was also judicially referred to university officials for punishment.
GOOD NEWS:
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/local/20141119-Newnan-Kiwanis-donates-to-UWG-Newnan
Kiwanis Club Donates To UWG Newnan
by CELIA SHORTT
The Newnan Kiwanis Club is donating $25,000 to the new University of West Georgia campus in Newnan. The Kiwanis Club made the presentation during its meeting on Tuesday. The commitment of the Kiwanis shows the connection the community has to this project, said UWG President Dr. Kyle Marrero. “The connection of the community is the only way we’ll be successful.”
USG VALUE:
www.thomastontimes.com
http://www.thomastontimes.com/news/home_top-news/150560095/Upward-Bound-champs
Upward Bound champs!
ULHS Math/Science team wins Scholar’s Bowl competition
By Karen Truesdale T-U School System
The Upward Bound Math Science program from Upson-Lee High School attended the Georgia TRiO Student Initiatives and Leadership Conference on Saturday, Nov. 8, at The University of Georgia in Athens. The conference is hosted annually by the Georgia Association of Special Programs Personnel. During this conference, the TRiO pre-college programs (Upward Bound Math Science/Upward Bound/Talent Search) from across the state of Georgia showcase their academic aptitude through various competitions. There were over 450 students in attendance. This year, the Atlanta Metropolitan State College’s Upward Bound Math Science (UBMS) program from Upson-Lee High School competed in the Scholar’s Bowl Competition. …Atlanta Metropolitan State College receives and administers the TRIO Programs Grant, which is a Federal Grant that includes a number of student services programs Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math Science, Talent Search, and more.
CAMPUS CONSOLIDATIONS:
www.sixmilepostonline.com
http://sixmilepostonline.com/?p=2831
SPSU/Kennesaw merger plans keep GHC at Marietta campus
BY BROOKE ALLEN
Kennesaw State University and Southern Polytechnic State University will be merging into one campus that will be called Kennesaw State in January 2015. A lot of changes will be taking place, but Georgia Highlands students should not worry. According to Ken Reaves, the dean of the GHC Marietta campus, the only changes that will take place are positive ones. Although no plans are set in stone, Reaves said new class programs and teachers may be added to GHC’s Marietta location. More tutoring will be available, and it will be even easier for GHC students to transfer to Kennesaw State, if they would like. When the D Building renovations are finished, Highlands students will be moving back into that building.
RESEARCH:
www.atlantamagazine.com
http://www.atlantamagazine.com/health/georgia-state-researcher-examines-brain-talks-blubber/
Georgia State researcher examines how your brain talks to blubber
Biologist Timothy Bartness developed an interest in obesity research after studying how hamsters fattened up to prepare for winter
Mary Jo DiLonardo
More than three decades ago, biologist Timothy Bartness studied how Siberian hamsters fattened up during the summer and early fall to prepare for winter food shortages. Curious about the idea of the brain telling the body to plump up, Bartness developed an interest in obesity research. He now directs Georgia State University’s Center for Obesity Reversal and recently received a $2.5 million award from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to study how the body breaks down fat.
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2014/11/19/3422006_ga-researchers-given-gulf-coast.html?rh=1
Ga. Researchers given Gulf Coast research grant
The Associated Press
ATHENS, GA. — University of Georgia officials say a group of researchers has been given a multimillion dollar grant to continue studying the environmental impact of oil seeping into the Gulf of Mexico. Officials say the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative has awarded a three-year, $18.8 million grant to a group of scientists led by marine sciences professor Samantha Joye of UGA to continue tracking the impacts of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf’s ecosystem.
www.detroitnews.com
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/general-motors/2014/11/18/gm-co-op-student-report-leads-safety-recall/19203633/
GM co-op student report leads to safety recall
Melissa Burden, The Detroit News
General Motors Co. co-op student Nick Sulimirski knew the stalling of his father’s Cadillac at highway speeds was a safety risk. When GM instituted its Speak Up for Safety program, he reported it. His complaint about the 2004 Cadillac CTS-V — which already had been repaired — led to the recall of more than 10,000 older Cadillacs in September. It was the first callback to stem from the program launched in April to encourage employees to report potential safety defects … “I felt like it was pretty dangerous and a fairly large issue to be brought up. But there was really no way of bringing it up, even though I did work at GM at the time as a co-op student,” said Sulimirski, a Georgia Institute of Technology mechanical engineering student.
www.smartgrid.testing-blog.com
http://smartgrid.testing-blog.com/2014/11/19/verizon-teams-up-with-georgia-tech-on-internet-of-things-wearables/
Verizon teams up with Georgia Tech on Internet of Things, wearables
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has entered into a multiyear research partnership with the Georgia Institute of Technology, with the objective of fostering development of new technology solutions in for the Internet of Things (IoT), including the areas of telematics, wearables and LTE network enhancements.
www.11alive.com
http://www.11alive.com/videos/news/health/2014/11/14/19053185/
Emory and Ga. Tech to help with concussions
Story about researchers from Emory University and Georgia Tech to help the NFL with concussions. Program interviewed Georgia Tech associate professor Michelle Laplaca,
www.popsugar.com
http://www.popsugar.com.au/beauty/Can-Gel-Shellac-Manicure-UV-Lamps-Give-You-Skin-Cancer-34708974
Are The Lamps Used At Nail Salons Going to Give You Cancer?
by Genevieve Rota
Would you go to a solarium now, knowing all that you know about the associated (and extremely high) risk of skin cancer? Nope, neither would we. That’s why we’re currently asking ourselves why we’ve been putting our hands in one pretty regularly since the introduction of gel manicures. The little UV lamps they use to dry your nails are miniature versions of a tanning bed in that both project UV rays directly onto our skin. LED lamps are generally considered safer (though they still emit a small amount of UV rays), but since they’re more expensive they’re less commonly used in salons. The question is: are these little nail lamps actually going to give us skin cancer? The answer, unfortunately, isn’t quite as clear. There’s no rock-solid evidence either way as yet, since we haven’t been using them long enough to make accurate conclusions. However, a new study out of Georgia Regents University in the US was released on Wednesday, with some interesting findings.
www.democratandchronicle.com
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/money/business/2014/11/17/xerox-joins-obama-initiative/19182537/
Xerox joins Obama initiative
Angela Greiling Keane, Bloomberg News
Xerox Corp. is among 20 companies joining an initiative by President Barack Obama’s administration that encourages large corporations to pay small suppliers more quickly to improve their cash flow. The companies join the 26 inaugural participants in the program, which began in July. It builds on a federal initiative started in 2011 for government contractors to pay suppliers faster … The U.S. Commerce Department, in a report released today, cites Georgia Tech Financial Analysis Lab data showing corporate payables times have increased from an average of 35 days in March 2009 to 46 days in July 2014.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/19/are-selective-colleges-big-time-sports-greater-risk-compromising-academics
A Competitive Disadvantage
By Jake New
Speaking to the University of Michigan faculty senate last week, Mark Schlissel, the university’s president, was candid in his assessment of the admissions process for athletes. “We admit students who aren’t as qualified,” he said. “And it’s probably the kids that we admit that can’t honestly, even with lots of help, do the amount of work and the quality of work it takes to make progression from year to year.” His comments — made as the University of North Carolina is still reeling from a high-profile academic scandal where athlete preparedness was a central issue — were perhaps too candid for some … Indeed, a widely cited 2008 investigation by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that similar gaps existed at other selective institutions. Men’s basketball players at the University of Cincinnati, Clemson University, UC-Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology all had average SAT scores of about 950. At Cincinnati, however, the basketball players were within 124 points of the rest of the student body. At Clemson, the gap was 201 points.
www.southeastgreen.com
http://www.southeastgreen.com/index.php/news/georgia/12609-georgia-s-emerging-solar-industry-spurred-by-policy
Georgia’s Emerging Solar Industry Spurred by Policy
Wood-waste and hydropower are foundation of state’s clean energy economy
Abundant biomass and solar resources, falling materials costs, and innovative research have launched Georgia into the national spotlight as a clean energy leader. State and federal policies have helped to make the Peach State the fastest-growing solar market in the country. In addition, the state ranks No. 1 nationally in commercial timberland, making woody biomass—energy made from wood and wood waste-derived products such as wood pellets—a major component of its renewable energy sector. …In addition to its leadership in solar power, Georgia ranks third in the nation for biomass electricity generation. In 1938, the state established the Herty Advanced Materials Development Center in Savannah, which, in partnership with Georgia Southern University, has been a leader in innovating wood waste-derived products such as biofuels and biomass power for over 75 years. The state added 100.5 MW of biomass energy capacity in 2013 and attracted over $150 million in private investment. Research and development in the state is also driving solar innovation. Georgia Tech in Atlanta is home to one of the country’s two University Centers of Excellence for Photovoltaics Research and Education, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.times-herald.com
http://www.times-herald.com/opinion/20141119-Rants-and-Raves
Rants, Raves & Really?!?
RAVE: The chemistry science laboratory at the new University of West Georgia Newnan campus will be named after Dr. Joseph Williams Parks Jr., thanks to a donation from his son and daughter-in-law.
www.newtoncitizen.com
http://www.newtoncitizen.com/news/2014/nov/18/jeff-meadors-dual-enrollment-programs-going-strong/
JEFF MEADORS: Dual enrollment programs going strong
By Jeff Meadors
Dual Enrollment programs take center stage at the Newton College & Career Academy Thursday night, Nov. 20 at 6:30 p.m. in the academy’s lecture hall as both Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia Piedmont Technical College offer guidance on respective dual enrollment programs. High school sophomores interested in starting college fall of 2015, and juniors and seniors interested in spring 2015 or fall 2015 should attend. New CEO Chad Walker seeks expanded dual enrollment options for students in fiscal year 2016. I sat down with Walker shortly after his appointment to lead NCCA. Walker aims to bring additional students to the NCCA campus for dual credit opportunities with both Board of Regents and Technical College System of Georgia schools.
www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2014/11/19/ajc-opinion-graduating-more-engineers-should-be-a-national-priority/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
AJC Opinion: Graduating more engineers should be a national priority
On Thursday, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Research Alliance are hosting a National Engineering Forum focusing on three engineering challenges: capacity, capability, and competitiveness. To mark the forum, Thomas A. Fanning, chairman, president and CEO of the Southern Company, and Gary S. May, dean of Georgia Tech College of Engineering, wrote this column on the need for more engineers … Call it the battle of the studies. On one side, studies by some economists show that our nation has more science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers than it needs. They contend that STEM workers often have difficulty finding employment. On the other side, studies by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and think tanks such as the U.S. Council on Competitiveness trace a decline in U.S. competitiveness to the insufficient production of engineers and scientists.
www.businessinsavannah.com
http://businessinsavannah.com/blogs/james-farley/2014-11-17/would-pharmaceutical-company-savannah-be-beneficial#.VGyvsSivIeV
Would a Pharmaceutical Company in Savannah Be Beneficial?
By James Farley
The answer is yes, definitely. Are there currently any pharmaceutical companies in Georgia? Yes there are. Atlanta, Norcross, Alpharetta, Augusta, Duluth, Marietta, Roswell, Albany and others have a pharmaceutical company presence of some kind. More about pharmaceutical firms. Pharmaceutical companies are clean companies with no pollution problems. They also have good working conditions. They provide excellent employment and career opportunities, perhaps opportunities that young persons have not previously considered. Now we’ll talk about what kind of pharmaceutical company to court and how we can find them and what locations we can offer. …How do we find them? I will answer that by explaining something that I have included in a lecture that I have developed for Armstrong State University senior students as they look to enter the world of business and technology. …Some additional comments: If we have a pharmaceutical company with a research function here there are various mutually beneficial affiliations that could be formed. Research is done on many marine species today in search of new drugs, and thus an affiliation with The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography could be effected. The Skidaway Institute of Oceanography is part of The University of Georgia. There are other academic institutions, such as Savannah State University and Armstrong State University, both of which have excellent chemistry departments.
www.chroniclevitae.com
https://chroniclevitae.com/news/804-science-isn-t-the-problem-scientists-are
Science Isn’t the Problem; Scientists Are
Kelly J. Baker
Columnist at Chornicle Vitae
The American Association of University Professors promotes recruiting girls for the “STEM pipeline” while admitting that there are still barriers to women’s progress including persistent gender bias and unfriendly workplaces. We now know that even when women get degrees in those fields, they don’t stay. The question becomes: Why? In her commentary, Zimmerman suggested that “lazy, retrogressive attitudes about how women should behave” were part of the reason women opt out of STEM. Recruiting women and girls for these fields is touted as a social good, and I (mostly) support these efforts. But like Zimmerman, I worry that the real change that is needed is not about promoting STEM fields to women, but rather a change in the culture to make those fields more welcoming. The pipeline is leaky due to the attitudes and toxic work environments that women in science and technology encounter both in their training and later in their work.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/are-moocs-working-us
Are MOOCs Working for Us?
Kristen Eshleman
This post is the first in a four-part series on MOOC research at Davidson College. We begin with the rationale for our research design and will follow with posts about our planning process, implementation and results.
Education News
www.coosavalleynews.com
http://www.coosavalleynews.com/np109345.htm
Berry College Goes Tobacco-free in 2015
CVN News
All 27,000 acres of the world’s largest college campus, Berry College, will become tobacco-free beginning Aug. 1, 2015. This policy will apply to all employees, students, contractors and guests in the interest of the health and well-being of the campus community. Smoking is currently not allowed in campus buildings or on The Martha Berry Museum and Oak Hill property. The tobacco-free policy includes e-cigs, vapor, chewing tobacco, etc. `…While we recognize and respect that individuals will make health-related behavioral choices over the course of a lifetime, we must also recognize that addictive habits acquired early in life can be punishing to overcome.” Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Surgeon General have urged campuses to take a strong stand on this national health problem by becoming tobacco free. There are currently 1,477 smoke-free campuses in the nation, of which 975 are tobacco-free. The University System of Georgia implemented a tobacco-free policy effective Oct. 1.
www.carolinajournal.com
http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=11569
‘Low-Productivity’ Degree Programs At UNC Hard To End
Even programs that are eliminated may not save money
By Jesse Saffron
RALEIGH — The 1971 law reorganizing the University of North Carolina declared that the UNC system should “encourage an economical use of the state’s resources” to further the state’s constitutional mission of providing public higher education. In that spirit, the system’s Board of Governors assigned mission statements to system universities setting boundaries on the types of academic programs that can be implemented on individual campuses. …This summer, the Pope Center conducted its own analysis to find degrees within the UNC System that are “low productive.” We used the standards for productivity established by the University of Georgia, which are somewhat more stringent than UNC’s. The University of Georgia, under Chancellor Hank Huckaby, has made a concerted effort to reduce unnecessary programs. In 2010 and 2011, the University System of Georgia approved 71 programs and discontinued only 12. But after Huckaby, former director of the state’s budget office, became chancellor, 576 programs across the system were terminated, and only 99 have been added. (Many of the 576 programs were inactive, so there were no faculty layoffs or cost savings.) In our study, we focused on undergraduate programs in 2012-13. We found that if Georgia’s standards had been applied to the UNC system, 210 programs would be flagged, compared to the 129 undergraduate programs discovered by UNC in its latest review.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/19/two-democrats-criticize-obama-administration-helping-colleges-avoid-default-rate
Default Rate Adjustments Panned
By Michael Stratford
WASHINGTON — The top Democrats on the U.S. Senate and House education committees on Tuesday criticized the Obama administration for tweaking the student loan default rates of some colleges, a policy that allowed those institutions to avoid penalties. The U.S. Department of Education earlier this year adjusted downward the default rates for certain colleges whose high default rates would have otherwise placed them at risk of losing federal aid.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/68007/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=3d5816fc859e46cc91b98bdc2efb99f8&elqCampaignId=415
Moody’s: Colleges Charging More, Keeping Less
by Jon Marcus, The Hechinger Report
Forced to keep discounting their prices as enrollment stagnates, U.S. universities and colleges expect their slowest growth in revenue in 10 years, the bond-rating company Moody’s reports. The squeeze could threaten further cuts in services even as tuition continues to increase. A quarter of colleges and universities are projecting declines in revenue, according to a closely watched annual Moody’s survey.
Related article:
www.nbcnews.com
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/college-tuition-slowdown-hits-state-higher-ed-budgets-n251306
College Tuition Slowdown Hits State Higher Ed Budgets
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/19/performance-based-funding-provokes-concern-among-college-administrators
Gaming the System
By Paul Fain
Performance-based funding is increasingly popular among both state and federal policy makers, who want public institutions to graduate more students, more efficiently. Yet colleges may cope with these funding formulas by using grade inflation or admitting fewer at-risk students. That was the central finding of a survey of college administrators in Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee, all of which have substantial performance-funding policies in place.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/18/study-teenagers-want-go-college-are-particularly-averse-student-debt
Debt-Averse Teens
By Jake New
Students born in the mid-1990s or later are overwhelmingly in favor of going to college, but they’re not too keen on taking out loans to pay for it, a new poll found. More than 80 percent of the survey’s participants – whom the researchers refer to as “Generation Z” – said that obtaining a college degree is important to having a career. At the same time, 67 percent of the respondents said they are worried they won’t be able to afford college and, on the whole, they’re opposed to acquiring student debt.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Saw-a-Flood-of/150111/
Colleges Saw a Flood of Students at Recession’s Peak—and Discouraging Results
By Katherine Mangan
Six years after a flood of students entered college, many seeking shelter from a sinking economy and a leg up in an uncertain job market, their progress report is in, and it isn’t encouraging. Only 55 percent of the students who entered college in the fall of 2008, at the peak of the Great Recession, had earned college degrees or certificates by May 2014, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. That’s down from 56.1 percent for the cohort that started in 2007. That doesn’t seem like a lot, but it comes at a time when colleges, foundations, and policy makers have been pulling out the stops to prod more students along to the finish line.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/68004/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=3d5816fc859e46cc91b98bdc2efb99f8&elqCampaignId=415
Poll: Generation Z Teens Describe Themselves Entrepreneurial, Self-directed
by Ronald Roach
WASHINGTON — While placing a high value on higher education, the generation of young Americans now in their late teens can also be described as highly entrepreneurial and self-directed, a new national poll has found. On Tuesday, Northeastern University officials unveiled wide-ranging survey results detailing the life aspirations and social views held by Generation Z, or 16- to 19-year-old Americans. The “Meet Generation Z” poll, conducted this past October for the Boston-based university’s fourth national Innovation Imperative survey on higher education and the economy, labels the teenage cohort as the “Self-Starter Generation” owing to their “strong desire to work for themselves, learn about entrepreneurship and design their own programs of study in college.”
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/68015/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=3d5816fc859e46cc91b98bdc2efb99f8&elqCampaignId=415
Task Force Recommends Changes to Ohio State University Band
by Julie Carr Smyth, Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A four-month review of the culture of Ohio State University’s marching band has resulted in 37 recommendations for improvement in band operations, training and university oversight. A task force led by former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery concluded that while the band had a culture of excellence, hard work and positive traditions, there was “an undercurrent of inappropriate behavior” fueled by “a misguided sense of commitment to the past” and an insular nature.
www.huffingtonpost.com
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/18/college-officials-rape-things-they-say_n_6173254.html
Why It Really Matters When College Officials Say Terrible Things About Rape
Tyler Kingkade
When Tom Hogan, the district attorney for Chester County in Pennsylvania, heard about a local college president’s remarks in September about campus rape victims, he was upset. It wasn’t only because he thought the comments were offensive. Hogan was also worried that they could stop rape victims from coming forward.
www.insidehighered.com
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/11/19/research-universities-say-theyll-conduct-sexual-assault-surveys-amid-federal
AAU Pushes Climate Surveys
By Michael Stratford
The Association of American Universities last week became among the first higher education groups in Washington to back the concept of anonymous surveys to gauge student views about the prevalence of sexual violence on campus. The association of elite research institutions said it plans to hire a research firm to develop and conduct campus climate surveys at some of its member universities.