USG Institutions:
www.wtvm.com
Governor to sign new budget in Albany
http://www.wtvm.com/story/29013598/governor-to-sign-new-budget-in-albany
By Dave Miller
ATLANTA, GA (WALB) – Governor Nathan Deal will hold bill signing ceremonies for House Bill 76, the Fiscal Year 2016 state budget, throughout the state on Monday May 11. One of the stops on his barnstorming tour will be at Albany State, which is receiving a large financial allotment for a new fine arts complex. Schedule of events-11 a.m. Bulloch County, Georgia Southern University,Marvin Pittman Administration Building, Statesboro; 2:15 p.m. Dougherty County, Albany State University, Billy C. Black Auditorium, Albany
The Georgia Budget and Policy Institute says the $21.8 billion budget proposed for Georgia’s 2016 fiscal year projects revenue growth of about 4.2% in the state’s main account for services such as education and public safety, the general fund. …The proposed 2016 state budget is still $3 billion below the 2007 fiscal year levels, on an inflation-adjusted per capita basis.
www.barnesville.com
Chancellor to address GSC grads Friday
http://www.barnesville.com/archives/8257-Chancellor-to-address-GSC-grads-Friday.html
Posted by Walter Geiger in Headlines
University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby will deliver the commencement address to graduates at the Gordon State College Spring ceremony. The ceremony is set for Friday, May 8 at 8:30 a.m. on Lambdin Green at the center of campus. Of the 337 candidates for graduation, about 200 will march in the ceremony. The graduates, faculty and special guests will be led in a procession by a bagpiper, a nod to Gordon’s Scottish roots. Huckaby is no stranger to Gordon, having served as admissions director in the early 1970s. He has served as Chancellor of the USG since 2011.
www.savannahnow.com
Nathan Coleman: Keep nursing program at Georgia Southern
http://savannahnow.com/column/2015-05-07/nathan-coleman-keep-nursing-program-georgia-southern
I take exception to the May 3 column from Elliott Brack, “Regents should consider moving nursing program to Savannah.” The column presents no background information on the origin of the nursing program at Georgia Southern University, and it egregiously omits the reasons for creating the program at GSU. The writer displays a lack of understanding of the nature of clinical training experience in a nursing education program. He includes an irrelevant reference to clinical experience in a medical school, as if medical training were comparable to nursing training. The writer questions long-standing decisions made by the Board of Regents regarding the differentiation of nursing education programs at the various units of the University System. … Because I was in position to observe some of the discussions related to the creation of the nursing program at Georgia Southern University (then College), I offer the following comments to consider.
www.mdjonline.com
KSU awarded national arts grant
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/26623273/article-KSU-awarded-national-arts-grant
by Ricky Leroux
Kennesaw State University’s Research & Service Foundation will receive a $20,000 federal grant to support an upcoming exhibition at the Zuckerman Museum of Art. On Wednesday, The National Endowment for the Arts released a list of more than 1,000 grants totaling more than $74 million to be awarded to nonprofit arts organizations across the country, its second major grant announcement this fiscal year.
www.ajc.com
Atlanta’s Flatiron Building to undergo $12M renovation
http://www.ajc.com/news/business/atlantas-flatiron-building-to-undergo-12m-renovati/nk9my/
Christopher Seward
The historic Flatiron Building, downtown Atlanta’s oldest standing skyscraper, will undergo a $12 million renovation, the structure’s owner announced this week. The Flatiron project is expected to be completed by October, according to Lucror Resources LLC, a private equity firm. The façade of the 11-story building will be retained while the interior is transformed with the latest technology and flexible office space for young companies and corporations, according to owner, said Lucror, a private equity firm. Companies will be able to lease as little as one desk on a monthly basis, Lucror said in a release. The building will house a Microsoft Innovation Center and Women’s Entrepreneur Initiative, and Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institution will help manage the building.
www.bizjournals.com
Atlanta calls timeout on Memorial Drive development
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/print-edition/2015/05/08/atlanta-calls-timeout-on-memorial-drive.html
Dave Williams
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
Atlanta officials don’t want development to get ahead of planning on Memorial Drive. The Atlanta City Council voted unanimously May 4 to impose “interim development controls” for six months on Memorial, from Capitol Avenue on the southern edge of downtown Atlanta east to the city limits. That means no permits for new commercial building construction will be approved during that period, said Councilwoman Natalyn Archibong, the ordinance’s sponsor. The six-month respite on building permits will give city officials time to work with community residents on a makeover of the corridor recommended in a study undertaken by graduate students at Georgia Tech.
www.ajc.com
Peachtree Corners seeks to nurture entrepreneurs
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/peachtree-corners-seeks-to-nurture-entrepreneurs/nmBXb/
Karen Huppertz
Peachtree Corners is partnering with Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center and Peachtree Corners Business Association to study the community’s readiness for a business incubator. An ‘Evening of Entrepreneurship & Innovation’ is planned for 6 to 9 p.m. May 14 at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast, 5993 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Peachtree Corners. The goal of the event is to engage entrepreneurs, investors, community leaders, and academics in a conversation on how the community can cultivate an environment that allows entrepreneurs to grow and thrive.
www.eetimes.com
Valleytronics Qubits Travel in Graphene
New quantum encoding uses electron momentum
http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326558
R. Colin Johnson
Graphene is the darling material for next generation computing, and now researchers have found a way to use it in future quantum computers as well. “Valleytronics”–mimicking the name of its rival spintronics–may yield a new encoding technique for quantum bits (qubits) traveling like waves in valleys of dual-layer graphene. Instead of encoding a qubit’s quantum information on the spin of an electron–as in spintronics–valleytronics encodes qubits with the momentum imparted by an electron-wave traveling in numbered valleys along the domain walls in dual-layer graphene. Separately, Georgia Tech and Honeywell have micro-fabricated an ion trap architecture aimed at increasing the density of qubits in future quantum computers.
www.getschooled.blog.ajc.com
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
http://getschooled.blog.ajc.com/2015/05/07/aps-releases-gsu-study-on-impact-of-cheating-scandal-on-students-finds-moderate-impact/
APS releases GSU study on impact of cheating scandal on students. Finds ‘moderate’ impact.
For the first time, we have some data on the fate of children whose CRCT answer sheets were likely altered – wrong answers changed to right — in the APS cheating scandal. Up to this point, there’s only been speculation on whether test tampering on the 2009 CRCT undermined student learning and, if so, to what extent. Tonight Atlanta Public Schools released a report by Georgia State University that concludes “negative effects of the 2009 Atlanta Public Schools cheating are moderate and not uniform across students in classrooms identified as having irregular wrong-to-right test item changes in the spring of 2009.”
Higher Education News:
www.insidehighered.com
Fee for Being Foreign
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/05/08/some-public-universities-are-charging-differentiated-tuition-rates-or-raising-fees
By Elizabeth Redden
Public universities have traditionally had two tiers of pricing for undergraduates: rates for state residents and for nonresidents, respectively. At most public universities, international students pay out-of-state tuition rates. But some public institutions have introduced a third, higher tier specifically for students coming from abroad. In April, the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a slate of tuition increases for out-of-staters, including, for the first time, a $1,000 surcharge for international undergraduates at the Madison and Platteville campuses.
www.chronicle.com
The Hidden Portion of Student-Loan Debt
http://chronicle.com/blogs/data/2015/05/08/missing-full-student-debt-picture/
By Lance Lambert
More than six years after the 2008 financial crisis, American families have reduced household debt by about $900 billion. But one type of debt has been difficult to clear: student loans. That debt continued to grow during and after the downturn, and is now greater than both auto-loan and credit-card debt. As of the end of 2014, outstanding student-loan debt topped $1.3 trillion. About $1.1 trillion of the total came from federal student-loan programs; the remainder was from private lenders. Those figures, however, don’t include other means of financing a college education.
www.wsj.com
College Majors Figure Big in Earnings
Study finds some study areas pay more than others, with engineering earnings triple those for education
http://www.wsj.com/articles/college-majors-figure-big-in-earnings-1430971261
By Melissa Korn
Want to make a good living? Go to college. Just be careful what you major in. On average, college graduates earn about $1 million more in their lifetimes than do adults who only completed high school. But long-term earnings prospects vary widely by subject, and the income differentials across certain majors dwarf those between graduates and non-graduates, according to a new report from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce based on an analysis of Census Bureau data. For example, students who complete undergraduate degrees in petroleum engineering earn a median $4.8 million throughout their careers (or $136,000 a year)—more than triple the $1.4 million in median earnings (or $39,000 a year) for someone who majored in early-childhood education, the report says.The findings, which include detailed analyses of earnings for graduates in 137 specific majors, add fuel to an already heated debate over the value of a college education amid skyrocketing student-loan debt and a still-tepid job market for fresh graduates.
www.diverseeducation.com
New Grads Failing to Negotiate Salaries
http://diverseeducation.com/article/72522/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c504c6603a514cc685d1505b5a766806&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=4704638e2cfd4b688054c49bb82a10e3
by Jamal Eric Watson
Despite having earned a college degree — even from some of the nation’s best colleges and universities — most recent graduates don’t bother to negotiate their salaries in entry-level positions. That’s the findings of a recent study by NerdWallet, a personal finance website, and Looksharp, a job site targeting new graduates. After surveying nearly 8,000 recent college graduates, they found that only 38 percent of those who started working in the past three years negotiated their job offers. More than 84 percent of the employers who were surveyed said that job candidates wouldn’t risk losing their job offers if they attempted to negotiate their starting salary.
www.diverseeducation.com
Gov. Haslam’s Postsecondary Education Initiatives Showing Success
http://diverseeducation.com/article/72530/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c504c6603a514cc685d1505b5a766806&elqCampaignId=415&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=eb0c6d7db2b64e6caf86a4557bd57824
by Lucas L. Johnson II, Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Gov. Bill Haslam’s efforts to persuade more Tennesseans to get a postsecondary education appear to be paying off. Recent enrollment figures show high interest in three programs the Republican governor launched as part of his “Drive to 55” initiative, which aims to increase the percentage of Tennesseans with a degree or certificate beyond high school from the current 32 percent to 55 percent by 2025 in order to help improve overall job qualifications and attract employers to the state. Of the state’s 74,000 high school graduates, 58,000 have applied for the program that offers free tuition at any of the state’s 13 community colleges and 27 colleges of applied technology. More than 38,000 of the applicants have filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. The other two programs are geared toward adults. A push to provide free tuition at the state’s technology colleges has received 8,000 applicants, and a nonprofit online university that offers a competency-based degree program has an enrollment of 2,000 ― a nearly 200 percent growth rate since it was launched in 2013.