USG Institutions:
www.thebrunswicknews.com
CCGA part of border state waiver tuition fee program
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/ccga-part-of-border-state-waiver-tuition-fee-program/article_c296ab35-d485-5d28-bab7-5771ea805cfd.html?_dc=973238122649.4908
By ANNA HALL The Brunswick News
Prospective college students from three of Georgia’s bordering states are being drawn to College of Coastal Georgia by an out-of-state tuition waiver. College of Coastal Georgia began offering the equivalent of in-state tuition to residents of Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina who meet the requirements for admission.
www.ajc.com
Mom: Once-missing Georgia Tech student paralyzed on one side
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/crime-law/mom-once-missing-georgia-tech-student-paralyzed-on/nn6PM/
Mike Morris, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Tech student James Hubert remained in the intensive care unit at Grady Memorial Hospital Tuesday, recovering from a long list of injuries his family said he suffered when he was attacked and beaten Friday night. Hubert, a 24-year-old aerospace engineering major from metro Atlanta, was reported missing when he didn’t return home following a Friday night sorority formal at an event space in northwest Atlanta. A group of friends and classmates using the “Find My iPhone” app to track him found Hubert Monday morning in a ditch along railroad tracks off DeKalb Avenue in northeast Atlanta. He was badly hurt but alive. Monday night, Hubert’s mother listed her son’s injuries on Facebook: paralysis on his left side, blood on the brain, broken vertebrae, broken ribs, broken scapula and punctured lung.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
UGA rape reports climbing
http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2015-10-20/uga-rape-reports-climbing
By Lee Shearer, Morris News Service
ATHENS, Ga. — University of Georgia police received nearly three times as many rape reports in 2014 than in the previous nine years combined — and the number is already even more this year, with more than two months left in the year. UGA police received 71 rape reports in the 2014 calendar year. In records dating back to 2006, the most the police department ever reported in its annual crime statistics summary was eight, in 2012. In one year, 2008, the department reported none. Through Monday of this year, police have received 73 rape reports, according to daily police activity logs posted on the UGA Police Department website.
Higher Education News:
www.chronicle.com
High-School Diploma Options Multiply, but May Not Set Up Students for College Success
http://chronicle.com/article/High-School-Diploma-Options/233829?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=169b941ad4aa492eba1d5ff00c596e77&elqCampaignId=1646&elqaid=6628&elqat=1&elqTrackId=d2f73fc8c42543d3b096373bc94b731b
By Katherine Mangan
For too many students, high-school diplomas are “tickets to nowhere” that offer “false assurances” that graduates are ready for college or a job, according to a report released on Monday. The report, “How the States Got Their Rates,” was issued by Achieve, a nonprofit group that works with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements. As states try to increase their high-school graduation rates and tailor programs to different goals, the number of diploma options has become “incredibly complex,” the report notes. It’s not always clear to students and their parents which ones are likely to set them up for success, said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve.
www.insidehighered.com
Questioning Teaching Qualifications
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/10/20/colleges-and-states-scramble-meet-higher-learning-commissions-faculty-requirements?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ae28736057-DNU201510020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ae28736057-197515277
By Ashley A. Smith
Dual enrollment — in which high school students can take college courses and earn credit before graduation — has grown rapidly in popularity in recent years. After all, students can earn college credit for free, be exposed to higher education and gain confidence in their ability to do college-level work. Colleges benefit from the additional students, who may enter their halls already prepared and able to move through to graduation.
But an accreditor is raising questions about whether some of these high school teachers have the proper credentials to offer college-level courses.
www.college.usatoday.com
Students want to know where, exactly, tuition is going
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/10/16/tuition-transparency-for-college/
By Brooke Fox, University of Colorado at Boulder
Want to know exactly where your tuition dollars are going? As more and more students doubt the value of their college education due to rapidly increasing costs and overwhelming student debts, some are asking for full accounting of their schools’ use of tuition revenues. Students from American University, Boston University and more have pushed for tuition transparency — without many results — over the last several years. And now, the Leeds Council Student Government, the student government group at the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado, is joining them. The council, which recently voted unanimously to form a tuition transparency task force, says they feel they have a right to know the breakdown of the cost to receive a college education. …According to the U.S. Department of Education, public universities increased tuition by 7.7% on average from 2012-13 to 2013-14. The department’s ipeds website gives students a general breakdown of each school’s spending, but many say it’s difficult to use and doesn’t specify what’s being funded by tuition as opposed to categories like gifts and grants.
www.nytimes.com
An Admissions Surprise From the Ivy League
Frank Bruni
AS the country struggles to address extreme income inequality and inadequate social mobility, the most venerated colleges are increasingly examining their piece of that puzzle: How can they better identify and enroll gifted, promising students from low-income families, lessening the degree to which campuses perpetuate privilege and making them better engines of advancement? That discussion just took an interesting turn. About three weeks ago, a group of more than 80 colleges — including all eight in the Ivy League and many other highly selective private and public ones — announced that they were developing a free website and set of online tools that would, among other things, inform ninth and 10th graders without savvy college advisers about the kind of secondary-school preparation that best positions them for admission.
www.diverseeducation.com
Cal State Faculty to Vote on Major Strike Over Contract
http://diverseeducation.com/article/78463/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=7dc22e4bed8041fb9c5a18d4cbda6884&elqCampaignId=771&elqaid=88&elqat=1&elqTrackId=c4b10ac2b3bc4f248991237a5e302066
by Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Faculty members at the California State University’s 23 campuses are voting online and in person on whether to permit their labor union to call a strike over stalled salary negotiations. The strike authorization vote started Monday and runs through Oct. 28. It’s at least the fourth the California Faculty Association has held in eight years. No dates have been set for a possible walkout, and the earliest that one would happen is January, CFA President Jennifer Eagan said. The union, which represents about 25,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches, and the Cal State system have been negotiating since May on the size of the pay raises union members will get this school year.
www.insidehighered.com
A Call for More Research on Campus Shootings
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2015/10/20/call-more-research-campus-shootings?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=ae28736057-DNU201510020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-ae28736057-197515277
Eighteen research centers focused on studying higher education have issued a joint call for more government and private support for research on campus shootings and violence. “Despite the alarming numbers of deaths, injuries and threats, scholars in the field of higher education have received too few resources to rigorously study the undercurrents and effects of gun violence on college campuses,” says the joint statement.
www.chronicle.com
Researcher Says Legislator Misinterprets Study of Mass Shootings
http://chronicle.com/article/Researcher-Says-Legislator/233809?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elq=baac4453de144f6fa5611c4b09438b1b&elqCampaignId=1635&elqaid=6608&elqat=1&elqTrackId=34549152697341fe860d36307954b20f
By Eric Kelderman OCTOBER 18, 2015
State Rep. Jesse Kremer of Wisconsin wants to eliminate “gun-free zones,” including on college campuses, because, he says, they create easy targets for criminals. And he cites research to show why such zones are ineffective at preventing violence. “We must immediately dismantle ‘gun-free’ zones,’ particularly those in our public colleges and universities,” Mr. Kremer, a Republican, wrote on his website. “Dr. J. Eric Dietz, director of Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute, concluded that in a study of all mass shootings since the 1950s, only two occurred outside gun-free zones.” Mr. Dietz, however, said the study he had conducted on that topic should not be taken as a simple justification for eliminating gun-free zones. “I don’t know where that came from. I certainly didn’t say that,” he said in an interview with The Chronicle after reviewing the passage from Mr. Kremer’s website. For politicians to misunderstand the nature and results of academic research is nothing new. But academic studies of gun violence may be ripe for such errors in the heated political debates that follow mass shootings.