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Georgia Tech grads make up chunk of Silicon Valley employees — more than any Ivy League schools
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/georgia-tech-grads-make-chunk-silicon-valley-employees-more-than-any-ivy-league-schools/BcSJPlkGXujTqj3kKuToaI/
By Fiza Pirani – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you want a job at one of Silicon Valley’s coveted tech companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon or Facebook, a degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology might do the trick. In fact, according to an analysis by online recruiting company HiringSolved, of the 10 universities Silicon Valley hired the most alumni from in 2016, Georgia Tech ranked sixth. And among the 25 most wanted new-grad alumni in 2017, the Atlanta university is fourth in the nation.

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Gov. Deal signs record Georgia budget with raises for teachers, others
http://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/gov-deal-signs-record-georgia-budget-with-raises-for-teachers-others/dyiVs59nPuJJZS2AKV5hdO/
James Salzer  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gov. Nathan Deal signed a record $25 billion state budget Monday that includes pay raises for 200,000 teachers and state employees, along with more than $1 billion in borrowing for construction projects. Deal signed the budget at the Fulton County Division of Family and Children Services office in Atlanta to highlight 19 percent pay raises for child services workers and extra funding to compensate foster parents, both included in the spending plan.

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Gov. Deal cancels trip to Savannah to sign budget Monday due to forecasted weather
http://www.wsfa.com/story/35277645/gov-deal-to-sign-budget-monday-in-savannah
By WTOC Staff
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal has canceled his trip to Savannah on Monday, May 1 due to forecasted weather in the state. Governor Deal was scheduled for a signing ceremony at Armstrong State University to sign the 2018 budget, as well as highlight the construction of a new health professions academic center at the school and discuss the more than $36 million project for the new Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab in Savannah.

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Georgia governor sounds a positive note on ‘campus carry’ bill ahead of NRA meet
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/04/28/georgia-governor-sounds-a-positive-note-on-campus-carry-bill-ahead-of-nra-meet/
Greg Bluestein
Gov. Nathan Deal doesn’t plan to time a bill-signing of “campus carry” legislation to the NRA’s big meeting in Atlanta. But he signaled his support for changes to the measure that would legalize more firearms on college campuses. In an interview Friday shortly before the NRA meeting kicked off, he said he wasn’t ready to say whether he would sign the controversial measure. But he noted that it was “significantly different” than a similar proposal he vetoed last year after lawmakers defied his request for more exemptions to the measure. This year, lawmakers approved a measure that agreed to Deal’s demands to bar guns from on-campus child care facilities, faculty and administrative office space, and disciplinary meetings. Those changes, Deal said, pleased him greatly. “You have to give credit to them doing that. I had made some of these suggestions last year, and they were not heeded,” he said. “This year, not only did they take my suggestions, they added a few of their own, such as college and career academies that may be located on the grounds of a technical college or college or university. So they expanded even the excluded areas that I have outlined. It is a much different bill.”

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Georgia college students brace for tuition increase
http://www.wctv.tv/content/news/Georgia-college-students-brace-for-tuition-increase-420832094.html
Tuition at Georgia’s public colleges and universities will increase 2 percent next fall. WABE Radio reports that the university system of Georgia estimates that full-time, undergraduate students who live in-state will pay an extra $27 to $98 a semester. But some students say even a small price hike could hurt, and some who have Georgia’s HOPE scholarship say the increase is unsettling.

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Tuition hike to hit Gordon students
http://www.barnesville.com/archives/10070-Tuition-hike-to-hit-Gordon-students.html
Posted by Walter Geiger in Top Stories
The Board of Regents voted April 18 to raise tuition at all University System of Georgia schools by two percent. Full time student tuition for a semester at Gordon State College in Barnesville will cost $1,532 this fall compared to $1,423 in 2012. This is a jump of eight percent.

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JENKINS: The antidote to rising college costs
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/opinion/columnists/jenkins-the-antidote-to-rising-college-costs/article_fedd2101-235c-5a3c-b3f3-d50641b2760a.html
By Rob Jenkins
Last week, the University System of Georgia raised tuition at all member institutions — to the dismay, no doubt, of many hardworking Georgia families. The relatively small 2 percent increase was certainly not unexpected. Even so, many families will now have to pinch a few extra pennies so their kids can go to college in the fall. This latest increase continues a multi-year trend that has seen the cost of tuition nearly double nationwide since 2001. The problem is most pronounced at more expensive institutions, like the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, because the higher the tuition, the greater the damage done by even a small percentage increase. Parents and students, however, should be aware  that there is an alternative to paying $10,000 a year in tuition, one that is easily accessible to most reading this column. It’s known as Perimeter College of Georgia State University. In the interests of full disclosure, that happens to be where I teach, on the Alpharetta Campus. (There are also campuses in Dunwoody, Clarkston, Decatur and Covington, as well as online.) But that’s not the main reason I’m writing this, nor am I the only one to offer such advice. Radio personality and financial guru Clark Howard has long urged parents to send their kids to a community college for two years as a way of combatting the high cost of an education.

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UNG master plan includes proposals for housing, parking at Gainesville campus
Officials look to adjust to area growth, better accommodate students
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/6/article/123234/preview/
By Norm Cannada
On-campus student housing, two new parking decks and the conversion of a main campus road into a pedestrian walkway are among the needs identified for the Gainesville campus in the University of North Georgia’s master plan released this week. University spokeswoman Kate Maine said the master plan identifies needs at four of UNG’s five campuses projected over the next 10 years.

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University of North Georgia student recognized as a Newman Civic Fellow
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-30/university-north-georgia-student-recognized-newman-civic-fellow
By Sylvia Carson Univeristy of North Georgia
Cristian Ramos, a communications major at the University of North Georgia (UNG), has been selected as a 2017 Newman Civic Fellow, a national award that recognizes individuals who demonstrate leadership and problem-solving abilities. This is the fifth year in a row that a UNG student has been recognized by the Newman Civic Fellows Award program. Ramos is one of only 273 student leaders in the nation selected as part of this year’s cohort of fellows. “Cristian  demonstrates a deep commitment to assisting the local Latino community through volunteerism, political engagement and campus leadership,” said UNG President Bonita C. Jacobs, who nominated Ramos for the award. “Cristian’s wide-ranging advocacy has left a lasting mark on his local community, and we expect this influence to continue to grow in the coming years.”

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U.S. soldier killed in Iraq on Saturday was 2014 UNG graduate
http://accesswdun.com/article/2017/5/530662/us-soldier-killed-in-iraq-on-saturday-was-2014-ung-graduate
By AccessWDUN Staff
The United States Army has identified a soldier killed Saturday in Mosul, Iraq as First Lt. Weston C. Lee of Bluffton, Georgia. Lt. Lee, who was a 2014 graduate of the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega, died from wounds he suffered in an IED explosion, according to Army officials.  …The University of North Georgia said the soldier earned a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice and was commissioned as a U.S. Army infantry officer from UNG in December 2014. “The hearts of the university community go out to Lt. Lee’s family and friends and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time,” University officials said in a prepared statement. “As with all military alumni from UNG who have been killed while serving their nation, Lt. Lee’s name will be added to the Memorial Wall located on UNG’s Dahlonega Campus.”

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Tragic accident at Georgia Tech spurs call for bed rails in dorms
http://www.myajc.com/news/local/tragic-accident-georgia-tech-spurs-call-for-bed-rails-dorms/ZC63qpqBEUjzLFIcnAlboM/
By Alexis Stevens – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
One side of his loft bed was against a wall. But on the other side, there was nothing. Nothing to prevent Clark Jacobs from rolling out of his bed in a Georgia Tech fraternity house and falling seven feet to the floor. Jacobs fractured his skull and needed emergency brain surgery in January 2015. He would spend months healing from his injuries and relearning how to live. And his ordeal could have been prevented with one thing: a bed rail. Jacobs’ story inspired some of his classmates into action, and this week, two teams of seniors presented projects designed to prevent other college students from suffering the same fate. The projects, required for engineering students to graduate, could change the future of dorm furniture. “Our goal was to redesign a bed rail to make it specifically for college students, which isn’t currently on the market,” Madeleine Jayme, a biomedical engineering student, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. While bunk beds and loft beds sold for homes have side rails to prevent falls, there aren’t regulations on the beds used on college campuses, according to Mariellen Jacobs. Since her son’s injury, she’s been on a mission to make sure beds are safer in dorms and fraternity houses. She founded Rail Against the Danger, or RAD, to raise awareness about the need for rails, something she admits she never thought about before Clark’s fall. The Jacobs’ would like to see rails on all loft beds and are working with the University System of Georgia to implement it.

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Georgia Tech student shot leaving crash scene
http://www.ajc.com/news/crime–law/georgia-tech-student-shot-leaving-crash-scene/uxsZuJ6z6UAcFnQRtJf17L/
Lauren Foreman  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Police released a sketch of a man accused of shooting a Georgia Tech student as he and his brother were driving away from an accident scene earlier this month. Claude Rooney, who also goes by Tre, told Channel 2 Action News he still has a bullet lodged in his arm from the April 13 incident. It began when Christian Rooney picked up his brother from a BP gas station near Georgia Tech at about 9:50 p.m. Christian Rooney’s girlfriend, Dallas Reeves-Hill, was also in the car, so he decided to let his brother drive, according to an Atlanta police incident report.

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New Memorial Database Lists Georgians Who Died in World War I
http://www.ktiv.com/story/35277988/new-memorial-database-lists-georgians-who-died-in-world-war-i
Georgians who died in service during World War I are being commemorated in a unique way as part of the centennial observance of the “Great War.”  In a project sponsored by the Georgia World War I Centennial Commission, retired state librarian Dr. Lamar Veatch is compiling an on-line database that, when complete, will be the most comprehensive listing of Georgia service personnel who died in service during that war 100 years ago.  The names and information for some 1,300 soldiers and sailors are now on the Centennial Commission’s website and others are being added as they are confirmed.  www.ww1cc.org/ga   The University of North Georgia (UNG) is one of only six senior military colleges in the nation and is designated as The Military College of Georgia. As such, UNG has taken a leading role in supporting and hosting the work of the commission.

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Q&A with Sam Olens: Kennesaw State president talks growth, progress
http://www.mdjonline.com/news/q-a-with-sam-olens-kennesaw-state-president-talks-growth/article_8f3c339c-2d53-11e7-9713-bb2ef28175aa.html
Mary Kate McGowan
Kennesaw State University President Sam Olens is ready to put KSU’s past in the rearview mirror. Olens — whose resume includes roles as Georgia’s attorney general, chair of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners and chair of the Atlanta Regional Commission — took office in November during a turbulent time at KSU. The institution was in the middle of addressing the University System of Georgia’s charges of financial impropriety within the university’s operations. Meanwhile, a group of KSU students and faculty members protested his appointment because the Board of Regents did not conduct a national search for the position and because Olens represented Georgia when the state sued the federal government over allowing transgender students to use the restrooms of their choice at school. About six months later, Olens is ready to put the speed bumps in the past and help KSU continue to grow. Olens sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the MDJ on Friday, discussing these issues as well as the future of the university. More than 35,000 students are enrolled at KSU. It is the third largest university in Georgia, behind Georgia State University and the University of Georgia. Q: When you took office, there was a protest. Do you feel like that is behind you?

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Kennesaw State’s African studies major in danger of being cut
http://www.ajc.com/news/local/kennesaw-state-african-studies-major-danger-being-cut/ClxlYVXfKJeJUNHWDhpADN/
Ben Brasch  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kennesaw State University’s African and African Diaspora Studies degree program could be cut due to lack of graduates, the school confirmed Friday. African studies faculty met Thursday with university officials to discuss the program’s dire situation. In a statement, KSU said all at the meeting agreed to increase efforts to recruit students for the major. In response, the school’s NAACP chapter posted to Facebook on Friday its plan to march in protest of the potential deactivation. …The program was approved by the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents in 2004, but “has consistently failed to meet the minimum number of enrollees and graduates” recommended by the board for the past three years, KSU said. That number recommended by the board is a minimum of 10 such students a year.

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Students outraged that KSU may terminate black studies program
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/students-outraged-that-ksu-may-terminate-black-studies-program/517929612
by: Chris Jose
There’s outrage among some students at Kennesaw State University over the possible termination of the school’s black studies program. Hundreds of students are protesting the potential loss of the program. In a statement, a school representative told Channel 2’s Chris Jose that the black studies program will stay through next school year. After that, termination will be considered. Students on campus told Jose they are gearing up for more protests encouraging “KSU to bring black back.” Cellphone video shows one of several protests at Kennesaw State late last week. More are planned in the coming days.

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Horticulture student wins entrepreneur competition
http://www.lawnandlandscape.com/article/ll-042817-uga-entrepreneur-competition/?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=dc9bd80cfd-eGaMorning-5_1_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-dc9bd80cfd-86731974&mc_cid=dc9bd80cfd&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
The key to maximizing water conservation and a lush landscape is an informed use of water. University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) horticulture student Jesse Lafian developed a webconnected soil moisture sensor to help landscape management companies monitor irrigation and enable them to use water wisely. His patent-pending design, which is the centerpiece of his startup, Reservoir LLC, is the winner of UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur prize of $10,000 to put toward his company. UGA’s Next Top Entrepreneur is a student entrepreneurship contest open to student startup teams from all over the country. During this live event, teams pitch their existing business plans or business ideas in front of a live audience and a panel of judges. This year, 36 teams from 22 colleges and universities participated.

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Georgia Southern Professor working to break cycle of violence in Savannah
http://wsav.com/2017/04/28/georgia-southern-professor-working-to-break-cycle-of-violence-in-savannah/
By Courtney Cole
276. That’s the number of violent crimes that have happened in Savannah so far this year, according to Savannah-Chatham Metro Police. City leaders and law enforcement have been working on ways to cut down on crime, but News 3’s Courtney Cole spoke to a Georgia Southern University Professor with some different ideas. When it comes to crime in Savannah, Chad Posick says it’s time to take a look at the whole picture. “A very small percentage of people, as well as a very small percentage of places, contribute to most crime, about 5% contribute to 60% of all violent crime.” The Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at Georgia Southern has been dedicating his time to that five-percent—researching and working with the District Attorney’s Office on two approaches he thinks could effectively cut down on crime.

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New UGA policy regulates programs that bring minors to campus
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-28/new-uga-policy-regulates-programs-bring-minors-campus?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=dc9bd80cfd-eGaMorning-5_1_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-dc9bd80cfd-86731974&mc_cid=dc9bd80cfd&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Lee Shearer
The University of Georgia will keep a closer eye on athletic camps, after-school programs and other activities that bring minors who are not UGA students to campus under a new “Policy for Programs and Activities Serving Minors.” The policy applies not only to programs offered by UGA units, but also to UGA student organizations and so-called “third parties” — outside organizations allowed to use UGA facilities, such as summer sports camps. The policy requires criminal background checks for staff members of such third-party groups as well as for university employees and students working with non-campus minors. The university cabinet, a group of universitywide administrators, approved the policy at a meeting on Thursday. The policy brings UGA policy into agreement with a policy that the state University System Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s public colleges and universities, approved earlier this year, said Michael Raeber, the university’s general counsel and head of its Legal Affairs Office.

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Florida legislature considering UGA specialty license plate
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-04-30/florida-legislature-considering-uga-specialty-license-plate?utm_source=eGaMorning&utm_campaign=dc9bd80cfd-eGaMorning-5_1_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_54a77f93dd-dc9bd80cfd-86731974&mc_cid=dc9bd80cfd&mc_eid=32a9bd3c56
By Jim Thompson
A bill now moving through the Florida legislature would allow motorists in that state to purchase specialty license plates showing allegiance to the University of Georgia, and providing scholarship funds to Florida students attending UGA. According to the Associated Press, the Florida House on Wednesday approved a measure that would authorize 22 new specialty license plates in the state, including plates for UGA and Auburn University.

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Is this the future of college: Online classes, but no degree
http://onlineathens.com/business/2017-04-30/future-college-online-classes-no-degree
By MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press
…With college costs rising steadily and with more courses available online for free, some observers are beginning to question the need for a traditional college education that may include lectures on Greek philosophy but burden students with massive debt. Education startups are offering alternatives — from boot camps, to one or two-year tracks, to accredited degree programs — and their founders say these options will give students a more relevant education in today’s job market, and at a lower price. But some experts caution against betting on a narrow, practical education geared toward a specific field that is in demand today but could leave them unprepared for the jobs of tomorrow. They also say most applicants still need a college degree from an established institution to get a good job.

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Getting Minority Ph.D. Students to the Finish Line
To improve retention and help diversify the future professoriate, some colleges embrace formal mentoring programs
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Getting-Minority-PhD/239857?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=3120dd9723eb4ed39a1ed2362c7eb784&elq=05736600addb4dffaa79c4965d0588c4&elqaid=13721&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=5707
By Vimal Patel
…Many colleges encourage faculty members to mentor doctoral students, but few programs have institutionalized the practice as strongly as Iowa’s math department has. The department began its mentoring program to help diversify its graduate-student body but has since expanded it to all incoming doctoral students. Colleges have come under increasing pressure recently from activists to hire more black and Hispanic faculty members, and expanding the pool of doctoral recipients is seen as a critical piece of that pipeline. National data, however, show the complexity of the challenge. In some disciplines, only a handful of minority scholars earned Ph.D.s in 2015, meaning that departments must compete for a small number of job candidates.

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Missing Part of Free-College Push
A proposal for a federal matching grant underlines the connection between per-student spending by institutions and degree attainment.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/01/proposal-highlights-role-completion-free-college-push?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7e3fd14588-DNU20170501&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7e3fd14588-197515277&mc_cid=7e3fd14588&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Andrew Kreighbaum
Even after the November elections put hopes of a national free-college plan on ice, states and local entities have continued to pursue such proposals. The development of those plans has been motivated by the idea that making college tuition-free to all will level the playing field in the modern economy where everyone needs some higher education. Some of those proposals — most notably New York State’s — have come under fire as middle-class giveaways. Harvard University’s David Deming argued in a recent paper that despite free college’s positive impact on relieving the financial burden on students and families, it has another serious limitation — the open-access and minimally selective colleges most often attended by low-income students are also the institutions with the fewest resources to help those students complete their degrees. Deming argues that there is a degree-completion crisis in higher ed that has persisted even as federal aid has tripled over the last 20 years.

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Free Tuition in New York Adds Powerful Pull at Decision Deadline

By LISA W. FODERARO
For its recent accepted-students day, Purchase College, part of the State University of New York, had the usual array of inducements aimed at persuading admitted high school seniors to attend, including tours, sample classes and a jazz trio serenading families during lunch. But it also had a potent new weapon: New York State’s Excelsior Scholarship, which this year will offer free tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities for in-state students from households earning up to $100,000. At Purchase, a four-year liberal arts college, and other SUNY schools, it is worth close to $6,500. The program is the first in the nation to offer free tuition at a state’s two- and four-year publicly funded schools. It was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school’s financial aid package against another’s. Though it is still too early to know how the program will shape college attendance in the state, if Purchase’s accepted-students day was any indication, the promise of free tuition seemed a powerful lure for students and parents considering New York’s public campuses.

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Students for Free Speech
Gathering draws students from numerous campuses who endorse a statement of principles about the value of open expression in higher education.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/01/students-campuses-nationwide-issue-statement-calling-free-speech?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7e3fd14588-DNU20170501&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7e3fd14588-197515277&mc_cid=7e3fd14588&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Scott Jaschik
The news is full of recent incidents in which students have blocked or attempted to block campus speakers. Students have shouted down or shut down appearances of controversial speakers at Middlebury College, Claremont McKenna College and the University of California, Los Angeles, among other campuses. While the students involved there are on the left, invitations have been rescinded for views favoring abortion rights (an invitation withdrawn at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana), and invitations have been protested for speaker views seen as anti-Israel (as in a case at the City University of New York, in which officials are refusing to block an appearance). In much of the public discussion of these incidents, students are portrayed as intolerant of views with which they disagree. Over the weekend, 25 students from about 20 colleges around the country gathered at the University of Chicago to try to start a movement in which students would become leading defenders of free speech on campus — including speech that they find offensive. The students issued a statement Sunday that they plan to urge other students to sign and to abide by. “The Free Speech Movement began as an entirely student-led initiative,” says the statement, referring to the University of California, Berkeley, movement of the 1960s. “However, free speech has been increasingly undermined by attempts of students and administrators alike to silence those with whom they disagree. We seek to reclaim that original tradition.”

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Gender Gaps Shrinking and Lingering
New research suggests limited role for gender in predicting whether new Ph.D.s will get tenure-track jobs, but notable differences on pay and other issues, favoring men.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/01/study-faculty-job-market-finds-some-gender-gaps-shrinking-and-others-remaining?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7e3fd14588-DNU20170501&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7e3fd14588-197515277&mc_cid=7e3fd14588&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Colleen Flaherty
To what degree does gender impact one’s career trajectory in the 10 years after earning a Ph.D.? While the majority of recent studies on the issue have found that women have a harder time earning tenure-track professorships and tenure than do their male counterparts, some studies also suggest that women are now playing on a level field with men — or even possess some advantage. A paper presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association examining the career paths of recent Ph.D.s finds there’s no strong, comprehensive evidence of gendered paths to tenure during the first decade after degree completion. Scholarly publications and activities, such as research, and a postdoctoral appointment in the years following degree completion were the most important factors in getting an tenure-track job for both men and women.

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GOP Bill Would Discipline Hecklers at College Speeches
http://diverseeducation.com/article/95875/?utm_campaign=DIV1705%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20MAY1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Todd Richmond, Associated Press
University of Wisconsin students who disrupt speeches and demonstrations could be expelled and campuses would have to remain neutral on public issues under a bill Republican legislators are pushing this week. The bill comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country. Conservatives are worried that right-wing speakers aren’t given equal treatment as liberal campus presenters and some students have complained about free expression fanning racial tensions. In Madison, home to the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus, students shouted down and traded obscene gestures with ex-Breitbart editor and conservative columnist Ben Shapiro during a presentation in November. This week, supporters of conservative commentator Ann Coulter rallied behind her after the University of California-Berkeley canceled her speech citing concerns that violence could erupt. The bill is based on a model proposal the conservative Arizona-based Goldwater Institute put together to address campus free-speech issues. Legislation based on the model has been enacted in Colorado, with others being considered in five states, including Michigan, North Carolina and Virginia, according to the institute.

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Doing the Right Thing in Sexual-Misconduct Cases
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Doing-the-Right-Thing-in/239942?cid=wcontentlist_hp_5
By Elizabeth N. Mulvey
Each of us knows that it’s sometimes hard to do the right thing, and that it’s even more difficult when it’s not clear what the right thing is. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the debate about how colleges and universities should handle disciplinary proceedings in sexual-misconduct investigations. Under pressure from victims’ advocates, the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, and others to be deferential to the complainant’s position, while at the same time increasingly vulnerable to lawsuits by accused students who claim they were treated unfairly, even the best-informed and well-meaning administrator may be faced with seemingly impossible choices. The American College of Trial Lawyers believes that the right thing to do is to be fair to both sides, and that will probably mean neither side is completely happy.

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Yik Yak to Shut Down
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/05/01/yik-yak-shut-down?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=7e3fd14588-DNU20170501&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7e3fd14588-197515277&mc_cid=7e3fd14588&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Carl Straumsheim
Yik Yak, the once-popular anonymous messaging app, will shut down in the coming weeks, its developers announced Friday. The app was once at the center of several campus controversies, but a series of decisions to limit completely anonymous posting drove many users away.

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Yik Yak’s Successor: A Group Messaging App?
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/02/15/yik-yaks-successor-group-messaging-app
By Carl Straumsheim
The company behind the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is betting on group messaging to capture the interests of college students, according to The Verge. Developers associated with the company last week released Hive, an app described as “an exclusive social network for college campuses.” Yik Yak was once the go-to app for students to share campus gossip (as well as post anonymous harassment), but the app’s popularity declined last year.

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Budget Deal Provides Money for NIH and Year-Round Pell
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/05/01/budget-deal-provides-money-nih-and-year-round-pell?utm_source=Inside%20Higher%20Ed&utm_campaign=7e3fd14588-DNU20170501&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-7e3fd14588-197515277&mc_cid=7e3fd14588&mc_eid=8f1f949a06
By Scott Jaschik
Both The New York Times and Politico reported that a budget deal between Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and the Trump administration — to keep the government running through September — provides more money for the National Institutes of Health. Because many Republicans in Congress oppose any deal, the measure requires Democratic votes to pass, and Democrats won such victories as the NIH funds and the exclusion of money for a wall on the border with Mexico. Politico reported that the deal includes an extra $2 billion for the NIH, which is particularly significant since the Trump administration is pushing for a major cut in spending on the agency. Senate appropriators also restored year-round Pell Grant eligibility as part of the omnibus bill for the current 2017 fiscal year.