University System News
USG NEWS:
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/students-protest-regents-illegal-immigrant-ban/nY8yN/
Students protest Board of Regents’ illegal immigrant ban
By Laura Diamond
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Students brought to this country illegally rallied Wednesday morning, challenging a State Board of Regents policy that bars them from attending Georgia’s most competitive colleges. …Affected students and a prominent immigration attorney called on the regents to recognize “deferred action” students and make them eligible for in-state tuition and admission to the prohibited institutions.
www.albanyherald.com
http://www.albanyherald.com/news/2013/jul/30/asus-freeman-urges-rotarians-to-support-our/
ASU’s Freeman urges Rotarians to support ‘our college town’
By Terry Lewis
ALBANY, Ga. — Albany State University President Everette Freeman talked about the importance of ASU, Darton State College and Albany Technical College to a gathering of the Dougherty County Rotary Club on Tuesday, stressing how deeply the institutions are ingrained in the community.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-30/uga-should-track-where-its-pollution-goes-test-workers-lead-says-ex-epd-worker
UGA should track where its pollution goes, test workers for lead, says ex-EPD worker
By BY LEE SHEARERLEE.SHEARER
State environmental regulators should require the University of Georgia to find out where its air pollution goes before renewing the university’s air-quality permit, a retired air pollution meteorologist said at a public hearing on UGA’s proposed new permit Tuesday evening.
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/uga/2013-07-30/georgia-museum-art-host-exhibition-forgotten-modernist-group
Georgia Museum of Art to host exhibition of forgotten modernist group
By UGA NEWS SERVICE
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will present the first major exhibition in the U.S. devoted to the art and activities of the group Cercle et Carré, “Cercle et Carré and the International Spirit of Abstract Art,” from Oct. 12 through Jan. 5.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/crime/ccqc-employees-report-hacked-email-accounts/article_260157f2-f97e-11e2-a668-001a4bcf6878.html
CCQC employees report hacked email accounts
Brad Mannion
Two employees in the University of Georgia’s Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry reported computer trespassing to the UGA police department on July 25 and 26, making this the third such reported incident from the CCQC in the past week. One of the employees met police “at her residence” and reported her UGA email account was hacked “without her permission” on July 19 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
GOOD NEWS:
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/07/25/10-largest-business-schools-10.html
Top of the List: 10 Largest Business Schools & 10 Largest Technical Colleges
Rachael Gates
Atlanta Business Chronicle’s July 26 print edition features the Area’s 10 Largest Business Schools and the Area’s 10 Largest Technical Colleges, both ranked by fall 2012-spring 2013 enrollment.
Like last year, the top spots are taken by the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and Chattahoochee Technical College.
www.walb.com
http://www.walb.com/story/22958285/south-ga-tech-college-signs-program-agreement-with-valdosta-state
South GA Tech. signs new agreements with Valdosta State
By Christian McKinney
AMERICUS, GA (WALB) – South Georgia Technical College signed two Pathway Program articulation agreements with Valdosta State University Monday. The agreements allow students graduating with an Associate of Applied Science degree in 14 selected programs from South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) to begin working on a Bachelor of Applied Science degree with a major in Technical Studies and Human Capital Performance from Valdosta State University (VSU), or a Bachelor degree from VSU in Organizational Leadership.
www.vindy.com
http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/jul/30/youngstown-incubator-ranked-11th-world/
Youngstown incubator ranked 11th in world
Staff report
The Youngstown Business Incubator has been named one of the 30 best university-affiliated incubators in the world by a European research initiative and benchmarking index. YBI ranked 11th on the 2013 list, compiled by the University Business Incubator Index. “YBI is proud — and thrilled — to have earned the recognition by UBII. This award really affirms the strength of YBI’s model of entrepreneurship,” said YBI’s Chief Operating Officer Barb Ewing. “To be included on the same list with the programs housed at Rice University and Georgia Tech really speaks to the caliber of our programs, facilities and staff.”
USG VALUE:
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/22971069/georgia-southern-university-students-use-summer-to-build
Georgia Southern students use summer to BUILD
By Dal Cannady
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – Christa Cummings left the last few days of summer behind to come to college early and – sweat. She and 60 other incoming Georgia Southern University students signed up for the Building Undergraduate Involving Leadership Development, or BUILD, program. The students spend their week volunteering around Bulloch County and learning about leading on campus once the school year begins.
www.wtoc.com
http://www.wtoc.com/story/22968331/georgia-southern-lego-camp-teaches-engineering-math
Lego camp teaches engineering, math
By Dal Cannady
STATESBORO, GA (WTOC) – A camp at Georgia Southern University uses building blocks to teach children – while allowing them to have fun. The Lego robotics camps this summer show children theories of physics and mechanics.
RESEARCH:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2013-07-29/labeling-obesity-disease-might-curb-it-say-uga-researchers
Labeling obesity a disease might curb it, say UGA researchers
By APRIL BURKHART
EDITORS NOTE: This is the first story in a six-part series on obesity and obesity research conducted through the Obesity Initiative at the University of Georgia.
A ruling made by the American Medical Association (AMA) soon will encourage physicians, insurers and others to view obesity in a new light. …“(Diagnosing obesity as a disease) acknowledges that obesity is a chronic health condition that has genetic as well as environmental causes that requires lifelong treatment using medical and psychological support,” said Connie Crawley, a University of Georgia Cooperative Extension nutrition and health specialist in the College of Family and Consumer Sciences.
www.marketwatch.com
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-ways-commuting-ruins-your-life-2013-07-30
5 ways commuting ruins your life
Hours spent driving can wreck finances, health, and marriage
Gas prices have risen 16 cents per gallon this month, according to GasBuddy.com, a site and app that tracks gas prices nationwide, and now hover at $3.66-per-gallon. That’s bad news for millions of Americans who commute daily by car. Around 2.2 million U.S. workers have a daily commute of at least an hour to and from work, according to the “American Community Survey” by the U.S. Census, and 600,000 full-time workers are so-called super-commuters, spending 90 minutes and traveling 50 miles to get to work every day. …On a list of 16 daily activities, commuting was rated the least favorite behind working, housework and childcare, according to a 2012 paper published in the “Journal of Economic Psychology” by Christian Kroll, a research fellow at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany and Sebastian Pokutta, assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2013/07/math_teachers_find_%20common_core_more_rigorous_than.html
Math Teachers Find Common Core More Rigorous Than Prior Standards
By Erik Robelen
A large majority of middle school math teachers say the common core is more rigorous than their state’s prior mathematics standards. At the same time, most teachers reported receiving fewer than 20 hours of professional development over the past year related to the common core, according to the new study.
www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2013/07/lead_the_common_core_with_an_open_mind.html?cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS2
Lead the Common Core With an Open Mind
By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers
The term “Common Core” is being bandied about like it is a brand name. We like the product or we don’t. It has achieved popular recognition, even on talk radio shows. It is good that we are paying attention to it, but we may be limiting a valuable opportunity to implement a different way of teaching and learning. It is not just a thing.
www.blogs.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/state_edwatch/2013/07/common_core_and_evaluations_are_teachers_going_crazy.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Common Core and Evaluations: Are Teachers ‘Going Crazy’?
By Andrew Ujifusa
On the off chance people were looking for a lively discussion about the connections between the Common Core State Standards and teacher evaluations on a mid-summer Sunday afternoon, they would have found it at the National Association of State Boards of Education’s annual conference in Arlington, Va., on July 28. …With pilots of new common-core-aligned assessments also slated to be given to students in 2013-14, state board members and others should no longer consider the common core and educator evaluations on two different tracks, Minnici and that there is in fact a “broad consensus” now on the substance of the evaluations across states’ policies, Minnici said.
www.chronicle.augusta.com
http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/tim-rausch/2013-07-19/higher-education-good-economy
Higher education good for the economy
Tim Rausch
Big-number time. Every year, the economists at the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia release the economic impact of each university. So now we know the impact of Georgia Health Sciences and Augusta State universities, now Georgia Regents University, on the economy last year was $1.8 billion. They were also responsible for 19,192 jobs.
www.beta.effinghamherald.net
http://beta.effinghamherald.net/section/2/article/22262/
Economic development means business
By Sen. Jack Hill
Well, it’s hard to please some people even some of the time. One week the state is criticized for offering incentives to industry to expand or come to Georgia to create jobs. Seems like the next week, the state is criticized for personal income not matching the national or regional growth rate and insinuating a lack of investment in quality job growth.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Embrace-the-New-Freedom-/140569/
Embrace the New Academic Freedom: Technology, Not Tenure
By Kevin Carey
Last year, a former Princeton University president, William G. Bowen, delivered the Tanner Lectures at Stanford, continuing a long tradition of college leaders’ using the top floors of the ivory tower to speak difficult truths about academe. When the dot-com craze was sweeping the nation, back in 2000, Bowen—an author in the 1960s of the original “cost disease” diagnosis of labor-intensive industries¬—kept his eyes on the evidence. He didn’t yet see reason to believe that colleges could use technology to save money. But another decade of progress changed his mind.
www.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/2013/07/stem_funding_in_danger_-_but_does_anyone_care.html?cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS2
STEM Funding in Danger – But Does Anyone Care?
By Matthew Lynch
Under proposed budget changes for the 2014 fiscal year, many STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) educational initiatives may no longer exist. Though overall funding for STEM programs is actually slated to rise by $3 billion, or 6 percent, consolidation of STEM education may leave specific programs out in the cold.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jul/31/new-study-dual-college-pathways-lead-white-student/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Study: Dual college pathways lead white students to greater ends and minorities to dead ends
I have written a great deal on colleges and the value of a college degree. I have interviewed many college presidents, admissions officers and researchers on higher education. As a result, I get a lot of questions from parents on where their teens should go to college. And my answer is usually: The best school they can.
www.ajc.com
http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/get-schooled/2013/jul/30/state-school-chief-responds-us-doe-plans-withhold-/
Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Barge responds to US DOE threat to withhold $10 million in Race to the Top funds over merit pay delay
Here is a statement from State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge on the U.S. Education Department initiating procedures to withhold $9.9 milllion from Georgia’s Race to the Top grant over state delays in putting a teacher evaluation program in place that weighs student performance and includes merit pay.
Education News
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/feds-threaten-to-withhold-10-million-of-georgias-s/nY8T3/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Feds threaten to withhold $10 million of Georgia’s share of education grant
BY WAYNE WASHINGTON – THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
The U.S. Department of Education threatened Tuesday to withhold $10 million in grant funds because Georgia’s new teacher evaluation system won’t include the merit pay component the state promised when it pursued the grant. Tuesday’s threat — outlined in a letter to Gov. Nathan Deal — marks the second time in two years that some portion of Georgia’s $400 million Race to the Top grant has come under threat. Last year, the federal government placed a $33 million section of the grant on “high-risk” status because of technical concerns and delays in implementing a teacher evaluation system.
Related articles:
www.acessnorthga.com
$9.9 million in Race to the Top grant in jeopardy
http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=264055
www.cbsatlanta.com
$9.9 million in Race to the Top grant in jeopardy
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/22972548/99-million-in-race-to-the-top-grant-in-jeopardy
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-07-30/census-study-college-students-inflate-clarke-county-poverty-114-percent
Census study: College students inflate Clarke County poverty by 11.4 percent
By NICK COLTRAIN
College students distort Clarke County’s poverty rate by almost 11.5 percent, knocking down an unsettling statistic but not erasing it, according to a recent study by the U.S. Census Bureau. …The U.S. poverty rate is 15.2 percent, according to the study, dropping to 14.5 percent once off-campus college students are excluded; Georgia’s rate goes from 17.8 to 17.1 percent.
www.edweek.org
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/2013/07/changes_likely_coming_to_student_loan_interest_rates.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2
Changes Likely Coming to Student-Loan Interest Rates
By Caralee Adams
Lawmakers are edging closer to making a major change in the way student-loan interest rates are calculated. The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote today on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act, which the Senate passed last week 81-18. House leadership on both sides of the aisle have expressed support for the measure.
www.ap.onlineathens.com
http://ap.onlineathens.com/pstories/state/ga/20130729/1163923720.shtml
GA school class size increases while funding drops
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Public school class sizes in Georgia have increased as districts struggle with funding cuts and falling tax revenue. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Saturday that about 80 percent of Georgia’s 180 school districts approved plans to surpass class size caps last year. Districts are allowed to surpass class size caps as long as they get the decision to do so approved during a public meeting.
www.nytimes.com
Makeover for Technical Colleges, Based on Graduates’ Earnings
By REEVE HAMILTON
SWEETWATER — Striking a tone that has become increasingly fashionable among Texas politicians, House Speaker Joe Straus urged his fellow lawmakers at the outset of this year’s legislative session to “expand opportunity in Texas this session by improving coordination among high schools, community and technical colleges and the private sector so that no young person feels destined to spend life drifting from one low-skilled, minimum-wage job to the next.”
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/College-Completion-Experiment/140629/?cid=at
College-Completion Experiment Gets Degrees to ‘Empty Handed’ Ex-Students
By Eric Hoover
Washington
Over the last three years a large-scale experiment called Project Win-Win has helped more than 4,200 former college students obtain an associate degree, months or years after they dropped out. Yet the venture has also underscored the challenges of identifying, evaluating, and locating would-be graduates, who are highly mobile—and not always interested in a diploma.
Related article:
www.diverseeducation.com
Findings of National College Completion Project Unveiled
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54934/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=660f32e15d4c4f23a72356cb6bc63b14&elqCampaignId=33#
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54942/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=660f32e15d4c4f23a72356cb6bc63b14&elqCampaignId=33#
Higher Ed Institutions Help Train Unemployed for Environmental Jobs
by Pearl Stewart
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced its latest grants for that program, totaling $3.2 million, to 16 grantees throughout the country. And for the third time, Florida State College at Jacksonville is among the recipients. …According to the EPA, the grants support local efforts to recruit, train and place unemployed and underemployed individuals in jobs that address environmental challenges in their communities.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/US-Higher-Education-System/140631/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
U.S. Higher-Education System Perpetuates White Privilege, Report Says
By Casey McDermott
Colleges and universities have succeeded in attracting more underrepresented-minority students, but that increased access for black and Hispanic students has been accompanied by increasing campus polarization on the basis of race and ethnicity, says a report released on Wednesday by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
Related article:
www.insidehighered.com
Higher Ed: Engine of Inequity
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/31/report-documents-how-higher-education-exacerbates-racial-inequities#ixzz2acDYd0kr
www.nytimes.com
Efforts to Recruit Poor Students Lag at Some Elite Colleges
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
With affirmative action under attack and economic mobility feared to be stagnating, top colleges profess a growing commitment to recruiting poor students. But a comparison of low-income enrollment shows wide disparities among the most competitive private colleges. A student at Vassar, for example, is three times as likely to receive a need-based Pell Grant as one at Washington University in St. Louis.
www.nytimes.com
The Gay Question: Check One
More College Applications Ask About Sexual Identity
By SAMANTHA STAINBURN
ARE you gay? A small but growing number of colleges want to know. This year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Iowa added questions about sexual orientation to their undergraduate applications, joining Elmhurst College in Illinois and the law schools at Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington. The intention, admissions officers say, is to send a message: You are welcome.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Swartz-Case-World-Didnt/140633/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
In Swartz Case, ‘World Didn’t See Leadership’ From MIT, Report Says
By Steve Kolowich
By remaining neutral during the federal prosecution of the Internet activist Aaron Swartz, the Massachusetts Institute Technology may have failed to “demonstrate the leadership we pride ourselves on” on issues involving information technology, open access, and “dealing wisely with the risks of computer abuse,” according to an MIT internal investigation. “The world looks to MIT to be at the forefront of these areas,” wrote the investigators in a report released on Tuesday. “Looking back at the Aaron Swartz case, the world didn’t see leadership.”
Related article:
www.insidehighered.com
‘Could Have Done More’
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/31/mit-releases-report-its-role-case-against-internet-activist-aaron-swartz#ixzz2acE90IBn
www.insidehighered.com
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/31/court-dismisses-lawsuit-claiming-law-school-misrepresented-employment-data#ixzz2acEI1Wrk
No Job, No Refund
By Lauren Ingeno
A law school graduate who ends up managing the delivery of telephone books instead of practicing law may be out of luck and in loads of debt, but his alma mater does not legally owe him tuition reimbursement.
That is what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided Tuesday when it affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit brought by 12 former Thomas M. Cooley Law School students.
www.nytimes.com
$250 Million, a Record Gift, Set for College in Kentucky
By TAMAR LEWIN
Centre College, a small rural college in Danville, Ky., announced Tuesday that it had received the largest outright gift ever made to a liberal arts college: $250 million, in stock from the A. Eugene Brockman Charitable Trust. The gift will be used to create 160 Brockman scholarships — 40 a year starting in the fall of 2014 — for students planning to major in natural sciences, computational sciences or economics.
www.diverseeducation.com
http://diverseeducation.com/article/54938/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=660f32e15d4c4f23a72356cb6bc63b14&elqCampaignId=33#
Judge: 3 Penn State Officials Must Stand Trial
by Marc Levy, Associated Press
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Penn State’s ex-president and two former top school administrators were ordered Tuesday to stand trial on charges accusing them of a cover-up in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal, a court ruling that promises to prolong the media attention and court battles casting a shadow over the university.