University System News
USG NEWS:
www.mdjonline.com
http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/23774549-KSU-plans-Founders-Week-Events
KSU plans Founders Week Events
KENNESAW — Kennesaw State University on Wednesday will celebrate 50 years since the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents chartered a new junior college in Cobb County. Below is a list of activities the Kennesaw-area school has scheduled throughout the anniversary week to celebrate the honor.
www.statesboroherald.com
http://www.statesboroherald.com/section/1/article/53824/
Honoring ‘The Fabulous Fifty’
Historical marker celebrates founding of Georgia Southern
BY Jeff Harrison
Oa winter day in 1906, a group composed of some of Bulloch County’s most prominent citizens boarded a train and traveled east, to Savannah, with one goal in mind. The delegation of 50, all pillars in the local community — doctors, lawyers, business leaders, elected officials — were en route to the port city to win rights to host the First District Agricultural and Mechanical School. … On Friday, nearly 107 years removed from that December day, the delegation that would become known as the “Fabulous Fifty of 1906” was honored by the Bulloch County Historical Society.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local-education/mistake-delays-massive-internet-boost-for-georgia-/nbGDy/
Mistake delays massive Internet boost for Georgia schools
By Kristina Torres – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Education officials have pulled the plug this year on the biggest Internet expansion in Georgia school history, after a mistake nixed any chance to get what they need most to flip the switch: Money. At stake is a chance to bring all 180 school districts up to speed in an increasingly digital era.
www.thecoastalsource.com
http://www.thecoastalsource.com/news/local/ga-southern-students-learn-dangers-of-distracted-driving
Ga. Southern students learn dangers of distracted driving
By Dave Williams
STATESBORO, GA – Teaching college students about the dangers of drinking and texting while driving was the purpose of the Arrive Alive Tour that paid a visit to Georgia Southern University Thursday. A high tech simulator allowed the students to experience in a controlled environment the potential consequences of drunk and distracted driving.
www.macon.com
http://www.macon.com/2013/10/06/2705803/education-notebook-midstate-parents.html
Education Notebook:
…MGSC to host panel discussion on bioethics
Middle Georgia State College’s Cochran campus will host a panel discussion on bioethics issues at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Dillard Hall Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. The panel will discuss issues, such as human cloning, abortion and animal testing.
www.mdjonline.com
http://www.mdjonline.com/view/full_story/23762421/article-Police-officers-train-at-Southern-Poly-on-how-to-respond-to–active-shooter-
Police officers train at Southern Poly on how to respond to ‘active shooter’
by Lindsay Field
MARIETTA — Dozens of Cobb and Marietta police officers, their faces covered and armed with military gear, played out an “active shooter” drill at Southern Polytechnic State University this week. Lt. Duane Manns with Southern Poly said he organized the Wednesday event, which included his department and Marietta Police, Cobb Sheriff’s SWAT Team, MetroAtlanta Ambulance Service, Marietta Fire, Paulding County Sheriff’s SWAT Team and Georgia Emergency Management Agency, as a way to better prepare his and other law enforcement officers in the case of a shooter on campus.
www.41nbc.com
http://www.41nbc.com/news/state-news/28168-regents-cited-for-mosquito-issues-at-augusta-site
Regents Cited For Mosquito Issues At Augusta Site
Written by Associated Press
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – Standing water at the former Georgia Golf Hall of Fame Botanical Gardens has prompted the Richmond County Mosquito Control to cite Georgia’s Board of Regents for an environmental health violation. An inspection this week discovered water features at the site were not operating and instead holding stagnant water and breeding mosquitoes.
Related article:
www.tribtown.com
Regents cited for mosquito problems at site of former Ga. Golf Hall of Fame Botanical Gardens
http://www.tribtown.com/view/story/3ff88897ab0c42418263896f8cf5144a/GA–Regents-Mosquito-Citation
USG VALUE:
www.georgiatrend.com
http://www.wsav.com/story/23612846/veterans-healthcare-town-hall-next-week
Veterans Healthcare Town Hall Next Week
By Andrew Davis, Anchor/Reporter
The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center (CNVAMC) is holding a Veterans Healthcare Town Hall meeting at Nessmith-Lane Conference Center on the Georgia Southern University campus 847 Plant Drive, Statesboro, Georgia 30460. The program will be October 9, 2013 beginning at 1PM continuing until 3PM Georgia Southern University enrollment includes over 400 Veterans.
GOOD NEWS:
www.gwinnetdailypost.com
http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/news/2013/oct/04/3-ggc-students-finalists-for-stem-awards/
3 GGC students finalists for STEM awards
By Keith Farner
LAWRENCEVILLE — Three Georgia Gwinnett College students have been honored for developing a software application that’s an alternative to a dedicated device in classrooms. … For their efforts, the students were named finalists in this year’s Georgia STEM Education Awards in the Classroom Technology category.
www.ledger-enquirer.com
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/2013/10/05/2728769/statesboro-attorney-elected-president.html?&co=f000000009816s-1158206718
Statesboro attorney elected president Georgia State Conference NAACP
By Ben Wright — benw@ledger-enquirer.com
A 34-year-old civil rights attorney from Statesboro was elected president of the Georgia State Conference NAACP Saturday at the Columbus Convention & Trade Center. The election of Francys Johnson on the third day of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People’s 71st Annual State Conference ends the eight-year tenure of Columbus resident Edward DuBose. … Johnson is a native of Sylvania, Ga., the son of a share cropper and maid. He was educated in the public school system and graduated from Georgia Southern University. He received a degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.
www.redandblack.com
http://www.redandblack.com/uganews/top-lists-uga-tops/article_4a6d04b4-2dd7-11e3-84bc-0019bb30f31a.html
Top 5 lists UGA tops
By Evelyn Andrews
Over the past couple of months, the University of Georgia has exemplified its prestige by ranking in several lists. UGA ranked among elite schools in reports compiled by institutions such as Forbes and U.S. News and World Report on criteria such as best professors, top universities and best party schools. Here is a breakdown of five of the latest rankings reported by the Red & Black. 1. UGA ranks sixth in universities and colleges with best professors … 2. U.S. News & World Report ranks UGA in top 20 public universities 2. U.S. News & World Report ranks UGA in top 20 public universities … 3. Forbes ranks UGA 18th out of top 20 public colleges … 4. UGA ranks eighth in top 10 Playboy Party Schools … 5. UGA ranks 17th for graduates who join Teach for America
RESEARCH:
www.chronicle.augusta.com
chronicle.augusta.com/news/2013-10-06/georgia-robot-fleet-ocean-research-machines
Georgia robot in fleet of ocean research machines
By Mary Landers
Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A small fleet of underwater robots, including one from the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute, is swimming off the East Coast this fall, collecting data that could shed light on scientific puzzles ranging from hurricane intensity forecasts to fish migration patterns. Researchers have dubbed it GliderPalooza.
www.dailyfusion.net
http://dailyfusion.net/2013/10/scientists-study-long-term-gulf-oil-spill-effects-21848/
Scientists Study Long-Term Gulf Oil Spill Effects
As the Gulf Coast continues to recover from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists from the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are continuing to look into the long-term Gulf oil spill effects on coastal marine life. A team led by Skidaway Institute professor Richard Lee recently completed preliminary work into the effect dispersed and emulsified oil has on blue crabs and shrimp. The project includes vital information from fishermen and crabbers in the Gulf.
www.contractdesign.com
http://www.contractdesign.com/contract/design/Designing-for-Health-9609.shtml
Designing for Health: Bridging the Gap: Design, Research, and Education
-By Tama Duffy Day, Jamie Huffcut
There is a movement within the architecture and design community towards data-driven decisions resulting in innovation in cost-savings, environmental stewardship, and overall user health. The significance of the movement can be seen in the growth of organizations and universities studying and publishing the effects of the built environment. In addition, architectural and engineering firms are joining in, seeking to answer questions on how to successfully integrate research into the design process… To date, AREA, has conducted a variety of research studies from pre- and post-occupancy evaluations to simulation studies with universities such as the University of Illinois, Georgia Tech, etc.
www.newsroom.cisco.com
http://newsroom.cisco.com/feature-content?type=webcontent&articleId=1272140
How Big Data and Mobile Technology Startups Are Changing Education
A new generation of companies is joining educational tech accelerators.
By Anne Field
Recently, there’s been a notable increase in startup accelerators aimed at incubating educational tech companies. The first, Palo Alto, Calif.-based Imagine K12, opened for business in 2011. Now a handful of others have appeared, from Kaplan EdTech Accelerator powered by TechStars, a three-month program located in New York City, to Pearson Catalyst, started by the U.K.-based educational publishing powerhouse. “There’s a realization that technology can dramatically affect educational outcomes,” say Tim Brady, founder and partner of Imagine K12… About three –and-a-half years ago, Tim Dutta, a management consultant and serial entrepreneur, and Rajnish Kumar, a researcher at Georgia Tech, who had worked on a computer visioning and video analytics project for the TSA, came up with a plan to address the problem.
www.phys.org
http://phys.org/news/2013-10-charger-user-malware.html
Phone charger can place user on malware alert
by Nancy Owano
More smartphones, more smartphone apps, and more busy smartphone users downloading apps have become attractive magnets for malware agents. A new category has grown up, not just general malware software but “mobile malware” and it continues to grow. Users have their own headaches when victimized and so do businesses. A sobering example of mobile malware surfaced this year at the Black Hat security event in August, where a Georgia Institute of Technology team showed how iPhones could be compromised with a charger, performing actions such as adding apps on the device without the user’s permission.
STATE NEEDS/ISSUES:
www.onlineathens.com
http://onlineathens.com/health/2013-10-05/us-faces-shortage-primary-care-doctors
U.S. faces shortage of primary care doctors
By Carolyn Crist
When Travis Smith was an undergraduate, he shadowed doctors at health clinics in the Central African nation of Zambia. He saw a need that couldn’t be met. … That was summer 2008. Now Travis plans to study emergency medicine. … Smith, 25, is one of 40 fourth-year students in the first graduating class of the Georgia Regents University-University of Georgia Medical Partnership. Like most of his classmates, Smith applied for a specialty that will take him through additional training after medical school. The U.S. faces a shortage of 90,000 primary care doctors by 2020 and 130,000 by 2025, says the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Editorials/Columns/Opinions
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/comment/opinion/moocs-from-mania-to-mundanity/2007773.article
Moocs: from mania to mundanity
After the hype is over, e-learning will be the norm, predicts Stephen Haggard
The supernova effects of massive open online courses include a warping of time. Academics running Moocs report working 100-hour weeks. FutureLearn invites applause for its burn rate: 10 months from zero to a full clutch of courses. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills insisted on a one-month turnaround for The Maturing of the Mooc, our complete literature and policy review. Taking a (very) short pause, I start to suspect that the power of the Mooc is an optical illusion caused by extreme acceleration. … At the University System of Georgia, for example, students take the university’s Moocs alongside regular courses as a way to top up credits and earn their degree more quickly.
www.saportareport.com
http://saportareport.com/blog/2013/10/piece-by-piece-conference-to-focus-on-stabilizing-neighborhoods-in-era-of-great-change/
Piece by Piece conference focuses on stabilizing neighborhoods in era of great change in housing market
Posted in David Pendered
The great recession has fundamentally altered some neighborhoods in metro Atlanta, and their future is unclear as homes have moved and continue to move through the foreclosure process. More than 40 percent of the 7,789 homes now in the sales pipeline, or heading to the pipeline, are in the pre-foreclosure, auction, or bank-owned stages of the foreclosure process, according to a recent report of sales tracked by trulia.com, a real estate marketplace. Wall Street investors are purchasing a significant number of homes in metro Atlanta, according to published reports… The program is slated to begin with a discussion by Dan Immergluck and Mike Minuetelli, who are to talk about local investor activity in scattered-site, single family rental houses. Immergluck is an associate professor at Georgia Tech who focuses on housing markets in vulnerable communities.
www..washingtonpost.com
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/05/the-influence-of-new-philanthropy-on-democracy/?wpisrc=nl_cuzheads
The Answer Sheet By Valerie Strauss
The influence of new philanthropy on democracy
Education reform has been heavily influenced in recent years by massively wealth philanthropists who fund their own favored school reforms and then bring public policy along with them. How this is affecting the democratic process is the subject of a piece in Dissent Magazine titled, “Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy,” by Joanne Barkan, a writer based in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts.
www.denverpost.com
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_24234549/removing-tuition-hurdle-allows-everyone-achieve
Should public colleges be free? Yes
Removing tuition hurdle allows everyone to achieve
By Don Kusler
State universities and community colleges should offer free tuition to all students who academically qualify for admission. Our current, insufficient, inefficient patchwork of college aid relies increasingly on loans that saddle graduates with too much debt and too few options once they enter the workforce.
Education News
www.orlandosentinel.com
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/os-common-core-qanda-20131004,0,2899418.story
Common Core Q&A: Explaining new standards for Florida students
By Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel
Common Core may be the most controversial education issue you know nothing about. It’s been trashed on radio talk shows and touted in speeches, and it will be the subject of three public hearings across the state this month. Yet 55 percent of parents are clueless about the nationwide initiative, a recent poll showed. Here are answers to some of the most common Common Core questions.
www.myajc.com
http://www.myajc.com/news/news/local/metro-atlanta-sat-scores-tied-to-poverty/nbGny/?icmp=ajc_internallink_textlink_apr2013_ajcstubtomyajc_launch
Metro Atlanta SAT scores tied to poverty
By Ty Tagami and Wayne Washington – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Anxious teenagers across Georgia who took the Scholastic Aptitude Test Saturday will earn scores that either open the door to a bright future or block the path to the college of their dreams. The results for the metro Atlanta class of 2013 indicate that, despite its name, SAT scores are closely tied to a factor beyond any student’s aptitude: the amount of money their parents have.
www.pbs.org
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec13/enstitute_10-06.html
Enstitute: The entrepreneurial alternative to college
As the cost of higher education mounts, debt-laden students, cash-strapped parents and members of the media are asking: is traditional college still the answer? Correspondent Mona Iskander reports on Enstitute, a two-year apprenticeship program that matches 18- to 24-year-olds with some of New York’s top entrepreneurs.
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/blogs/bottomline/u-s-income-based-repayment-plan-may-be-the-best-deal-for-borrowers/
U.S. Income-Based Repayment Plan May Be the ‘Best Deal’ for Borrowers
By Eric Kelderman
Washington — Two panel discussions here on Friday, hosted by the New America Foundation, delved into some of the new ways being proposed to ameliorate the thorny problem of student-loan debt. One existing solution, the federal government’s income-based repayment plan, wasn’t mentioned until afterward, but then it received a qualified endorsement.
Related article:
www.diverseeducation.com
Forum Explores Emerging Debt-free College Financing Options
http://diverseeducation.com/article/56489/?utm_campaign=Diverse%20Newsletter%203&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&elq=c478a284cc6040ce93983bf1b32b4dac&elqCampaignId=62#
www.chronicle.com
http://chronicle.com/article/Earnings-Gap-Narrows-but/142175/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Earnings Gap Narrows, but College Education Still Pays, Report Says
By Justin Doubleday
The earnings gap between young college graduates and their peers with only high-school diplomas has narrowed slightly in recent years, but adults with bachelor’s degrees still make significantly more over their careers, according to a report released on Monday by the College Board.
Related article:
www.insidehighered.com
Higher Education’s Payoff
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/10/07/college-board-releases-education-pays-report#ixzz2h2HlCuAi
www.bizjournals.com
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2013/10/04/for-profit-education-a-growing-presence.html
For-profit education a growing presence
Dave Williams
Staff Writer- Atlanta Business Chronicle
America’s for-profit colleges and universities are playing an increasingly important role in supplying higher education that meets workforce demands, a leader in the field said in Atlanta this week.