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49.6% DATA P O I N T —Four-year graduation rate for study abroad students; the control group rate is 42.1 percent. —The Georgia Learning Outcomes of Students Studying Abroad Research Initiative SOUND BITE Unwanted roommates: Bed Bugs on campus FAciliTies direcTors kNow ThAT As sTUdents return to campus along with their bedding and school supplies, they could be bringing a variety of creepy crawlies. The current pest du jour? Bed bugs. According to research by Michael F. Potter, a University of Kentucky entomologist in the college of Agriculture, they are being found across the country from private residences and hotels to clothing retailers and even movie theaters. it’s not a matter of cleanliness but rather our global lifestyle, says Michael r. linford, president of TPe Associates, which licenses ThermaPure (www .thermapure.com), a disinfection method relying on extremely high heat. institutions with active study abroad programs or large numbers of international students should Future Shock be most on alert. Adult bed bugs are about the size of an apple seed and very portable, so people can spread an infestation without realizing it. students’ tendency to pick up discarded furniture isn’t helping, he adds. Bed bugs have become fairly resistant to traditional pesticides and their eggs have a 30-day gestation period, so schools opting for a chemical solution should be prepared for multiple applications, linford cautions. Properly trained bed bug sniffing dogs are one useful preventative measure when they are used for regular inspections, he adds. during a heat treatment, like one offered by ThermaPure, everything in the room is treated at once. Placing bedding and fabric in a clothes dryer on high heat for at least an hour should kill any bugs that weren’t eliminated during the room treatment. one roadblock to extermination: People react differently to bites, making it hard to track an infestation’s source. “one school treated a dorm room not realizing the source was three rooms down” because those students weren’t developing welts, linford says. The lesson: don’t assume all roommates are on the housing list. —Ann McClure Watching the Woolly MaMMoths reunite in “ice age Meltdown” on a 95 degree scorcher on July 4th, our thoughts turned to global warming and its cataclysmic challenges for our next generation. uB readers who missed the ice age trilogy should know what the chief of u.s. naval operations, admiral gary roughead said on a recent visit to Boston: “all i know is that there’s a lot more water out there. …the melting arctic creates all kinds of issues as more water is freed up for fishing, shipping, and mineral exploration. ... the arctic belongs to all the people around the world as no nation has sovereignty over it. these burgeoning sea issues mandate that the united states sign the u.n. law of the sea convention treaty so that we have a seat at the table. the arctic makes it imperative.” admiral roughead recognizes that the campaign for achieving long-term sustainability lies beyond gulf oil spills, urban smog, and even rain. gradually, over the last 50 years, there emerged several leading circumpolar universities, each with a special arctic niche. Just consider the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the University of Alberta (canada), and the University of Lapland (Finland). so what logically joins these several unique circumpolar focused universities? at their epicenter, these institutions share a common sense of northuniversitybusiness.com True North: Tracking The Future Trajectory of Arctic Universities ern place, cultural affinity, and ecological fragility, and the largest outdoor co-laboratories in the world. Founded as a Federal agricultural experiment station during the Klondike gold rush era, uaF originally focused on agriculture and mining. the university’s main campus is ideally located just 200 miles south of the arctic circle. Known as “america’s arctic university,” uaF is one of the few land, sea, and space grant universities in the world. Defined by its academic rigor and leveraging its circumpolar niche, uaF is renowned for its pure and applied research in the mission-critical fields of arctic biology, arctic engineering, geophysics, super-computing, and aboriginal studies. uaF chancellor Brian rogers summed it up nicely this way: “there is no organization better poised to do [global warming research] than uaF, where our acute, scientific research powerfully identifies and calibrates those effects and how best to deal with them.” For more on this topic, read the full version of this column online at www.universitybusiness.com. —James Martin and James E. Samels, Future Shock columnists, are authors of turnaround: leading stressed colleges and universities to excellence (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Martin is a professor of English at Mount Ida College (Mass.), and Samels is president and CEO of The Education Alliance. 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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of University Business - September 2010

University Business - September 2010
Contents
Editor's Note
College Index
Company Index
Advisory Board
Behind the News
Viewpoint
Financial Aid
Sense of Place
Internet Technology
Approaching Admissions Today
Three to Degree
Have College Brands Delivered on Their Promise?
Honoring Efficiency
EduComm 2010 Roundup
View from the Summit
Independent Outlook
What's New
End Note

University Business - September 2010