University System News:
www.thebrunswicknews.com
Search committee preparing to select final candidates for next CCGA president
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/search-committee-preparing-to-select-final-candidates-for-next-ccga/article_b194a2a7-1505-5db3-983a-5c5a3f4f4012.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
The committee tasked with selecting the finalists for College of Coastal Georgia’s next president will soon wrap up the feedback portion of its search and begin to select candidates. The 14-person presidential search committee, made up of college faculty, staff, CCGA Foundation trustees and students, began the search process in December. The committee has hosted 11 listening sessions to get input from stakeholders, including students, faculty members, staff, the board of trustees and alumni. Tanya Cofer, chair of the committee, said the plan is to spend the first part of this month deliberating to choose the semi-finalists. By the end of the month, the committee plans to meet the semi-finalists, and then to recommend final candidates at the end of April or early May.
www.thebrunswicknews.com
Secrecy of search for university president draws criticism
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/state_news/secrecy-of-search-for-university-president-draws-criticism/article_b7f85b7a-e080-541c-919a-f068011899ec.html
KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — Some faculty members and students at one of Georgia’s largest universities say the names of candidates and finalists in the search for the school’s next president should be made public. They say greater transparency is needed in the search for Kennesaw State University’s new leader, and that top candidates should visit the campus and meet with students and faculty before the decision is made. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that search committee members so far have decided to keep secret the names of potential candidates.
www.albanyherald.com
Albany women big part of history
Women’s History Month celebrated around the world
http://www.albanyherald.com/features/albany-women-big-part-of-history/article_a5b627d6-7dc9-57f9-a542-d7104e57b402.html
By Cindi Cox
ALBANY — In the United States, Women’s History Month traces its beginnings back to the first International Women’s Day in 1911. In 1979, a 15-day conference focusing on women’s history was held at Sarah Lawrence College. It was the first major symposium of its kind and was co-sponsored by the Women’s Action Council and the Smithsonian Institute. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter was instrumental in bringing the significance of women’s history to the forefront when he issued a presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8 National Women’s History Week. Since then, communities, schools and other institutions have devoted greater attention to the matter. One of the many women who made history in Albany is Portia Holmes-Shields, who became Albany State University’s first female president in 1996. When she came to Albany, the city and the university were recovering from massive Flint River flooding. In response, Shields led a successful $153 million flood recovery program and was able to quickly repair and restore the 204-acre campus. Another major accomplishment during Shields’ tenure as president was an increase in the student population from just over 3,000 students when she arrived to nearly 4,000 students.
www.now.northropgrumman.com
5 Famous Women in STEM Paving the Way
http://now.northropgrumman.com/5-famous-women-stem-paving-way/
JENNI W. GRITTERS
According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, men still outnumber women in American STEM … But still, the odds can feel like they are against women who want to work in STEM fields. That’s what makes these five game-changing female scientists so impressive. These famous women in STEM are role models who are paving the way for the next generation of female scientists … Ayanna Howard, Robot Scientist. Howard once worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a senior robotics researcher. She is now a robotics professor at Georgia Institute of Technology. One of her most well-known successes was the design of “SnoMote,” a robot that could work in remote ice environments inaccessible to humans. In 2013, she founded Zyrobotics, a company that produces technology for kids living with special needs, she told PC Magazine. According to Howard’s Georgia Tech bio, “her academic career is highlighted by her focus on technology development for intelligent agents that must interact with and in a human-centered world, as well as on the education and mentoring of students in the engineering and computing fields.”
www.thebrunswicknews.com
Nursing students provide health screenings at The Well
https://thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/nursing-students-provide-health-screenings-at-the-well/article_8ef5a9d7-e373-52f1-8aba-ec0142540d5e.html
By LAUREN MCDONALD
A group of College of Coastal Georgia nursing students got away from the classroom Friday to put their education into action. The students set up shop at The Well, a homeless day shelter on Gloucester Street in Brunswick, and provided free blood pressure screenings along with health resource information and kits to the shelter’s clients. The three-hour screening event was part of a service-learning project for the community health nursing course, taught by Nicole Masano, an assistant professor of nursing at CCGA. …The students in the class crafted their own service learning project, from beginning to end. The process included coming up with a project idea, connecting with The Well and setting up the screening site at the center.
www.ajc.com
Georgia State opens $6.3 million science wing on North Fulton campus
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/georgia-state-opens-million-science-wing-north-fulton-campus/xjWZPTOjaip7XzKWAHV7iP/
Mitchell Northam The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia State University just cut the ribbon on some new digs in north Fulton County. On Tuesday, the state’s largest university officially opened the new wing full of biology and chemistry labs at its Alpharetta campus. The labs cost $6.3 million to build and will allow students to collaborate with the area’s growing science and technology industry, Georgia State president Mark Becker said.
www.tiftongazette.com
Rural prosperity center jumps hurdle
http://www.tiftongazette.com/news/ga_fl_news/rural-prosperity-center-jumps-hurdle/article_c78c48a8-0e20-505b-9334-8e20a8cdfefe.html
By Jill Nolin
A plan to create an academic center focusing on the needs of rural Georgia cleared a milestone Wednesday, but conversations about funding still await lawmakers. House lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the measure, sending it to the Senate. The proposal comes from the House Rural Development Council, which has offered several bills aimed at addressing the woes of rural Georgia. “The growth that we’ve seen in this state is amazing,” Rep. Jason Shaw, R-Lakeland, who is the sponsor, told his colleagues. “But it has not touched our rural communities. They are suffering and struggling, and this is a way for us to set up a center to help these communities.” Shaw’s measure creates the Center for Rural Prosperity and Innovation, which would be housed within a university that offers a bachelor’s in rural community development – a requirement that appears to favor Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton. A new leadership position, called the deputy commissioner for rural Georgia, would also be created within the state Department of Economic Development.
www.tiftonceo.com
Garrett Boone on the Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tifton
http://tiftonceo.com/video/2018/03/garrett-boone-georgia-museum-agriculture/?utm_source=Tifton+CEO&utm_campaign=d22440487f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b977a0f8f6-d22440487f-303871653
Georgia Historic Museum of Agriculture & Historic Village at ABAC Director Garrett Boone gives an overview of the Museum and the changes that have happened since its’ inception.
www.metroatlantaceo.com
More Startups Join Engage Ventures
http://metroatlantaceo.com/features/2018/03/more-startups-join-engage/
Staff Report From Metro Atlanta CEO
Eight additional technology startups will go through an early-stage venture fund created by Georgia Tech and 10 leading global corporations. The Engage Ventures growth program differs from other accelerators in that it targets later stage companies and helps them develop and execute go-to-market strategies … Half of the startups have Georgia Tech connections. Three are current portfolio companies in Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) and a fourth participated in CREATE-X, a series of entrepreneurship programs for undergraduate students. The three-month program brings the startups to Georgia Tech’s Technology Square.
www.wsav.com
GBI investigates death of Georgia Southern student
http://wsav.com/2018/03/02/gbi-investigates-death-of-georgia-southern-student/
By WSAV Staff
Authorities are investigating the death of a student at Georgia Southern University. Bradley Frietas was found dead inside Freedom’s Landing Apartments, a student housing center, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). The 22-year-old from Atlanta was a junior at Georgia Southern University (GSU). GBI was called to the scene Thursday, shortly after 9:00 p.m. to help with a welfare check at the request of the GSU Police Department.
www.myajc.com
Remembering Thomas Lozano, a beloved Georgia Tech man
https://www.myajc.com/sports/college/remembering-thomas-lozano-beloved-georgia-tech-man/2rJLEASEPep22YzxzkHXbM/
By Ken Sugiura
Within the Georgia Tech athletic department, Thomas Lozano was one that virtually everyone knew, admired and appreciated. A Tech honors graduate in 2002 and then a staffer in the department since 2004, Lozano took on a variety of roles in student services, compliance and communications. Lozano faced daunting physical challenges, as he had cerebral palsy and required the use of crutches, but that was only part of what inspired Tech staff and athletes to respect and hold him in high regard. He held an undying love for Tech, its teams and its people. After Lozano died last Thursday at the age of 38, athletic director Todd Stansbury remembered him in a statement as a “huge part of our GTAA family” whose dedication to Tech was unrivaled. Other Tech staff who knew him shared their memories.
Higher Education News:
www.diverseeducation.com
New App Aids Nontraditional and Transfer Students
http://diverseeducation.com/article/111329/?utm_campaign=DIV1803%20DAILY%20NEWSLETTER%20MAR5&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
by Tiffany Pennamon
Leveraging the power of innovative technology, The Common Application has created a new transfer application experience for students who may be returning to school through nontraditional pipelines. The new experience simplifies the admissions process for transfer or other nontraditional students by offering a dynamic and tailored application for a student’s unique background. It also provides institutions with an opportunity to reframe admissions application processes, which largely have been oriented to the traditional first-year population of students entering from high school. “Providing equity of experience using the Common App to our transfer population, currently 44% of whom are the first in their families to attend college, is key to our mission of promoting access,” said Jenny Rickard, president and CEO of The Common Application. “We’re wanting to be able to make those connections between students seeking to transfer or return to education, to try to really streamline that process for them.”
www.chronicle.com
Students in Charge
Galvanized by politics and holding the power of the purse strings, they’re making their voices heard
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Who-s-in-Charge-on-College/242656?cid=wcontentgrid_6_4grid_2
By Lawrence Biemiller
Are students suddenly wresting control of colleges away from trustees, administrators, and faculty members? Some people have said so, loudly — among them people on both sides of the current political divide and others with no political ax to grind. On the right (often, but not always) are state legislators appalled by students’ desire for lazy rivers, climbing walls, and deluxe residence halls, as well as pundits horrified by their demands for trigger warnings, gender-neutral bathrooms, and bans on hate speech. On the left (not always, but often) are professors worried that their own students are reporting them for expressing political opinions in the classroom, and presidents made wary by rabble-rousing speakers.
www.theatlantic.com
Why Colleges Are Embracing the #NeverAgain Movement
Colleges are assuring students that gun-control activism won’t affect their chances at admission—and affirming their value of civic engagement in the process.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/03/why-colleges-are-embracing-the-neveragain-movement/554723/
Laura McKena
As high-school students around the country organize in support of stronger gun-control legislation in the wake of the Parkland shooting, many are finding that, at the very least, one thing they don’t have to worry about is the possibility of disciplinary action hurting their chances of getting into college some day. Superintendents in some school districts have warned that students who participate will face disciplinary actions such as suspension. But over 250 college-admissions offices around the country have responded to these concerns, most of them with assurances that students’ activism will not hurt their chances at admission, even if their high schools do take disciplinary action.
www.chronicle.com
New Fellowship Seeks to Help Tenure-Track Faculty Members Elevate Teaching
https://www.chronicle.com/article/New-Fellowship-Seeks-to-Help/242732?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en&elqTrackId=a597da0de19d4aa5a1a88b453a0c75e9&elq=cf54188217e441c981f5f093f809fee1&elqaid=18051&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=8027
By Beckie Supiano
Tenure decisions typically hinge on a candidate’s research contributions, providing an incentive for even the most dedicated instructors to prioritize scholarship over teaching. A new fellowship program aims to help “rising postsecondary education stars” bolster their commitment to teaching. The Course Hero-Woodrow Wilson Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching will provide each of five professors who “love teaching” and are “making their mark as exceptional researchers” with a one-time award of $40,000, according to the announcement.