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Pamela Whitten becomes new KSU President
http://www.wdam.com/story/38409741/pamela-whitten-becomes-new-ksu-president
By WGCL Digital Team
Kennesaw State University has a new president and Pamela Whitten has the job. The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia voted unanimously in favor of appointing her to the post. Whitten has been serving as the University of Georgia’s Provost and Chief Academic Officer. She was the only finalist for the post.
www.allongeorgia.com
Michelle Johnston Named President of the College of Coastal Georgia
By Carrie Magalski
The College of Coastal Georgia will be welcoming their new president this summer. In a release originally published by the University System of Georgia, the Board of Regents named Dr. Michelle Johnston president of the university. Johnston currently serves as the 22nd president of the University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College in Ohio, a position that she has held since 2014. “Dr. Johnston will be a strong advocate for the College of Coastal Georgia and build on its partnership with the community and coastal region,” said University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley. “We are excited about the future of the College of Coastal Georgia and the momentum Dr. Johnston will bring for the benefit of students.”
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Protesters at Arch support undocumented immigrants
http://www.onlineathens.com/news/20180613/protesters-at-arch-support-undocumented-immigrants
By Lee Shearer
More than 75 people gathered at the University of Georgia Arch on Broad Street Tuesday evening in support of undocumented immigrants. The demonstration and vigil, organized by Athens’ Dignidad Inmigrante en Athens and the Interfaith Sanctuary Coalition, was the latest in a series of Tuesday evening demonstrations. But attendance Tuesday may have been heightened by last week’s shooting of a 19-year-old Guatemalan woman by a U.S. border patrol officer near Laredo, Texas. Holding signs with messages such as “Jesus of Nazareth was an immigrant in Egypt,” the protesters heard brief statements from speakers, chanted slogans and participated in a responsive litany. …No particular local policy or practice prompted the event, unlike protests earlier this year of a now-ended Clarke County Sheriff’s Office policy of holding undocumented inmates longer than legally required to give federal immigration authorities more time to take the inmates into federal custody for deportation proceedings.
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ASU Biology Professor Selected Again to Conduct Research in Nigeria
Staff Report From Albany CEO
Albany State University associate professor of biology Olabisi Ojo received a fellowship by the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program to advance research in microbial genomics and to strengthen microbiology curricula and pathogen genomics. Ojo will collaborate with Sunday B. Akinde, professor of the Department of Microbiology at Osun State University in Osogbo, Nigeria. The pair will focus on curriculum co-development, workshop organization in microbial genomics and graduate student mentoring in research. This will be Ojo’s second year as a fellow. In May 2016, he traveled to Ile-Ife, Nigeria to collaborate with the Obafemi Awolowo University. The ASU and UNIOSUN project is part of a broader initiative that will pair 55 CADFP scholars with one of 43 higher education institutions and collaborators in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda to work together on curriculum co-development, research, graduate teaching, training, and mentoring activities in the coming months.
www.savannahnow.com
Skidaway Institute research vessel saves capsized Florida fisherman
A routine research cruise quickly turned into a life-saving nighttime rescue mission for the crew of UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s research vessel, Savannah. The ship’s crew rescued two Florida fishermen who were clinging to the hull of their capsized boat in the open ocean approximately 10 miles off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla. on June 8. Michael Sullivan, UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography’s external affairs manager, said the Savannah vessel was conducting a fish survey with a team from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Around 8:30 p.m., they were contacted by the Coast Guard to assist with a vessel in distress believed to be three and a half miles from the Savannah’s position.
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What Do Online Students Want? 3 Findings From a New Survey Offer Some Clues
By Goldie Blumenstyk
What do online students want? According to a new survey, they want to conduct more of their course activities on their mobile phones or tablets, and they’d like better career-planning services. Their biggest regrets? They all relate to not having done enough research about the college and what it would cost before they enrolled. The survey, produced by Learning House and Aslanian Market Research, is based on responses from 1,500 past, current, and prospective online students. Here are three of the findings: Mobile: …Career services: …Regrets:
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Many States Get Mediocre Grades in 2 Studies of Degree Attainment by Race and Ethnicity
By Goldie Blumenstyk
It’s not news that there is a disparity in degree-attainment levels between white adults and black and Latino adults. Two new reports released on Thursday by the Education Trust go beyond the better-known national averages to highlight which states have the biggest gaps and which ones are doing better — and worse — at closing them. Each report — one on black adults, the other on Latino adults — grades states on an A-to-F scale on both their current degree-attainment levels and on how that level has changed since 2000. Ed Trust, a nonprofit advocacy group, also rates states — as average, above average, or below average — on how they’ve closed the gap between white and black or Latino attainment since 2000. Altogether, it’s not a report card to brag about.