University System News:
The Atlanta Business Chronicle
New state apprenticeship program aimed at cybersecurity
By Dave Williams – Staff Writer, Atlanta Business Chronicle
The University System of Georgia (USG) and U.S. Department of Labor have entered into a partnership aimed at increasing the number of skilled workers who pursue a career in cybersecurity. The agreement will set up a system of standards the state’s public universities and the new Georgia FinTech Academy will use to add apprenticeships that specialize in the cybersecurity field. “The USG is committed to furthering ways in which academic learning experiences can be enhanced by work-based learning,” said Tristan Denley, the university system’s executive vice chancellor for academic affairs. “This new collaboration will help us do just that.” Denley said the Georgia FinTech Academy, launched by the university system Board of Regents in September, will play a pivotal part in connecting employers such as InComm with students looking for hands-on experience.
The Albany Herald
ABAC scholar part of national champion ag team
Bleckley County FFA team claims national title in Ag Mechanics at national convention
From Staff Reports
TIFTON — Jacob Smith, one of two Presidential Scholars in this year’s freshman class at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, was a member of the Bleckley County FFA team that recently captured the national championship in Ag Mechanics at the National FFA Convention. Smith, a forestry major from Cochran, is a 2018 Bleckley County High School graduate. Since Smith was a part of the qualifying state championship team in the spring, he was able to continue his relationship with the team as a college student. “I was part of a four-person team that participated in five different practicums,” Smith said. “Then we also had a written test.”
The Red & Black
Donations doing more: Turkeypalooza feeds nearly 300 Athens families in need
Lillie Beck | Contributor
The turkey is synonymous with Thanksgiving as is the Hairy Dawg with the University of Georgia. Just as some residences in Athens-Clarke County cannot afford to attend the University within their backyard, many cannot afford to adorn their tables with a turkey either. The Campus Kitchen at UGA and the Athens Community Council on Aging’s event ‘Turkeypalooza’ is working to grace nearly 300 families kitchen tables with the food staples of the holiday season. Turkeypalooza is described as a seasonal event that “provides holiday groceries and meals to older adult families and homebound individuals”. …Unlike other donation outlets, Turkeypalooza has a direct impact with families in need this holiday season. On Nov. 19th the families who will be on the receiving end of the donation will retrieve their free thanksgiving meal. The meal given to them includes a 15 pound turkey, cornbread stuffing, green bean casserole and mashed potatoes. Also included is a homemade card, greens from the UGArden and a recipe book.
WSAV
12 Scams of Christmas: Watch out for E-Card greeting scam
It may seem like a harmless greeting but it could be a scammer.
By: Alex Bozarjian
…Many of us are looking for more affordable, paperless ways to wish our loved ones a happy holiday. E-Card scams look legitimate they usually come in the form of a email with a link. That link should take you to a greeting but, instead it gives you a virus or steals your information. “Happy Holidays a friend sent you a holiday greeting,” is what the subject of the email might read. One click is all it takes and your precious information could be in the hands of a scammer. “It is a very lucrative thing for what amounts to little or no effort you can remember that, little to no effort and when they send these things out they are not just sending them to two or three people these things are sent out to tens of thousands of people,” said cyber crime expert and Director of of Special Programs at the Center for Applied Cyber Education, Wayne Willcox. Willcox works at Georgia Southern University and one of the things he does is help prepare companies for these kinds of data breaches. In this case scammers are using the name of legitimate companies like Hallmark claiming your family member or colleague sent you an e-card. Sometimes the email might even contain your name.
Higher Education News:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Five students describe their struggles with food and housing insecurity and what colleges can do to help
By Julia Schmalz
They barely make enough money to pay for college. Sometimes they have to choose between buying a textbook or buying food. Making rent, finding food, paying bills, raising a child, and dealing with abusive partners— these are some of the roadblocks many students face as they work toward earning their degrees. “College leaders are often embarrassed to admit that there is a problem on their campus,” says the researcher Sara Goldrick-Rab. As the founder of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, a research and advocacy institute at Temple University, Goldrick-Rab says colleges need to stop thinking about such challenges only as personal issues that services like food banks alone can solve. It takes community involvement and systemic changes to solve the problems of financial instability. Below are interviews with five students who have all experienced food or housing insecurity – or both. The interviews were conducted in September during a Goldrick-Rab-organized event, “#RealCollege: A National Convening on Food and Housing Insecurity,” held at Temple University.
Inside Higher Ed
DeVos Title IX proposal would make campus hearings into “mini courtrooms,” higher education lawyers say, with cross-examination requirements survivor advocates criticized.
By Andrew Kreighbaum
Last week Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released her proposed overhaul of federal standards for how colleges handle campus-based sexual misconduct. The rule includes a key demand from supporters of accused students, requiring that colleges allow those students to cross-examine, through an advocate, the person who accused them of misconduct in a live hearing. DeVos said the regulations would ensure a more transparent, consistent and reliable process for campus hearings. However, advocates for survivors of sexual assault said requiring cross-examination rights will discourage victims from coming forward to report misconduct to their colleges. And many lawyers who advise colleges on Title IX issues are warning that the proposal essentially would turn campus hearings into courtroom proceedings, pushing colleges into roles they are ill equipped to take on. And critics said the requirement raises questions about equity for student representation in court-like settings.
Inside Higher Ed
‘Research Universities and the Public Good’
Author discusses his new book defending research universities in an environment where their value is questioned by politicians and pundits.
By Scott Jaschik
American research universities are the envy of those around the world. So why is the value of these institutions so frequently questioned by politicians, pundits and others? In Research Universities and the Public Good: Discovery for an Uncertain Future (Stanford University Press), Jason Owen-Smith offers a defense of these institutions, while acknowledging that they are not always well understood. Owen-Smith, a professor of sociology and executive director of the Institute for Research on Innovation and Science at the University of Michigan, answered questions via email about his new book.
Q: To many in academe, it would seem obvious that research universities promote the public good. Why did you think it necessary to make the case in this way?