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ABAC Receives GHRAC 2018 Archival Award
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University System of Georgia Executive Vice Chancellor Tristan Denley and Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council Chair P. Toby Graham recently presented the GHRAC Award for Excellence in Archival Program Development by a State Institution to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College for stabilizing, rehousing, and cataloging the collections of the ABAC Archives. The presentation took place at the 16th annual GHRAC Archives Awards ceremony at the Georgia Archives. The GHRAC Awards recognize outstanding efforts in archives and records work in Georgia. …GHRAC works to promote the educational use of Georgia’s documentary heritage and to support efforts to improve the condition of records statewide. The Board is charged with advising the Chancellor and the Georgia Archives on records and policy issues.
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Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving hosts annual summit in Americus
Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health in Williamsburg, Va., honored at caregiver summit
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AMERICUS — Riverside Center for Excellence in Aging and Lifelong Health in Williamsburg, Va., received the Rosalynn Carter Leadership in Caregiving Award at the annual summit hosted by the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving last month.
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Georgia Nursing Students Teach Stress-Reducing Habits to Firefighters
https://dailynurse.com/georgia-nursing-students-teach-stress-reducing-habits-to-firefighters/
by Christina Morgan
Students from the Georgia State University School of Nursing Associate Degree Program, Perimeter College, have been teaching stress-reducing habits to firefighters as part of their clinical training. This is the second year that Perimeter College students have been able to fulfill their clinical requirements through training other healthcare professionals. With long shifts and hectic schedules, firefighters often need reminders and tips to stay healthy. Georgia State nursing students have been fulfilling their clinical hours by teaching stress-reducing habits to firefighters, including yoga. They also host community events like an upcoming community healthcare fair which will be open and free to the public to learn tips on taking care of your health. Perimeter College nursing students are required to complete 180 hours of hands-on clinical service as part of their registered nurse training. Valencia Freeman, the instructor who oversees clinical rotations, and Lynda Goodfellow, professor and associate academic dean for academic affairs in the Georgia State University School of Nursing, wanted to create new opportunities for students to get experience beyond the bedside.
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UGA program allows students to enter work force sooner
‘Double Dawg’ students are equipped with a program-specific advisor
By Sharon Dowdy
CAES News
GRIFFIN — The University of Georgia’s Double Dawgs program is now being offered on the UGA campus in Griffin. The program allows students to simultaneously work towards a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree and complete both degrees in five years or less. The College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) is the first to bring the Double Dawgs program to Griffin. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 18 percent of all jobs will require a master’s degree by 2022. The Double Dawgs program is designed to help students reach that goal sooner. “Double Dawgs programs give students the opportunity to earn a valuable second degree in about the same amount of time it would take to earn a bachelor’s degree, in most cases,” Melissa Gordon, UGA assistant director of academic affairs, said. “Basically, you start working on your master’s degree while you are finishing your bachelor’s degree. It’s amazing that you can get two UGA degrees in such a short length of time.” More than 100 Double Dawgs programs are now available to UGA students at the university’s main campus in Athens.
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UGA STEMzone Educates Football Fans About Climate Change
By Talia Levine
STEMzone UGA—a science outreach event founded by Odum School of Ecology PhD candidate Reni Kaul—offers UGA graduate students and organizations the opportunity to share their research with football tailgaters in a relaxed and interactive setting. ECOGIG, a research consortium that emerged in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the Louisiana coast, paved the way for STEMzone when Samantha Joye, ECOGIG project director and professor in the UGA Department of Marine Sciences, initiated “Science at the Stadium” to highlight ECOGIG research efforts and technology in the broader context of global ocean health. Now, in STEMzone’s second year, students from a variety of STEM disciplines will fill the lawn of the Miller Learning Center five hours before kickoff for the Auburn game, from 2–7 p.m. on Nov. 10, to share their research. This year’s booths will once again feature the breadth of research interests represented at UGA, with the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources offering introductions to a host of reptiles, ECOGIG guiding eager operators on how to drive underwater remotely operated vehicles, and the MathZone challenging visitors with mind-bending puzzles.
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Georgia Tech has had a ‘dramatic increase’ in ethics complaints, president says
By Eric Stirgus
Georgia Tech has seen a “dramatic increase” in the number of ethics complaints since July, its president said Tuesday, about the time when investigators released several reports exposing serious ethical wrongdoing by several now former top administrators. Since July, there have been 140 complaints, Tech President G.P. “Bud” Peterson said during a question-and-answer session with more than 100 faculty members and employees. By comparison, there were 85 complaints in 2017, according to a University System of Georgia analysis. Peterson said there are positive and negative aspects to the rise in reported complaints. The bad part, he said, is there’s a possibility that there have been additional ethics lapses by some employees. The good part, he said, is “people are coming forward reporting things they’re concerned about.” Peterson said in response to one audience question that some of the complaints are multiple accusations about a single issue. Others are “score-settling,” he said. Peterson said those complaints are often communication breakdowns between employees that must be resolved more productively. Georgia Tech officials did not have information Tuesday afternoon about the status of the additional complaints.
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Get Schooled with Maureen Downey
Study: Georgia Tech has become a lot harder to get into today
Georgia Tech alums and students are quick to praise their school and defend it when they feel it’s being sold short. They weren’t happy with the latest U.S. News & World Report ratings, which showed the University of Georgia catching up in the national standings with Tech. Tech loyalists pointed out what they considered a fairer representation of where UGA stood in relation to Tech, the recent 2019 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College rankings, which rated Tech the 60th best college out of 1,000 public and private campuses and UGA the 240th. The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings evaluate campuses on 15 indicators in four areas: outcomes, resources, engagement and environment. Outcomes account for 40 percent of the weighting and measure such factors as the salary graduates earn. The WSJ/Times rankings said Tech grads earn, on average, nearly $75,000 10 years after graduation. In comparison, UGA grads earn an average salary of $47,433 a decade post-graduation. (UGA is gaining in the poll; last year it ranked 261st. Tech, on the other hand, was ranked 53rd last year, falling seven places this year. ) In the U.S. News & World Report 2019 Best Colleges ranking of more than 1,800 schools across the country, Georgia Tech was ranked the 8th best national public university in the country, tied with the University of Florida. Tech ranked #35 among all national universities, including private and public. …Speaking of rankings, Tech makes its way to the top of a new list this week, one that will not reassure high school seniors waiting to learn if they’ve been accepted. Tech has become much harder to get into, according to a new analysis by BusinessStudent.com.
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What the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed
By Dan Bauman, Lindsay Ellis, Steven Johnson, Eric Kelderman, Emma Pettit, and Brock Read
Was it a wave? Maybe not. But for Democrats, it was a win. They weathered disappointments in some high-profile races that had appeared winnable Tuesday night, and they lost three U.S. Senate seats in the face of a challenging map. But Democrats seized control of the U.S. House of Representatives, tipping at least 26 seats to emerge with a clear majority. In doing so, they earned the opportunity to step up oversight of the polarizing presidency of Donald J. Trump. That oversight could extend to higher-education policy through immediate scrutiny of what the Education Department is doing under Secretary Betsy DeVos. DeVos has remained a lightning rod since her nomination last year, but her record of impact on higher education thus far is spotty. She has moved to undo several Obama-era regulations meant to hold colleges accountable for the federal-loan debt of their students, and has begun writing new regulations on how colleges handle cases of sexual misconduct under Title IX, the federal law meant to ensure gender equity on campus. In January she will start the process of rewriting a host of regulations that deal with accreditation, among other things.
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What a Divided Congress Means for Higher Education
Democrats’ takeover of the U.S. House promises tougher scrutiny of DeVos and the Education Department. Donna Shalala is among those elected to U.S. House.
By Andrew Kreighbaum
Democrats have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time in eight years. And one of the biggest losers of the midterm elections may be Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. With a Democrat running the House education committee, DeVos likely faces the most scrutiny since her confirmation hearings nearly two years ago. The party has frequently complained about being shut out of legislative efforts by Republicans and ignored by the Education Department. Now Representative Bobby Scott, a Virginia Democrat and the committee’s ranking member, will have the chance to call department officials for questioning on key regulations and student loan programs.
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Online Education Ascends
Number and proportion of college and university students taking classes online grew solidly in 2017, as overall postsecondary enrollments fell. A third of all students now take at least one online course.
By Doug Lederman
Without online education, college and university enrollments would be declining even more. That is evident in the latest report from the Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics, published Tuesday. It shows that while overall postsecondary enrollment dropped by almost 90,000 students, nearly half a percentage point, from fall 2016 to fall 2017 — confirming data previously published by the National Student Clearinghouse — the number of all students who took at least some of their courses online grew by more than 350,000, a healthy 5.7 percent. The proportion of all students who were enrolled exclusively online grew to 15.4 percent (up from 14.7 percent in 2016), or about one in six students. The share of all students who mixed online and in-person courses grew slightly faster, to 17.6 percent in 2017 from 16.4 percent in 2016. And the proportion of all students who took at least one course online grew to 33.1 percent, from 31.1 percent in 2016.
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Colleges and Universities Prepare for National STEM Day
by Tiffany Pennamon
On National STEM Day this Thursday, Nov. 8, Dr. Adriana D. Briscoe will be posting on Twitter about butterflies – their colors, their visual systems and more. As a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, the distinguished scientist will join other students, faculty and campus leaders from the nation’s colleges and universities who will be participating in the celebratory initiative aimed at inspiring individuals to explore and pursue the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Across the higher education landscape, the day will feature events such as STEM symposiums, trainings and community activities that engage a variety of groups, including minorities and women. “It’s important to me to provide a platform that allows our students to highlight the research they’ve been doing in their fields of interest,” said Dr. Heidi DiFrancesca, associate professor of biology at the University of Mary Harden-Baylor and event organizer for the university’s third annual National STEM Day Symposium. “It’s important to me to showcase our STEM disciplines.” Opportunities like symposiums can serve as motivation for students and their peers to engage and explore more in the STEM areas that interest them, DiFrancesca said, adding that access to STEM opportunities can generate excitement and drive student retention and success in the fields.