Albany Herald

University of West Georgia has interim president

UWG provost/vice president of academic affairs Micheal Crafton named interim president

From Staff Reports

University of West Georgia Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Micheal Crafton has been named interim president of the institution. Crafton will assume this role on April 1 following the departure of the current president, Kyle Marrero, who was named president of Georgia Southern University last month.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Emory gets $65 million donation for new health facility

By Eric Stirgus

…Here are some other major donations to some Atlanta-area colleges and universities: …November 2018 – Georgia Southern University has received its largest donation ever, $5 million from local business leader Gregory M. Parker. …April 2018 – A.D. “Pete” Correll and his wife, Ada Lee, both University of Georgia graduates, gave the school $5 million to start a scholarship for students with significant financial need.March 2018 – Georgia Tech received $15 million from the Clark Foundation for its College of Engineering.

Savannah CEO

Georgia Southern Professor Honored with Georgia Medical Society Health Care Hero Award

Staff Report From Savannah CEO

Georgia Southern University Professor of Health Sciences Janet Buelow, Ph.D., was recently honored with the Health Care Hero Award in the Community Outreach category at Georgia Medical Society’s 18th annual Health Care Heroes Awards banquet. The event recognized individuals for their involvement in making health care better in the community. Buelow was awarded for her leadership and planning efforts for the Department of Defense’s 2018 Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) exercise, Operation Empower Health-Greater Savannah. A vast operation that included coordination with the City of Savannah, Garden City, Savannah State University and the military, the public-private initiative served more than 9,000 individuals with 26,000-plus free primary care services, including dental and vision procedures, and veterinary services for almost 3,000 animals. The event exceeded $4.5 million in cost.

Athens CEO

UGA Achieves 96% Career Outcomes Rate

Laura Bayne

University of Georgia graduates, for the second year in a row, are employed or attending graduate school within six months at a rate of 96 percent—11.7 percent higher than the national average.

Of those students:

63 percent were employed full time;

19 percent were attending graduate school; and

Approximately 12 percent were self-employed, interning full time or were employed part time.

Walton Tribune

Accounting students help with tax prep

Accounting students in the University of North Georgia’s Mike Cottrell College of Business are gaining valuable tax preparation experience while serving the surrounding communities. They are providing free tax preparation for community members and fellow students as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program sponsored by the IRS. VITA offers free tax services to people who generally make $54,000 or less. The students prepare basic 1040 tax returns, schedules, and related credits. Lisa Nash, lecturer of accounting at UNG and a CPA, reviews all returns before filing. Federal and state returns are prepared while taxpayers are present. The tax returns are filed electronically with direct deposit available, if desired. …Nash said this is the third year she has supervised the program at UNG. With so many changes to tax law affecting 2018 returns, Nash knows people will need assistance.

WGAURadio

UGA STUDENTS HELP WITH TAX FILINGS

By: Ellman Hallman

For more than a decade, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program offered through the University of Georgia College of Family and Consumer Sciences department of financial planning, housing and consumer economics has offered free tax help to Georgians with low-to-moderate incomes, persons with disabilities, the elderly and limited-English-speaking taxpayers. In 2017, with help from UGA Cooperative Extension, the program expanded to offer online services to reach eligible taxpayers in more rural areas of Georgia.

The Brunswick News

SOAR, college team up for service-learning project

By LAUREN MCDONALD

SOAR, a nonprofit that serves local adults with developmental disabilities, aims to provide social opportunities to its members and help them connect with their community. College of Coastal Georgia, with its emphasis on service-learning, through which students take their skills and passions out into the community in the form of service projects, tries to give back to residents of the Golden Isles. SOAR and the college have recently teamed up to connect these two missions in a way that benefits both the members of the nonprofit and students at Coastal Georgia.

Savannah Morning News

‘Speak up, shout out, be heard’: Victim, experts address school bullying at Georgia Southern Armstrong Campus

By Ann Meyer ameyer@savannahnow.com

Other students might call a tip line when they witness bullying at school, but Mackey Linton went public. Linton’s Youtube video on bullying at a private school in Savannah got noticed and helped her turn around her personal situation, she said. Linton, now a junior at Islands High School, was one of four panelists Tuesday night at a discussion of the 2011 movie, “Bully,” produced by Cynthia Lowen and Lee Hirsch. But unlike in the video, where she wrote her story on oversized neon note cards, on Tuesday, Linton spoke about the way schools often treat bullying.  “People kept sweeping it under the rug,” Linton said. “I remember how I got picked on.” After posting the video, Linton started an anti-bullying campaign that also got noticed. Linton said she switched schools after the principal of the private school she was attending told her mother, “Don’t you think we should stop this? Don’t you think that Mackey has had her 15 minutes of fame?” …Brandy Hall, a junior undergraduate education student at Georgia Southern who attended the event held on the Armstrong campus, said the way the administrators in the film dealt with the issue of bullying disturbed her.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Target of Kennesaw State racist post wants culprit suspended, expelled

By Eric Stirgua

A Kennesaw State University student who said he’s the target of a racist social media post wants the school to suspend or expel the student who took his picture. The university said it’s investigating a post circulated around campus with a picture of an African-American student sitting in a classroom with a red arrow pointed at his face with the words “Need to call the Klan to solve this issue.”Elijah John, 22, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in a telephone interview Wednesday it was him in the picture. John, who said he’s a senior marketing major, is scheduled to meet with university officials Thursday. He said he didn’t know he was photographed and doesn’t know the student he believes took his picture. …“I want the school to expel him,” John said.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Fraternity closes at Ga. college; student taken to hospital after drinking too much

By J.D. Capelouto

A fraternity at the University of North Georgia has been closed after an underage student was taken to the hospital after drinking too much. Sigma Alpha Epsilon shut down its UNG chapter after the hospital visit sparked an investigation, Channel 2 Action News reported. A university spokeswoman told the news station that the incident arose in December, when a group of SAE brothers drank together at someone’s house near the Dahlonega campus.The school investigated because underage drinking is against its code of conduct.

WTOC

GSU Police get new technology to help serve, protect

By Dal Cannady

After a year of construction, Georgia Southern University Police have moved back into their headquarters. The year-long renovation didn’t add a lot of square footage, but the space and technology they did add makes a huge difference. The new entrance and sign might be the only changes you notice, but staff members say it’s like night and day. Deb Rowe has worked in every building the department’s ever had. …“Now when you come in this facility, in this area where booking is, you can’t exit this area unless you have key card access,” said Chief Laura McCullough, Georgia Southern University PD. She says the new technology allows them more monitoring of the 1,500 security cameras on campus and more of a feeling they have the tools to protect everyone on campus.