University System News:
The Inkwell
Sit Down with Dr. Kyle Marrero
Ethan Smith, News Editor
Dr. Kyle Marrero began his tenure as the 14th President of Georgia Southern and the first official President of the university since the consolidation on April 1. Marrero garnered much praise, much of it coming from the University of West Georgia, by his actions in leading the university towards breaking records in enrollment, graduation rates, degrees earned and annual economic impact. I got the chance to sit down with Dr. Marrero and learn more about his plans for integrating the estranged campuses under Georgia Southern University, about his thoughts on the enrollment decrease and about many other topics derived from pressing concerns of the student body. Can you give us an introduction about who you are and what you are all about?
Tifton CEO
ABAC’s Stafford School of Business Celebrates Fifth Anniversary of Degree
Staff Report From Tifton CEO
Students, faculty and staff from the Stafford School of Business at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College recently joined with their community business partners to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Bachelor of Science degree in Business at ABAC. Dr. Renata Elad, Dean of the Stafford School of Business, said the school bases the success of the degree on five tenets. “Our business partners in the room know we have a well-rounded, broad-based program because they hire our students as interns,” Elad said. “We also pride ourselves on hands-on experiential learning, strong faculty mentorships, an innovative curriculum, a low student-to-faculty ratio, and a quite affordable degree.” ABAC experienced its highest enrollment in history during the 2018 fall semester when 4,291 students from 30 countries, 18 states, and 155 of Georgia’s 159 counties took classes at ABAC instructional sites in Tifton, Moultrie, Bainbridge, Blakely, and Donalsonville. The number of students choosing to major in business continues to climb.
WTVM
Columbus community remembers the life of William ‘WD’ Feeney
By Olivia Gunn
A celebration of life service was held Tuesday for a Columbus man who was killed in an accident on Broadway last week. William “WD” Feeney was a graduate student and employee at Columbus State University. Over the weekend, social media was filled with messages of love and remembrance.
AllOnGeorgia
Georgia Southern students participate in Fort Stewart tactical athlete program
In a recent visit to Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia Southern University Department of Rehabilitation Sciences students participated in interactive soldier demonstrations in an effort to better understand soldiers’ unique physical challenges and how they can help better prepare them for combat. “The event provided our students with a much better insight as to the physical demands of soldiers at Fort Stewart,” said Nancy Henderson, DPT, assistant professor of rehabilitation sciences. “This added knowledge will help them to better tailor their education while working with soldiers.” Understanding the physical regiment of the soldiers at Fort Stewart is the key to success for the department’s Soldier Athlete Human Performance Optimization (SAHPO) program, a collaborative effort between Georgia Southern and the 3rd Infantry Division. The program allows students to work with soldiers on injury prevention in an effort to improve medical readiness.
WGAU Radio
UGA PROFESSOR WINS GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP
By: Camie Williams
Scott Nelson, Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Humanities in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Nelson, who specializes in 19th-century American social history in the department of history, has authored or co-authored five books, most recently “A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters.” “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a great honor. It’s one of the top accolades a historian can earn, and I am excited to represent the University of Georgia,” Nelson said, adding that he is encouraged that the Guggenheim Foundation found his scholarship to be worthy of such a prestigious award. “This is a recognition that people were moved by my work, and that is amazing.” The Guggenheim Fellowship program, established in 1925 by U.S. Sen. Simon Guggenheim and his wife, Olga, in honor of their late son John, bestows funds on scholars, scientists and artists to devote time to a creative or scholarly project. The award is given to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or creative work. This year a total of 168 scholars, artists and writers were chosen from among nearly 3,000 applications.
Savannah CEO
Georgia Southern, Nine Line Foundation Sign Agreement to Promote Veteran Education
Staff Report From Savannah CEO
Georgia Southern University’s Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Carl L. Reiber Ph.D., and Nine Line Foundation President Megan Hostler recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the Armstrong Campus’ Sustainable Aquaponics Research Center (SARC). “Signing this MOU exemplifies what Georgia Southern should be doing, which is working with the community,” Reiber said. “We’re taking what we do very well, which is education, and combining it with community need. This, specifically, is a serious community need. It’s an amazing opportunity to advance all of those causes at once.”
WGAU Radio
UGA WORKS WITH ENVISION ATHENS
By Kellyn Amodeo
Wesley Chenoweth felt alone when he was starting his business. “As a startup, minority-owned business in Athens, I felt lost,” he said. “I didn’t know where to start or if I’d ever be able to grow my business like the successful ones I saw downtown.” His company, Grizzly Delivery LLC, specializes in courier delivery, passenger transportation, non-emergency medical transportation and more. Chenoweth’s goal is for Grizzly to be the leading transportation company in Northeast Georgia in the next five years, but to get there, he needed support. That’s how he found himself at Emergent: Launch and Learn, a training course offered by the University of Georgia Small Business Development Center, hosted by Envision Athens. Envision Athens is a partnership between community and government leaders with the goal of creating a 20-year strategy for community and economic development in Athens-Clarke County. The organization is based on the idea of government and community working together, making comprehensive community planning more insightful, intuitive and inclusive.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Tennis legend speaks at CSU fundraiser, leads workshops for local players
BY MIKE HASKEY
A tennis legend, who as a teenager captured the world’s attention with her skill, poise and success, came to Columbus Tuesday to share her knowledge of the game with area teenagers. Tracy Austin also celebrated the successes of young women now competing at the collegiate level. Austin, an inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame and winner of three Grand Slam titles, was in town as part of Columbus State University’s Girls in the Game Advance Initiative. Launched in 2015, Girls in the Game provides support to CSU’s female student athletes, helping them excel athletically and academically while also helping them develop leadership skills. Austin and CSU tennis players taught two tennis workshops Tuesday, and Austin was the keynote speaker at CSU’s Athletics’ Girls in the Game Advance Initiative Luncheon.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
UPDATE: Georgia Tech hires firms to review data breach
By Eric Stirgus
Georgia Tech said Wednesday it has hired two firms to review last week’s online security breach. Mandiant, a Virginia-based firm, will investigate how the breach occurred and the method of attack. Ankura, which has offices in several cities, including Atlanta, will analyze what was taken, a Tech spokesman said. The work is expected to take several weeks.
Marietta Daily Journal
KSU to break ground on $5 million science lab annex
Staff reports
Kennesaw State University will break ground at its Marietta campus on April 18 for a $5 million science lab annex to be completed in December, the university reported Wednesday. The 10,411-square-foot annex, which will be constructed as an addition to the engineering lab building, will house two biology and two chemistry labs. The building addition is “to meet the growing need for science majors in the workforce,” according to Robert Godlewski, a spokesman for the university. The groundbreaking ceremony will take place at 10:30 a.m. next to the Marietta campus’s mathematics building, near the intersection of Rossbacher Way and Polytechnic Lane, off South Marietta Parkway.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kennesaw State to break ground on $5M science lab annex building
WRVL
Columbus musician awarded Avery Fisher Career Grant
By: David Howard
A local musician has been awarded a grant for his outstanding musical ability. Columbus State University L. Rexford Whiddon Distinguished Chair in Piano Henry Kramer recently received the Avery Fisher Career Grant for $25,000. The grant, which is administered by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, was awarded to three other individuals and a string quartet.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Downtown is getting 2 new ‘fun and interactive’ sculptures for Artbeat 2019
BY MIKE HASKEY
A collaboration between Columbus State University, Artbeat 2019 and Uptown Columbus has brightened downtown and made the sculpture walk more interactive. Artbeat 2019 recently unveiled two new sculptures, “Bubbles” by Joshua Richmond and “Round and Round” by Yun Praught. They are the newest additions to the several other sculptures dotting Broadway. Rick McKnight of Artbeat 2019 said they held a competition with CSU sculpture students in Michael McFalls’ class, asking for submissions that were colorful, interactive and safe. He said they chose to commission “Bubbles” and “Round and Round” and worked with Uptown Columbus to coordinate the sculptures’ placement. “Bubbles” has been installed at the corner of Broadway and 12th Street in front of CSU’s Frank Brown Hall, and “Round and Round” is installed next to the John P. Thayer YMCA in downtown Columbus on the Broadway side of the building.
Athens Banner-Herald
VIDEO: UGA slavery response lacking, say civil rights leaders
By Lee Shearer
Athens civil rights leaders on Wednesday publicly read and then presented a letter to the office of University of Georgia President Jere Morehead asking him to do more to recognize and redress the university’s history with slavery. Representatives of five activist groups — Linda Lloyd of the Equal Justice Coalition, Alvin Sheats of the Clarke County NAACP chapter, Erin Stacer for the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement, Imani Scott-Blackwell of Athens for Everyone, and Chris Xavier, a UGA student representing the United Campus Workers of Georgia labor union — stood in front of the UGA Administration Building to read the letter to Morehead. Eight people watched, five of them recording the reading on video cameras. After the reading, the group went inside the administration building, where Morehead’s office is located, and presented the letter to a receptionist to hand to Morehead as a UGA police officer watched.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
The American Education Disadvantage?
New research finds that graduates from U.S. universities are less likely to get a call back from Chinese employers than their counterparts with degrees from Chinese universities.
By Elizabeth Redden
Employers in China are more likely to call back job applicants who graduated from Chinese colleges than from American colleges. Even job applicants with degrees from very selective U.S. universities are less likely to get a call back than applicants with degrees from the least selective Chinese institutions. Those are the top-line findings in a new working paper by Mingyu Chen, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Princeton University. Chen sent more than 27,000 fictitious job applications for entry-level positions in business and computer science to employers in China. His study, he writes, is to the best of his knowledge “the first study to provide causal evidence on the value of U.S. postsecondary education in foreign labor markets.” Chen estimates that the 111 American universities he used on the various fictitious résumés account for about 72 percent of all Chinese enrollments in the U.S. Over all, he found that applicants who had graduated from U.S. universities were 18 percent less likely to get a call back than applicants who had attended Chinese universities. Even applicants from the most selective U.S. universities — as defined by U.S. News & World Report rankings of national universities — were 7 percent less likely to get a call back than applicants from the Chinese universities he categorized as least selective.
Inside Higher Ed
New Effort to Prevent Sexual Harassment
By Scott Jaschik
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, along with more than 40 colleges, universities and research institutions, on Wednesday announced the launch of the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education.