Albany CEO

GSW Names 20 Incoming Georgia, Florida Freshmen to the New President Jimmy Carter Leadership Program

Staff Report From Albany CEO

Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) has named twenty incoming freshmen from across Georgia and Florida to the new President Jimmy Carter Leadership Program, established to honor the legacy of GSW alumnus and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. “Because this new leadership program is endorsed by President Carter himself, it was very important to GSW to select only the finest students from those who applied,” said Lynda Lee Purvis, GSW vice president emerita for Academic Affairs and program director.

Tifton Gazette

Three nursing graduates receive top awards at pinning ceremony

Three nursing graduates from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College received the top awards presented by the School of Nursing and health Sciences at the recent nurses’ pinning ceremony in Gressette Gymnasium on the ABAC campus: Sydney Vaughn from Macon received the Carillion Award. Kristia Powell from Tifton received the Clinical Excellence Award, and Andrew Underwood from Moultrie received the Dedication to Nursing Award.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Interest in ‘green’ careers rises among the young; so does the pay

By Ty Tagami

When Gerald Pollack was in high school, he couldn’t find a course that matched his interest in the environment. Now, a couple of decades later, he teaches the AP environmental science course at Chattahoochee High School in Johns Creek. Over the past decade, enrollment in it has grown from a meager 20 students to more than six times that number. Pollack, who watched college friends go into, and then exit, the oil and gas industry, sees a new generation of teenagers focused on careers that would bend society into a more environmentally conservative future. Unlike him, though, they have more institutional support to prepare for the technical, social and personal challenges ahead. The pay is better, too. “When I tell them stories, I don’t think it deters them. I think it helps them understand what is good and bad about the profession that they’re looking at,” said Pollack, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry with an emphasis in geology from Georgia State University. …The growing interest in what’s called “sustainability” is manifest at Chattahoochee High in students such as Emily Guo and Rachel Rigsbee. Guo, in what was admittedly an unsustainable experiment, destroyed some of her parents’ pots while distilling biodiesel in the kitchen for a science project. She used chemicals from school to harvest the fuel from kudzu, which led to an internship at Georgia Tech last summer. She got her diploma Tuesday and is off to Stanford to study the intersection of science, technology and society.

Athens CEO

Three Georgia Schools Named Green Ribbon Winners

Two of Georgia’s public schools and one public university have been named 2019 U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools. The schools selected are:

Robert W. Gadsden Elementary School – Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools

Sharon Elementary School – Forsyth County Schools

Georgia College & State University

The Green Ribbon designation recognizes schools and districts that exercise a comprehensive approach to creating “green” environments by reducing environmental impact, promoting health, and ensuring a high-quality environmental and outdoor education for students. “On behalf of the Georgia Department of Education, I congratulate each of these schools for their excellent, innovative work,” said Keisha Ford-Jenrette, GaDOE Recognitions Program Manager. “From Gadsden Elementary’s partnership with Savannah State, which exposes students to agricultural sciences and careers, to the outdoor classroom at Sharon Elementary, to the campus community garden at GCSU – all of these schools are truly thinking outside the box, to the benefit of their students.” In Georgia, a partnership between the Georgia Department of Education, the Captain Planet Foundation, the Turner Foundation, the U.S. Green Building Council of Georgia, and the University System of Georgia helps schools compete for the national award.

Douglas Now

SGSC’S ESCHER TO PLAY AT MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

Being a student-athlete can be a challenge. It takes juggling practice and games in addition to time spent in the classroom and on homework and study time. South Georgia State College’s Cole Escher has taken on the task and been highly successful, on the field and also academically by receiving a Phi Theta Kappa Transfer Scholarship. …Not only does Cole have athletic accolades to his name, he has gone one step further and has also been recognized for his academic accomplishments. Cole has been named to the Dean’s List at SGSC all four semesters and was selected on several occasions to serve as a student-athlete representative at college functions including meetings with the University System of Georgia Chancellor Dr. Steve Wrigley.

Victory Sports Network

No. 1 USAO Eliminates No. 8 GGC At The NAIA Softball World Series

The top ranked University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (59-3, 36-0 SAC) and No. 8 Georgia Gwinnett College (45-16) met up in an elimination game at the NAIA Softball World Series. The Drovers scored early and often to advance in the tournament with the 6-1 victory.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia, Tech, Georgia Southern all miss cut at college golf championship

By Steve Hummer

Georgia, Georgia Tech and Georgia Southern all have been excused from the NCAA golf championship. The top 15 among the 30 teams that began play Friday will play one more round of stroke play Monday before eight advance to match play. None of the Georgia schools made that first cut.