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Albany Herald
ABAC/PCOM Georgia agreement to benefit aspiring pharmacy students
Pharmacy students can begin their careers early while saving tuition dollars
From staff reports
An agreement was recently reached which will allow Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College students seeking careers as pharmacists to earn doctoral degrees a year early at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. The Suwanee campus of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, PCOM Georgia, is the home of the PCOM School of Pharmacy. “We are very excited about this new venture with PCOM, which is sure to be of tremendous benefit to our students and the broader region,” Matthew Anderson, dean of the ABAC School of Arts and Sciences, said. “This agreement will allow students to complete their combined bachelor and doctoral level education in a shorter time frame, which will make this advanced training more accessible and prepare more pharmacists to enter the workforce.”
WGUA Radio
By: Sam Fahmy
For the sixth consecutive year, the University of Georgia’s far-reaching commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion has been recognized with a national award. The INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award is the only national recognition honoring colleges and universities that exhibit outstanding efforts and success in the area of diversity and inclusion. Rather than recognizing a single program or unit, the award highlights a range of student, faculty and staff initiatives at the university. “The University of Georgia is proud to be a national leader in promoting diversity and inclusion throughout our institution,” said President Jere W. Morehead. “I appreciate this recognition from INSIGHT Into Diversity once again for our successes in this important area and our efforts to go even further.”
Education Week
Wanted: Teachers as Diverse as Their Students
Districts try ‘grow your own’ programs to get the workforce to better mirror the student body
By Corey Mitchell
When Adrian Galvan came to the United States at age 5, he knew little English. He knew even less of what to expect in his new school, Lyman Hall Elementary. Now, 16 years later, Galvan works in those same classrooms, helping immigrant children much like the one he used to be, adjust to their new lives. Galvan is part of an experiment—a grow-your-own educator program that aims to close the gap between the number of Spanish-speaking students and Spanish-speaking educators in Hall County, Ga., where immigrants from Mexico and Central America have changed the face of the school district. …”There’s a disparity there,” said R. Bradley Brown, the assistant superintendent for human resources. “We just need more bilingual people who are native speakers in our schools to help with communication, to help with reading and also to set examples.” In response, the school system partnered with the University of North Georgia to create the RISE (Realizing Inspiring Successful Educators) program, designed to prepare Spanish-speaking Latino students for careers in education. The district covers college tuition for participants and offers them paid part-time jobs as school paraprofessionals, with the goal of keeping them in the district once they graduate.
WSAV
Latinx students at Georgia Southern march into Hispanic Heritage Month
by: Jon Dowding
Latinx students at Georgia Southern University held a parade of flags on Wednesday to mark the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. The Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Association of Latin American Students organized the parade. Students danced to traditional Latin music as well as reggaeton music while eating food outside of the Russell Union Rotunda. The parade is one of many events the Office of Multicultural Affairs has organized to celebrate Hispanic culture. Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Columbus State soars in U.S. News Best Colleges rankings
BY MARK RICE
Columbus State University has made significant improvement in the latest U.S. News Best Colleges rankings compared to last year. CSU’s ranking increased 25 spots to 75th in the magazine’s 2020 undergraduate ranking of 136 regional universities in the South. Among public regional universities in the South , CSU’s ranking increased 12 spots to 30th.
Growing Georgia
Georgia Peaches Featured in New Destination Ag Classroom Book
By: Steve McWilliams
Destination Ag at the Georgia Museum of Agriculture in Tifton, GA has announced the publication of its newest educator resource, My Family’s Peach Farm. My Family Peach Farm represents the second in a series of books that will share the story of Georgia agriculture with third and fourth grade students. Last year, Destination Ag published it first commodity book, Our Family’s Tree Farm, along with companion lesson plans perfect for use in elementary classrooms. Lesson plans for My Family’s Peach Farm will be available in January. The publications assist teachers in addressing Georgia’s education standards. …The timing is perfect for this new resource as Georgia conducts a pilot program during the 2019-2020 school year that is expected to lead to agricultural education curriculum for the state’s elementary schools. My Family Peach Farm adds to the growing resources provided by Destination Ag, a unique agriculture literacy program based at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, GA.
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Inside Georgia Tech’s new $10 million sports broadcast facility
By Eric Jackson – Sports Business Reporter, Atlanta Business Chronicle
Georgia Tech doesn’t rely on four meager cameras anymore to capture sports action around campus. Now the school has 23, and they’re all operated out of a new state-of-the-art broadcast production facility. ACC Network launched its 24/7 linear channel on Aug. 22 and delivered its first football broadcast in Clemson a week later. ESPN owns the network and splits the revenue with the ACC member schools. In preparation for the launch of the network, schools across the ACC, including Tech, have opened their wallets to build or upgrade existing production facilities. Tech invested $10 million for the renovation and construction of its new on-campus facility — that price tag is near the most in the conference, behind the University of North Carolina, which reportedly spent $15 million. Tech gutted its previously used project management building, stripping it down to the steel beams and concrete, and built the structure back up with new office space, three control rooms and almost 900 strands of fiber cable.
WJCL
Eagle great Adrian Peterson headed to Georgia Sports Hall of Fame
Peterson one of eight in Class of 2020
Frank Sulkowski
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Authority Co-Chairs Emily Parker Myers and Don Leeburn III announced Wednesday the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2020, which includes Georgia Southern legend Adrian Peterson. The group will be inducted in ceremonies in Macon the weekend of Feb. 21-22, 2020. “Thanks to the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame for this great honor,” Peterson said. “The state of Georgia welcomed this Florida boy with open arms many years ago as a freshman at Georgia Southern and we had a lot of successful seasons during my years playing in Statesboro. While winning a lot of games I hope we were able to bring excitement and inspire many people! Also, congratulations to the other inductees and I look forward to sharing the stage with you in February.” Peterson is one of eight to get the call from the Hall this year. Joining AP in the class are: Willie Anderson – former UGA and San Antonio Spurs point guard; …Gary Colson – former Valdosta State men’s basketball coach who racked up 563 career wins; Eddie Lee Ivery – Former Georgia Tech and Green Bay Packers running back; Georgia …Jeff Treadway – former UGA and Atlanta Braves player
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
Overburdened Mental-Health Counselors Look After Students. But Who Looks After the Counselors?
By Alexander C. Kafka
More students are coming to college counseling centers asking urgently for help. They often have multiple diagnoses or previous suicide attempts. For the counselors who try to help them, the student mental-health crisis is taking a toll. …There are no studies solely of college mental-health caregivers, experts say. But Joshua Altman, associate director of the Student Counseling Center at Adelphi University, in Garden City, N.Y., points to a 2018 meta-analysis that draws from 40 articles over 30 years of research and includes almost 9,000 psychotherapists. It describes more than half of those as reporting “moderate to high burnout,” which revealed itself most often in emotional exhaustion, “feeling physical and emotional fatigue while at work,” and sometimes in “depersonalization and a reduced sense of personal accomplishment.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Janet Napolitano Will Step Down as U. of California System’s President
By Andy Thomason
Janet A. Napolitano, president of the 10-campus University of California system, announced on Wednesday that she would step down in August 2020. Napolitano, a former governor of Arizona and U.S. secretary of homeland security, has led the California system since 2013. “My time at UC has been deeply gratifying and rewarding,” Napolitano said in a news release. “I have been honored and inspired every day to serve this institution alongside incredibly dedicated, passionate people. The decision was tough — and this moment, bittersweet — but the time is right.” Napolitano is the first woman to serve as president of the prestigious California system.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
New Mexico Governor Unveils Sweeping Free-Tuition Proposal, as Some Question Who Will Benefit Most
By Katherine Mangan
New Mexico residents could receive up to four years of free college tuition, regardless of family income, under a proposal unveiled on Wednesday by the state’s Democratic governor. The proposal — among the most sweeping free-tuition plans yet offered by a state — joins a crowded field of plans aimed at making college affordable. Like others that have emerged over the past few years, the plan is generating intense debate over the most efficient and equitable ways to guarantee that everyone has access to a college education. The governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, released a statement saying the program would help 55,000 New Mexicans. One of the nation’s poorest states, New Mexico saw higher-education spending cut by more than 30 percent per student from 2008 to 2018, according to state education officials. The proposal would cost about $25 million to $35 million per year, and would be partly covered by the state’s rising oil revenues, the governor’s office said.
Inside Higher Ed
Free College for All in New Mexico
Proponents say universal free tuition plans like New Mexico’s are the best way to boost college enrollment, but critics say it would help the least needy and do little to improve program quality.
By Madeline St. Amour
New Mexico governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, is asking the state’s Legislature to fund a scholarship program that would cover tuition and fees for all in-state residents at New Mexico’s public higher education institutions. The New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship, announced Wednesday, would make it the second state after New York to cover tuition for residents over four years at all in-state public institutions. “This is an unprecedented opportunity for students to attend college tuition- and fee-free,” said Carmen Lopez-Wilson, deputy secretary of the state’s higher education department. While the state says the program will encourage more students to attend college, some who research higher education question its potential.
Who Will It Help?
The scholarship would be available for recent high school graduates, GED earners and returning adults, as well as undocumented students.