University System News:
Tifton Gazette
Report: ABAC economic impact hits nearly $500 million
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College hit a home run during the 2018 fiscal year when ABAC impacted South Georgia to the tune of nearly half billion dollars. “ABAC’s footprint in South Georgia makes quite a large impression,” Dr. Renata Elad, dean of ABAC’s Stafford School of Business, said. “As a result of the overall multiplier effect, ABAC’s economic impact was $499,403,672 in 2018.” Elad analyzed the overall University System of Georgia (USG) report which was conducted by Dr. Jeffrey M. Humphreys, director of the Selig Center for Economic Growth in the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. “Out-of-state enrollment definitely played a part,” Elad said. “Obviously, the word is getting around that ABAC offers a valuable education at an affordable cost.”
Albany Herald
Career Services helps ASU students prepare for job hunt
By J’lesa Wilson For ASU
Career fairs are a mecca of opportunity for students looking to secure internships or post-graduate employment. The Albany State University Office of Career Services recently hosted a fall career fair that allowed students to network with potential employers and improve their resumes. Golden Rams presented their resumes and other job-related materials for employment opportunities within their desired field. Students from all majors attended the September event. ASU alumna and director of Career Services Tracy Williams said it’s important that students take career fairs seriously because the job hunt is fierce and competitive. “Our events connect students with those that are recruiting,” Williams said. “Students must present themselves ready on paper with their resumes and they must communicate their strengths – accomplishments, achievements, and results – that demonstrate their readiness to move forward in their career path. Career Services provides interviewing preparation techniques in order to prepare professionals.”
Albany Herald
Clothing drive helps ASU students ‘suit up for success’
By Kahlil Starkey Special to the Herald
With graduation quickly approaching, students are transitioning from college to hopeful job candidates. Optimistic applicants must be prepared for both internships and job opportunities and Albany State University is helping to ensure students are dressed for success. The second annual Suit Up For Success Clothing Drive is designed to promote professionalism and assist students in need of business attire. The initiative is hosted by M.A.L.E.S. (Men Advocates for Leadership, Excellence and Success) Mentors and the Delta Delta Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. This collaborative initiative encourages students, faculty, staff and community members to donate gently used professional clothing such as ties, dress shirts, dress pants, belts, blazers, skirts and dress shoes.
Marietta Daily Journal
Sally Litchfield: Swing down to KSU for a good cause, shop til’ you drop and sip n’ stroll
“Get your dancing shoes ready. The 12th annual 1940s Swing Dance is Saturday, Nov. 2 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Kennesaw State University Center (3333 Busbee Dr, Kennesaw 30144). Commemorate the 1940s era with an evening of dancing to the live big band tunes of the Peachtree Jazz Edition’s 18-piece orchestra. The program supports Feed the Future, a KSU C.A.R.E. initiative to assist students in need. Bring a non-perishable food item as a donation to receive free admission.”
Albany Herald
Georgia Southwestern Foundation receives Wells Fargo grant for student success
Grant of $3,000 goes to first-year experience efforts
From Staff Reports
The Georgia Southwestern Foundation was recently awarded a $3,000 grant from Wells Fargo to support Georgia Southwestern State University’s Office of First-Year Experience and its efforts to increase student success, engagement and retention. Student progression and retention continue to be priorities for Georgia Southwestern. To aid students’ efforts to continue on a positive path, Georgia Southwestern has implemented initiatives to increase first-year student success. FYE’s Storm Spotter program provides peer mentors and early intervention specialists for first-year students.
Augusta Chronicle
Getting rural addiction help is focus of AU grant
By Tom Corwin
A $1million federal grant will help Augusta University extend addiction treatment to rural areas of Georgia where it is currently lacking. It took a “perfect storm” of misfortune and misdeeds before it hit Jessica Hunt that her life needed to change: she lost sight in one eye for a year, she was facing a host of criminal charges related to her addiction and her sister was moving to get permanent custody of her eight-year-old son, Kyler. But to get help, she would have to leave her hometown in rural Georgia. Students to the rescue
As part of a $1 million grant from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration, students at Medical College of Georgia will get trained on how to administer naloxone, a medication that can help reverse an overdose, said Catherine Clary, associate director of rural health for the Institute of Public and Preventive Health at Augusta University. The students will also get two vials of the medication to carry with them. Many of those students will train in rural areas of Georgia and will have that rescue medication with them if needed, whereas first responders in those areas may not, she said.
News Medical
High glucose impairs circadian clock function, may increase cardiovascular risk
High glucose in obesity appears to gum up the works of the circadian clocks inside our cells that help regulate the timing of many body functions across the 24-hour day and drive the risk of cardiovascular disease, scientists say. He and Dr. David Fulton, director of the Vascular Biology Center and Regents professor in the MCG Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, are principal investigators on a $2.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that is enabling the use of intermittent fasting and a developing category of clock repair drugs to find the answer.
Statesboro Herald
Woodall NAACP state president at 25
GS grad returning for Freedom Fund Gala Nov. 2
Al Hackle/Staff
James “Major” Woodall, Georgia Southern University alumnus and former NAACP Georgia Youth and College Division state president, has at age 25 become Georgia NAACP state president.
The George-Anne
Georgia Southern students present list of demands at Marvin Pittman Building
By Nathan Woodruff
Students at Georgia Southern University gathered outside the Marvin Pittman administration building around 12:30 p.m. to share their list of demands. The list entitled, “protest against hate demands” included increasing diversity, issues surrounding funding for FYE and requiring the students involved in the book burning to attend mandatory diversity training. Gloria Wilson, sophomore political science major, said that she was hoping the president would meet with a smaller group. “I was just hoping to maybe get to talk to him and have him say a couple words to a smaller group and not just a mass email, that feels very impersonal,” Wilson said. “I was hoping just for him to say some more words that were specific to today’s protest and specific today’s demands.” Julien Mendes, junior theatre major, said that faculty diversity was a key tenant on the list of demands for him.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Mother of slain Georgia State student urges third suspect to surrender
By Asia Simone Burns
A DeKalb County woman said she won’t rest until the people who shot and killed her son are held accountable. “I won’t stop until I do get full justice for my family, for my son,” T.J. Riley said in her first interview since intruders gunned down 24-year-old Jeremy Riley during a March 21 home invasion. Riley told Channel 2 Action News that her son was close to graduating from Georgia State University when his life was taken. They had been saving money to buy a car for the car business they planned to start, the news station reported.
Growing Georgia
Krone North America Loans Hay and Forage Equipment to ABAC
Krone North America recently loaned the J.G. Woodroof Farm at ABAC several pieces of hay and forage equipment which will enable students to become acquainted with the modern tools of the trade in the hay production industry. The J.G. Woodroof Farm at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College just became a little more innovative thanks to Krone North America. “We are grateful for our new corporate partnership with Krone North America,” Dr. Mark J. Kistler, Dean of the ABAC School of Agriculture & Natural Resources, said. “The use of the four pieces of hay and forage harvest equipment will not only help our farm operations but will also provide our students the opportunity to see and use the latest innovations in agricultural technology in their courses and laboratories.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Can Buildings Produce More Than They Consume? Georgia Tech Thinks So
By Lawrence Biemiller
Chances are good that your institution has built at least some recent buildings to LEED standards. But a handful of colleges are now setting the bar much, much higher. On Thursday Georgia Tech dedicates its newest building, a $25-million structure designed to the exacting standards of the Living Building Challenge. We visited recently.
Georgia Tech Opens a Building Meant to ‘Give Back More Than It Takes’
Atlanta — “What would be a building that does more good than harm, that gives back more than it takes?” The Georgia Institute of Technology hopes to answer that question with a structure it will dedicate Thursday: the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design. Paid for with a $30-million grant by the Atlanta-based Kendeda Fund, the 37,000-square-foot facility is designed to meet the standards of the Living Building Challenge. “It’s the most ambitious performance standard in the world,” according to Shan Arora, the building’s director, who again and again asks why we shouldn’t start expecting our buildings to do more for the planet and its people. Of the $30 million, $25 million went to construction costs, with the rest set aside for an endowment for the building and its programs.
Albany Herald
Georgia Power bulldog unleashed at University of Georgia campus in Tifton
‘Kilowatt’ unveiled in Tifton, joining more than a dozen other statues
From staff reports
A new bulldog is now part of the University of Georgia’s campus in Tifton. On Monday, “Kilowatt,” a Georgia Power-branded bulldog statue, was unveiled on the backside of the UGA Conference Center. The statue features a bulldog dressed as a Georgia Power lineman and joins more than a dozen other similar statues in the community. Georgia Power is a sponsor of UGA and UGA athletics.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bill seeks to pay college athletes in Georgia
By Mark Niesse
A bill being introduced in the Georgia General Assembly would allow college athletes to be paid. The legislation, modeled on a similar bill recently signed into law in California, calls for college athletes to be compensated for the use of their name, image or likeness. …“Not only is this an idea whose time has come, but Georgia schools would be at a decisive disadvantage when it comes to recruiting with other states that join California in implementing this act if we fail to do the same,” said state Rep. Billy Mitchell, a Democrat from Stone Mountain who is sponsoring the legislation.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
UGA’s first black sorority to mark 50 years on campus this weekend
By Ernie Suggs
Zeta Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta started in 1969
When Helen Butler arrived on the campus of the University of Georgia in the winter of 1967, she had to go searching to find other black students. It was six years after Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault integrated the campus, but still fewer than 100 black students attended the school.“My first roommate was white, and I never saw anybody black in any of my classes,” said Butler, the executive director for the Georgia Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda. “So you had to go to the student center to see someone who looked like you.” The few black women on campus weren’t being invited to rush any of the long-standing sororities at UGA. So, in 1969, Butler and seven other women formed their own, chartering UGA’s first black sorority, the Zeta Psi Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta.This weekend in Athens, the Zeta Psi chapter, which has initiated more than 600 black women into the sorority, will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
Dueling Conclusions on State Disinvestment
One report says funding cuts by states to public colleges are a problem; another says they’re a myth.
By Rick Seltzer
Two days. Two reports citing the same data. Two different conclusions. On Wednesday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, published a report arguing that state disinvestment in higher education is a myth. Then this morning, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a progressive think tank, published its own report saying deep cuts to state funding for higher education have shifted the burden of the cost of college onto students. Both reports pointed to data on national averages from the State Higher Education Executive Officers association’s annual State Higher Education Finance report. But how can two different reports cite the same data to reach different conclusions?
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Nell Gluckman
When the results of a survey of 180,000 students were published last week, a troubling statistic was circulated: Despite years of effort to stop sexual assault on campuses, more than one in four undergraduate women experience a form of nonconsensual sexual contact while they’re in college, according to the survey, conducted by the Association of American Universities. The results are similar to the last time the AAU studied this problem, in 2015. But as the 33 colleges that participated released the results specific to their campuses, another fact emerged. Few undergraduates believe that campus officials conduct fair investigations into reports of sexual misconduct. Many students indicated that they believed a report of sexual misconduct would not be taken seriously by officials on their campus. …Overall, only 15 percent of what the report refers to as victims said they took advantage of a program or resource such as counseling or the Title IX office after an incident. These statistics were alarming but not surprising to advocates who work with college students. University administrations have been slow to take the steps necessary to ensure that students feel supported enough to come forward about sexual misconduct, they said.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Hundreds of Colleges May Be Out of Compliance With Title IX. Here’s Why.
By Wesley Jenkins
… The Three-Prong Test Is Born
Title IX was signed into law in 1972, but the provisions on varsity athletics came later. When the regulations for equal opportunity in athletics were drafted in 1974, the initial proposal called for direct proportionality. That standard didn’t last. Ultimately, the three-prong test was introduced, but its viability to enforce compliance wasn’t weighed by the courts until the early 1990s. Cases like Roberts v. Colorado State Board of Agriculture and Cook v. Colgate University came early in the decade and showed that the courts were willing to rule against colleges that were not meeting compliance standards. But the seminal case of the era was decided in 1996. …Defining Title IX athletic compliance standards became a priority for the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidential administrations, “albeit in different directions,” said Welch Suggs, author of A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX, and an associate professor of journalism and mass communications at the University of Georgia. Partially in response to the Cohen v. Brown decision, the Office for Civil Rights sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to colleges in January 1996, clarifying the three-part test for proportional participation.
AP News
Medical pot on campus: Colleges say no and face lawsuits
By Dave Collins
Colleges are becoming a battleground in the conflict between federal and state marijuana laws as students who use medical pot challenge decades-old campus drug policies. In states where medical marijuana is legal, students disciplined for using it are taking their schools to court. College officials argue they could lose federal funding for failing to follow federal law that labels cannabis an illegal drug with no accepted medical use. Sheida Assar said she was expelled from GateWay Community College in Phoenix last month for violating the school’s drug policy after she tested positive for marijuana, which she uses to treat chronic pain from polycystic ovary syndrome. …Thirty-three states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, and 11 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana, creating clashes with federal law that have been playing out in courts, mostly in employment cases that have had mixed results for medical pot. There don’t appear to be efforts by recreational marijuana users to challenge college drug policies, observers say. That’s likely because states limit recreational use to people 21 and older, excluding most college students, and because there haven’t been successful legal challenges to campus alcohol policies even though state laws allow people 21 and over to drink, they say.
Inside Higher Ed
The Loan Landscape for International Students
An industry emerges to issue loans to international students. Interest rates are high, but the companies say they are filling an unmet need and expanding access.
By Elizabeth Redden
A new industry has emerged to issue loans to international students attending select universities. The loans carry higher interest rates than those domestic students would be eligible for, but company representatives say they fill an unmet need for international students, who are not eligible for federal student loans and typically can’t get private loans from American banks without a U.S. citizen or permanent resident cosigner. Colleges and universities commonly offer little by the way of scholarships for international students at the undergraduate and master’s level.
Inside Higher Ed
Candidates for Mississippi Chancellor Job Angry About Outcome
By Elin Johnson
Candidates for the University of Mississippi chancellor position have complained about being misled by Glenn Boyce during the application process. Boyce, who was appointed chancellor early this month, served as a consultant for the Board of Institutions of Higher Learning, the university’s governing body. He helped lead the search for a chancellor from January to June. His appointment was met with protests and backlash. The candidates, who spoke anonymously to Mississippi Today, said that they felt misled by Boyce at one-on-one meetings during the candidate search, because Boyce did not tell them he was a potential candidate for the job.