University System News:

 

Albany CEO

UGA’s Flavor of Georgia Launches 14th Annual Food Product Contest January 2nd

By Madison Thornhill

For the past 13 years, local food and beverage businesses have found their way into grocery stores and homes across the state after receiving recognition from the University of Georgia’s Flavor of Georgia food product contest. As the Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development in the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences gears up for this year’s contest, they are announcing a new ingredient: Georgia’s Classic City. The unique food scene of Athens and UGA’s commitment to growing small businesses makes the city the perfect location to bring the contest into a new decade. The contest has been held in downtown Atlanta since 2007.

 

Albany Herald

State Sen. Freddie Powell Sims looks to address nursing shortage in southwest Georgia

By Alan Mauldin

The shortage of nurses that affects the state and nation as a whole has been deemed a crisis for decades, but so far solutions have proved elusive. For small-town Georgia, the shortage is even worse, and although colleges in Albany and Atlanta have been working to address the issue, there remains a severe nursing shortage, said state Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, D-Dawson. The problem is compounded because many of those who are educated at technical colleges and universities in Albany and southwest Georgia take their degrees to places where there are better opportunities, she said.

 

Associated Press

Macon celebrating a busy year on movie, TV screens

According to the Georgia Department of Economic Development, a total of 399 film productions used locations in Georgia during the 2019 fiscal year that ended June 30. The agency says those productions invested $2.9 billion in the state.

 

Atlanta Business Chronicle

Woodruff grant bolsters long ties between Berry College and Coca-Cola

By Maria Saporta

The Woodruff gift will go towards a new $16 million animal science building that will help Berry College invest in one of its most distinctive academic programs. Animal science is the largest major at Berry College accounting for more than 12 percent of its students.

 

Daily Citizen-News

Predicting three life-changing shifts over the next decade

By Kyle Wingfield

• Most Georgia students will learn in a way personalized for them.
• The housing-affordability problem will be largely solved as 3D printers create entire new neighborhoods. 
• Autonomous ride-sharing services change everything from car-buying habits to traffic congestion.

 

Georgia Budget and Policy Institute

2019 Georgia Higher Education Data Book

By Jennifer Lee

This report provides a snapshot of differences in educational attainment throughout Georgia and earnings differences by education level, highlighting the role of higher education in economic mobility and outcomes. Higher education can help Georgia fill workforce gaps and empower Georgians to transform their lives, improve their earnings and career opportunities and contribute more to their communities and the economy. Yet public policy must also overcome historic and systemic barriers that created inequity in opportunities. The Georgia Higher Education Data Book provides insights into the diversity of Georgia’s colleges and students and the state’s approach to public higher education. This report will help you better understand the students in Georgia’s colleges, how Georgia funds higher education and how students pay for college.

 

Georgia Public Broadcast

A Dying Language of Enslaved Africans Lives On At Harvard

By Editor

This week on New Year’s Eve, a historic church in downtown Charleston, S.C., will host a special celebration. It’s a tradition that dates back more than 150 years. And it commemorates the freedom of the Gullah Geechee people after the Emancipation Proclamation. The Gullah Geechee are descendants of Africans who were enslaved and brought to the Atlantic coast of South Carolina and other Southern states to work on plantations. Over time, they developed their own language, sometimes, referred to as Gullah. It’s a Creole that’s still spoken in the area but is little understood outside of it.

 

National University System

Kennesaw State University Joins Effort to Expand Sanford Inspire Program Led by National University System

Kennesaw State University (KSU) is joining a nationwide network of universities that are expanding the Sanford Inspire program in support of the professional development of teachers through access to resources designed to create inspiring classroom experiences. The initiative is led by the private, nonprofit National University System/Sanford Programs to help elevate the teaching profession and improve student outcomes through collaborations such as this one with KSU.

 

The Savannah Tribune

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Association Continues the 2020 Celebration

By Jason Hurst

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Day Association will continue its 2020 super weekend celebration of Dr. King’s birth by presenting: The Business and Community Unity Brunch on Saturday, January 18, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at the Savannah Convention Center (formally the Savannah International Trade & Convention Center). The keynote speaker will be the Honorable Jonathan M. Mc- Collar, Mayor of Statesboro, Georgia.

 

Washington Post

‘A tale of two schools’: At Georgia Southern, a book-burning ignites questions anew about race

By Moriah Balingit

A small group of students gathered in October at this grill on the campus of Georgia Southern University and burned copies of a book written by a Cuban American. About a half-dozen students arrived at the grassy quad with their copies of Crucet’s novel, “Make Your Home Among Strangers,” a book about a Cuban American woman who becomes the first in her family to attend college.

 

Higher Education News:

 

Diverse Education

In Memoriam: Leaders the Higher Education World Lost in 2019

by Sara Weissman

In 2019, the higher education world lost some of its influencers, leaders and luminaries, from Pulitzer Prize winners to doctors and lawmakers. Their work lives on, and the academic community continues to honor their memory.

 

Forbes

Six Education Stories to Watch In 2020

By Peter Greene

• Ed Tech Will Try to Grow Its Market
• Student Surveillance Will Be on The Rise
• Personalized Learning Products Will Flood the Market
• Folks Will Continue to Puzzle Over How To Fix The Teacher Problem
• And more.

 

Fox News

California rings in 2020 with landmark data privacy law

By Megan Henney

The California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, goes into effect Jan. 1 and will give citizens of the Golden State the power to access the personal information that companies collect about them and stop it from being sold to third parties. (If companies do sell the data, users will not be able to sue). And if a company fails to implement reasonable security practices, and a consumer’s data is breached, they’ll be allowed to sue those companies. It is the first consumer privacy act in the country.

 

Inside Higher Ed

Inside Digital Learning’s’ Best-Read Articles of 2019

By Doug Lederman

Top stories focus on federal policy on digital learning, the business models of textbook publishers — and institutions’ strategies to go big online.