USG e-clips from April 13, 2021

University System News:

 

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Board of Regents freezes tuition and fees for 2021-22 school year

By Eric Stirgus

The Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday to freeze tuition and fees for the 2021-22 school year at the University System of Georgia’s 26 public colleges and universities at current levels, citing in part the ongoing financial hardships many students and parents are facing due to the coronavirus pandemic. It is the second consecutive year the board voted to freeze tuition and fees. The board voted last April to not to raise tuition during the initial economic uncertainty surrounding the pandemic. The fall 2021 semester tuition at Georgia State University, which has more students than any school in the system, will be $4,474 for fulltime, in-state students and $13,993 for out-of-state students. The fall 2021 semester tuition at the University of Georgia, Georgia’s flagship university, will be $4,895 for fulltime, in-state students and $14,415 for out-of-state students.

 

Rome News-Tribune
GHC President Don Green accepts new position in Pennsylvania

Staff Reports
Georgia Highlands College President Don Green has accepted a new position as president of Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “President Green’s outstanding work has emphasized student success both in the classroom and in the workforce, helping GHC expand its degree programs and carry out its mission as an access point to higher education,” University System of Georgia Chancellor Steve Wrigley said. “Don has been an excellent leader who helped GHC positively impact the communities it serves and set an example that will benefit the college and students for years to come. I will miss him as a colleague and am grateful for his service to the system and Georgia.”

Griffin Daily News

Gordon State Day of Giving surpasses goal

Gordon State College’s inaugural Day of Giving on Tuesday, March 30 surpassed its original goal of $15,000 by generating over $54,000 in gifts to benefit the mission of the College.

Growing Georgia

Alpha Gamma Rho Creating Endowed Scholarship at ABAC

Staff Report
Alumni of the Alpha Gamma Rho (AGR) fraternity are creating a new endowed scholarship at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, and the former advisor to the organization and his wife are leading the charge.

WSAV

City of Statesboro to offer summer internships for local college students

By Molly Curley

The city of Statesboro has partnered with local colleges to provide summer internships for undergraduate and graduate students. Statesboro officials say the program will offer at least six positions in all professional areas to students at Georgia Southern and Ogeechee Technical College. The internships will be an extension of the classroom, allowing students to apply the knowledge they’ve gained on marketing, public health, public administration, pre-health professions, accounting, finance, engineering or computing.

WGAU

UGA web tool helps fill gaps in healthcare workforce

By Lauren Leather

When the pandemic hit the United States last year, researchers saw an immediate need to increase the capacity of qualified health care providers to address the spreading coronavirus. Janette Hill, co-principal investigator and a professor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education’s department of career and information studies, helped to create C2-Health, a National Science Foundation RAPID grant-funded project.

WTVM

CSU approved to administer COVID-19 vaccinations to students and staff

By Olivia Gunn

Some universities, including Brown and Cornell, are now requiring their students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before they will be allowed to return to classes in the fall. According to Columbus State University (CSU), the University System of Georgia has not made a decision yet, but there will soon be opportunities for CSU students to be vaccinated on campus.

WTOC

Georgia Southern working with state health officials to help distribute vaccine to staff, students

By WTOC Staff
Georgia Southern University is coordinating with the Georgia Department of Public Health to distribute vaccines to students, faculty, and staff. The Moderna vaccine is currently being used at GSU. That vaccine is only approved for those 18 and older. Appointments are now available on a first-come, first-served basis via the MyGS portal, when vaccine availability allows. The university states that more announcements could be coming about clinics in Statesboro and Savannah.

WSAV

Universities mandate vaccinations: The plan locally

By Kelly Antonacci

Some colleges and universities — including Duke University, most recently — are now requiring students, staff and faculty members to get the coronavirus vaccine. It’s part of a nationwide effort to safely return to in-person classes in the fall. In March, the University System of Georgia put out its recommendations for schools returning for class in the fall semester. It is asking all campuses to resume normal operations. A representative tells News 3 that, in preparation, “institutions already have received more than 33,000 doses which are being administered actively to eligible students, faculty, and staff. Additionally, volunteers from multiple campuses have volunteered their time to assist with vaccination efforts both on and off campus.”

Other News:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated April 12)

An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state

CONFIRMED DEATHS: 17,017 | Deaths have been confirmed in every county. This figure does not include additional cases that the DPH reports as suspected COVID-19-related deaths. County is determined by the patient’s residence, when known, not by where they were treated.

CONFIRMED CASES: 862,720 | Cases have been confirmed in every county.

Fox 5

Georgia DPH pauses J&J vaccines according to CDC, FDA guidance

By Zeke Miller

The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in administration of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. In a joint statement Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said they were investigating clots in six women that occurred 6 to 13 days after vaccination. The clots were observed in the sinuses of the brain along with reduced platelet counts — making the usual treatment for blood clots, the blood thinner heparin, potentially “dangerous.”

WSB-TV

CDC: Georgia among lowest percent of people vaccinated against COVID-19

By Matt Johnson

Emily Ekanayake is happy to be one of 1.6 million fully vaccinated Georgians. But data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that fully vaccinated people make up just 15% of the state’s population — the lowest percentage in the country. “I’ve been waiting for the vaccine,” Ekanayake told Channel 2′s Matt Johnson. “I am not changing the way that I’m doing things until more people are vaccinated, until my children are vaccinated. But I do feel more protected.” Nearly three weeks after everyone age 16 and up became eligible, it didn’t lead to a statewide surge in demand.

Albany Herald

Unhealthy eating behaviors emerge from COVID-19
A new probe into the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed correlations to six unhealthy eating behaviors, according to a study by the University of Minnesota Medical School and School of Public Health. Researchers say the most concerning finding indicates a slight increase or the re-emergence of eating disorders, which kill roughly 10,200 people every year — about one person every 52 minutes.

Higher Education News:

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges turn to new incentives for recruitment

By Sarah Weissman

Desperate to slow the steep decline of entering students, community colleges are getting creative and offering scholarships, complimentary laptops and free summer courses to high school graduates who enroll.


Inside Higher Ed

Faculty salaries dip this year

By Colleen Flaherty
Average faculty pay fell by 0.4 percent this year, adjusting for inflation, the first such decrease since 2011-12, according to preliminary data from the American Association of University Professors’ annual Faculty Compensation Survey.

Inside Higher Ed

Is diversity moral? Educational?

By Scott Jaschik

Study finds that most college diversity policies are based on educational benefits, consistent with the Supreme Court. This approach appeals to white people, but it doesn’t win over Black people. And there may be consequences.

Inside Higher Ed

New effort shares COVID-fighting practices

By Elizabeth Redden
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded the American College Health Association $450,000 to launch a new Higher Education COVID-19 Community of Practice aimed at sharing information across campuses about strategies for containing the coronavirus.

evoLLLution

Learning at-scale, affordability and access in a post-COVID19 world

By Yakut Gazi, Nelson Baker and Karen Sibley

The year 2020 will go down in history as an unprecedented time, marked by the public health crisis caused by the SARS-CV-2 (coronavirus) and the resulting disease, COVID-19. In responding to this emergency, many of us in higher education found ourselves expending a remarkable effort to prepare our institutions for emergency remote course delivery.