Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw State master’s program in prosthetics and orthotics attracting career changers
A family medicine resident, David Lee felt that he didn’t have the passion for his career that he had hoped. While pondering a career change, he remembered how much he loved helping his father build and fix things and wanted to combine that with his desire to help others. Ultimately, it is what led him to enroll in KSU’s Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics program. …The MSPO program officially opened its doors at KSU this fall with an initial class of 24 students, many of them seeking something new in their lives in a career with high projected growth. …Housed within the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, the two-year program includes clinical, technical and research components. In the clinical component, students learn to assess the needs of each patient and participate in care through clinical rotations at off-campus health facilities. In the technical component, students learn how to build prostheses and orthoses. They also gain research experience in the program’s lab.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: Albany State University supports Breast Cancer Awareness
Students at Albany State University took some time to “think pink” in their support for breast cancer survivors on Thursday, October 29, 2021.
Mirage News
NIST Awards 5 Universities With Key Funding to Develop Standards Curricula
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made five awards for a total of approximately $373,000 to support standards education in undergraduate and graduate level curricula. Since the program began in 2012, NIST’s Standards Services Curricula Development Cooperative Agreement Program has received 214 applications and made 41 awards totaling over $2.57 million. …The latest recipients are:
Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, Georgia) – $74,971
To create a systematic framework focused on robotics and additive manufacturing standards for engineering students from first-year through graduate that will include lectures, lab projects, industrial internships, case studies, virtual plants tours and webinars with industry experts.
Gainesville Times
Authorities search for missing UNG student
Nick Watson
Authorities are searching for a missing University of North Georgia student whose car was found near the Woody Gap area.
Coastal Courier
GSU’s Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center opens, bridges connections between past and present
Special to the Courier
The collective cultural memory of the Gullah Geechee people, descendants of enslaved West Africans who inhabited the barrier islands of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and northern Florida, has survived through oral histories and distinctive arts, music, dance, foodways and language. However, few within the Gullah Geechee community today, which is estimated to be a population of 1 million, can speak the African Creole language or tell the stories of their ancestors who are credited with influencing southern and American culture. In response, Georgia Southern University has established the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Center to aid in the preservation of this fluctuating culture, honor the myriad contributions made by Gullah Geechee people and provide educational resources for faculty, students and the surrounding community.
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Holiday Helper Tree Returns To Georgia Southern For 28th Year Of Giving
The Holiday Helper Tree, Georgia Southern University’s annual holiday tradition where the campus community joins together to provide gifts to local organizations, is returning for its 28th year beginning Nov. 1. Sponsored by the Office of Leadership and Community Engagement (OLCE), the Holiday Helper Tree dons tags with a gift wish from someone in the community that can be pulled by a faculty, staff, student or community member. Gifts are delivered directly to the partner agencies who then wrap and distribute the gifts.
WRBL
Assistant CSU Communications film professor reacts to movie set shooting
by: Michaela Leggett
On October 21, 2020, actor Alec Baldwin was on set rehearsing for his new film, Rust when he was given a prop gun and was told it was safe to use. Baldwin fired the gun and it dislodged, killing Hutchins and injuring Souza. Columbus State University Assistant Professor Adam Bova said it takes preparation to avoid accidents on set. …Even though accidents can happen, there is a level of responsibility on set to ensure everyone’s safety. …Bova told News 3 that while on set and working with weapons, he goes through a long list to ensure the weapon is properly handled and safe to use.
MSN
‘Let’s line up’: Augusta sweetens COVID-19 vaccine incentive program to $100 per shot
Tom Corwin, Augusta Chronicle
It wasn’t her motivation for getting her second shot of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, but Adaysha Gilbert, 20, still asked about the $100 incentive Augusta is offering for full vaccination. The problem was she got her shot at AU Health System’s Washington Road clinic instead of Augusta University Student Health Services, where the incentive is authorized. “Dang it,” said the AU junior from Conyers. “I just did it for free.” The Augusta Commission is going to make it easier – beginning Saturday – for those like Gilbert who had been reluctant to get any COVID vaccine so far. The commission voted 8-1 Tuesday to begin offering the $100 incentive for each vaccine shot, not just after getting the second shot and, thus being fully vaccinated. The new incentive program will start Saturday, when the city holds its first mass vaccination clinic under the program in the parking lot of James Brown Arena. The new incentives will run until the city exhausts all of the $1.5 million it had previously allocated for the program. The incentive does not include booster shots.
Inside Higher Ed
Federal Contractor Rule Prompts More Vaccine Mandates
By Elizabeth Redden
A growing number of major research universities have announced COVID-19 vaccination mandates for employees in recent days, in light of President Joe Biden’s order mandating vaccination for employees of federal contractors. The mandate is broadly framed, covering all employees — including student employees — who work on or in connection with a federal contract, or who may potentially come in contact with a covered employee, such as in shared dining areas, parking garages or common areas such as meeting rooms, elevators and stairways. Major research universities that have announced vaccine mandates for employees in recent days in order to comply with the Biden rule mandating COVID-19 vaccination for federal contractors include: Georgia State University; Georgia Institute of Technology; The University of Georgia
Marietta Daily Journal
KSU not subject to federal vaccine order
Staff report
Kennesaw State University does not have any contracts with the federal government that would require coronavirus vaccination among its workers, according to a spokeswoman. The University of Georgia, Georgia State University and Georgia Tech this week announced vaccination mandates, citing federal guidance mandating that COVID-19 vaccines will be required for all employees who work on or in connection with a federal contract or who work in a covered contractor workplace, reports the Georgia Recorder.
The Augusta Chronicle
Controversial tenure changes trigger investigation by national faculty organization
Abraham Kenmore
On Thursday, the American Association of University Professors announced an investigation into the University System of Georgia after the Board of Regents authorized a new post-tenure review policy that faculty say would weaken tenure. The new policy says tenured faculty who fail to improve after a negative post-tenure review can be dismissed by administrators – while tenured faculty could previously be dismissed only with the approval of a committee of peer faculty. AAUP has been opposed to the new policy since it was proposed in September. Just before the Board of Regents approved the new policy on Oct. 13, AAUP President Irene Mulvey released a statement condemning the policy.
The Kenyan Collegian
OPINION
Kenyon must protect the institution of tenure and resist the exploitation of adjunct faculty members
by Zoë Packel
A week ago, the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia voted to significantly reduce protections against faculty firing, in a move that many have interpreted as the first step towards the elimination of the tenure system. This system previously prevented tenured professors from being dismissed without broad faculty input. In response, organizations including the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) issued statements condemning what they view to be a significant attack on necessary academic protections. Kenyon must resist any calls to follow in Georgia’s footsteps and protect the essential institution of academic tenure. The College must also support visiting, adjunct faculty at heightened risk from the challenges posed by limits to tenure.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated Oct. 28)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,262,856
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 24,673 | 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.
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Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Panel Discusses Student Debt Crisis at HBCUs
Hayley Zhao
While the Biden Administration has pushed over $9.5 billion in student loan relief since taking office earlier this year, it’s still not enough to yield a significant difference given that $1.7 trillion Americans are saddled with debt. The burden of student loans also falls more heavily on Black borrowers and students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Administrators Are Not the Enemy
Faculty contempt for nonfaculty employees is unjustified and destructive.
By Brian Rosenberg
It appears at times as if the condescension of some faculty members toward the administrative staff of a college or university — a group that by definition includes everyone from the president to the most newly hired admissions officer — is nearly limitless. In a recent article in Inside Higher Ed, administrators are characterized as both autocrats and “widget makers.” The authors of another recent piece, in The Chronicle, opine that “the authority of academic administrators is only solid to the extent that they themselves are credible practitioners of the scholarly life”: that is, unless one is or has been a faculty member, one has no right to tell faculty members what they should or should not do.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Universities Nationwide Can Now Take Place in California State’s Student Success Analytics Program
Jessica Ruf
Faculty, staff and administrators at universities nationwide will now be able to take part in The California State University’s (CSU) Student Success Analytics Certificate Program, which helps participants find equity-related insights from their respective campus data and implement changes accordingly. “Over the last several years we’ve seen how analyzing student data can help faculty, staff and administrators close equity gaps on CSU campuses. We have developed a unique and innovative program that has been successful within our system, and we are pleased to welcome our higher education colleagues to be a part of this vitally important work,” said CSU Chancellor Dr. Joseph I. Castro. Since launching the program five years ago, CSU says participation has increased tenfold, attracting national interest.