Albany Herald
ABAC, Valdosta State partner to support south Georgia writing, communication grads
From staff reports
A new partnership between Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College and Valdosta State University ensures ABAC graduates a direct route to furthering their careers in writing and communication. The partnership grants ABAC graduates who earn a bachelor of science degree in Writing and Communication fast-track consideration for application to the master of arts in Communication Arts program at VSU. “We are very excited about this new relationship with Valdosta State’s master of arts in Communication Arts program,” Matthew Anderson, dean of ABAC’s School of Arts and Sciences, said. “The program’s focus on both theory and applied skills makes it an excellent fit for the ABAC Writing and Communication B.S. majors who desire an advanced degree.
HBCU Buzz
Savannah State Sophomore Wins Prestigious Girl Scouts Award
By HBCU Editors
Transparency is a big deal to Savannah State University sophomore Jordan Sampson. Part of her passion has been teaching others the transparency of social media user agreements and more. Learn about the well-deserved prize that her hard work has earned her in the full story from Jimmy Sailors at the Dothan Eagle below. The Girl Scout Gold Award is the pinnacle of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, and it’s available exclusively to Girl Scout Seniors and Ambassadors (9-12 grade). Girl Scouts of Southern Alabama (GSSA) would like to recognize Daphne High School graduate Jordan Sampson for receiving the Gold Award and the Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award Scholarship. Through the Gold Award, girls engage in a rigorous leadership process, as they tackle issues they’re passionate about to create long-term, sustainable change. To earn the Gold Award, girls typically spend one to two years exploring the root cause of a local or global issue and partner with the community to create lasting solutions. The Girl Scouts of the USA Gold Award Scholarship recognizes one outstanding Gold Award Girl Scout per council whose project exemplifies the core components of the Gold Award.
Athens CEO
Graduates of UGA Nonprofit Leadership Program Help Guide Organizations Through Change
Food insecurity reached new heights in spring 2020, when COVID-19 hit the United States. Fortunately, Cameron Turner, director of institutional giving for the Atlanta Community Food Bank, was prepared, thanks to the UGA Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations (ELPNO). “We had to be stronger leaders to get the work done and lead our team through a difficult time where everyone was teleworking and putting in longer hours to get everything done,” Turner said. “ELPNO better prepared me to lead during the pandemic.” Turner was one of 19 nonprofit leaders from across Georgia to complete the nonprofit leadership program at the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development, a unit of UGA Public Service and Outreach, in January 2020.
The Augusta Chronicle
Family history, personal adversity fuel MCG student’s pursuit of breast cancer research
Tom Corwin
Kelli Clemons drew the most inspiration from the cancer patient she visited in the hospital who, while dying quickly, never wavered. “You could tell she was getting weaker but she would say, ‘I’m here and I am blessed,’ ” said Clemons, a fourth-year student at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. “She was looking forward to another day. She wouldn’t let anything bring her down.” For Clemons, this kind of patient interaction sustains her while she simultaneously pursues her love of science and research. Clemons will get to do both next month after receiving the American Society of Clinical Oncology Conquer Cancer Medical Student Rotation Award for Underrepresented Populations. She will do a four-week clinical research stint at Johns Hopkins University, where a mentor will help her pursue her project looking at “the socioeconomic and geographic contributions to breast cancer disparities.”
The Brunswick News
Educators meet to discuss workforce challenges
By Gordon Jackson
Education and business leaders met Thursday at the College of Coastal Georgia to discuss workforce development. Ralph Staffins, president and CEO of the Golden Isles Chamber of Commerce, served as the moderator for the panel of education leaders who explained what their institutions are doing to help prepare students to enter the workforce.
Columbus CEO
2021 CSU Alumni Recognition Awards to Honor Seven
Every year during Homecoming, the CSU Alumni Association recognizes several alumni in five areas with its Alumni Recognition Awards. This year, seven alumni are being honored for their service and contributions to their respective fields and to Columbus State University. The university will celebrate this year’s honorees at an awards luncheon on Oct. 22 at the Cunningham Center. The program is part of the university’s annual slate of week-long homecoming events.
The George-Anne
Sustain Southern hosting Green Fest, promoting green lifestyles
Ashlynn Melnyk, Correspondent
Partnering with the Main Street Farmers Market, Sustain Southern will host its 8th annual Green Fest Saturday, educating visitors on what it means to live green. There will be live music and green exhibits, vendors and workshops, all in the name of sustainability. A variety of vendors will be attending this event, ranging from live honeybee displays to the promotion of hydroponics. Sustain Southern at Georgia Southern’s mission is “To increase positive behavior through education and awareness on sustainability issues on campus and in the community, to provide incentives for faculty, staff, and students to incorporate sustainability in research, teaching and service, to form partnerships with local community to improve sustainability and to implement best practices in sustainability at Georgia Southern.”
WGAU Radio
NE Ga notes: UGA mobile flu shot clinic operates today, Oconee Co students get fall break
Another rabies alert in Hall Co
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia’s mobile flu shot clinic sets up shop at UGA’s Bolton Dining Hall, dispensing flu vaccine starting at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Teachers are reporting for work, but today is a day off for students in schools in and around Watkinsville: it is fall break in the Oconee County School District.
Harvard Business Review
Imagining the Hybrid College Campus
by Jeffrey J. Selingo and Cole Clark
Few will argue that the pandemic has laid bare the need for higher education to change. With overall enrollment falling by 3% from fall 2019 to fall 2020, and with future enrollment projections trending downward, many colleges will need to adjust the way they do business if they are going to survive financially. Even among institutions that have fared better than anticipated during the pandemic, a once-in-a-generation opportunity exists to leverage the emergency changes of the last 18 months for long-term good. Toward that end, universities need to act now to break down barriers to access and reach a broader, more diverse population of students in the pipeline to college, to meet the needs of a changing workforce, and to provide life-long learning and career opportunities for working adults. …As noted above, many decisions will be driven by data. One institution that has put data to good use is Georgia State University, which used analytics during the pandemic to anticipate which students were having financial difficulty. The university then reached out to those students to provide aid directly without ever requiring in-person interaction. Since April 2020, more than 34,000 Georgia State students have received emergency aid through this direct process.
law.com
You’re Out! Judge Tosses Suit by University of Georgia Baseball Player Booted for Racial Slur
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the University of Georgia and other defendants filed by former UGA baseball player Adam Sasser, who was kicked off the team and suspended from classes after shouting a racial slur during a Bulldogs football game in 2018.
Greg Land, Staff Reporter
A complaint by a onetime University of Georgia baseball star who sued after being thrown off the team and suspended from classes for a shouting racial slur during a football game was itself thrown out by a federal judge, who ruled that defendants including UGA’s president, Athletic Association and other university officials were protected by qualified immunity, among other factors. Adam Sasser, a senior who played first base and left field for the Bulldogs, was attending the Georgia-Tennessee game in October 2018 when, according to court filings and other sources, he began shouting for the starting quarterback to be replaced, yelling “put the (expletive) in!” When he was chastised for using the slur, Sasser reportedly apologized and said he was trying to encourage the backup quarterback, Justin Fields, a Black man. The next day, Sasser met his coach to discuss the incident, admitting he’d used the used the slur but “described the alleged facts as ‘out of proportion.’” After a few days of discussions, UGA’s Athletic Association decided to boot him from the team.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Georgia Regent to serve 8 years in prison for racketeering
By Eric Stirgus
Former Georgia Board of Regents member Dean Alford was sentenced Thursday to serve eight years in prison on a racketeering charge. Alford, 68, pleaded guilty Thursday before Rockdale County Chief Superior Court Judge Robert F. Mumford. Upon completion of his prison sentence, Alford will spend another seven years on probation. As a condition of his probation, Alford may not conduct any business with the state of Georgia. Alford was arrested in October 2019 on allegations he forged invoices in a moneymaking scheme for his Rockdale County business, Allied Energy Services LLC.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated Oct. 7)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,238,404
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 23,236 | 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
AAC&U Names 19 New Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Centers
Liann Herder
Nineteen new institutions have been named hosts for new Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Centers by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U.) This brings the total number of TRHT Campus Centers in the U.S. to 49. These centers, formed in partnership with AAC&U and institutions across the country, aim to prepare the next generation of leaders and thinkers to dismantle hierarchies of human value and racialized policies and practices.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Strategizing for Success: Guided Pathways Connect Education to Careers
Liann Herder
Guided Pathways is designed not only to get students successfully through their educational journey but to help them graduate with a firm plan in hand and a working knowledge of the career opportunities available in each major. The program’s goal is to minimize extraneous courses taken, saving students time and money, setting students on the path to success. According to a 2020 report by the Center for Community College Student Engagement, Guided Pathways is working.
Inside Higher Ed
Report: More Education Doesn’t Always Mean More Earnings
By Sara Weissman
Employees who hold a bachelor’s degree tend to earn more than employees without one, but not always, according to a new report about the payoffs of college from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, a research and policy institute focused on education and career pathways. The report found that a worker with a bachelor’s degree earns a median $2.8 million over a lifetime, averaging about $70,000 per year. Workers with some college education earn a median $1.9 million over the course of their careers, an average of $47,500 per year, and associate degree holders earn a median $2 million, an annual $50,000 on average.