Albany Herald
Albany State University students teach kids about dental health
From staff reports
Albany State University dental hygiene students visited Lake Park Elementary School recently during the celebration of National Children’s Dental Hygiene Month. Ten students traveled to the local elementary school to teach students about the importance of dental hygiene. …ASU is the only HBCU in Georgia with a dental hygiene program, and all clinical hours are obtained in the clinic housed on campus.
Savannah CEO
How Georgia Southern Students are Teaching Regional Middle Schoolers 21st-Century Life Skills
When Georgia Southern University student Hannah Whitehead first walked into the new Junior Achievement (JA) Colonial Group Discovery Center, she was in awe as she took in the sight of a small-scale Savannah community before her. …JA Discovery Centers blend key components of education to create state-of-the-art learning facilities where students apply concepts they learn in the classroom in a 360-degree authentic and immersive experience. Upon arrival, middle school students become part of a simulated version of their hometown within the JA BizTown and JA Finance Park programs. …Located on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah, the JA Colonial Group Discovery Center is the first center of its kind to be developed on a university campus and the first to utilize college students such as Whitehead as instructors. The center will employ about 45 Georgia Southern students as interns and instructors each semester. Discovery Center instructors are usually volunteers, but this center uses Georgia Southern students as interns, paid as Dulany Waters Leadership Scholars thanks to private support from local donors.
The West Georgian
UWG POSTPONES STUDY ABROAD TRIP TO AUSTRIA
By Ansley Butler
The UWG summer 2022 study abroad trip to Vienna, Austria has been postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. The cancellation affects credit hours and graduation plans for many students. UWG’s German department is offering classes over the summer in replace of the trip to accommodate students’ needs. The trip was planned to help students gain cultural awareness of the culture and improve language skills.
yahoo!news
Humane Society for Greater Savannah finds forever homes for pups while slinging Donatos Pizza
Bunny Ware
Puppies, pizza and football –– can you think of anything better on a drizzly Sunday in Savannah? In a repeat of last year, brisk winds and light rain are whipping around the back patio of Donatos while the Humane Society for Greater Savannah’s peeps arrive with pups looking for good homes. …Arriving next is volunteer Georgia Southern University Business Administration student Ana Nguyen and her cousin and St. James Catholic School sixth grader Vanessa Nguyen. With an amped up 6-month-old Boba tugging at the lease, I manage to snap a pic before they are led over to play with Lassie and Cran.
The Tifton Gazette
Fall semester graduates total 246 at ABAC
A total of 246 students completed the requirements for graduation from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College at the end of the 2021 fall semester. During the fall term, over 2,300 of ABAC’s 3,815 students pursued four-year degrees at ABAC in Biology, Nursing, Agribusiness, Agriculture, Agricultural Communication, Agricultural Education, Business, Environmental Horticulture, History and Government, Natural Resource Management, Rural Community Development, and Writing and Communication. The remainder of the students chose the associate degree path including the popular Associate of Science in Nursing. ABAC attracted students from 155 of Georgia’s 159 counties, 52 of Florida’s 67 counties, 19 countries, and 18 states.
The Red & Black
‘What’s a Bulldog?’: UGA student competes in ‘Jeopardy!’ National College Championship
Dania Kalaji
Luck knocked on Elijah Odunade’s door twice – and only because he didn’t answer it the first time, when a California phone number appeared on his phone. He was too invested in a practice game of quiz bowl, filled with questions on science, current events and history. Odunade’s skill with quizbowl began in sixth grade and has continued into his college years. The University of Georgia political science major said his passion for trivia began in first grade in the living room of his Norcross home, where the catchy “Jeopardy!” theme song was a familiar nightly tune. For most, “Jeopardy!” is known as America’s classic game show, but for Odunade and his family, it’s tradition. Odunade’s mother regularly played with her grandmother and luckily, the “Jeopardy!” lineage persisted. Odunade is now representing UGA as one of the 36 college students from across the country competing in the first ever primetime “Jeopardy!” National College Championship, which premiered Tuesday on ABC, hosted by Mayim Bialik.
Savannah Morning News
Armstrong ‘Hall of Champions’ opens. Here are the 25 best Pirate hall of famers.
Nathan Dominitz
There are 122 members of the Armstrong State University Athletic Hall of Fame, the best student-athletes, coaches and staffers from 50 years of what was one of the premier athletic programs in the country. But who are the best of the best? It’s not an easy task with so many deserving choices. Still, we made our picks for the elite athletes in each men’s and women’s sport, and you can make your own and let us know where you agree or disagree (email sports@savannahnow.com). There’s plenty of research material now available to the public with the unveiling Friday of the new Hall of Champions housing the hall of fame.
Savannah Morning News
Georgia Southern unveils the Armstrong Hall of Champions
10 PHOTOS
…Kyle Marrero, president of Georgia Southern University, and Cliff McCurry tour the Armstrong Hall of Champions following Friday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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WJCL (with video)
Armstrong’ Hall of Champions Savannah’s Southside
Ribbon cutting ceremony held Friday afternoon
Athens Banner-Herald
‘Lamborghini seats’ & a cryotherapy room: Inside UGA football’s ‘unbelievable’ $53M facility
Marc Weiszer
Brandon Boykin, a starting cornerback at Georgia for three years before spending four seasons in the NFL, sees up close how much the infrastructure around the Bulldogs football program has changed since his college playing days. Boykin now works at his alma mater as a fundraiser for UGA athletics which later this month will finish the second phase of its $80 million Butts-Mehre building expansion and renovation. It’s changed the game off the field for current players and coaches with its new football operations center that includes an expanded weight room, new locker room and plenty of bells and whistles including a cryotherapy air room, hyperbaric chamber and recovery suite. …Georgia will now boast 165,000 square feet of new and renovated space that includes new team meeting rooms. The football program moved into its new building last June ahead of its first national championship in 41 years.
Athens Banner-Herald
Matthew Stafford through the years: From Georgia football to Super Bowl champion
33 PHOTOS
Georgia Trend
by Mary Ann DeMuth
Twenty-five years ago the nonprofit NewTown Macon was formed as a public-private partnership to improve the city’s downtown. Today, the organization’s success is evident in 80% storefront occupancy, 94% loft occupancy and more than $842 million in investment. To empower more residents to launch and grow businesses, NewTown established the Entrepreneur’s Academy four years ago in collaboration with University of Georgia’s J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership and Development. Aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners who have graduated have gone on to launch a variety of startups, from gaming and entertainment services to beauty salons.
Inside Higher Ed
Diversity on the Rise Among College Presidents
Colleges hired a greater share of Black and other nonwhite leaders in the months after Black Lives Matter became a household term than they did before, Inside Higher Ed analysis shows. Is the shift meaningful, and will it last?
By Doug Lederman
More than a year and a half after a Minneapolis police officer killed George Floyd in May 2020, prompting a national reckoning about institutional racism and societal inequity, signs of change in higher education can be hard to spot. One place you might not have thought to look is behind the college president’s desk. But in the 18 months from June 2020 through November 2021, more than a third—35.4 percent—of the presidents and chancellors that American colleges and universities hired were members of racial minority groups. A full quarter (25.3 percent) were Black, an Inside Higher Ed analysis of its database of presidential appointments shows; that figure is 22.5 percent when excluding historically Black colleges and universities. …In the last few years, headlines about colleges and universities hiring their “first” minority president appeared to increase; 2020 brought appointments such as Michael Drake at the University of California system, Jonathan Holloway at Rutgers University, Darryll Pines at the University of Maryland at College Park, Suzanne Rivera at Macalester College and Lynn Perry Wooten at Simmons College. More followed in 2021, with selections such as William Tate IV as president of Louisiana State University, Brian Blake as president of Georgia State University, and Reginald DesRoches as president of Rice University.
News Medical Life Sciences
Regular surveillance testing of a community can prevent Covid-19 outbreaks
Reviewed by Emily Henderson
Covid-19 is often asymptomatic and can lead infected individuals to spread the disease without knowing it. Yet, regular surveillance testing of a community can catch these cases and prevent outbreaks. In early 2020, Georgia Tech researchers designed a saliva-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test and encouraged community members to test weekly to track the health of the campus. Their strategy confirmed 62% of the campus’ positive cases in the Fall 2020 semester. The method of surveillance testing -; focusing on case clusters and then having patients isolate -; reduced positivity rates from 4.1% in the beginning of the semester to below 0.5% mid-semester. Their findings were published in the journal Epidemiology.
The West Georgian
THE RUNDOWN ON THE NEW 5-DAY COVID-19 QUARANTINE AND ISOLATION AT UWG
By Amanda Clay
Here is what University of West Georgia students need to know about the new 5-day quarantine and isolation guidelines. The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) recently shortened the isolation and quarantine guidelines by 5 days following the CDC’s recommendations released in December. These guidelines apply to all students, faculty and staff at UWG. The differences between isolation and quarantine are important to differentiate to understand the guidelines. Quarantine applies to individuals who have been exposed to COVID-19, while isolation refers to individuals who have tested positive for the virus.
The Augusta Chronicle
In many rural areas, delta variant COVID-19 surge infected double the number of people
Tom Corwin
As the delta variant took off last summer across the U.S., it was the rural areas with low vaccination rates that were hit the hardest, researchers at Augusta University said. More than 82% of those counties were rural, which likely compounds the problem, said Dr. Neil J. MacKinnon, AU’s provost. “Vaccination rates are lower in rural America. And on top of that they also have reduced capacity to deal with it,” he said, in terms of health care resources. As Georgia and Augusta appear to be emerging from the omicron surge, recognizing the lack of resources in those areas that contributed to worse outcomes is important the researchers said.
The Bharat Express News
On top of a landfill, watching birds gobble up garbage, Shawn R. Smolen-Morton got to talking about tenure. Smolen-Morton is president of the South Carolina Conference of the American Association of University Professors. He’s also a birder. That January day, he went to the Horry County Solid Waste Authority in pursuit of the rarely seen slaty-backed gull. A friend had just spotted one at the same location. …In September 2020, Steve Wrigley, who was chancellor of the University System of Georgia, which oversees 25 tenure-granting colleges, appointed a working group to examine post-tenure review. The group’s charge: to consider policy changes “to ensure all faculty remain productive throughout their careers.” Just over a year later, in October 2021, the system’s regents adopted a set of changes in the board’s post-tenure-review policy, over the strong objections of many Georgia faculty members.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
The institution will survive. But it might be unrecognizable.
The Washington Post
University of Alabama removes name of Klansman from a campus building
The College of Education now calls it Autherine Lucy Hall, honoring the university’s first Black student.
By Nick Anderson
The University of Alabama is removing the name of an early 20th century governor who was also a Ku Klux Klan leader from a building on its campus in Tuscaloosa, under a plan approved Friday that reserves the naming honor exclusively for the university’s first Black student, Autherine Lucy Foster. The decision capped a zigzag course for the university’s trustees on the question of what to call what had long been known as Bibb Graves Hall. A Klansman, Graves was elected governor of Alabama for two terms in the 1920s and 30s, and his name was put on the three-story brick, stone and slate building when it opened in 1929. The building housed classrooms and offices for the College of Education. …In November, the University System of Georgia’s governing board rejected a recommendation to rename 75 buildings and colleges on campuses across the state that honor individuals who supported slavery, racial segregation and other forms of oppression.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated Feb. 11)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,889,880
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 28,560 | 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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Inside Higher Ed
Does Calculus Count Too Much in Admissions?
New report suggests it does, and admissions association agrees. So do a lot of mathematicians.
By Scott Jaschik
…The problem is that hundreds of thousands of students believe they will benefit from calculus, and relatively few of them are in that third scenario. The first two scenarios describe far more students, according to a new report released by Just Equations and the National Association for College Admission Counseling. The report is not anticalculus; it acknowledges that, for some students (those whose high schools offer it and who are preparing to study engineering, for example), taking calculus in high school makes sense. But for many other students, calculus isn’t the math course that will most help them—the right course often is statistics. But most admissions counselors have favored calculus (in many cases informally), the report says, and that hurts students.