Marietta Daily Journal
Kathy Schwaig named president of Kennesaw State University
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia today named Dr. Kathy “Kat” Schwaig president of Kennesaw State University, effective March 16. Schwaig currently serves as KSU’s interim president. “Kennesaw State has a strong advocate and leader in Dr. Schwaig, and there is no question about the passion she has for the university and its students, faculty and staff,” USG Acting Chancellor Teresa MacCartney said. “As a longtime member of the KSU community, she has been a major part of its journey to become a force for student success in higher education, and I congratulate her on being named president of the institution she loves.”
Georgia Recorder
Georgia lawmakers face do-or-die Crossover Day on elections, culture wars bills
By: Ross Williams And Stanley Dunlap
When the music stops at the Gold Dome Tuesday night, not every bill will have a seat. Tuesday is Crossover Day in the state Legislature, the last day a bill can cross from one chamber to the other. While lawmakers have been known to practice legislative necromancy by grafting dead language onto healthy bills, legislation that does not pass either Georgia’s House or Senate by Crossover Day is typically considered dead for the session. “It doesn’t happen every day, but every session it happens on some bills,” said University of Georgia political science professor Charles Bullock. “For the most part, bills that aren’t approved by one chamber or the other will not go forward, but if, indeed, the leadership gets behind it, they will find a way to push it through.” The caffeine-fueled festivities usually last well into the night as senators and representatives do all they can to ensure their favored bills are still breathing when the sun rises anew. …Here’s a short list of proposed legislation whose fate will likely be sealed one way or the other when the final gavel falls Tuesday night.
Valdosta Daily Times
VSU part of women’s suffrage program
Valdosta State University’s Odum Library will participate in the American Library Association’s “Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage,” a scholar-led reading and discussion initiative designed to spark conversations about United States history and culture through an examination of the women’s suffrage movement. More than 100 libraries across the nation applied to participate in this learning opportunity. Twenty-five libraries were selected, university officials said in a statement. Odum Library, working in collaboration with VSU’s Women’s and Gender Studies Program, received a $1,000 grant from the American Library Association to support programming costs plus 10 copies each of five books covering the struggle for women’s suffrage in the U.S.
The Times
UNG vice president to step down
Ben Anderson
Richard Oates, interim vice president at the University of North Georgia’s Gainesville campus, is stepping down later this year.
Albany Herald
Margaret Treadway selected for Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Athletics Hall of Fame
From staff reports
Margaret Treadway fits a lot of categories for the Athletics Hall of Fame at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. She was an All-America selection as a player in 1995. She was the head coach for the ABAC women’s team that won the state championship in 2001, and she continuously contributes her time to help the ABAC tennis teams to this day. Because of her record as a player, coach, and contributor, Treadway will be one of eight individuals and one team that will be inducted into the Class of 2022 ABAC Athletics Hall of Fame at a 6 p.m. dinner at ABAC’s Gressette Gymnasium on April 1.
NPR
A group unearths the forgotten history of women in archaeology
Transcript
JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:
When archaeologist Brenna Hassett was at University College London, she heard the story of Dame Kathleen Kenyon.
BRENNA HASSETT: She was incredible. And she used to storm down the hallways of the building with these terrifying beagles, scaring the more nervous sort of undergraduates.
AILSA CHANG, HOST:
Kenyon was a pioneering archaeologist who began working in the late 1920s. But her achievements didn’t get the same level of acknowledgement as her male contemporaries.
HASSETT: I knew her story, but it seemed like no one else knew her story.
SUMMERS: Now, Hassett wasn’t the only one that noticed this discrepancy. Suzanne Pilaar Birch, an archaeologist at the University of Georgia, did, too. Naturally, Pilaar Birch and Hassett voiced their frustrations online.
Athens Banner-Herald
Former Madison County deputy receives life sentence in 2019 murder of UGA student
Wayne Ford
A former deputy for the Madison County Sheriff’s Office was sentenced to life in prison Monday on a day when family members of the murder victim described in court the dark shadow of their own life sentence that has them in a prison of “heartbreak, sadness, anguish and despair.” Winford “Trey” Adams III, 34, entered guilty pleas to felony murder and aggravated assault in Clarke County Superior Court. In a negotiated sentence, Judge Lisa Lott imposed a life sentence along with a concurrent 10-year prison term for the assault. …Adams pleaded guilty to the murder of Benjamin Lloyd Cloer, a 26-year-old University of Georgia graduate student who was three weeks from graduating with a degree in artificial intelligence. UGA awarded him the degree posthumously.
WGXA
‘All odds are stacked against you:’ Winter weather freeze picks at peach farmers
by Ereina Plunkett
For farmer James Greene at Greene Acre Farms, it’s all about timing: when to plant, when to blossom, and when to reap but last weekend’s winter freeze might have put a damper on those plans. …With 10 acres out of the 65 dedicated to producing peaches, his plans of breaking even this crop season just might have wilted away. “[Peaches] all bloom within a 14-day window that’s why frost is so damaging to them, within two weeks the first one blooms the last one bloom as well and they only bloom one time,” Greene said. University of Georgia Extension Natural Resources Agent, Cole Moon says it’s a harsh reality that adds to a growing list of problems.
Morning AgClips
Researchers investigate cause & prevention of false layer syndrome
Findings showed that multiple IBV types can cause cystic oviduct formation
USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announce the completion of a funded research project at the University of Georgia in which researchers investigated the cause and prevention of false layer syndrome. The research was made possible in part by an endowing Foundation gift from Cargill and is part of the Association’s Comprehensive Research Program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. A summary of the completed project is below.
Other News:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated March 14)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,919,226
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 30,441 | 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.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
Federal judge green-lights much of a First Amendment case against the University of North Texas brought by an adjunct professor who said he lost a job for “joking” about microaggressions in a faculty lounge.
By Colleen Flaherty
A former University of North Texas math instructor’s First Amendment case against the institution may proceed, in large part, according to a federal court in Texas. The case involves “bedrock constitutional principles protecting freedom of thought and expression,” Judge Sean D. Jordan wrote in his 69-page opinion. And amid “a slew of constitutional claims” by the defendant, “a single question is paramount: What can a public employee say, and what can he choose not to say, without fear of reprisal from his employer?” Some background: Nathaniel Hiers, then a recent Ph.D., started teaching multiple courses off the tenure track at UNT in 2019. In November of that year, according to his original complaint, someone anonymously left a stack of educational-style fliers about the harms of microaggressions in the math faculty lounge. …Over all, Volokh said, the Hiers case thus far demonstrates how the First Amendment protects public college and university faculty speech about “important public matters. It’s not categorical protection. In principle, if it’s disruptive enough, at least in certain contexts, it might be restrictive. But it’s a pretty broad protection, and it protects the untenured and the lecturers as well as the tenured ones.”