The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia regents name Sonny Perdue chancellor of University System
By Eric Stirgus
The Georgia Board of Regents voted without opposition Tuesday afternoon to name former two-term Gov. Sonny Perdue the chancellor of the state’s public university system. The appointment concludes a contentious yearlong search process that divided many faculty members, students and some former regents members on the idea of putting Perdue at the head of the University System of Georgia, which includes the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State and Kennesaw State universities. …Perdue is scheduled to start on April 1.
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Capitol Beat
Regents approve former governor Sonny Perdue as next University System of Georgia chancellor
by Dave Williams
Former Gov. Sonny Perdue will become the 14th chancellor of the University System of Georgia. The system’s Board of Regents voted unanimously Tuesday to hire Perdue to lead the state’s 26 public colleges and universities, their more than 300,000 students and more than 40,000 faculty and staff. Perdue, 75, of Houston County, was selected sole finalist for the post two weeks ago after a nationwide search following the retirement of former Chancellor Steve Wrigley last summer. …Perdue’s appointment is effective April 1.
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Georgia University System Raises Bar for Higher-Ed Projects
Jim Parsons
The University System of Georgia (USG) describes itself as “part of the community” in each of Georgia’s 159 counties. And for good reason. As the largest university system in the Southeast, USG is responsible for 26 higher education institutions ranging from small colleges to research universities. What’s more, the agency oversees nearly 400 libraries and state archive services. So it’s hardly surprising that USG is also a major part of Georgia’s construction community, charged with managing an annual capital building and renewal program funded via yearly state allotments that recently have averaged $250 million as well as managing major projects funded all or in part by the schools themselves. Project priorities and scheduling are set by USG’s 19-member Board of Regents, which includes two industry members—Tom Bradbury, founder of Smith Douglas Homes, and Richard Evans, founder and chairman of Evans General Contractors, Alpharetta, Ga.
The Union-Recorder
Area students recognized for academic achievement
Regents honor University System of Georgia scholars during Academic Recognition Day
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia (USG) today honored students from each of the system’s 26 public colleges and universities during its annual Academic Recognition Day. Each student best represents the system’s highest scholastic ideals, as selected by their individual institutions. These students have a high GPA, strive for excellence and have the ability to share knowledge in various areas of expertise. Academic Recognition Day began 34 years ago as a celebration of Georgia students’ academic achievement. The honorees receive a resolution from the Georgia House of Representatives, along with a letter of commendation from USG Acting Chancellor Teresa MacCartney. The 2022 honorees are as follows:
Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw State University celebrates Women’s History Month
During March, Kennesaw State University is celebrating Women’s History Month. And as KSU works toward becoming one of the top R2 research universities in the country, the impact of women leaders present and past has been instrumental in raising the University’s academic standing. Women’s History Month began in 1987 when Congress designated March as a time to recognize the contributions women have made over the course of U.S. history in a variety of fields. KSU recognizes a few of the remarkable women leaders who have brought the University to where it is today. Kathy Schwaig, Interim President; Betty Siegel, past President of KSU; Monica Swahn, Dean of the Wellstar College of Health and Human Services; Robin Cheramie, Dean of the Michael J. Coles College of Business; Catherine Kaukinen, Dean of the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Women’s History Month Events Begins Today at ABAC
Women’s History Month events begin at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on March 1 when Teri A. McMurtry-Chubb speaks on “What Can a Black Feminist Teach Me About Being White? Hope and Healing After Race Unequals.” …ABAC Associate Professor of Business Diantha Ellis will also speak on “Women’s Equal Pay Day: Salary Negotiation” at 11 a.m. on March 17 in the Donaldson Dining Hall, and Kayla Myers will speak on “Advocacy for Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Survivors” at 5:30 p.m. on March 29 in Bowen 100.
WGAU Radio
UGA: more than 90 percent of Class of ‘21 finds work
Data comes from University of Georgia Career Center
By Emily Ann Munnell, UGA Today
Ninety-two percent of the University of Georgia Class of 2021 is employed, attending grad school or engaged in post-grad internships, all within six months of graduation, according to career outcomes data released by the UGA Career Center. The information includes undergraduate, graduate and professional students who earned degrees between August 2020 and May 2021. Specifically, among 2021 UGA graduates, 63% reported being employed full time; 20% were attending graduate school; and 9% were engaged in post-graduate internships, fellowships, residencies, postdoctoral research, part-time jobs, reported their status as entrepreneurs or said they were not seeking employment.
Albany Herald
Valdosta State Chamber Singers to debut at Carnegie Hall
From staff reports
Clell Wright will lead the Valdosta State University Chamber Singers on March 19 as they lend their voices to a choir of 100 to perform Poulenc’s “Gloria.” The performance is set to open the first concert for MidAmerica Productions at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage since 2019, and it will be the Carnegie Hall debut for both Wright and his choir. …Wright will be joined onstage by soprano soloist Eilana Lappalainen as well as a mass choir made up of seven ensembles, including the choir he directs, the Valdosta State University Chamber Singers.
Albany Herald
Supreme Court justice selected for honorary teaching position at UGA
From staff reports
Justice Sarah Hawkins Warren has been named by the University of Georgia School of Law as this year’s Hines Jurist-in-Residence, an honorary teaching position named after the late Justice P. Harris Hines. As part of her residency, Warren co-taught a weeklong seminar titled, “Persuading the Judge and Jury,” along with School of Law Appellate Litigation Clinic Director Thomas V. Burch. In addition to classroom-based instruction, Warren met with students in small groups to discuss issues related to appellate practice in Georgia.
The Union-Recorder
Famous educator Mary Frances Early comes to Georgia Writers Museum
It is humbling and inspirational when you meet a national icon. Mary Frances Early is a soft-spoken troublemaker … good trouble, as the late civil rights leader and congressman John Lewis described it. She was the first African American graduate of the University of Georgia in 1962. Her courageous path to that important “first” is the subject of her book, “The Quiet Trailblazer.” The inspirational book will be the subject of her “Meet the Author” event live at Georgia Writers Museum on Tuesday, March 1, at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free, and the event will also be available on Zoom. A key feature of this event will be a short interview with Early by local retired educator, Sandra Parham.
Henry Herald
Clayton State University recognized by Arbor Day Foundation
From staff reports
Clayton State University has been honored with the 2021 Tree Campus Higher Education recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. The Arbor Day Foundation is the world’s largest membership nonprofit organization dedicated to planting trees. Its Tree Campus Higher Education program began in 2008 to encourage colleges and universities to plant trees on their campuses.
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Sharon Subreenduth on Her Mission at Georgia Southern
Dean of the College of Education at Georgia Southern University Sharon Subreenduth talks about her new role and what she hopes to accomplish while at Georgia Southern.
The Augusta Chronicle
From spoken word to space exploration – local teens get serious with first TEDxYouth event
Amanda King
AUG is a common abbreviation for Augusta. It can be found on hats, shirts, cups and other trinkets. But five Columbia County teens want it to be remembered for something else – adapt, unite and grow. That’s the theme for the first TEDxYouth@LakeOlmestead scheduled for this Saturday at the Georgia Cyber Center.
Gwinnett Daily Post
PHOTOS: Volunteer Day at the Georgia Gwinnett College microfarm
Photos by Rod Reilly/GGC
Georgia Gwinnett College celebrated Sustainability Week last week with information and events designed to bring awareness to sustainable practices. One of those events included volunteer day at the college’s 16,000 square foot microfarm. GGC faculty use the space to teach students about sustainability practice and offer them a chance to give back to the community. Fresh produce from the microfarm is harvested and donated to the Lawrenceville Cooperative Ministry.
Barnesville Dispatch
Gordon State College Hosts Oscar Wilde Production, Community Brunch
Gordon State College will host several night showings of “The Importance of Being Earnest” in the GSC Fine Arts Auditorium from March 2-5, at 7:30pm On Sunday, March 6th, GSC will host a community brunch from noon to 2:00pm at the GSC Student Center Dinning Hall followed by a matinee showing of the play in the Fine Arts Auditorium beginning at 2:00pm. …Presented by GSC pre-professional students and the theatre-loving community, the inspired nonsense of the comedy will take place at the auditorium with newly renovated lights and sound system.
yahoo!news
New rideshare service to launch in Atlanta
The initiative between MARTA and Georgia Tech aims to reduce waiting and walking times for MARTA transit. The fare is equal to MARTA train and bus fare.
WGAU Radio
Local briefs: disease research at UGA, poultry plant opposition in Madison Co
Tuesday funeral for 10 year-old fire victim in Jackson Co
By Tim Bryant
New research from the University of Georgia found that fungal infections account for billions of dollars in health care spending, more than $6 billion in 2018 alone. The study was compiled by scientists in UGA’s College of Veterinary Medicine. They are still holding virtual meetings at the University of Georgia: UGA says today’s University Staff Council meeting will be an online affair, starting at 2:30 this afternoon.
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Intracerebral Hemorrhage: The effects of aging on brain injury
Noah Watson, Frederick C. Bonsack and Sangeetha Sukumari Ramesh, Augusta University
Intracerebral hemorrhage is a devastating subtype of stroke with high rates of mortality and morbidity. ICH patients often suffer devastating and debilitating neurological impairments, from which the majority of victims are unable to fully recover to functional independence. Unfortunately, there is no established medical therapy for ICH, which is partly attributed to the lack of understanding of the complex pathology of the disorder.
Science Daily
Protein protects brain cells most impacted by glaucoma
A ubiquitous protein called sigma 1 receptor, which is known to protect cells from stress, appears key to the function and survival of the neurons most impacted by glaucoma, scientists report. Sigma 1 receptors are expressed on cells throughout the body, including the retinal ganglion cells in the back of the eye, which help connect the eye to the brain so we can see, as well as brain cells called astrocytes which normally nourish and otherwise support those neurons. The scientists have found that even when the two brain cell types are just in a cell culture dish together, retinal ganglion cells can survive fairly well, unless the sigma 1 receptor is missing from their astrocytes, says Dr. Kathryn Bollinger, an ophthalmologist specializing in glaucoma and a retinal cell biologist in the Department of Ophthalmology at the Medical College of Georgia.
Marietta Daily Journal
Ukrainian KSU student hoping for best, preparing for worst, as family spreads across Europe
By Leo Tochterman
For Ukrainian-born Anya Vasilevsky, it’s a case of praying for the best, but preparing for the worst. The Kennesaw State University freshman learned Monday that her family in Ukraine remained safe. “I’m mentally preparing myself that I will lose my house and I will lose my family, and I will lose so many things,” Vasilevsky said. “I believe that everything will be fine, but on the other hand, I’m preparing myself for the worst.” Vasilevsky, 19, who lives in an off-campus apartment in Kennesaw, is getting daily updates from her family via Telegram and Facebook.
Athens Banner-Herald
UGA professor goes on CNN to provide update on preemie twins born to surrogate in Ukraine
Caitlyn Stroh-Page
Alexander Spektor, an associate professor of Russian and the Russian program coordinator at the University of Georgia, went on CNN Tuesday evening to talk about the efforts to get his preemie twins, who were born via surrogate, to a safe place in Ukraine. Spektor said he is “incredibly worried” and still “incredibly hopeful” for the twins’ safety. The infants, born at 32 weeks in Kyiv, had transferred hospitals, Spektor told CNN’s Erin Burnett. The hospital where the twins were born, but had moved from, suffered significant damage on Tuesday, according to the CNN report.
Fox28 Savannah
‘They will fight:’ Ukrainian national sends hope to homeland from Savannah
by Isabel Litterst
Uliana Gonzalez left her hometown, Dnipro City, in 2016. Since then, she married and had a daughter in Savannah, who she hoped to bring to Ukraine this summer to meet her grandparents. Now, she is holding her breath every night, hoping to see her family safe on the other end of a skype call. Gonzalez said cities across Ukraine hear sirens every few hours alerting them of possible airstrikes, and they need help from NATO to protect the sky from Russian air raids. …Dr. Olavi Arens, a Georgia Southern University professor of Russian and Eastern European Studies, said he fears the worst is yet to come for Ukraine.
Wired
How Ukraine’s Internet Can Fend Off Russian Attacks
The besieged country’s complex internet infrastructure has evolved to promote resiliency.
AS RUSSIAN TANKS rolled into Ukraine on the morning of February 24, the internet shuddered—and for some, stopped completely. Major Ukrainian internet service provider Triolan had been temporarily knocked out, in a blackout that mostly affected the northeastern Kharkiv region—a target of the Russian invasion. Even as the network came back online the following day, smaller disruptions plagued it throughout the week, according to data from the Internet Outage Detection and Analysis (IODA), an internet connectivity observatory affiliated with Georgia Tech. The Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk also experienced drops in connectivity.
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UGA Political Scientist on Georgia’s map redistricting controversy
By Newsroom
Professor Charles Bulloch, a Political Scientist at the University of Georgia, joins the show to discuss the latest updates in the ongoing map redistricting controversy.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Map: Coronavirus deaths and cases in Georgia (updated March 1)
An updated count of coronavirus deaths and cases reported across the state
CONFIRMED CASES: 1,912,239
CONFIRMED DEATHS: 29,832 | 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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Biden Proposes More Money for Pell Grants
By Scott Jaschik
President Biden proposed more money for Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. A fact sheet released by the White House said, “Providing up to more than [sic] $2,000 in additional assistance to low-income students by increasing the Pell Grant award. President Biden will note that broad access to education beyond high school is increasingly important for economic growth and competitiveness in the 21st century, but also remind us that higher education has become unaffordable for too many families. Over 6 million students depend on Pell Grants to finance their education, yet the amount of money in these grants has not kept up with the rising cost of college and DREAMers still do not have access. During his State of the Union Address, President Biden will call on Congress to increase the maximum Pell Grant award by more than $2,000.” …He will also ask Congress to approve more money for expanding programs in “high-demand” fields at historically Black colleges, tribal colleges and minority-serving institutions.
Inside Higher Ed
Judging Institutions Based on Employment Outcomes
Workforce Talent Educators Association wants to recognize, and conceivably accredit, institutions for how successfully they prepare students for work.
By Suzanne Smalley
Workforce Talent Educators Association, a newly formed organization seeking to certify that colleges and universities do a particularly good job of preparing students for the job market, joins a crowded field. Quality Assurance Commons and other similar outfits have offered much the same service for decades—and have sometimes struggled to find institutions interested in doing the work required to earn their stamp of approval. But there are reasons more of these efforts are cropping up now. College enrollments have been steadily declining. Increasingly, students and their parents are focused on whether often-hefty tuition bills will yield good jobs after graduation. A report released in October documents the problem: 16 percent of high school graduates, 23 percent of workers with some college education and 28 percent of associate-degree holders earn more than half of what workers with a bachelor’s degree earn, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
Inside Higher Ed
Survey Finds Students Avoid Controversial Topics
By Maria Carrasco
Sixty percent of college students said they were reluctant to speak about at least one controversial topic—politics, religion, race, sexual orientation or gender—a new survey from Heterodox Academy found. The annual survey, which received responses from 1,495 full-time U.S. college students aged between 18 and 24 in 2021, found that 39.5 percent of students were most reluctant to discuss politics, followed by religion at 31.8 percent and race at 27.5 percent. Republican and Independent students were more reluctant to discuss controversial topics than those who identified as Democrats, but all said they were most reluctant to talk about politics, with 34 percent of Democrats, 39 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of Independents responding that way.