Albany Herald
PHOTOS: University System of Georgia Board of Regents meeting at Albany State University
Photos contributed by Reginald Christian
The University System of Georgia Board of Regents held their monthly meeting at Albany State University on April 11-13, 2022. For more information about the meeting, download the agenda here.
WTOC
Dedication for new location of East Georgia State College in Statesboro
By Dal Cannady
Hundreds of East Georgia State College students have a new home for classes in Statesboro. It puts plenty of college resources a short walk away instead of a long drive. The new Statesboro location for East Georgia State College on Georgia Southern University’s campus gives students more time, better access, and more. School leaders from East Georgia and Georgia Southern officially dedicated the building, years after the proposed building swap started and months after classes started in January. East Georgia moved into Georgia Southern’s former Continuing Education Center.
Athens CEO
UGA Helps Nonprofit Organizations Develop Leaders
Charlie Bauder
Jennifer King attended the 2014 Executive Leadership Program for Nonprofit Organizations at a transitional point in her career and it came at a perfect time. “I was about to step up to a key leadership role,” King said. “The program helped me to think about how everything within a nonprofit works together. Building relationships with other nonprofit leaders and listening to how they worked through struggles similar to what I had helped me to step back and apply a more objective lens to finding solutions in my organization.” Now, as executive director of Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), Inc., King uses the week-long program at the UGA J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development to build leadership throughout her organization.
Albany Herald
Elimination of fee will save Georgia Southwestern students $242 per semester
From staff reports
The Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia recently voted to eliminate the Special Institutional Fee and to not raise tuition at most institutions for the 2022-2023 academic year, including Georgia Southwestern State University. This is the fifth time in seven years that the board has approved keeping tuition costs flat across most institutions in the university system. Additionally, the board approved eliminating a mandatory Special Institutional Fee charged since 2009 to students systemwide. That action will save full-time Georgia Southwestern students $242 per semester.
WGAU Radio
“The University of Georgia is proud of Elise for this impressive achievement”
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia has a Goldwater Scholar: Elise Karinshak is from Lawrenceville. She is a third-year student in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.
From Stephanie Schupska, UGA Today…
Karinshak, from Lawrenceville, is a third-year Foundation Fellow majoring in data science in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and marketing in the Terry College of Business. She is pursuing a minor in studio art in the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Her studies focus on data mining and media analytics, and she plans to pursue a Ph.D. in data science. Since 1995, 64 UGA students have received the Goldwater Scholarship, which recognizes exceptional sophomores and juniors across the United States.
WJCL
Georgia Southern baseball earns highest national ranking since 1996
The Eagles have soared into the national rankings.
Frank Sulkowski, Anchor/Reporter
The Eagles have soared into the national rankings. The Georgia Southern baseball team is ranked in college baseball polls for the first time since 2013. The Eagles actually landing in two different Top 25 polls Monday morning.
WFXG
Cyber News Now: Augusta University researching vulnerabilities in medical devices
By Abby Bradshaw
Augusta University is researching cybersecurity vulnerabilities in medical devices. Faculty and students are hacking into the technologies to find cybersecurity shortfalls. Devices like infusion pumps have been donated to the research effort from hospital surplus as well as from Phillips. People rely on experts to improve their health at the hospital. Part of this includes using medical devices. However, those devices could have vulnerabilities. “They’ve [hospitals] started connecting these devices to networks. So, now they’re similar to internet of things devices.” said Michael Nowatkowski, Associate Professor. Nowatkowski says the risk lies in the connection.
Fox5 Atlanta
Dr. Christopher Edwards out at Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission, new chair appointed
By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team
There are more changes at the Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis Commission. Gov. Brian Kemp announced he has appointed a new commission chairperson. Kemp tapped former state Administrative Services Commissioner and current UGA faculty member Sid Johnson to head the commission. Kemp thanked former chairperson Dr. Christopher Edwards for his service in a news release.
Athens Banner-Herald
UGA student died in Saturday fire at Athens home
Wayne Ford and Caitlyn Stroh-Page
A University of Georgia student died in a fire that ignited at a house on South Lumpkin Street early Saturday, according to Athens-Clarke County Coroner Sonny Wilson. The student was identified as 20-year-old Conner M. Strickland of Flat Rock Church Road, an address near Lake Oconee and west of White Plains in Greene County.
Higher Education News:
Inside Higher Ed
Student Mental Health Status Report: Struggles, Stressors and Supports
While the pandemic has taken a serious toll on students, few have stayed in a dark place the entire time, and the present time period is rated by the greatest percentage of students as the best one in terms of mental health.
By Melissa Ezarik
In counseling sessions, Jonathan Mitchell will jokingly tell students, “My goal is to never see you again.” They’ll laugh, but he will add that he means it and “I shouldn’t be in your life forever.” That goal is a realistic one at this counseling center at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, which is generally designed for brief interventions to address more routine issues in students’ lives. But familiar faces do sometimes appear. A licensed psychologist and one of just a few mental health providers serving the campus of nearly 5,000 students, Mitchell just had his first in-person counseling session in two years. Coincidentally, he last saw that student in office in March 2020, and he recalls saying, “We’re just going to go online for a couple of weeks and then we’ll be back.” Her needs met for the time being, the student and Mitchell parted ways for about a year, and then he worked with her virtually for a bit before she took a break again. Now a senior, she felt the need to reconnect a second time. As many studies at this point have confirmed, the mounting mental health issues for college students have piled up even more during the pandemic. In the latest Student Voice survey of 2,000 undergraduates:
Inside Higher Ed
Rising Freshmen’s Concern With College Costs Has Limits
Students would give a lower rank to a college if it cut nonacademic amenities to save money, survey finds.
By Scott Jaschik
College administrators have long worried that fear of the cost of enrolling could scare off potential students. As a result, college leaders regularly discuss whether they should spend as much money as they do on amenities that are not strictly academic, such as dormitory rooms, dining halls or entertainment for students. A study being released today found that three-quarters of high school seniors who plan to attend a four-year college in the fall are concerned about being able to afford it. One-quarter of those had major concerns. Those from lower- and middle-income households, Black, Latinx, and first-generation students were more likely to have major concerns. None of those findings were surprising. But the research from the Art & Science Group also asked students about how they view well-resourced colleges versus less well-resourced colleges.
Inside Higher Ed
U.S. Extends Flexibility on Online Courses for Foreign Students
By Doug Lederman
The U.S. government has extended through the 2022–23 academic year COVID-era guidance that allows international students enrolled at American colleges and universities to continue to take more online courses than federal law permitted before the pandemic. Under the guidance issued Monday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, students who were enrolled in U.S. institutions as of March 9, 2020, can continue to take fully online courses and remain in good standing on their visas. Other international students—those who enrolled sometime after the pandemic began—can enroll in hybrid programs that mix in-person and online courses.
Higher Ed Dive
OPINION
Tenure is under attack, so why do college presidents have retreat rights?
Lawmakers are unwinding tenure protections for researchers and instructors. But presidents who stopped publishing and teaching are guaranteed faculty jobs.
By Judith Wilde and James Finkelstein
Judith Wilde is research professor and James Finkelstein is professor emeritus in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.
Tenure is, once again, under assault. A lieutenant governor, members of state legislatures, and even state governing boards across the country have proposed everything from the actual end of tenure to what amounts to its elimination. While most of these proposals have been made by Republicans, a Democrat in Hawaii who chairs the state Senate’s higher education committee recently introduced a bill intended to alter tenure fundamentally.
Atlanta Business Chronicle
Amid labor shortages, businesses are taking a more proactive approach to college recruitment
By Hilary Burns – Editor, The National Observer: Higher Education Edition
Last month, Herndon, Virginia-based software company Knowmadics connected with Friends University before even opening its office in Wichita, Kansas, where the school is based. The company, which focuses on cybersecurity, plans to help boost resources for the university’s cyber lab and offer internships to Friends students. …The partnership is an example of a company taking a proactive approach to developing a talent pipeline in a competitive field facing talent shortages. There were about 600,000 open cyber positions posted from October 2020 through September 2021 for an industry that employed about 1.1 million people during that time, according to Cyberseek.org, which tracks the cyber job market. …Richard Garrett, chief research officer at Eduventures, said that companies are more often seeking out relationships with colleges and universities to strengthen and diversify talent pipelines, and to get closer to influential faculty and research. Indeed, several college presidents have told The Business Journals in recent months that they are receiving more incoming calls from employers inquiring about working together.