Albany Herald
Albany State University offers affordable education
From staff reports
Albany State University students enrolled in the fall 2022 semester will receive lower tuition and fees, school officials announced. The University System of Georgia Board of Regents recently voted to eliminate the Special Institution Fee and not to raise tuition rates at most USG institutions for the 2022-2023 academic year. This decision was made at the April 12 Board of Regents meeting, which was held on the ASU campus. As a result, ASU tuition costs remain the same for the third year in a row. The total cost for non-residential students seeking a bachelor’s degree is $3,250. This is a decrease of 9.5% for non-residential and 5.8% for residential students from 2021.
Marietta Daily Journal
Winners named in record-breaking Kennesaw State student research event
Staff reports
Kennesaw State University has announced the winners of the Symposium of Student Scholars recently held on campus. A total of 668 student researchers presented 438 projects across a variety of disciplines. “This is the greatest number of students we’ve had participate in the symposium,” said Amy Buddie, director of undergraduate research and professor of psychology. “We are so proud of all the research our undergraduate and graduate students presented.”
Tifton CEO
Dr. David Bridges of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on the Future
Dr. David Bridges is the President of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. He talks about the expansion of the college and how they provide education around agriculture and forestry for the future.
Statesboro Herald
Late nursing student’s foundation leading effort to halt distracted driving
From staff reports
Abbie DeLoach was one of five Georgia Southern University nursing students to lose their lives on April 22, 2015 due to a distracted driver. April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and the Abbie DeLoach Foundation is encouraging businesses, community partners, individuals and students to join its #HandsFreeForAbbie campaign by visiting the HandsFreeForAbbie.com website and taking the pledge.
Grice Connect
GS awards art students in ‘Undergraduate Showcase Juried 2022’ exhibition
The undergraduate showcase exhibition and awards were presented at the Contemporary Gallery of the Center for Art & Theatre on the Statesboro Campus
The Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art (BFSDoArt) at Georgia Southern University recently presented awards to students whose artworks were selected for the “Undergraduate Juried 2022” showcase. The exhibition and awards were presented at the Contemporary Gallery of the Center for Art & Theatre on the Statesboro Campus. The “Undergraduate Juried 2022” showcase features the variety of media taught within the BFSDoArt, which includes drawing, painting, jewelry, multimedia, mixed media, photography, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics.
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On April 15, members of Georgia Southern University’s faculty and staff were celebrated during the annual University Awards of Excellence and Years of Service Recognition ceremony, held on the Armstrong Campus. “The Faculty and Staff Awards of Excellence Celebration is designed to identify and celebrate individuals that make outstanding contributions to the success of Georgia Southern University,” said President Kyle Marrero. “We are promoting employee engagement and recognizing individuals and teams who demonstrate behaviors that embrace our strategic plan and represent University values and success.”
Savannah Morning News
How a $2 million gift from a Pooler donor revolutionized Georgia Southern athletics practices
Nathan Dominitz
Anthony Tippins had a bit of an issue with the naming rights for Georgia Southern’s new indoor practice facility. He was fine with donating to the cause — $2 million, the largest philanthropic gift in Georgia Southern athletics history. Putting his name in big letters on the side of the building? Not his style. …After talking it over with his family, the Pooler resident came up with a simple and direct solution, which is more his style:
The Red & Black
UGA student films to be showcased at Backlight Student Film Festival
Dillon Edelson
The University of Georgia’s inaugural student film festival, Backlight Student Film Festival, will take place Friday and Saturday at Tate Student Center. The event highlights and celebrates aspiring student filmmakers. A mixer and red carpet event will be held on Friday followed by an industry panel and awards ceremony on Saturday. Film screenings will take place on both days. Backlight not only serves as a way for UGA students and locals to experience student film, it also acts as a medium for Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication students to network with other filmmakers, professionals and alumni. This helps cultivate an authentic festival experience.
Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw State OwlSwap tackling sustainability education one clothing choice at a time
Born from a Kennesaw State University classroom discussion in 201 , OwlSwap’s student and faculty leaders work hard to spread awareness of how the recycling of clothing can have a positive impact on the environment. This Earth Day, OwlSwap Director Britt Pickering, a sociology alumnus, said what may seem like a big problem with no solution starts with one person at a time. …OwlSwap, a program of the Department of Geography and Anthropology, hosts sustainability education events on both KSU campuses, including clothing swaps, class lectures and basic mending workshops, and offers three free closet locations across the campuses.
WGAU Radio
UGA’s Delta Hub hosts innovation bootcamp
Seven week program at the University of Georgia
By Ian Bennett, UGA Today
At the University of Georgia’s Delta Innovation Hub, students and faculty are building businesses with help from legends from their industry. As a part of UGA’s Innovation District, the Innovation Bootcamp is offered twice a year to students and faculty who want to learn how to successfully turn research into products and solutions. The current session of the Bootcamp was designed specifically for entrepreneurs in computing and computer science.
Albany Herald
PHOTOS: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack visits Albany State University
Photos contributed by Reginald Christian
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made a stop in Albany on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at Albany State University.
KPVI
UGA-Griffin breaks ground to showcase new irrigation technologies
By Ashley N. Biles CAES News
Industry professionals, homeowners and researchers will soon be able to get a firsthand look at new irrigation technologies in action at a demonstration irrigation site being constructed on the University of Georgia’s Griffin campus. On March 28, workers broke ground on the project, a collaboration between the UGA Center for Urban Agriculture, UGA Cooperative Extension’s Urban Water Management program and irrigation companies Hunter Industries, Rain Bird and Torro/Irritol. Rolando Orellana, an urban water management agent in the Center for Urban Agriculture, has been working on the project for more than two years and said he is excited to see progress.
yahoo!news
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Dean of Students Bernice Hughes plans to retire
The Albany Herald, Ga.
When Dean of Students Bernice Hughes retires from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on April 29, she’s looking forward to the days when she moves back to Jackson, Tenn., and walks her dog, Clyde, through her hometown. Since June 15, 1998, the campus of ABAC has been all the town Hughes needed. That’s because she lived, worked, and even ate many of her meals at ABAC. “I’m looking forward to retirement, but I am also a little bit sad because ABAC has meant so much to me,” Hughes said.
Greek Reporter
People Trust Computers More Than Humans, Study Says
By Tasos Kokkinidis
A recent study reveals that people may be more willing to trust computers than their fellow human beings, especially if a task becomes too challenging. The findings by scientists at the University of Georgia were published in the journal Nature‘s “Scientific Reports.” From choosing the next song on your playlist to choosing the right pant size, people are relying more and more on the advice of algorithms in help to make everyday decisions and streamline their lives.
11Alive
How Georgia is doing its part to fight climate change, and how you can aid the effort
Georgia’s future impacts from a warming planet stretch across all corners of the state.
Author: Jonathan Raymond (11Alive), Melissa Nord
As Earth Day 2022 arrives, it might seem like the climate is on the back burner – there’s the war in Ukraine, COVID remains top of mind and several contentious social issues continue to swirl as the country barrels toward mid-term elections in November. But climate change, which has long been framed as a “future” problem, is really a “here and now” problem, as one expert explained to 11Alive. …Dr. Cobb has long been a leading voice in Georgia for raising awareness to our warming planet and advocating for change in policy and daily habits to lower greenhouse emissions. She is a professor in the school of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as well as ADVANCE Professor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Georgia Tech. She is also on the leadership team with the Georgia Climate Project.
Marietta Daily Journal
‘Hard for me to recognize’: Small towns see the biggest boom of new pandemic-era residents
Tim Henderson, Stateline.org
In states around the country, people who moved early in the pandemic were attracted to wide-open spaces in relatively obscure towns rather than the big cities that had attracted millennials in the previous decade, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics and Stateline analysis of postal change-of-address data. The moves may have brought welcome money to smaller towns, but they also raised housing prices and changed the bucolic way of life that attracted residents in the first place. And in the past year, moving patterns largely have reverted to pre-pandemic trends. …Before the pandemic, people moved mostly for a new job, but since then moves have become more about comfort and lifestyle factors such as good neighborhoods, home ownership, climate and recreation, said Peter Haslag, an assistant finance professor at Vanderbilt University who studied pandemic moves. The moves also gave a needed boost to bond ratings for remote municipalities, giving them more ability to borrow money for infrastructure projects that can keep them growing, according to another study Haslag co-authored that was published in February by the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.
Savannah Morning News
Police: Two injured in Friday night shooting on Savannah State campus; GBI investigating
Bianca Moorman
Two people were shot late Friday night on the Savannah State University campus, according to the university. According to a Facebook post by Savannah State University, SSU police confirmed that two people were shot and injured during an incident that took place at T.A. Wright Stadium on the school’s campus Friday night. Savannah State University executive director of marketing and communications Rebekah Lingenfelser confirmed that the incident took place at 10 p.m. at the schools campus. Lingenfelser said no SSU students are known to be involved or injured in relation to the incident. She said a motivate has not been determined.
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Atlanta Business Chronicle
Why faculty morale is a major factor in higher education’s workforce problem
By Hilary Burns – Editor, The National Observer: Higher Education Edition,
After noticing red flags popping up across the higher education sector, Kevin McClure pivoted his research and writing during the pandemic to the academic workforce. “The truth of the matter is, I just saw so many mistakes and so many unforced errors in institutions’ pandemic response and the way that they were treating people — I just couldn’t let it go,” said McClure, associate professor of higher education at The University of North Carolina Wilmington. McClure and other professors interviewed for this story who study higher education contend that the sector is suffering from low morale after two years of operating during the Covid-19 pandemic, which is bad news for college administrators trying to right the ship and rebuild their communities. As The Business Journals previously reported, employee retention and recruitment have become top concerns for campus leaders in recent months.
The Washington Post
Opinion: Why the University of Virginia is becoming a battleground for speech
By Peter Galuszka
On April 12, hundreds of well-scrubbed, mostly White young people thunderously applauded former vice president Mike Pence as he espoused “free speech” at the University of Virginia. “I am a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order,” Pence said to an overflow crowd at the 851-seat auditorium at Old Cabell Hall. He noted that he had accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior and attacked the campus newspaper, the Cavalier Daily, for editorializing that Pence should be turned away because of his strident anti-gay views. The Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative group that has 70 members at the Charlottesville school, had organized the event. It is part of Pence’s national speaking tour that has involved such stops as Stanford University. The goals are to push Pence’s chances in a 2024 presidential run and to help voters forget the chaos and crudity of former president Donald Trump.
Inside Higher Ed
Emory Drops Names of Eugenicist and Slavery Defender
By Josh Moody
Emory University is removing the names of two men with ties to eugenics and slavery, dropping them from a research center and two professorships, the college announced Thursday. Emory will remove the name of Robert Yerkes, a eugenics supporter, from a research facility currently known as the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Yerkes was the first director of the center, which as of June 1 will be called the Emory National Primate Research Center. The university will also rename two professorships in the school of law that are named for L. Q. C. Lamar, whom the university described as a “staunch defender of slavery.” Lamar—an Emory graduate who wrote Mississippi’s Ordinance of Secession from the Union—served as a congressional representative and senator, a Confederate officer during the Civil War, and later a Supreme Court justice. Those appointments will now be known as Emory School of Law Distinguished Professors.
Inside Higher Ed
Miss. Policy Change Gives Presidents Say on Tenure
By Josh Moody
College presidents in Mississippi can now grant or deny tenure at public universities after the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees quietly approved a policy change last week. Previously the IHL Board of Trustees was responsible for tenure approval. Trustees made the change without fanfare on Thursday, approving the new tenure policy without public discussion as part of the consent agenda, according to Mississippi Today, which reported that faculty members denied tenure by their institution’s president can appeal to the IHL Board of Trustees.
Inside Higher Ed
Former graduate students in clinical counseling accuse Johns Hopkins of forcing them out of the program.
By Colleen Flaherty
Johns Hopkins University’s graduate program in clinical mental health counseling is facing allegations that it discriminated against a group of students on the basis of mental health disability status, race, or both, by denying the accommodations or level of consideration that would have allowed them to graduate. All say they were kicked out of the program, for academic reasons, since 2020. They’re planning an on-campus protest in May, and asking supporters to wear black to bring awareness to what they describe as the university’s ableism.
Higher Ed Dive
The humanities are the missing factor in tackling America’s free speech problem
The humanities offer tools to approach topics with openness, tolerance and curiosity, write a dean and a real estate developer.
By Alain-Philippe Durand and Bennett Dorrance
Alain-Philippe Durand is dean of the University of Arizona College of Humanities. Bennett Dorrance is a graduate of the University of Arizona College of Humanities and an Arizona-based real estate developer who serves on the board of directors for Campbell Soup Co. On the pages of both higher ed and mainstream publications, the topic du jour is free speech. Most often, the argument is detailed as one that exists between the political left and right. The only common ground is where debates often occur — on college campuses. We agree that virtually every major issue has become polarized to partisan extremes. As the dividing lines between us become thicker than ever, the line between free speech and censorship becomes even more razor thin.