WRDW
‘This is only the beginning’: AU sets goals in new 5-year plan
By Staff
Augusta University’s president on Wednesday presented the school’s new strategic plan, titled “Creating a Legacy Like No Other.” The initiative sets such goals as increasing enrollment to 16,000 by 2030 and earning Carnegie Community Engagement Classification by 2026. AU President Brooks Keel said the plan outlines five strategic priorities: learning, discovery, student success, community and stewardship. “This five-year plan will move us toward achieving our vision of growth in enrollment, research and community engagement,” he said. “We have accomplished many great things together, but this is only the beginning.”
Georgia Recorder
Georgia college students learning hard economics lessons as cost of living rises
By: Ross Williams
Gaggles of dogs frolicked about on Kennesaw State University’s campus green Wednesday, wagging their tails as groups of students scratched their furry heads and tossed them tennis balls. It was part of a university initiative to help students relieve some stress as they head into finals, and college students across the state are dealing with plenty of stress from academics, relationships, family issues, and, increasingly, from finances. One of the students gathered on the green was Kevin Lopez, a member of the class of 2024. He’s paying his own way through college by working construction and says he feels the pinch of rising prices. …The Georgia Board of Regents, which oversees the state’s public higher education system, announced this month it will not increase tuition for 25 of its 26 institutions, with the exception of Middle Georgia State University, which will see an increase of $17 per credit hour for in-state undergraduates and $64 for out-of-state undergrads. Students like Lopez will also get some relief from the end of a fee instituted in 2009 to make up for budget cuts in the wake of the Great Recession. Lawmakers added $230 million to the state’s higher ed budget to allow for the cut, which will leave between $170 and $544 per semester in the pockets of Georgia students.
The Brunswick News
Students tackle real-world challenges in project supporting McIntosh fishermen
By Lauren McDonald
When students signed up for Bill Garlen’s upper level business class, they were unaware they’d be tasked with solving some of the most significant challenges facing fishermen in McIntosh County. That assignment wasn’t mentioned until weeks into the spring semester, when the students at College of Coastal Georgia learned what sort of entrepreneurial endeavor they’d be graded on for class. Garlen’s class has spent the past couple of months determining the feasibility of creating a co-op for a group of shrimp boat captains in McIntosh County. A colleague in the college’s School of Business and Public Management connected Garlen with the Community and College Partners Program, a nonprofit that identifies problems in communities and connects them to college programs that can offer assistance.
WGAU Radio
Electric mobility summit today at UGA
Hosted by Delta Innovation Hub
By Tim Bryant
The University of Georgia plays host to an Electric Mobility Summit. The two-day summit that begins this morning at the Georgia Center is hosted by UGA’s Delta Innovation Hub.
From the UGA master calendar…
University of Georgia Electric Mobility Summit
Theme: Driving Georgia’s Future
Georgia is fast becoming a hub of investment and activity in electric mobility. With a vibrant multi-modal transportation network that includes Atlanta-Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, the Port of Savannah, and an extensive road and rail network, the state is poised to be a leader in the adoption of electric mobility technologies for the benefit of the health and resilience of our communities. This inaugural meeting will focus on how the integration of electric mobility in our communities will change the state, the educational programs needed to support the growth, and the future of electric mobility in Georgia and beyond its borders.
Marietta Daily Journal
Kennesaw State student presenting research to Capitol Hill officials
Kennesaw State University graduate student Nathaniel Jones will present his undergraduate research on the federal Pell Grant program to members of Congress, their staff members and other officials at the annual Posters on the Hill event. Jones is one of 88 students from across the country who will participate in the highly competitive event presented by the Council on Undergraduate Research. Students are selected based on a review by a panel of experts in their field.
Patch
Free Financial Literacy Program Planned by Douglas Board, West Georgia
The online financial-literacy training will be free, thanks to a partnership between the University of West Georgia and Douglas County.
Jim Massara, Patch Staff
Area residents will now have access to free online resources to help them manage their money, thanks to a unique partnership between the University of West Georgia and Douglas County. The program — officially called “Financial and Entrepreneurship Recovery Fundamentals” — was announced during the Douglas County Board of Commissioner’s April 19 meeting.
11Alive
GA Tech graduate student offers cybersecurity tips for families in new children’s book
The mom of four and cybersecurity expert was inspired to write ‘Oh, No…Hacked Again!’ based on lessons she shared with her own kids during the pandemic.
Morning AgClips
UGA to host Farm Stress Summit on May 19
Summit welcomes all who want to further efforts combatting farm stress in our communities
The 2022 Farm Stress Summit is an important conference for community leaders and organizations in rural Georgia dedicated to serving the mental health and well-being of rural farmers and their families. From health care providers and nonprofit organizations to county officials and faith leaders, the 2022 Farm Stress Summit welcomes all who want to further efforts combatting farm stress in our communities. The goal of this event is to learn from each other, connect communities with existing resources, and establish partnerships across organizations.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Steve Harvey addresses finances, his own fears of failure and ‘the Slap’ in GSU law class
By Rodney Ho
He never got a college degree, much less a law degree, but was flattered to be the subject of an entire class.
Former radio host and current attorney Mo Ivory brought Steve Harvey to her class Monday, April 25, to conclude three months of studying the entertainer’s finances for Georgia State University law students.
The Red & Black
PHOTOS: Lamar Dodd School of Art Bachelor of Fine Arts Exit Exhibition
Sidney Chansamone
On Friday, April 23, 2022, the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia hosted its second Bachelor of Fine Arts Exit Exhibition. The event began at 6 p.m. and showcased the final works of the senior students, featuring sculpture, textiles, photography and more. Attendance was free and included snacks and refreshments.
Poultry Times
Georgia poultry leader inducted into Agricultural Hall of Fame
By David B. Strickland
One of Georgia’s true poultry industry dignitaries was recently inducted into the Georgia Agricultural Hall of Fame. The late J. Henry Massey, a former head of the University of Georgia Extension Poultry Science, was added to the hall of fame during this year’s 66th UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association Awards in Athens, Ga.
Greater Diversity News
Allen-Jones Scholarship Boosts Support For 1st-Generation Students
by Eric Olson, edited for Publication in The Savannah Tribune
In 2012, Vara Allen Jones’ colleagues surprised her by creating the Vara Allen-Jones Scholarship for Academic Excellence to support first-generation students and honor her service to the Anchorage community. Vara is a 2019 retired University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) tenured faculty member and past Vice Chancellor for Academic and Multicultural Services. She remembered that moment. Today, Vara is striving to make the scholarship a permanently endowed fund. She’s enlisting the help of friends and colleagues she met in her 28 years at UAA, and a nationwide network to help raise her goal of $28,000 by this summer to enable the fund to provide at least $1,000 in scholarship support annually to students. “Everyone who really knows me knows how passionate I am about providing opportunities for that particular cohort of students to have financial, academic and social support — to be successful in an environment they may know nothing about.”
“I’m a first-generation college student,” said Vara.
Her amazing story started as a first-year student at Savannah State College, now University (SSU), Georgia’s oldest historically Black public university.
WRDW
Augusta University sees spike in interest for epidemiology program
By Maria Sellers
As we wade out of this pandemic, many of our local medical students are finding they’re not ready to leave it all behind. Augusta University says its epidemiology program is taking off, giving students the chance to study epidemics and pandemics on a deeper level. The program began in the fall of 2021, with only four students enrolled. As the June 15 deadline approaches, applicants have doubled. Leaders with the program say they started working to create the program well before COVID-19, but the pandemic highlighted the need and likely elevated the interest.
The Red & Black
UGA students, locals celebrate National Poetry Month
Sydney Bishop
Poetry can bring people together and allow feelings to be communicated in beautiful and unique ways. April is National Poetry Month and University of Georgia students and Athenians alike are taking part in celebrating it. This April, poetry is being written furiously and with a purpose. One way people have been celebrating the month is through the Escapril challenge, a poetry prompt challenge created by author Savannah Brown. Each day of April contains a prompt to write a poem about with examples such as “garden,” “vanity,” “trying to be good,” “intimacy,” “crush” and “we’re not alone.” UGA sophomore Ashley Veazey, who is currently studying abroad in Germany, has been participating in the Escapril challenge. For Veazey, poetry is “a simple way to express complex feelings.”
WTVM
CSU’s Art Department to honor late Columbus art legend on Saturday
By Jatavia O’Neal
A major force in the Columbus art community for over 50 years is being celebrated. Geri Davis recently passed away, and this weekend the community will honor her life and work with a special reception. Friends, family, city leaders and former art students will gather at the gallery to pay homage to Davis. Columbus State University’s Art Department has created a ‘Geri Davis Scholarship Fund’ to help art students further their education.
Albany Herald
Photos contributed by Reginald Christian
Albany State University stopped to show their appreciation for administrative professionals on National Administrative Professionals Day on Wednesday, April 27, 2022.
News Medical Life Sciences
MCG scientists report how exercise can counter the damage of diabetes
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.
One way exercise can counter the damage of diabetes is by enabling activation of a natural system we have to grow new blood vessels when existing ones are ravaged by this disease, scientists report. Angiogenesis is the ability to form new blood vessels, and diabetes not only damages existing blood vessels, it hinders this innate ability to grow new ones in the face of disease and injury, say experts at the Vascular Biology Center at the Medical College of Georgia.
News Medical Life Sciences
MAPK pathway mutations can provide “precision” treatment targets for head and neck cancer
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.
About one-fifth of often deadly head and neck cancers harbor genetic mutations in a pathway that is key to normal cell growth, and scientists report those mutations, which enable abnormal cancer cell growth, can also make cancer vulnerable. Keys to targeting that vulnerability include individualized genomic analysis to identify a patient’s specific mutation, and finding the drugs that directly target it, investigations that should be given more attention in cancer therapy development, they report in a review article in the journal NPJ Genomic Medicine. The MAPK pathway is a “signaling hub” for cells important to the usual development of the head and neck region, and activating key pathway constituents, like the genes MAPK1 and HRAS, is known to drive the growth of a variety of cancers, says Dr. Vivian Wai Yan Lui, molecular pharmacologist and translational scientist at the Georgia Cancer Center and Medical College of Georgia and the paper’s corresponding author.
SGIM
Society of General Internal Medicine Announces 2022 Award and Grant Recipients
The Society of General Internal Medicine has announced its 2022 award and grant recipients. SGIM is proud and pleased to announce the recipients by category.
…SGIM Clinical Vignette Oral Presentation Awards – Recognizes the best presented clinical cases by a medical student, internal medicine residents or GIM fellows (not faculty) at the SGIM National Meeting. This year’s recipients are: …Joshua Sira (Augusta University Medical College of Georgia)“Why Don’t You Wait a Month and Repeat?” Gender-Bias Can Delay Lung Cancer Diagnosis”
Times-Georgian
Wortham, Boddy take top honors at WESTPY Awards
By UWG SPORTS
More than 300 student-athletes from the University of West Georgia gathered in the Campus Center Ballroom on Tuesday evening to celebrate the 2021-22 athletic year at the first in-person WESTPY Awards ceremony since 2019. This year’s Awards Ceremony was graciously sponsored by Advantage Office Solutions. Senior shot put phenom Brandi Boddy and junior All-American first baseman Brody Wortham took home top honors at this year’s ceremony, earning the titles of Mr. and Miss Wolf. Those are the highest honors that are bestowed by UWG athletics at the annual event, encompassing performance on the field, in the classroom, and in the community.
WRDW
CSRA paves the way for ‘endless cyber opportunities’
By Sloane O’Cone
The river region is a hotspot for cyber, and a big part of that is thanks to the Georgia Cyber Center. “The possibilities are endless. I think this region is creating an ecosystem that can support anything,” said Sam Anderson, executive vice-president of Softact Solutions. “The Army made a decision to house Army Cyber Command here in Augusta because they believed they could produce and create the talent here.” That’s where exposure through high school curriculums and the partnership between Augusta Tech, Augusta University, and the Georgia Cyber Center come in.
The City Menus
UWG Productions hits the airwaves
By UWG Intern
Professional learning opportunities abound at the University of West Georgia, and one such program – UWG Productions, a student-led production group – delivers live broadcasting of UWG’s athletic and signature events so both in-person attendees and viewers from around the world can enjoy the show. Students in UWG Productions gain hands-on experience right from the start, learning the ins and outs of camera work, directing, audio and video editing, and much more.
Augusta CEO
Augusta Offers Plenty of Opportunity to Young Entrepreneurs
Milledge Austin
There are an estimated 24,600 Augusta University alumni living in the Central Savannah River Area. Augusta and the surrounding areas have a lot to offer business owners and employees alike — especially younger alumni interested in either working for or starting a small business. Three AU alumni in particular, Cole Watkins, T’Shawn Carter and Amy Richardson, have flourished in the Augusta area after graduation, using their degrees to help launch their own small businesses in three unique areas.
yahoo!news
Michelle De Pacina
A “Gen Z” performance of a traditional Philippine folk dance by students from Georgia Institute of Technology went viral on social media. The university’s Filipino Student Association performed a modern interpretation of the “Tinikling” folk dance, the national dance of the Philippines, for a cultural event on April 16. The group’s performance, which was uploaded to Facebook on April 18, has garnered more than 6 million views and over 100,000 reshares as of this writing.
Now Habersham
Georgia dairy farmers can sell unpasteurized milk starting next year
By Alex Guevara
Georgia dairy farmers can sell raw, or unpasteurized, milk for human consumption starting in 2023, providing what some farmers say is a much-needed boost for the state’s family farms. The General Assembly approved the Georgia Raw Dairy Act earlier this month, despite testimony about the health risks of drinking raw milk. The bill will go into effect on July 1, 2023, making Georgia the 31st state to allow raw milk sales. …And while raw milk sales would allow dairy farmers to set their own prices and have more control over their market share, a significant increase in revenue for those farmers would be unlikely because of the competition in a small market, Tommie Shepherd, an agribusiness economist with the University of Georgia Center for Agribusiness and Economic Development said.
Morning AgClips
UGA researchers study the use of blue light technology to reduce foodborne outbreaks
antimicrobial blue light technology has shown promising results in disinfecting surfaces
Researchers from the University of Georgia Center for Food Safety are beginning a new study to investigate the effectiveness of antimicrobial blue light technology to reduce the foodborne pathogens that cause food poisoning. When used as a means of disinfecting surfaces in a hospital setting, antimicrobial blue light technology has shown promising results, but little research has yet been done to explore its potential efficacy to control foodborne pathogens.
WGAU Radio
UGA: Recycled shrimp nets used to remove marine debris
Trawl to Trash program
By Emily Kenworthy, UGA Today
University of Georgia Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant has devised a creative way to clean up the Georgia coast and provide financial support to local commercial shrimpers whose income was limited during the pandemic. Through Trawl to Trash, funded by the National Sea Grant College Program, commercial shrimpers are recruited to sew bags made of recycled shrimp net material that can be used to collect marine debris. …The shrimpers earn $20 for each bag they sew.
yahoo!finance
Material Capital Partners Announces its Latest Single Family Rental Community in South Carolina
Material Capital Partners (“MCP”), a vertically integrated real estate development and investment management firm focused on build-for-rent single family rental housing communities across the Southeast and Florida, announced its latest single family rental development community, The Preserve at Sweetwater, in North Augusta, South Carolina. Groundbreaking of the community is scheduled for May 2022 with pre-leasing officially starting in November 2022 and project completion in early fall 2023. The Preserve at Sweetwater will include 89 townhomes featuring a mix of 2 and 3 bedrooms and showcase a community of new urbanist design with intelligent use of greenspace and a wellness focus for residents, with a state-of-the-art fitness center, outdoor lounge area with firepit and outdoor kitchen, premium bark park, outdoor activity areas and walking paths. …With the community’s prime location near the intersection of I-20 and I-520, residents will be minutes away from large corporate employers, major healthcare systems, outdoor recreation offerings and popular retailers. Key employers in the area include Bridgestone, Rolls-Royce, Generac, the US Army Cyber Command at Fort Gordon, the Georgia Cyber Center, Amazon distribution center, Club Car headquarters and Augusta University. The community sits within an excellent school district and is across the street from Walnut Lane Park.
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Higher Ed Dive
Higher ed faces shrinking workforce and pay increases outpaced by inflation
Laura Spitalniak, Associate Editor
Dive Brief:
The median salary increase for all higher ed professionals was less than half of the inflation rate in 2021-2022, according to workforce survey data released Wednesday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, CUPA-HR. Administrators saw the greatest average salary increase, at 3.4%. The salaries of professional staff rose 2.9%, while tenure-track and nontenure-track faculty got average increases of 1.6% and 1.5%, respectively. The consumer price index for 2021 was 6.8%, the largest increase in decades. The size of full-time and part-time staff as well as tenure-track faculty declined. CUPA-HR said colleges are feeling the same nationwide hiring and retention challenges as other employers.
Inside Higher Ed
Study by online proctoring service finds 6.6 percent rate of cheating—up 14 times from before the pandemic.
By Tom Williams for Times Higher Education
Rates of cheating in online examinations have hit a record high, according to proctoring data that show one in 14 students was caught breaking the rules last year. A global analysis of data on three million tests that used the ProctorU proctoring platform found that “confirmed breaches” of test regulations—incidents where there was clear evidence of misconduct—were recorded in 6.6 percent of all cases.
Inside Higher Ed
To create a productive climate for hard campus conversations, consider shifting the focus from debate to dialogue, Megan Halteman Zwart writes.
By Megan Halteman Zwart
A recent piece by University of Virginia senior Emma Camp describing her experience of feeling silenced in campus conversations about controversial issues created a bit of a firestorm. Conservatives saw confirmation of their concerns about cancel culture on college campuses. Liberals saw hypocrisy in Camp’s simultaneous desire for open, free debate and her frustration at negative responses from those who disagreed with her views.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Rethinking Remedial Courses at California Community Colleges
Rebecca Kelliher
Skyline College, a community college in CaliforniaSkyline College, a community college in CaliforniaIn 2006, Marjorie Blen was required to take remedial math and English courses at Contra Costa Community College in California. The courses cost her time and money but did not earn her transfer-level credit toward a degree. As Blen struggled to balance work and school, she said these courses grew discouraging semester after semester, feeling more like a trap than a ladder. In 2012, Blen left Contra Costa, still without her degree. …Blen got involved in Students Making a Change (SMAC), a student-led advocacy group at CCSF calling for remedial education reform. Through SMAC, Blen found out about a state law called Assembly Bill 705 (AB 705) that passed in 2017, the same year she started at CCSF. AB 705 outlaws community colleges in the state from requiring students to take remedial English or math courses without considering their high school GPA and coursework as well as determining that these students are “highly unlikely to succeed” in transfer-level, credit-bearing courses.
Inside Higher Ed
U of California to End Tuition for Native Americans
By Scott Jaschik
The University of California will waive all tuition and fees for Californians who are members of federally recognized Native American, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes. The program will be in place at all University of California campuses, for undergraduate and graduate students, said a letter from Michael V. Drake, president of the system. “The University of California is committed to recognizing and acknowledging historical wrongs endured by Native Americans,” said Drake.
Inside Higher Ed
What If Colleges Used to Discriminate Against Asian American Applicants?
New study suggests that top colleges perhaps used to discriminate against Asian Americans, but they may have abandoned the practice.
By Scott Jaschik
The Manhattan Institute’s conservative scholars are known for opposing affirmative action. So its new report being released today, “Racial Preferences on Campus: Trends in Asian Enrollment at U.S. Colleges,” by an institute fellow, Robert VerBruggen, might sound like the latest critique of the students elite colleges are admitting and rejecting. But VerBruggen’s thesis is about past discrimination, not current discrimination. “At the very top schools, however, an odd pattern emerged. The percentage of Asian enrollment stagnated around the mid-1990s but then began to grow again around 2010,” he wrote.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
U. of North Carolina Has Been Corrupted by Political Meddling, Faculty Group Says
By Emma Pettit
Nationwide, public higher education has often been a target of partisan meddling. But North Carolina’s university system is in a league of its own, according to a new report from the American Association of University Professors, released on Thursday. The report, written by a special committee, details a laundry list of scandals that have plagued the University of North Carolina over the past decade or so. Some are eponymous: Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Confederate monument known as Silent Sam. Others are less known outside the state, such as the controversial selection of a former member of the system’s board as Fayetteville State University’s new chancellor. After examining all of these scandals, the report posits that the UNC system has, in essence, been corrupted by partisan interference. Put succinctly by one Appalachian State University professor who was interviewed by the committee: “The fish rots from the head.”
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